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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

they would break the back of Simon of Cyrene to carry them but these are pious frauds and so much the more tolerable in that they bring great gain into the Popes Treasury Of the Temple thus built was afterwards instituted an Order of Knights Templers by Hugh of Payennes Anno 1113. and confirmed by Pope Eugenius their Ensign was a red Cross in token that they should shed their blood to defend Christs Temple They were Cross-legged and wore on their backs the figure of the Cross for which they were by the common people called cross-back or crouk-back and by corruption crook-back Edmund Earl of Lancaster second Son to our Henry the third being of this Order was vulgarly called Edmund Crook-back which made Henry the fourth conceited that this Edmund from whom he was descended was indeed the eldest Son of King Henry but that for his crookedness and deformity his younger Brother was preferred to the Crown before him These Knights in process of time grew very rich having in all Provinces of Europe their subordinate Governors in which they did possess no less than 16000 Lordships The House of our Law Students in London called the Temple was the chief House of the Knights of this order in England where at this day some of their Images are to be seen with their legs across as they were here buried amongst whom was William Marshal the Elder a most powerful man in his time William and Gilbert his Sons Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke upon Willa●m the Elder his Tomb some years since was read in the upper part Comes Pembrochia and on his side this verse Miles eram Martis Mars m●●ltos vic●rit armis This Order which at first was very poor insomuch that their common seal was two riding upon one Horse in little time with insatiable greediness they hoarded up great wealth by withdrawing Tithes from the Church appropriating spiritual things to themselves and other bad means which riches of theirs turned to their ruine for Philip the fair King of France having a plot to invest one of his Sons with the Title of King of Ierusalem procured of the Pope the revenue of this Order which he thought to do the better because Clement the fifth then Pope for the love he bare to France had transferred his seat from Rome to Avignon But though he affected the one he was deceived in the other for this Order being dissolved and many of them cruelly and as it is thought unjustly put to death the Lands thereto belonging were by a general Council given to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John which said Knights of that Order in England whose principal mansion was in Smithfield sold the aforesaid House of the Templers to the Students of Laws for the yearly rent of ten pound about the middle of the Reign of Edward the third in whose hand it is continued unto this day Qu. What four Countreys in England are those which are famoused for four principal qualities An. Staffordshire Darbyshire Cheshire and Lancashire Staffordshire for Beer and Bread Darbyshire for Wool and Lead Cheshire the Chief of Men And Lancashire for fair Women Qu What place in England is accounted most safe in the time of War according as we find it proverbially said An. When as wars are aloft Safe is he that 's at Christ's Croft And where should this Christ's Croft be But betwixt Rible and Mersie Qu. What may be said of these four Latine words Quid Puer Quid Senex An. Take away the first letter from Puer or a Boy and there remains Ver which signifieth the Spring Take two first letters from Senex for an old man and there remaineth Nex which signifieth death and thus are both their natures expressed in both their Names Ver. Nex Ver is the Spring most fragrant fresh and gay Nex is the Night that doth conclude lifes day Qu. What may we think of such as are Jesters to Noblemen or Princes or such as are Jaok-puddings on Mountebanks stages An. That a fool cannot perform the place and none but Fools will undertake it Qu. What Book do not married men love to learn in An. The Horn-book Qu. What be the three properties belonging to a Whore An. Nimble of her hand quick of her tongue and light of her tayl Qu. Whether are Whores or Thieves most prejudicial to a Common-wealth An. Whores by far for Thieves do only steal and purloyn from men and the harm they do is to embellish mens goods and bring them to poverty this is the only end of mens thieving and the prejudice that grows from robbing and filohing but if a man fall into the company of a Whore she flatters him she inveagles him she bewitcheth him that he spareth neither goods nor lands to content her that is onely in love with his coyn If he be married he forsakes his Wife leaves his Children despiseth his friends only to satisfie his lust with the love of a base whore who when he hath spent all upon her and he brought to beggery beateth him out like the prodigal