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A07448	Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.; Palladis tamia	Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607. Politeuphuia.	1634 (1634)	STC 17835; ESTC S121517	258,252	788

cast himselfe downe head● long with the Dog so he tearmed t●● the Turke to be slaine with him Capstranus answering that it was no dange● at all to his soule the Bohemian forth ●with tumbled himselfe downe with th● Turke in his armes and so by his own death only saued the life of all the Citi● so the Deuill like the great Turke b● siging not onely one Citie but euen 〈◊〉 mankind Christ alone like this nob●● Bohemian encountred with him And seeing the case was so that this Dog the Deuill could not be killed starke dead except Christ dyed also therefore he made no reckoning nor account of his life but gaue himselfe to death for vs that hee onely dying for all the people by his death our deadly enemie might for euer be destroyed As it was bootlesse for Golias to brandish his speare against Dauid so it little a●ailed the Deuill to shake his speare likewise in the hand of the Souldiour against the heart of Christ. As Dauid hauing heard Golias prate and talke his pleasure when they came to the point at the first stroke ouerthrew him so Christ with that very selfe same speare which gaue him a little venny in comparison or if it be lawfull for mee to speak but a phillip on the side which was soone after recured gaue the Deuil a deadly wound in the forehead which with all his pawes he shall neuer be able to claw off As Dauid onely with his sling slew Golias so Christ onely by his death and by the power of his Crosse which is the sling of Dauid did conquer and subdue the Deuill The Palme tree though it haue many waights at the top and many snakes at the roote yet still it sayes I am neither oppressed with the waights nor distressed with the snakes Penny royall being hung vp in the larder house buds his flowers and Noahs Oliue tree being drowned vnder the water yet keeps her greene branch and Aarons rod being clung and dry yet brings forth ri●e Almonds and Moses bramble bush being set on fire yet shines and is not consumed so Christ the true Palm● tree though all the iudgements of God and all the sinnes of the world like vnsupportable waights were laid vpon him yea though the cursed Iewes stood beneath like venemous snaks hissing and biting at him yet hee was neither so oppressed with them nor so distressed with these but that euen vpon his Crosse hee did most flourish when he was most afflicted The Phenix though fitting in his neast among the hote spices of Arabia he bee burnt to ashes yet still he saies I die not but old age dyeth in mee so Christ the true Phenix though lying in his graue among the hot spices wherewith Nichodemus embalmed him he was neuer like to rise from death to life againe yet hee dyed not but mortalitie dyed in him and immortality so liued in him that euen in his Sepulchre he did most liue when he seemed most to be dead Epaminondes being sore wounded in fight demanded of his souldiours standing by whether his enemies were ouerthrowne or no. They answered yea Then whether his buckler were whole or no. They answered also I. Nay then sayes he all is well This is not the end of my life but the beginning of my glory For now your deere Epaminondes dying thus gloriously shall rather bee borne againe then buried so Christ was sore wounded but his enemies death and the Deuill were ouerthrowne and spoyled His Buckler which was his Godhead was whole and vntonched Therefore there was no harme done His death was no death but an exaltation vnto greater glory As snow couereth the ground when it is ragged and deformed so Christ with his coat without seame couereth our sinnes and though they were as ctimson yet he maketh them white as snow As Gedeons sleece when it was moist the earth was dry but when it was dry the earth was moist so when Christs fleece was moist as a greene Tree then were all we drie like rotten stickes but when his fleece was drie all the blo●d and water being wrong out of his percious side then were we moistned with his grace As Iacob trauiling towards Haram when hee had laide an heape of stones vnder his head and taken a nap by the way was much reuiued with it after his redious iourney so Christ trauailing towards Heauen when he had slept a little in that stony Sepulchre which was hewen out of a Rocke liued then most