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A79881	Aurea Legenda, or Apothegms, sentences, and sayings of many wise and learned men, useful for all sorts of persons Collected out of many authors by Sa. Clark, sometimes pastor in B.F.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4488A; ESTC R223906	51,711	152

a sum of Money should not empty the King's Coffers neither should Riches be the pay of worth which are meerly the Wages of Labour He that gives it embaseth a Man He that takes it vilifies himself Who is so most rewarded is least Secretary Walsingham would say Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner Secretary Cecil would say It shall never be said of me that I will defer till to Morrow what I can do to day Sr. Richard Morison would say Give me this day and take the next your self He that knoweth to speak well knoweth also where he must hold his Peace said the Old Grecian Think an Hour before you speak and a Day before you Promise said one of our English Sages The two main Principles which Guide humane Nature said Judg Dodderidg are Conscience and Law By the former we are obliged in reference to another World by the latter in Relation to this When the Lord Chief Justice Fitz-James came upon the Bench he knew no more than Melchisedech or Levi Father nor Mother neither Friend nor Interest For when a Cousin of his urged for a kindness Come to my House said the Judg and I will deny you nothing Come to the King's Court and I must do you Justice Plato said That a Man's mind is the Chariot Reason the Coach-man Affections the Horses desire of Honour the Whips both exciting to go forward and awing to be exact Honour always keeping up curiously the Honoured Person in an heigth of Action that keeps an even Pace with admiration Evenness and Constancy being the Crown of Vertue The Lord Gray was the first that brought a Coach into England And Henry Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel when he was Steward at King Edward the 6 th's Coronation was the first that rid in a Coach in England William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester was Servant to King Henry the 7 th and for Thirty years together Treasurer to King Henry the 8 th King Edward the 6 th Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Thus he served divers Soveraigns in very mutable Times being as he said of himself no Oak but an Osier He had the rare happiness of setting in his full Splendour having lived ninety seaven years and seen a Hundred and three that descended out of his Body Sr. Henry Sidney's Motto was I will never threaten For to threaten an Enemy is to instruct him A Superiour is to endanger my Person And an Inferiour is to disparage my Conduct The Character of a happy Life HOw happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's Will Whose Armour is his honest thought And simple Truth his utmost skill Whose Passions not his Masters are Whose Soul is still prepar'd for Death Vnty'd unto the World by care Of Publick Fame or private breath Who envies none whom Chance doth raise Nor Vice hath ever understood How deepest Wounds are given by Praise Nor Rules of State but Rules of Good Who hath his Life from Rumours freed Whose Conscience is his strong Retreat Whose State can neither Flatterers feed Nor ruin make Oppressors great Who God doth late and early pray More of his Grace than Gifts to lend And entertains the harmless Day With a Religious Book or Friend This Man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall Lord of himself tho not of Lands And having nothing yet hath all Sr. Henry Wotton It was an excellent Saying of Sr. John Packinton in Queen Elizabeth's days that a sound Faith was the best Divinity A good Conscience the best Law And Temperance the best Physick Upon the fall of the Earl of Somerset DAzled still with heigth of place Whilst our Hopes our Wits beguile No Man marks the narrow space 'Twixt a Prison and a smile Then since Fortunes favours fade You that in her Arms do sleep Learn to swim and not to Wade For the Hearts of Kings are deep But if Greatness be so blind As to trust in Towers of Air Let it be with Goodness lin'd That at least the fall be fair Then tho darkned you shall say When Friends fail and Princes frown Virtue is the roughest way But proves at Night a Bed of Down Sr. Henry Wotton It 's one of Machiavel's rules That they which rise very high should descend timely and quit the Envy lest they lose the Honour of their greatness When Charles the 5 th presented Secretary Eraso to his Son Philip the 2 d. he said He gave him somewhat greater than his Estate and more Royal than his Empire I understand not saith mine Author speaking of James Hay Earl of Carlisle the reason of his Ante-Suppers the manner of which was to have the Table coverd at the first entrance of the Guests with Dishes as high as a tall Man could well reach filled with the choicest and dearest Viands Sea or Land could afford And all this once seen and having feasted the Eyes of the invited was removed and fresh was set on to the same heigth having only this advantage of the others that it was hot At one of these Meals an Attendant did Eat to his single share a whole Pye reckoned to the Earl at Twenty pound being composed of Amber-Greece Magisterial Pearl Musk c. And another went away with Forty pounds of Sweet-meats in his Cloak-bag When the most able Physicians and his own Weakness had passed a Judgment upon this Earl that he could not live many days he did not forbear his Entertainments but made divers brave Cloths as he said to Out-face naked and despicable Death adding withal That Nature wanted Wisdom Power or Love in making Man mortal and subject to Diseases Sr. Thomas Lake was a Man of such dixterity and dispatch that he would indite Write and Discourse at the same time more exactly than most Men could severally perform them for which he was then called the swift-sure Of Sr. Edward Cook it is recorded that he would never be perswaded privately to retract that which he had Publickly adjudged Professing That he was a Judg in a Court not in a Chamber He was wont to say No wise man would do that in Prosperity whereof he should repent in Adversity His Motto was Prudens qui patiens It 's a sure Principle of rising that great Persons esteem better of such as they have done great Courtesies to than those they have received great Civilities from looking upon this as their Disparagement the other as their Glory It 's an excellent Rule that no man should let what is unjustifiable or Dangerous to appear under his Hand thereby to give Envy a steady aim at his Place or Person Nor mingle interests with great Men made desperate by Debts or Court injuries whose falls have been ruinous to their wisest Followers Nor pry any farther into secrecy than rather to secure than shew himself Nor to impart that to a Friend that may impower him to be an Enemy It was the Saying of a great Man among us that a through-paced Papist