Son and for a small reward brings him if to the fair'st end to beg if to the second to the Gallows or at the last and worst to the Pox or as prejudicial diseases Qu. What is the Art and cunning of a Whore An. Their eyes are Stauls and their hands Lime-twigs Cyrces had never more charms Calipso more inchantments nor the Syrens more subtile tunes than they have crafty sleights to inveagle young Cullies to their deceitful embraces Qu. Who were the most famous whores in former Ages An. Lais Thais Rhodope the Lady Rosamond Jane shore c. nor must we think our present age to be altogether free For thus the Poet on his word engages Whores are in this as well as former ages Qu. What is the Character of an honest Man An. That his Tongue is the Interpreter of his heart though now considering the hypocrisie and falshood of most men we may say with the Poet The tongue was once a servant to the heart And what it gave she freely did impart But now Hypocrisie is grown so strong She makes the heart a servant to the tongue Qu. What is that which of running becomes staid of soft becomes hard of weak becomes strong and of that which is infinite becomes but one An. Ice Qu. Who were the first that brought Tobacco into England An. It was first brought hither by the Mariners of Sir Francis Drake Anno 1585. but brought into more request and custom by Sir Walter Rawleigh who is reported to have taken two pipes thereof as he went to execution This Drug as it hath found many friends so hath it met with divers enemies who report it not only consumptive to the purse but that it impaireth the inward parts corrupteth the natural sweetness of the breath stupifieth the brain and is so prejudicial to the general esteem of our Countrey-men that one saith of them Anglorum corpora qui huic

which Pilgrims from all places come to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury who was there enshrined as witnesseth Chaucer fro all England do they wend The Holy blissful Martyrs Tomb to see c. And now also of the City of Loretto in Italy which at first was but a mean Village but is now grown a rich and populous City for the opinion that the chamber of the Virgin Mary is there the Legend whereof here followeth This Chamber they say was the same wherein the Virgin Mary was saluted by the Angel with those joyful tidings of the Conception of our Saviour being then at Nazareth in Judaea and was after the Virgins death had in great Reverence by the Christians where it remained untouched till all Palestine was subdued by the Turks and Saracens Anno 1291. then was it most miraculously transported into Sclavonia but that place being unworthy of the Virgins divine presence it was by the Angels carried over into the Sea-cost of Italy An. 1294. but that place proving as bad as the other being infected with Thieves and Pirats the Angels removed it to the little Village of Loretto where her miracles being quickly divulged drew thither a great concourse of People insomuch that Paul the second Pope of Rome built over this chamber a most stately Church whither Pilgrims from all places resort to this day to the great enriching thereof which by this means it is now from a poor Village grown to be a wealthy City Q. Which is the chief City in England Ans London which is accounted to contain in circuit 8 miles is enriched with a Navigable River the Palace of the King divers houses of the Nobility and several Colledges for the Study of the Laws the next to which is the City of York according to the verse Londinum caput est regni urbs Brittanni Eboracum à prima jure secundae venit London is Englands chiefest Town well known The second place York claimeth as its own Q. Who was the first builder of London A. The common received opinion is that it was Brutus the Son of Silvius and Grandchild to Aeneas who having by accident killed his Father was for the fact banished his Countrey with whom accompanied him many worthy persons to be partakers of his fortune who after many wandrings and adverse fortunes at last arrived in England at a place called Totnes in Devonshire as the Poet Neckam sings The Gods did guide his sayl and course the winds were at command And Totnes was the happy shore where first he came on Land This Land was then inhabited with Gyants the chief of which was named Gogmagog with whom Corineus one of Brute's followers encounter'd though he were a Gyant of twelve Cubits high and of such puissance that he could pull up a great Oak at one pull as if it had been a small Wand when they came together Corineus laid by his armour and challenged his Combatant to Handy-gripes who at first came upon him with such fury and violence that he crushed in pieces three of Corineus's ribs where with he being mightily enraged redoubling his strength threw him upon his shoulder and so carried him to the top of a Rock and threw him down head-long into the Sea where he perished with the fall which place is called to this day Gogm●gogs-Leap In