in the Market a pretty while till at length a Country-man came to her and askt if she were not Master such a ones maide who answered she was I pray then said he commend me to your Master and give him this small testimony of my love which was twenty shillings and let him send some body to fetch two bushels of Wheat which I have set up at such a shop for him and I pray tell your Master that though he knowes me not yet I have cause to blesse God for the good I have received by his Ministery so the maid bought such provision as she was wont to doe and carried home the rest of the mony to her Master and Mistris and acquainted them with this strange providence and seasonable mercy Between greene heads and grey haires truth suffers much Inter juvenils judicium senile prejudieium veritas corrumpiter What for herbs in Summer and tosts in Winter a man cannot come by what he should have Vpon a Bishop of Elies Translation to Canterbury Laetentur Caeli transfertur ad Kentum ab Eli Cujus in adventum flent in Kent millia centum Rich Parsons need not preach A Gentleman meeting with a Ministers man of his acquaintance asked him how his Master did Very well Sir said the man But Thomas said the gentleman does thy Master preach still as lustily as he was wont to doe yes Sir replyed Thomas he preaches now and then though God be thanked he need not why need he not Thomas quoth the gentleman marry Sir said Thomas he is rich enough now and may give over preaching an 't please him A Prayer against the Grace of God In Edward the Sixt's time there happened a sweating Sicknesse in England whereof multitudes dyed in a short time the Scots that traded into the Northerne parts of this Kingdome demanded what disease it was that so many English-men dyed of the Country people that had never knowne any such sicknesse before knew not by what name to call it but as 't is usuall in strange accidents said 't was by the grace of God this was presently carried into Scotland that the English dyed of a new disease called The Grace of God whereupon the Clergy assembled together and composed a Collect or Prayer against the Grace of God which was ordered to be us'd on Sundaies and Holy-dayes in all the Churches of that Kingdome 't was in Latine thus Deus Sanctus Kintagernus Sanctus Romanus Sanctus Andreas libero nos hodie a Gratia Dei a faeda morte qua Angli moriuntur and in English it was thus God and Saint Mango St. Roman and St. Andrew shield us this day from God his Grace and from the foule death that the English-men dyed upon Foure blessings came into England together Greek Herefie Turkey-cocks and Beere Came into England all in one yeare Many cannot minde heaven they are so taken up with the earth King Henry the fourth asked the Duke of Alva if he had observed the great Eclips of the Sun which had lately hapned no said the Duke I have so much to doe on earth that I have no leisure to look up to heaven Nothing got by neglecting opportunities One that had gathered together many of the Sybils Books brought them to a King of the Romans to sell but demanding too much for them as the King thought they could not agree whereupon the man burnt the one halfe of his bookes and demanded double the price hee askt at first for the remainder which the King refusing to give he burnt halfe of the remaining part and doubled the price of all againe and then the King considering the value of them gave him the price I am afraid if we forbeare to give the prayers that God askes for the peace of Jerusalem the time may come that wee may be content to give blood and our estates too and yet not do one half quarter so much good as we may now by prayer This was spoken in a Sermon by an eminent Minister of London not long before our unhappy troubles Prayer more prevalent then an Army of men Mary Queen of Scots that was Mother to King James was wont to say That she feared Mr. Knockes Prayers more then an Army of ten thousand men A good tryall of bad servants Constantius the father of Constantine the great when he was advanced to honour he had about him of his servants some that were Pagans and some that were Christians he to discover who were Christians and who were not made an Edict That all those that were Christians and would not worship the Heathen Gods should immediately depart from the Court upon this all the Pagans flockt about him And many false-hearted Christians also presented their service to him To whom he made this answer nay sayes hee If you will be false to your Gods I will never trust you to be servants to me Embassadours whether sent from Kings or from God must not be abused It is reported that Rome was once destroyed to the ground for some abuses that were offered to an Embassadour that was sent unto it And David we know never