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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

reported that the wine of great Tyria hath this effect that it will heat cold bodies and coole hot bodies moysten dry and dry up moyst and oftentimes so that the thirst is hereby more suppressed then by any other thing Rasis saith that wine generally inflameth the Liver and heateth the stomacke yet prepareth a passage to our better digestions increasing blood fattening the body and augmenting naturall heat and helping nature in her owne proper acts strengthening digestion expelling super●…uity of humours with case and facility Health and strength being encreased thereby and old Age retarded and kept backe and last of all comforting the heart and chearing the countenance But if it be taken super●…uously it hurteth the braine dryeth the sinewes sometimes causing Cramps Appoplexies and sudden death to ensue And further thus one writes thereof 'T is Wine a drooping fainting hart doth cherish And wisedome doth prescrib't to those that perish It heats the blood and elevates the braine But yet to much thereof wee must refraine The wise mans cuppes not many ought to be For Bacchus saith I fill to them but three What more they take and doe not order keepe Fighting some madnes it procures or sleepe CHAP. VIII Of Meath and the properties thereof DRinke made of Hony according to Rasis is exceeding hot and caus●…th a rednesse in the face and is very hurtfull to those of hot complexions but for those of phlegmatike more convenient And therefore the Commenter upon Avicens Canticles saith that this Honey-water is better then wine to those of cold bodies and weake sinewes CHAP. IX Of strong Ale ALe as saith Rasis especially made of Barley weakens the Nerues and sinewes causeth dulnesse and head-ache yet prouoketh Vrine and represseth the heat of Drunkennesse That which is made of Wheat mixed with Parsley and other hearbs is adjudged best of all men as that which is onely puft up with forcible ingredients to shew a strength in weaknesse wherein no vertue or goodnesse remaineth else is accounted worst Of which one writeth Ate for antiquity may plead and stand Before the Conquest conquering in this land Beare that is younger brother ●…o her age Was then not borne nor ripe to bee her page In every pedling Village Borough Towne Ale plaid at foot-ball and tript all lads downe And though shee 's rivall'd now by Beere her mate Most Doctors wait on her that shewes her state CHAP. X. Hereafter followeth a discourse of the natures of all kindes of flesh FLesh as saith Isacke is of great nourishment fatt●…ning the body and making it strong and lusty and those that use it continually and in ample manner are so replenished therewith that they find a fulnesse of blood and strength in nature and need often Phlebotomy and especially the more if they adde wine thereunto Commonly all Flesh much heats and therefore is not held convenient for those that have agues or fulnesse of blood or any other diseases that are nourished thereby That flesh that is red without fatnesse is of greater nourishment than that which is fat and engenders lesse superfluities and more strengthens the stomacke We divide all manner of Flesh into these two kinds grosse and fine those which are grosse are convenient for men of labour and exercise those which are more subtile and easie to those of contrary dispositions yet not utterly abandoning the former lest thereby they abandon their strength to which effect one writeth merrily and may bee thought on seriously as followeth Two men being once put to their choyce of meat The one would grosse the other finer eat The one chose Beefe and Mutton for his share The other Partridge Plover Pidgeon Stare These and no other might they feed or take For certaine yeares and for experience sake The time expir'd they both were brought to view To see of these th' effects that would ensue The first thus Dieted with homely fare Was fat and frolicke th' other leane and bare And hee cry'd Beefe still looking huge and big Th' other weak bare exclaim'd on Pig And his wing'd dainties whose sweet meat were sowre To him eatvp ofthose he did devour CHAP. XI Of wild flesh EVery living creature generally according to Isacke in his tstird booke of Dyets is either wilde or tame the flesh of all wilde Beasts is for the most part more dry and of harder digestion then of the tame and yeelds a worse nourishment to the body by reason of their much motion labour and heat of the ayre and Sunne wherein they live without shelter or shade by which they are so parched and dryed up that they are scarce manducable at least little nourishing excepting onely the wilde Goat whose naturall coldnesse and humidity by heat and labour is both allayed and tempered as also through their much motion and agitation the sauour and ranknesse of their flesh is taken away and so becoms a fit helpe to digestion The flesh of all beasts that are tame are aeqnivalent with this one of the wilde and of greater nourishment then any other by reason of their shadowed and temperate ayres yet something grosse and hard of digestion they are but the Male more light and easie then the Femole being of more calidity and moystnesse and therefore more laudable But the gelded hold the meane betwixt both CHAP. XII Of Kiddes Flesh. KIddes flesh according to ●…sacke is very temperate hauing in it no admixture of evill no separation of good yet