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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

of holy obedience what garments weare they that preserued their wearers from the diuell A. The garments of S. Francis as the Papists tell vs as if the diuell cold not as well know a knaue in a Fryars habit as in any other Q. VVhat is the reason of all other things that the Pope christens his Bels they hauing many times that preheminence before men A. That the sound of them might driue diuels out of the ayre cleare the skies chase away stormes tempests quench fires and giue some comfort to the very dead and the like To which purpose here the Bels ring out their owne peale En ego Campana nunquam denuntio vana Laudo deum verum plebem voco congrego elerum Diffunctos plango viuos voco fulmina frango Vex mea vox vitae voco vos ad sacra venite Sanctos collaudo tonitrus fugo funera claudo Funera plango fulgura frango sabatha pango Exicto Lentos dissipo ventos paco ceuentos Englished Behold my vses are not small That God to praise assemblies call That breke the thūder waile the dead And cleanse the aire of tempests bred With feare keep off the fiends of hell And all by vertue of my knell Q. VVhat numb was the most fatall to Rome A. The sixt number according to the verse ensuing Sextus Tarquinius Sextus Nero Sextus iste scilitet Papa Alexander 6. Semper sub sextis perdita Roma suit What other names or numbers to her woone In the sixt still she lost was Rome vndone Q. VVhat inscription or motto was that according to the fiction which Martin de Asello fixing ouer his Gate by reason of the false povating of the Painter cost him his Bishopricke A. Portapatens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himselfe made the point at nulli and so made it Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it profest knauery discarded him of his Bishoprick as it was a wonder and placed another in his house Who kept the inscription still but only altered the point and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding therevnto Ob vnum punctum caruit Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poore point is all from Martin gone Q. There is a certaine thing that hath not the art of numeration neither knowes the order of time how it passeth and yet least wee should be ignorant or the time should deceiue vs it instructs vs both honestly A. A Clocke vpon which on thus writeth Qui nescit quo vita modo volat audiat bora Quam sit vitae breuis nos docet ille sonus Hee that would know how minutes steale away That peece vp howres that patch out the day This trusty watchman to supply our need Proclaimes our liues short span in their swift speed Q. What are the natures and dispositions of the foure Elements A. The earth is dry the water cold the ayre moyst and the fire hot Q Which is the highest of these Elements A. The fire whose nature is euer to mount vpward and if you turne it downeward it goes out thereupon Thence proceeds Saint Chrysostomes admiration that the Rayes of the Sun in nature hot in quality glorious doth shoot downeward so contrary to the fire Q What fire is that that sometimes followes and sometimes flyeth away A. An Ignus fatuus or walking fire one wherof keeps his station this time neere Windsor the pace of which is caused principally by the motion of the ayre for the swifter one runs the swifter it followes the motion of the ayre enforcing it Q. VVhat thing is that most vsefull and pretious in the world that produceth another of novse nor goodnesse at all A. Fire from whence proceedes smoake of which Lipsius writes Ita te tolle a humo vt absis a fumo Q. VVhat Coales do longest of all other preserne fire A. The Coales of Iuniper of whom it is reported that they haue kept fire a whole yeere together without supply or going out Q. VVhat is that which being the heauiest hardest of all things yet yeelds both to the extremity of fier and water A. A Stone Q. VVhat stone of all other is the greatest wonder A. The flint stone that preserues fire within it a wonderfull secret and benefit to man Q. VVhat is that which being first water afterwards assumed the form of a stone and still retaines it A. The Chrystall congealed by frost Q. What stone is that that yeelds neither to the fire nor to the hammer A. The Adamant which as our Naturalists obserue is dissolued onely by goates blood wherevpon S. Chrysostome writes though the heart of a Sinner be more harder then the Adamant yet wil the blood of Christ mollifie it Q Whether haue stones a vegitiue life or no. A. This if we doubt our Pioners and Mineralists will resolue vs who finde out by experience that although Mineralles buried deepe in the earth yet through diuers vaines and channels suck in moysture and nourishment as doe plants and trees and that they do likewise increase and grow though in a slower progression and degree then other things is probable and certaine Q. Is