played any such harsh play in all his life as he did to the Ammonites that despightfully used his Embassadours which he sent unto them when they shaved their beards and cut their coats 'T is no lesse dangerous for any to abuse the Ministers of Jesus Christ for they are Gods Embassadours An ignorant Bishop When Popery was profest in Scotland complaint was made to the Bishop of Dankelden of one called Deane Thomas That he preached too often whereupon the Bishop sent for him and charged him with what hee had heard The Deane answered that he preached but once upon the Sunday why man quoth the Bishop if thou that hast but a smal living preach once a Sunday what will the people say of me that have a great living and preach not once a yeare But prethee Deane Thomas tell me what thou preachest so often upon My Lord said hee I preach sometimes upon the Epistle and sometimes upon the Gospel appointed for the day as it hits Tush man said the Bishop thou art a foole I le tell thee what thou shalt doe when thou meetest with a good Pistle or a good Ghospel which makes for the priviledge of holy Kirk preach that and let the rest be My Lord said the Deane I have read both the old Law and the new and I can find none but good Pistles and Gospels in the Book of God if you can shew me any that are bad I will let them bee Now fie upon thee Deane Thomas replyed the Bishop what doest thou meane to trouble thy selfe so with the Scriptures And clapping himselfe upon his breast hee swore that for his part hee never knew Old Law nor New whereupon it grew into a Proverbe in Scotland when they would expresse a very ignorant man you are like the Bishop of Dunkelden that knew neither old Law nor
any meanes to maintaine them Mr. Dod for many yeares together had nothing to live on but providence whether this were from their neglect of worldly incombrances or from the worlds not favouring such men or from the wisdom of God that the world should not charge them with Covetousnesse or for that God would have them live by faith or to teach that the Servant is not above his Master oâ— to shew that Gods love is not to be measured by worldly dispensations or lastly That they might not be insnared with the things of this life whether I say it be for these or some other reasons that God is pleased to keep his most faithfull Servants upon such short commons feeding them as it were from hand to mouth keeping them shorter then many others that doe him farre lesse service is hard to say They that have money and will not imploy it deserve to have it taken from them Dionysius the elder being advertised of one that had hidden great store of money commands him upon paine of death to bring it to him which he did but not all but with the remainder he went and dwelt in another Country where he bought an Inheritance and fell upon some imployment which when Dionysius heard he sent him his mony againe which he had taken from him saying Now thou knowest how to use riches take that I had from thee A Luxurious Nation will soone overthrow it selfe Philip King of Macedon making war upon the Persians understood that they were a people which abounded in all manner of delicate Wines and other wastfull expences whereupon he presently with-drew his army saying It was needlesse to make war upon them who would shortly over-throw themselves A speedy returne of prayer Upon the first of August 1649. a generall day of Humiliation for Ireland was appointed to be kept thoroughout England at that time the Enemy was master of all Ireland excepting London-Derry and Dublin both which places were straitly besieged and almost brought to the last cast it pleased God the very next day after our Fast to give our fmall Forces there such a miraculous Victory and the Rebels such a shamefull defeat that the like by so unlikely meanes hath scarce been known God was seene in the Mount and his peoples extremity was his opportunity A pretty device to cousen Conscience Many Ships of severall Countries lay long wind-bound at Alexandria at last the wind came faire upon a Saturday morning which made the Sea-men hoyse up sayles and away amongst the rest there was a Jew who was Master of a Ship but he durst not stirre that day because it was the Jewes Sabbath yet loath he was to misse such an opportunity and to lose the company of his consorts wherefore he hires a couple of Janizaries to beat him a ship-board and to force him out of the Harbour with the rest of the Fleet that so he might pretend an unavoydable necessity A witty trick of a blinde man A blinde man that by long begging had gotten a good quantity of money which he changed into Gold and fearing least he might be cousened if he kept it about him intended to hide it somewhere in the ground To which purpose he acquainted