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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

Earldoms of Guyen and Poictou by Elbiner his wife and a great part of Ireland by conquest towards the latter end of his Reign he was much troubled with the unnatural Rebellion of his Sons He dyed the sixth day of July Anno 1189. and Reigned twenty four years and seven months lacking eleven days Richard the first for his valor and magnanimous courage sirnamed Coeur de Lion he with a most puissant Army warred in the Holy-Land where by his acts he made his name very famous overcoming the Turks in several Battels whom he had almost driven out of Syria he also took the Isle of Cyprus which he afterwards exchanged for the Title of King of Jerusalem after many worthy atchievements performed in those Eastern parts returning homewards to defend Normandy and Aquitain against the French he was by a Tempest cast upon the Coast of Austria where he was taken prisoner and put to a most grievous Ransom finally he was slain at the siege of Chaluz in France by a shot from an Arbalist the use of which warlike Engine he first shewed to the French whereupon a French Poet made these Verses in the person of Antropos Hoc volo non alia Richardum marte perire Ut qui Francigenis Balistae primitus usum Tradidit ipse sui rem primitus experiatur Quamque aliis docuit in se enim sentiat artis It is decreed thus must great Richard die As he that first did teach the French to dart An Arbalist 't is just he first should try The strength and taste the Fruits of his own Art In his days lived those Outlaws Robin Hood Little John c. King John next succeeded or rather usurped the Crown his eldest Brothers Son Arthur of Britain being then living He was an unnatural Son to his Father and an undutiful subject to his Brother neither sped he better in his own Reign the French having almost gotten his Kingdom from him who on the Popes curse came to subdue it with whom joyned many of his Subjects by which the Land was brought to much misery Finally after a base submission to the Popes Legat he was poysoned by a Monk at Sw●nested-Abby after he had reigned seventeen years and five months lacking eight days and lyeth buried at Worcester Henry the third Son to King John against whom the rebellious Barons strongly warred yet however he expelled the intruding French out of England confirmed the Statutes of Magna Charta and having reigned fifty six years and twenty eight days was buried at Westminster of which Church he built a great part Edward the first sirnamed Long-shanks who warred in the Holy-Land where he was at the time of his Fathers death a most Heroick magnanimous Prince he awed France subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection disposing of the Crown thereof according to his pleasure he brought from thence the Regal Chair still reserved in Westminster-Abby he was a right vertuous and fortunate Prince Reigned thirty four years seven months and odd days and lyeth buried at Westminster Edward the second a most dissolute Prince hated of his Nobles and contemned by the vulgar for his immeasurable love to Pierce Gaveston and the two Spencers on whom he bestowed most of what his Father had purchased with his Sword as one writeth in these Verses Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand Albania Gascoyn Cambria Ireland That young Carnarvon his unhappy Son Should give away all that his Father won He having Reigned nineteen years six months and odd days was deposed and Edward his eldest Son Crowned King Edward the third that true pattern of vertue and valor was like a rose out of a Bryar an excellent Son of an evil Father he brought the Scots again to a formal obedience who had gained much on the English in his Fathers life time laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother and in pursuance of his Title gave the French two great overthrows taking their King prisoner with divers others of the chief Nobility he took also that strong and almost impregnable Town of Callice with many other fair possessions in that Kingdom Reigned fifty years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Richard the second Son to Edward the black Prince the eldest Son of King Edward the third an ungovern'd and dissolute King He rejected the sage advice of his Grave Counsellors was most ruled by his own self-will'd passions lost what his Father and Grand-father had gained and at last his own life to the Lancastrian faction in his time was that famous or rather infamous rebellion of Wat Taylor and Jack Straw He having Reigned twenty two years three months and odd days was deposed and murdered at Pomfret Castle Henry the fourth Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster third Son to Edward the third obtained the Crown more by force than by lawful succession he was a wise prudent Prince but having gotten the Crown unjustly was much troubled with insurrection of of the subjects which he having quieted surrendred to fate having reigned thirteen years six months and odd days