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B08027	The choise of change: containing the triplicitie of diuinitie, philosophie & poetrie, short for memorie, profitable for knowledge, and necessarie for maners: whereby the learned may be confirmed, the ignorant instructed, and all men generally recreated. / Newly set foorth by S.R. Gent. and student in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge..	S. R. (Simon Robson), d. 1617.	1585 (1585)	STC 21132; ESTC S94922	45,848	96

good shoulde be created of God that is good Wherefore hee made it 81 The whole worlde hath bene three times ruled by 3 lawes The lawe of nature The lawe of Moses Sixe thousande yeres the world shall endure thē be burned saith Elias 2000. before the lawe 2000 vnder the lawe 2000 vnder the Gospell But for y● elect sake these last daies shal be shortned The lawe of the Gospell 82 Faith as August saith is of 3 thinges and times Of things past We beleeue that Christ is dead which is past Of things present We beleue that Christ sitteth at the right hand of his Father which is present Of things to come We beléeue that he shall come to iudgement which is to come 83 Beliefe is of three sortes To beléeue that there is a God is of knowledge To beléeue God is to consent to his trueth To beleeue in God is to haue true confidence in his mercie 84 There be 3 kindes of knowledge To learne to knowe onely for knowledge sake To learne to knowe to that ende to bee knowen of others The first curiositie The second vaine glorie The thride perfect charitie To learne to knowe that thou maist be edified 85 Faith and hope differ in three things In obiectes Faith apprehēdeth a present benefit Hope looketh for one to come In offices Faith apprehendeth the promise made by Christ which neither hope nor other workes can doe In subiectes Faith is a knowledge in the mind and trust in the will Hope is in the will and in the hart 86 Faith excéede three thinges as Bernard saith The end of mans reason The vse of nature The bondes of experience 87 Thée thinges without all doubt are to be hoped for of God Pardon Grace Pardon of our sinnes Grace in regeneration Glorie after resurrection Glorie 88 Three things in which our whole hope consisteth In the loue of adoption In the truth of Christ his promises In the power of his redemption 89 The hope of the wicked may bee compared to three things To dust scatered in the winde To smoke flying in the ayre To a guest departing the same day that he cam 90 Charitie is of three sorts Towards God Towardes our selues Towards our neihbous 91 Our neighbour though he be euill must be loued for 3. causes For Gods sake For his own sake If thou louest God thou wilt loue his sonne also If thou louest thy brother when he is in health thou wilt loue him also being diseased Thou shalt loue him that thou mayest gaine his loue which seeketh hurt to thee For thine own sake ●2 Golde and charitie are compared together three manner of waies As golde doeth excell all mettals so charitie doth excell all vertues As golde is rare and deare so likewise is charitie As gold is more faire and durable then other mettals so farre charitie endureth 93 The humble ma● efcheweth three vices Singularitie whereby a man will bee accounted more holy Arragancie whereby a man doth set foorth himselfe aboue others Presumptiō whereby a man doth account him selfe fit for greater matters then in deede he is fit for 94 Patience doeth suffer any paine for three things God and Godlinesse Faith and religion Vertues and lawes 95 By three maner of meanes the vertue of patience is exercised Of God we suffer punishments Of the deuil temptations Wherein we must take heere That we do not murmure against god for our afflictiōs That the temptations of the deuil cause vs not to consent to sinne That the mischife of our neighbor prouoke vs not to requite euill Of our Neighbors persecutions losse reproch 96 These 3. thinges are a great praise in the iust To holde his peace when his seruant reuileth him If he forbeare him that is sicke when hee offereth iniurie If he make no answere to a poore mā charging him with vntruth 97 Patience is a great vertue for 3. things If thou hurtest not him of whō thou wast first borne If thy selfe being hurt thou doest forgiue him If thou fearest him whom thou couldest haue hurt 98 Three examples of patience in the scripture Of Iob Iames 5. you haue heard of the patience of Iob and sene his end Of Christ the only paterne of patience 1. Cor. 1. 1 Pet. 2. Of Lazarus which bare patiently infamie diseases and contempt Luk. 16. 