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

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

may not do rightly understand the ways of God A. 1 Dead men who neither do nor can understand his ways 2 Wicked men who may but care not to understand them 3 Fools who desire but have not the apprehension to do it 4 The godly who both understand and practise the same Q. How many sorts of Fasts are used in the world A. Six The sick mans Fast the poor mans Fast the misers Fast the gluttons Fast the hypocrites Fast and the godly mans Fast all which are set down in these following Verses Experience out of Observation says Six sorts of people keep their Fasting days Which if you will in order have them shown Then thus they are distinguisht every one The sick man fasts because he cannot eat The poor man fasts because he wanteth meat The miser fasts with greedy mind to spare The glutton fasts to eat a greater share The hypocrite he fasts to seem more holy The righteous man to punish sinful folly Q. Who be those that lye most freely and without controul A. 1. Great men that few dare reprove 2. Old men that few can gain-say 3. Poets who do it Poetica Licentia 4. Travellers that may lye by authority Q. What two things are those by which many persons are quite ruined and lost both in their Estates and Reputations A. Hounds and Dice of the first of which one thus writeth It is not poor Actaeon 's case alone Hounds have devour'd more Masters sure than one And for Dice the far worse of the two it is almost an infallible fore-runner of misery accompanied with cursed swearing banning fighting and many other mischiefs attendant to it the final end of it being beggary according as one thus Writes Ludens taxillis bene respi●e quid sit in illis Spes tua res tua sors tua mors tua pendet ab illis In English He may suppose who ventureth at Dice Hope health wealth life may be lost in a trice Some to evade these reasons pretend a cunning that they have in the Art to which I answer That the more cunning any is in this Art the more wicked he is in his life and therefore I conclude that the best cast at Dice is to cast them quite away Q. What witty invention was that of him who having placed the Emperor and the Pope reconciled in their Majestick Thrones placed the States of the world before them and what was their several Motto's A. 1 A Counsellor of State had this I advise you 2 Then a Courtier with I flatter you 3 Then a Husbandman I feed you 4 Then a Merchant I match you 5 Then a Lawyer I fleece you 6 Then a Souldier I fight for you 7 Then a Physician I kill you 8 Then a Priest I absolve you all Q. Who was he that in the confusion of Tongues kept both his Language and Religion pure and unchangeable An. Heber the Father of Abraham who when all the rest of the world fell to Idolatry relapsed not from the truth but kept himself free from the impiety of Nimrod and his followers who sought to erect a Building that should reach to Heaven but could not go forward with their design being confounded with the diversity of Languages which was sent amongst them whereby one understood not the other Of which thus writeth the Divine Du Bartus Bring me quoth he a Tro●el quickly quick One brings him up a Hammer hew this Brick Another bids and then they cleave a Tree Make fast this Rope and then they let it flee One calls for Planks another Mortar lacks They bring the first a Stone the last an Ax. Q. In what place according to the opinion of some shall the General Judgment of mankind be A. In the Valley of Jehosaphat because it is said in one place of the Scripture Behold I will bring all Nations together in the Valley of Jehosaphat and plead with them there though others with more reason do think that the place as well as the time is unknown Q. Which deserves the greatest punishment the body or soul for the committting of sin A. Some are of opinion the Soul because without it the Body were nothing which actuates only what the Soul infuseth Others would have the Body as being the chief organ and actor of sin but that they are both culpable and deserve alike punishment is proved by this similitude A master committeth the charge of his Orchard to be kept by two whereof the one is blind the other lame The lame man having persect sight sees golden Apples hanging upon a Tree of which he informs the man that is blind they both covet after them notwithstanding they are forbidden and to attain their desires the blind man that was strong of his limbs takes up the seeing Cripple on his shoulders by which means they accomplish their desires pluck the Fruit and eat thereof Soon after the Master of the Orchard enters enquires and soon finds by whom it was done they were both equally culpable and so are punisht with alike punishment according as they had equally deserved In like manner both Body and Soul lending their furtherance to sin being alike guilty are inseparably punished together for ever Q. What ways did Philip King of Macedon use that he might not forget his mortality A. He had every morning a Page which used to awake him with these words Remember Sir that you are a man according as writes Philip King of Macedon Was daily ro●●s'd and call'd upon By a shrill Page whose Bonjours ran Remember Sir you are a man Q. What said the same King Philip when his Horse casting him on the ground he saw the print of his body in the dust A. See said he we covet the whole earth and how little sufficeth Q. Whether do fools profit more by wise men or wise men by fools A. Cato who himself was a wise man saith that fools are the most profitable to wise men who seeing their folly endeavour to avoid it whereas fools on the Contrary can make no profit of the wisdom of the wise by reason of their folly Q. How came Beda that ancient Father of the English Church to be called Venerabilis A. Some assign this reason that when he was old he became blind and keeping an unhappy Boy to guide him as he walked abroad this Boy one day led him to preach to a heap of stones where concluding his Sermon with Gloria Patri he was by them answered Amen Amen Venerabilis Beda Others say that at his death an unlearned Monk going about to write an Epitaph on him blunder'd thus far on a Verse Hic sunt in Fossa Bedae ossa leaving a space before the two last words and so went to bed which in the morning he found supplied by an unknown hand with the Title of Venerabilis so he made his verse and Beda got his name Q. What Persons of all others do lie in the greatest state A. Beggars who have the Heavens for their

