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A02909	A Helpe to memory and discourse with table- talke as musicke to a banquet of wine : being a compendium of witty, and vsefull propositions, problemes, and sentences / extracted from the larger volumes of physicians, philosophers, orators and poets, distilled in their assiduous and learned obseruations, and which for method, manner, and referent handling may be fitly tearmed, A Second misselany, or helpe to discourse.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653.; Phillips, E.	1630 (1630)	STC 13051.3; ESTC S3795	55,194	175

from the Heathen and which are they A. The first out of Menander Euill words corrupt good manners 1 Cor. 15.32 The second out of Aeratus Couetousnesse is the root all euils 1 Tim. 10. The third out of Epimenides Cretans are alwayes lyers euill beasts flow bellies Tit. 1.12 Q. What are the three parts of Repentance A. Contrition in Heart Confession in Mouth Satisfaction in Workes Q. What foure things are those that ouercome one another A. 1 Death ouercomes Man 2 Fame ouercomes Death 3 Time ouercomes Fame 4 Eternity ouercomes Time Q. There is held to be a scarcity of two sorts of men in our age and who ore they A. 1 Of Noblemen because Citizens doe daily aspire to honour and buy Nobility 2 Of Iewes because Christians make an occupation of vsury Q. Wee cannot know the Authors of three mischiefes which happen oftentimes and what are they A. 1. Hee that is drunke cannot iustly say This cup of wine or that made me drunke 2. He that walketh among thorns knows not which woundeth him 3. A common whore being with childe knowes not who is the father of it The Husbandmans lesson to his sonne Be holy in Lent Be painefull in Haruest Be merry at Christmas A further counsell or lesson Touch nothing in a Smiths forge Taste nothing in an Apothecaries shop Be not curious in reading other mens let Bragge not of three things if thou wouldest 〈◊〉 ioy plenty and preserue a good name That thou hast good wine in thy house A faire wife for thy bed Plenty of money in thy chest Q. Whether is a good name sooner lost or found A. As soone lost as sound and therefore be diligent to atchieue it before thou hast it in embracing wise counsell and can●full to keepe it when thou hast it For Actum est de homine Quum actum est de nomine There be three manner of Sages The Sage herbe The Sage wise and The Sage foole Of which one writes Whost for wise himselfe doth accept May match any Sage the Sage wise except He that comes to a Lawyer must bring with him three pockets which must bee thus imployed In the first must be his Declarations and his Euidences In the second his siluer and his gold In the third his patience for expence and delay Likewise three things are said to be necessary for him that is a Student in the law 1 An Iron head 2 A purse full of gold 3 A leaden taile Q. What and how many are the properties of a good seruant A. To haue the backe of an Asse The tongue of a sheepe The snowt of a swine To beare all patiently To keepe all silently To digest all things heartily Likewise To be long of eare Light of foot Trusty of hand To heare quickly To run swiftly To execute honestly And not to haue Mel in ore verba lactis Fel in corde fraus in factis Q. Three things should be alwayes at 〈◊〉 and what are they A. The Hen-roost the Cat and the good Wife Three occasions many times moue deate and these are they To talke with him that is angry To send him of an arrand that is weary To wake a man out of his sleepe Q. How stand the English the French the Italian and the Spaniard affected to their w●●men for stature or complexion A. The English is indifferent for stature so she be amiable and beautifull The French affects the pale the slēder The Spaniard the round and the tender The Italian the ruddy and the tall as their owne Prouerbe seemes to confirm it Grande alia me fare Dîo Bella bianco me fare î● Englished If God will make me tall and hye What wants in beauty I le supply And therfore it is said As he affects dearly so he suspecteth deepely yet cannot his most narrow suspition so turne the key to his owne safety thereby solely to ingrose and secure the portion of his owne right without a most hatefull riuall to which purpose vpon the generall inconstancy of women after triall of so many beauties abroad in so many seuerall Countries by two such worthy personages so vnworthily wronged by their owne wiues and none found constant or of better condition then their owne at home but many worse returned homewards refuging their sorrows with the generality of others fortune a in my Hostes tale in the story of Orlando is more largely dilated