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A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

morrow To the former question the first Gentleman answered therefore I put up this apple that I may not care for to morrow for nature is content with little O from how few shall you heare this confession that of all their life long they haue not had a morrow Q. Whether death is more to be seared the corporall or the eternall A. The Eternall Saint Austen shall answer thee that death which men feare most is but the seperation of the soule from the body when it would willingly stay in but the second death which men feare not is the seperation of the soule from God The first death takes the soule out of the body when it would willingly stay in the second keepes the soule in the body when it would willingly depart Q. How many are the messengers of death A. Three Casualty Infirmity and old Age the first shewes death lying in ambush the second appearing the last present we dye not for the most part altogether but by degrees and as wee increase in dayes so our life decreaseth first we lose Infancy then child-hood then youth even till we have lost all the time that we have passed to yesterday and the very time wee now live wee spend on till death we passe by the Temple of faith and piety to the Temple of glory and perpetuall happinesse where those everlasting rewards are so great they cannot be measured so many they cannot be numbred so copious they cannot be terminated so precious they cannot bee valued Iulius 2. Pope as stories mention being dead came to heaven gates and there knocked with authority Saint Peter being angry asked who so importunately knocked this Pope answered It is I open quickly Who art thou quoth Saint Peter Iulius the Pope replyed he What hast thou to doe heare with heaven that hast so oft sold it no man accounts that his owne which he hath sold and so was he shut out and worthily for all they say they have Navis Terrae clavis Coeli One demanded of Eucritus the Philosopher whether hee had rather bee S●…crates or Croesus Quoth he Croesus while I live but Socrates when I dye Q. Whether is it better to envy or to be envied A. To be envied for hee that is envied is alwayes the happier man Q. Whether is the shining of the Moone cold or hot A. It is cold which doth something allay the heat that the beames of the Sunne hath made in his passed progresse Q. It is vouched before in this discourse that there is nothing so deformed nor contemptible on earth that hath not in it some kinde of good to what use serveth the Scerpion the Toad the Serpent and such like A. Of the Scorpion is made an excellent salve against all swellings and of Serpents and Toads is made an excellent powder against the stone and to provokeurine For nought sovile that on the earth doth ltve But to the earth some special good doth give c. Platos counsell to young men which hee would have to imitate the Ivie being weake of themselves to get a prop to support them Q. Upon the birth of children whether have parents more cause ofjoy or griefe A. This is resolved upon that with children a fountaine of teares spring up to the parents for if you compare them to a nurserie of some you shall late gather fruit of others never If good feare lest they continve not if evill lasting sorrow in the inte rim uncertaine joyes but certaine cares Q. What is the chiefe of all meats and what the chiefe of all savces A. Bread of all meats for whether we eat it by it selfe or continually with other meats yet we are never weary of it being the staffe of life and signe in the Sacrament And of all sauces I say not hunger but Salt is a principall a sauce that the diveil for his relish doth abhorre for Salt is an embleme of eternity and immortality being not onely able to preserue it selfe from rottennesse and corruption but all other things and therefore Salt by the command of God himself was to have a principall place on the Table a●…id the sacrifices Q. What is the meaning of th●… phrase of Plantus M●… non unifid●… Antro the Mouse trusts not to one hole A. It admonisheth us to have more friends than one more strings to our bow than one Hee that fames hims●…lfe to be a friend in words and is not so indeed he that hath Ave in his mouth but hath ve and Cave in his heart is worse than one that coynes false money worse than Ieabor nay worse than Iudas that kist and kild Q. What is a mind full of cares resembled unto A. To wormes and rottennesse amongst the bones and therefore Damacles amid all his dainties could take no delight because his mind was troubled at the Sword that hung over his head by a slender haire Q. What is the only great security in the world and meanes to prevent feare A. To feare nothing but God for he that feares not him feares every thing and hee that feares him needs to feare nothing else