who found out the use of Paper should not have his memory perserved by Paper In former ages men wrote in the dust upon stones pencil'd upon Lawrel leaves upon barks of Trees according to the Poet. In barks of Trees Shepherds their loves engrav'd Which remain'd i' th' hole when the rind away was shav'd Qu. Who first invented Letters An. Cornelius Tacitus an approved Latin Historian ascribeth it to the Egyptians his words are these Primi per formas animalium Egypti c. The Egyptians first of all expressed the conceptions of the mind by the shapes of beasts and the most ancient monuments of mans memory are seen graven in stones and they say that they are the first inventers of Letters then the Phoenicians because they were strong at Sea brought them into Greece and so they had the glory of that which they received from others for there goeth a report that Cadmus sailing thither in a Phoenician ship was the Inventer of the Art amongst the Greeks when they were yet unexpert and rude Some record that Cecrops the Athenian or Livius the Theban and Palamedes the Grecian did find out sixteen Characters at the time of the Trojan war and that afterward Simonides added the rest But in Italy the Etrurians learned them of Demaratas the Corinthian and the Aborigines of Evander the Arcadian thus far Tacitus But Lucan the Historical Poet attributeth the first invention of them to the Phoenicians in these verses of his Pharsalia Phoenices primi fama si ereditur ausi Mansuram rudibus vocem signare figuris Phoenicians first as fame to us affords Dar'd in rude Characters engrave our words But notwithstanding this of Tacitus and Lucan no question but the Jews were herein skill'd before either of them and that there was writing before the Flood which St. Jude doth somewhat infinuate of the writing of Enoch and Josephus and others write that he crected two Pillars the one of brick and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the two-fold destruction of the world the one by water and the other by fire which by Tradition was preserved to the days of the Apostles Qu. By whom was Brachygraphy or the Art of Short-writing invented An. This is uncertain Dion saith that Maecenas that great Favorite of Augustus and Favorer of Learning did first find out certain Rules and Figures ad celeritatem scribendi for the speedier dispatch of writing and for those less vulgar Letters which the Latines call Ciphrae and whereof every exercised States-man hath peculiar to himself they were first invented by Julius Caesar when he first began to think of the Roman Monarchy and were by him in his Letters to his more private and tryed friends used that if by misfortune they should be intercepted the contents of them should not be understood Augustus one of the greatest Politicks of the world had another kind of obscure writing for in his Letters of more secrecy and importance he always used to put the Letter immediately following in the order of the Alphabet for that which in ordinary writing he should have used As for the Art of Short-writing or Brachygraphy aforesaid it is grown to a great perfection in our Age the chief Masters whereof have been Mr. Skelton Mr. Jeremiah Rich c. Qu. Who were the Inventers of Ships and Shipping An. No doubt but it came first from the Ark of Noah which he had provided for the safety of him and his in the universal Deluge which Ark setling on the Mountains of Ararat and there a long time remaining gave the Phoenicians a Sea-people a pattern whereby they might make the waters passable The Heathen writers which knew not Noah attribute the Inventing of Shipping to several persons Strabo to Minos King of Crete Diodorus Siculus to Neptuno who was therefore called The God of the Sea Tibullus the Poet referred it to the Tyrians a famous flourishing Commonwealth among the Phoenicians saying Prima ratem ventis credere docta Tyros The Tyrians first the Art did find To make Ships travel with the wind The Egyptians received this Invention from the Tyrians and added much unto it for whereas first the vessels were either made of an hollow tree or of sundry boards joyned together and covered with beasts skins which kind of Vessels are still in use in America the Phoenicians brought them to strength and form but the Egyptians added Decks unto them they also invented the Galley of two banks on a side which vessels by length of time grew so large that Ptolomy Philopater made one of no fewer than fifty banks of oars on one side Large Ships of burthen called Circera we owe to the Cypriots Cock-boats or Skiffs to the Illyrians Brigantines to the Rhodians and Fregats or swift Barks to the Cyrenians As for the Tacklings the Boetians invented the Oar Daedalus and his son Icarus the Masts and Sails which gave the Poet occasion to feign that those two made wings to their bodies and fled out of Crete and that Icarus soaring too high melted his wings and was drowned the truth indeed being that presuming too far on his new invention he ran against a Rock and so perished For Hippagines Ferry-boats or vessels for the transporting of Horse we are indebted to the Salaminians for Grapling-hooks to Anacharsis for Anchors to to the Tuscans and for the Rudder Helm Stern or Art of steering to Typhis who seeing that a Kite when she flew guided her whole body by her tayl effected that in the devices of Art which he had observed in the works of Nature About the year 1300. one Flavio of Melphi in the Kingdom of Naples found out the Compass or Pyxis Nautica consisting of eight Winds onely the four principal and four collateral and not long after the people of Bruges and Antwerp perfected that excellent Invention adding twenty four other subordinate Winds or Points so that now they are in all to the number of thirty two By means of this excellent Instrument and withal by the good success of Columbus the Portugals Eastward the Spaniards West-ward and the English North-wards have made many a glorious and fortunate Expedition Qu. Having thus shown by what means Navigation hath arrived to the height that now it is next tell what Commodities are most proper to several Countreys whither our Merchants go to traffique An. Our most provident and wise Creator hath so ordered it that there might be a sociable Conversation betwixt all Countreys that there is none of them so plentifully stockt but hath need of the Commodities of another Countrey nor is any Countrey so barren or destitute but it hath some one or more Commodities to invite Merchants to traffique with them some of which are thus set down by the divine Poet Du Bartus in his Colonies Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candie Currants Muscadel and Oyls From the Molucco's Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia come From India Gums rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria