them in my being thine Taffy to his Mistress MOdest Shentle when her but see The great laugh her made on me And fine wink that her send To her came to see her friend Her could not shuse py Cot apove But he was intangle in her love A hundred ofttimes her was about To speak to her and have her out But her peeing a Welsh man porn And therefore was thank her would her scorn Was fear put think nothing better Then put her love into a Letter Hoping her will not ceptions take Upon her love for Country sake For say her be Wilsh man what ten By Cot they all be Shentlemen Was descend from Shoves none Line Par humane and par divine And from Venus that fair Coddes And twenty other shentle Poddies Hector stout and comely Paris Arthur Prute and King of Fairies Was her none Cosin all a kin We have the Powels issue in And for ought that her can see As cood men as other men pee But what of that Love is a knave Was make her do what her would have Was compel her to write the rhime That ne're was write before this time And if she will not pitty her pain As Cot shudge her soul shall ne're write again For Love is like an ague fit Was bring poor Welsh-men out of her wit Till by her answer her do know Whether her do love or no. Her has not pin in England long And con no speak the English tongue Put her is her friend and so her will prove Pray send her word if her can love Superscription for the Drolling-Letters TO the most gracious Queen of my Soul To the most illustrious Princess of my Heart To the Countess Dowager of my Affections To the Lady of my Conceptions To the Baroness of My Words and Actions To the Spring-Garden of all pleasure and delight To the Peerles Paragon of Exquisite Formosity To the chief of my Heart and Affections To the Empress of my thoughts To the Lady and Mistress of my thoughts and service To the Lilly-white-hands of my Angelical Mistress These present To the Compleat Mirrour of Beauty and Perfection To the ninth Wonder of the World To the most Accomplish'd Work of Nature and the Astonishment of all Eyes To the Fair Murdress of my Soul To the Rose of pure Delight To the Choise Nutmeg of Sweetest Consolation To the most Flourishing Bud of Honour To His Most Sacred Angel Mistress c. To Her who is Day without Night a Sun full of Shade a Shade full of Light Mistress c. To the Atlas of her best Thoughts and Affections Her Dearly beloved M. L. Broom-man in SOUTHWARK These Subscriptions MAdam Your Gally Gally Gally-Slave Madam Your Always burning Salamander Madam Your Continual Martyr Madam Your poor Worm that must of necessity die if trod upon by the foot of your disdain Madam Your Captive willingly fetter'd in the Chains of your beauty Madam The Vassal of your Severest Frowns Madam The Most Loyal Subject to Your Imperial Power MOCK LETTERS And Drolling Letters A Souldier to his Mistress Madam I Have now left the bloody Banners of Mars to follow Cupids Ensigns Though I must now confess the latter to be the severer service for under the one we onely get broken Pates under the other wonded Hearts There we have pay and plunder here we have neither But from whence arises all my trouble 't is from you Madam who like Jone of Arquez are risen up to terrifie me in the midst of all my conquests For alas the assaults of your eyes have so alarum'd my brest that it is in vain for me to think of reposing by day or sleeping by night Oh! that you would make an end of the War and come and take me in my own Quarters Otherwise I must be compell'd to bring my scaling ladders to force that Lathemhouse of Beauty which is your fair body to free my self from the hourly incursions that your perfections make upon my soul. But why do I rage Deliver it by fair means By the Nails of Jupiter of you will not delay to do it I swear there is no man shall venture his life further to defend you from the Batteries of lying fame or injurious slander And more then that you shall find me the most faithful Knight that ever smote terrible Gyant for fair Ladies sake A Pedagogue to his Mistress Most Dear Star KNow you not that you are already mounted above the Horizon of Accomplish'd Nihil verius est There is nothing more true And being thus the Miracle of your Perfections and the perfection of your Miracles with a soft violence ye have wounded my bleeding soul. Foemineo teneri tribuuntur The Feminine gender is very troublesome But O Damsel as fair as you are cruel and as cruel as you are fair do not resemble that treacherous Emperour Nero who took pleasure to see the City of Rome on fire O! do not from the turret of your merits with delight behold not onely the Suburbs but even the City of my Heart to burn with all the Churches in it that I have dedicated to your honour For I can assure you more fair then Venus then Venus of Cyprus as the Grammar hath it Creta Brittannia Cyprus Great Britain and Cyprus that whatever Oration or Sillogism poor miserable and passive I can make by way of special demonstration is onely to shew and acknowledge how much I am your superlative servant per omnes casus in all cases A Cockney to his Mistress My Dear Peggie I Have here sent thee these Lines writ with my tears and a little blacking that our Maid rubs