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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

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

animalia plebis Inveniunt For when the seven mouth'd Nile the Fields forsake And to his ancient Channel him betakes The tillers of the ground live Creatures find Of sundry shapes i' th mud that 's left behind This River is in length almost 3000. miles being the only River of Egypt and is for its varieties sufficiently famous all the World over Of the fortunate Islands The Air of those Islands is reported to be of that singular temperature and the Earth of that fruitfulness that the Husbandmen have their Harvest in March and April Here all good things do abound useful or delightful for the life of man plenty of Fruits store of Grapes the Woods and Hedges bringing forth excellent Apples of their own accord The grass being mowed down in five days space will grow up to the length of a Cubit the ground is so fertile At Christmas they have Summer and all fruits ripe The Earth yields her fruit five or six times a year the Mountains are always beautified with variety of Flowers the Trees and Hedges-rows evermore green Dame Flora hath here her continual habitation and Ceres therein a continual Mansion In their sowing every two grains bringing forth a thousand Qu. How many Kings did formerly 〈◊〉 in these Countrys whereof our now 〈…〉 Soveraign King Charles the second is the most absolute Monarch An. In England it self were seven during the time of the Saxon Heptarchy which were 1. The Kingdom of Kent containing Kent only begun by Hengist the Saxon Captain and ending in Baldred having a succession of eighteen Kings and the continuance of two hundred forty and two years Queens County Weishford and Dublin Scotland had formerly two Kings whereof one was of the Scots the other of the Picts Besides these there was a King of the Isles of Scotland and one of the Isle of Man and Henry the sixth created Henry Beauchamp Earl of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight so that reckoning seven Kings in England three in Wales five in Ireland two in Scotland and three in the other Islands and you will find the whole number to amount to twenty Kingdoms A Discourse of Wonders Foreign and Domestick And first of Foreign AN Artizan in the Town of Norenburg in Germany made a wooden Eagle which when the Emperor Maximilian was coming thither flew a quarter of a mile out of the Town to meet him and being come to the place where he was turned back of its own accord and accompanied him home to his lodging 2. There is a Lake about Armach in Ireland into which if one thrust a piece of wood he shall find that part which remaineth in the mud converted to Iron and that which continueth in the water turned to a Wherstone 3. The Hill Aetna in Sicily which continually vomiteth forth flames of Fire to the astonishment of all beholders The reason of these flames as is conjectured is the abundance of Silver and Brimstone contained in the bosom of this Hill which is blown by the wind driving in at the chaps of the Earth as by a pair of bellows through which chinks also there is continually more fuel added to the fire the very water administring an operative vertue to the combustible matter as we see that water cast on coals in the Smiths Forge doth make them burn more ardently The reason of this flame is thus rendred by the witty Ovid in his Metamorphosis I st ● bitumine● rap●un●t incendi●● vices Luteaque exiguis ard●scunt Sulphura slammis Atque ubi terra cibos alimentaque debita slamma Non dabit absumptis per longum viribus annum Naturaeque su●m nutrim●ntum decrit edaci Non f●cit Aetna famem desertaque deseret ignis A rozen mould these siery flames begin And clayje Brinstone aids the sire within Yet when the slymie soylconsumed shall Yield no more food to feed the sire withal And Nature shall restrain her nourishment The flame shall cease hating all famishment 4. A Lake in Aethiopia superior of which whosoever drinketh either falleth immediately mad or is for a long time troubled with a drowsiness of which the aforesaid Ovid thus reciteth Aethiopesque Lacus quos siquis faucibus hausit Aut fu●i● aut patitar mirum gravetate soporem Who doth not know the Aethiopian Lake Whose waters he that drinks his thirst to slake Either groweth mad or doth his soul oppress With an unheard of drowsiness 5 The three wonders of which Spain boasteth of viz. 1. A Bridge over which the water flows that is used to run under all other Bridges 2. A City compassed with fire which is called Madrid by reason of the Wall that is all of Flints environ it round about 3. Another Bridge on which continually feed ten thousand Cattel the River Guadiana which hath his head in the Mountain Seira Molina afterwards runneth under ground the space of fifteen miles the like doth the River Lycus in Anatolia according to Ovid. Sic ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu Exsilicit procul hinc alioque renascitur ore So Lycus swallowed by the gaping ground At a new mouth far off is rising found 6. The Tomb of Mansolus built by his Wife Artunesia Queen of Halicarnassus accounted one of the worlds seven wonders it being five and twenty Cubits high and supported by six and thirty curious Pillars of which thus writeth the witty Poet Martial Aere nam vacuo pendentia Mansolaea Laudibus immodicis Caris ad astra ferunt The Mansolaea hanging in the Sky The men of Caria's praises Deify 7. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus accounted also one of the worlds seven wonders It was two hundred years in building being four hundred twenty five foot long and two hundred twenty broad sustained with a hundred twenty seven Pillars of Marble seventy foot high whereof twenty seven were most curiously graven and all the rest of Marble polisht It was fired seven times and lastly by Herostratus the same night in which Alexander the great was born which made the Poets say that Diana who was the Goddess of Midwifery was so busie at the birth of that great Potentate that she had no time to defend her own Temple 8. The Pyramis of Aegypt reckoned also for one of the worlds seven wonders which have out-lived devouring time They were built nigh to the City of Memphis whereof two are most famous The first and greatest was built by Cleops a King of that Country who in the work employed a hundred thousand men the space of twenty years The Basis of which Pyramis contained in circuit sixty Acres of ground and was in height a thousand foot being made all of Marble This work was begun of such a prodigious vastness that King Cleops wanted money to finish the same whereupon as Herodotus writeth he prostituted his Daughter to all commers by which dishonest means he perfected his building and she besides the money due to her father exacted of every man that had the use of her body one stone