reward of his valiant act Brute bestowed upon the noble Corineus that part of the Land which he after his name cal'd Coriner afterwards by corruption of speech it was called Cornubia and now Cornwal Brute afterwards having the Land of those Gyants erected a City on the River of Thames which he named after the Seat of his Ancestors New Troy which is the same that is now called London as one writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 razed Troy to rear a Troy sit place he searched then And Viewing first the Northern parts these fit quoth he for men That trust as much to Flight as fight our Bulworks are our breast A Trojans Courage is to him a Bulwork of unrest Then casting a more pleasant eye where Thames did fairly glide Resolv'd he to erect the same upon that Rivers side He many Houses built therein and clos'd it in with Wall Which Lud did after beautifie and Luds-Town did it call Q. What do the common Countrey people think of London Ans Those who have never seen it account it a very strange wonderful place One having a Brother living there directed his Letter thus To his loving Brother T. W. living at London Another had a great mind to see the City only he said he was not acquainted with any of the Porters to open the Gates and let him in Q. Which are the Principal Rivers in England A. The chief is the Thamesis or Thames compounded of the two rivers Thame Isis the former whereof rising somewhat beyond Tame in Buckinghamshire and the latter beyond Cirencester in Glocestershire meet together about Dorcester in Oxfordshire the issue of which happy conjunction is the Thamesis or Thames the most glorious River of all Europe The second is the Severn which taketh its beginning in Plinlimon Hill in Mountgomery-shire and his end about seven miles from Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury Worcester and Glocester this River is said to take its name from Sabrina the daughter of Estrild who being taken by Queen Guendeline was cast into this River and there drowned The third River of note is Trent so call'd for that thirty kind of Fishes are found in it or for that it receiveth thirty lesser Rivulets it hath its Fountain in Strafford-shire and gliding through the Counties of Notingham Lincoln Leicester and York burieth its self in the turbulent Current of the Humber The fourth is Medway a Kentish River the Common Harbor for the Royal Navy The fifth is Tweed the North east bound of England on whose fertile banks is seated the strong and impregnable Town of Barwick The sixth is Tine which mightily enricheth the Town of Newcastle by the conveyance from thence of her plenty of Coals These and the rest of most principal concern are thus comprehended in one of Mr Drayton's Sonnets Our Floods Queen Thames for Ships and Swans is crown'd And stately Severn for her Shore is praised The Chrystal Trent for Fords and Fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions Cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Owse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertile be And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswal commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northern Borders boast of Tweeds fair Flood Our Western parts extol their Willies fame And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood Q. Who is the most renowned for memory that we have heard or read of An. In former times Seneca who writes of himself that he was able to recite two thousand words after they were once read unto him and of late days we find Mr.

the Waters of themselves liquid and moveable when they have run their course as much as they can one way then meeting with the other waters drawn by the same attraction from other places they then return back again but encountring with that huge Mountain of the Sea are beaten back again and so by this means forced to continual motion Qu. Is the Sea higher than the Earth An. This is affirmed to be so and the reasons given therefore are these First because it is a body not so heavy Secondly it is observed by Saylors that their Ships fly faster to the shoar than from it whereof no reason can be given but the height of the Water above the Land Thirdly to such as stand on the shore the Sea seemeth to swell into the form of a mountain till it putteth a bound to their sight But some then will lay how comes it to pass that the Sea hovering thus over the Earth doth not overwhelm it To which I answer that must be attributed to him only who hath made the waters to stand on a heap who hath set them a bound which they shall not pass nor turn again to cover the Earth Qu. Why is the form of Money round An. Because it is to run to every man though it commonly runs up hill to the rich I remember I saw once the picture of a Shilling which had upon the top of it a pair of Wings flying as it were from spades and oars that were pourtrayed on the one side to the picture of an Usurer who was deciphered on the other