my Fathers Shoes with that I may unload a whole Cart-load of grief into the Ware-house of thy bosome Truly Peggie I think I shall die for I can neither eat nor drink nor sleep nor wake Nothing that my Mother can buy either in Cheap-side or Newgate-Market will go down with me yet you know my mother 's as pretty a Hâ—swife as any in the Town She seeing me look as pale as the Linen in Moor-fields and moping in the Chimney corner bid the Maid fetch me a Cap and ask'd me if I would have any Sugar sops But I cry'd no I 'de have Peggie with that she jeer'd me saying What are you love-sick Tom And then I I cry'd and made a noise like a Câ—â— upon the Tiles But let all the world say what they will I will pout and be sick and my Father and Mother shall lose their eldest Son but I le have Peggie that I will I beseech thee not to omit any occasion of writting to me that since I cannot kiss thy hand I may kiss the Letters that thy hand did write The Bearer hereof is our Cook-maid one that pitties my condition and is very trusty I have therefore engag'd her to call and see thee every time she goes to Market My Mothers Rings are all close lockt up else I would steal one to send it thee however
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What Logick is Q. WHat is Logick A. Logick is the Art of disputing well and in that sense is called Logick CAP. 2. The parts of Logick and kinds of Arguments Q. How many parts hath Logick A. Logick hath two parts Invention and Judgment Q. What is Invention A. Invention is a part of Logick of inventing Arguments Q. What is an Argument A. An Argument is that which is affected to argue any thing such as are all Reasons considered apart and by themselves Q. What be the Kindes A. Artificial and Inartificial Q. What is an Artificial Argument A. That which argueth of it self Q. What be the Kindes A. First or derived from the First Q. What is First A. First is that which is of its own original Q. What be the Kindes A. Simple or Comparative Q. What is Simple A. Simple is that which is considered simply and absolutely Q. What be the Kindes A. Agreeing or disagreeing Q. What is Agreeing A. That which agreeth with the thing which it argueth Q. What be the Kindes A. Agreeing absolutely or after a certain manner Q. What is agreeing absolutely A. The Cause and Effect CAP. 3. The Efficient Procreant and Conservant Cause Q. what is the Cause A. The Cause is that by whose force the thing is Q. What is the profit of it A. This first place of Invention is the fountain of all Knowledge and he is believed to know of whom the cause is held As the Poet saith worthily The man sure happy is who cause of things doth know Q. How is the Cause divided A. Into two Kindes Efficient and Matter or Form and End Q. what is the Efficient Cause A. The Efficient Cause is that which the thing is Q. How many Kindes hath it A. There appeareth to us no true Kindes yet the great plenty of it is distinguished by certain means Q. What is that which effecteth by the first meâ—ns A. That which procreateth or defendeth Q. Give me an example out of some Poet A. Ovid first remedio amoris Therefore when thou shalt look in this our medsonal Art My admonition do set idleness apart This causeth thee to love this doth defend it still This is the cause of Joy as meat sometimes breeds ill Take lastly sloath away God Cupids bow is lost His torches lose their light contemn'd away they 'r tost Q. Give me a more familiar example A. The Father and Mother procreate the Nurse defendeth Q. Give an example of this out of some Poet A. 4. Aeneid Th' rt no Gods child ne Dardanus his son Thou rather from the steep hard rocks didst come Of Caucasus it seemeth of that breed Hyrcanian Tigars thee with breasts did feed Aeglog 8. Now what this whorson love is I well wot It is a little busie boy begot Not of mans seed ne sib to one of us But farthest Garamants and Ismarus Or rockie Rhodope as it should seem In their rough ragged hills ingendred him Q. Do not builders and governours of Cities come under this Head A. Yes Romulus the builder of the City
some examples of Relates A. Pro Mare By which thou truly understandest how much praise there is for the benefit given when as for the receiving is so much glory Marc. against Sosib. Sosibian thou yield'st thou wast born thrall When flattering thou thy Father Lord dost call So Quint. Lib. 5. Cap. 10. If it be honest to place himself at Rhoades and to lodge at Hirmaereon After which manner Tullius in the perfect oration It is therefore dangerous saith he lest any should think it dishonesty to teach that in the great and glorious Art to others which it was honesty for him to learn Q. Doth not earnest affection sometimes flow from these Relates A. Yes Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Cicero in his Oration hath brought forth a certain earnest affection from these Relates Now these are grave saith he Wife of the Son in law Step-mother of the Son anp Bawd of the Daughter Q. Give example out of some Poet A. All this Ovid hath effected maniefestly in his description of the Iron Age Met. 1. â—e doth the guest safe in his Inn remain His Host him troubles who doth him retain Sisters ev'n