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A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron
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Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.
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trouble in his studies The Mother knowes best whether the child be like the father or no Lustfull people resemble those sharp-stomack't gluttons that take delight to often whet their knives and so weare them for the Bellies sake to the back A foole that tels some dull saltlesse jeast to hold company with wit crackers is like Aesops asse that imitated the fauning dogge It is musicke of the sphears to heare a wise and learned man discourse but a trouble to the eare and a burthen to the mind to heare an ignorant foole prattle Hee that hath valiantly approved himselfe in his youth is excused for answering swearing brabling darers in his age and hee that hath written well is excused for speaking much In our childhood we were fooles in our manhood we are servants of care in our age Porters to diseases Reprehend not thy friend too plainly unlesse thou knowest him wise else thou shalt find it unseasonable at all times An opticke multiplying Glasse is like a travelling young gallants thoughts or a vulgar Alchimists hopes both great through perspective Hee that strives to agrandize himselfe above his place shall finde envye lye lurking a th' wart his way and in Court it lies smiling too Souldiers and Saylors should bee the Godliest men of all other professions because so often exposed to danger and the saylor is reasonable at sea and cannot abide whistling but at Land they are both Vpzeefreeze Why should any bee immoderately covetous or unfittingly penurious who hath neither Childe nor a lease of his life You may more offend a Pedagogues disposition by breaking Priscians head then by wounding Reasons side with non-sence Lawiers because they are in the shipps poope neere the stirrage of the State thinke their places before the Martialists but soldiers know their precedence for they are in the force-castle the difference is the lawiers have often apparitions of good Angells when the soldiers many times are payed with crackt crownes Suppose our Thunder and lightning to bee one of the fairest dayes in Hell but the burning of Sodome and Gomorath their ordinary weather He that strives to live beyond his meanes and place puts a burthen upon his lives backe An usurer that lives upon eight in the hundred is like a pike that feeds and lives by devouring the smaller fish but the difference is when Death brings him to the dresser hee butters himselfe There is no presumption from the Center of the begger to the circular of the promoted rich if graduated by vertue and worthy deserts for vertue was the first promoter There are 3. sorts of honest men viz. your exchangeman for the bearing up of his credit your cautionarie for feare of lawes but your true honest man is hee that is so for it selfe Nature workes by her ordained quallitie on quantitie your Vniversitie Physition on forme by prescript but an empirike layes about him like a Fencer Libelling is but an itching of the wit but if hee be taken scratching hee smarts more for it then his reader profitts thereby A libeller of great Princes errors is like on throwes the snuffe of a candle amongst a heape of people which a wise and moderate man treades out When thou findest vanity beare too much dominion in thy humors thinke on thy Death judgment Heaven and Hell The ouer lavish talke of a thick-witted foole is like the roasting of a fatt goose much folly droppes into the dripping-pan of others eares It is no wisdome to refuse the fruits of August for the flowers of May that is to give Benefits for fayre words Vituperate no man to couer thine owne defects A striving affected quicknesse denores a giddie and unstable condition It is not materiall what men say but what Reason speakes in men Esteeme not so much what the societie bee you keepe as what the company is For company is the cloathes of your habit Prejudicate that most common lawes esteeme all quallities excepting his owne and ready mony as hee speakes French To deeme a Man by his actions and deeds is the certaine and unfailable way of judging Hee is not out of the estate of grace who chides himselfe for errors but hee who is caried by vice like a straw on a streame inconsiderately The rust of usury many times frets in the Childrens fortunes There is nothing proclaymes a mans wisdome more then the gouernment of his passions for fooles through the spectacles of fury see repentance in the red letters of their shame It is the Naturall of most ignoble spirits to iudge and censure others in the worse part but noble Sr P. S. sayd evill speaking of others comes of the evill wee have in our selves Euill men delight to make others so but a good man is apten to amend his owne defects then to accuse others Seeke to remoue thy crosses by fervent prayer to God and withall doe honestly what thou maiest for the Armes of heaven sayeth one are our endevours make the husbandman thy example A man growne shamelesse in his talke is like a bagg full of Eeeles and snakes if opened who knowes what comes out first A Musitian or a Poet over-curious to give his fantasies compositions is as a gardener that denies leaves and smelling flowers for matters of delight and recreation are but so in comparison of the fruites and seeds of necessary arts and sciences Mariadge in the budd of making is like the moneth of Aprill but May and the heat of Sommer over and familiaritie worne to September things appeare naked and as they are and sometimes have cold greefes When I heare people in comaparison of disgrace with one another as I am as good or better then hee or shee c. I deeme such wordes proceeds from the want of true judgment wisdome and goodnesse and that they both may mend Where private opinion is sole judge of ambiguous texts there unitie is no houshold guest either in Philosophy Alchimie naturall Physicks c. Little young birds and women are very different in sufferance for much handling kills the one and makes the other wanton Actions are others bookes where wee reade by their thoughts and accordingly iudge It is the periphrasis of a foole when hee hath spoken as hee thinkes well to aske the hearers if be not so Sleight loves are sullied with smalle distastes but a well grounded affection is like a strong how hardly broken unlesse extreamely ouer-drawne Musicke in young men hath fingers but in aged men only eares Many are better guarded then regarded but a criminal shall have faultie spy-faults enough going to prison Novelties with a wife man are but as dust brusht or blowne off by examination but stick in a fooles mind as the durt of Paris in an Englishmans cloathes A low'd raenting Speaker that engrosseth all the talke may well be called the Drum of the Company and a woman of the same quality the Fife It is a laudable quality to keepe touch as they call holding promisse but when it is against
