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A66812	Witty apophthegms delivered at several times, and upon several occasions by King James, King Charls, the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas Moor ; collected and revised.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Selections. 1669.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Selections. 1669.; Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646. Selections. 1669.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Selections. 1669.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. Selections. 1669.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3237; ESTC R12699	69,627	178

to cu●…in your M●…sty 38. Carry a watchful eye upon dangers till they come to ripeness and when they are ripe let loose a speedy hand he that expects them too long meets them too late and he that meets them too soon gives advantage to the evil Commit their beginning to Argus his eyes and their ends to Br●…areus hands and than art safe 39. Fortune hath no power over wisdom but of sensuality and of Lives that swim and navigate without the loadstone of discretion and Judgment 40. Aristarchus scoffingly said That in old time hardly could be found seven wise men throughout the world but in one day quoth he much ado there is to find so many fools 41. After Antigenus had been sick a long time of a lingring disease and well recovered again We have said he got no harm by this long sickness for th●…s hath taught us not to be so proud by p●…tting us in mind that we are but mortal his Majesties determination of it was That were he real he had by it learned a most divine Less●…n 42. That an infallid thing may be discerned and known by a fallid means As for example our senses are fallid but by them we know many things infallid whence the Papists inferre that because the Church is visible therefore the chief head must be visible The universal Church consisteth of two parties the one visible the other invisible to wit a visible body and an invisible spirit and therefore the chief head of the Church should rather be visible but we grant many visible substitutes over the Church as subordinate Rulers under the chief 43. Sir Thomas Somerset brother to the Marquess of Worcester had a house which they called Troy five miles from Ragland Castle this Sir Thomas being a compleat Gentleman of himself delighted himself much in fine Gardens and Orchards where by the benefit of art the earth was made so graceful to him at the same time that the King happened to be at his brothers house that it yielded him wherewithal to send his brother Worcester a present and such an one as the time place considered was ●…ble to make the King to believe that the Soveraign of the Planets had new changed the Poles and that Woles the re●…use and outcast of the fair Garden of England had fairer and riper fruit than Englands bowels had on all her beds this presented to the Marquess the Marquess would not suffer to be presented to the King by any other hand than his own in comes the Marquess at the latter end of Sapper led by the arm with a slow pace expressing much a Spanish gravity with a silver dish in each hand filled with rarities and a little basket on his arm as a reserve where making his obeysance he thus speaks May it please your Majesty if the four Elements could have been robd to have entertained your Majesty I think I had but done my duty but I must do as I may if I had sent to Bristol for some good things to entertain your Majesty that had been no wonder at all if I had procured from London some goodness that might have been acceptable to your Majesty but here I present your Majesty placing his dishes upon the Table with what that came not from Lincoln that was not London that is not York that is to be but I assure your Majesty that this Present came from Troy whereupon the King smiled and answered the Marquess Truly my Lord I have heard That corn now grows where Troy Town stood but I never thought there had grown any Apricocks there before Whereupon the Marquess replyed any thing to please your Majesty when my Lord Marquess departed the presence one told his Lordsh●…p that he would make a very good Courtier the Marquess said I remember I said one thing that may give you some hopes of me Any thing to please your Majesty 44. The first night his Majesty came into Rag●…and Castle the King desired to see the great Tower where his Lordship did use to keep his Treasure his Majesty spake au●…o Doctor Baily then standing by to fetch the keys he ran down to the Marquess and acquainted him with the Kings pleasure who would needs bring them to the King and shew him the Tower himself when the King saw the Marquess bringing the keys himself he ●…aus spake unto the Marquess My Lord there are some men so unreasonable as to make me believe that your Lordship hath good store of gold yet lest within t●…s Tower but I knowing how I have exhausted you together 〈◊〉 your own occasions could never have believed it until now I see you will not trust the keyes with any but your self to which the Marquess made this reply Sir I was so far from giving your Majesty any such occasion of thought by this tender of my duty that I protest unto you that I was once resolved that your Majesty should have lain there but that I was loath to commit your Majesty to the Tower 45. When the King first entred the gates of Ragland the Marquess delivered his Majesty the keyes according to the ordinary custom the King restoring them to the Marquess the Marquess said I beseech your Majesty to keep them if you please for they are in a good hand but I am afraid that ere it be long I shall be forced to deliver them into the hands of those who will spoil the Complement 46. H●…s Majesty professed that he could not fix his love on one that was never angry for as he that is without sorrow is without gladness so he that is without Anger is without Love 47. Upon discourse of life his Majesty observed that it was one of the fol●…es of man that when he was full of dayes and near his end that then he should love life most 48. Cato said to which his Majesty assents That the lest way to keep good Acts in memory was to refresh them with new 49. King Charls coming to Ragland it being when the tall Cedar of our Lebanon was brought so low and those Sycomores flourished when the Royal Oak was in the fall of the leaf it happened that his Majesty was at bowls upon Ragland Castle Green a place proudly situated where after he had ended his Recreation his Majesty was pleased to delight himself with observing the Co●…ntrey round about it happened that one Prichard the Kings partner at bowls presuming more upon his good bowling than good manners continued that familiarity that should have ended with the rubbers shewing the King where his house stood told his Majesty that he must look through the wood and he might see a white thing and that was it moreover acquainted his Majesty what the Lord of Wercester had advised him viz. to cut down some of those trees that the house might plainly be discerned from the Green whereby his Lordship when he wanted a good bowler might make a sign and so have him at a beck to which the King