from their Brethren are not free The Husband longs the death of 's Wife to see She hateth him and 'gainst him doth conspire The cursed Stepdame's always in an Ire The Son before his time doth's Fathers years enquire Q. But the Argument of such Relations hath nothing contrary yea it rather argueth mutual causes as thou art my Father I therefore am thy Son how then appeareth the Contraries A. When I say I am Father I am not therefore thy Son then are the Contraries true CAP. 15. Adverses Q. What are adverses A. Adverses are Contraries affirming which are perpetually adverse among themselves Give example out of some Poet A. Aeneid 11. No health in war we all desire Peace Q. Give further example A. White and black hot and cold vertue and vice are opposed Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Parad. 1. Cont. Epe Yet they do hold strongly and defend accurately that pleasure is the chief good which to me truly doth seem to be the voice of Beasts not of Men when as whether God or Nature as I may say the mother of all things hath given thee a soul then which nothing is more excellent nothing more divine dost thou so cast and throw down thy self as that thou thinkest there is no difference betwixt thee and the four-footed Beasts Q. Wherein consists the force of this example A. Cicero hath opposed beasts and men Adverses pleasure is the good of beasts and therefore of men Q. Give another example out of some Poet A. So Liberty and Servitude in Tib. Lib. 2. So Servitude I see prepared for me Yet Parents Freedom would far better be Q. Give example out of an Orator A. Pro Marcel For Temerity is never joyned with Wisdom neither is Chance admitted to Counsel CAP. 16. Contradicents Q. Having spoken of contraries affirming we are come to contraries denying what are they then A. Contraries denying are such of which one saith the other denieth the same Q. What are the kindes A. They are Contradicents or Privants Q. What are Contradicents A. Contradicents are Contraries denying of which one denieth every where Q. Give example A. Just not just a creature not a creature it is it is not These are Contradicents Q. Give example out of some Orator A. Pro Murena The sentence of Cato and Cicero are contraries this of the Stoicks that man of the Academicks The Dialogue is in these words Thou hast known nothing yea something but not all things Thou hast done nothing meerly for thanks yet refuse not thanks when as thine office and trust requireth it Be not moved with mercy in condemning But yet there is some praise of humanity Stand in thine own opinion except a better should overcome Q. Give example from some Poet A. Mart. lib. 2. Th' art fair Fabulla rich and all 's a maid Can you deny 't is truth that I have said But if thou boastest of thy self too much Th' art neither fair a virgin nor yet rich Q. Give another example out of some Orator A. Cicero primo Tusc. Forceth Atticus the Epicure by this argument to confess that the Dead were not miserable if they were not at all as the Epicures believe I had rather saith he thou shouldest fear Cerberus then speak so inconsiderately Atticus why Marcus that which thou deniest that thou sayest Where is thy wit For when as thou sayest he is miserable thou then sayest he is which is not Then after long disputation Atticus said go to now I grant that those which are dead are not miserable because thou hast forced me to confess that they be not at all lest they should be miserable Q. Give another example A. Terrence in Ev. Phedria frameth his speech to Dorus when as he had affirmed that which he denied afterwards After a manner saith he he saith after a manner he denieth CAP. 17. Privants Q. What are Privants A. Privants are contraries denying of which one denieth in the same Subject only in which the Affirmative of its own nature is Q. What is the Affirmative called A. The Habit. Q. And what the Negative A. Privation Q. Make this plainer A. Motion and Rest Drunkenness and Sobriety are comprised under this Head Q. Give example A. Mart. Lib. 3. Th' art drunken sure sober thou would'st not do 't Q. What may further be under this Head A. To be blinde and to see Give example A. Pro Celio There is therefore one of this family and he truly is greatly blinde for he shall take no grief who shall not see her Q. What may further be under this Head A. Poverty and Riches are thus opposed Q. Give example A. Mart. Lib. 5. Poor shalt thou be Emilian if poor Wealth 's never given but to the rich before Q. What further A. Death and Life A. Give example A. Cont. Mil. Sit ye still O revengers of this mans death whose life if you thought you could restore would you Q. What further A. Silence and Speech Give example A. Primo Cat. What expectest thou the authority of the Speakers whose silence thou beholdest to be their pleasures Q. What more A. Mortality and Immortality Q. Give example A. Pro Marc. I grieve when as the Common Wealth ought to be immortal that it consisteth of one mortal life And this sufficeth to be spoken of disagreeing from whence every thing may differ from another by certain means CAP. 18. Equalls Q. Simple Arguments were agreeings and disagreeings we are now come unto Comparatives what are Comparatives therefore A. Comparatives are those which are compared amongst themselves Q. How are they manifested A. Although they be equally known by the nature of Comparison yet one to another is more known and illustrated then another and oftentimes are judged by shorter notes sometimes distinguished by fuller parts Q. What may these parts be