Princely after his painefull passion As Iona● was in the Whales belly three dayes and three nights so so was the Son of man in the bowels of the earth yet he had no more hurt then Ionas had As Daniell was not hurt of the hungry Lyons so Christ was not hurt either of the terrours of death or of the horrours of Hell As Adam and Eue both in one day were expelled out of Paradice about noone when the winde blew so Christ and the theefe both in one day were receiued into Paradice yea both in one houre of the day about the sixt houre that is about twelue a clocke in the day time As Peters shadow gaue health to the sicke so Christs shadow giueth life to the dead As Elizeus being dead raised vp one from the dead so Christ being dead was a Physition to the dead Pl●●y reporteth that there was a dyall set in Campus Martius to note the shadowes of the Sun which agreeing very well at the first afterwards for thirty yeares together did not agree with the Sun so all the time of those thirty yea three and thirty yeares that Christ liued in his humiliation heere vpon earth you might haue seene such a dyall in which time the shadow of the dyall did not agree with the shining of the Sun but thanks be to God all the better for vs. As the Sunne went backward ten degrees in the dyall when Ezechas went forward fifteene degrees in his life hee liued fifteene yeares longer so the going of this Sun Iesus Christ tenne degrees backward hath healed all our sicknesse and set vs a thousand degrees forward and infinitely aduanced vs by his death to euerlasting life As Rachel dyed her selfe in child birth to bring forth her Son Beniamin aliue so Christ dyed to bring vs into euerlasting life As when many birds are caught in ● net if a Pellican or any other great bird that is among them get out all the res● that are little ones follow after so Christ as a great Bird hauing broken through the net of death all wee escape with him As far as the Tree of life excelleth the Tree of Knowledge of good and euill so far the crosse of Christ excelleth the Tree of life As hony being found in a dead Lyon the death of the Lyon was the suftenance of Sampson Christs gall is our hony and the bitter death of Christ by reason of his righteousnesse is the sweete life of man As Hammons face was couered when he was

and vanities Chrysost. hom 〈◊〉 in Math. As we do not set a mad or a drunken ●eeper ouer our horses and Asses so wee should not see an asse-headed-●choole-master or a vicious Tutor ●ur Children Idem hom 60. As a vessell doth keepe the tast of the first liquor that it was seasoned with ●o doe Children tast of their first educa●ion Horati The Greeke history reporteth that Alexander that most potent King ●nd conquerour of the world could not leaue those vices which he had in ●is tender yeares learned of his Master ●eonida so whatsoeuer wee are in●ected withall in youth wee cannot ●elinquish in age Hieronimus epist ad L●tam de institutione filiae As water doth follow thy finger guiding it whether thou pleasest so ●●nder age is flexible to any thing and ●s easily drawne whether soeuer thou ●eadest it Idem epist. ad Gaudentum de ●●catulae educat PARENTS AS a Scorpion is not then only supposed to haue a sting when hee smiteth but is alwayes to be taken heed of so they that are propagated of wicked parents although they doe not presently runne into mischife yet they haue poison Plut. As fishes bred and nourished in the Sea haue no tast of the saltnesse of the Sea so some being bred and brought vp among Barbarians are farre off from all Barbarousnesse As the yonger Storkes doe sustaine and releeue their aged and decrepit dammes so should Children prouide for and succour their aged and decayed parents Philo. lib. de Decalogo As the Eagle being the vnnaturallist bird to her young ones that flies in the aire casteth one of her two young ones out of the neast and nourisheth the other so many vnnaturall parents especially the female sexe maketh especially much of some one Child and and neglecteth all the rest the eldes● hath all the lands and the other become beggers Basilius Homil. 