though it beget so temperate a blood it is seldome without some appertinent cause prescribed to men of labour or grosse constitutions which prosper better upon stronger substances but men of easier exercises and deuotions a meat better than this is not to be found being not so weake but that it may well nourish the body nor so strong as to fill it with repletion and grosse humours but yeelding a well mixt blood and substance betwixt grosse and subtile betwixt hot and cold And hee further saith that those that are milch are better then the other both in nourishment savour and digestion and breed better blood for the milke betters the naturall humidity CHHP. XIII Of Lambes flesh LAmbes flesh according to Isacke is not good although sucking by reason of the abundance of humour slyminesle and Phlegme that it engenders wherby being taken it slippes out of the stomacke before it bee digested Averrois is of opinion it receives some better temper from the earth CHAP. XIIII Of Rammes-flesh RAmmes-flesh according to Rasis is more grosser then Kidde and doth more increase strength and humors and in some degrees equals the Kidde the younger are the best for food but the old for the flocke the flesh of either being well digested yeelds much and good blood but especially the Weather or gelded because the heat and moysture thereby is tempered whereby they yeeld a good savour and tast yet Galen exceedingly disables the Flesh of Rammes in every degree and commends the flesh of Calves CHAP. XV. Of

the naturall heat beginneth to digest and is by some accident or other hindered whereupon followeth an indigestion from whence ariseth this bitternesse and therefore is not presently perceived 3. Thirdly it is demanded why this bitternesse more often happeneth to them that sleepe then to those that wake To which is answered That by sleepe the stomacke is closed up that the meats received cannot descend into the bottome thereof where the Digestion is made but remaine in the upper part where swimming they putrifie and corrupt and cause a windinesse and belching therein which otherwayes would be avoyded 4. Why Wine being hot in nature should not produce diseases of like kinde but contrary such as are cold To the which is answered that Wine causeth not the disease unlesse by over-charging the braine and nerves but repletions follow indigestions and indigestions cause cold diseases and therefore Wine produceth no other but cold diseases 5. Next is demanded whether sicke persons may eat much as they were accustomed when they were well It is answered thereto that Custome is another Nature and therefore he which hath accustomed to eat much in Health must have some relation thereto in his sicknesse eating oftner according to Rasis then he which in health was but of spare Diet. 6. Next is demanded whether for sicke persons having lately recovered their health bread or flesh be more convenient To the which we answer with Rasis that flesh and because amongst all other meats Hogges-flesh is most nourishing therefore that flesh is most convenient for them being most easie of Digestion 7. Next is demanded whether flesh or bread be most convenient to those that are troubled with Agues It is answered that two things are to be respected therein first flesh is of an easie digestion and therefore thought more convenient fecondly Bread is easie conversion and therefore more convenient then Flesh and because flesh by the fatnesse doth more easily inflame 8. Next is demanded whether Flesh or Wine are to be preferred to those that have newly recovered their Healths To the which is answered that Flesh and therfore the vulgar are much deceived that thinke Wine because amongst all other things it is the most easie converted into blood spirituall and naturall heat and therefore to be taken after Flesh. 10. Next is demanded whether he that is lately recovered from his sicknesse must for some certaine dayes observe theOrder and Diet that he used in his sicknesse or not To the which is answered that so and that for three reasons First for the weaknesse of Nature Secondly for the not breach of Custome Thirdly for the imbecility ●…d state of his body after his si●…knesse and this reason alone is sufficient because from 〈◊〉 we are not to make 〈◊〉 ●…ure but by little and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 th●…refore we conclude t●…e ●…ment or Government whic●…●…as used in sicknesse is to be 〈◊〉 for a time in Health and n●…t presently to be forsaken or left off CHHP. II. Questions of Bread FIrst It is demanded why Bread of Wheat doth more nourish than of Barley To the which is answered according to Aristotle in his Problemes because of the moderate viscosity and moysture most requisite therein for the better conglutination and fastning thereof to the body which the other wanting is not therefore held so convenient 2. Next is demanded wherefore bread that is stale is either more whiter than that which is new To the which we answer the cause of the blacknesse is the water therein which in bread that is stale is dried up and therefore the more white 3. Next is demanded why bread unsalted is more heavy than that which is salted To the which it is answered that salt dryeth up the moysture therein for which reason likewise it becommeth more light and white 4. Next is demanded why bread of Wheat becommeth not hard being old as other bread doth To the which is answered that the Wheat hath in it a certaine