the Cellar Yet he must unremembred dye like some base Fortune-teller He made the Ballad of the Turk and sung it in the street And shall he dye and no man heed it no friends it is not meet He lived in a Garret high as high as any Steeple And shall he dye alas poor Jo unknown unto the People He had no Curtains to his Bed yet still paid for his quart While Coin did last and shall he dye And no man lay 't to heart He lov'd his Dog Icleped Trou his Dog he loved Pye Shall Tobit live for his Dogs sake and Jo neglected dye He hated all the Female sex who knows his private grudge And must he therefore dye forgot I leave the World to judge Each Term he ask'd his Father Blessing most gravely and demurely Who then did give him Shillings Ten and must he dye obscurely No Jo I 'le bid peace to thy bones Though they were sick and crazie And must be quite made new again Before that Heav'n can raise thee And since th' art gone and there is none who knoweth where to find thee I 'le fix this truth upon thy name Thou didst leave Wit behind thee Wit that shall make thy name to last when Tarletons Jests are rotten And George a Green and Mother Bunch shall all be quite forgotten Now if you ask where Jo is gone you think I cannot tell Oh he is blest for he was poor and could not go to Hell But for his Father rich in Bags the Devil ought to have him That took no care of such a Son till 't was too late to save him The Song of the Caps THe Wit hath long beholding bin Unto the Cap to keep it in Let now the Wit fly out amain With Praise to quit the Cap again The Cap that owes the highest part Obtain'd that place by due desert For any Cap what e're it be Is still the sign of some Degree The Cap doth stand each man doth show Above a Crown but Kings below The Cap is nearer Heaven than we A greater sign of Majesty When off the Cap we chance to take Both Head and Feet obeysance make For any Cap c. The Monmouth Cap the Saylors Thrum And that wherein the Saylors come The Physick Law the Cap Divine The same that crowns the Muses nine The Cap that Fools do countenance The goodly Cap of Maintenance And any Cap c. The sickly Cap both plain and wrought The Fudling Cap however brought The Quilted Furr'd the Velvet Sattin For which so many Pates learn Latin The Crewel Cap the Fustean Pate The Periwig a Cap of late Thus any Cap c. The Souldiers that the Monmouth wear On Castle tops their Ensigns rear The Saylors with their Thrum do stand On higher place than all the Land The Tradesman Cap aloft is born By vantage of some say his horn Thus any Cap c. The Physicks Cap to dust may bring Without controll the greatest King The Lawyers Cap hath heavenly might To make a crooked Cause stand right Which being round and endless knows To make as endless any Cause Thus any Cap c. Both East and West and North and South Where e're the Gospel finds a mouth The Cap divine doth thither look The Square-like Scholars and their Book The rest are round but this is square To shew that they more stable are Thus any Cap c. The Motley man a Cap doth wear That makes him fellow for a Peer And it s no slender part of wit To act the fool where great men sit But Oh the Cap of London town I wis 't is like the Giants crown Thus any Cap c. The sick mans Cap not wrought with silk Is like repentance white as milk When Hats in Church drop off in haste This Cap ne're leaves the head uncaste The sick mans Cap if wrought can tell Though he be ill his state is well Thus any Cap c. The Fudling Cap God Bacchus might Turns night to day and day to night Yet spendors it prefers to more By seeing double all their store The Fur'd and Quilted Cap of age Can make a mouldy Proverb sage Thus any Cap c. Though Fustean Caps be slender wear The head is of no better gear The Crowel Cap is knit like Hose For them whose zeal takes cold in the nose Whose purity doth judge it meet To cloth alike both head and feet This Cap would fain but cannot be The only Cap of no degree The Satin and the Velvet hive Unto a Bishoprick doth drive Nay when a file of Caps y' are seen in The Square Cap this and then a Linen This treble may raise some hope If fortune smile to be a Pope Thus any Cap c. The Periwing Oh that declares The rise of flesh the loss of hairs And none but Graduates can proceed In sin so far till this they need Before the Prince none cover'd are But those that to themselves go bare This Cap of all the Caps that be Is now the sign of high degree The Jolly Ale-Drinker I Cannot eat but little meat my stomach is not good But sure I think that I can drink with him that wears a hood Though I go bare take ye no care I nothing am a cold I stuff my skin so full within with jolly good Ale and old Back and sides go bare go bare both foot and hand go cold But Belly God send thee good Ale enough whether it be new or old I love no Rost but a nut-brown