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A33571	Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker.	Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4843A; ESTC R29228	23,067	74

use mature Premeditation Y YOu Parents who your hopes on Children place Teach them betimes to run in Virtues Race Your pretious Time wisely to day imploy Who knows what he to morrow may enjoy You want what you desire but let this serve That you enjoy far more than you deserve Your Tallent came from a Celestial Donor Endeavour to improve it to his Honour Your want of high-flown Ingenuity By constant Care and Industry supply You 'l find when you their Vizor-Masks remove Such as are shameless seldom blameless prove Yield not to sleeps intoxicating Charms Rowze up and vanquish him by force of arms Your Conscience keep serene and fear not then The most Calumnious Envious Tongues of men Your Tongue command to the command of Reason Know when to speak and when to spare in Season Your Memory store with Philology And all the various sorts of History You Mammonists in what plight shall we find you When Death says Come leave your Bags behind you You Parents who a happy Crop would Mow Betimes in Children Virtues Seeds must Sow Your Friend at first to Concil deaf do you That worthy Office to perswade renew Yet Providence presents fair Opportunities Which you may take Live Thrive if you be wise Your Memory with choicest Treasures Store Thieves cannot make the Rich in knowledge poor You that lye wind-bound in the port of Sorrow May be set free by a fresh Gale to morrow Young Impudence suffer'd to run to Seed Will spoyle the Stock and poyson all the Breed You must accompt for 't 't is to be presum'd VVho have in pass-time you time past consum'd Your Arts your Parts your VVisdom and your worth Are out of Fashion Coyne's the God o' th' Earth Your Body Feed Cloath Comfort and supply Yet let your Soul maintain the Soveraignty Youthful Discretion is a true presage In most of Learned honourable Age. Young men have ever more a special Care That Feminine Inchantments prove no Snare You here our choicest Monograms may scan VVhere man is fairly pictur'd forth to Man Yesterdays Loss strive to repair to day Let your swift VVill run equal to your power A Traveller that rides out of his way Loses two hours in riding but one hour And if he turns not by Directions force He may lose more and tyre himself and Horse Your prudent providence let Ants engage In Summer mind the VVinter of your Age. Z ZEno by Silence made the Follies known Of others and thereby conceal'd his own Zeal without Knowledge doth the Judgment taint Although the Zelot thinks himself a Saint Zenobia reigns as Empress o're choice VVits On Arts resplendant Throne Eugenia Sits Zealously run for Virtues Crown of Bays VVhich having gain'd present to Heaven the praise Zant an Ionian Isle us Currans sends VVith which we please our Palats and our Friends Zones Lines and Tropicks the great VVorld can bound But for the less no Limits can be found Zeuxes was rare at Colours and at Shapes So rare that Birds peckt at his painted Grapes Zephyrus now our Roses hath full blown And now their fragrant Glories forth are flown And now to the wide world they shall be known Zeal mounts the Soul above the rapid Sphears And even th' Invisible to Faith appears Zenith's the highest point of Fortunes wheele From whence her Favorites must fall that reele Zealously prove true honesty's true Friend For that will prove best Policy i' th' End Zeal for the Publick Good made me Engage Thus to new file this rusty Iron Age Zoylus and Momus with their numerous Train VVill view these Operations and complain That Ink which might have drawn forth Nobler Lines Should be imploy'd in these so mean Designs Let Zoylus carp let Momus bark let all Their vast Retinue spit their Spleen and Gall VVhile Sun and Moon the day and Night command These Lines their Authors Monuments shall stand FINIS