8. Hexameron Birds that haue griping tallents doe beare there young ones when they are fledged and cast them out of their neastes so many churlish and filthy minded parents then especially shew their scuruines and vnnaturall dealing to their Children when they grow to pregnancy and maturity Isidorus Clarius orat 57. tom 1. The Crow is commended for the loue to her young birds because shee waiteth vpon them when they begin first to flie and seeketh food for them so those parents are to be praised who continue their kindnesse to their Children not onely in childhood but also in further yeares ibid. As the Emperour Octauianus taught his Sonne feates of warre and his Daughters the Art of cloathing that they might get their liuing if any aduersitie happened so should parents doe now adaies and then so many gentle-mens Children should not come to the gallowes Policrates libro 6. Cap. 4 Ely the Priest brought the curse of God vpon himselfe and vpon his children because he did not correct them so doe many parents now adaies Aulus punished his Son with death because hee held friendship with Catiline his enemy so should Christian parents punish their Children for keeping ill company although not so seuerly Augustine lib. 5. de ciui Dei Cap. 15. CHILDREN AS Iron and steele doe excell other things in hardnesse but are exceeded of the Adamant so the loue towards Children is a mighty and a powerfull thing but the loue towards God doth excell it As the sap a●d moisture doth ascend from the roote to the plant but the plant doth not returne it againe to the roote but to fruit and seed so the loue of parents doth ascend from them to their Children but it doth not returne againe from the Children to the Parents Chysost hom 1. ex varijs in Mathaeum locis homil 32. operis imperfecti As Children resemble their ancestors in the shape of body and disposition of mind in habit gesture aduice and action so it is probable that in the seed of Princes there is a certaine hability engendred beseeming a Prince Philo de legatione ad Caium As it is the rule of nature that euery man should be borne hauing two eyes and fiue fingers yet somtimes that the workes of God might be manifested some haue sixe fingers so man seldome erreth beyond the Law of nature that the Child is borne vnlike his parents Chrysostom Homil. 45. in Math As a Scorpion is not only to be thought then to haue a sting when he smiteth but is alwaies to be taken heed of so those Children that descend from wicked parents although they doe not offend yet they haue poyson Plutarchus in Moral As the soft waxe receiueth whatsoeuer print is in the seale and sheweth no other impression so the tender babe being sealed with his Fathers guifts representeth his image most liuely Wheate throwne into a strange ground turneth to a contrary graine the vine translated into another soile changeth his kind a slipe pulled from stalke withereth so a young Child as it were slipped from the paps of his Mother and put out to nursing either changeth his nature or altereth his disposition A new vessell will long time sauour of that liquour that is first powred into it so the Infant will euer smell of the nurses manners hauing tasted of her milke As the moisture and sap of the earth doth change the nature of the Tree or plant that it nourisheth so the wit and and discretion of a Child is altered and changed by the milke of the Nurse As the parts of a Child as soone as it is borne are framed and fashioned of the Midwife that in all points it may bee straight and comely so the manners of the Child at the first are to bee looked vnto that nothing discommend the mind that no crooked behauiour or vndecent demeanor be found in the man As the steele is imprinted in the soft waxe so learning is ingrauen in the mind of a young impe COCKERING APes almost strangle their whelps with embracing so many Parents by too much cockering their Children doe vtterly spoile them Plin. lib. 5. cap. 54. The young Cuckow although a bastard yet it deuoureth the legitimate young ones with their dam so some Children brought vp with too much cockering and loue doe subuert their Parents Plinius libro 10. cap. 9. The herbe Fenegreeke the worse it is handled the better it prospereth so some Children the hardlier they are dealt with the better men they proue and some againe the more they are made of the worser they are As vnbridled Colts doe cast their riders so cockered Cockneys do subuert their Fathers houses and consume their patrimonies YOVTH EVen as out of a Vessell first that commeth forth which is the purest but that which is troubled and muddie sinketh to the bottome so in the age of life that which is the best is the first Seneca Epist. 109. As it is an argument that that new wine will not last long good which at the first is too fine and cleere so it is a signe of future debility if the ioynts of the body