Tost and a Crab laid in the fire A little bread shall serve my stead for much I not desire No frost or snow no wind I trow can hurt me if I would I am so wrapt and throughly lapt with jolly good Ale and old Back and sides c. And Tib my Wife that as her life loveth good Ale to seek Full oft drinks she till you may see the tears run down her cheek Then doth she trowl to me the Bowl even as a Mault-worm should And saith Sweet-heart I took my part of this jolly good Ale and old Back and sides c. Now let them drink till they nod and wink even as good Fellows should do They shall not miss to have the bliss good Ale doth bring men to And all poor Souls that have scowr'd Bowls or have them lustily trowl'd God save the lives of them and their Wives whether they be young or old Back and sides go bare c. The Shepherd's Song in praise of his God Pan who prefers him before the Sun THou that art call'd the bright Hiperion Wert thou more strong then Spanish Gerion That had three heads upon one man Compare not with our great God Pan. They call thee Son of bright Latona But girt thee in thy â—orrâ—d Zona Sweat baste and broil as best thou can Thou art not like our Dripping Pan What cares he for the great God Neptune With all the broth that he is kept in Vulcan or Jove he scorns to
by word of mouth we make our Addresses thus May it please your Honour And write to him thus To the Right Honourable A Marquess formerly was the Governor of a Fronteer Town and inferiour to the Earl of a Province but superiour to the Earl of an Inland Town In speaking we thus address our selves to them May it please your Honour We write to them thus To the Right Honourable A Viscount was formerly the Lievtenant to an Earl so that their Dignity hath continued next to that of an Earl ever since and indeed between a Viscount and a Baron or Lord there is no difference used in making addresses to them We speak to them thus May it please your Honour my Lord. We write thus To the Honourable A Knight is the next Degree of honour being more peoperly a Military Dignity but of late very much confused They bear the Title of Right Worshipful We make our dress thus May it please your Worship We write thus To the Right Worshipful ESquire was formerly but he that bore the Shield and Lance of a Knight before him It is now the next Degree of Honour to the Knight and now so much used by Gentlemen that he who stiles not himself Esquire is hardly a Gentleman He bears the Title of Worshipful And we write to him thus To the Worshipful J. D. Esquire Note here that the same Titles are appliable to the Wives as to the Husbands and though the Daughter of an Earl marry an inferior person yet she doth not lose her Title which is Right Honorable In the writing of familiar Epistles there are sundry varieties which ingenuity will easily apply to his occasion For example at the beginning of a Letter these Expressions do very often offer themselves Honour'd Sir Dear Sir Dear Friend Learned Sir Madam Dear Lady Dearest Joy of my Life My Heart Fairest Delight of my Heart These Subscriptions also are usual To great Persons Your Graces most faithfull and most obedient Servant Your Honors most faithfull and most obedient Servant Your Excellencies most humbly devoted Servant Your Worships most faithful Servant In familiar Letters thus The admirer of your Vertues Madam The Honorer Of your Perfection Madam The Honorer Of your Vertues Madam Adorer Of your Perfection Madam Adorer Of your Vertues Madam Worshipper Of your Perfection Madam Worshipper Of your Vertues Your most affectionate Friend and Servant Your assured Friend Your most obedient Servant Your most obliged Friend and Servant Your eternally engaged Servant Your Creature Your faithful Servant Yours for ever Yours to command eternally Yours while I have life Yours while I have a being Your faithful though contemned Servant For Superscription these Forms may be used To my much respected Friend To my much Honored Friend For my much Valued Friend For my much esteemed Friend Friend For my approved To the truly Noble To the truly Vertuous To the most incomparable Lady To the fair Hands of To the most accomplisht To the mirror of Perfection To the most lovely ornament of Nature There is something more to be observed concerning the Dignity of places For a Knight being made General of an Army obtains the title of Your Excellency though but a Lord Knight or meaner man by birth A Lieutenant-General is Right Honorable A Major-General Right Honorable A Collonel is Honorable and we give him the title of Your Honor. A Captain is Right worshipful From a Son to Father Your most dutiful and obedient Son From a Daughter Your loving and obedient Daughter From a Husband Your most affectionate Husband till death From a Wife Your faithful and loving Wife till death From a Servant Your most obedient and faithful Servant Forms for the concluding of Letters BUt whatsoever happen I shall be no other then c. I shall endeavour with the best of my care and industry whenever you desire the proofs of the obedience of c. If it could be perswaded that my absence gave you any disquiet or that my presence could afford you any service you should soon