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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

before the floud then since A. Before that Deluge the Planets were glorious in their Natures and sent better influences into human bodies There were not so many Meteors Comets Eclipses seene from which innumerable defects and diseases doe proceede The earth was more fruitfull wholesome powerfull in her Herbs Plants and Vegitables theyr effects and vertues better knowne which euer since the floud which was sted away her fatnesse haue lost much of their operations and now since with age more infeebled in these weak and sickly seasons of our times of which one thus writeth to our purpose And now the springes and Sommers which we see Like sonnes of Women after fiftie bee Lastly they be more continent in their liues more satisfied in their desires which since Gluttonie and her new Cookerie haue kil'd more then the sword famine or pestilence Their knowledge in all Arts was more enlarged the influences of the Planets better known and how they worke vpon humane bodies as the s●me Author to the same purpose wittily followeth it Then if a slow pac'd star had stolne away Frō the Obseruers marking he might stay Two or three hundred years to see it again And so make vp his obseruation plaine Q. How is the World diuided A. Into two essentiall parts the Coelestiall and Elementall part of which the Celestiall part containeth the 11. Heauens or Spheares which are thus numbred The 1 Is the spheare of the Moon 2 Of Mercurie 3 Of Venus 4 Of the Sunne 5 Of Mars 6 Of Iupiter 7 Of Saturne 8 Is the Spheare of the fixed stars 9 Is the spheare of the second moueable 10 Of the primum Mobile or first mouer 11 The Imperiall Heauen where God his Angels are sayde to dwell The Elementall part doth containe the 4. Elements viz. 1 The Element of Fire next to the Moone and so downeward 2 The Element of the Ayre 3 The Element of the Water 4 And lowest of all the Earth Q If there bee so many seuerall Heauens how comes it to passe that all these to the eye seeme but as one entire body A The reason hereof is because they are all so cleare and transparant that though they inuolue and couer one another as the skin or skale of an Onion yet being in their nature more bright pure and subtill then eyther Chrystall or the most transparant Glasse the sight doth pierce through them all as one and viewes them all as one though they are seuerall and of exceeding great thicknesse Q. Into how many Regions is the aire deuided A. The Ayre is deuided into three Regions by the Naturall Phylosophers both of Antient and moderne times that is to say into the highest lowest and middle-most Region In the highest Region turned about by the Element of fire are bred all lightnings fire-drakes Comets Blazing-Starres and such like In the Middle Region all cold and watry impressions as Frost Snow Ice Haile c. In the lowest Region somewhat more hot by reason of the Beames of the Sunne reflecting from the Earth and therein are bred all clowds dewes raines and such like A briefe discourse of the Naturall causes of sundry Meteors as Snow Haile Raine Winde things well knowne in their effects though darkely in their causes Happie his estate aboue the fate of Kings That could but truly know the cause of things You must first vnderstand that all watry Meteors as Raine Snow or such like are but a moist vapor drawn vp by the vertue of the Sunne the rest of the Planets into the middle Region of the Ayre where beeing first congealed are afterwardes dissolu●d and fall vpon the Earth as Haile or Raine Of the Rainebow and the effects thereof If two Rainebowes appeare at one time they presage Raine to eusue But if one Rainbow presently after Raine it betokeneth faire weather Dianaeus in his Phisickes saith the Rainebow is made by reason of the Sunne beames beating vpon a hollow clowde their edge beeing so repelled and beaten backe against the Sunne and thus ariseth varietie of colours by the mixture of clowdes Ayre and fierie light together but as hee saith it pretendeth little alteration or change of weather Of the Wind what it is what the Motion and effect thereof and from whence it proceedeth though no man knoweth whence it commeth nor wh●ther it goeth as testifieth the holy writ First then you haue to vnderstand that Aristotle and the rest of his S●ct doe define the Winde to be an Exhalation Hot and Dry ingendred in the bowels of the earth where breaking his prison and violently rushing therout is carried sidelong vpon the face thereof Q. Why is not the motion therof right upward and downward as well as alwaies sidelong A. Because that whilst by his heate he striueth to mount vp and carry his course through the 3. Regions of the Ayre the middle Region by his extreame doth alwayes beat it backe so that thereby together with the confluence of other exhalations rising out of the earth his motion is forced to be rather round than right and