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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

a miserable servitude by which means although their Cavalry or Horse be very good yet their Infantry or Foot comes infinitely far short of those of ours in England where the Commons enjoy such priviledges as the French Peasants neither have nor can hope for Qu. What said the Poet concerning those who first adventured to plough the Ocean waves with a Ship An. Illi robur aes triplex Circa pectus erat qui fragilem tru●i Commisit pelago ratem Hard was his heart as brass which first did venture In a weak Ship on the rough Seas to enter Qu. What King of Scotland was he on whom the Prophecy concerning Jacobs stone was fulfilled that a King of that Nation should live to be crowned thereupon An. King James the first of that name of England and the sixth of Scotland who was Crowned at Westminster whither the same was brought by our Edward the first at such time as he harassed Scotland with Fire and Sword on which stone was this written If Fates go right where ere this Stone is pight The Regal Race of Scots shall rule that place This Stone is said to be the same on which Jacob slept when to avoid his brothers fury he fled to Padan-aram to Laban his mother Rebeckahs brother Of which stone one thus further writes The Stone reserv'd in England many a day On which old Jacob his grave head did lay And saw descending Angels whilst he slept Which since that time by sundry Nations kept From age to age I could recite you how Could I my pen that liberty allow A King of Scotland ages coming on Should live for to be crown'd upon that Stone Qu. What three things are those which are accounted very strange or rather miraculous in the Countrey of Scotland An. 1. The Lake of Mirton part of whose waters do congeal in winter part of them not 2. The Lake of Lenox twenty four miles round in which are thirty Islands one of which is driven to and fro in every tempest 3. The Deaf-stone twelve foot high and thirty three cubits thick of this rare quality that a Musquet shot off on the one side cannot be heard by a man standing on the other Qu. In how many forms doth a Physitian appear to his Patient An. In these three 1. In the form of a skilful man when he promiseth help 2. In the shape of an Angel when he performs it 3. In the form of a Devil when he asketh his reward And therefore it is the Physicians Rule Accipe dum dolet Take the second Fee while the Sick hand giveth it But if Diseases thou hast none Let the Physician then alone For he thereby may purge thy purse And make thy body ten times worse Qu. What Trade is set up at the least charge An. A Scriveners for the Wing of a Goose sets up forty of them Qu. Of what four parts should a good History consist An. Of Annals Diaries Commentaries and Chronologies borrowing from them all somewhat to beautifie her self withal especially from Annals the year and Diaries the day in which any remarkable business happened from Commentaries is derived matter and from Chronologies consent of Times and Coetanity of Princes Qu. What is it that makes Physicians well An. Other mens sickness according to the Poet Physicians are most miserable men That cannot be deny'd For they 'r ne'r truly well but when Most men are ill beside Qu. What were the names of the seven wise men of Greece An. Bius Solon Chilon Cleobules Pitarus and Periander but now our age is grown so wise or self-conceited that as the Poet hath it The wise men were but seven now we scarce know So many fools the world so wise doth grow And yet I think I may safely say with another Poet In these two terms all people we comprize Some men are wise but most are otherwise Qu. Into how many parts is the world divided An. Into four parts and four Religions Asia Africa America Europe Jewish Mahometan Pagan Christian hope Qu. Why did Godfrey of Bulloign when he took upon him the Title of the King of Jerusalem yet by no means would be perswaded to he crowned King An. Because he judged himself unworthy to wear a Crown of Gold where his Lotd and Saviour was crowned with thorns With Golden Crown it is not fit t' adorn The servants head where the Masters Crown was thorn Such was the humility of great men in former times thus we read of Saladine Emperor of the Turks that at his death he caused a black shirt to be fixt on a spear and carried round about his Camp with this proclamation This black shirt was all that Saladine Conqueror of the East after all his Victories and successes carried with him to his grave Who then would credence give to humane glory Since that the best of all is transitory Qu. By what means according as it is deliver'd by Authors was Constantine the great first converted to the Christian Faith An. Socrates Scholastius writing thereon saith That when Constantine was appointed Emperor in Britain Maxentius was by the Pretorian Soldiers chosen at Rome and Lycinius nominated Successor by Maximinius Against these Constantine marching and being in his mind somewhat pensive he cast his eyes up to Heaven where he saw in the Sky a lightsome Pillar in the form of a Cross wherein were engraven these words In hoc vince The night following our Saviour appeared to him in a Vision commanding him to bear the figure of that Cross in his Banners and he should overcome his Enemies Constantine obeyed the vision and was accordingly victorious after which he not only favoured the Christians but became himself also one of that Holy profession This Constantine as most Writers agree was the Son of Helena daughter to Caelus or Coylus a British Prince and Colchester was the place where he beheld the light as the Poet Necham learnedly sung From Colchester there rose a Star The Rayes whereof gave glorious light Throughout the World in Climates far Great Constantine Romes Emperor bright Helena his Mother was she that built the Temple of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem and found out the Holy Cross much ado had the good Lady to find the place where Christ was buried for the Jews and Heathens had raised great Hillocks thereon and built there a Temple to Venus This Temple being plucked down and the Earth digged away she found the three Crosses whereon our blessed Saviour and the two Thieves had suffered to know which of these was the right Cross they were all carried to a woman who had long been visited with sickness and now lay at the point of death The Crosses of the two thieves did the weak woman no good but as soon as they laid on her the Cross on which our Lord dyed she leaped up and was restored to her former health or this Cross there are in several places shown so many pieces that as one saith were they all put together