side underneath was the figure of a Snail with the shilling on his back creeping a slowly peace towards the Oars The explanation of all being set forth by these verses Twelve-pence here first presents him to your Eye Who from the Spades and Oars with wing do fly To the rich Usurer who ready stands To entertain him with a Purse in 's hands Where long being kept at last returns as slo● Back to the Oars as the poor Snail doth g●● Qu. Why is Nummus Latine for Money An. Of Numa Pompilius second King of the Romans the first that caused Money to be made though the Jews attribute the invention thereof to Cain as the Grecians to Hermodice the wife of Midas and some of the Romans to Janus That money was not in former Ages the only Bartery or way of exchange we read in Homer where Glaucus Golden Armour was valued at a hundred Kine and Diomedes Armour at ten onely which kind of bartery is to this day used amongst some of the Irish as at the Barbadoes and Virginia it is commonly by Tobacco or Sugar Our Ancestors the Britains used brass Rings and Iron Rings for their Instruments of Exchange The most usual material of Money amongst the Roman Provinces was seldom Gold or Silver most times Brass sometimes Leather Corium forma publica percussum as Senecae hath it This last kind of Money was by Frederick the Second made currant when he ●esieged Millain the like is said to have been used here in England at the time of the Barons wars which is thought to be the same that is now commonly shown in the Tower and why not since the Hollanders no longer ago than in the year 1574 being in their extremities made Money of Past-board But now such things we in derision hold Nothing will pass but Silver or fine Gold I shall therefore annex here certain Verses describing the person and quality of that ●hild of chase or Lady Pecunia which is so ●uch sought after and catcht at by every ●e giving you assured marks whereby to ●ow her if you can find her She is a Lady of such matchless carriage Wedded to none tho' sought of all in marriage She may be kist yet neither washt nor clipt And if you wooe not wary soon o'reslipt She may be common yet be honest too Which is far more than any Maids can do VVho e're atchieves her speaks her ne'r so fair She 'l not stay long before she take the air She is so proud she 'l not with poor men stay But straight takes pet and goes from him away A rich man may her for a time intreat And with the Usurer she 'l sit i' th' seat She goes in Cloth of silver Cloth of gold Of several worths and values manifold But when she goes in golden Robes best dight Then she 's suspected for to be most light She needs no Physick to recover Health For she 's still currant and as rich in Wealth Some Irish Lady born we may suppose Because she runs so fast and never goes If she be wrong'd in name and ill abide it Of all men Justice Touch-stone must decide it She is a Vagrant sure else there is none Because she 's always rambling from home Nothing can cause her for to take her rest But clip her Wings and lock her in a Chest Qu. What City is that which is Founded the Waters compassed in with waters and ha●● no other walls but the Sea An. The City of Venice situate in the be some of the Adriatick Sea which hath continued unshaken or conquered since the fi●● building 1152 years it hath for convenience of Passage 4000 Bridges and very near 1200● Bo us They have an A●senal in which a● kept 200 Galleys in their Magazine of W● they have Armour sufficient for 100000 Soldiers amongst which are 1000 Coats of Plate garnished with Gold and covered with velvet so that they are sit for any Prince in Christendom there are said to be 200 Houses therein fit to Lodge any King whomsoever they have several Houses stored with Masts Sayls and other Tacklings and are at this present the chiefest Bulwark of Christendom against the Turk Qu. When a Man dyes which is the last part of him that stirs and which of a Woman An. When Man and Woman dyes as Poets sung His Heart 's the last that stirs of her the Tongue Qu. What Answer gave one to a Barber who bragged that Kings sate bare to their Trade An. He bid him that they should remember as well that they must stand to Beggars whilst they did sit Qu. What is the common saying that is appropriated to Poland An. That if a man have lost his Religion there he may find it there being tolerated Papists Lutherans Calvinists Arrians Anabaptists Antitrinitarians and all Sects what-soever The same saying is now applied to Amsterdam in Holland Qn. What other thing is remarkable there An. It is a custom there that when in the Churches the Gospel is reading the Nobility and Centry of that Country draw out their Swords to signifie that they are ready to defend the same if any dare oppugn it The same reason questionless gave beginning to our custom of standing up at the Creed whereby we express how prepared and resolute we are to maintain it although in the late times of Rebellion some tender Consciences holding it to be a Relique of Popery being more nice