99 A good life consisteth in these three things To eschew euil To do good To perseuer in goodnes to the end 100 Perseuerance hath affinitie with these three It is the sister of patience The daughter of constancie In aduersitie In labour I prosperitie The friend of peace THE SECOND HVNDRETH OF THE ●riplicitie of Diuinitie 1 Three things are comprehended in the knowledge of God TO know who God is namely the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost To beleeue in him To direct and gouerne our life accordinge to his will 2 Abraham receiued 3. Aungels into his house and they talked familiarly with thrée persons of the same house With Abraham the master of the house With Sara his wife With their maide Hagar 3 Three things which the deuil will not graunt That Christ is the sonne of God Hee cannot abide that Christ shoulde be man Hee will not confesse that Christe hath done those thinges which in trueth hee hath done 4 Three things chiefly to be remembred Gods benefites that wee maye render thanks Our sinnes that we may be sorie for them Our death that we may be carefull to liue well 5 Poore men are more easily cōuerted vnto God then rich men for 3. causes Because pride is annexed with riches and as Gregorie noteth Pride of minde is a hinderance vnto truth Because the hart of a rich man is full of the cares of this world which choke the worde of God Because rich mē haue temporal comfortes and therefore do little regarde spirituall consolation 6 Our olde aduersarie the deuill is bound with three things When our minde being tempted doeth not consent to euill and take delight therein When we can so rule our minde that wee hate not our neighbour when he speaketh reprochfull words against vs. When we can so gouerne our minde that wee murmure not against God when he punisheth vs for our desertes 7 Three weapons where with we may repulse the deuil The worde of God Faith in Christ Iesus Feruent praier 8 Saint Ierome saith that wee ought only to boast of one thing which is that we knowe God aright not of those 3. things which worldlings do glorie in Wisedome Strength Richesse 9 To loue God with all our heart with all our soule with all our might consisteth in 3. thinges Not to be led away with slattery Not to be seduced with deceites Not to be ouercome with iniuries 10 We must praise God with three instruments Our mouth Our hart For it is the instrument wherewith he will be glorified Singing and giuing thankes in hart vnto God Let your light so shine before men that they may sée your good works

abridge their liberty 63 A husband is forbidden thre daies of fasting When the wife is gone to the bath When he hath wel beatē hir she is angry When she is abroad at good chears with her gossips 64 You may knowe good wine by 3. things The coulor The smell The tast 65 A maker of cleere spectacles did complain that his arte was not so gainful as it had bene before times that for 3. causes Because olde monkes and priests could say their prayers without booke They were to daintie ware for rude followes to meddle withall Kings and Princes can sée through their fingers 66 Three diseases which can not be helped The gnawing of enuie The heate of loue The sting of the conscience 67 Thrée thinges which wee must not hope to obtaine after certaine times Beautie after the age of twentie yeares Strength after the age ot thirtie yeares Riches after the age of three score yeares 68 Thrée things make a man circumspect and carefull The loue he beareth to his wife and children Want of friendes and money The iniquitie of times 69 Princes haue prerogatiue in 3. things aboue other men When they are drunke their familiars say they are mery If they be blacke they are saide to bee brown● Whē they be fooles they are called honest simple and innocent 70 Crates the Theban sayeth that there are thrée medicins for such as be in loue Hunger Hunger cureth loue for loue quaileth when good cheare faileth Time Time will either mitigate asswage loue or end it A halter If these two will not cure this maladie yet will a halter helpe presently this infirmitie 71 Thrée sortes of men for the most part are great babblers Barbers Bathkéepers The reason is because they heare mariners soldiers and other extrauagant fellowes reciting manye strange and sundrie tales that being as it were infected with their talk they become great bablers Vintners 72 Thrée sortes of egges are accounted for good White Long. Egges Newe 73 Three sortes of men deceiue vs in shew Such as weare long kniues and yet be no Cookes Maides y● haue their haire hanging down yet being no virgins Such as haue shauen crownes and bee no priests 74 We labor in vaine with 3. sortes of men By ministring a medicine to a dead man By admonishing an olde man that is obstinate in his opinions In washing an Ethiopian 75 We may take example by 3. sorts of men which hazard thēselues in daunger and often perish The best swimmers are drowned The best climbers do fal The best fensers are wounded 76 Three sortes of people from whom we must flie as from the diuel A wilde and vnruly monke A meale mouthed flatterer A crafty olde witch 77 Three sortes of men which will trouble themselues when they may liue without care The prince that will proclaime war when he may liue in peace He that hauing a barren wife will increase his well gotten goods with fraud and vsurie A man of 70. yeares of age that will leade with him a springhall of 18. yeares olde 78 Thrée guests which are first at a banquet Flies Dogs Flatterers 79 We must not beleeue three things The inconstant win●es Our deceitfull dreames