a neare Kinsman of his with his riches and intendment desiring both his secresie and assistance who promised him both so one night they went and hid the Gold in a convenient place where the blinde man might easily of himselfe finde it when he pleased a while after the poore man goes in the night time to feele if his Treasure were safe but comming to the place and opening the hole he found that the Gold was gone he presently conceits that his Kinsman had deceived him to whom going the next day instead of complaining of his losse or challenging him for his money he told him that he had some more Gold which he thought best to put to the other and hide all together in the same place desiring him to goe with him at night for that purpose which his Cousen promised to doe but before the houre appointed his Cousen carries the bagge back to the place where it was formerly hidden and leaves it there as at first supposing that he should have it againe with advantage so when night came away they went to the place the Kinsman opens the hole and taking out the purse gives it to the blinde man who by counting the peeces findes his just quantity he had put in and instead of putting in the other Gold as he pretended he puts the purse up into his pocket saying he would dispose of it in some other place and thus this blinde man cousened his Cousen The industriousnesse of Peter Ramus Peter Ramus from his youth to his dying day never used by his good will any other bedding then Straw and in his Studies so watchfull he was that if he heard in the morning the Smiths or Carpenters or any other Artisans at work before he were stirring he would blame himselfe of negligence and sloathfulnesse that they should prevent him and be more diligent in their Mechanicall Trades then he in the study of the Liberall Sciences An impregnable place taken by a fine Stratagem The Island of Sarke joyning to Garnefie and of that Government was surprised by the French and could never have been recovered againe by strong hand having Come and Cattle enough upon the place to feed so many men as would serve to defend it and being every way so unaccessable as it might be held against the great Turke yet by the industry of a Gentleman of the Netherlands in Queene Maries time it was in this sort re-gained He Anchored in the Roade with one ship of small burden and pretending the death of his Merchant besought the French being some thirty in number that held the place that they might bury their Merchant in hallowed ground and in the Chappell of that Isle offering a Present to the French of such things as they had aboard whereto with condition that they should not come a shoare with any Weapon no not so much as with a Knife the Frenchmen yeelded then did the Flemings put a Coffin into their Boate not filled with a dead Carkasse but with Swords Targets and Harquebuffes the French received them at their Landing and searching every of them so narrowly as they could not hide a Pen-knife gave them leave to draw their Coffin up the Rocks with great difficulty some part of the French tooke the Flemish Boate and rowed aboard the ship to fetch the commodities promised and what else they pleased but being entred they were taken and bound the Flemings on the Land when they had carried the Coffin into the Chappell shut the doore to them and taking their Weapons out of the Coffin set upon the French they run to the Cliffe and cryed to their company aboard the Fleming to come to succour them but finding the Boat charged with Flemings yeelded themselves and the place The
can you now see said the Duke yea I thanke God and St. Alban saith the begger Then tell me saith the Duke what colour is my Gowne of the begger readily told him the colour and what colour is such a mans Gowne the begger told him presently and so also of many others Then said the Duke goe you counterfeit Knave if you had been borne blinde and could never see till now how come you so suddenly to know this difference of colours and thereupon instead of an Almes he caused him to be whipt openly up and downe the Towne Iesuiticall juggeling When the House at Black-fryers in London fell and had killed about a hundred Persons and wounded above as many more who were Roman Catholicks met there to heare a Popish Priest preach which was in the yeare 1623. upon a Sabbath day and the fifth of November the Powder Treason day according to the Romish account the Jesuits presently published a Booke wherein they set forth this accident with all the Circumstances as a Judgement of God fallen upon a company of Hereticall Protestants and Puritans as they were met together in a Conventicle All this was that the poore deluded people might not come to the knowledge of this remarkable Judgement lest it