alike An. In the Grave which shade Diogenes to say being searching in the Charnelhouse amongst the dead skuls that he could find no difference betwixt the skull of King Philip and another mans All in the Grave alike are made The Scepter and the Sithe and Spade Qu. What would become of a great sort of men if every one were served in their kind An. A number of Tailors would be damn'd for keeping a Hell under their Shop-board many Broakers would make their Wills'at Tiburn if the searching for stolen Goods which they have received should like a plague but once come amongst them Two parts of of the Land should be whpped at Bridewel for Leachery and three parts be set in the stocks for drunkenness Qu. Wherein hath the Beggar a priviledge over great persons An. In that he cannot fall lower than he is whereas the great man is subject to that of the Poet In ways to greatness think on this That slipp'ry all Ambition is Qu. What was the dyet of former ages in those days which were called the Golden Age of the world An. They catcht not their surfeits with eating of Capon Partridge and Pheasant their dyet was Apples Roots Nuts Dates ●igs c. and sometimes for rarities Butter Cheese and Eggs and for drink instead of Sack Claret Muscadine Ippocrass Mum Beer or Ale their beverage was the cool streams distilling from some uncorrupted Fountain a description whereof we have in the eighth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis concerning the entertainment which Philemon and Bancis gave to Jupiter and Mercury Ponitur hic bicolor sincerae bacca Minervae Intibaque radix lactis massa coacti Ovaque non acri leviter versata familla Prunaque in patulis redolentia mala camestris Hic nux hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis Et de purpureis collectae vitibus uvae Omnes fictilibus nitidae They on the table set Minerva's fruit The double colour'd Olive Endive root Radish and Cheese and to the Board there came A dish of Eggs rare roasted by the flame Next they had Nuts course dates and Lenten Figs And Apples from a basket made of twigs And Plums and Grapes cut newly from the Tree All serv'd in Earthen dishes Houswifely Qu. What passion is most natural unto Man An. Love which entereth in at the eyes and pierceth the heart many setling their loves on such objects for which they can give no reason Qu. Whether is Love the cause of likeness or likeness the cause of love An. Both. Qu. What creatures are those some living and some dead that rule all the world An. The Sheep the Goose and the Bee for the Sheep yields Parchment the Goose Quils to write it and the laborious Bee brings Wax to seal it as one hath wittily deliver'd in these verses The Bee the Goose the Sheep Do so maintain the might Of Monarchs Kings and States That wrong suppress not right The Bee brings sealing Wax The Goose our writing Quils The Sheep his Parchment coat or skin For Deeds and dead mens Wills Qu. What is the general saying concerning the Italian women An. That they are Mag-pies at the door Saints in the Church Goats in the Garden Devils in the House Angels in the Streets and Syrens in the Windows Qu. What Passion is most prevailing over the nature of man An. Fear of which we read that it hath in one night turned the hair of the head from black to white but most memorable is that example of one who was pretended to be let blood to death for being blinded and his arms bound the Chyrurgions that were about him only saying How bravery he bleeds on his arm How gallantly on that although they did nothing to him at last one saying Now the blood comes from his very heart when they came to unblind him they found him liveless struck stark dead with a panick fear Qu. Why is man called Microcosmus or the little world An. As being the Epitome of the great Volume of Nature borrowing from the Angels soul from the brute Animals sense from Plants life from other creatures bigness but above all inferiors is endued with that prerogative of casting up his eyes to Heaven to behold the excellencies of the Creation wherein other Creatures are deficient Pronaque cum spectent anim alia caetera terram Os homini sublime dedit coelumque videre Jussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus And where all beasts look with grovelling eye He gave to man looks mixt with Majesty And will'd him with bold face to view the Skie Qu. What Art is that which makes use of the vilest things in the world An. Physick which makes use of Scorpions Flies Wasps Serpents Ear-wiggs Toads and such like nothing though to our apprehension never so seeming vile but serves to some use according to that of the Poet There 's nought so vile that on the Earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give Nor ought so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from virtue stumbling on abuse Virtue it self turns Vice being mis-apply'd And Vice sometimes by action 's dignifi'd