the reason why he bloweth more sharply one time than another and in one place more then in another and sometimes not at all is as fumes that arise out of new exhalations and out of Flouds Fens and Marishes may ioyne with it to increase his force the defect or fulnesse whereof may either allay it or increase it as also the Globe or rotunditie of the Earth may by the cause of the blowing of it more in one place than in another or mountaines hills or woods may hinder his force from blowing in all places equally whereas vpon the plaine or broad sea it bloweth with an equall force and as for the stilnesse or ceasing thereof it commeth to passe diuers wayes either by frost closing and congealing vp the pores of the Earth whence it should issue or by the heate of the Sunne drying vp fumes and vapours that should increase it and whereof it is engendered The Nature of the 4 principall winds and their effects 1 SVbsolanus or the East winde is hot and dry temperate sweete pure subtle and healthfull and especially in the morning ' when the Sunne riseth by whom he is made more pure and subtle causing no infection to mans body but expelling it 2 Zephirus or the West winde is temperate hot and moyst and wholsome especially in the euening it dissolueth frost ice and snow and maketh flowers and grasse to spring and some write that it produceth Thunder 3 Septentrio or the North winde is for the most part cold and dry repelling moysture and raine and though it cause cold and numnesse so nipping the fruits of the earth and many times the forward buds of the Spring yet it driueth away infectious and noysome ayres and so is a meanes to preserue health 4 Auster or Notas the South winde is hot and moyst breeding thicke cloudes and sicknesse Naturall causes of Earthquakes PLenty of windes got into the bowels holes

of holy obedience what garments weare they that preserued their wearers from the diuell A. The garments of S. Francis as the Papists tell vs as if the diuell cold not as well know a knaue in a Fryars habit as in any other Q. VVhat is the reason of all other things that the Pope christens his Bels they hauing many times that preheminence before men A. That the sound of them might driue diuels out of the ayre cleare the skies chase away stormes tempests quench fires and giue some comfort to the very dead and the like To which purpose here the Bels ring out their owne peale En ego Campana nunquam denuntio vana Laudo deum verum plebem voco congrego elerum Diffunctos plango viuos voco fulmina frango Vex mea vox vitae voco vos ad sacra venite Sanctos collaudo tonitrus fugo funera claudo Funera plango fulgura frango sabatha pango Exicto Lentos dissipo ventos paco ceuentos Englished Behold my vses are not small That God to praise assemblies call That breke the thūder waile the dead And cleanse the aire of tempests bred With feare keep off the fiends of hell And all by vertue of my knell Q. VVhat numb was the most fatall to Rome A. The sixt number according to the verse ensuing Sextus Tarquinius Sextus Nero Sextus iste scilitet Papa Alexander 6. Semper sub sextis perdita Roma suit What other names or numbers to her woone In the sixt still she lost was Rome vndone Q. VVhat inscription or motto was that according to the fiction which Martin de Asello fixing ouer his Gate by reason of the false povating of the Painter cost him his Bishopricke A. Portapatens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himselfe made the point at nulli and so made it Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it profest knauery discarded him of his Bishoprick as it was a wonder and placed another in his house Who kept the inscription still but only altered the point and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding therevnto Ob vnum punctum caruit Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poore point is all from Martin gone Q. There is a certaine thing that hath not the art of numeration neither knowes the order of time how it passeth and yet least wee should be ignorant or the time should deceiue vs it instructs vs both honestly A. A Clocke vpon which on thus writeth Qui nescit quo vita modo volat audiat bora Quam sit vitae breuis nos docet ille sonus Hee that would know how minutes steale away That peece vp howres that patch out the day This trusty watchman to supply our need Proclaimes our liues short span in their swift speed Q. What are the natures and dispositions of the foure Elements A. The earth is dry the water cold the ayre moyst and the fire hot Q Which is the highest of these Elements A. The fire whose nature is euer to mount vpward and if you turne it downeward it goes out thereupon Thence proceeds Saint Chrysostomes admiration that the Rayes of the Sun in nature hot in quality glorious doth shoot downeward so contrary to the fire Q What fire is that that sometimes followes and sometimes flyeth away A. An Ignus fatuus or walking fire one wherof keeps his station