there a difference of prerogatiue among stones A. T' is answered there is For the stone in the Altar hath more honour then the stone in the streete For the one is kneeled vnto with deuotion the other troden on by the feet Q. Which are the most precious stones for mans vse A. The two milstones of the mill Of which the one neuer stirres and the other ne're lies still Q. VVhat birds of all other are the most gentle the most innocent A. The Doue for gentlenesse and simplicity is commended in Scripture for the Doue is among birds as the Sheepe is among beasts frō whose kind no hurt proceeds to man being a sotiable creature for his seruice of whom it is obserued that he yeelds vp his life for the sustenance of man sobbing it out with a kind of meeknesse and patience more then any other creature and for his vse there is nothing vnnecessary for our seruice in the whole composure of him his flesh being good for meate his guts for the strings of Instruments his dung to inrich the field his wooll for cloth so nothing superfluous So likewise the Doue a patient not an offensiue creature without beake or tallents of oppression hauing no other offence against their enemy the Hawke such like more then the swiftnesse of her wing according to the Poet Fello columbo caret rostro non ledit possidet innocuas puraque grana ledit Her food is graine her beake doth not offend No gall this creature hath nor no bad ende And therefore they hate the Hawke as it is said because of his beake Odimus Accipitrem quia semper vinit in armis We hate the Hauke and feare

yeare by a 11. the product whereof if it bee vnder 30. is the Epact but if it be aboue 30. then diuide the product by 30. and the remainder shall bee the Epact The knowledge of the Epact serueth to finde out the Age of the Moone The Goulden Number and Dominicall letter change the first of Ianuarie and the Epact the first of March Easter day neuer falleth lower then the 22. of March neuer higher then the 25. of April Shroue Sunday hath his Range betweene the first of February and the seuenth of March. Whit●onday betweene the 10. of May and the 13 of Iune What is the Equinoctiall and wherefore is it ● so called THe Equinoctiall is a great Circle which being in euery part equally distant from the two Poles of the World diuideth the Spheare in the very middest thereof into equal parts and therefore it is called of some the Cincture or girdle of the World It is called the Equinoctiall because that when the Sunne toucheth this Circle which is twice in the yeare it maketh the day and the night of an equall length throughout the world which Equinoctiall happeneth in the Spring and in Autumne about the 11 of March and the 13. of September Q. What are those 12. signes or Images placed before our Calenders about the Anatomy of mans body A. Those 12. Signes or Images are 12. starres euery one of them containing many starres whose influences are very powerfull ouer humane bodies Q What makes the full Moone and whence proceedeth her Eclipse A. Her opposition against the Sunne makes her full but her Eclipse or darkening caused when the Sunne is opposite vnto her diametally and the Earth in the middest betweene them both which beeing thicke and not transparent casting his shadow to that point which is oposit to the place of the Sun will not suffer the Moone to receiue any light from the Sunne without whose supply shee is alwayes a darke body for from it she borroweth all her light Of what substance bee the Starres THe starres bee of the same substance that the heauens be wherin they are placed differing only from them in thicknesse which demensitude makes them more apt to receiue and retaine the light of the Sunne which thereby become visible to our sight for the heauens themselus being pure thinne and transparent and without colour is not visible as the Starres which shine aswell in the day as in the night although not perceiued by reason of the Sunnes greater light Q. What motion haue the starres A. The selfe same motion that the Heauens haue wherein they are placed which is as some say by the primum mobile or first mouer turned by God himselfe as euery one of the rest by his proper intelligence and whereas the 7 Planets or wandering Starres doe change their places now here now there that is not by theyr owne proper motion but by the motion of the heauens wherein they are placed for a starre beeing of a round shape hath no members to walk from one place to another but only by the motion of the Heauen wherein they are fixed Q. What comparison is therein theyr greatnesse betweene some starres and the earth A. Though their farre distance of them from the earth makes their raye approach our eye in a sharpe pointed Angle wherby they seem to our sight and iudgement no broder then our hand breadth Yet is euery fixed Starre farre greater in compasse then the whole earth Euery wandring starre likewise is bigger then the same