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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52951	The figure of six containing these six things : wit, mirth, pleasure, pretty observations, new conceits, and merry jests : When dayes are long, this figure may help you to passe the time away, and it wil breed you much delight to passe away the winters night.	D. N.	1652 (1652)	Wing N7; ESTC R8514	7,003	25

FIGURE OF SIX Containing these Six things Wit Mirth Pleasure pretty Observations new Conceits and merry Jests When dayes are long this Figure may Help you to passe the time away And it wil breed you much delight To passe away the Winters night LONDON ●●●nted for John Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayley 1652. TO make a larg preface to a small Volume were as ridiculous as to set and Aldermans Gate before a poor Cottage for as the one would shew a great diproportion in building so the other would tire the Reader to no purpose and therefore I intend not to use many words to intreate thy acceptance of this Figure of Six because it may be some delight more in dry Thistles then in the weetest Flowers that can bee gathered out of the Garden of Invention but let them injoy their humour for I know there are Six kinds of Readers the paine Readers the ignorant Reader the scoffing Reader the conceited Reader the carping Reader and the kind Reader Now to the last of these Six namely to the kinde Reader I commend this Figure of Six and if he like it I care not for the rest and so I rest Thy Friend D. N. This Booke is like a Paire of Dice That doth run still upon the sice And two pence of it is the price The Figure of Six is liked well For t is six to one but it will sell THE FIGURE OF SIX 1. SIx things are very hard to doe to pray heartily to forgive willingly to suffer patiently to love moderatly to love wisely and to spend thriftily 2. Six things are much abused Wine Women Weapons Wit Wealth and a poore man in want 3. Six heads are without Braines an Arrow head a Horse head a Nayles head a Hammers head a Beds head and a Maiden head 4. Six things are best when they are broken A cunning Scrivener a Nut a Cake a Lobster an Egge and a good Jest 5 Six things doe blinde judgement Affection Passion Ignorance Opinion Hatred and Bribery 6. Six cruell long Bills A Forrest Bill a Stewards Bill a Watchmans Bill a Chancery Bill a Woodcocks Bill and a Taylors Bill 7. Six great helps belong to a Poet the helpe of Invention the helpe of nature the helpe of Art the help of Reading the helpe of the Muses and the helpe of Money 8 Six chiefe Hearbs in the Garden Sage Time Thrift Batchelors Buttons Rosemary and the Hearbe of Grace 9 Six figures of Six The figure of Six in Arithmetick the figure six in small Beer the figure of Six in a horses mouth the figure of Six upon Cardes the figure of Six in this Booke and the figure of Six in silver 10. Six very painefull Letters The head H the tooth H the back H the belly H the horn H and the halter H 11 Six things are necessary for school boyes a Pen-knife Quils Paper Inke-Books and sometimes Birch Feare Hope Idlenes Jealousie Sadnesse and Madnesse 13. Six things doe live in a severall Elements A Camelion in the ayre a Salamander in the fire a Mole in the earth a Fish in the water a Foole in the Court and a Drunkard in his Ale 14. Six things are good in cold weather good Fare good Fires good Drinke good company good jests and a she Bed-fellow 15 Six degrees of misery To be out of Cloathes to be out of Money to be out of Friends to be out of Credit to be out of house and home and to be out of one senses 16. Six goodly fights to see a Tree full of fruit a Garden full of Flowers a field full of Cattell a Barne full of Corne a woman with childe and a ship under sayle 17. Six light things doe make man heavy hearted Light penny-worths light pots light purses light gold light suppers and light wives 18. Six things are necessary to Life Meat drink cloathing lodging health and some wealth 19. Six things doe make no shew to the world Wit in a blunt man Learning in a wise man strength in a valiant man wealth in a r●ch man Religion in a good man and vertue in a poore man 20. Six things are much alike The fawning of a Dogge the flattering of a Knave the scratching of an Asse the greasing of a Sow the cackling of a Goose and the kindnesse of an Host●● 21. Six blind things a blind Man a blind Mold a blind Buzzard a blinde Beetle Homer the blinde Writer and Cupid the blind Archer 22 Six things are