a Schollar and an honest Man Cicero's magnificent Orations against Anthony Cataline and Verres Caesar's great Commentaries which he wrote with the same Spirit that he fought Flowing Livy Grave Judicious and Stately Tacitus Eloquent but faithful Curtius Brief and rich Salust Prudent and brave Xenophon whose Person was Themistocles's Companion as his Book was Scipio Affricanus his Pattern in all his Wars Ancient and sweet Herodotus Sententious and observing Thucidides Various and useful Polybius Siculus Halicarnassus Trogus Orosius Justine made up Sr. Henry Killigrew's retinue in all his Travels in Queen Elizabeths Reign where he sat on the Stage of human Life observing the great Circumstances of Places Persons Times Manners Occasions c. and was made wife by their Example who had trod the Path of Error and Danger before him Choice Examples Apothegms and Sayings of very Wise men CArdinal Wolsey providing as magnificently for his Installation into his Arch-Bishoprick of York as a King should do for his Coronation improved thereby King Henry 8 th's jealousie to his ruin For in the midst of his Solemnities he was arrested by the King's order whose Wrath was the Messenger of Death and a while after breathed forth his Soul in these Words If I had served the God of Heaven as faithfully as I did my Master on Earth he had not forsaken me in my Old Age as the other hath done State Worthies p. 19. Plenty without Pomp is Penury to Pride which Kings may make humbled God only humble He being able to take away the Fire the Lust within the other only to withdraw the Fuel the State without p. 21. Men die unpittied that Live feared How many a Man had ended better if he had not begun so well It 's the Emphasis of misery to be too soon happy Prosperity growing up with Experience makes a Man in a firm settlement inured to all events I will always suspect the smooth Waters for deepness In my worst Estate I will hope In my best I will fear in all I will be Circumspect and still Queen Elizabeth being to employ a famous Ambassage into France made choice of two of the noblest Peers in her Realm equal in Rank equal in Vertue but the one excused it by a defect in his hearing and the other by his ignorance and want of the French Language To which the Queen smilingly replyed That it was a miserable Estate when her speaking Peers were Deaf and her hearing Peers were Dumb. We should be very cautious in mentioning the Name of God in small matters according to that of the Poet Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice Nodus Inciderit Name not God but in matters of great moment The Philosopher's division of men into three Ranks is observable Some said he are such as know good and are willing to teach it unto others These are like Gods among men Others tho they know not good yet are willing to learn These are like Men among Beasts Others know not good and despise such as should teach them These are as Beasts among men Those are the most miserable among Men who running their Head into a Bush of Confident ignorance suppose that none see their Weakness because they are not willing to take notice of it themselves Integrity out-lasts Power and Plainness survives Policy An honest Heart keeps the Head on the Shoulders A noble and cleer Vertue is lasting A. B B. Cranmer used to say as Victorinus There is a time to say nothing There is a time to say something But never a time to say all things Some of Sr. Thomas Moor's Apothegms were these He is not always merry that Laugheth The world is undone by looking on things at a distance To aim at Honour here is to set up a Coat of Arms over a Prison Gate If I would employ my Goods well I may be contented to lase them if ill I should be glad He that is Covetous when he is Old is as a Thief that steals when he is going to the Gallows Bags of Gold to us when Saints will be but as Bags of Pebble-stones when Men. The greatest Punishment in the World were to have our Wishes Pusillanimity is a great Temptation Affliction undoes many Pleasures most We go to Hell with more Pains than we might go to Heaven with Who would not send his Alms to Heaven Who would not send his Estate whither he is to be banished Archer King James his Jester made him sensible of the danger the Prince was in in Spain by telling him that he came to change Caps with him Why so said the King because thou hast sent the Prince into Spain from whence he is never like to return But said the King what wilt thou say when thou seest him return back again Marry said he I will take off the Fools Cap which I now put upon thy Head for sending him thither and put it upon the King of Spain's Head for letting him return Sr. Thomas Wiat told King Henry 8 th that he found out a Living of an Hundred pounds in the year more than enough and pray'd him to bestow it upon him Why said the King we have none such in England Yes said Sr. Thomas the Provost-ship of Eaton where a Man hath his Dyet his Lodging his Horse-meat his Servants Wages his Riding-charges and a 100 Pound Per annum besides Sr. Thomas Wiat's Jests were always confined to these Rules 1. He never played upon a Man's unhappiness or Deformity It being inhumane so to do 2. Nor upon his Superiors which is Sawciness and undutifulness 3. Nor on serious or holy Matters For that 's irreligious and profane Applying upon this occasion that of the Athenians who would not suffer Pathus to play his Comedies where Euripides repeated his Tragedies 4. He had much Salt but no Gall Often jesting but never jeering 5. He observed Times Persons and Circumstances knowing when to speak and when to hold his Peace too 6. His apt and handsome Reparties were rather natural than affected Subtile and acute Prompt and easie yet not Careless Never rendring himself Contemptible to please others 7. His gift was not an insipid changing of Words but a smart retort of Matters which every Body was better pleased with than himself What is Prerogative but a great Name when not exercised over a free People And what is Priviledge but a fond imagination when not secured under a a powerful King that may keep us from being Slaves one to another by an Anarchy while we strive to be free from his Tyranny We should not complain that we have little time but that we spend much either in doing nothing or in doing Evil or in doing nothing to the Purpose Three things said a Wise man will settle a State Good God-Fathers and God-Mothers performing their Vows Good Housholders over-looking their Families And good School-Masters educating Youth This last is the most useful tho the most Contemptible Profession Reward said the same Person when he was offered