George Duke of Clarence his own Brother with many faithful servants to King Edward 4. Edward the fifth his lawful Soveraign with Prince Richard his brother 5. Henry Duke of Buckingham his great friend and sixth one Collingborn an Esquire who was hang'd drawn and quartered for making this Verse The Cat the Rat and Lowel our Dog Rule all England under a Hog Finally having reigned two years and two months he was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond and buried at Grey Fryers Church at Leicester Henry the seventh who united the two Houses of York and Lancaster by marrying with Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Edward the fourth He was a Prince of marvellous Wisdom Policy Justice Temperance and Gravity and notwithstanding great troubles and wars which he had against home-bred Rebels he kept his Realm in right good order He builded the Chappel to Westminster-Abby a most accurate piece of Work wherein he was interred after he had reigned twenty three years and eight months Henry the eight who banished the Popes supremacy out of England won Bulloign from the French lived beloved and feared of his Neighbour Princes the last of our Kings whose name began with the Letter H. which Letter had been accounted strange and ominous every mutation in our State being as it were ushered in by it according as I find it thus versed in Albions England Not superstitiously I speak but H this Letter still Hath been accounted ominous to England's good or ill First Hercules Hesion and Helen were the cause Of war to Troy Aeneas seed becoming so Out-laws Humber the Hum with foreign Armes did first the Brutes invade Hellen to Romes Imperial Throne the British Crown convey'd Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harold had the Saxons end at Hardy Cnute the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Reign Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did Englands Crown obtain Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace Henry the eighth did happily Romes irreligion cease King Henry having Reigned thirty seven years nine months and odd days dyed and was buried at Windsor Edward the sixth a most vertuous religious Prince whose wisdom was above his years and whose piety was exemplary he perfected the Reformation begun by his father King Henry At the age of sixteen years he departed this life having Reigned six years five months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Mary his Sister whom King Henry begat of Katherine of Spain she restored again the Mass set at liberty those Bishops imprisoned in her brothers Reign and imprisoned those who would not embrace the Romish perswasion She was very zealous in the cause of the Pope for not yielding to which many godly Bishops and others of the Reformation suffered Mattyrdom In her time was Callice lost to the French the grief whereof it was thought brake her heart she Reigned five years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Elizabeth daughter to Henry the eighth by the Lady Ann of Bulloigne a most Heroick vertuous Lady she again banished the Popes power out of England reduced Religion to its primitive purity and refined the Coyns which were then much corrupt For the defence of her Kingdom she stored her Royal Navy with all warlike munition aided the Scots against the French the French Protestants against the Catholiques and both against the Spaniard whose invincible Armado as it was termed she overthrew in 88. Holland found her a fast friend against the force of Spain the Ocean it self was at her command and her name grew so redoubted that the Muscovite willingly entered into League with her She was famous for her Royal Government amongst the Turks Persians and Tartars which having endured forty four years five months and odd days she dyed being aged about seventy years and was buried at Westminster King James a Prince from his Cradle the sixth of that name in Scotland and the first in England He excelled for Learning and Religion a second Solomon in whose Reign during all the time thereof our Land was enriched with those two blessings of Peace and Plenty He died in a good old age notwithstanding the Treason of the Gowries and the Powder-plot Reigned twenty two years and three days and was buried at Westminster Charles the first Son to King James a most pious prudent vertuous Prince enriched with all excellencies both of mind and body He was by his own Subjects most barbarously murdered before his PallaceGate at Whitehall Jan. 30. An. 1648. after he had Reigned twenty three years ten months and 3 days Twit Papists now not with the Powder-plot This blacker deed will make the same forgot Charles the second the Heir of his Fathers vertues and Crown who having been long detained from his right by the prevailing sword of Rebels was miraculously restored to his Subjects and Kingdom May the 29. 1660. Who God grant long long long to Reign May they be all Rebels and Traitors reckon'd Who wish the least hurt unto Charles the Second Hereafter followeth the Histories of St Denis the Titulary Saint of France St. Romain and some others being after used in discourse for the Readers better information and delight according as we find it in the Legend of them SAint Denis is said to be the same Dionisius of Areopagita mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles who being converted himself ●hirsted after the conversion of others and ●o that end he with Rusticus and Elutherius ●ravelled into France then called Gauls where he converted many to Christianity and ●ecame the first Bishop of Paris making Rus●icus his Arch-Priest and Elutherius his Dea●on Afterwards in the Reign of Domitian the Emperor persecution growing hot Fes●ennius Governor of Paris commanded that ●e should bow before the Altar of Mercury and offer Sacrifice unto him which St. Denis with the other two beforenamed refusing to do they were all three of them condemned to be beheaded which was accordingly executed on Mont-Matre distant about a mile from Paris Now it came to pass that when the Executioner had smitten off Saint Denis his head that he caught it up between his Arms and ran with it down the Hill as fast as his legs could carry him half a mile from the place of his Execution he sate down and rested and so he did nine times in all till he came to the place where his Church is now built where he met with a very old woman whom he charged to bury him in that place and then fell down and died being three English miles from Mont-Matre and there he was buried together with Rusticus and Elutherius who were brought after him by the people Afterwards by the succeeding ages when Christianity had gotten the upper-hand of Paganism in the nine several places where he rested are erected so many handsome Crosses of stone all of a making To the memory of this Saint did