to the comfort of his country men where this was acted To which purpose and effect one ill opinioned generally of women thus further adioyneth Go and catch a falling Starre Get with child a mandrakes root Tell me where all past yeeres are And who cleft the diuels foot If thou be'st borne to strange sights Things inuisible to see Ride ten thousand dayes and nights Till age snow while hayres on thee Then a hen thou returned wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee And sweare no where Liues a woman true and faire Or as another woman-hater thus w●●teth causelesly if he meant all Go and diue the Ocean vnder Where vnfathom'd deepnesse be Then go scale the clouds of thunder Where the fiery Regions be Through the ●ildernesse goe creepe Thorow the brakes where ne'r shone day Where the venome wonders keepe And the Dragons haue their way And thou as soone shalt know the skill All these wonders to impart As to know the winding will Of a womans Protean heart Vpon the euill and inconstancy of which wicked women one began thus to make an Alphabet Auidissimum animal Bestiale barathrum Concupiscentiam carnis Duellum damnosum c. Englished Auaritious Beastly Concupiscentious of the flesh Dangerous duellists c. Which afterwards another as their friend thus inuerted it vpon the good Alphabeticall wise Amabiles Beneficae Castae Deuotae Elegantae Fideles Gratae Humiles Iucundae Lenes Misericordes Negotiosae Obedientes Prudentes Qu●stuosae Reuerentes Sapientes Tacitae Verae Xenophilae Zenobiae Englished Amiable Bountifull Chaste Deuout Eegant Faithfull Gratefull Humble Ingenuous Lightsome Mercifull Needfull Obedient Prudent Quiet Reuerent Silent Trusty Vertuous Expert c. Q. For the precedence betwixt England France and Spaine which kingdome may the most iustly challenge the priority A. Some writers affirme that the King of France may iustly claime the first place and that for these reasons as they alledge 1. For that it pleased God to send from Heauen vnto Clodoneu● the first Christian King of that Nation three Lillies as a diuine fauour to be from thencesorth borne in the armes of that Kingdome before which time the Kings armes was three Toads as some write Secondly for that as they affirm France is the most ancient Kingdome in Europe and that Swardus was King of that 〈◊〉 in the time of Alexander Thirdly because the King of France is anointed which seemes a note of antiquity Fourthly for his Title the most Christian Others hold that it belongeth to Spaine and that for these reasons 1 Because hee is intituled the

and likenesse A. It was like a dew that fell euery Euening and white like the Coriander seed Q. Who was the chiefe deliuerer of the Children of Israel from the oppression of Pharaoh A. Moses by the hand of God miraculously preserued by Pharaohs daughter by her there found in the Bulrushes cast forth to be drowned where note that all the Kings of Egypt were called Pharaohs as al the Emperours of Rome Caesars For it is said there arose another Pharaoh that knew not Ios●ph Of which great Prophet thus further illustrated by the Poet Loe here an obiect vtterly forlorne Left to destruction as a violent prey Whom man might iudge accursed to bee borne To darke obliuion moulded vp in clay That man of might in after-times should be The bounds of fraile mortality that brake Which that Almighty gloriously should see When he in thunder on Mount Sinai spake There was one that came vpon a time to a great Counsellor of this Kingdome to craue his direction what good morall or politicall booke he would commend to his reading seeing the world was ful of books and there was no end of making many bookes that were made to no end and that much reading was a wearinesse to the flesh and bad for the eye-sight and too little ●●ading a friend to igno●ance worse for the insight and what was his answer Quoth he Reade the World reade men record remarkeable euents set them as a patterne before thee for thy owne instruction reade ouer thy owne actions see where thou hast trayned worthily where thou hast digrest wickedly and thou shalt obserue as one writes That by bad courses may be vnderstood That their euents haue n●uer falne out good With which opinion this Authour seemes to accord For many books I care not and my store Might now suffice mee though I had no more Then Gods two Testaments therwithal That mighty volume which the world men call For these well look't on well in mind preseru'd The presentages passages obseru'd My priuate actions seriously ore view'd My thoughts recal'd and what of them insu'd Are bookes that better far instruct me can Then all the other paper-workes of man If thou wilt reade History