should startle them in their profession of Popery and that it might confirme them in their indignation against the Protestant Religion and thus they make lyes their refuge A remarkable Judgement upon a wicked Counsellour It was a very remarkable peece of Divine Justice which befell the Lord Hastings by whose advice Richard the third put to death the Earle of Rivers and Grey with others at Pomfret in the North without either tryall of Law or any offence given It pleased God that this very Hastings who counselled the Tyrant to take away the heads of these Noble-men thus unjustly lost his owne head the very same day and houre in the Tower of London in the same lawlesse manner and by the command of the same lawlesse monster What cast Lucifer out of Heaven and Adam out of Paradice God saith one had three Sons Lucifer Adam and Christ The first aspired to be like God in power and was therefore throwne downe from Heaven The second to be like him in knowledge and was therefore deservedly driven out of Eden The third did altogether imitate and follow him in his mercy and by so doing obtained an everlasting inheâ—itance The worlds Hypocrisie Omnia religiosa nunâ— ridentur He that makes Conscience of his wayes is accounted one of God Almighties Fooles we are all in effect become Comedians in Religion and while we act in gesture and voyce Theologicall vertues in all the courses of our lives we renounce our persons and the parts we play Stay the Bells the man is alive yet and like to plague you worse While Martin Luther was yet living some Popish Priests published a Booke in Italian relating the strange and fearefull manner of his death thus the story lyes A stupendious and rare Miracle which God ever to be praised shewed about the filthy death of Martin Luther a man damned both in body and soule so that it conduced to the glory of Jesus Christ and the amendment and comfort of godly men When Martin Luther was sick he desired the Lords Body to be communicated to him which he receiving dyed presently when he saw that he must dye he requested that his body might be set upon the Altar and be adored with Divine worship but God to put an end to his horrible errours by a great Miracle warned the people to abstaine from that impiety which Luther invented for when his body was laid in the Grave suddenly so great a stir terror arose as if the foundations of the earth were shaken together whereupon all the Funerall trembling were astonished and after a while lifting up their eyes beheld the sacred Host appearing in the aire wherefore with great devotion of heart they placed the most sacred Host upon the holy Altar whereupon the fearefull noyse ceased but in the night following a loud noyse and ratling much shriller then the former was heard about Luthers Sepulcher which awaked all the City terrified them and almost killed them with astonishment In the morning when they opened the Sepulcher they found neither his body nor the bones nor any of the cloaths but there came a sulphurous stinke out thereof which almost over-came the standers by By this Miracle many were so amazed that they amended their lives for the honour of the Christian Faith and the glory of Jesus Christ A faire confutation of a foule Lye When this Lye came printed into Germany Luther confuted it with his owne hand after this manner I Martin Luther doe professe and witnesse under my owne hand that I on the one and twentieth day of March received this Figment full of anger and fury concerning my death and that I read it with a joyfull minde and cheerfull countenance and but that I detest the Blasphemy which ascribeth an impudent Lye to the Divine Majesty for the other passages I cannot but with great joy of heart laugh at Satans the Popes and their complices hatred against me God turne their hearts from their Diabolicall maliciousnesse but if God decree not to heare my prayers for their sin unto death the Lord grant that they may fill up the measure of their sins and solace themselves to the full with their Libells full fraught with such like Lyes God is not alwaies alike present with his most faithfull Servants A very eminent Preacher of this Land being on a time at a Noble-mans house in the Country was intreated to preach on a weeke day at a Lecture then kept at that place which he did but was so extreamly bound and straitned in his spirit that he had almost no utterance nor inlargement at all wherewith he was exceedingly dejected in the after-noone he rode away from that place to another Towne not farre off in company with an eminent Divine who had heard him that day all the way as they rode he did nothing but complain of Gods hand in straitning him that day more then ever but preaching the same Sermon the next day God so assisted him that