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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36779	Counsellor Manners, his last legacy to his son enriched and embellished with grave adviso's, pat histories, and ingenious proverbs, apologues, and apophthegms / by Josiah Dare.	Dare, Josiah, 17th cent.	1673 (1673)	Wing D247; ESTC R23852	61,733	166

valiant Captain Achilles that he did more abhor lying than death remember how that the Cretans for lying became a by-word to the whole world much less do thou add to thy lying execrable wishes Munster writeth of Popiel the Second King of Poland who had ever this word in his mouth if it be not true I would the Rats might eat me but shortly after being at a Banquet he was so fiercely assailed by Rats that neither his Guard Fire or Water could preserve him from them Neither be thou like those Jesters who practice lying and telling strange inventions of their own which are most false to please for a time the Hearers nor like those who devise and spread false News and account it good sport to deceive the simple but be thou slow to tell News and Tales whatsoever thou seest or hearest of others either meddle not with it but strive to be quiet and do thine own business or if it so concern thee that thou must needs speak of it take heed that thou do not mistake any part of it many things are so spoken that they may be taken well or ill yea and what can be said but some one or other may turn it into an evil Meaning as the Spider that out of the best Flowers will suck some Poison but be thou of the mind to take every thing the best way and as it were by the right handle knowing that it is the Devils property to make the worst of every thing Thou mayest be deceived in what thou hearest another speak because thou canst not see the Heart and Meaning of the Person much more in that which thou hast of him by Hear-say for Reports are commonly very faulty and seldom hold truth in all points and those that told it thee are apt to deny it again if thou hast not witness and so thou mayest run thy self into great trouble therefore imitate Epimenides the Painter who after his return from Asia being enquired of News answered I stand here to sell Pictures not to tell News Neither follow thou the example of vain Travellers and Praters who meerly out of vanity and because they would say something set such things as they have seen or heard upon the Tenter-hooks stretching them most palpably beyond all credit or coining incredible things out of their own Mint that never before saw any light and have no more affinity with Truth than the opinion of Copernicus of the motion of the earth or that Relation of our Country-man of the New World in the Moon or of Domingo Gonzales and his flight thither upon the Wings of his Ganzas I have read of a Knight who shall be nameless that rendred himself ridiculous by this Means for using to make multiplying Glasses of what he in his long and great Travels had observed professed that he once conversed with a Hermite who was in the opinion of all men able to commute any Metal into Gold with a Stone he kept still hanging at his Girdle and being asked of what kind it was and not readily answering the witty Lord of Saint Albans standing by said he did verily believe it was a Whet-stone Make not Lies upon thy self as many do boasting vain-gloriously of themselves praising their knowledge and bragging of what great acts they have done as if they only were wise when alas it is well known they are otherwise such men may fitly be compared to the Bell in the Clock-house at Westminster which had this Inscription about it King Edward made me Thirty thousand and three Take me down and weigh me And more shall ye find me But when this Bell was taken down and weighed this and two more were found not to weigh twenty thousand Such vain-glory as this being like a Window Cushion specious without but stuft with Hay within or some such Trash wherefore when a Souldier bragged of a Wound in his Forehead Augustus asked him whether he did not get it when he lookt back as he fled XXVI Go not vauntingly and proudly as some who go as if they were the only men of their Country and speak and look very high and losty when they have scarce any home to go to or any thing to maintain their Highness and Lostiness imitating the Spaniards who are highly conceited of themselves great Braggers and extreamly proud even in the lowest ebb of Fortune which appeareth by the Tale of the poor Cobler on his death bed who commanded his eldest Son coming to him for his last Blessing to endeavour to retain the honour worthy so noble a Family also a Woman of that Country attended on by three of her Brats went a begging from door to door some French Merchants travelling that way and pitying her case offered her to take into their Service the bigger of her Boys but she proud though poor scorning as she said that any of her Lineage should endure an Apprentiship returned this answer that for ought she or any knew her Son simple as he stood there might live to be King of Spain such Braggadocios as these are like the Peacock who though he be hatched on a Dunghill yet is he the proudest of Birds Nay some of these are so proud that they are ashamed of their Parents resembling those Beasts who think themselves well hid if they can but hide their Heads never remembring Sir Thomas Moor who being Lord Chancellor in his time and consequently in an Office next and immediately to the King himself and having his own Father living and at that time but one of th● inferiour Judges of the Kings Bench that then was never went to Westminster Hall to sit in the Chancery there but he would go up to the Kings Bench where his Father then sate and there on his Knees would ask him blessing before a multitude of beholders so little was he ashamed of his Father though then in a far lower Condition than himself XXVII Take heed of being too ceremonious and complemental lest thou give others an occasion to think that thou art full of Craft because thou art full of Courtesie the bowings bendings and cringings of some resemble but such gestures as men use when they go about to catch ●otterils yet there are some Cere●●●●es in giving men their due Titles of Honour according to their several Degrees either when we write to them or talk with them which we cannot omit without the imputation of being ill-bred thou must not write to a Knight or an Esquire thus To Mr. B. G. Knight or Esquire but must call the one Right-Worshipful the other Worshipful nor must thou stile a Lord Right Worshipful but Right Honourable or a King or Prince Right Honourable but in discourse thou shalt say to a King and it please your Majesty to a Prince and it like your Highness to a Lord and it like your Honour to a Knight or an Esquire and it like your Worship to an Arch-Bishop and it like your Grace to a Bishop and it please your