sweet and humane moysture which is as it were the life thereof that suffereth it not to be harded 5. Wherefore Bread that is made of new corne is no so good as that which is made of the old the reason is that new graine hath in it too great a moysture and watrishnesse than is commendable and therefore Bread made thereof is not so good as of the old CHAP. III. Questions of Wine Whether it be Physieal to be drunk once a month with wine 1. FIrst it is demanded whether according to Avieen in his Canticles and Rasis likewise it be physicall to be drunke with Wine once a month To the which is answered with the Commenter upon the Canticles that their opinion is erroneous which so affirme for although Wine according to Galen is the most agreeable to mans nature in respect of the naturall heat and nearnesse it hath with our bloods being in degree thereto as Oyle to the light or fire yet as much and superf●…s Oyle puts out the fire and light ●…o much wine our natura●… heat and as it is more agreeable to our natures being thinn●… and cleare so notwithstanding it is more hurtfull to the animall and sensible heat and the organs thereof that is to the braine and sinewes and therefore Galen concludeth that water is better than wine especially for those that have weake nerves 2. Next is demanded why children being hot in nature are not lovers of Wine but old men To the which is answered that old men are hot and dry but children hot and moyst 3. Next is demanded what humour is most ingendred of wine whether Phlegme or blood To the which is answered that because wine breeds cold diseases as formerly we have proved therefore doth it more ingender phlegmaticall humours than any other and the renson is because when much Wine is taken it is not fully digested and whatsoever remaines in the body indigested is converted into phlegme and therefore of wine by reason of the often exceeding therein is more ingendred than of any other thing But wine being moderately taken is more converted into blood than phlegme 4. Next is demanded why strong wine comforteth the stomacke and hurteth the braine but weake wine effecteth the contrary It is answered the stomacke doth digest and digestion commeth of heat therefore it seemeth to helpe the stomacke in digestion because it addeth to the heat which the weaker doth not But wine the stronger it is from it doe the more vapours arise into the head and so much more hurteth the braine 5. Next is demanded whether wine or meat are the greatest comforters of naturall heat To the which is answered according to Isacke that wine and the reason is because it more easily and swiftly converteth into naturallheat and doth more strengthen than meats doe But meat being couerted is of longer durance and greater restauration 6. Next is demanded whether if wine be to be given to one that is weake new or old be the more commended To the which

neare any other as to discerne it En●…ylia the wife of Africanus was of so great charity and patience that when shee knew her husband had offended with her maid yet she contained her selfe beyond measure unto him both in fidelity and love not answering his expectation with fury or fro●…ardnesle but jealous to wrong so great a husband as Affricanus either in word or action as further not to shew her selfe hatefull where her husband had loved after his death shee gave her in marriage and continued faithfull to the end When Sulpitia was with-held by her mother Maria ●…est she should follow her husband Lentulus being banished into Italie notwithstanding she could not be retained but that shee got out in an unusuall attire with two of her maids and two servants and came unto him secretly refusing not to banish her selfe to enjoy his presence without which where-ever she lived in banishment CHAP. XXV Of good Widdowes MAcrobius saith that the word Vidua a Widdow comes of Divisa or as one would more properly say a viro divisa divided or divided from a man Amongst the ancient women of elder times that were contented with single marriages it was their glory to bee honoured with the crowne of chastity but the experience of many marriages hath much increased the suspition of intemperance and inconstancy The daughter of Marcus Cato when she had bewailed the death of her husband a month together the longest date of our times she was asked of some of her friends which day should have her last teare shee answered the day of her death Truly intending what the Trag. Q. but fainedly spoke In second husband let mee bee accurst None weds the second but who kils the first A second time I kill my husband dead When second husband kisses mee in bed And when some of her kinsfolkes perswaded her to marry a●… other husband in regard shee was young and beautifull she utterly denyed saying If I should meet with a good husband as I had before I shall ever feare to lose him If I shall meet with a bad one what need I such a sorrow after such a griefe In like manner Portia was perswaded after the death of her husband to marry againe she answered A happy and chaste Matron never marries but once In like manner Valeria having lost her husband would marry no other and being asked her reason answered that her husband lived alwayes to her In like manner of Arthemesia the wife of Mausoll King of Carnith that amongst many of her commendations this is a principall That after the death of her husband she still remembred him as if alive and built for his honour and