lay thine eye to the French Story goe thorow that volume of Kings from Pharamond the first to the last there see how the good and vertuous haue flourished how the euill and tyrannous haue ruined and decayed Likewise to the Dutch to the Spanish and there see the various occurrences and changes of times and men the wheele of fortune sometime deiecting one and as suddenly exalting another Reade the Turkish History and there thou shalt find obseruable matter amongst many other things thou shalt there finde Baiazet the scourge of Princes himselfe captiued in Tamberlaynes Iron cage The Scottish from Donaldus the first to the last of that line to this present Then suruey the English Speed Hollinshead and others and in these and all the rest thou shalt finde rewards and punishments of vertuous and vicious Princes as inherent to them as their Blood and Crownes and many their wicked Actions repayd by way of retribution and retaliation to example in two or three presidents of our owne 〈◊〉 home Henry the First by cruelty disinherited his elder brother Robert Duke of Normandy and put forth his eyes and this to make hiw owne children the more secure heyres of the Kingdome But see what happened hereupon His owne being at that time in France and to come ouer to keepe their Christmas here in England with their Father put forth to Sea and were all drowned in their comming ouer The manner thus the Saylors and Ship-men through excesse of wine which was plenteous at their parting were a●l drunke so that the Master could not well guide the Sterne nor the Mariners the Ship but it rode at randome which the Ladies being launced out into the maine perceiuing fell a weeping praying and lamenting in this state the Ship for a long time continuing in a doubtfull perplexity betwixt hope and despaire when at last in some hope of safegard and in view of land the Ship vpon a sudden split in two pieces against a rocke vpon this was a grieuous skrieke till the water had quickly silenced it Now whilst euery one sought to get vpon something to defraud the gaping billowes of their prey if it were possible the Prince had taken the Cockboat where being in some likelihood of safety himselfe aduenturing to saue his Sister who had hitherto maintained her life by grappling to a planck recouered her into his boat into which the rest so violently thronged after one another euery one willing to reprieue a life so ouer-loaded the little Vessell that with the weight and number the boat sunke and all perished except one Butcher that swomme to shore to tell the heauy tydings So likewise the Conquerour his Father who to erect New Forrest in Hampshire pulled downe ●6 Churches all the Towns Villages and houses farre and neere and brought all within 36 miles compasse to a Wildernesse for wild beastes in which afterwards his 3. sons were slain as you may read more at large in the first part of the Helpe to Discourse By Hastings aduice the Earle Riuers and Gray with others were without triall of Law or offence giuen executed at Pomfret and in the same day neere about the same houre in the same lawlesse manner Hastings himse●●e was beheaded in the Tower of London a greater iudgement then this of Hastings you shall not find in any story And thus much for a taste of some few Examples are copious in this kind and for mu●●bility Chronicle this in thy brest that there is no stability vnder the Sun Kingdomes alter and change The Easterne the Grecian the Roman the Turkish Empire succeeding one another into a continuall succession of change and so of all things vnder the Sunne He that had ●eene I●lius Caesar goe into the Senate 〈◊〉 his royal state and his poniarded body and ●loody robe Seianus in the Morning and his complexion at Euening of which one thus writes of him magnifying himselfe Swell swell my ioyes and faint not to declare Your selues as ample as your causes are I did not liue till now this my first houre Wherein I see my thoughts matcht by my power But this and touch my wishes great and hye The World knowes only two that 's Rome and I. My Roofe receiues me not t is Ayre I tread And at each step I feele m'aduanced head Knocke out a Starre in Heauen It were infinite to instance in this kinde these downefalls of greatnesse Philotas Bellizarius and others Richard the Second a man of misery as Richard the Third a man of cruelty the first whereof of a King became a captiue deliuering vp his Royalty with his owne hands into his enemies whose ominous Raigne was pointed at from Heauen at his landing with his young Queene Anne of Beme from France where at his first setting foot