dayes which the Solar year doth exceed the Lunar the one consisting of 365 dayes the other of 354 so that in every 4 years there is added a number more than 30 which being greater than the Epact can be for from change to change there can be but 30 days therefore 30 being taken from that excess the remainder is the Epact for the next year The Epact is thus found out multiply the Golden Number of the year by 11. the product whereof if it be under 30 is the Epact but if it be above 30. they divide the product by 30. and the remainder shall be the Epact Qu. What is the Circle of the Sun An. The Circle of the Sun is a Revolution of 28 years in which time the Dominical Letters make all their several changes and is called the Solar Circle because it comprehends all the varieties and changes that the Sunday Letter can have Qu. What is the meaning of the Dominical Letter An. The Dominical Letter is alwaies one of these seven A. B. C. D. E. F. G. and sheweth the Sunday Letter all the year But in Bissextile or Leap-year there be two Dominical Letters whereof the first holdeth from the beginning of January to St. Mathias Eve and the other to the years end The Golden Number and the Dominical Letter change the first of January and the Epact the first of March Easter day never talleth lower than the 23 of March nor higher than the 25 of April Shrove sunday hath his range between the first of February and the 7 of March Whit-sunday between the 10 of May and the 13 of June and for a Rule for Shrovetide the Tuesday after the change of the Moon in February is always Shrove Tuesday Qu. What causes the Eclipses and Full of the Moon An. The Eclipse of the Moon is caused by the interposition of the Earth betwixt the Sun and her for she being a dark body of her self and having no light but what she borrows by reflection from the Sun so far as the Earth interposes so much of her is darkened The cause of the Sans Eclipse is when the Moon passes betwixt the Sun and us and shadows some of the body thereof from our sight so that what part is interposed by the Moon cannot be seen by us by reason she is a dark body hiding the same from our sight The Moon being in right opposition against the Sun causes her to be at the full as her increase is by drawing nearer to opposition and her decrease by departing further off Qu. Of what substance be the Stars what are their motions and what causeth blazing Stars An. The Stars are of the same substance with the Moon thick aad not transparent as the Heavens borrowing all their light from the Sun being otherwise of themselves dark bodies and shine as well in the day as the night though by reason of the Suns refulgent beams they are not obvious to our sight And as for their motion it is the same of the Heavens wherein they are placed Shooting or blazing Stars are hot fumes of a thick substance like glew which being exhaled above in the air and bovering alost until it be kindled flyes like a squib through the Air but if it mount to a higher place and there be kindled it turneth to a blazing Star A brief discourse of the natural cause of Airy Meteors as Snow Hail Rain c. YOu must first understand that there be four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth the Fire is hot and dry the Air hot and moist the Water cold and moist and the Earth cold and dry These four Elements are the simples whereof all things under the Moon are made compounded and mixt Of Rain Rain is a cold vapour and earthly humour drawn from the Earth by the vertue of the Sun and the rest of the Planets into the middle Region of the Air where by the extremity of cold it is thickned into the body of a Cloud which the wind driving before it it doth dissolve and fall upon the Earth Of Snow Snow is ingendred of Rain the Cloud congealing through extremity of cold but not altogether so hard as Hail Pliny writes that the Hail sooner melts than Snow and that Hail falls oftner in the day than the night Of Hail Hail is likewise ingendred of Rain which the excessive cold when the Cloud dissolves freezes the drops and congeals into Ice whereby great and irregular stones do sometimes fall on the Earth Stow in his Annals reports that in the time of King Henry the 8. Anno 1545 there fell in Lancashire Hail-stones as big as mens fists and that which is most strange some were of the shape of mens faces others were fashioned like Gun-holes c. In the 23 year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth August 12. Anno 1581. there fell a great shower of Hailstones which were fashioned like the Rowels of spurs and were two or three inches about Of Frost and Dew Dew is a thin vapour which through the faint heat of the Suns elevating it self but a little from the Earth presently at night descendeth again which in the Spring-time is called Dew but in the Winter by means of cold being congealed it is called Frost Of Wind. Wind is hot and dry fumes drawn from the Earth by the Stars which seeking to fly to the Sun is by the freezing cold driven back but from the fields fumes another fire which carries them back again so that thereby together with the confluence of other exhalations rising out of the Earth his motion is forced to be rather round than right and the reason why he bloweth more sharply one time than another and in some places more than others and sometimes not at all is fumes arising out of new exhalations and out of Floods Fenns and Marshes joyning with it to encrease his force the defect or dulness whereof may either allay or increase it as also the Globe or rotundity of the Earth may be the cause of the blowing of it more in one place than in another or Mountains Hills or Woods may hinder his force from blowing in all places eqnal whereas upon the Plain and broad Sea it bloweth with an equal force and as for the stilness or ceasing thereof it cometh to pass divers ways either by frost closing or congealing up the pores of the earth whence it should issue or by the heat of the Sun drying up fumes and vapors that should encrease it and whereof it is ingendred Of Earth-quakes Earth-quakes are caused by plenty of wind which getting into the holes and caverns of the earth and wanting a vent the earth closing again causeth the shaking or Earth-quake which is more violent according to the quantity of wind so inclosed Anno 1580. in the 22 year of Queen Elizabeths Reign happened a terrible Earth-quake at London and generally throughout all England by violence whereof the great Clock-bell a● Westminster struck against the hammer as divers