memory a Sepulcher of wondrous beauty and cost the like whereof was not to be found of which woman my Authour thus comparatively concludeth Such wives their living husbands did not wrong That after death remembred them so long What our short mourning Widdowi us'd to doe That so soone marry and forget them too I can but ghesse but sure it may be told That love was ne're much hot that 's so soone cold CHAP. XXVI Of Virgins HIeron contr Iovin in his booke so called there mentioneth what honour and respect the ancient Romans ever attributed to their Virgins In that their Consuls and Emperours such that triumphed in state after their victories yeelded as every degre●… and dignity reverence to them Nyeanor having atchieved th●… victory of Thebes was so overcome with the love of a captive Virgine whose nuptiall voluntary imbraces he so desired which of few would have beene refused though in her found no admission which forced him to complaine that hee found more captivity in the eyes of such a Virgin then in the strength of a kingdome when hee her lover and a King wept and lamented over her selfe slaughtered body Turcya a Vestall Virgin defamed with the losse of her Virginity in manifestation of her innocency tooke a Riddle beseeching the goddesse that if shee touched her sacrifices with a chast hand to make it possible that shee might fetch water out of Tyber with that sieve and carry it to her house which was effected accordingly and she cleared of her suspition Claudia a Vestall Virgin had in suspition likewise of dishonor having fastened an Image in the house of Mars neare unto Tyber to prove her chastity with her girdle she drew a ship that many milions of men could not remove from the place Likewise Augustine in his 39. booke speaking of an ancient custome the Romans had to this purpose which was to bury alive the corrupted Priests of their Vestall goddesse The end of the second Booke THE THIRD BOOKE OR THIRD COVRSE serued up to the Table at the Philosophers Banquet PREFACE HAving spoken of the manners and conditions of those that wee may accompany at our Tables Now thirdly it remaines that we briefly propose certaine Table questions with their resolutions for the exercise and search of our wits which many times imploying our mindes hereto keepes in those things which otherwise the heat of our bloods and aptnesse of our natures so fraught are apt to lavish against our selves For when men well haue fed and blood is warme Then are they most improvident of harme And therefore are such passions to be brideled with a premeditated instruction lest they afterwards redound to our detriment and losse To that end I have here thought it necessary to set downe certaine easie questions and answers pertinent to such time and place supposing nothing can bee more pleasant or profitable either to our selves or others then the delight and recreation that may arise from thence Question 1. Whether Ayre be more necessary t●… life then meat FIrst it is demanded whether Ayre be more necessary to life then meat to the which is answered meat because that is supposed most necessary to the body that restores her defect or makes a member or part of a member Now meat is of this nature according to Avicen and therefore most necessary Yet Constantine is of the contrary opinion that faith Ayre is more necessary thereto than meat For life consisting in naturall heat because naturali heat is the fountaine of life therefore that which tempers naturall heat is the most necessary now ayre drawne in by the breath is of this kinde And therefore those that come newly from prison or from any other place deprived of this benefit first desire a fresh ayre and afterwards meat and drinke To conclude life consists strongly in both in the one by restauration of members lost and consideration of members had and thus farre the first very powerfully intends But the nutriment of naturall heat that is the origlnall of life immediately is caused from the quality of the ay●…e and therefore the ayre because it immediately respecteth life we conclude is the more necessary and predominant to the conservation of life Quest. 2. Whetber be more necessary to life Meat or Drinke SEcondly it is

we answer against the opinion of the vulgar that in this case the new is better than the old and the reason is because Wine by how much more it is new by so much lesse it inflameth and therefore in this respect better than the old 7. Next is demanded why Wine purged from his lees is of greater strength and force but lesse lasting It is answered because relying upon no other Element it is every way exposed to ruine for the Lees by sustaining and nourishing is as it were the root 8. Lastly it is demanded whether Wine hurt the braine To the which is answered according to Isacke that it doth and Galen likewise affirmeth the same though it strengtheneth the stomacke when first received and heat the blood yet through the vapour it hurts the braine especially by replenishing them but the veines in drinking it CHAP. IIII. Questions of Flesh. 