Qu. Whether is the life of a rich covetous Citizen that swims in wealth and treasure caring for none nor beloved of any or the lives of a Countrey Yeoman or Farmer who lives in a mediocrity betwixt poverty and riches yet content with his estate which of these two is first to be preferred An. Better it is in the solitary woods and in the wild fields to be a man among beasts than in the midst of a peopled City to be a beast among men In the homely village art thou more safe than in a fortified Castle the stings of Envy nor the bullets of Treason are never shot through those thin wal Sound Healths are drunk out of the wooden dish when the Cup of Gold boyls over with poyson The Countrey cottage is neither batter'd down by the Cannon in the time of War nor pestered with clamorous Suits in time of Peace The fall of Cedars that tumble from the tops of Kingdoms the ruine of great Houses that bury families in their overthrow and the noise of shipwrack that beget even shricks in the hearts of Cities never send their terrors thither that place stands as safe from the shock of such violent storms as the Bay-tree does from lightening Qu. Who are the subjects that pay tribute to the Countrey Farmer An. The Meadow gives him her pasture the Trees pay custom with their fruit the Plough sends him in Corn the Ox bestows upon him his labor and the Sheep cloathes him with his wool Qu. How came the famous Poet Buchanan off when travelling into Italy he was for the freeness of his writing suspected of his Religion and taken hold of by some of the Popes Inquisitors An. By writing to his Holiness this Distich Laus tua non tua fraus virtus non copia rererum Scandere te fecit hoc decus eximium

found ●n our Isles of Britain An. In the Isle of Man are found at this day certain Trees of Timber and other Wood in great abundance many fathoms under the ground which were thought to be brought thither and 〈◊〉 in Noahs flood and not discovered till of late years At Barry Island in Glamorgan-shire upon ● Clift or Hole of a Rock laying your ear unto it you may hear sometimes as it were ●he noise of blowing the Bellows others of Smiths striking at the Anvil sometimes ●iling clashing of Armour and the like this ●s said to be by inchantment by the great Merlin who bound certain Spirits to work here in making of Armour for Aurelius Am●rosius and his Britains until his return but he being killed they by the force of his harm are constrained to labour there still Qu. By how many several Nations hath this Land been inhabited An. The first Inhabitants hereof were the Britains whose off-spring at this day is the Welsh our seeming ancient Historians de●ive them from the Trojans who came hither under the conduct of one Brutus but this by Mr. Cambden and our late Antiquaries is rejected as a fable who by many unanswerable arguments prove them to be descended from the Gauls they were questionless a warlike Nation and stoutly with stood the Romans in their invasion of them being at last more over come by the treachery o● Androge●s and others than by the Roman puissance The next were the Romans who entered the Island under the conduct of Julius Casar some few years before the birth of our Savior It continued a Roman Province till after the year 400 when Proconsul Aetite taking with him away the Legoniary Soldiers to defend Gallia from the Franks and Burgundians left South Britain a prey to the Scots and Picts quitting our Island of themselves to defend those Provinces nearer home The third Nation were the Saxons a people of Germany called in by Vortiger Kin● of the Britains in aid against the Scots and Picts who then over-run this Island bu● these Guests soon become their Masters wh● under the leading of Hengist and Horsus ● planted themselves in this Island that the n●tive Inhabitants could never recover it from them These Saxons came not in all at once b● at seven several times each under their Le●ders gaining a part from our Brittish Monarchy till at last they ingrossed the who● to themselves then was England divide● into a Heptarchy or seven several Kingdom all which were united into one by Egb● King of the West-Saxons who was the first English Monarch The fourth people were the Danes who made violent irruptions in this Island under the Reign of King Ethelred the Saxon and so far they prevailed that he was contented to pay them the yearly Tribute of 10000 pounds which at last they enhanced to 48000 pounds This Tyranny Ethelred not able to endure warily writ to his Subjects to kill all the Danes as they slept on St Brices night being the 12. of November which being executed accordingly Swain King of Denmark came with a Navy of three hundred and fifty sail into England drove Ethelred over into Normandy and tyrannized over the English with a very high hand every English house maintaining one Dane whom they called Lord who living idly and receiving all the profit of the English labours gave occasion to after-ages when