As neither the world increaseth not the Sun nor the Moone nor the Sea so all wisemen be alike Seneca As haile maketh a great noyse vpon a tiled house but doth it no harme so insultings of fortune cannot hurt a wise man Seneca As a good workeman is not onely a workeman in one matter alone so a wise man doth carry himselfe well in either fortune Seneca As a dwarfe is a dwarfe although set on the top of a mountaine but a Colossus is loftie albeit placed in a valley so a wise man is great in what fortune soeuer but a foole is base in the height of prosperity Seneca As a good workeman maketh a picture of any matter so a wise man well guideth himselfe in any fortune Seneca As lightning forthwith killeth any creature besides man so the stormes of ●ortune forthwith ouerthroweth vnlearned and brutish people but stirreth not a wise man The leaues of the shrub Rhododendros is poyson vnto cattell goates and sheepe but to man they are a remedy against the venim of Serpents so that which bringeth destruction vnto fooles as aduersitie or erudition that a wise man turneth to his good welfare Plin. lib. 16. c. 21. Friendship AS milke doth run together and is coagulated by the rennet so men are combined together and made one by friendship Plut. As fire is the sweetest of all condiments as saith Eu●nus so friendship doth sweeten euery part of the life if it be mingled with it Idem As they that haue a good stomacke and are sound and healthfull creatures doe digest and concoct stones Iron Serpents and Scorpions and doe turne them into nourishment but contrarily those that bee weake and vnhealthfull are offended with Bread and Wine so Fooles doe loose friendship but wise Men well know how to vse emnities aright Idem As bruit Beasts if they be compelled by force to mingle themselues in generation with a diuerse kinde doe not ioy in it but hang downe their heads so friendship doth welfare and vnite among those that be like Idem As our eyes tongues and hands are to be made much of because we cannot liue without them so are friends because no life is vitall without them Dion de regno or at 3. Muske though it bee sweete in the smell is sowre in the smacke the leafe of the Cedar Tree though it be faire to bee seene yet the sirrup depriueth sight so friendship though it bee plighted by shaking the hand yet many times it is shaken off by fraud of the heart Iohn Lily A pinte of the wine called Maroneum which Homer so much commendeth being mingled with fiue quarts of water yet keepeth his old strength and vertue not to be qualified by any mixture where salt groweth nothing else can breed so where friendship is built no offence can harbour The friendship of many AS an vnchast and vnshamefast woman mingling her selfe with many hath no certaine louer so is hee that hunteth after the friendship of many Plut. in Moralibus As a Maide gathering one flower after another in a medow is still possessed with a fresh desire to gather those that are fresher and newer and doth neglect those shee gathered before so are those that se●ke after the friendship of many being cloied with the friendship of one they presently seeke for another Ibidem As the first matter is varied after diuers formes when it hath not the proper forme so is the minde that searcheth for the friendship of many ●bidem The friendship of a few AS Briareu● feeding fiftie bellies with a● hundred hands was no happier then wee that feede one with two hands so thou shalt reape as much commoditie by the friendship of a few as by the the friendship of many for the discommoditie is recompenced if a few doe minister vnto thee thou hast to minister but vnto a few Plutarch As it is absurd for a l●ane man or a blind man to feare least he should become Briareus with an hundred hands or Argus with an hundred eyes so some doe absurdly feare least they should haue too many friends when they haue not as yet one true friend Idem Friendship neglected EVery Tree cannot bee brought to good fruit nor euery wild beast to be●amed therefore we are to conuert them to as good vse as we may so they that cannot bee brought vnto friendship let vs vse their hatred vnto our owne commoditie Plutarch The Storke albeit she goe away yet shee alwayes returneth to the same neast so it is meete that wee should not forget our friends although they be seuered in place from vs but we ought alw●yes to carry their memory about with vs. Plin. lib. 