1. NExt is demanded whether Flesh rosted or boyled be more moyst To the which is answered the rosted that by the heat of the fire is hardned and rosted on the outward parts whereby the humidity and moysture is shut up and retained within that it cannot goe forth But in that which is boyled the outmost parts become softned and tender by the moderate heat of the liquor that the moysture therein hath the freer vent and issue forth and therefore meats rosted although they seeme more dryer without yet within they are more moyst and the boyled more dry 2. Next is demanded why the Moóne-light doth more putrifie flesh that is killed than the heat of the Sunne It is answered that there can be no putrifaction unlesse heat and moysture conjoyne together Now the putrifaction of Cattell is nothing ell●… than a certaine defluxion lying h●… in the body converting the solidity of flesh into humour for heat is it be temperate and meane nourisheth humours otherwise more violent it extenuateth and dryeth them up therefore of such flesh the Sunne as it is more hotter extracteth all the moysture and so dryeth them up and corrup●…eth them But the Moone-light in which there is no manifest heat but a kind of luke-warme influence increasing the humour doth the more and more suddenly the same CHAP. V. Qu●…stions of Egges 1. COncerning Egges it is firs●… demanded whether the yolke or the white be of more heat It is answered that amongst all the humours of the body the blood is the hottest yet most temperate in heat and therefore that which comes nearest to the nature of blood is nearest of the quality of which is the yolke and therfore the more hotter 2. Next it is demanded why the yolke being put into water immediately descends to the bottome but the white contrariwise swimmes on the top It is answered that the white of the Egge is siymy and viscous and cleaves unto that whereunto it is put and therefore put into water swims on the top but the yolke descends with its owne weight 3. Next is demanded why Egges in birds are of a more harder shell than those of Fishes To the which is answered that Fishes expose their Egges in watry and moyst places and therefore need but soft shels But fals contrariwise in more hard and dangerous places as upon Rockes and Hils and such like and therefore nature hath more warily provided for them and for their withstanding hurt and danger untill their young ones come to perfection 4. Next is demanded why Egges in birds are of greater quantities though fewer in number than those of Fishes To the which is answered that Birds are of greater heat than Fishes which is the cause of the greatnesse of their Egges but the multitude out of the matter which is the principle of division and therefore because Fowles have more heat than Fishes therefore the Egges are greater in substance but few in number and so contrariwise of Fishes 5. Next is demanded why Egges in Birds are of divers colours and those of Fishes not It is answered because the heat in Birds is more strong which doth separate those things which are of adverse nature as the yolke from the white c. but in Fishes the heat is more weake and therfore cannot separate 6. Next is demanded why the Egges of Fishes are round and the Egges of Fowles are of a longer figure It is answered that heat moves to his centor especially to a piramidall figure as appeares in a flame of fire that ever ascends upward ends stil in a point And therefore because heat is more strong in Fowles than in Fishes the Egges of Fowles are longer the Fishes more round because their heat being weak dispearseth it selfe thereinto 7. Next is demanded why some Egges cracke in the fire and oth●…rs not It is answered that those most cracke in the fire which are of most windinesse from the which when the shell is broken in the fire out comes the wind with violence and noyse and this most happens when the outward heat is strong whereupon if the Egge of any Fowle be put into such a fire the shell is quickly broken and the windinesse comes out with great violence and noyse which yet it doth n●…t if the heat or fire be but small But in Egges of Fishes ●…here is proportionably the great windinesse and therefor●… they cracke much in the fire as we have experience by the Herring c. CHAP. VI. Of Fishes 1. FIrst it is demanded whether Fishes eat their owne spawne or not It is answered that they doe First because they are greedy and ravenous through the coldnesse of their stomackes and next because they are dull of sense and discerne not betwixt their owne and others and therefore most greedily devoure their owne with others 2. Next is demanded whether Fishes chew their meat It is answered not the reason is First because if they should chew it they should superfluously swallow the water to the suffocation of themselves Secondly because they are gluttenous and doe ●…t greedily they swallow it whole undivided 3. Thirdly it is demanded why raine is convenient to Fishes and hurtfull to Birds It is answered that to Fishes raine-water is very convenient because it washeth in the sweet of the soyle which being mingled in the waters the Fishes much feed upon grow fat But Birds are of another nature living in the ayre and supporting their bodies by the wing which hereby their feathers being fastned together their flight is hindred and th●…ir use and living taken away and therfore more hurtfull for them than Fishes CHAP. VII Hereafter followeth the Resolution of certaine mixt questions 1. FIrst it is demanded why the Gout happeneth to them most commonly that eat many kinds of pulses It is answered out of Galen because they are hard and windy and not easily digested by reason of which indigestion they are turned into Phlegme from whence the gout most usually hath her originall 2. N●…xt is demanded why Beanes being that they are windy by decoction lose not their windinesse as

