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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

serpents Q. VVhether was the Eg or the bird first A. The reason of this cannot bee vnderstood naturally since the Egge without the Bird nor the Bird without the Egge could be brought foorth But we are to vnderstand that the first ●a●ke of Creatures were immediately f●om God without any other secondary cause and this great difference there is betweene God the first nature and the second Nature Q. What thinkest thou of this question whether the drunken man drinkes vp the wine or the wine drinkes vp him A. It is either for when thou hast the Wine in the cup it is in thy power but when it is in thy body thou art in the power of it when thou drinkest first thou takest the Wine for thy pleasure but after thou hast drunke it it taketh thee first it is a seruant and yeelds it selfe vnto the drinker but afterwards spreading it selfe into the veines it becomes a Master and is like fire in the top of the Chimney Q. In a certaine Banquet much wine being giuen to Diogenes hee powred it downe on the ground and being asked the reason why he spilt it A. Answered If I drinke it I not onely spill it but it also spils me Q. How many wayes doth man fall A. The question is infinite we die a thousand wayes though we are born but one Sunt hominum morbi mille sed vna salus He hath a thousand diseases and but one health Q. The diuell asked a holy man these three questions 1. VVhat was the greatest wonder that euer God made in a little circuite To which the holy man answered the face of man that being all of one substance and forme there should not bee found in all the world two men their faces like in all things and that in so small a roome God had blased all the sense 2. VVhether the Earth were higher then the Heauens To which he answered that the body of Christ which is the substance of the Earth as from Adam was exalted aboue the Heauens and so the Earth to be higher 3. How much was the distance between Heauen and Earth To the which the holy man answered not containing himselfe any longer with patience thou knowest the space better then I for thou measuredst it when thou fellest from Heauen so neuer I at which speech the Deuill vanished away Q. Diogenes being asked what win● of all others he loued best A. Answered that which he dranke of another mans cost Q. VVhat is the heauiest burthen that the Earth beares A. Sinne for sinne weighes downe to Hell Q. VVhat tree in the forrest doth the Serpent most hate to come neare A. The Ash according to Virgill the fairest in the wood which the Serpent neither comes vnder nor within the shade as also the Iuniper tree Q. VVhat seed is that which ioyneth together England and France and many other farre distant Countries A. Heempseed of which is made the sayles for ships which transport them farre and neare Q. VVhat three wayes are they among other that are not to be found out A. Via auis via Nauis via Iuvenis ● The flight of a Bird the passage of a Ship and the way of a yong man Q. VVhat foure things are those that especially peruert Iustice. A. 1. Fat gifts 2. Hatred 3. Fauour 4. Feare Q. What may Law in the abuse thereof most fuly be compared vnto A. To a thicke● of Brambles into which by tempest the poore Sheepe being driuen from the plaines come there for refuge and so loose their fleeces Q. What was a great man of this Kingdome vsed to compare Courtiers vnto A. To Ember● weeks or Fasting●Eues the hungryest and the leanest of themselues yet bordering still vppon great ones Q Who be those that may lie most freely and without controule A. 1. Great men that few men dare reproue 2. Olde men that few men can gaine say 3. Trauellers that may lie by authoritie Q. What is that which is commendable both to doe and not to doe A. To know when to speake and when to keep silence according to the Poet. Scire loqui laus est laus est quoque scire tacere Illa magis pulchra est haec quoque pulchra magis Q. What things are those most virtual and of greatest secrecie and force aboue other A. Christus vim verbis vim gemmis vim dedit herbis Verbis maiorem gemmis herbisque minorem Or thus Stellis ac herbis vis est sed maxima verbis Englished To herbes and stones much vertue Christ affords But more to speech for life and death are words Q. What is the greatest of all moueable things yet commanded by the least violence or strength A. A Ship commaunded by the sterne a little peece of wood Q. Who is the most renowmed for memorie that stories make mention of A. Seneca who writes of himselfe that he was able to recite 2000 names after they were once read vnto him Q. What breakes the shell at the comming out of the chicken A. It is answered and that by a double reason the one because in that time the shell by continuall heat and sitting vpon becommeth tender and soft so that the least stirring effecteth it another cause of breaking thereof and that is the principall is the defect of nourishment which at the ende of the time is wasted in the shell which the chicken wanting exposeth it selfe to seeke and so breaketh it as likewise the defect thereof is the naturall cause of all other Birds Q. Whose Cocke whose Dogge and whose seruant may bee kept at the cheapest rate A. The Millers Cocke the Butchers Dogge and the Inne-keepers seruant Q. What was that Citie Aristotle so magnified aboue others for beauty largenesse and strength A. The Citie of Babylon the Walles whereof were fiftie cubits thicke 200. cubits high this Citie was foure-square 15. miles from corner to corner 60 miles in compasse it had 100. Gates with threesholds and postes of Brasse which when it was taken by Darius by drawing the riuer Euphrates drye those that dwelt in the farthest parts heard not of it in three dayes It was destroyed according to the Prophesie of Ieremie and is now a desert for wild beasts Hereafter follow certaine Grammaticall Questions Q. Which is the best verse in all Virgill A Aeneid 6. Discite Iustitiam moniti non temnite Diuos Q. Which is the worst in all Virgill A. Aeneid 1 Flectere si nequeo superos Acherenta mouebo Q Which is the worst in all Ouid de arte amandi A. Semibouemque virum semi virumque bouem Q. Which is the best of all Tullies Epistles A. The best and longest of all that is extant is ad Q. fratrem propretorem minoris Asiae most excellent and worthy the reading of it Q. Which of all the Fathers is the hardest of all the Poets the most crabbed A. Tertullian and Persius which Persius when Tertullian read found it so craggy and hard he threw aside saying if he