10. cap. 23. Friendship broken off AS a Diamond if it chance to bee broken with a hammer doth fall into such small peeces that they can hardly be discerned with the eyes so the nearest and dearest friendship if it cha●ce to be broken off is turned into the greatest grudge and displeasure and of the firmest leagues if once they bee broken doe spring the deadliest discords For lenity being required with vnkindnesse doth rage aboue Plin. lib. 37. cap. 4. As peeces of Christall can by no meanes be ioyned together againe so it is a most hard thing to reconcile those who are falled from firme friendship into mortall hatred Plin. libro 17. cap. 3. libro 37. cap. 2. As those things which are wont to bee glued if they bee dissolued are easily glued together againe but if the body bee broken it is hardly set together againe so among some if friendship be a little wronged it is easily knit againe but if it bee broken betweene brethren it neuer knitteth againe or if it knit it is with a scarre Plutarch There is nothing so fast knit as glasse yet once broken it can neuer bee ioyned nothing fuller of metall then steele yet ouerheated it will neuer bee ●ardned so friendship is the best pearle ●ut by disdaine throwne into vineger 〈◊〉 bursteth rather in peeces then it will ●ow to any softnesse It is salt fish that water cannot make ●resh sweete hony that is not made ●itter with gall hard Gold that is not mollified with fire so hee is a miracu●ous friend that is not made an enemy with contempt Friendship reconciled THe Fir tree doth so sticke together with glew that first the foundest part of the tree will breake then that which was glewed so after returning into fauour againe the friendship ought to be the firmer and they should more fi●mely cleaue together whom the glew or mutuall beneuolence hath coupled together then those whom nature hath ioyned Plin. lib. 16. cap. 2. As Tin doth soulder together brasse being broken in peeces by reason of the ●ffinitie it hath with it so a friend ought ●o reconcile friendship broken off by ●ome vnkindnes by applying himselfe vnto his friend Plut. The choyse and tryall of Friends AS thou doest try money whether it be counterfeit before thou has● neede to vse it so

sufficient to bring darknesse ouer the whole world so the Prince of darknesse is sufficient to disturbe all mortall creatures Macarius hom 5. As Endiue is like vnto Lettice yet the one is sweete the other bitter so the Diuell sometimes sheweth himselfe like an Angell of light yet the one is glorious the other vgly and deformed Idem hom 7. As a man a woman commits corporall fornication so the Diuell and the soule commits spiritual fornication Idem hom 15. As Serieants waite for the arest of men indebted so Diuels waite ●o are●● sinfull soules Idem hom 43 As a strong stone wall resisteth a dart so faith resisteth the Diuell Greg. Nazian 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Cyprianum As a dogge stayeth still vnder the Table if he find any fallings but departeth if he finde none so the Diuell doth continually gape vpon vs if hee get any blasphemous word he stayeth still but if thou lettest no sins passe from thee he will leaue thee Chrysost. concione 3. de Lazaro As Pyrats set vpon rich loaden ships but passe by them that be emptie so the diuell assaileth them that bee stuffed with vertues but he lets wicked worldlings and mammonists liue in quiet Iaem hom 4. de verbis Isayae Vidi dominum As a Pylot seeing one starre can direct his course to any Citie or pronince so the Diuell being the prince of the ayre doth not onely see but also know all the principalities and dignities of the world and therefore hee could point out to our Sauiour the honour and state of euery kingdome Idem hom 5. operis imperfect Hell IF wee bee so delicate and tender in this life that we cannot suffer patiently a feuer of three dayes so much lesse shall wee in the life to come be able to suffer euerlasting fire Lud. Granat lib. 1. ducis peccat If we be terrified when wee see any horrible punishment inflicted vpon a malefactour in this life so much more shall we bee tormented at the sight of the dreadfull and intollerable punishments in the other Idem As the wicked haue offended God with all their parts powers and sences and haue imployed them all as instruments to serue sinne with euen so shall Gods diuine iustice ordaine that in all the selfe same parts powers and sences they shall suffer sorrow and torment that so