Art that may In usefulness its Excellence display Divine success thy Votaries we are How soon thy smiles resucitate from care Do nothing rashly Rashness nume'rous ways The rash Attempter to Contempt betrays Despair Damnation leads in Chains and brings Thousands of Scorpions with Soul-vexing stings Depressed Virtue like the Palm opprest Raises more high her Heaven saluting Crest Dangers lie dormont oft till circumspection Be lost and then reduce us to subjection Divine Contentment's an exhaustless store He that 's content complains not that he 's poor Despise not Mortals of a mean Estate Since ignorant you are of your own Fate Destruction gapes for those who hate Instruction But love to Learning's Wisdoms Introduction Drink Dice and Drabs three dange'rous Dees do call For a fourth D which fourth is worst of all Depend on others promises with hope When you of Sand can make a Cable Rope Did we but know our nearness to the Grave What Thoughts what Cogitations should we have Defer not till to morrow to Essay What worthy Acts you can perform to day Did all men by consent give Peace her Soveraigntie Such as th' Emperial Heav'n this lower world might be Disdain not such as are with Virtues crown'd They are or shall or ought to be renown'd Dispraise cannot depress nor Commendations Mount wise mens constant Minds above their Stations Directions and Instructions of the wise Beyond fine Gold or choicest Jewels prize Discretion Engines and choice Rules prepares Whereby to regulate your just Affairs Desire is a vast boundless Ocean Which still is boyling still in motion found And all the Lines made since Sol's Race began Spliced into one would prove too short to sound This bottomless and shoreless Sea few here Do Navigate that by the Compass Steere E EXtreams produce Extreams Extreams avoid Extreams without Extreams are not enjoy'd Exalted Notions mounted on Wits wings With florid Strains are acceptable Things But solid Reason and sound Sence the wise Beyond Youth-pleasing Airy Trifles prize Encomiums sweet or fourest Calumnies Alike are to the Virtuous and Wise Embrace all opportunities to day Time Tide and Carriers will for no man stay Even then when Age Death's summons must obey Most greedily the Dust hoards up the Clay Exalted thought on Contemplations Wings Soar up to the Sublimitie of Things Experience is the Clue whereby we may Find thorough Arts puzling Labyrinths the Way Expand your Souls rare Faculties that all May honour their Immense ORIGINAL Earths Quintessence we in contentment find Contentment is a Kingdom to the Mind Easier and sooner Learning 's lost than gain'd If by fresh Applications not maintain'd Every swift-wing'd moment in the day Carries its length of our short Life away Extreamly much that man himself forgets Who by new wrangling thinks to pay old debts Estates to gain men toyle and break their Rest But Competency with Content is Best Endeavour so to live and so to dye As to enjoy a blest Eternity Easie it is to write but to write well Is very hard much harder to Excel Envy and Emulation are two things For Emulation Spurs but Envy Stings Extreams produce Extreams the Brood of Vice Can multiply to Legions in a trice Eumenes would to no man yield the praise Of Valour while his Arm his Sword could raise Endeavour to suppress Domestick Jars For Civil are the most uncivil Wars Envies curst brood their own Tormenters are While those most envy'd still the better fare Endeavour still that your Capacious Mind May with the most Essential parts be lin'd Eternal Happiness is gain'd in Time For when Time's Sand shall totally be run Then will there be no Virtues Hill to climbe Acts of Repentance cannot then be done O therefore All your Strength and Might apply In time to gain a bless'd ETERNITY F FRom God to Adam did choice Knowledge flow Which still descends to all his Sons below For Toys and Trifles we contend and fight And out Concerns far more Substantial Slight For were it better to be ignorant Than to be learned and true Grace to want Fix not your mind on Features Lips or Eyes But only love the Virtuous and Wise Fair Modest Wise let my Beloved be And let me live deserving such a She. Few need restraining Curbs in Virtues Race But most want Spur's to make them mend their pace Friends Books a chearful heart a Conscience cleare Are the most choice Companions we find here From a Foul heart assends to lying Lips A little Demon and from thence he skips From glozing Adulation keep your Tongue A smooth desembler cheats you with a Song Fair Wrighting then to Excellence doth rise Most when the Pen is most in Exercise Fools even at Schools Squander their time away As if they went only to learn to Play Fresh prosp'rous Gales their duty may perform Yet leave us to the mercy of a Storm For Profit and for Pleasure those great Ends The wiser sort delight in Books and Friends Fondly affect not a vain minutes breath But