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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

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

vpon the earth But man enioyes all these with his head hee lookes vp to Heauen with his minde he lookes into Heauen with his feete hee walkes vpon the earth his armes keepe the ayre as the bird flyes with his eyes hee contemplateth heauen and earth and all sublunarie things hee hath an essence as other bodies produceth his seede as Plants his bones are like stones his blood like the springs in the channels of the earth his hayre like the grasse the ornament of the earth c. hee liues as a Plant flourisheth as a Tree for a man is a tree turned vpward his feete are like the boughes his head like the roote Beside some creatures are onely as Starres some are and liue as Plants some are liue and haue sense as Beasts some vnderstanding as Angels all these concurre in man Est viuit sentit intelligit Q. What three things are those that hee which often remembers shall seldome doe amisse A. That aboue there is an Eare that heares all an Eye that beholds all a Booke wherein all our offences are written Whereunto may likewise bee annexed as a second memento and not inferiour to the first being S. Anselmes obseruation vpon the last day Where at thy right hand shall thy sinnes be accusing At thy left hand infinite Diuels expecting Vnder thee the furnace of hell buruing Aboue thee an angry Iudge Within thee thy conscience tormenting Without thee the world flaming Where only the iust shall be saued Whence to flie it wil be impossible To continue still intollerable Therefore while time is preuent that that in time will bee for as one saith If it bee not preuented it will bee repented Q. Who was hee that neuer laughed but sometimes wept as we reade in the Scriptures A. Christ of whom we read that he three times wept 1. When Lazarus was dead 2. Ouer Ierusalem 3. Vpon the Crosse when he deliuered vp his spirit with cryes and teares Q. There bee foure duties wee chiefly we and among all other are especially bound to pay and which be they Debemus Deo timorem Patriae amorem Parentibus honorem Proximo fauorem To God feare To our Country Loue. To our Parents Honour To our Neighbour fauour A Rule for our Life So Learne as if Thou shouldst liue alwayes so Liue as if Thou shouldst die to morow Suspice coelum despice mundum respice finem Looke vp to heauen despise the world respect thine end Q. There are three especially vnhappy in the Law of the Lord and who are those A. 1. He that knowes teacheth not 2. He that teacheth and doth not 3. He that is ignorant and yet learneth not Q. Was there any writing before the floud preserued notwithstanding the Deluge after it A. T is answered We haue no writing before the flo●d yet S. Iude doth somewhat insinuate of the writing of Henoch and Iosephus and others write that he erected two pillars the one of bricke and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the twofold destruction of the world the one by water the other by fire which by Tradition was preserued to the dayes of the Apos●les Q. What was the sentence according to the opinions of the learned that Christ wrote with his finger in the dust of the pauement of the Temple A. Some thinke it was the same that he spake Hee that is innocent let him throw the first stone at her others thinke it was this Festucam in oculo cernis trabem in tuo non vides Thou seest the mote in thy brothers eye but not the beame in thine owne Q. What Booke did Samuel write besides those two in Scripture that beare his name A. A Booke of the office and institution of a King Q. What Bookes did Salomon write beside those extant in Canonicall writ A. Salomon wrote three thousand Parables and fiue thousand songs besides that ingens opus of the nature ofal Herbes Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hyssop vpon the wall al destroyed by the Babylonians at the destruction of the Temple Q. Whether God created hurtfull creatures as Scorpions Serpents and such like A. It is answered there are some that seeme euill vnto vs which yet are not simply euill of themselues for no substance is euill of it selfe and the Scripture teacheth vs that Serpents were created among other creatures yet God pronounceth that all were good but that some creatures are now hurtfull to man that is not to be attributed to the first creation but to the second after the lapse or fall of man who if he had persisted in his dutie to God no creature should haue beene offensiue vnto him but ouer them he should haue borne a willing subiection For God made nothing euill neither doth he make sicknesse barrenesse lamenesse or the like but they rather haue deficient then efficient causes as the want of health his good creature is the cause of sicknes the withdrawing of light the interposition of darkenes and so of the like Q. What name was that among the Iewes so highly reuerenced that it was only lawfull for the Priests to name it and that but at the solemne festiuals A. The name Iehouah a word consisting but of seuen letters and yet of al the fiue vowels according to this verse Quinque simul iunctis constas vocabilus vna Dictio est magno maius in orbe nihil Fiue vowels ioynd together make a name In Heauen or Earth none greater then the same Q. What of all other are held to bee things of the greatest difficultie in Scripture to beleeue and of the greatest opposition to sence to conceiue A. Some thinke the creation of the world some the conseruation thereof and all creatures therein some the Incarnation of the Sonne of God others the resurrection of the flesh Besides these there are some that thinke Noes Arke and the vnion and preseruation of so many diuers creatures in it so many moneths fed ordered and at last safely deliuered out Q. In how many chapters doth consist the Canon of the old Testament A. In 777. The Iewish Rabbins haue collected to bee in the Bookes of the Law verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. In Haggai 8064. In the Bookes of Apocripha chap. 173. In the new Testament chap. 260. Malachy which was the last of the Prophets stands as the Porch betweene the Old and New Testament whereat as Tertullian saith Iudaisme ends and Christianitie begins Q. Where was God before hee made the world A. Saint Austin notes this as vain curiositie to enquire as it is to demaund what he did before hee made the same and yet to giue the curious some satisfaction to the first he answers that God dwelt in himselfe at himselfe and was God to himselfe and for the second he was not idle in that he chose vs before the world and purposed in himselfe the creation of all things But hee that will farther busie himselfe to prie into this Arke how all things could