most Catholicke 2 Because hee is King of many Kingdomes and so of much honour But we conclude the chiefe place and precedence belongeth to the Kingdome of England First in respect of antiquity for Brute was King of England when Alexander the first King of the Grecians called himselfe King of the whole world Secondly the King of England is anointed and so is no other king but the French King the King of Cicill and Ierusalem Thirdly the King of England is a Prince most absolute in all respects But the reason is for that England receiued the Christian faith before either France or Spaine notwithstāding the title of most Christian. There are 6. happy men among many others and these are they 1 Foelix qui Deum timet qui mundum odit qui nemini fert iniuriam 2 Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas 3 Foelix qui didicit contentus viuere paruo 4 Foelix qui nihil debet 5 Foelix qui possidendo nihil omnia possidet 6 Foelix qui omnia quae vult habet 〈◊〉 mali vult Englished 1 Happy is hee which feares God hates the world doth no man iniury 2 Which hath learned to be content with a little 3 That owes nothing but loue 4 Which knowes the causes of things 5 Which possessing nothing yet inioyes all things in not desiring 9 That hath all that he desires and desires nothing that is hurtfull Q. What three things are those to be auoided A. 1 Medicus inctoctus 2 Cibus non coctus 3 Praua mulier An vnlearned Physician Meat ill dressed A wicked woman Q. Three things to bee bewayled and the● 〈◊〉 are they Tempus amissum Peccatum commissum Bonum omissum Time lost Sinne committed Good omitted Q. Who are the famous fooles A. A faithfull louer of an vnfaithfull friend An honest gamester A mercifull souldier Q. Three things are to be taken heed of an● these are they A dogges tooth A horse heele and A womans tongue Q. There are three things for which a wiseman should not giue counsell and which are they A. For another man to take a wife To make a voyage by sea To follow the warres Q. Three things concurre to make a man quickly rich and what are they A. The fall of wiues and the standing of sheepe and Bees Q. What foure things kill a man before his time A. A faire wife A troubled houshold Immoderate meat and drinke and A corrupt ayre Q. There be three shooing-hornes to pluck on a Cuckolds cap and what are they A. A faire wife A iealous husband A wanton louer Foure workes of a Tyrant 1 To destroy the good 2 To hate the poore 3 To extoll the euill 4 To root out the vertuous Q. What one thing is that that is bo●h the hardest and easiest thing of all other A. T is the hardest for a man to know himselfe and the easiest to deceiue himselfe Foure vnlikelihoods which yet sometimes come otherwise to passe He that is not Faire by 20. Strong by 30. Wise by 40. Rich by 50. T is vnlikely he will euer be any of them Q. When is the best time to vndertake a iourney A. To answer as one merrily answere● It is then when a man hath a good horse money in his purse and good companions Q. Two things thou maist shew but not lend and what are they A. Thy sword and thy wife which is thy scabberd Q. What in times past was the controu●● between the Coffin-maker and the Chest-ma● for superiority A. The Chest-maker vaunted that the commodity that he made was of greatest worth for that it lockt vp money that commanded all things But quoth the Coffin-maker The chest that I make lockes vp him that commands money euen the money-master himselfe and as the worthiest thing hee takes that with him when he leaues all other behind Q. What creatures are those that sleep with their eyes open A. The Lyon and the Hare that bold and fearefull creature Q. What binds faster then Obedience Wedlocke suspicion or necessity A. Fate and Death Q. It is an approued Maxime that in nature is no vacuity nothing produced in vaine and hath this generall rule euer passed without exception A. Not so for the wisest and most precious good but hath found some Momus to carpe at it and like the Wolfe turne their throat against the Moone to quarrell the highest and best things as to this purpose is here annexed a story of some triall Certaine ordinary Gentlemen meeting at an Ordinary amongst many propositions and discourses one to another according to the too much liberty of such places one at last began to fall into this admiration that since God and Nature the common parent● of all creatures produced nothing in vaine why man a creature of their principall workmanship in himselfe was altoget●● vanity For confirmation whereof sai●● he of some I knew a Countrey Church wel-furnished with a Clocke whose 〈◊〉 was stricken with an image like a man vpon the wheele stood a ca●● which when the image strucke made such haste away as 