this time neere Windsor the pace of which is caused principally by the motion of the ayre for the swifter one runs the swifter it followes the motion of the ayre enforcing it Q. VVhat thing is that most vsefull and pretious in the world that produceth another of novse nor goodnesse at all A. Fire from whence proceedes smoake of which Lipsius writes Ita te tolle a humo vt absis a fumo Q. VVhat Coales do longest of all other preserne fire A. The Coales of Iuniper of whom it is reported that they haue kept fire a whole yeere together without supply or going out Q. VVhat is that which being the heauiest hardest of all things yet yeelds both to the extremity of fier and water A. A Stone Q. VVhat stone of all other is the greatest wonder A. The flint stone that preserues fire within it a wonderfull secret and benefit to man Q. VVhat is that which being first water afterwards assumed the form of a stone and still retaines it A. The Chrystall congealed by frost Q. What stone is that that yeelds neither to the fire nor to the hammer A. The Adamant which as our Naturalists obserue is dissolued onely by goates blood wherevpon S. Chrysostome writes though the heart of a Sinner be more harder then the Adamant yet wil the blood of Christ mollifie it Q Whether haue stones a vegitiue life or no. A. This if we doubt our Pioners and Mineralists will resolue vs who finde out by experience that although Mineralles buried deepe in the earth yet through diuers vaines and channels suck in moysture and nourishment as doe plants and trees and that they do likewise increase and grow though in a slower progression and degree then other things is probable and certaine Q. Is there a difference of prerogatiue among stones A. T' is answered there is For the stone in the Altar hath more honour then the stone in the streete For the one is kneeled vnto with deuotion the other troden on by the feet Q. Which are the most precious stones for mans vse A. The two milstones of the mill Of which the one neuer stirres and the other ne're lies still Q. VVhat birds of all other are the most gentle the most innocent A. The Doue for gentlenesse and simplicity is commended in Scripture for the Doue is among birds as the Sheepe is among beasts frō whose kind no hurt proceeds to man being a sotiable creature for his seruice of whom it is obserued that he yeelds vp his life for the sustenance of man sobbing it out with a kind of meeknesse and patience more then any other creature and for his vse there is nothing vnnecessary for our seruice in the whole composure of him his flesh being good for meate his guts for the strings of Instruments his dung to inrich the field his wooll for cloth so nothing superfluous So likewise the Doue a patient not an offensiue creature without beake or tallents of oppression hauing no other offence against their enemy the Hawke such like more then the swiftnesse of her wing according to the Poet Fello columbo caret rostro non ledit possidet innocuas puraque grana ledit Her food is graine her beake doth not offend No gall this creature hath nor no bad ende And therefore they hate the Hawke as it is said because of his beake Odimus Accipitrem quia semper vinit in armis We hate the Hauke and feare

and cranies of the earth and violently rushing out and the earth suddenly closing vp againe causeth the shaking or earthquake which is generally a fore-runner of warre Of Thunder and Lightning WHen an Exhalation hot and dry mixt with moysture is attracted into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a cloud now these two contraries thus included in one place together fall at variance and cannot bee reconciled but breake the prison wherein they are pent the violent out-rushing whereof maketh a noyse which wee call thunder and the fire lightning being both borne at one instant although the lightning bee the first perceiued in regard of the quicknesse of the eye before the eare Of the strange effects of Lightning THat which is dry burneth not at all that wich is moyst burneth not likewise but blasts and altereth the colour but that which is cleare is of a strange operation for it draweth vessels dry without hurting the Caske melteth the siluer without hurting the bagge breaketh the bones and hurteth not the skinne killeth the childe in the wombe without hurt to the mother It hurteth not the Law●ell tree entreth not aboue a yard into the earth such as are shadowed with the skins of Seales Sea calue● and the Eagle are safe as Pliny stories it The Auntient Aegyptians which were the first and best Astronomers haue obserued certaine yeares in a mans life to bee verie dangerous and these they name Clymacterical or stayry yeares Now a Clymactericall yeare is euery seuenth yeare of a mans life the reason is because then the course of the Planets returne to Saturne who most commonly is ●n enemy to our good and as the Moone which is the nearest and next Planet vnto vs and swiftest of course