That our prosperitie will continue 80 Thrée sortes of liuing creatures haue very good eie sight The Eagle The spotted beast The curious person 81 Hesiodus saith that hee had néede of three things that wil expell pouertie A house A wife An Oxe to till the ground 82 Thrée thinges to be noted in a pecocke He is clothed like an Angell He walketh like a théefe He crieth like a deuill 83 All creatures do daily preach these 3. lessons vnto man Receiue a good turne Giue that vnto others which is due to thē Flie punishment 84 Thrée things to be auoided of which we shold not hope wel An inconstant minde A rowling eie Féete readie to runne to doe mischiefe 85 Regiomontanus an excellent Astonomer being asked on a time which were the best signes for a mā to know whē he should take his iorney answered A good horse Money in the purse Good companions 86 Thrée proud creatures A knaue sitting in a chaire A queane riding in a charriot A ramping louse in a scabbed head 87 Thrée faults in maids which play with euill neighbours They bewray our secrets They sell vnto them the goodes they haue stolen from vs. They are gadding abroad in the night 88 Thrée thinges being in the house maides wishe out of the house An angrie maistresse Smoke A broken dish 89 An asse doth 3. filthy things not without commoditie Where he doeth file there he dongeth the ground Where he doth pisse he watars the ground Where he tumbleth he breaketh the clods Thrée things are sit for an asse Fodder Stripes Burdens 90 Thrée thinges are alwayes good cheape Earth Worces Lies 91 Thrée sorts of men ought to be very vigilant Pastours to their flockes Pilats to their shippes Portors to their gates 92 Whoesoeuer will retaine a Lawier and lawfully seeke his owne right must bee furnished with 3. pucket● In the first pocket he must haue his declarations and certificats wherewith he may shewe his right In the second pocket he must haue his redd rudduckes ready which he must giue vnto his Laweir who will not set penne to paper without them In the third pocket he must haue patience which must stand him in steade when his Laweirs doe delay him and when sentence passeth against him 93 Louers are slaues vnto death for lustes sake and doe despise 3. things which maintaine life They suffer hunger They continue thirstie They passe the night in thoughtes without sléepe 94 Euery flower hath these 3. things naturally His blossome His sauour His sappe 95 A certaine horse-courser sold a horse whē he had receiued ready mony the buierwould néeds know of him what faultes the horse had The horsecourser answered that he had thrée That he would not clim trées That he would not swallow iron Well quoth the buier then he wil s●oyle no crowes neastes He shall néede no iron for hée shall haue haye prouender inough In his iournie homeward hee perceiued y● his horse woulde not goe ouer woodden brides That hee coulde not away with the iron bit That hee fell often and yet quicklye forgat his fals whereby hee had triall of the horsecoursers honestie I will not commit my businesse vnto him but dispach it my selfe That he was to for getfull 96 Thrée thinges very necessary in a fenser A quick eye A strong arme A stout hart 97 Thrée thinges are very hard and difficult To cause a woman take penance patiently when she hath deserued To cause an old doting foole to reforme his maners To teach on asse musicke 98 An Epitaph worthy memorie consisting of 3. parts O man thou seest what I am Thou knowest what I haue bene Now thinke what thou shalt be thy selfe 99 A ploughman gaue 3. lessons vnto his sonne Be holy in Lent Be painfull in haruest

which they haue not When they must eate they haue handes and on handes because they haue no vs● of them When they must walke they haue féet and no feete because they cannot goe They haue reason to séeke after remedye but want it to endure such paine as tendeth to the cure of their disease 41 Thrée reasons alledged by 3. Romane matrones why after the death of their first husbands they would not marrie 〈◊〉 The first was Marchia who being asked why she would not take another husband aunswered she found none that would haue her for her person but mary her for her money The second Valeria who being demaunded why she did not mary again answered that she could not because her husband was not dead but liuing for so long as she liued her husband liued also together with her in her hart The 3. Amnia with whome when her parentes were instant to marry again being yong and rich answered that she could not hauing had a good husband and therefore taking another either he should be good or euill if he were good she should alwaies be in feare to loose him if euill alwaies agréeued that it was her chaunce in choice to haue changed for the worse 42 Thrée things in the beginning are easy which afterward appeare very difficult to remedy It is an easie matter to cast fire into any place but veie hard to quench it being kindled It is an easie matter to moue debate but hard to reconcile men being at varience It is an easy matter to turne ouer money by exchange but a hard