perceive by my speedy return how much I am c. If I am able to do you service there wants nothing but that you should command me the imployment there being nothing which I more desire than to witness my self continually c. There being no man who hath a firmer resolution to render you all the testimonies of a willing service in the quality of c. Let this for the present satisfie you till I shall meet with some better opportunity to shew how much I am c. The only happiness that I expect is that I may be able to change my words into effects that I might shew you how much I am really c. I shall now free your patience from reading any more give me leave only to make this conclusion that I am and shall be c. For every time I reflect upon your great obligations I am impatient of an opportunity to shew my self I cannot pass away the unquiet of my mind by any other way than by seeking occasions to testifie how much I am c. Be pleased to take this for a real truth from him who hath made an Oath to live and die c. This is the advice and friendly Counsel of c. And I hope there is nothing shall debar me from continuing for the time to come what hitherto I have been c. Neither is there any thing that I would omit whereby I might give you an assurance of fidelity to your Commands as protesting to live and die c. But I desire to testifie to you rather by words than by discourse how much I am c. Sir I beg you to accept this testimony of my gratitude and my earnest desires to be c. I never reckon up the Catalogue of my friends but I presently call to mind how much I am obliged to give you this Subscription c. My gratitude is as necessary as my being and I can sooner not be then not be most truly c. For I never think of your favours but it renews the remembrance of my engagements to be c. Though I have a very great press and urgency of business at present upon me yet shall my occasions never be so violent but that I will have leisure both to be and to tell you that I am c. I shall be contented to be counted ungrateful when I am less c. Sir if you doubt the truth of my service I beseech you to make use of that absolute power which you have acquired over me to oblige my endeavours to all manner of proofs that I am c. He pleased as yet to take my bare word till I can give you further testimonies how much I am c. Though I am debarr'd your sight yet I hope I am not envied the happiness of giving you notice how passionately I am c. I will lose my life rather than my resolution to die c. If
Ladies A low man can fell a tall oak If a tall oak much more a tall woman therefore maidens despise not little men Too much scratching hurts the skin But say the women there 's a difference between scratching and rubbing Of idleness comes no goodness For that 's the reason so many maids have the green sickness Good at meat good at work Therefore 't is the best way alwayes to eat stoutly in the company of women Grass grows not in hot ovens He that made this Proverb was bound sure to speak truth for a wager Ill weeds grow apace That 's always the answer of an old woman when you tell her she has a proper maid to her daughter Good clothes hide much deformity What rare men Taylors are Men may meet but not mountains Therefore you see when Mahomet bid the Hill come to him it would not stir 't was so lazie He that wants shame shall never win credit How is that great vertue impudence here abused He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live If a man could live as long as he could eat I make no question but that he might easily be perswaded to lose his shame and put in sureties for the eternity of his stomach As shamefac't as a sow that slaps up a sillabub Those are your Whitson-Holiday sows that swill up whole milk-pails in the field till you may follow them home by the leakage of their tap-holes He never goes out of his way that goes to a good house This was a maxim observed by Taylor the Water-Poet in his long vacation voyages He that cannot fight let him run 'T is a notable piece of Matchavilian policy A fools bolt is soon shot That made the Gentlewoman shit in the Exchange A gentle shepherd makes the wolf shite wool 'T is a very fine way to be eased of the trouble of sheep-shearing Good words cost nothing Unless it be Dedications and Love Verses for some men do pay for them Better may a mans foot slip then his tongue trip Commonly the tripping of the tongue and the slipping of the foot happen both together Now if a man be late abroad 't is better that his tongue should trip then his foot slip for he may chance to fall in the street and have a coach go over him Some men may better steal a horse then others look on For 't is fit that he that took least pains should have least profit When thieves fall out true men come by their own For as Philip the great King of Macedon well said Concord upholdeth all societies Therefore 't is high time for thieves to be hang'd when they cannot agree among themselves A liquorish huswife seldom makes thick pottage For she puts all her Oatmeal in Caudles Hungry dogs love dirty puddings There 's many a man hath lost his Nose by verifying this Proverb He 'l make you believe a Hare lays eggs See