that may be fulfilled which is written How much he glorified himselfe and was in delicacies giue him so much torments and lamentaions ibidem As it happened to Sisera who before he slept drunke of the sweete milke in Iaeels bottle but shee awaked him after another manner by nailing his head downe fast to the ground euen so doe men sup vp the sweete milke of this worlds vanities till they are suddenly ouer-taken with death eternall because they cannot awake from the drowsie sleepe wherein they are fast nailed downe by their owne negligent follies Stella de contemptu mundi As Egypt a figure of hell was full of darknesse and a land of captiuity so hell Rupertus lib. 2. in Math. As in this world it is a kind of solace to haue others partakers of our miseries so in hell it shall bee great vexation to the damned to see others tormented as themselues Chrysost. hom 48. de Ira. As entrance into the house of Dedalus was open but regresse was denied so the way into hell is very wide and open but the returne from it is altogether impossible As Abeston a stone of Archadia being once set on fire can neuer be exstinguished neither by raine nor tempest as saith Isidore so hell fire being once kindled can neuer be quenched As an old man said in the liues of the fathers when a Nource would weane her child she layeth some bitter thing vpon her dugge which when the child feeleth he abhorreth it so oppose the bitternesse of Hell against the delights of the world and thou shalt be withdrawne from them As the righteous shall reioyce in Heauen by reason of their great ioy blessednesse so one the contrarie part sinners shall bee tormented with vnspeakeable tortures in hell L●douicus Granat in suis septem Meditationibus Meditatione septima As beautie agilitie fortitude libertie health pleasure and eternitie is matter of reioycing vnto the righteous in Heauen so the vglinesse of sinne the burthen of it imbecility seruitude infirmitie anxietie and euerlasting death shall with grieuous torments afflict sinners in hell Ibidem As the friends of God shall be secure that they shall not loose their blessednesse in heauen so the enemies of God shall loose all hope to be deliuered from those torments which they liue in in hell ibid As in this world we are all vnder one Sun yet wee doe not feele the heate of it all alike because one is more hot and another lesse hot so in hell in that fire there is not one manner of burning because here what the diuersity of bodies doth for after one manner the fire doth burne ch●ffe after another wood and after another iron that there doth the diuersitie of sinnes they haue the same fire and yet it doth not burne them alike ibidem As the Saints in Heauen haue loue and perfect charitie so the damned in hell doe burne against all with spite and ha●●ed ibidem As the Saints in Heauen doe reioyce at anothers good so the damned in hell doe repine at it neither is there any thing found at which they more grieue then at the glory of the Saints and therefore they wish that all might bee damned with them ibid. As God made Heauen for good men so hee made hell for wicked men FINIS A Table of the Common places into which the Similitudes are digested A ABdication p. 360 Abstinence p. 187 Abuse vse of a thing p. 436 Admonition p. 324 Ado●cion ibid. Aduersitie vide Tribulation Adulterie p. 308 Affections p. 315 Affliction p. 401 Age p. 336 Almesdeeds p. 197 Ambition p. 313 Ancestors vide Nobility Angels p. 45 Anger p. 669 Antiquitie vide speech and bookes Arts p. 125 Assiduitie p. 349 Assiduitie taketh away admiration 350 Atticke tongue vide speech Auditour and his duty p. 526 Authours vide bookes B Banishment p. 516 Barbarians vide anger Beautie p. 327 Benefits p. 339 Beneuolence p. 341 Bishops vide courtly life Bitternes vide mariage Bodies of little statute wiser then those that be vaster p. 334 Bookes p. 584 Reading of bookes p. 587 A choyce is to be had in reading books p. 589 The vse of reading many Bookes p. 592 Braggers and boasters p. 389 Brethren p. 322 Breuiloquence p. 567 Businesse p. 342 C Calamitie vide Tribulation Captaine p. 499 Ceremonies ibid. Charitie p. 167 Chastitie p. 238 Chance p. 355 Chid●ng p. 398 Choyce and tryall of a friend ibid. Choyce p. 384 Children p. 135 Christ p. 21 Christian p. 71 Christian discretion vide zeale Church p. 55 Clergy vide courtly life Cockering p. 139 Comaedians vide poets Cōmēdition vide praise Commenders of them selues vide praysers of themselues