they saw an idle fellow to call him a Lurdan And so imperious were they that if an English man and a Dane had met on a Bridge the English man must have gone back and stayed till the Dane had come over They used also when the English drank to stab them or cut their throats to avoid which villany the party then drinking used to request some of the next sitters by to be his surety or pledge whilst he paid Nature her due and hence have we our usual custom of pledging one another finally after the Reign of three Kings the English threw off their yoke and the Saxons were re-inthronized The fifth Conquest thereof was by William Duke of Normandy Anno 1066. who with a strong Army entred the Land flew King Herald and with him 66654 of his English Soldiers Somewhat before that time was a great Comet which portended as it was thought this change of Government of which one wrote thus A thousand six and sixty year It is as we do read Since that a Comet did appear And English men lay dead Of Normandy Duke William then To England ward did sail Who conquer'd Harold and his men And brought this Land to bale A brief Epitome or Chronical-discourse of the Kings of England since the Norman Conquest VVIlliam the First sirnamed Conqueror bastard Son to Robert Duke of Normandy who having conquer'd the Country used such policies as utterly disheartened the English from hopes of better fortune who thereupon yielded to him and he having for twenty two years ruled or rather tyrannized over the English Nation dyed and was buried at Cane in Normandy William the second sirnamed Rufus the second son of the Conqueror took the Crown upon him his eldest Brother Robert being then busie in the Holy-Land who when the Christians had conquered Jerusalem chose him King thereof but he hoping for the Crown of England refused it but his brother William taking possession in his absence stoutly defended his Title brought Duke Robert to composition and having reigned twelve years and eleven months wanting eight days he at last hunting in the new Forrest was by the glance of an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tirrel struck in the breast whereof he immediately dyed and was buried at Winchester Anno 1100. Henry the first the youngest Son of the Conqueror yet too old for his brother Robert in policy took the advantage of time and stept into his Throne in his absence against whom he warring was by him taken and had his eyes put out this Henry was for his learning sirnamed Beauclark he reduced the measures of England to that proportion which we now call an Ell he left behind him only one Daughter reigned thirty five years and lieth buried at Reading Stephen Earl of Blois Son to Alire Daughter to the Conqueror usurped the Crown he was a man of Noble parts and hardy passing comely of favor and personage he excelled in martial policy gentleness and liberality towards men to purchase the peoples love he released them of the tribute called Darn-gelt he had continual War against Maud the Empress and after a troublesome Reign of eighteen years ten months and odd days he dyed and lieth buried at Font Everard Henry the Second Son to Maud the Empress Daughter to Henry the first and to Maud Daughter to Malcolm King of Scotland and Margaret Sister to Edgar Etheling by which means the Saxon blood was restor'd to the Crown This Henry was a most magnanimous Prince and by his fathers inheritance added many of the French Provinces to the English Crown as also the Dutchy of Aquitain and the

a good Watch kept in Moor-Fields On the Hangman ONe hearing that the Hang-man was forced to noose up the Vintners Boy at Ratcliff-Cross twice before he was quite dead said that he thought the Hang-man thereby had so much discredited his place that after his death an honest man would scarcely accept of it On a drunken Husband A Fellow that was drunken fell a beating of his wife telling her of many faults that she had committed to which she answered you tell me of a great many crimes but you will not stand to a word of what you speak A Country-man and Constable A Simple Country-man having Term-business in London and being somewhat late abroad in the night was staid by a Constable ●nd somewhat hardly entreated the poor man observing how imperiously he commanded him asked him what he was to which he replyed I am the Constable and this is my Watch and I pray you Sir said the man for whom do you watch the Constable replyed ● watch for the King for the King said the Countryman simply then you may let me pass quietly home to my Lodging for I can give you a Certificate from some of my Neighbors who are now in Town that I am not the King but Gaffer Jobson of Darby-shire The Reversion of a house ONe came bragging from the Court of Aldermen overjoy'd with the obtaining of a Suit for saith he they have promised me the Lease of the next House that falls To whom one standing by replied but had it been my case I should rather have petition'd for a House