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death_n	live_v	young_a	youth_n	255	4	8.1569	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

to haue a care ouer his person to render him obedience and to study to appease his choler if he be angry Q. VVhat are the things amongst all others right tedious to endure A. Long raine long spéech the wind prison and maladie Q. VVhat are the things that a man cannot liue without A. VVater ayre bread fire and salt Q. VVhat is the cause and Source of the infelicitie of man A. His owne proper malice and iniquitie Q. VVhat are the foure sins that require bengeaunce before God A. The euill or wrong done to an Innocent the sinne of Sodome the retaining of his wages from a poore seruaunt and the inflaming of euill tongues Q. VVhat disease is that which the elder a man waxeth the younger and fresher it waxeth A. Couetousnes Q. VVhy did a certaine Philosopher say to the Emperour Galba that his wit was ill lodged A. Because the saide Emperour was crooke shouldered Q. VVhat were the two tokens by the which Licurgus the Lacedemonian iudged a ruler do all thinges to the glory of God and profit of the common weale Q. VVhat is the thing that a man ought to iudge best aboue all other thinges A. Vertue without the which nothing can be called good Q. VVho is he that hath all he will and the fruition of his whole heartes desire A. He that is content with that he hath and requireth no more Q. VVherein consisteth nobilitie especially A. More in beautie of manners then of blood Q. VVith what armour should he arme himselfe that will fight against aduersitie A. With Patience Q. VVhat is the thing that maketh a man most timerous and fearefull A. An euill conscience Q. VVhat difference is there betwéene the Lord and the seruant A. None concerning the man much concerning seruitude Q. How might a man do to be alwaies without feare A. Let him speake little and doe well Q. VVhat are the three things enemies and contrary to good counsell A. Hast anger and conetousnes Q. Where ought one to write wisedome and science A. Not in bookes but in the hearts of men sayth Socrates Q. What giueth the good and the euill A. Wisedoine sayth Alexander not fortune giueth the good and folly the euill Q. For what cause was night made A. To thinke on that in rest that we may doe the day following Q. Who is he that can neuer bee without feare and gréefe A. The enuious hypocrite Q. VVhat is loue A. A hidden fire a sweete venime a delectable euil a pleasant punishment and a flattering death Q. What is the best gift that fortune can giue A. Experience which is a founder of wisdome Q. What are the thinges that make a man willing to serue A. The people in good order the wise man with his workes the rich man iust and liberall the poore man humble the young man obedient the olde man a gever of good counsel and the woman shamefast honest Q. What are they that most delight in thinges transitory and fugitiue A. Hunters and hawkers Q. Who is he that fortifieth without hath his en emies within A. A man that cloathes himselfe from cold and doth not purge himselfe from vice Q. What is the best medicine for misery A. Death Q. VVhat is a great dowry A. A bed ful of strife Q. VVhat is the easiest thing and of least cost and yet the best that one can geue to his friend A. Good counsell Q. VVhat is money A. A Lampe or soule amongest dead and blynde men and he that hath it not is nowadayes dead amongst the quicke Q. VVhat is the best armour and safegard of the heart repulsing and banishing all wicked thoughtes kéeping it frée from euill cogitations A. A labouring hande Q. Why haue men diuers enemies A. It may be peraduenture because they loue themselues too much Q. VVhat is an euil thing and yet hath a good name A. An euill brother Q. VVhy did Plato thinke that hangemen were more curteous then Tyrantes A. Because hangemen kill the culpable and guiltie but tyrantes often murder the innocent Q. VVhat are the thrée vertues excellent in a Captaine A. Audacitie against his enemies beneuolence towardes his souldiers good counsell in matters of weight Q. VVhy did the Egyptians and Lacedemoniēs cōpare great Lords to flaming fire A. Because the néerer a man is to them the sooner he shal burne and be harmed Q. How is fame obtained A. By liuing vertuously and dying for ones countrie Q. VVhat doe women desire aboue all thinges A. To mary themselues to a lusty yong youth to take pleasure in children to be well apparelled aboue all things to be mistresse of the house Q. Ouer what people is it that death hath no iurisdiction A. Ouer the vertuous Q. VVhy lyeth the hearte of the vertuous man lower then of others A. Because in him lye drowned all the iniuries that fortune can doe Q. How may a man make himself praised A. In dispraising himself with reason Q. VVhat is the best aduersitie that a man can haue A. That which deterreth