not Riches Moses forsooke Pharaohs Court Diogenes the Court of Alexander to ●…onverse with Philosophers and what doth it profit a foole to have wealth when it cannot buy Wisdome Q. What is the mind and study of the slothfull man A. Saint Bede will answer the slothfull will and will not he would reigne with God but not labour with God they like the reward when it is promised but not the worke when it is to bee done but they must know Qui non laborabit in hoc seculo non manducabit in futuro and it is labour that nourisheth the most generous minds Q. What is the most troublesome idlenesse A. Divers jesting at supper amongst other questions this was propounded one was of one opinion and another of another but Publius said the gout in the feet This tale was moralized upon by certaine labouring but ignorant people that thought the Magistrate and the Minister lived in too much ease and too much honour and with too little paines when their labor as they thought was too great their profit and esteeme too little To this a comparison was made on a time when silly sheepe could speake and then at such a time it was the sheepe said to her master I marvell much that we receiving nothing of thee but are forced to seeke our livings out of the earth from whom yet thou takest wooll and Cheese and Lambes yet thy dogge that brings thee none of these profits he is fed with bread from thine owne hand But then it is said that the dogge thus replied And worthily I receive my allowance for I am he that keepe and preserve you lest theeves steale you or wolves devoure you whose custody if I neglect you cannot eat one morsell securely The sheepe hearing this was content with every lot and ever since being so conui●…ted have held their peace Extant to this there is another story how on a time the members complained against the belly how it was idle and did nothing but devoured their labours and how every member tooke paines and they were all weary and would continue their exercise no longer for this idle member this done the belly debarr'd from her wonted allowance imparted no strength to the hand the legge grew feeble and could not walke and the whole body could not support it selfe for feebl●…nesse which seene and perceived a Parliament was called and every officer put to his former taske and all became as before Q. Of sleepe what doe the Philosophers averre A. That it is the Porch betweene life and death that death is a long sleepe and sleepe a short death that it is natures sithe that cuts away halfe our life Of Dreames One dreamed that hee should not beleeve dreames because they are for the most part false if hee did beleeve them then it followes that hee should not beleeve them if he did not beleeve them then it followes that hee should have beleeved them because they were dreames and false their contrary being true Q. Is that compact lawfull or possible amongst the living that the first dead should come backe to his fellow and bring newes of the state of the other world A. It is neither lawfull not possible though such fables be ordinary in Popery and so Baronius stories it that Marcellus Ficynus returned backe according to his compact to reveale what hee had seene but we are taught otherwise in holy Writ where the rich man would have sent Lazarus to have forewarned his brethren but could not Q. What is thought of Pylats wives dreame that had truth with it A. Many have severall opinions thereof some thinke it was the devils suggestion to hinder mans redemption other that she was a godly matron and saw his Innocency which God would have at all times to appeare and if it had beene of Satan it migh●… more haue advantaged his purpose to have dealt with the hig●… Priests and the rest of his enemies but the reason of this w●… the providence of God so to manifest his innocency Q. What foure small creatures are those on the earth which f●… their wisdome are preferred before men A. 1. Formica a ferendis micis The Ant so called of carrvin●… of crumbs which for their wisedome are termed a people an●… that they provide their meat in summer and fearing tempests labour by Mooneshine 2. The Conies a people likewise not strong but they make their houses in the Rocke 3. The Locusts have no King yet they goe forth in swarmes 4. The Spider that weaveth the web that is in palaces of kings thas no mortall man can imitate and all this but a net for flyes yet marke with what curiosity shee disposeth her threds Pallas me docuit texendinosse laborem Nulla mihi manus est pedibus tamen omnia fiunt Of this one writes where God is present the weakest Spiders weo is a Castle where absent the strongest Castle is but a Spiders web As these presage death and so labour to prevent it so the Squirrell presaging stormes turnes the little window in her draw ever fromwards it Q. What creature of all other is the most profitable to man in whom is nothing but good A. The sheepe our founder content with her owne coat and colour though by vs her allusion varied many wayes and changed into many colours of which one writes Quid meruistioves placidum pecus inque tuendo Natum homines pleno quae fertis in ubere nectar Mollia quae nobis vestras velamina lanas Prabetis vitaque magis quam morte juvatis Englished This gentle Creature of all good things full That feeds us with her flesh clothes us with wooll Liues with us as friend why should the knife After so many takings take her life Q. What Creatur s of