and was buried at Canterbury Henry the fifth who from a dissolute vicious Prince became the mirror of Kings and pattern of all Heroick performance he pursued his Title to the Crown of France bear the French at Agin Court and was in a Parliament of their Nobility Clergy and Commons ordained Heir apparent to the French Crown but lived not to possess it dying in the full carrier of his victories at Vincent Boys in France and was brought over into England and buried at Westminster He Reigned nine years five months and odd days Henry the sixth sirnamed of Windsor his birth-place of whom it was prophesied that What Henry of Monmouth had won which was his Father Henry of Windsor should lose He was a very pious Prince and upheld his State during the life of his Unkles John Duke of Bedford and Humphrey of Glocester after whose deaths the Nobility growing factious he not only lost France to the French but England and his life to the Yorkish faction He having reigned thirty eight years was overthrown by Edward Earl of March descended by the Mothers side from Lionel Duke of Clarence second Son to King Edward the third was arrested and sent to the Tower where within a while after he was murdered and buried at Cherlsey since removed to Windsor Edward the fourth a prudent politick Prince He after nine bloody Battels especially that of Tawton in which were slain of the English thirty six thousand on both sides was at last quietly seated in his dominions of England and Ireland Reigned twenty two years one month and odd days and was buried at Windsor Edward the fifth his Son a King proclaimed but before his Coronation was murdered in the Tower Richard the third brother to Edward the fourth was Crowned King ascending to the same by steps of blood murdering King Henry the sixth and Prince Edward his Son 3.

George Duke of Clarence his own Brother with many faithful servants to King Edward 4. Edward the fifth his lawful Soveraign with Prince Richard his brother 5. Henry Duke of Buckingham his great friend and sixth one Collingborn an Esquire who was hang'd drawn and quartered for making this Verse The Cat the Rat and Lowel our Dog Rule all England under a Hog Finally having reigned two years and two months he was slain by Henry Earl of Richmond and buried at Grey Fryers Church at Leicester Henry the seventh who united the two Houses of York and Lancaster by marrying with Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Edward the fourth He was a Prince of marvellous Wisdom Policy Justice Temperance and Gravity and notwithstanding great troubles and wars which he had against home-bred Rebels he kept his Realm in right good order He builded the Chappel to Westminster-Abby a most accurate piece of Work wherein he was interred after he had reigned twenty three years and eight months Henry the eight who banished the Popes supremacy out of England won Bulloign from the French lived beloved and feared of his Neighbour Princes the last of our Kings whose name began with the Letter H. which Letter had been accounted strange and ominous every mutation in our State being as it were ushered in by it according as I find it thus versed in Albions England Not superstitiously I speak but H this Letter still Hath been accounted ominous to England's good or ill First Hercules Hesion and Helen were the cause Of war to Troy Aeneas seed becoming so Out-laws Humber the Hum with foreign Armes did first the Brutes invade Hellen to Romes Imperial Throne the British Crown convey'd Hengist and Horsus first did plant the Saxons in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harold had the Saxons end at Hardy Cnute the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Reign Fourth Henry first for Lancaster did Englands Crown obtain Seventh Henry jarring Lancaster and York unites in peace Henry the eighth did happily Romes irreligion cease King Henry having Reigned thirty seven years nine months and odd days dyed and was buried at Windsor Edward the sixth a most vertuous religious Prince whose wisdom was above his years and whose piety was exemplary he perfected the Reformation begun by his father King Henry At the age of sixteen years he departed this life having Reigned six years five months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Mary his Sister whom King Henry begat of Katherine of Spain she restored again the Mass set at liberty those Bishops imprisoned in her brothers Reign and imprisoned those who would not embrace the Romish perswasion She was very zealous in the cause of the Pope for not yielding to which many godly Bishops and others of the Reformation suffered Mattyrdom In her time was Callice lost to the French the grief whereof it was thought brake her heart she Reigned five years four months and odd days and was buried at Westminster Elizabeth daughter to Henry the eighth by the Lady Ann of Bulloigne a most Heroick vertuous Lady she again banished the Popes power out of England reduced Religion to its primitive purity and refined the Coyns which were then much corrupt For the