n●cessary in a Christian life Faith Hope and Charitie Love Peace and Unitie 23. Six kinds of Prodigals The fine Prodigall the kind Pr●digall the drunken Prodigall the dicing Prodigall the wit●y Prodigall and the wenching P●odigall 24 Six pleasant Fruits Cherries S●rawberries Plumbs Peaches Peares and the fruit of Love 25. Six angry things A sick man a proud man a conceited man an upstart Officer a waspe and a woman 26. Six things are too much used much eating much drinking much sleeping much swearing much prating and much lying 27. Six things are very dangerous to take up hot Iron whole Pots a seale from a Bond dice among Cheaters money upon Usury and a Maids petticoat 28. Six kinds of Wormes a Mal●worme a Muck-worme a Mud worme an Earth worme a fruit-worme and a Wood-worme 29. Six things there are which drink of other men cost an Host an Hostis a Tost a T●pster a Fly and a sharker 30. Six bad humers a scoffing humour a quarrelling humour a proud humour a zealous humour a mad humour and a melancholly humour 31. Six great menders Taylors Coblers Semsters Tinkers Glasse-menders and Bellowes●menders 32. Six things doe soone vanish Youth Beauty Strength Mirth Pleasure and hasty Love 33. Six things are very sharp sighted an Eagle a Hawke a Hearne a needle a jealous eye and a hungry man 34 Six things are well matcht together A slut and a sloven a knave and a foole a scould and a deaf man a whore and a blinde man a Bride and a Bridegroome an asse and a flatterer 35 Six Schooles are much frequented A Grammer schoole a Writing schoole a Drinking Shoole a Dancing schoole a Fencing schoole and a Vaulting schoole 36 Six ill sounds The scraping of trenchers the rubbing of iron the howling of a Dog the creaking of a wheele the crying of Cats and the sco●lding of a shrew 37 Six kinds of tame fowle live in London prating Dawes gossiping Magpies cheating Rookes young Woodcocks old Dottrels and wanton Wagtayles 38 Six essentiall parts belong to a Gallant To weare good clothes to sweare great oathes to spend soundly to drinke profoundly to complement with a friend and to court a wench 39 Six things are soone dry A ditch in summer a tap when the drink is out a complementing Asse a poore mands ●urse an Ap●ill shower and a widdowes eares 40 Six things are much desired but seldome found A happy Life a good wife a carefull servant an honest Pettifogger a conscionable man and

a constant friend 41 Six crackt things are never good a crackt Glasse a crackt Bottle a crackt Fiddle a crackt Groat a crackt crowne and a a crackt Maiden-head 42 Six things are very tedious To fit by an ill fire to heare a long tale to court a coy wench to ride on a jade to expect the returne of a slow carryer and to lye in bead and looke for a sweet-heart 43 Six Items are reckoned in Innes Item for meat Item for bread Item for drinke Item for fruit and cheese Item for fire and Item for kissing Hostis 44 Six chiefe faculities belong to the reasonable soul Speech Laughter Reason Understanding Will and Election of good and bad 45 Six renowned Greeke Poets Pindaries Euripides Non●ius Theognis He flod and Hom●r 46. Six kinds of water cold wate● hot water strong water stomack wate● Rose water and Rose the Chamber● maids water 47. Six things belong to a Husband● man to manure his ground to plough his ground to sow his Corne to reape his Corne to thresh his Corne and to sell his Corne 48. Six steps bring men to Tyburne● Idlenesse brings men to ill company ill company brings wasteful spending wastfull spending brings want want brings stealing and stealing brings them to the Gallowes 49. Six things doe desire to meet a foe with his foe in the Field a friend with his friend the jet with straw the Load stone with Iron the Male with the Female and the Lover with his sweet heart 50. Six things are required in a Gentleman Birth Education Learning Vertue Courtesie a●d Courage 51. ●ix comfortable things doe belong to a Traveller a good horse good company good boots good wa●es good store of money a good Inne at night 52. Six in inferiour ignorant Artists A ●inker to a Brasier a Cobler to a Shoo●aker a Clarke to a Lawyer an Apo●●ecary to a Physian a Botcher to a ●aylor and a Rimer to a Poet 53. Six things are never satisfied The ●●irstinesse of the Sea the covetousnesse ●f an Usuer I●ell Ambition the Grave 〈◊〉 an insatiate woman 54. Six necessary charges belong to ●oore house keepers Firing Candle ●read Drinke Food and to pay their ●and-Lords Rent 55. Six things are that are good in ●eep his