Brown's vulgar Errors 'T is an ill winde blows no body good After meat comes mustard For their teeth watered so much after the meat that it was impossible their eyes should water after the mustard He that holds a frying-pan by the tail may turn it which way he lists See more of this in Alexius his secrets or in Aristotles book of the dyet of the Phisolophers cap. 6. of the manner of making pancakes Better no pies then pies made with scabby hands Wink and all 's well for what the eye sees not the heart never rues He that is born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd VVell fare him that is born to be hang'd say I for he goes to heaven in a string when he that is drown'd goes to hell in a ferry-boat A wary father has a prodigal son He is to be commended for not letting his fathers estate lie fallow for if he will not sow again after his great harvest his son must A man cannot make a cheverel purse of a sow's ear Ye cannot tell what a man may do there are very notable projectors living now adays Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Gentlemen ye need not wonder how the Collier and the Devil came to be familiar for he is fain to keep in with that trade that he may buy his provision at the best hand against he goes to to set up his Pye corner calling MISCELANIA Fancy awakened Natural Amorous Moral Experimental Paradoxical Enigmatical Jesting and Jovial Questions with their several Answers and Solutions Davus es huc venias mox eris Oedipus alter Q. Why did Apelles paint Cupid with these words Spring-time and Winter A. By those two seasons he represented the prosperities and adversities that wait on Lovers Q Why do lovers blush on the bridal night A. Out of natural shamefastness of what they are about to do Q. What is the difference betwixt an honest and dishonest woman A. A word Q. VVhy do whores paint A. That they may have some colour for there Venery Q. VVhat differences a woman from a man A. Meum tuum Q. VVhy do they use to paint Cupid bare-headed A. To signifie that betwixt true lovers there should be nothing covered or concealed Q. VVhat is the greatest wonder in a little circuit A. The face of a man Q. VVhat said the Squire when he found his man Harry in bed with his own Curtizan A. Well done Harry after me is manners Q. VVhat if there had not ben been an Act against building A. That they would have built from the So Ho to Branford Q. VVhat did the old Book-sellers Dedication Horse cost him that he use to ride on up and down the countrey A. Go look Q. What are the attendants on love A. Pleasure travel sweet bitter war peace life and death Q. What are the joyes of love A. Plays sweet sleeps soft beds ravishing musick rich perfumes delicious wines costly banquets wanton refreshing and such other soft and ravishing contentments Q. Why do the Poets bestow arrows on Cupid A. To Signifie how desperately love wounds Q. Why are the lips moveable A. For the forming of the voice and words Q. How many veins are there in the body of a man A. As many as there are days in a year Q. Why do some stammer and some lisp A. By reason of the shrinking of the sinnews which are corrupted by flegm Q. Why are we colder after dinner then before A. Because that the natural heart retireth to the stomack to further digesture Q. What Lady was that which daunced best at the Ball in Lincolns-inn-fields A. She whose foot slipping fell on her back Q. What reply was made to him that said He did not use to give the wall to every Cockscomb A. But I do Sir and so gave him the wall Q. What is an ordinary Fencer A. For flesh and blood he is like other men but sure nature meant him for a Stock fish Q. Where is reputation measured by the acre A. In the countrey Q. What are the outward signs of the body
Give example of the Subject out of some Orator A. By the same Subject Cicero second Agra disputeth that there was no contention amongst the people of Campania because there was no honour They are not carried saith he with the desire of glory because where there is no publique honour there the desire of glory cannot be There is no discord neither by contention nor ambition for there is nothing for which they should strive nothing for which they should war nothing for which they should contend Q. Give example out of some Poet A. Propertius useth this Argument Of winds 〈◊〉 Saylors talk the Husbandmen of bulls The Soldiers of their wounds and Shepherds of their wools CAP. 11 The Adjunct Q. What is the Adjunct A. The Adjunct is that to which any thing is subjected which Argument though it be lighter then the Subject yet more copious and frequent therefore of its signs Ovid speakth Second Rom. Anno. Some man for such there be may count this small Yet that helps some which doth not profit all Q. Make this plainer A. Those things which are called good and evil of the mind Body and the whole man are the Adjuncts of the minde body man also whatsoever happeneth without the Subject is the adjunct Q. May not time also be reduced unto this Head A Yes as place was in the Subject so is time in the Adjunct viz. the enduring of things past present to come Q. What further is comprised under this head A. All those qualities