he never had more enlargement Vpon a Gentlewoman that well deserved it She that now takes her rest within this Tombe Had Rachels face and Leahs fruitfull wombe Abigals wisdome Lidya's faithfull heart With Martha's care and Maries better part Luthers constancy to the Truth Martin Luther was ever constant in knowne truth from the confession whereof he could never be removed with threats or promises so that when upon a time one Papist demanded of another Why doe you not stop the mans mouth with Gold and Silver the other answered This German beast careth not for money Heavinesse may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning There lived lately at Tilbury in Essex one Master Vere elder Brother to the late Lord Vere this Gentleman fell
into great trouble of minde yea he grew to such a degree of despaire as that he rejected all the comforts that many godly Ministers and other Christian friends endeavoured to apply to him nay he would not permit them to pray with him nor in his Family neither would he suffer either Reading Singing or praying to be used in his house for a long time though formerly he had both liked and used all such Christian exercises and that which is most strange he sent to all the godly Ministers and Christians that dwelt neare him to desire them for Gods sake that they would not pray for him saying that it would but increase his torments in Hell in this sad condition he continued a long time till walking one day in his chamber alone he hapned unawares to sing a line or two of a Psalme to himselfe at which instant he began to feele some inward refreshing in his spirit and by little and little he grew abundantly filled with heavenly comforts in such a measure as he told all that came to him that it was impossible for any tongue to utter or heart to imagine that did not feele them Thus he continued about three quarters of a yeare injoying heaven upon earth and then he dyed in the armes of Jesus Christ Vertue and valour is the best nobility One Verdugo a Spanish Commander in Frizeland of very meane birth but an excellent Souldier being at a great Feast with certaine of the Spanish Nobility and sitting uppermost at Table as it belonged to him there being Governour of that Country some of them began to murmure that he tooke the place before them to which he thus replyed Gentlemen quoth he question not my birth nor who my father was I am the Son of my own desert and fortune if any man dares doe as much as I have done let him come and take the Tables end with all my heart Want of learning in Noble-men to be lamâ—nted Sigismond King of the Romans greatly complained at the Counsell of Constance of his Princes and Nobility that there was not one of them that could answer an Embassadour who made a speech in Latine whereat Lodowick the Elector Palatine tooke such a deep disdaine in himselfe that with teares he lamented his want of learning and presently returning home began though very old to learne his Latine tongue The meanes Julian used to destroy Christian Religion The Apoâ—â—ate Julian who made it his businesse to destroy Christian Religion betooke himselfe to the use of two principall meanes the one whereof was obstructing the wayes of liberall Education by putting down Schools of Learning that Christians being kept in ignorance might sooner be cheated of their Faith and lesse able to resist the Heathens Sophistry The other was Indulgence to all kinde of Sects and Heresies in hope by countenancing them to create such a distraction amongst Christians as should bring speedy destruction not only upon the Orthodox party but upon the very profession of Christianity Christ only inlightens the soule Were it not for the Sunne it would be perpetuall night in the world notwithstanding all the Torches that could be lighted yea notwithstanding all the light of the Moone and Stars it is neither the Torch-light of Naturall parts and Creature comforts nor the Star-light of civill honesty and common gifts nor the Moon-light of temporary faith and formall profession that can make it day in the soule till the Sun of righteousnesse arise and shine there In warre policy is better then valour The Oracle of Apollo at Delphos being demanded the reason why Jupiter should be the chiefe of gods sith Mars was the best Souldier made this answer Mars indeed is the most valiant amongst the gods but Iupiter is the most wise concluding by this answer That policy is of more force in Military affaires then valour Parui sunt arma for is nisi sit consilium domi The qualities of a good Servant The first duty of a Servant is willingnesse to learne whatsoever is necessary the second faithfulnesse in performing truly whatsoever belongs to his duty the third carefulnesse in seeking all honest meanes