plain he told as look you now I without my Spectacles and ill eyes could read it sooner than all you that needed none and had good eyes it is not a good eye but a good faith that attains to the knowledg of such things which you pore so much upon the like you lose the meaning now I will tell you how I came to find it out I considered what had been told me with the help wherof I came to unstand what the words might signifie so that in this I am sure tradition was a means to help me to the true understanding of the Scripture Leaving the place as we were going along by the Church yard rails there was an old woman naked as ever she was born who kept her Hermitage between the roots of an overgrown hollow tree she was the most lamentable spectacle of Mortality that ever eyes beheld her eyes as hollow as a dead mans scul and her head as bare nothing but skin and bone her breasts hanging down like two leathern pockets and her belly like a Satchel her tawny skin looking rather as if it had been loose garments to the bo●…es then confines to any flesh and blood in a word it frightned us all only the Marquess was in love with her protesting that he never saw a sight which did him so much good saying How happy were it for a man that is going to bed to his grave to be first wedded to this woman 4. The Marquess on discourse about Religion said That God was fain to deal with wicked men as men do with frisking jades in a pasture that cannot take them up till they get them to a gate so wicked men will not be taken up till the hour of death 5. Treating of youth the Marquess said that it was the best course for Parents and Tutors to teach children that when they are young they may put in practice when they are grown up in riper years 6. Philo Jude●…s saith to which the Marquess assents that the sense is like the Sun for the Sun seals up the globe of heaven and opens the globe of earth so the sense doth obscure heavenly things and reveal earthly things 7. He was wont to say that a plain dealing friend whose friendly Counsel was requited with choler and disgust was like a turf that whilst a man bestowed breath upon it to enliven it it returns thanks to the well-willer by spitting fire in his face 8. Dr. Baily living at Ragland castle three years in all that time never saw man drunk nor heard an oath amongst any of all his servants and very rare it was to see a better ordered Family but that which was most wonderful was half his servants being Protestants and half Papists yet never were at variance in point of Religion which was brought about by prohibiting disputation neither was any man less accepted for his Religion if his service was acceptable but when the Castle was filled with Officers Souldiers he used to be much grieved to hear and see the Oaths and drunkenness that was then and there too much practised insomuch that when some of his chief Officers had told him how they had fortified such and such a place so and so and that here the enemy could not come and there it was impossible I but said my Lord you have left the main place open and unfortified you have made no fortification against heaven for there is such swearing and drunkenness amongst you that I fear me that from thence will come you●… greatest enemy and you have made no provision against him 9. As the Marquess was in his travel from Dneb shire toward Ragland he determined to lye in a poor Town called Bala in Mer●…neth shire where being come upon misinformation that they were enemies the people gazed on them like Owls and no Officer belonging to the Town would be spoken withal At last one of the Marquesses retinue espied a young man who had a Ribbon on his hat with Vive le Roy in it to whom he applyed himself and told him that he by his favour should be one that loved the King and that there was such a Nobleman who had served the King in no small measure who was likely to ly in the streets for want of a Lodging the young man shewed immediately great respect telling his Lordship that he should be welcom to his Mothers house who kept a poor Inn. So into the house his retinue went finding it a most lamentable receptacle for such a person yet better than none at all the Parlour where my Lord was to lye was a soft and loose ground wherein you might sink up to the ancles every step the top of the house being thatched with ill thrasht straw the corn was left in the straw wherewith the house was thatched grew and was all as green as grass The Marquess by that time that we had got a good fire and laid some loose boards over the sloor came near the house who seeing the manner of the house top and the parlour bottom said That he lay over a bog and under a Meadow but it being known who he was the Mayor of the Town with singular respect and much humanity came to the Marquess excusing his ignorance and misunderstanding offering all the civilities of his own house for which my Lord gave him many and hearty thanks breaking forth into this Meditation Lord what a thing this misunderstanding is I warrant you might but the King and Parliament confer together as you and I have done there might be as right an understanding betwixt them as there is now betwixt you and I some body hath told the Parliament that the King was an enemy and their believing of him to be such hathwrought all the jealousies which are come to these distractions the Parliament being now in such a case as I my self am having green ears over their heads and false ground under their feet 10. The Marquess of Worcester calling for a glass of Claret wine it was told him by his Physician that Claret wine was naught for his gout What said the Marquess my old friend Claret nay give it me in spight of all Physicians and their books it never shall be said that I forsook my friend for my enemy 11. The Marquess discoursing of the small profit generally got by disputation in matters of Religion said That men are often in arguing carried by the force of words f●…rther asunder than their question was at first like two ships going out of the same haven their journeys end is many times whole Countries distant 12. Drunkenness is a beastly vice and hath this property that it is one of those vices that increaseth with age which Discourse the Marquess prosecuted by a certain story of a certain Philosopher that having a drunken man brought before him to know what suitable punishment he should suffer for the offence the vice was so rarely known in those dayes that the Philosopher was wholly