matter to come out of debt 43 Three things are requisit at 3 times of the yeare At Cristmas great loaues At Lent cleane soules At Whitsontide newe clothes 44 Thrée thinges to be noted in a wedding ring That it be of golde for as gold is the best mettall so the loue betweene man and wife is the dearest loue That it be round that is without end wherby is meant that loue should not cease That it be put on y● 4 finger signif●ing harty loue for the phisitions say that a veine in that finger commeth from the heart 45 Thrée causes why Priestes haue shrewder wiues for the most part then their neighbors That séeing they are so readie to reprooue other mens vices abroad● their wiues might reprehend their faultes at home They that being exercised with patience at home may learne to suffer more easily common troubles abroade Preistes deserue to haue shrowd wiues for that they chuse to marry the fairest which commonly are shrewe● 46 Thrée things of their owne accord in ascēding vanish away Smoke the higher it mounteth the sooner it vanisheth Wicked men the higher they climbe the greater they fall A song begun in a note to high causeth the voice to faile or end in la mi. 37 Three things are easily lost but neuer got again A word spoken Virginitie Time 48 Thrée things verye requisit in a Chirurgian A haukes eie A lions hart A ladies hand 49 Thrée thinges change the nature and condition of man Dignitie A wife Wine 50 Three things make vs wanton and shamelesse Night Loue. Night hath no shame Loue hath no reason Wine hath no seace Wine 51 Three things makes a man wearie of his house and often of his life Smoke Raine A curst wife 52 Cut candle Breake cole Was neuer good husband nor good husbands friend Set sticke on end 53 Three most odious creaturs A begger proud A rich man a lyer An olde man lecherous 54 He that séeketh these things may be deceaued Loialtie and truth in a flatterer A fine wit in a fat belly Vertue in all euill companie 55 Three things very harde or not at all to be found A hare without a muse A fenne without a sluse A whore without a scuse 56 Three things are very difficult To carrie water in a siue To roote out a vice which hath bene grafted of long time in a mans mind To make women good with stripes 57 One repenteth no● to haue obeyed 3. things The truth Good counsell A Cocke crowing early in a morning 58 Three creatures see cleerely in the night The Owle The night rauen The Weasell 59 Three liuing things that excell man in the sense of smelling A vulture A hound A sowe 60 There are 3. dayes as saith S. Bede on which whoseoeuer is borne his flesh shall neuer rotte The 12 of Ianuarie The 24 of March The 28. of March 61 Thrée thinges the elder they bee the more delight we take in them Olde wine to drinke Olde Bookes to reade in Olde freindes to be conuersant withall 62 Thrée true tokens to knowe a foole by To be angrie too much without a cause To laugh without measure vpon no occasion To reprehend other mens faultes and will not see his owne 63 There are 3. sortes of men generally The first sort are of such as haue learning but want discretion and wisedome For according to the prouerbe The greatest clarkes be not the wisest men Another sort are of those which haue no lerning but by experience haue obtained prudence and wisedome The 3 sort are of those which haue neither learning nor discretion they are starke fooles 64 The inuention of 3. thinges is wondefull The inuention of gunnes and gunpouder The making of glasses The Printing of bookes 65 Thrée things in a man which may be likened vnto 3. things in a Smithes shop To wit a stith●e The tongue to a hammer Learning to a gad of steele 66 Thrée doubtfull questions which none but Salomon coulde resolue What was most pleasant swéet in mans life He answered A quiet minde What meat was most fit for infants He aunswered No meate better agreeing with a childes nature then his owne mothers milke What was the fittest place for achild to be reposed in and to take his rest He answered the mothers bosome 67 There are three causes why old men loue their goods so wel Because they think it a great matter to be reported to die rich The memorie of the actions of their youth the infirmities of their present age maketh them so il cōtented y● they are carelesse to prouide for death which they see euen before their eies looking to liue stil to inioy their goods till death part the in both asunder Because they had rather leaue thē to their enimies being dead thē in their life time be in danger to their friends for them 68 Thrée sortes of men may be sorie though they say nought He that spendeth much getteth nought He that oweth much and hath nought He y● looketh in his purse findeth nought 69 Thrée causes why louers discerne not the fault●s of th●●r friendes Because their aflection hath ouermaistred their reason Because they wil not suffer their fansies to be controle● by other mens wils Because according to the Philosophers al great motions hinder those that be lesse but loue hauing occupied the chiefe and most principal motions of the spirit trobleth