of all other passeth almost euerie seuenth day into the contrary signe of the same qualitie from whence shee came forth and so by that meanes bringeth in the Criticall dayes so Saturne which is the Planet furthest from vs and slowest of course for hee resteth in one signe so many yeares as the Moone doth dayes bringeth in likewise these Clymactericall yeares and causeth sundry mutations to follow hence it is that in the seuenth yeare children doe cast and renue their teeth Hereafter followeth certaine Clymactericall and dangerous yeares of a Mans life TThe 49. yeare composed of seuen times seuen dangerous 56. yeare to men especially borne in the night 63. yeares to those borne in the day time by reason of the drynesse of Mercurie and Venus Whereunto Octavius the Emperor seemeth to con●ent whereto this effect hee writeth to his Nephew to reioyce with him hauing passed ouer that deadly yeare enemy to old age 63 in which number the 7 and 9 do concurre as Heffman to that purpose more largely in his Booke De diebus an●nis Criticis reciteth The Criticall Dayes of a Mans life being collected throughout e●erie mo●eth are obserued these following 1 and 7 of Ianuary 2 and 4 of Frebruary 1 and 4 of March. 8 and 10 of Aprill 3 and 7 of May 10 and 15 of Iune 10 and 13 of Iuly 1 and 2 of August 3 and 30 of September 3 and ●0 of October 3 and 5 of Nouember 7 and 10 of December There are likewise in the year●more especially to be obserued 3 dangerous Mundayes to begin any businesse fall sicke or vndertake any iourney First Munday in Aprill which day Caine was borne and his brother Abel slaine Second Munday in August which day Sodom and Gommorrah were destroyed 31 Of December which day Iudas was borne that betrayed Christ. Of the 4. humors in mans body and how they raigne in their courses and first What a Humor is A Humour is a Distillation of a moyst and running body into which by the Limbecke of the liuer the meates are conuerted and diffused through the veynes and Alleys of the same for the better nourishmeut therof and are thus according to Lemnius described in his Booke De quatuor Complectionibus 1 Sanguine humor The bloud or sanguine humour is moyst and ruddy and hot the principall seate or cesterne thereof is the Liuer or Amwell head that watereth the whole Citie or body of man out of which issue forth the vitall spirits like vnto small and gentle winds that arise out of riuers and fountaines 2 Flegmaticke Humour The Phlegmaticke humour is of colour white and brackish and like vnto drops of fat his seate is chiefly in the kidneyes which separate to themselues the water from the bloud diuiding the bloud into the veines and expelling the water into vrine 3 Choller It is hote and fiery and to the taste bitter● like vnto Herbgrace or Rue and it serueth not onely to clense the guts of filth but also to califie the Liuer and to preserue the blood from putrifaction 4. Melancholy The Melancholy Humor is blacke and earthly resembling the lees of blood and hath his seate in the splene of which one thus writeth The Sanguine causeth cheerefulnes The Melancholy despaire The Collericke is churlish The Phlegmaticke is faire Euery one of these Humours raigne 6. howers blood is predominant from 9 of the clocke at night till 3 of the morning Choller from 3 of the clocke in the morning till nine of the same day Melancholly from nine till three in the afternoone and Phlegme from three in the afternoone till nine at night Also bloud hath his dominion in the Spring Choller in the Summer Melancholy in Autumne and Phlegm in Winter as Lemnius thus further in his sayd Booke testifieth Hereunto are annexed certaine verses describing the person and qualitie of that childe of Chase or Lady PECVNIA written long since by that Gentleman of quality I.T. and as something pertinent to our purpose hereinto inserted SHee is a Lady of most matchlesse carriage Wedded to none though saught of all in marriage Shee may be kistt yet neither washt nar clipt And if you wooe not warie soone ore-slipt Shee may belong and yet bee honest too To many Marchants spight they all cā do Who ere atchieues her speake her nore so fayre She le not stay long before she take the aire She le stay with no poore man her states so great A rich man may her for a time entreate Shee goes in cloth of siluer cloth of golde Off●uer all worths and values manif●lde But whē she goes in golden robes best d●●bt Then shee 's suspected most to be most light Shee needs no Physicke to recouer health For she 's still currant as rich in wel●h Some Irish Lady borne we may suppose Because shee runs so fast and neuer goes If shee be wrong'd in name and ill abide it Of all men Iustice Touchstone must decide it Shee that thus does and all doe thus to gaine her Being so atchieu'd shee is but slipperie bolde And will be gone vnlesse by force you straine her Changing her humour to another mould By pence and halfe pence and such little crummes Which of themselues so