beside the causes adjoyned to the subject whether they be proper or common Q. What is Proper A. That which agreeth only and wholly with the subject as laughing with a man neying with a horse barking with a dog Q. what is Common A. That which is not proper after this manner Q. Give example of the Adjunct out of some Orator A. By this kinde of argument Cicero in the defence of Rosâ—cius the Comedian cavelleth with Fanius Chercus Doth not his head and eye-brows altogether bald seem to favour of malice and cry out of deceit doth he not seem to be compounded from the foot to the head if a man may conjecture by his shape of frauds fallacies lies Who therefore is altogether bald on the head and eye-brows lest he should be said to have one hair of a good man Q. Give example out of some Poet A. So Martial lib. 2. mocketh Zoylus Red hair black mouth short feet and ilk squint eyes 'T is marvel Zoylus if goodness in thee lies Q. What further may be reduced under this head A. Garments and company are Adjuncts Q. Give example A. By this kinde of circumstance Dido going a hunting is magnificently set forth Aeneid 4. The morn appear'd Dido forsook the sea The day stir up to th' heaven youth guides the way Both nets and gins with pike-staves all were ready Messalian horse with hunting dogs so greedy Princes did wait the slow queen did expect With fair clad horse her way for to direct Forth cometh she at length with mighty train In her long robe with many a long seam Her horse down trap with gold her hair was trest Her robes with golden hooks together did she wrest Q. What is the benefit of Adjuncts A. There is great use of Adjuncts to the subject by which they are occupied Q. Give example A. By this argument Plato foretold those cities to be miserable where the multitude of Physicans and Judges were wanting because of necessity there was conversant in those cities both Intemperance and Injustice And thus much for the place of agreeings from whence every agreeing argument may be said to be one or the same and all manner of Unity and as I may say Identity are referred hither as the first and simple fountains CAP. 12. Diverses Q. You have expounded the first agreeing argument the disagreeing followeth what then is disagreeing A. That which disagreeth from the thing Q. How are disagreeings manifested A. Disagreeings are equally manifested amongst themselves and equally argued one of another although they do more clearly shine in their disagreeings Q. What are the kindes of disagreeings A. Two Diverse and Opposite Q. What are Diverses A. Diverses are disagreeings which disagree only in reason Q. What are the most frequent notes of speech for this Argument A. These Not this but that although yet Q. Give some example from some Orator A. Pro Pompeio He carried not the victory but the ensigns of the victory Q. Give some other examples A. Ovid secund Art Amand. Ulisses was not fair but Eloquent Aeneid 2. This Priamus though held in dust of death Yet ceased not Also this of the like matter Pro Lig. callest thou that wicked O Tubero why he hath not hitherto deserved this name For some called error some fear that which more hardly hope desire hatred pertinacy the most grave temerity none wicked besides thy self CAP. 13. Disparates Q. What are Opposites A. Opposites are disagreeings which disagree in reason and thing therefore cannot be attributed to the same according to the same and at the same time Q. Make this plain by example A. So Socrates cannot be black and white of one and the same part father and son of the same man whole and sick at the same time but he may be white on the one part black on another father of this son of that man sound to day sick to morrow Q. It should seem by this that the one being affirmed the other is denied A. So it is Q. What are the kindes of Opposites A. Disparates or Contraries Q. What are Disparates A. Disparates are opposites whereof one is opposed equally to many A. Give example A. Green Ash-colour Red are means between White and Black which are Disparates both with the extreams and among themselves So liberality and covetousness are Disparates among themselves So a man a tree a stone and infinite of this kinde are Disparates neither can one thing be a man a tree a stone Q. Give example out of some Poet A. Virgil. Aeneid 1. disputeth by this argument O virgin how shall I remember thee Whose countenance not mortal seems to be Toy voice is sure above the humane reach Both which thee Goddeses proves and so do teach CAP. 14. Relates What are Contraries A. Contraries are opposites whereof one is opposed to one only Q. What are the kindes of it A. They are either affirming or denying Q. What is affirming A. Affirming is that of which both of them affirm Q. How many Kindes hath it A. Two Relate and Adverses Q. What are Relates A. Relates are Contraries affirming of which one consisteth of the mutual affection of the other and from hence they are named Relates Q. Make this plain by example A. The Father who hath a Son and the Son who hath a Father are Relates Q. They may seem by this to be together by nature A. So they are so that he which perfectly knoweth the one knoweth all the rest Q. Give