without intermission or stay hereupon Sesostris remēbring himselfe pondering his saying presently vnyoked his kings would no more so be drawn Q. How became the tirant Hiero some what to contemplate of the maiesty of God A. Vpon his command to Symonides the wise Poet to discourse what God was when hee required first for respite one day after that two dayes after that 4. daies whereupon Hiero wōdering why he took such pause required his reason he told him the more he entred into consideration thereof to instruct his inabilitie the more vnable he found himselfe to instruct another or to conceiue aright what God was himselfe Q. Who are those that cannot wil not may not do rightly vnderstand A. There are certain that neither vnderstand God nor can vnderstand him and those are dead men 2 There are others that may vnderstand but care not and they are wicked men 3 There are another sort that desire to vnderstand but cannot and these are fooles There are a fourth sort that do both vnderstand and make vse and these are godly And therefore it is the wise saying of a father who asked this question art thou a Christian then it behooues thee to contemne that that seemes to be is not and to embrace that that seemes not to be and yet is Q. One asked a king of the Egyptians what was the most beautifull thing in the world And he A. Answered The light which distinguisheth all colours creatures and and beauties in the world and is it self the most goodly comfort and obiect of that most excellent sence the eye and therefore as one sayth When thou beholdest the light of Heauen that first and blessed creature of Gods hand that in a minute transfuseth it selfe throughout al this lower Region think of the testimony of Saint Iohn that God is light essentiall lightnesse in whom there is no darkenesse Q. What day was that that the like was neuer before nor euer shall be hereafter A. When Iosuah prayed in the middest of the battle so that the Sun stood at a stay and hasted not towards his Westerne period so long that as Iustin Martir sayth it made the day thirtie sixe houres long Q. Of what wood was the Temple of Salomon built dedicated and consecrated vnto God A. Of Cedars or Sychim wood and that by the command of God himself and some reason thereof may be this 1. For that the Cedar tree is alwayes greene odorous and sweet neither wil it bend but support it self vpright with it owne strength 2. For that is truly verified of it that is spoken of Irish wood that neither wormes nor moathes breed in it nor liue neare vnto Thirdly for that it is neither massie nor ponderous to loade or oppresse the walles but strong and light Q. Of what wood was the Crosse of Christ made whether of one entire tree or of seuerall kindes of woods A. The crosse of Christ as we haue it by tradition was made of three diuers sorts of woods which were Cypresse Pine and Cedar all significant and not without their mysterie the Cypresse beeing an Embleme of dissolution and death for being cut or wounded it withers and wastes away The Cedar of immortalitie because it withstands the consumption and wastes of time to a datelesse perpetuitie The Pine a nauigable wood that floates vpon the waters and therefore the most vsefull for shippes to signifie that death should haue no power nay lesse to ouerwhelme him then the Pine is subiect vnto drowning by the violence of the waters Q. What is thought to bee the occasion that Christ cursed the Figge● tree beeing barren since it was neyther a reasonable creature nor disposed of it owne seasons and especially beeing not then the time of bearing A. This is thought not to be without many deepe mysteries one whereof especially is conceiued to note out the hatefulnesse of Hypocrisie that seemes to floorish with displayed leaues but wants the true fruites of faith which are good workes and charitie Q. VVhy that same tree in Paradise without doubt good and verie good for all that God created was verie good was forbidden Adam to tast A. Many wonder hereat and one of the Fathers in this admiration haue brought in Adam thus expostulating the case himselfe If it bee good why may not I touch it if it be euill what doth it in Paradise But to this S. Austin and diuers of the Fathers doe answer that the command of God in that was rather for the tryall of his obedience then for any o●her danger that would haue growne to Adam by the eating thereof Q VVhat tree was that that the same day sprang vp and perished A. Ionas Gourd Q. VVhat trees in the Scripture are especially called the trees of God A. It is thought to bee those that grow foorth of their owne accord as the Firre tree the Cedar and the wilde Oliue tree Q. Is there a distinction of sexes among trees A. Plinie a most certaine Authour attributes both sexes wedlocke vnto trees and first hee instanceth vpon the Palme tree the loue between whō is such that if the female be farre di●ioyned from the masculine it becomes barren and without fruite if the male haue his bowes broken by any accident the female becomes desolate and droopes like a widdow Q. VVhat part in trees are the most strongest A. Those that grow and shoote towards the North. Q. Of the apple of Paradise or Adams apples what is related of them A. That those apples so called are of exceeding sweetnesse when they come to their full maturitie and ripenesse and are called of some Musi or muske Apples and it is thus obserued that what part soeuer of them you cut there appeares a crucifixe in it and it is reported for a truth or rather coniectured vpon pregnant probabilities that the forbiddē tree of the knowledge of good and euil was of that likenesse Q. What apple was it that Adam in eating drew sin and death vpon himselfe and his whole posteritie A. It is vncertain cannot rightly be knowne for the Scripture mentions it not yet some writers to satisfie the curious thus bring in thier arguments some thinke it was a Persian apple that at this day growes in the East where Paradise was scituate som think it was a golden apple that was sweete to tast and delightfull to behold some thinke it was a cherry some a peare but all these are but vncertaine but this is certaine Adam primus homo damnabat seculo pomo Q. How many ribs hath euery man and woman A. This question hath bred some controuersie among the learned for there are that affirme euer since the creation of the woman that Adam lost a rib from his side the man hath one rib lesse thē the womā lesse then he had at first Now there are of the other side that affirme and that truly that there are in either side of either sexe as well of the man as of the