to profit his Master the fourth silence in tongue in not replying to his Masters speeches Men are easily drawne to vice but hardly to vertue Calistes the Harlot said she excelled Socrates because when she was disposed she could draw away his Auditors from him no marvell saith Socrates for thou allurest them to dishonesty to which the way is ready but I doe exhort them to vertue whose way is hard to finde The wonderfull power of Prayer even in our dayes At the beginning of our New-England Plantation our Country-men were driven into great streights and one time especially above the rest for the wind held so contrary that the long expected Ships which should bring them necessaries out of Old England could not come to them whereby they were brought almost to extremity And besides it had not rained by the space of eleven weeks which made them despaire of receiving any reliefe from the seed that they had sowen In this sad condition they kept a day of seeking the Lord by Prayer and of solemne humbling of themselves before him Now marke the event before they had fully ended the businesse of the day it pleased God to send them a gracious raine which so refreshed the parched earth that they had a plentifull crop from it and the next morning three English Ships came into the Bay which abundantly supplyed their wants Christ is All and in All We have all things in Christ and Christ is all things to a Christian If we be sick he is a Physician If we thirst he is a Fountaine If our sins trouble us he is Righteousnesse if we stand in need of help he is mighty to save if we feare death he is Life if we be in darknesse he is Light if we desire Heaven he is the Way if we hunger he is Bread Queene Elizabeths godly answer about Tollerating of Popery The Emperour and almost all the Popish Princes of Christendome interceding with Queene Elizabeth in the beginning of her reigne to Tollerate the Popish Religion in her Dominions and that she would suffer the Papists to have Churches in Townes by the Protestants she answered That to let them have Churches by the others she could not with the safety of the Common-wealth and without wounding of her honour and conscience neither had she reason to doe it seeing that England imbraced no new Religion nor any other then that which Jesus Christ hath commanded that the Primitive and Catholick Church hath exercised and the ancient Fathers have alwaies with one voyce and one minde approved And to allow them to have divers Churches and divers manners of service besides that it is directly oppugnant to the Lawes established by the authority of the Parliament it were to breed one religion out of another and draw the spirits of honest people into varieties to nourish the designes
upon the impious and wicked Great men are only happy by report Great Persons had need to borrow other mens opinions to thinke themselves happy for if they judge by their owne feeling they cannot finde it they are happy onely by report Nero's over-throw Vespatiâ—n the Emperour asked Apoâ—onius what was Nero's over-throw who answered that Nero could touch and tune a Harp well but in Government sometimes he used to winde the pins too high and sometimes to let them downe too low Not good to be too Satyricall He that hath a Satyricall vaine as he may make others afraid of his wit so he had need be afraid of others memory An Episcopall character 'T is reported of one Ralph Bishop of Durham that he was witty only in dâ—â—ising or speaking or doing evill but to honesty and vertue his heart was as a lump of Lead he was counted the principall infamy of that Age living without love and dying without pitty saying of those who thought it pitty he lived so long A fine way to get preferment Guymund Chaplaine to Henry the first perceiving that the worst Clerks were advanced to the best Dignities one day as he was reading Divine Service he hapned upon James the fifth Chapter where comming to the seventeenth Verse he read thus It rained not upon the earth one one one yeares and five one months instead of three yeares and six months the King observed it and rebuked him for it he answered that he did it of purpose for that he saw such Readers were soonest preferred A man to be trusted Some men are no more to be credited then a Greeke whose unfaithfulnesse became Proverbiall and was commonly called Graeca fides for though a Creditor hath ten Bonds ten Seales and ten Sureties as usually he hath yet the Borrower will not keepe his credit What is and what is not the worke of a Minister Our worke is to make men Christians not Criticks to bring them unto Faith and not to doubtfull Disputations to feede their Soules and to guide their Consciences not to dazle their eyes nor to puzzle their judgements nor to perplex their