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A66812 Witty apophthegms delivered at several times, and upon several occasions by King James, King Charls, the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas Moor ; collected and revised. Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Selections. 1669.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Selections. 1669.; Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646. Selections. 1669.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Selections. 1669.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. Selections. 1669. 1669 (1669) Wing W3237; ESTC R12699 69,627 178

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to cu●…in your M●…sty 38. Carry a watchful eye upon dangers till they come to ripeness and when they are ripe let loose a speedy hand he that expects them too long meets them too late and he that meets them too soon gives advantage to the evil Commit their beginning to Argus his eyes and their ends to Br●…areus hands and than art safe 39. Fortune hath no power over wisdom but of sensuality and of Lives that swim and navigate without the loadstone of discretion and Judgment 40. Aristarchus scoffingly said That in old time hardly could be found seven wise men throughout the world but in one day quoth he much ado there is to find so many fools 41. After Antigenus had been sick a long time of a lingring disease and well recovered again We have said he got no harm by this long sickness for th●…s hath taught us not to be so proud by p●…tting us in mind that we are but mortal his Majesties determination of it was That were he real he had by it learned a most divine Less●…n 42. That an infallid thing may be discerned and known by a fallid means As for example our senses are fallid but by them we know many things infallid whence the Papists inferre that because the Church is visible therefore the chief head must be visible The universal Church consisteth of two parties the one visible the other invisible to wit a visible body and an invisible spirit and therefore the chief head of the Church should rather be visible but we grant many visible substitutes over the Church as subordinate Rulers under the chief 43. Sir Thomas Somerset brother to the Marquess of Worcester had a house which they called Troy five miles from Ragland Castle this Sir Thomas being a compleat Gentleman of himself delighted himself much in fine Gardens and Orchards where by the benefit of art the earth was made so graceful to him at the same time that the King happened to be at his brothers house that it yielded him wherewithal to send his brother Worcester a present and such an one as the time place considered was ●…ble to make the King to believe that the Soveraign of the Planets had new changed the Poles and that Woles the re●…use and outcast of the fair Garden of England had fairer and riper fruit than Englands bowels had on all her beds this presented to the Marquess the Marquess would not suffer to be presented to the King by any other hand than his own in comes the Marquess at the latter end of Sapper led by the arm with a slow pace expressing much a Spanish gravity with a silver dish in each hand filled with rarities and a little basket on his arm as a reserve where making his obeysance he thus speaks May it please your Majesty if the four Elements could have been robd to have entertained your Majesty I think I had but done my duty but I must do as I may if I had sent to Bristol for some good things to entertain your Majesty that had been no wonder at all if I had procured from London some goodness that might have been acceptable to your Majesty but here I present your Majesty placing his dishes upon the Table with what that came not from Lincoln that was not London that is not York that is to be but I assure your Majesty that this Present came from Troy whereupon the King smiled and answered the Marquess Truly my Lord I have heard That corn now grows where Troy Town stood but I never thought there had grown any Apricocks there before Whereupon the Marquess replyed any thing to please your Majesty when my Lord Marquess departed the presence one told his Lordsh●…p that he would make a very good Courtier the Marquess said I remember I said one thing that may give you some hopes of me Any thing to please your Majesty 44. The first night his Majesty came into Rag●…and Castle the King desired to see the great Tower where his Lordship did use to keep his Treasure his Majesty spake au●…o Doctor Baily then standing by to fetch the keys he ran down to the Marquess and acquainted him with the Kings pleasure who would needs bring them to the King and shew him the Tower himself when the King saw the Marquess bringing the keys himself he ●…aus spake unto the Marquess My Lord there are some men so unreasonable as to make me believe that your Lordship hath good store of gold yet lest within t●…s Tower but I knowing how I have exhausted you together 〈◊〉 your own occasions could never have believed it until now I see you will not trust the keyes with any but your self to which the Marquess made this reply Sir I was so far from giving your Majesty any such occasion of thought by this tender of my duty that I protest unto you that I was once resolved that your Majesty should have lain there but that I was loath to commit your Majesty to the Tower 45. When the King first entred the gates of Ragland the Marquess delivered his Majesty the keyes according to the ordinary custom the King restoring them to the Marquess the Marquess said I beseech your Majesty to keep them if you please for they are in a good hand but I am afraid that ere it be long I shall be forced to deliver them into the hands of those who will spoil the Complement 46. H●…s Majesty professed that he could not fix his love on one that was never angry for as he that is without sorrow is without gladness so he that is without Anger is without Love 47. Upon discourse of life his Majesty observed that it was one of the fol●…es of man that when he was full of dayes and near his end that then he should love life most 48. Cato said to which his Majesty assents That the lest way to keep good Acts in memory was to refresh them with new 49. King Charls coming to Ragland it being when the tall Cedar of our Lebanon was brought so low and those Sycomores flourished when the Royal Oak was in the fall of the leaf it happened that his Majesty was at bowls upon Ragland Castle Green a place proudly situated where after he had ended his Recreation his Majesty was pleased to delight himself with observing the Co●…ntrey round about it happened that one Prichard the Kings partner at bowls presuming more upon his good bowling than good manners continued that familiarity that should have ended with the rubbers shewing the King where his house stood told his Majesty that he must look through the wood and he might see a white thing and that was it moreover acquainted his Majesty what the Lord of Wercester had advised him viz. to cut down some of those trees that the house might plainly be discerned from the Green whereby his Lordship when he wanted a good bowler might make a sign and so have him at a beck to which the King