Wooll for cloths his skin for ●archment his dung to fat the ground is flesh for meat his bones for dice ●nd his guts for Fiddle-strings 56. Six kind of Runners are much ●sed A running Footman a running ●ckey a running head a running vessel running horse a running hound and running banquet 57 Six things will make a man weep ●hen he hath no cause of sorrow To ●eele Onions and Garlike to sit by a ●moaking fire to drinke Bottle-ale to ●at Mustard and to sup hot broth 58 Six things there are which the g●eatest Orator cannot perswade 〈◊〉 perswade a foole from his folly a 〈…〉 to heare a scould to be quiet a ma● that has a cold to leave coughing a ma●● to leave her sweet heart and a man 〈◊〉 pay the reckoning that has no money 59 Six things doe make an 〈…〉 be well customed good lodging goo● horsem●at good attendance good usag● a fine ●●o●tis and a fine signe 60 Six great Talkers are seldome b●●leeved a fortune-teller a Traveller a Midwife an old man a Lawyer and an Irish man 61. Six commendations belong to good Horse to be well metled to hav● a good pace a good colour a 〈◊〉 man● a faire taile and to be well markt 62 Six Games are much used Irish Ticktack Bowling Shooting Ruff● and In and In 63 Six things there are which Maid desire to be prais'd to be woo'd to b● fl●tter'd to be kis'd by their swee● heart to bee married to be refreshed c. 64 Six kinds of wanton creature Apes Munkies Kitlings young Whelps Parrots and wanton wenches 65. Six things are seldome or never seene A white Crow a blacke Sw●n a faithlesse Turtle●dove an Owle in the day time a Swallow in Winter and a Friend in adversity 66 Six kinds of Hooks Fish● hooks Flesh-hooks Tenter hooks Doorehooks Pot-hooks and shouder-hooks or Serjeants 67. Six essentiall properties belong to a Lover to love truly to love honestly to love discreetly to love chastely to love faithfully and to love constantly 68 Six things are unpossible to bee done to catch a shower of Hayle in a bottle ●o empt the Sea with a spoone to tell the haire of ones head to finde a needle in a bundle of Hay to finde a Maidenhead in the court Russes and to turne a windmill sailes with a paire of Bellowes 69 Six things doe commonly ●oe together lying and swearing drinking and quarrelling prid and beggery love and idlenesse wit and wilfulnesse beauty and wantonnesse 70. S●x kinds of people not to be beleeved Horse-cour●ers Broker● Travellers Petty-foggers Beggers and Souldiers 71. Six things do make an excellen● receit for the recovery of Maiden-heads The Brains of a Beetle the heart of an humble Bee ●an handfull of 〈◊〉 with an ounce of Lond●n deliverance boyled over the fire of a low worme with the water of Pumicestone which at the second taking will restore it 〈◊〉 never 72. Six things belong to a shepheard a Hooke a Scrip a ●ottle a Tarbox a Bag-pite an old cloake and a young wench wrapt in it 73. Six chiefe businesses belong to a Housewife Brewing baking spinning Carding Washing and Milking 74. ●ix very unconstant things the Wind for that 's alwaies turning the Moone for that 's alwaies changing the Sea for that 's alwaies ebbing and flowing a gliding streame for that 's alwaies running a Childe for hee 's alwaies craving and a woman for shee 's alwaies wavering 57 Six things doe bring men to want Carelesnesse Unthriftinesse Idlenessesse Wantonnesse Pride and prodigality 76. Six things can never hold our long drinking without eating watching without sleeping eating without drinking clothes without mending giving without recovering and spending without getting 77 Six things are required in a well shap'd Gray hound to bee backt like a Beame sided like a Breame footed like a Cat tayled like a Rat breasted like ● Drage and headed like a Snake 78. Six things would make a man laugh to see a Fox turne Lawyer to see Geese turne Clyents to heare an Owle sing to see an Ape play his tricks to see a Cat play on the Fiddle and to see a Goose dance to the Musicke 79 Six hard steps lead to Heaven Crosses Afflictions Troubles Con●empt of men Want and Povertie 80 Six helps there are to climbe these steps Prayer Patience Humility Faith Zale and hope in God 81 Six morall vertues are of chiefe note Valour Prudence Temporance Liberaltie Magnificence and Justice 82 Six shadowes are often taken for substance The shadow of Frenchmen which is Complements The shadow of Learning which is plausible Discourse The shadow of love which are amorous vowes the shadow of Honour Which is Wealth the shadow of Wit which are Jests and the shadow of Life