A MISCELLANIA OF MORALL THEOLOGICALL AND PHILOSOPHICALL SENTANCES Worthy observation Printed for Iohn Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head-alley 1650. To the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Dover c. Right Honourable Lord IF the life of man were onely intended but to eate drinke complement and sleepe it might agree with that Epitaph of Heliogabalus Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas and so become meere Animall But since th' Almighty and high disposer of this his Clocke-like frame of the Macrocosme whereto his blessed will is the waight and Cause of Motion hath given to humanes Reason as the key to wind up the small portative watch of our owne Microcosme whereby wee are apt still to turne the wheeles of our Cogitations upon th' objects present themselves bee you pleased then Noble Lord that what I so heere have done I present to your Honour beseeching your pardon therein if too bold for if you question why to you I beeing a stranger I humbly answere though a stranger to your Honourable Person yet not to the Fame of the worthy love you beare to good Arts and Artists which I know by many friends to your vertuous and Noble inclination If therefore you please to deigne the vacancie of your more serious affayres to the view of these my short enterviewes I referre them to your censure and recreation resting Your Honours Devoted Servant Iohn Done To the Reader VPon an unranckt regiment it is no matter where you beginne to looke neither upon these my Miscellanies the first acknowledged thrust out issue of my braine Here are of all sorts Morall Philosophicall Theologicall as amongst men diverse Complexions Affections Postures c. Some have drest the like im Meetres and curious laying of words together but I onely affect a full sence of meaning not the trimme as many of our Pamphlet trickers attyre the Bartholmew babies of their conceipts and the dresse is all Rime I hold a Childs Drumme in a wise mans braine and begets Poets as Dr. Thomas Campion saith like a hot Summer does Flyes I neither care for Momus nor Zoylous they may finde their humours here Critiz'd My fantasie begat these upon obiect and I fixt them in this paper field and so they are yours as they were mine They are not obscure if you reade and then consider and if you will not the last breathe not the first They are humble Teachers if you be not too proud a Learner sayes I Done POLYDORON OR A Mescellania of Morall Philosophicall and Theologicall Sentences MAn is like a Citie His skin the walls His eyes and eares the Factors and Merchants His hands the trades men His legs the porters His mouth the gate His teeth the portculize His appetite the Cater His stomacke the Kitchin His digestion the Cooke His expulsion the Scavenger His soule the Church His reason the Preacher His fortitude the Souldiers His words the Shot His understanding the Governor His senses the Officers His braine the State-house His heart the Cittadell or Castell Though a man hath no apparent or eminent vertue yet if he dye rich his heires will finde good parts about him Our life is like an houre-glasse and the sand worldly riches which runnes with us but the time of our continuance here and then is turn'd up by another All our life is but a Childing or bearing for the other world Historicall Poetry is a spruce dressing of Sense Love Poetry a loose Courtizane of the wit Satyricall Poetry like a payre of snuffers snibbingâ— filth in others but retayning it in it selfe Physicall Poetry a perspective to see remote things by A man studious in Science is oft poore outward because his purchase is all inward A man made of meere complement is like the shavings of horne made into flowers Hee that thinkes proudly of himselfe for speaking in a learned or forraigne language is like him that thinks himselfe rich fine because in another mans ground or cloathes Grammer should not bee so much studied for it selfe as for the Arts founded in it yet many thinke them very learned if they can speake Greeke and Latin and the vulgar hold them so when language to a wiseman is but as a dish to serve up the sence Hee that meddles with false Arts workes in the shoppe of shame and his journey man is repentance In all professions it is ignorance that strives for admiration The last thing a wiseman leaves is to love himselfe The reason that vertue is in lesse credit than riches in the vulgar esteeme is few know no other coyne most desire no other stampe Lend not thy money to wine drinking and gaming for the one causeth forgetfulnesse the other repentance It is a perfect minde Fortune hath no place in The hereditary diseases of the soule are sorrow love anger the accidentall covetousnesse pride envie The best Physitian to a sicke soule is prayer Hee doth not truly love that loves the body more than the minde Truth needes not many words but a false tale a large preamble Good is that feare that hinders us from shamefull acts makes a man circumspect As the shaddow follows the body going to the Sunward so doth glory vertue going to Christward Hee is neerest to the Divine nature whom reason not anger moves We neede not goe farre to seeke a Temple to pray in for our selves are either a foule or cleane one but an Egyptian Temple should be clensed first by repentance Hard accidents darkens a weake minde but an Heroicall soule then shines brightest The wheele or vicissitude of earthly motions turnes still happy is hee whose minde is not perturbated beyond his reason that is whose braines or affections are not turned from good actions thereby Hee that strives to shake care from his life is like one that knawes his flesh from his bones If there bee no true comfort in this life but in God how blinde is he that gropes for it in these lower things Since experience approves earthly things to be the worshippe of this world may it not bee justly said the world worshippes the golden Calfe still Hee that strives to show his wisedome is like him that whiffles an Ensigne delightfull onely to children and fooles but to doe good by that one knowes good is carrying the colours quietly There is a fashion in speaking and writing as in cloathes but it is easily perceived where a foole overlaceth it Hee that lets loose his anger vpon every occasion is like him that lets goe his hawke upon every baite Roaring and drinking is the horse-way to hell whoring and cheating the foot-way but swearing and blaspheming followes Corah Dathan and Abiron There are many use the word God damne me superflously if they repent not He that can make his passions stand about him bare is a true master of his underhoushold Passions are the over-set of humours they sinke him that too constantly beares up with them He that depends upon others lets himselfe out ot farme The