all other love their young most A. The Asse and the Ape the Asle will passe through a thousand obstacles to come to her young yea even through fire the Ape killeth his young with too much dandling to these may be likewise added the Turtle and the Storke Q. In what things are many men Imitators of Apes A. In following the follies and vices of other men rather than their vertues like sheepe one going before all the rest following after though into danger Q. What is the most inhumane thing and reckoned as prime am ngst other vices A. Ingratitude which the very beasts scorne to repay as you may read more at large in Aulus Gellius of the old Lion that had the thorne in his foot when Antroclus comming by signes that he made to him perceiued it and ventured to pull it out which done the Lion not onely did him no hurt himselfe but protected him from all others and ever after acknowledged his kindnesle Q. Whether are their greater creatures on the earth or in the Sea Solo aut Salo A. There is nothing as some Writers affirme that is on the Land but the same is in the S●…a but bigger creatures are in the Sea than on the

German now the man Q. Of what estates consists the Columnes of the Roman Empire A. Of 4 Dukes 4 Marquesses 4 Landgraves 4 Burgraves 4 Earles 4 Barons 4 young Lords 4 Knights 4 Citizens 4 Pages 4 Clownes Q. What was the Answer of that cowardly fugitive A. That he had rather laugh in health after his flight then be praised being dead after the battell one said for his enemies flight he would make him a silver bridege Q. Whether is it more easie to judge betweene enemies or friends A. Bias was used to say that hee had rather judge betweene Enemies for betweene friends he should get an enemy but betweene enemies a friend Q. Where is it that no man is counted evill but bee that doth no evill A. In the company of the wicked theeves robbers and the like Q. Who are those that live and speake after their death A. Learned and godly Writers as the Poet will tell you Vivere post obitum doctos vis nosse viator Quod legis ecce loquor vox tua namque mea est Know that our Learned Writers dead and gone They have two liues where other have but one Q. What is the true use of all learning A. To make a ladder to mount thee up to heaven for otherwise if a man had all Sciences ad unguem all Languages ad verbum if a man had all the learning in Plutarchs Volumnes if these gifts and knowledges to himselfe did not teach him to bee more than a man to reach nearer to heaven all these were but common benefits Aristotle being about to dye certaine of his Disciples standing about him thus commended his soule Now hee that receives the soules of all Philosophers receiue thine Severus the Emperour about to dye said I haue beene all things and now shall be nothing Q. Who was hee that the same moment he was buried was againe revived and came forth of his grave A. A certaine man buried in that Tombe where the Prophet was touched but his bones and was revived thereby 2 King 3. 21. Eccles. 48. 2. A wonderfull Epitaph set up in Bononia apud Spingeides or Spinx in which according to the opinion of learned men there lyes more wisdome then is compiled in many bookes and so it followes Aelia Lelia Crispis neither man nor woman nor Androgina neither mayd nor young man nor old woman neither chast nor harlot but all was taken away neither by hunger nor sword nor poyson nor fire nor plague but by all and hee is neither in heaven nor the waters nor the earth but every where Lucius Agatho Priscius neither husband nor lover neither necessary nor deseruing neither laughing nor weeping neither Mountaine nor Pyramid nor Sepulcher but all knows and knows not who put her there eos qui volet consulat for none but Oedipus can this interpret Q. Doth education alter nature or not A. It doth as it was sufficiently experimented by Lycurgus two dogges the one sprung from a good breed and hunters kind the other from a worse race but better brought up and exercised in hunting whilst the other was brought up at home and pampered in idlenesse now after this threre is a game set before them out of the Forrest and a service of meat this houshold-dogge he forsakes the game and falls to his porridge the other he beares all over to follow the game and herein is the difference of Education tryed as may well appeare to be a new nature likewise this is found true in the practice upon better subjects Cleanthes being asked the difference betweene Logicke and Rhethoricke first hee shewed his clouched hand and then by and by his open hand Stobeus sayth Deliver not in many words a little but in few words much Ernesius counsell to his sriend Take heed thou requirest not great things in thy suit lest hee to whom thou suest may doe it but with some vexation to himselfe or if he deny it with sorrow Q. What is that which though contained in a small circuit yet with her voracity keepeth snatcheth and devoures all things A. The stomacke which if it wants naturall food cuts sharper than a Razor will breake stone-walls will compell a man to eat Cats Dogges Leather or the most vildest things that are as hath beene experienced in divers siedges and famines where a mouse hath beene sold at weight of silver Q. Amongst Saint Pauls many and Divine Epictles which doe you account the most excellent A. Holy and lively and heavenly are all for he learned wisedome out of the third heavens but yet to mee of all the other those which he wrote being