〈◊〉 parishioners when they should haue 〈◊〉 for their sinnes fell a laughing at the 〈◊〉 nimblenesse And to furnish the Ch●●● with better merriment their Parson 〈◊〉 conceited as their Clocke amongst 〈…〉 of his digressions falling to sp●●ke 〈…〉 prouidence of God and such like 〈…〉 sometimes in the first it might seeme weak to humane capacity when notwithstanding it was wise in the ends propounded As for example said hee Walking one euening in my garden vnder mine Apple tree I looked vp and saw the little Apples aduanced on the top of the high tree eminent to the sight whilst at my foot grew grubling the huge Million and the Pumpion as me thought vnseemely because obscurely on the ground Whereupon I began to thinke it had beene more seemely and fit that this worthier and fairer fruit should haue growne on the more high and perspicuous place and the apples neerer to the ground or in the place thereof when sodainly thus gazing vp to behold the vnfitnesse of their growing one blowes mee downe from the top of the high tree and hits me on the top of my bald head Being so amazed I began to thinke on mine owne folly for thought I then If this Pumpion had growne and fallen in this apples place it had knocked out my foolish braines To this seconded another to falsifie the generall proposition that Nature had erred in many t●●ngs and might as in others haue beene better aduised in these for a man to repent in and hee 〈◊〉 Repent a day before thy death Quo 〈…〉 that is ignotum per ignotius one vnknown● thing answerd by another more vnknowne For quoth he I know not when the day 〈◊〉 my death will be Why then quoth 〈◊〉 repent to day for for ought thou 〈◊〉 thy death may be to morrow Q. There are three powers of the soule 〈◊〉 signed vnto three parts of the body 〈…〉 are they A. Reason to the Head A 〈…〉 Heart Lust to the Liuor like 〈…〉 yeeldeth sense the Heart Life 〈…〉 nourishment Q. Why doth the bayre and nayle 〈…〉 man as also Onions and Garlicke 〈…〉 grow and increase after they are 〈…〉 thered A. Those haue their issue 〈…〉 out of the abundance of mo 〈…〉 in men though dead or these 〈…〉 not in a long time diminishe 〈…〉 Q. Why are Bastards 〈…〉 strong forward witty and 〈…〉 those which are legitimate an 〈…〉 locke A. Some thinke 〈…〉 〈…〉 vehement and perpetuall and 〈…〉 whatsoeuer outward heat is pre●●reunto is weakened by the grea 〈◊〉 ●●ued within which allayeth the 〈…〉 eof as the heat of the fire is aba 〈◊〉 beames of the Sunne 〈…〉 omes it that by looking vpon one 〈…〉 sore our owne many times be 〈…〉 〈…〉 done partly by the mutuall 〈◊〉 weene the eye and the eye but 〈…〉 lly because the eie doth attract 〈…〉 it beholds certaine rayes 〈…〉 nto it by which it sees and so 〈…〉 from thence what is infectious it 〈…〉 the likewise infected it selfe 〈…〉 doth the Tyranny of age most ap 〈…〉 it self thy changing the haire from 〈…〉 into white and dying the lockes 〈…〉 what meanes doth it most vsu 〈…〉 〈…〉 that Summer is decayed 〈…〉 approching on the frosts and 〈…〉 of she effecteth by drying 〈…〉 ch should digest superflu 〈…〉 ours through the defect 〈…〉 lly proceed 〈…〉 through the ouermuch much care and feare by which di 〈…〉 ned men affirme that some men 〈…〉 prehension of death haue grow 〈…〉 their youth euen at 25 yeeres o 〈…〉 Q. How doth the Basiliske poy 〈…〉 eye and the sight of the woolfe 〈…〉 voyce of him that beholdeth it 〈…〉 Poet To lurke farre off yet lodge de 〈…〉 The Basiliske doth poyson with 〈…〉 The Wolfe that howles for han 〈…〉 noyse Doth by her neere approach 〈…〉 voyce A. By infection of the ay●e 〈…〉 gre●s approacheth the ray 〈…〉 so likewise is the hoar●nesse 〈…〉 effected by drawing in ●y deg 〈…〉 after another till that app 〈…〉 infected by the first Wolue 〈…〉 red and destroyed in Eng 〈…〉 mand of King Edgar and 〈…〉 Princes had beene deuour 〈…〉 Q What substa●ce or 〈…〉 commonly oppresseth hea 〈…〉 and is commonly called th 〈…〉 A. The Night-ma 〈…〉 mour or bloud whi 〈…〉 〈…〉 the vitall spirits of those that 〈…〉 pecially on their backe in such 〈…〉 if some heauy weight or lumpe 〈…〉 heir stomack which they would 〈…〉 ff but cannot and is not as many 〈…〉 liuing thing or spirit 〈…〉 foure things are those that being 〈…〉 be recouered 〈…〉 Time Virginity a Word 〈…〉 erefore for many causes wee 〈…〉 them present and to a 〈…〉 in words especially for 〈…〉 easons 〈…〉 cause in multiloquy the wisest 〈…〉 fend 〈…〉 because it is a signe of folly 〈…〉 ecause many words are the 〈…〉 d●●tents displeasings 〈…〉 more manifest by these exam 〈…〉 〈…〉 the gates that are alwayes 〈…〉 time admit an enemy as 〈…〉 is euer vncouered is vn 〈…〉 infectious to which pur 〈…〉 Philosopher amongst 〈…〉 ing his peace and be 〈…〉 so answered Because 〈…〉 times for speaking but neuer