him from euill words and euill déedes Q. VVhat is the reason that money is more rife with the euill then with the good A. Because the good cannot lye sweare vse vsurie and deceiue their neighbours Q. What is the ordinary profit of a schoolematster A. To bee inheritour of all the errors of his Schollers and to confesse that all the profit that they gaine is by their owne dexteritie of wit Q. What is the right propertie of a vertuous man A. To beare in memorie the benefites receiued to forget all iniuries done to thinke the litle that he hath a great deale not to regard the great deale of another man to fauour the good to flatter with the euel to bee greate with the great and fréendly with inferiours and to be fréend to few and enemie to none Q. What is the lightest thing of all others A. The heart or thought of man because in the twinkling of an eye it will compasse all the world Q. Who is he that can scarcelie knowe his fréendes or whether he haue any or no A. He that is rich and fortunate Q. What is an olde father A. A fugitiue consolation Q. Of moral vertues which is the greatest A. Force for shée bringes to passe that man feareth not death Q. What kinde of men haue their eares at their knees A. They which will not heare a man vnlesse he bow himselfe downe and speake too their knees Q. What is the onely thing that man can not ouercome A. Hunger Q. Why did the Lacedemoniens and The banes paynt the images of iudges blinde and without handes A. To shewe that iustice shoulde bee no way corrupted Q. What is pouertie A. The mother and mistres of good manners who only feareth no change of estates nor the fraudulent force of théeues Q. Who is hee that cannot dye sodainly A. He that liueth sixtie or seuentie yeres Q. Who is he that hath alwayes a good

Base estate and pouertie Q. How shal a maister kéep himself from being angry A. In remembring that he shall not alwayes be serued but sōtimes serue neither obeyed but himself obay the prison of the body Q. What is the reason that the Philosophers call Bacchus the foolish God A. Because he makes them fooles which ouercharge themselues too much with his Septemb●ne Licour Q. What is the state of a couetous persō A. Neuer to haue rest but to be alwaies an hungred and vnsatisūied Q. What is the infallible gaine that sluggardes and sleepers incurre A. They liue in sinne and dye that is to say sleepe without profit Q. What sauce dyd the Lacedemoniens best like with their meate A. Hunger thirst trauell sweat and taking of paine Q. VVhat is the most pernicious thing that we haue in our selues A. The lone of our selues Q. VVhat are the wings of time A. The past the present and the future Q. VVhat is the best art and most necessarie for a man to learne A. The art of warre That is to say like a Christian to warre against the fleshe the worlde and the Diuell Q. VVhy doe we naturally hate pouertic A. Because she causeth diuers to erre out of the right way Q. VVherein censisteth true philosophie A. In strining to lyue vertuously Q. VVhat is a chaste and honest woman A. She is a miracle of all miracles a degree of immortalitie a crowne of triumph Q. VVhy doe olde folkes loue their rithes so well A. Because they had rather leaue them to their enemies being deade then in their life time be in daunger of their fréends for them Q. VVhat is the first point of wisdome A. To know ones self The which thing howe much the more difficult it is so much the more profitable it is Q. VVherein differeth the angry man from the mad man A. Surely in time Q. How should one correct the ignorance of youth A. By the prudence of age Q. To whom is pouertie hurtfull A. To him that cannot beare it patiently Q. VVhat is the sauce of trauell A. Rest Q. VVhy would the Carthaginiens haue all their Magistrates rich A. Because they helde opinion that hee that was poore coulde not minister iustice aright Q. VVhat is anger properly A. A kinde of rage and folly Q. Who is he that is vndoubtedly free A. He that is not a slaue to his owne affections Q. What is it that makes a man nought A. Too much libertie Q. What are the thinges which are seldome seene together in one person A. Beautie and chastitie wisedome and riches youth and continence Q. Who is he that cannot speake A. He that cannot holde his peace Q. What is true liberalitie A. It is to giue to the needy to them which haue or doe well deserue it without being required or hope of any recompence agayne Q. What is the best deede that a prince can doe in his countrey A. To exile the wicked and rewarde the good Q. Why did Alexander the greate more honour his schoolemaister then his father A. Because he saide he had life of his father but fora certaine time but of his maister for euer Q. What is wine A. The death of the memorie the poyson of the complexion the corruption of beautie the debilitation of force and vertue the bannishment of the flower