in bonds to the Ephesians to Tim●…thy to the Col●…ssians like that Noble Souldier that maintained Christs cause the more valiant before his Enemies and in the midst of them so did this Christian Champion So hee begate Onesimus in bonds for though hee was captive the word of God was free for hee reserved both a liberall tongue and a plentifull stile Q. What is the most guilty part of Time A. Opportunity which if neglected maketh the best thing unrespected according to the Poet Like to a poore man so befriended Or Summers Chimneys Winter ended Or like to Souldiers warres being done Or like to Dogges their races runne Or like to beauty wrinkled old Or like a secret knowne and told So Time of all the dearest cost Not taken by the fore-top lost And for the guilt anotherthus O Opportunity thy guilt is great 'T is thou that executes the Traytors treason Thou setst the Wolfe where hee the Lambe may get Whoeuer plots the finne thou points the season And in thy shady cell where none may spy him Sits sinne to seize the soules that wander by him Thou mak'st the Vestal violate her oath Thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd Thou smotherest honesty thou murderest truth Thou foule abettor thou notorious band And to expresse thy nature here in briefe Thy honey turnes to gall thy joy to griefe When wilt thou be the humble suppliants friend And bring him where his cause may be obtain'd When wilt thou sort an howre great strife to end Or free the soule that wretchednesse hath chain'd Give Physicke to the sicke ease to the pain'd The poore lame blind halt creep cry out to thee But they ne're meet with Opportunitie c. Q. Why is the earth barren of grasse where richest Mines of gold and silver lye under buried A. Because wise Nature hath lock'd up and covered deep those mettalls which shee fore-saw should herafter trouble the world and made the Carpet that covereth them as barren as the brest of some of these unprofitable rich Iaylors Q. What was Diogenes reason ●…herefore he counselled his friend not to lend money A. Because saith hee if thou lend thou shalt not receive again if thou doe not so soone if so soone not so good if so good then thou losest a friend To this purpose agrees the old saying I once had mony and a friend And joy'd them both together I lent my mony to my friend At need to doe him pleasure His need supplied hee sleighted mine And did not backe repay The money at his pointed time And at my fixed day I sought my money of my friend He paid it backe in hate My money had I lost my friend And now repent too late FINIS Mens D●… simulac●… ●…he 3 first ●…e 3 prin●…pal mem●…rs of life first for●…ed in the ●…ombe Barley Bread Bullockes flesh Thi Harts taile so●… part is poyson Hares flesh The Udder Lver H●…rt Lungs Raines Yeet Flesh baked French mans diet He●…es flesh Henne Star●… ●…uaile Partridg Pigeon●… Duskes Belly Necke Egges Partri●…g Egges Duck-egs Goose-egs Yolke White Egges fryed Cowes milke Asses milk Goats milke Sheepes milke Butter-milke Whey 〈◊〉 Butter Codde Sea fishes River-fishes Salt-fishe ●…rabbes Rice Rice-water Beane●… White Beanes A receit for women L●…tils Ciches Pease Sorrell Dyll Lectuice Mynts Cresses Poppey Opium takē causeth sl●…eping to death Whiee Poppoy Alisander Purslane To take awaywarts Raddish ●…aves Rapes Rue Sage Spinage Mushrom Toad-stoole Figges Figsbreed Lice Dates Grapes Bitter Grapes Pomegranates Areceit for the Iaundise Citrons Peares Apples Sweet Apples Peaches Medlers Cytron Apples Mulberries Plummes Cherries Almonds Parsley Orage or Artiplex Red Carrots Beets Borage Onyons Gourds Receit for tooth-ach Cummi●… Fennell Isope Bieter Almonds ' Nuts Pr●…seruatiue against posson Filberds Chesnuts Walnut Pèpper Ginger Setwell Galingala Clou●…s ●…namen Saffron A receit against drunkennesse Carawais Mustard Salt Uinegar Honey Oyle of Olives Oyle of Nuts O●…le of Almonds Iul. Caesar Iullus Caesar. Caesar●… vehi●… Augustus Caesar. Tyberius Ner●… Domitian Saint 〈◊〉 ban●…ed to Pathmos Vitellius the 〈◊〉 rour Adrian Alexander Romulus●… Alexander K. 〈◊〉 Pontus King of India K Pirr●…us Q. Eliz. K. Charls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oratius Pulnellus Zenophon Admoniti●… T●…lly 〈◊〉 by one of A●… s. ul diers for a 〈◊〉 ora●…on made against him for his 〈◊〉 Ingenui●… non rec●…pit 〈◊〉 S. L. D. ●…escio quomodo nimis ●…tem ti ●…es quiminus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nouis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ippus Physicke first sound out by A●… pol●…o Physicians hold that there is no health but a neurrality between health and 〈◊〉 King Alexander 〈◊〉 No man Leader of a company 〈◊〉 ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 K Edw. 3. his sword at VVesim Guy E. of 〈◊〉 Ch. Brondon D. of suffulke Methusalem lived 936 yeares Romul●…s the first founder of the City of Rome Eu●…ach Emp. Cambyses King Seleucas Ninus Ki●…g of Assri some suppose the builder of Ninivy Pompey Scylla Cato The Tomb of Mauso●… Aug. de ci●… dei lib. 10. Contra Conclusion Pro. Cont. Cont. Pro. Cont. Why the Dane ●…utchman and 〈◊〉 d●…nkmore then the Spaniards Hogs-flesh of al other most nourishing ●…egme the originall of the gout Why the ea●…ng of figs breed Lice To chuse Honey Dangeru●… yeares of a mans life Three dangerous mundays Turcoyse stone Swallowe●… stone Toad-stone Carpe-stone Diuinity Law Physicke Agrology Esay 10. Chypoman●…y Alchumy Nigrom●…cy Kings 1. 2●… Hy●…romancy Pyromancyugury