Wisely before Death prepare for Death From Labour Wine gives the hands liberty And sets the head on work most furiously Find Meat and Drink that will all Palates please My Lines shall Please all humours with like ease Fame of the noblest kind springs from these Sources Good Life Behaviour fair discreet Discourses Fierce Disputations Transportations prove And Disputants from sence and Truth remove From Orb to Orb a wise man can remove So cannot Planets which command above For Virtues sake now in your youthful prime Be a good Husband of your precious Time Make Action Mistris of your best Affections Court her She 's beautiful beyond objections She Crowns her Lovers with the best of things And gains them favour with the best of Kings For hopeful Youths that would be happy Men There lies a plenteous Portion in the Pen Which being by ingenious pains drawn forth Will shew to admiration it 's vast worth Pen Ink and Paper therefore soon provide And let them be Ingeniously apply'd Fair Writings Famous Universal Art The Pen 5 the Hand 4 the Eye 3 the Head 2 and Heart 1 Conceives 1 Promotes 2 Views 3 Moves 4 and does Impart5. G GRace with a Heavenly hand tunes Natures Harp And makes that Note a Mean which was a Sharp Gold makes an Adamantine Conscience soft And a soft Conscience turns to Flint as oft Great Debts require the greater care to pay Wise men provide against th' accompting day God in your thoughts retain with Reverence Whose works are all stupendious and Immense Go Run Ride Swim use every honest way Rather than Poverties Commands obey God distributes his Gifts as he sees fit He others gives more Wealth and thee more VVit God Mens desires denies them oft that they May be more happy in his heav'nly way God's Register the Conscience notes down all Our Actions just or unjust great or small God Essence gave to Heav'ns Expansed Frame And still sustaines maintains and rules the same Give him leave or

sways Our Faults our Friends and our Instructions we Are strangely subject to forget those Three Of bad Examples Satan's Baits beware And shun them as a Pestilential Ayre Our choicest Flowers we smell to most and they Soon breath their last their Glories first decay Of a quick Friend and a slow Enemy Beware and glozing Adulators fly Only those Noble Souls are truely free That can deny themselves their Libertie One great part of our life is swallow'd by Death's brother Our Meals and Recreations do devour another That part which we imploy in worthy VVorks is small But smaller's that wherein we serve Him who gives all Opinion guides our Passions and Affections And all our Fancies follow her Directions Our Time our VVit our Strength we spend our Coyn to gain And spend our Strength VVit Time to spend that Coyn in vain O that I could invent some powerful Rhime To make all Learners learn to prize their Time Of all the Birds whose Wings divide the Ayre Arabias Phaenix is the only Rare Shee from the Ashes of her fragrant Urn Another Glorious Phaenix does return Which shews a supernatural Perfection And Typifies Man's happy Resurrection P PRofess not what you know you know not for All knowing Men will such a Man abhor Proportion is the Golden Rule whence you May learn what 's fit to do and not to do Pride and Ambition lend men Spreading wings To Act the most ridiculous of Things Praise others but deny your self and then Your Company will please Ingenious Men. Procrastination dangerous was found Where quick-dispatch might the Event have Crown'd Philosophers those thriving Seeds Sow which More than their own do future Times enrich Presume not on Futuritie Vexation Most commonly attends Procrastination Pass not thy judgment on anothers end But inward look and know the Best may Mend. Pitty it is so many should enjoy Learning and yet their Talents not Imploy Parents would have their Children Richly learn But Masters poor Rewards pinch that concern Praise some desire when they dispraise deserve Thus worthless Fools their own vain humours serve Presume not on Lifes length Death a young Lam Bears to his Fold as soon as an old Ram. Praise or applause which from without we win Signifies nothing if not Crown'd within Pride when her Plumes are spread in Pomp and Glory Forgets her Gallantry is transitory Prize beyond western Gold or Eastern Spice The Sole-advancing Treasures of advice Practice gives Motion to the Pen-mans hand Fair Writings Excellencies to command Pelion on Ossa Sin