of ones age and the bloode of the earth Q. What is the true Image of man A. His speech Q. What are the things that most incite vs to vertue A. The loue of honour and feare of blame Q. What are the things that make a publike weale to floorish A. It encreaseth by good counsell equitie and vnitie and dooth decaye by disorder and dissention Q. VVhat is the best Counsellour of all others A. Time Q. How may a man liue ioyfully A. In putting his hope in thinges vn perishable Q. VVhat are the téeth of time whereof he consumes all thinges A. The day the might life and death Q. VVhat is the true Nurce of power A. Vertue for where she is there must power néedes be Q. What is the best bread that one can eate A. That which we haue laboured or taken payne for Q. Who is the rich man that onely can loose nothing A. The wise man Q. What is humanity A. It is a vertue conioyned with good affection a beneuolence mingled or tempered with dexterity Q. Howe shall one knowe a wise man from a foole at the table A. As he shall knowe a ful caske or vessel frō an emptie For as the empty one maketh farre more noise then that which is ful so doeth the foole make more babling and adoe then the wiseman Q. VVhat title doeth the good payer merite A. Magnaest tua fides Greate is thy fayth Q. VVhat are the thinges requisite to doe or bring any thing to passe A. To forecast it to consider of it to determine vpon it and to doe it Q. VVhen is the time too take a wife A. For the young man not yet and the old neuer saith Diogenes Q. VVherein was the honestie of Socrates most apparantly knowne A. In hyding his heade with his Cloake when he hearde euill spéeches vttered Q. VVho is he in this world that is only frée from flatterers A. The poore and indigent Q. What are the thrée things the are néedefull and requisite in all works A. Knowledge how to doe it power able to doe it and wil to be ready to doe it Q. From whence is sprong sparing or niggardnes A. From ingratitude Q. What is the hardest thing for a man to doe A. To know himselfe to vanquishe his affections and to keepe his owne secret Q. What is the best feare A. That which feareth vs from dooing euill and thinking wickedly Q. What is dauncing A. A kinde of folly for no man daunceth fasting Q. What are the twoo thinges that a man should meruell at A. The one is to haue founde a wiseman and the other is to see him angry Q. What is golde A. A venomous brightnes Q. What is flatterie A. A suger nette Q. What is death A. A flight from the perils of life Q. What should true freendship be A. True freendship ought to be immortal and hatred mortal Q. What is the best and easiest way to learne to speake A. To holde his peace and heare wisemen Q. Whereon dependeth the price of a Gemme or Jewel A. On the appetie of the buyer and falshoode of the seller Q. What is loue A. It is a delicate thing gotten with great difficultie and lost easilie Q. Who is the most vngrateful creature of the worlde A. He that is vngratefull towardes God Q. Why haue the men of auncient time painted loue with a flower in his one hand and a fishe in his other A. To shewe that he is Lorde both of Sea and land Q. What ouercomes our enemies and weares away al griefe A. Time Q. What is loue A. A maister which by his arte draweth one likenes to

Who is he that may lawfully make himselfe Lorde of another mans goodes or learne his cunning A. Hee that payes well for it Q. What is the parte first formed in a man and last dead A. The heart Q. What is dauncing A. A subtill net to entrap the lasciuious Q. What are the strongest thinges of the worlde A. Time and trueth Q. Why is it better to haue a shrewish wife then a shéepish A. To the end that the worlde doe not with her as it listeth Q. Why haue some men allowed slatterie A. Because she setteth before our eyes what we shoulde be Q. In what countreyes are the Gibets most flowred with Naughtipackes A. In those where they haue least fauour and more iustice Q. What were the thrée paynes ordayned by the Lacedemoniens from the which were it not by death none could escape at the least to suffer one A. Payne to him which was not married payne to him which marryed too late and a treble payne to him that tooke an euill wife Q. What vertue and efficacie hath the pen of a good writer A. To eternizate the memory of noble men to instruct the posteritie and to make his owne name indure for euer Q. What sort of men tell the trueth A. They that are carelesse Q. What is the proper ducty of a good father towardes his childe A. To nourish him soberly to kéepe him under in obedience to teach him good manners and to learne him an art how to liue in time to come Q. What thinges are ordinarily geuen to a childe A. The Nurse giues him two yeeres of milke the mother two yéeres of excuses and the father twentie yéeres of chastisement Q. What hath moued the auncient Poets to vse so many fictions and