Luna Venus and Mercury excepted Sol is bigger then the Earth 166 Times Saturne is bigger then the Earth 95 Times Iupiter is bigger then the Earth 91 Times Mars is bigger then the Earth 2 Times Venus lesser then the Earth 32 Times Mercury least of all and is contained of the Earth 3143 Times The Nature of these 7. Planets or wandring starres Saturne is colde and drie Iupiter hot and moist Mars extream hot and drie Sol hot and somwhat drie Venus temperately cold and moist Mercurie of a changeable Nature Luna cold moist Of the seuen Ages of Mans life with the predominancy of these 7. Planets or wandring starres in euery one of them The Astrologians haue diuided mans life according to the Diuision of the World into 7. Ages ouer euerie which Age one of these Planets or starres haue their Regiments assigned 1 The first Age is called Infancie which beginneth with the first childhood and hath his continuance for the space of 7. yeares ouer which Luna or the Moone raigneth as may wel appeare by their moysture● agreeing with the influence of that Planet Queene ouer seas and flouds and children 2 The second Age is Childhoode which goes onward 7. yeares more and continueth till the 14. yeare of their life ouer which Mercurie is assigned Patron for then participating of their Regents influence Children are inconstant yet of some comprehending Capacity some what inclineable to learne 3 The third age proceedeth forward 8. yeares and is tearmed I●●entu● youth or Stripling age it wanders betweene 14. 22. ouer which season Venus is predominant for then they are amorous lustfull loathsome of childish sollies and inclineable to more dangerous vices 4 The fourth Age beginneth at 22. and endeth 34. containing 12. yeares In the which station the Epithite or Denomination is a yong mā ouer this age the Planet Sol is chiefe Regent in which season reason discretion like the beams thereof begin to spread forth to enlighten the vnderstanding and to exhale and sucke vp the thicke mists of ignorance follie and then begins a man to know he is a man 5 The fift Age is called Virile or Mans Age and that proceedes where the other ends continueth forward sixteene yeares ouer which season Mars is chiefe gouernour Now in this time a Man begins to bee couetous churlish chol●erick c. 6 The sixt Age runs forward 12. yeares more and leaues him not till he hath numbred 62. this age is tearmed olde age though his toe touch but the heele thereof Now ouer this Iupiter is predominant and hee inclineth to Iustice moderations and Religion and all other actions of goodnesse and piety 7 The seuenth and last age continueth forward 18 yeares it leaues a Man at 80 in the clawes of weaknesse and infirmity For age it selfe without sicknesse which seldome liues at ods there with is an infirmity to this decrepit Age few creepe to by reason of the Planet Saturne which is most melancholy and slow of all other thereby his euill influence more inforcing a man to decline and droope become froward cold and melancholy then otherwise he should Likewise these foure diuisions of Mans life are compared in this manneer to the 4. Seasons of the yeare 1 His Infancy to the Spring hote and moist 2 His Youth to the summer hote and drie 3 His Manhoode to Autumne cold and moist 4 Senectus or olde age to Winter colde and drye Q. Why did men liue longer

before the floud then since A. Before that Deluge the Planets were glorious in their Natures and sent better influences into human bodies There were not so many Meteors Comets Eclipses seene from which innumerable defects and diseases doe proceede The earth was more fruitfull wholesome powerfull in her Herbs Plants and Vegitables theyr effects and vertues better knowne which euer since the floud which was sted away her fatnesse haue lost much of their operations and now since with age more infeebled in these weak and sickly seasons of our times of which one thus writeth to our purpose And now the springes and Sommers which we see Like sonnes of Women after fiftie bee Lastly they be more continent in their liues more satisfied in their desires which since Gluttonie and her new Cookerie haue kil'd more then the sword famine or pestilence Their knowledge in all Arts was more enlarged the influences of the Planets better known and how they worke vpon humane bodies as the s●me Author to the same purpose wittily followeth it Then if a slow pac'd star had stolne away Frō the Obseruers marking he might stay Two or three hundred years to see it again And so make vp his obseruation plaine Q. How is the World diuided A. Into two essentiall parts the Coelestiall and Elementall part of which the Celestiall part containeth the 11. Heauens or Spheares which are thus numbred The 1 Is the spheare of the Moon 2 Of Mercurie 3 Of Venus 4 Of the Sunne 5 Of Mars 6 Of Iupiter 7 Of Saturne 8 Is the Spheare of the fixed stars 9 Is the spheare of the second moueable 10 Of the primum