conceits nor to please their humours nor to tickle their fancies nor to foment their jealousies and censures of things and persons by novell specious and unpractised curiosities Calvins sweet temper It was a good temper of Calvin who being told how Luther rayled on him professed that though Luther should call him Devill yet he would still acknowledge him for an excellent Servant of God A merry Epitaph upon a Singing-man This Musicall Epitaph made upon the Chanter of Langres in France was very fitly applyed to the busie Viccar of Grantham who was bred a Singing-man and one of the first that turned the Communion Tables Altarwise VVell quoth he climbe the scale of Gammuth Arâ— Till leaving Quire and of a Moode to marrie In this imperfect Time and uneven Nochets His house with Minums stor'd his head with Crochets Then prowles a Long the Country for reliefe Lookt for a Large but lighted on a Briefe And from the white Long and the Sacred Altar Deserving Dupla's reapt but a Sesqui alter Base was his part yet his neighbours say He sung the Truble till his dying day For Counter-points and Discords much enquest He made till here he found his Pause and Rest Time perfect had he had and more prolation He quite had changd the Plain-song of the Nation Severall Lawes and Customs of severall States and Common-Wealths Ptolomeus King of Aegypt feasting one day seven Embassadours at his request every one of them shewed unto him three of their principall Lawes and Customs and first the Embassadour of Rome said We have the Temple in great reverence we are very obedient to our Governours and we doe punish wicked men and evill-livers severely The Carthaginian Embassadour said In the Common-wealth of Carthage the Nobility never cease fighting nor the common People and Artifâ—cers labouring nor the Philosophers teaching The Cicilian said In our Common-wealth Justice is exactly kept Merchandiâ—e exercised with truth and all men account themselves equall The Rhodians Embassadour said At Rhodes old men are honest young men shame-fac'd and Women solitary and of few words The Athenian Embassadour said In our Common-wealth rich men are not divided into Factions poore men are not idle the Governours are not ignorant The Lacedemonian Embassadour said In Sparta envie reigneth not for all men are equall nor Covetousnesse for all goods are common nor Sloath for all men labour The Embassadour of the Sicyonians said We permit none to travell lest they should bring home new Fashions Phisitians are not suffered least they should kill the sound nor Lawyers least they should maintaine Suits and Controversies The vertue of Christians prayers The Emperour Marcus Antonius being in Almany with his Army was inclosed in a dry Country by his enemies who so stopped all the passages that he and hâ—s Army were like to perish for want of water the Emperours Lieutenant seeing him â—o distressed told him that he had heard that the Christians could obtaine any thing of their God by their prayers whereupon the Emperour having a Legion of Christians in his Army desired them to pray to their God for his and the Armies delivery out of that danger which they presently did and incontinent a great Thunder fell amongst the enemies and abundance of water upon the Romans whereby their thirst was quenched and the enemies over-throwne without any fight A smart Satyre It was a smart invention of him that having placed the Emperour and the Pope aâ— reconciled in their Majestick Thrones he brought the States of the world before them First comes a Counsellour of State with this Motto I advise you two then a Courtier I flatter you three then a Husband-man with this Motto I feed you foure then a Merchant I cousen you five then a Lawyer I rob you six then a Souldier I fight for you seven then a Phisitian I kill you eight Lastly a Priest I absolve you all nine If the Devill take the Prince what will become of the Bishop A certaine Germaine Clown or Boare as they terme him seeing the Bishop of Colen ride in state with a great Traine of Horse-men before and after him stood gaping on the Bishop as he passed by and smiled to himself the Bishop perceiving it made a stand and demanded of the Boare why he thus smiled bidding him speake the truth freely without feare for he should sustaine no damage whereupon the Boare replyed That he smiled to think with himselfe whether Saint Martin Patron and first Bishop of Colen ever rode in such state as he did now the Bishop hereunto answered That he was an ignorant silly Fellow for he did not ride in his state as he was Arch-Bishop of Colen but as he was the chiefe Prince Elector of Germany whereupon the Clowne wittily retorred Suppose said he my Lord the Devill should come and fetch away the Prince Elector I pray what