sences are described A. Gen. 27. vers 4. seeing ver 18. hearing ver 21. touching ver 25. tasting ver 27. smelling The 5. windowes of the soule of which one thus writes S Lucem occulis video varios discerno colores H Consona me iuvat offendit simphonia discors S Fragrāti oblector visioso offendor ●dore T Insipidum sapidum quid sit me indice constat T Sentio quid Callidum aut Gellidum quid molle quid asprum The seeing light colors doth discry The hearing tunes and discords doth arraine The smelling odors sweet and sowre doth try The taste respects the Cookes both art and paine The touching hard and soft and hot and cold Through these 5. windowes doth the soule behold Q What is the least member in the body and yet darkens the whole man A. The eye lidde Q. Is the most perfect eyesight sometimes deceiued A. Oftentimes and assoone as any other of the sences for example cast a straight staffe into a troubled water and ●t appeares to the eye as crooked and wauering Stand vpon the shore thou seest the ship goe stand vpon the ship why then thy eye will tell thee the shore goes and the ship stands stil. So the head being distempered thou shalt thinke fixt things moue and one flame two Q What is the the swiftest of all things in the world A One answered the Sun because his speed is such that in a day he compasseth the whole circuit of the earth But another replyed that thought was swifter then that because it trauelled the whole world in a moment Q. VVhat foure euils are those that chiefly trouble a house Sunt mala terna domus imber mala femina fumus Quartū cū mane surgunt pueri sine pane A smoke a storm a contentious wife Three ils are found that tire a husbands life To which a 4. is by the prouerbe sed When children crye for hunger wanting bread Of Martin Luther and P. Melancthons eloquence and sweetnesse Diuisae his operae sed mens suit vnica pauit Ore Lutherus oues flore Melancthon apes Twixt Luther and Melancthon so long gone There works were diuers though there faith was one For Luther soundnes loded by degrees His sheepe as did Melanctons flowers his bees Q. VVhat meanes this speech nourish not the whelpe of the Lion A. It giues to vnderstand that wee are not to cherish any power aboue the Law nor to foster that strength that may afterwards oppresse zs. Q. Why do they that are troubled with the Gowt euer loue to talke most A. Because they cannot runne with with their feete they loue to run with their tong For the benefit of any mēber we are depriued of hauing two of them wee esteeme the other in the reckoning of them both as concerning the eye no man desires to be blinde or to haue but one eye yet if any mischāce should befall the one wee esteeme the other the dearer as it follows in the v. 9 Non habeo nec habere velim quod sitamen ad sit Noncareā craesi si mihi dētur opes Mine eye I would not sell for drosse Thogh Craesus wealth repayrd my losse None more blind the Bayard as the saying is nor none more forward to venture then he that least knowes the dangers that he enterprises as by this example is made manifest The trees on a time went forth to select them a king and in their progresse they came to the Oliue tree and sayde vnto it raigne ouer vs and be king but it refused saying shall I forsake my fatnesse wherewith I am suppled and man is nourished no I wil not with these and the like reasons refused their offer Then they came to the figge tree and sayd raigne ouer vs who answered shall I leaue my sweetnesse and fruites more delicate then the hony of Hybla Then they came to the Vine and shee refused saying shall I forgoe my sweet shade and comfortable clusters that comfort and make glad the heart of man it shall not bee Then spake the Bramble let me be king ouer you that I may curbe you with sharpe lawes thus what the good refused the worst offers to take vppe and embrace for none are more ambitious then the vnderseeming as in the proposition before declared Q What waters of all other are the most deceitfull A. The teares of a woman the which in the blessed weeper are called the bloud of the soule Q. VVhat creatures of all other are the most wanton A. Insatiate women acording to the Poet● Gallin● Gallus ter qui ni sufficit vnus At ter quin● viri vix sufficit mulieri One Cocke sufficeth twise fiue hen Scarce one lewd woman twise 5. men Q. VVhat women of all other are the most fruitfull A. Beggars wiues that of all other one would think should be most barrē Q. Of imperious women what did Cato report A. Cato sayde our wiues rule the common wealth for wee gouerne the people and our wiues gouerne vs. To which purpose Themistocles said O wife the Athenians rule the Gretians I the Athenians thou me thy son thee Therfore in my opinion he spoke not amis that sayde hee neuer knew common wealth nor priuate family well gouerned where the hen crew and the cock held his peace for though it be sayde of women that they are so able of tongue that 3. of their clappers will make a reasonable noyse for a market yet though they talke they should not commaund or at least wise should not gouerne Q. Whether was the night or the day first A. Thal. Milesius answereth the night was before the day as in the creation is manifest so the euening and the morning were the first day From which notwithstanding wee vary in our opinions as preferring the day before it and for because the euening is but the latter part of the day which must precede it Q. How many colours are there in the Rainebow A. Various colours but two especially most apparant a watry and a fiery colour which two colours expresse two iudgements the one of water past in beginning of the world and the other of fire to come in the end thereof Q. Which is the longest day in all the yeere A. S. Barnaby answereth that which hath the shortest night Q. How many are the properties of good wine A. As many as there are senses in mans body for to euery sense should good wine haue a relation 1 To the sight good colour purenesse and cleerenesse 2 To the hearing being powred forth a sparkling and speaking noise 3 To the taste sweetnesse 4 To the touching coldnesse 5 To the smell sweetnesse Q. How many are the veines in the body of man A. As many as there are dayes in the yeere of which one thus writeth That euery thing we doe may vaine appeare We haue a veine for each day in the yeere Q. How many bones are there in the body of man A. It is answered