profit praise Pleasure or knowledge take pains study leave nothing unattempted No Garland is given to the Sluggard thou canst not enter into the Temple of Glory and Honour but through the Temple of Virtue and Labour Sloth loseth time dulleth the understanding nourisheth humours choketh the brain and hinders thrift exercise burnisheth the mind without which it will eat it self out by its own rust and if the proud man be the Devils Chair of State the idle man is his Cushion and as the Ox that will not plough is brought to the slaughter-house so lazy unprofitableness must look for its slaughter-house in the other world if it take not a Newgate in the way here LVIII Above all things my Son make good use of thy Time it is a very slippery thing and like an handful of fine Sand will slip through thy Fingers though thou grasp it never so fast and whereas a man may have many of the things of this world at once 't is certain that he can have but one Time and that 's the present the Time past is no longer thine and the Time to come may never be thine therefore make the best advantages that thou canst of the present moment of Time for that only is thine the Emblem will teach thee that Time is bald behind there 's no hold fast there catch it therefore by the Forelock it is like a Bird let fly at large out of the hand which returns not or as a word babbled out which cannot be recalled O what would the prodigal squanderers and the abusive Mispenders of their pretious Time give when the final judgment of eternal Death is passed upon them for some few grains of that Sand which seemed too many whilst they were passing through their Hour-glasses Before Time therefore deliver thee up to Eternity imitate him who having a very short Lease-hold without impeachment of waste takes all the advantage he can before the approaching Expiration of it he rips up the ground eats up the grass sells down the Timber cuts down the Coppices do thou the like sithence thy Time in this world is short nay and what is more uncertain match the velocity of it with thy celerity in making all the beneficial uses of it for as St. Augustine speaks elegantly he only may be said to be Master of Time who in the swiftest current of it lays such foundations as are not transitory Thus as Time flyes over thy head thou mayest plume her of some of her Feathers though thou canst not stop her flight and though thou canst not recall Time past yet thou mayest redeem it and therefore to that end let me once more put thee in mind to ponder seriously the shortness slipperiness and uncertainty of Time and withall the irrecoverableness of it when thou hast let it pass that thou mayest endeavour to make the best use of it and not to slip occasion it is a good admonition which Seneca gave to the Loiterer Neglecter and Mispender of his precious Time Begin not then to live when life begins to leave thee Or rather bear in thy mind the saying of that Holy man who as I have read never heard the Clock strike but he would say now I have one hour less to live in and one hour more to give an account for LIX Go to Bed with the Lamb and rise with the Lark late watching in the Night breedeth ill humours in the body and long sleeping in the morning ungodliness in the mind to rise betimes will make a man rich healthy and holy Astronomers observe that the most propitious Planets of all the seven Sol and Mercury leave us at night and return to shine upon us in the morning which mystically intimates unto us that then our wits and knowledge are quickest and clearest and that it is the fittest Time for the dispatch of all business and humane Affairs which Tusser in his Book of good Husbandry thus plainly expresseth Some work in the morning may trimly be done That all the day after may hardly be won Mounsieur Villeroy the great French Statesman wished his Son alway to dispatch business in the morning as if he were sure to lose his opportunity in the Afternoon Apollonius coming very early in the morning to Vespasians Gate and finding him stirring conjectured thereupon that he was worthy to command an Empire and said unto one who accompanied him undoubtedly this man will be an Emperour he is so early a stirrer To be brief imitate rather Hercules in Zenophon than Bonacius in Poggius before the one contended Dame Virtue and Dame Pleasure both seeking to seize upon his will but at last after some wavering and debate he submitted unto Virtue and rejected Pleasure before Bonacius in the shape likewise of women came Carefulness and Slothfulness the former bade him to rise out of his lazy Den and betake himself to some work but Dame Slothfulness advised him to lye still at his ease and to beware of the mornings cold and so while they were contending he like a slothful Ideot remained neutral continually looking when they would agree until at length the greater part of the day was overpast to his loss and damage 'T is a true saying that Beds make Beggars I would not have thee therefore follow the common custom of many of our Gentry who lye in Bed and rise not till their meat be ready to be set on the Table to which after they are tirck'd and trimméd have powdred and kembed their Perruques have patched their Faces and set themselves by their Looking-glasses for all day sit down to eat and drink and then rise up to play or take a Coach to see a Comedy or Tragedy acted and when that is done to visit in a Masquerado their Mistresses by which they as if God had put them into the World as he hath put the Leviathan into the Sea only to take their pastime therein idly vainly and unprofitably spend their pretious time for which they can neither give a good account to God or themselves LX. Hate Wastfulness and Vnthristiness for they will bring thee into necessity and then thou must live like a Dron̄e if not by wicked shifting yet by base beggary Thrist is a great Vertue having diligence to provide things necessary truly and justly and care to save and keep when gotten yet be thristy without filthy niggardness and unmercifulness but give thy Need thine Honour thy Friend the Church and the Poor their dues never exceed thy Income nay I would not have thee live up to the height of it 't is an old Saw If Youth did know what Age would crave Many a Penny he would save By no means run in debt neither do thou break any thing of thy Stock 't is related of the Stone Tirrhenus how that being whole it swimmeth but never so little diminished it sinketh to the bottom so he who keeps his stock full is ever afloat but wasting of his store by degrees becometh Bankrupt