that had stood The Thiefs Destiny A Fellow being tryed for his life before a Judge alleadged for himself that he could not avoid it because it was his destiny that he should steal If so said the Judge then know also It is your destiny to be hanged A Spaniard whipt A Spanish Cavaleiro being for some faults by him committed whipped through the principal streets of Paris and keeping a sober pace was advis'd by a friend to make more haste that he might the sooner be ou● of his pain but he half in choler replyed That he would not loose the least step of his pace for all the Whipping in Paris The distressed Mariner A Mariner in a great storm prayed devoutly to the Virgin Mary promising her that if she would deliver them from that danger when he came on shore he would offer at her Altar a Candle as big as the Main Mast of his Ship which when one of h●● Companions over-heard he jogged him o● the elbow telling him it was impossible to be done Tush said he we must now speak h● fair because we are in trouble but if I get safe ●● shore I will make her be content with one of si● in the pound Lame Verses ONe was telling his friend of some Verses which he made as he was riding upon the Road on a trotting Horse to whom the other answered Nay if you had not told me I should have known by your verses what pace your Horse went A Medicine for the Tooth ache A Gentleman and a Gentlewoman sate together talking which Gentleman had a great pain in one of his teeth and said thus Mistriss I have a tooth in my head that grieveth me sore I would it were in your tail to whom she answered in faith Sir if your tooth were in my tail it could do but little good but if there be any thing in my tail that can do your tooth good I would it were in it The Countrey-fellow and Doctor A Country-fellow was sent with his Fathers urine to the Doctors and knocking at the door the Physitian opening unto him he presented him the Urinal who as he took it from his hand asked him withal from whence he came to whom the fellow made answer I hope your Worship is wise enough to find that in the water The Countrey-fellow and Judge A Countrey-fellow was sub-poena'd for a witness upon a Tryal of an action of defamation at a quarter Sessions holden in the country he being sworn the Judge bid him to say the very same words that he heard spoken the fellow was loth to speak and hum'd and haw'd for a good space but being urged by the Judge he at last spake My Lord said he you are a Rogue The Judge seeing the people begin the laugh called to him and bid him speak to the Jury for there were twelve of them A Lame Horse UPon a Fryday in Smithfield one willing to put off a lame Horse and therefore not willing to have him rid had tyed him by the Bridle to the Rails a Chapman liking the Nagg came somewhat near the price because the Seller warranted him sound of wind and limb but before he would part with his mony desirous to see what mettal he had he rid him upon the stones and perceived the poor Jade to halt down right at which the Chapman vexing asked the other if he was not ashamed to put a lame unserviceable Jade upon him and warrant him sound To whom the other answered I assure you he is as sound as any Horse in England but that it was your fortune to try him when his foot was asleep The Unthrift and his Sweet-heart A Fellow that was a great Spend-thrift told his Sweet-heart that he loved her like any thing what thing do you mean said she Any thing Sweet-heart quoth he what you please Then replyed she do not love me like mony for then I am sure you will not keep me POEMS A farewel to folly by Sir Kenelm Digby FArewel ye gilded follies pleasing troubles Farewel ye honor'd rags ye chrystal bubles Fame's but a hallow eccho Gold poor clay Honor the darling but of one short day Beauties chief Idol but a damask Skin State but a Golden Prison to live in And torture free-born minds imbroyder'd Trains But goodly Pageants proudly swelling veins And blood ally'd to greatness is but loan Inherited not purchas'd nor our own Fame Riches Honor Beauty Gold Trains Birth Are but the fading blessings of the earth I would be rich but see man too unkind Digs in the bowels of the richest mine I would be great but yet the Sun doth still Level his beams against the rising Hill I would be fair but see the Champion proud The worlds fair eye oft setting in a Cloud I would be wise but that the Fox I see Suspected guilty when the Fox is free I would be poor but see the humble Grass Trampled upon by each unworthy Ass Rich hated wise suspected scorn'd if poor Great fear'd fair tempted high still envied more Would the world then adopt me for her heir Would Beauties Queen entitle me the fair Fame speaks me Honors Minion and could I With Indian Angels and a speaking eye Command bare heads bow'd knees strike Justice dumb As well as blind as lame and give a tongue To stones by Epitaphs be call'd great Master In the loose lines of every Poetaster Could I be more than any man