Mobile or first mouer 11 The Imperiall Heauen where God his Angels are sayde to dwell The Elementall part doth containe the 4. Elements viz. 1 The Element of Fire next to the Moone and so downeward 2 The Element of the Ayre 3 The Element of the Water 4 And lowest of all the Earth Q If there bee so many seuerall Heauens how comes it to passe that all these to the eye seeme but as one entire body A The reason hereof is because they are all so cleare and transparant that though they inuolue and couer one another as the skin or skale of an Onion yet being in their nature more bright pure and subtill then eyther Chrystall or the most transparant Glasse the sight doth pierce through them all as one and viewes them all as one though they are seuerall and of exceeding great thicknesse Q. Into how many Regions is the aire deuided A. The Ayre is deuided into three Regions by the Naturall Phylosophers both of Antient and moderne times that is to say into the highest lowest and middle-most Region In the highest Region turned about by the Element of fire are bred all lightnings fire-drakes Comets Blazing-Starres and such like In the Middle Region all cold and watry impressions as Frost Snow Ice Haile c. In the lowest Region somewhat more hot by reason of the Beames of the Sunne reflecting from the Earth and therein are bred all clowds dewes raines and such like A briefe discourse of the Naturall causes of sundry Meteors as Snow Haile Raine Winde things well knowne in their effects though darkely in their causes Happie his estate aboue the fate of Kings That could but truly know the cause of things You must first vnderstand that all watry Meteors as Raine Snow or such like are but a moist vapor drawn vp by the vertue of the Sunne the rest of the Planets into the middle Region of the Ayre where beeing first congealed are afterwardes dissolu●d and fall vpon the Earth as Haile or Raine Of the Rainebow and the effects thereof If two Rainebowes appeare at one time they presage Raine to eusue But if one Rainbow presently after Raine it betokeneth faire weather Dianaeus in his Phisickes saith the Rainebow is made by reason of the Sunne beames beating vpon a hollow clowde their edge beeing so repelled and beaten backe against the Sunne and thus ariseth varietie of colours by the mixture of clowdes Ayre and fierie light together but as hee saith it pretendeth little alteration or change of weather Of the Wind what it is what the Motion and effect thereof and from whence it proceedeth though no man knoweth whence it commeth nor wh●ther it goeth as testifieth the holy writ First then you haue to vnderstand that Aristotle and the rest of his S●ct doe define the Winde to be an Exhalation Hot and Dry ingendred in the bowels of the earth where breaking his prison and violently rushing therout is carried sidelong vpon the face thereof Q. Why is not the motion therof right upward and downward as well as alwaies sidelong A. Because that whilst by his heate he striueth to mount vp and carry his course through the 3. Regions of the Ayre the middle Region by his extreame doth alwayes beat it backe 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 one place more then in another and sometimes not at all is as fumes that arise out of new exhalations and out of Flouds Fens and Marishes may ioyne with it to increase his force the defect or fulnesse whereof may either allay it or increase it as also the Globe or rotunditie of the Earth may by the cause of the blowing of it more in one place than in another or mountaines hills or woods may hinder his force from blowing in all places equally whereas vpon the plaine or broad sea it bloweth with an equall force and as for the stilnesse or ceasing thereof it commeth to passe diuers wayes either by frost closing and congealing vp the pores of the Earth whence it should issue or by the heate of the Sunne drying vp fumes and vapours that should increase it and whereof it is engendered The Nature of the 4 principall winds and their effects 1 SVbsolanus or the East winde is hot and dry temperate sweete pure subtle and healthfull and especially in the morning ' when the Sunne riseth by whom he is made more pure and subtle causing no infection to mans body but expelling it 2 Zephirus or the West winde is temperate hot and moyst and wholsome especially in the euening it dissolueth frost ice and snow and maketh flowers and grasse to spring and some write that it produceth Thunder 3 Septentrio or the North winde is for the most part cold and dry repelling moysture and raine and though it cause cold and numnesse so nipping the fruits of the earth and many times the forward buds of the Spring yet it driueth away infectious and noysome ayres and so is a meanes to preserue health 4 Auster or Notas the South winde is hot and moyst breeding thicke cloudes and sicknesse Naturall causes of Earthquakes PLenty of windes got into the bowels holes