on Sin we heap Yet though we sow so so we would not Reap Philosophy Divine court and recourt She can As man's above a Beast mount man above a Man Prodigious Products from mens Acts we see From not fore-thinking what th' Events might be Pitty it is that Heaven-born Charity Is grown of late so great a Rarity Poor Worms-meat Soar not to the hight of State Humility is honours Palace Gate Pure Temperance a pure good Temper breeds But Gluttony all noysom Humours feeds Perform thy promise keep within Faiths Bounds Who breaks his Word his Reputation wounds Patience Disquiet calmes charms Discontents And arms mens Minds against the worst events Prosperity first greets them with her Smiles And in the End her Proselytes beguiles Praise and dispraise the VVise esteem alike One cannot Stroke them nor the other Strike Prudence commands that Silence we should break When we than that can Something better Speak Pitty it is so many go to learn Who not so much as think of that Concern Q QUickly are all those Sublunaries go●… Which we vain Mortals so 〈…〉 Quickly therefore their ●…mpting 〈…〉 Since they must go from us or we from 〈◊〉 Questions profound and dark Enigmas tend To exercise mens Brains but to no end Qualms qualms succeed like as our Stomacks so Our Minds have Crudities that breed our Wo. Quaint Out-sides win on most Spectators Eyes Whilst real worth ill cloath'd neglected lyes Quarles quondam Poet for rare Lines Divine Still wares fresh Lawrels still his Tapers shine Quintus Curtius Embalm'd great Alexander's name Whose Pen from Age to Age perpetuates his Fame Quintilian's Tongue as in Fames Rolls appears Lead his admiring hearers by the Ears Quash Calumnies defame the Defamations Darted from Envious Tongues at your Relations Quills into curious Pens are made from whence Letters flow which make words and words make sence Quilt Earth's vast Ball with Numbers all imply But Cyphers to Immence Eternity Quotidian Practice may make this Imployment Of Sublunary Things your best Enjoyment Question not but wise management of Time Will make your humble Fortunes more sublime Quoth Will I am resolv'd reveng'd to be Quoth Wit have patience and be rul'd by me Qualifications Virtuous and Pious Should be belov'd honour'd and sought for by us Quit this Worlds Stage you must when your part 's play'd Get Earnest timely for a better lay'd Quarrelsom Natures meet their unkind Kind And commonly what such Men seek they find Quadrate with none whose Acts pronounce them base No Goodness springs from an ungodly Race Quadrunities high-priz'd I wish these mine Good parts good Books good Friends good store of Coin Quinsay China's cheif City even Immense An hundred Miles is in Circumference Quote in the Folio of your best Affections Him that 's a faithful Friend without Objections Quality oft for Soveraignty contends VVith quantity and her vast Bulk transcends Quietness and Serene Contentment are The best Companions in this Mundane Sphear No Golden Fear no heart-consuming Care Dare in their charming presence to appear All is sweet safe and sound within their Bounds No noise their Rest no VVar their peace confounds R RAnge the worlds VVildernesses and you can Find no such Beast of Prey as man to man Rashness draws crooked and un-artful Lines And is a Remora to brave Designs Reason and Learning much concern his pate VVho from his Cradle is Illiterate Rouze up my flaming Genius Heav'n inspire My Soul with something of Etherial Fire Let all brave English Youths who read these Lines Be ev'n inchanted with my good Designes Let these their brave Heroick Spirits raise To practice Virtue and give Him the praise From th' Influence of whose great Providence The Excellent derive their Excellence Reports somtimes which sland'rous Tougues have spread Have caus'd a difference 'twixt the Eares and Head Resolve Revolve Involve Inform Reform But keep God's Fort your Conscience from a Storm Rather depend upon your Fingers Ends Then fix your Expectations on your Friends Read Books Men Manners Times and you 'l confess That the VVorld's Supreme Virtue is Success Reason VVit Knowledge all your parts present To Him by whom they were but only lent Rather than be quite broke wisely submit and Bend 'T is mighty folly with the mighty to contend Religion is the Soul of Innocence Moving in an unspotted Conscience Rare ARTS with Care and Pains obtain and keep Into mens mouths they drop not as they sleep Reason's