inuentions A. The zeale that they had to solace and delight men and the ardent desire to conuert them from rudenesse to vertue Q. What euilles doeth idlenesse ingender A. It slaundereth the world peruerteth the weale publike vndoeth his mayster endomageth the good destroyeth the euill Q. Who is he that is drowned twice A. He that drownes himselfe in couetousnesse and then putteth himselfe in hazarde of the Sea and there is drowned Q. What are the thinges that are right necessary and requisite to a Captayne of the warres or Coronel A. A competent number of good Souldiers victualles good store and plenty to spend and still to be certified what and where the enemies are Q. What is the way for to get a good name A. To speake little and doe well and too labour Q. What signifieth the sadnes of an enuious person A. Eyther that some euill is happened to him or some good to another man Q. What is the best thing that a man can doe A. To liue well Q. Who is the most liberall man of the worlde A. It is according to Galen he that thinketh those good turns great that he receiueth and those little that he doeth Q. VVhat is the best rule for him that will liue well A. To bridle his affections by good discipline Q. What are the thrée worst sicknesses in a Citie A. Idlenes Ignorance and Folly Q. What is Rhetorique A. A Science to lye and flatter well Q. How may a man winne the grace and fauour of all the worlde A. In being merrie curteous liberall gallant tractable and mercifull Q. From whence come lies A. From a seruile minde Q. What are the things wherein a man cannot be satisfied A. In getting of riches or dignities cunning and honour and in hearing of good newes Q. What is the principall stay of vice A. Abstinence Q. What is the care that euery one shoulde haue A. Too shewe himselfe curteous too heare paciently and answeare wisely Q. What is that common weale which is like to continue long and not decay A. That where the Prince findeth obedience and the people loue for as of the loue of the Prince springeth the obedience of the people so of the obedience of the subiect springeth the loue of the Prince and as Pythagoras sayth loue is payde with loue Q. VVhy did the Gréekes in olde time wéepe at the birth of their children and sing at the death of their old men A. Because the children came to die and the olde men went to liue Q. VVhat is the cause that many ill condicioned children desire so ardently to sée the death of their Fathers A. Because if the Children bee riche they woulde haue their libertie and if the fathers be rich they woulde haue their goodes Q. What is old age A. The gulph of maladies Q. What are good wordes in a Iesser or fooles mouth A. Like to corne in a wet vessel which sodeinly sprouteth and then perisheth Q. Howe commeth it to passe that our Predecessours haue liued longer then those of our time A. Because they were more sober and of a better complection and that thinges béeing saltned by the flood haue caused a greate default in nature Q. How may a souldier winne honour in the warres A. In loosing feare and all fayntnesse of heart Q. What are the thrée things in men altogether vnlike one to another and yet of great admiration A. The fauour of the body spéeche and writing Q. Who are they that haue fayre eyes and sée nothing A. The vnlearned and the amorous Q. What is the greatest vertue morall A. Force Q. What was the cause that Scipio refused the tytle of greate which the Spaniardes had geuen him A. Because as he sayd to change name and tytle is a signe of lightnesse and vnconstancie Q. What is the duety of a good housholder A. To geue effectually good example to be diligent to entertayne peace amongst his family to sée all thinges neate and to kéepe oue order and measure Q. What are those three thinges that the wiseman lamenteth and repenteth that he hath done A. The first is too haue reuealed his secrete the second to haue gone by Sea when he might haue gone by land and the third is to haue passed one day without doing some vertuous thing Q. What is the way for a Prince too raygne surely A. To do to his subiects as a father doth to his children Q. Who are the merriest marchantes and most at their ease A. They that are most lightest I meane Marchers and not merchantes for that is quite contrary Q. What thrée estates are the richest of the worlde A. The wise the healthfull and the contented Q. What are the thinges requisite for a gouernour of a citie A. To vse equity to make due prouision for victual to eschewe tumult and contention and to get himselfe the loue of his Citizens Q. How may a man pay his debts that hath nothing A. In dying Q. To what may one compare a goodly personage and of no courage A. Too a leaden Dagger in a paynted sheath Q. What is a sure sawce for all kinde of meates A. Hunger and appetite Q. Why haue the Philosophers compared loue to the Crocodile A. Because the