defence of her Kingdom she stored her Royal Navy with all warlike munition aided the Scots against the French the French Protestants against the Catholiques and both against the Spaniard whose invincible Armado as it was termed she overthrew in 88. Holland found her a fast friend against the force of Spain the Ocean it self was at her command and her name grew so redoubted that the Muscovite willingly entered into League with her She was famous for her Royal Government amongst the Turks Persians and Tartars which having endured forty four years five months and odd days she dyed being aged about seventy years and was buried at Westminster King James a Prince from his Cradle the sixth of that name in Scotland and the first in England He excelled for Learning and Religion a second Solomon in whose Reign during all the time thereof our Land was enriched with those two blessings of Peace and Plenty He died in a good old age notwithstanding the Treason of the Gowries and the Powder-plot Reigned twenty two years and three days and was buried at Westminster Charles the first Son to King James a most pious prudent vertuous Prince enriched with all excellencies both of mind and body He was by his own Subjects most barbarously murdered before his PallaceGate at Whitehall Jan. 30. An. 1648. after he had Reigned twenty three years ten months and 3 days Twit Papists now not with the Powder-plot This blacker deed will make the same forgot Charles the second the Heir of his Fathers vertues and Crown who having been long detained from his right by the prevailing sword of Rebels was miraculously restored to his Subjects and Kingdom May the 29. 1660. Who God grant long long long to Reign May they be all Rebels and Traitors reckon'd Who wish the least hurt unto Charles the Second Hereafter followeth the Histories of St Denis the Titulary Saint of France St. Romain and some others being after used in discourse for the Readers better information and delight according as we find it in the Legend of them SAint Denis is said to be the same Dionisius of Areopagita mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles who being converted himself ●hirsted after the conversion of others and ●o that end he with Rusticus and Elutherius ●ravelled into France then called Gauls where he converted many to Christianity and ●ecame the first Bishop of Paris making Rus●icus his Arch-Priest and Elutherius his Dea●on Afterwards in the Reign of Domitian the Emperor persecution growing hot Fes●ennius Governor of Paris commanded that ●e should bow before the Altar of Mercury and offer Sacrifice unto him which St. Denis with the other two beforenamed refusing to do they were all three of them condemned to be beheaded which was accordingly executed on Mont-Matre distant about a mile from Paris Now it came to pass that when the Executioner had smitten off Saint Denis his head that he caught it up between his Arms and ran with it down the Hill as fast as his legs could carry him half a mile from the place of his Execution he sate down and rested and so he did nine times in all till he came to the place where his Church is now built where he met with a very old woman whom he charged to bury him in that place and then fell down and died being three English miles from Mont-Matre and there he was buried together with Rusticus and Elutherius who were brought after him by the people Afterwards by the succeeding ages when Christianity had gotten the upper-hand of Paganism in the nine several places where he rested are erected so many handsome Crosses of stone all of a making To the memory of this Saint did

Thus Englished Thy praise not fraud thy virtue not thy store Made thee to climb that height which we adore For which Encomion he was set at liberty and being gone out of the Popes Jurisdiction he sent to his Holiness and desired according to his own true meaning to read the self same verses backward which then run thus Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere rerum Copia non virtus fraus tua non tua laus Englished The height which we adore what made thee climb Nor virtue nor thy worth rather thy crime Qu. What Inscription or Motto was that which Martin de Arsello fixing over his Gate by reason of false pointing of the Painter cost him his Bishoprick An. Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himself made the Comma at nulli by which it was thus Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it for a a grand abuse towards him discarded him of his bishoprick and placed another in his house who kept the inscription still but only added the Comma and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding thereto Ob unum punctum caret Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poor point all is from Martin gone The like fallacy was used to our King Edward the second who being made a prisoner by his Rebellious Subjects to his Keeper was sent this verse To seek to shed King Edwards blood Refuse to fear I hold it good Where his Keeper making the comma at fear when it should have been at refuse the unhappy Prince by that disloyal Legerdemain of words lost his life Qu. In what Aenigma or Riddle was that Grand Traitor Oliver Cromwel's name included An. The Heart of the Loaf and the head of the Spring Is the name of the man that murther'd the King The heart of the Loaf is the Crom and the Head of the Spring is the Well which put together is Cromwell Qu. Which were the ten general Persecutors so famously known in the primitive Church An. The first was under Nero that bloody persecutor and enemy of mankind who set the City Rome on fire and ript up his Mothers belly to see the place of his conception Anno 67. The second was under Domitianus Anno 96. The third under Trajan Anno 100. The fourth under Marcus Antoninus Anno 167. The fifth under Severus Anno 195. The sixth under Maximinus Anno 237. The seventh under Decius Anno 250. The eight under Valerianus Anno 259. The nineth under Aurelianus Anno 278. The tenth under Dioclesian Anno 293. Yet notwithstanding these cruel Persecutions wherein as one of the Fathers writeth there were murthered five thousand every day in the year excepting onely the first day of January yet were they like Camomile the more they were trode on the thicker they grew and the blood of the Martyrs proved to be the seed of the Church Qu. How many were the Sybils and what were their names An. They were in number ten viz 1 Persica 2 Lybica 3 Delphica 4 Cumea 5 Samis 6 Helespontiaca 7 Tiburtina 8 Albunea 9 Erythrea 10 Cumana The first was of Persia called Samberta which among other prophecies said The womb of the Virgin shall be the salvation of the Gentiles The second was of Lybia one of her Prophecies were The day shall come that men shall see the King of all living things The third was Themis sir-named Delphica because she was born and prophesied at Delphos where was the Oracle and Temple of Apollo one of her Prophesies runs thus A Prohet shall be born of a Virgin The fourth was Cumea born at Campagnia in Italy of whom Virgil maketh mention in his book of Aeneids who prophesied That God should be born of a Virgin and converse among sinners The fifth was called Samia born in the Isle of Samos which said He being rich should be born of a poor Virgin the creatures of the earth should adore him and praise him for ever The sixth was called Hellespontiaca born at Marmiso in the Territory of Troy she prophesied A woman shall descend of the Jews called Mary and of her shall be born the Son of God his Kingdom shall remain for ever The seventh was Albunea sir'named Tyburtina because she was born at Tybur fifteen miles from Rome one of her prophesies was this The invisible word shall be born of a Virgin he shall converse among sinners and shall of them be despised The eighth was Albunea who prophesied The Highest shall come from Heaven and confirm the Counsel in Heaven and a Virgin shall be shewed in the Valleyes of the Desarts The ninth was the famous Erythrea born in Babylon who especially prophesied a great part of our Christian Religion in certain Verses recited by Eusebius the first Letters of every which Verses being put together makes these words Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour These verses are translated into Latine by St. Augustine Lib. 11. Cap. 25. of The City of God where they may be read at large and are excellently well translated be Sir John Beaumont where they may be found amongst his Poems The tenth was called Cumana from the name of the place where she lived she prophesied That he should come from Heaven and reign here in poverty This last Sybil is affirmed to be she who writ the Nine Books of the Sibyls which were by an old woman presented to Tarquinius Superbus demanding for the same a great sum of money which he being unwilling to pay the old woman burnt three of them before his face requiring as much money for the other six which being denied she also burned three more of them asking as much for the three remaining as for the rest which Superbus amazed gave and the old Trot vanished These books containned manifest Prophecies of the Kingdom of Christ his Name his Birth and Death They were all afterwards burned by the Arch-traitor Stilico so that those Prophesies which are now extant are onely such as are extracted out of others writings wherein mention of them was made Qu. What is it that may be said concerning the ubiquity of Marriage An. One Bed can hold a loving man and wife A whole house cannot hold them being at strife Qu What is the difference between the love and lust of a Courtezan An. That her love is like breath on steel soon on and soon off but her lust is as the Ocean still ready for an anothers embraces and prostitutes her body to every new commer Qu. What is the difference betwixt saying nothing and doing nothing An. The Poet will tell you in these verses Little or nothing said soon mended is But they that nothing do do most amiss Qu. What may Law in the abuse thereof fitly be compared unto An. To a thicket of Brambles into which by tempest the poor sheep being driven from the