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A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

which hapneth ofte among princes Q. Of what value ought a prince his woorde too be A. Of that value that a priuate mans othe should be Q. What may a mans body most properly be called Q. The sheath or cace of the Soule the slaue or seruant of the minde vnder whose subiection God nature reason haue put him as a thing altogether brutall too a thing of vnder standing and a thing mortall to a thing immortall Q. What disease doe meates being too hoat commonly ingender A. The leprosie and a corruption of blood Q. What is the best armour to attain● to vertue A. Labour hunger thirst heate colde confrancie Patience and perseuerance Q. What is iustice A. It is a great honour and glory to thē that vse it and a great gaine to them to whō it is vsed Q. To what may the whole vulgare people be compared A. To a greate beaste hauing innumerable seete and no heade Q. What is the best rule that a man may holde with his wife A. To admonish her often to reprehende her seldome neuer to lay handes on her but if shee be good to fauour her to the ende that shee may continue so and if shee be euill to suffer her to the ende that shee waxe not woorse Q. What is the best and surest guard that aprince can haue A. The loue of his subiectes Q. Why doeth one man beare enuie too another A. Because sayth Cicero he is not as the enuied is that the enuied is better then he Q. What are those thinges amongest all other which wee shoulde in no case haue affiance in A. In the chaunce of the dice in olde prosperitie in cloudes in the Summer or faire weather in the winter nor in the beutie of a woman Q. Wherin consisteth humanitie chiefly A. In gentle speech In curteous déedes and fréendly hospitallitie Q. What is an olde man amorous A. A knight in the Chesse play who helpeth a man to loose his money and yet cannot deliuer him from perill others say that he is like vnto a hog with a white heade and a greene tayle Q. For what cause did Timon the Philosopher so detest and hate all mankinde A. He hated the euell for their vices and offences and the good because that like him they did not hate the euill Q. What is Idlenes A. The diuels Darling and a familiar enemie who when he is once entred openeth the gate to all vices Q. What is that which a man can doe without learning it A. Laugh and weepe Q. What rule should one obserue in conuersation and companie of men A. If he with whome we be conuersant be our superiour in knowledge it behooueth vs to heare him and obey him if he be our equall to consent and agree to him and if he be our inferiour to perswade him fréendly and gently Q. In what place is silence most to bee obserued A. At the table in feastes and banquets and at playes Q. What signified those presentes which Darius sent to the Scithians to wit the Mole the frogge the birde and dartes A. The mole signified the earth the frog the water the birde the ayre and the dartes armes Q. What are those abuses which most corrupt the worlde A. The Wiseman wtout Woorkes The Olde man wtout Religion The Young man wtout Obedience The Rich man wtout Charitie The Poore man wtout Humilitie The Greate Lorde wtout Vertue The Christian wtout Fraternitie The Bishoppe wtout P●etie The Prince wtout Justice mercy The People wtout Law discipline And the woman without shame honesty Q. What be the true vertues required in a man A. To be a good Christian iust of his woord and secret Q. What is the best meane to knowe the qualities of a man and whether he be to be trusted or not A. One must consider what his woorkes conditions woords behauiour and fréendes are and make enquirie how he hath behaued himself in times past with those with whom he hath practised and delt and whose company he hath vsed Pares cum paribus facillimè congregantur mores dispares disparia studia sequuntur Q. What two thinges are those which make the publike weale to floorish or decay A. Vnion and dissention Q. What is the greatest Seigniory or gouernment that a man can attaine to A. To gouerne himselfe for it is a more vertue for a man to bridle his affections then to vanquish his Enemie Q. What thinges are those amongest al other that breede most ioye in the hearse of man A. To haue wise children store of goods and reuenge ouer his enemies Q. Why are the Lawes that men dec make compared to spiders webs A. Because if little Flies come they are easily taken and holden but if greate Drones come they passe through and breake all That is to say Little theeues are soone taken and hanged but the greate are so strong in money that they with their authoritie and freendship breake all Q. What was the dayly lesson of the Lacedemonians which by the appointmēt of Licurgus the lawmaker was euery day published to the end to be wel obserued A. To honour God to be pacient in aduersitie to obey the rulers to apply themselues to trauell and labour and to returne from the warres either conquerours or els deade Q. What is the greatest vertue that a Prince or great Lord can desire or couet to haue A. To be alwayes superiour in well doing Q. What be the properties of prudence and iustice A. Not to be deceiued nor deceiue no bodie Q. What be the twoo prickes that incite a man most to learne artes and sciences A. Hope and loue Q. What thinges amongest all others are those which profit a man most to thinke least of them A. To be inquisitiue of another mans doinges and forget his owne to be be curious to know the secretes of princes and too take thought for foode for the fishes of the Sea Q. For what cause is the qualitie of the Peacocke compared to the nature of the rich man A. Because the peacock commonly climbeth vpon house sides and high places to plume himselfe and shewe his faire tayle the rich man commomly searcheth degrees and dignitie to be seene praised and esteemed Q. To whom is not Venus hurtfull A. To them that are not yet borne Q. To what kinde of people is death most acceptable and least fearefull A. To the afflicted Q. What thinges are those that are better olde then newe A. Wine Fish Oyle dry wood to burn an olde horse to ryde and an olde dogge to barke and aboue all these an old fréend and approoned Q. What is a fréende A. A freende is another ones selfe and freendes are one heart or one mind in two bodies Q. What are the most terrible beastes of the worlde A. Of Forrests hilles and dales beares and Lyons of Townes and cities flatterers vsurers and backbyters Q. For what cause did Plato say that when fathers are riche the

that he giueth to others Q. How may one knowe a maister from a seruaunt A. In marking how he can rule his appetite Q. What is the Smell of smelles A. Bread Q. What is the sauour of sauours A. Salt Q. What is the greatest loue of al loues A. That which a Father beareth to his children Q. What is the best and most notable inchauntement that women can vse to obtaine the loue of their husbandes A. To be silent peaceable pacient solitarie and honest of the which fiue hearbes they may make a medicine the which séene not tasted of their husbandes they shall not onely be loued but also worshipped Q. What fruite should one thinke best and worst A. The treasure of the Indians is not to be compared to that fruite which a woman beareth in her womb if it be honest and vertuous Q. What are the strongest thinges amongst all other and without comparison A. God Trueth and Vertue Q. What is the easiest thing to get and obtaine A. That which one desireth most Q. What are the thinges amongst all others common to man A. Life Dishappe Laughing and wéeping Q. VVhat signe is it to sée many rich Phisitions in a Citie A. A signe of excessiue aboundance of delightes and vices for the man by excessiue delights becommeth sicke and out of health Q. VVhy is a good woman though not faire compared to the Phesant and an euill woman though faire to the Sabie Marter or foynes A. Because that although the fethers of the Phesaunt be of little account yet is the flesh good and wholsome whereas contrary the skinne of the Marter or foynes is had in price but the flesh is nothing worth Q. How comes it to passe that many haue a cardinall or red nose A. Because saieth Diogenes their flesh is yet raw and vnboyled Q. VVhereof procéed so many discordes and controuersies betwéen princes and their subiects A. The subiectes complaine of the little loue of their Princes and the Princes complayne of the disobedience of theyr subiectes Q. VVhy did the Philosopher iudge an euill woman to be worse then hell A. Because hell tormenteth the euill only but a wicked woman tormenteth both the good and the had Q. How comes it to passe that many now adayes will goe gay clad outwardly and not studie to amende their viees inwardely A. For lacke of wisdome and superabundance of folly Q. VVho is the mother most pitifull of all other mothers who although her sonne hath dispised her and often troden her vnder his féete yet in fine receaueth him againe into her entrales A. It is the earth general mother of all mankinde Q. VVherein consisteth true wisdome A. In iudging truly of thinges and estéeming euery one according to his value not desiring vile things as precious nor reiecting precious thinges as vile and abiecte Q. VVhy ought one equally to winne the loue of the foole as well as of the wise man A. Because the foole shall not hate him and dispraise him wheras the wiseman doth loue him and praise him Q. What are the thinges that can neither be bought nor solde for price nor esteemed at any value A. Vertue Libertie Health Knowledge an Renowme Q. What is the beast that most byteth and doeth least hurt A. It is he saieth Diogenes that reprehendeth his friendes without flatterie for as dogges and flatterers bite the one for to wound the other to dispoile so true friends correct the faultes of their neighbours and bite them to amend and lay folly aside Q. What sortes of people amongst all others are most worthy of blame A. They that vse reproch Q. What are the things by reason estéemed most loyall in the world A. Fire Earth Water Ayre Sléepe Hunger Thirst and Death for they serue the poore as well as the rich Q. What are the true conseruers of heith A. Sobrietie Moderate labour to hold the séede of Nature to be mery and liue in a healthfull place Q. Who are those that yéeld themselues to voluntary captiuitie A. They that become subiect to women or wine Q. What is charitie A. To loue God for him selfe and his neighbour for the loue of God Q. What is the worst warre that is A. The warre viscerale that is when a man is enemie to him selfe Q. Why did the auncient fathers iudge husbandrie to bee the onely exercise that a man should vse A. Because that with pleasure it also bringes profit Q. How comes it to passe that some children disperse and scatter their fathers goodes being dead so soone A. Because none knoweth how to kéepe a thing but he that hath gotten it with labour Q. What is goodwill A. The foundation of good workes and good workes are the messengers of another world FINIS Verses of a blessed life HOw happy is that wight that holdes himselfe content With goodes and giftes aright which nature doth present No substance els saue this but full of care it is Who hath to serue his neede be he contented then Whose substance doth exceede shall serue for other men Abundance brings in paine more then enough is vaine Who mountes to honours loft and sits on fortunes wheele From top is tossed oft and oft adowne doth reele With thunder claps we see hie Towers soone shaken bee Warre griefe nor enuie fell repaire not to the place Where meane estate doeth dwell He is in Angels case And he that needes fewe thinges Needes better far then kings Of worldly Wealth O Fount of flattery worldly wealth The nource of care and soules vnhealth To haue thee is an hell of dread To want thee gulphe of greefe indeede For Wisdome O God of Fathers mine the God Lord of mercies most Thou blessed father blessed Sonne and blessed holy Ghost Which with thy word all things hast made and all things doest ordaine That in this world abide and breath or els where do remaine Blesse thou thy handie worke O Lord and graunt me wisdome pure Which euer is about thy seate and euer shall endure For I thy handmaides Sonne O Lord a feeble creature am Briefe is my time briefe is my ioy briefe is the life of man Too weake also my wisdome is to vnderstand thy will Send then thy heauenly Sapience Lord out of thy holy hill That she by thee may me instruct what steppes I best may treade And how from mens traditions best I this my life may leade For all their workes are vaine O Lord their studies I detest Thou onely Lord of Sion hill art he can make me blest Bent to content T. C. Jmprinted at London by Thomas Dauson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vintree