for his feare excludes all other Q. What is the most excellent action of the hands A. Their Elevation in prayer Innocent hands and a pure heart Q. Spots of Infamy can they be washt out A. They are scarce purged off with Niter therefore take heed of their stampe guilty Pylate may wash his hands but not cleare his Conscience A certaine workman had pictured Uenus sleeping with this inscription O traveller passe by and awake not the goddesse for if shee open her windowes shut up thine For as the Poet advis●…th Cum vultu pungit cum verbis dulcitur vngit Affectum fingit complexu pectora stringit Sires procedit animam cum corpore ledit He that but looks his journy doth begin He that but likes is stept a stept more in Who so inchaind his pace doth forward bend He hath enioy'd and is at 's journeyes end Q. Which of all Hercules labours was his hardest to overcome A. Love Q. How many sorts of creatures hath Ged made A. Three one not covered with flesh the second covered with flesh but dyes not with the flesh the third is covered with flesh but dyes with the flesh of these the first are Angels the second men the third bruit beasts Sum decor in manibus sustento senem rego gr●…ssus Sum terror canibus gest at pro duce f●…ssus Englished I am the old mans leg the weake mans stay I am his weapon and his guide by th' way Q What are the Countrymans prognostication of the Raine-bow A. 1. It is observable that it changeth to what colour a man conceiveth and if it bee red like to an Oke or fire or blood it prognosticates a fruitfull Vintage if of yellow colour like to the Corne-fields it presageth a plentifull haruest thirdly if it bee of a greene colour plenty of Oyle and see the Bow saith the Wiseman and blesse him

Genetrix natus fraterque sororque Hic duo sint quamv is nomina pluracarent Error enim sceleri causam dedit ●…iscia nupsit Illi quem peperit filid mista patri Husband wife mother sonne and sister both And brother this paire make by plighting troth at unawares It is said a certain woman which error married her sonne Q. Why in old time was there so few or almost no Monuments erected for the dead and now so many A. Men desired to live by their vertue and good workes and they speake the good mans praise for God hath so pronounced The memoriall of the Iust shall be blessed but the memory of the wicked shall rot and likewise those that haue done well are without doubt with God and seeke not glory on earth having blessednesse at the head of the fountaine Many faire Monuments now inclose not onely rotten bones but unworthy bones and ashes Many a faire Tombe stands like a bad cause made good by the guilded varnish of words and fri●…nds Q. Of the prodigius wife of Lot her Sepulcher and change what sayest thou A The Statuary or Pillar of Salt into which Lots wife was turned was according as Alcinus the Poet saith such an one that you scarce know it from glasse or stone or mettall but by the saltish tast At this time and accident what did Lot her husband as one questioneth which is thus answered by the Poet Hoc valdè hic miram quod Lot non flectitur ipsam Nec sociam sequitur primo constantior Adam Quamquamid credomag is factum quia visa referre I am nequit elinguis qua si comperta referret Forsan et in similes ausis temeraria traxit Credulo imposuit virgo primana marito Englished Many hereat admire he did no●… slacke His forward pace nor ever looked backe He was more staid than Adam that did eat Because his wife commended him the meat So he escap'd the Iudgement and knew none Because he held his way and journeyed on Q. What body was that that had a portable Sepulcher A. Ionas in the Whales belly Q. What was Absolons Sepulcher A. This degenerate sonne of a good father was hung up in the ayre and covered over with stones for the memoriall of so unnaturall a patricide Q. How would Socrates dying be buried A. Quoth he bury mee after the easiest and cheapest way And concerning sumptuous tombs and monuments erected commonly in our dayes one asketh the question why we so exceed therein seeing those men that talked with God would be buried but in caves and they wanted not wealth for they were rich men as Abraham Isacke and the like Q. What thing was that which was brought forth in the world liv'd in the world sinn'd not in the world spake in the world died in the world and yet shall never bee partaker of the world to come A. Balaams Asse Q. When is it that the dead burie the dead A. Then when those impious dead in sinne bury the dead in body Q. Why is it not read in holy Scripture nor am●…ng the Fathers nor any Ecclesiastical writers that the devill ever swore A. That impure spirit wants a soule and so hath nothing to sweare by so cannot tye himselfe to any promises being the father of lyes and a manslayer from the beginning Christ hath sworne many times which is King of kings and of truth the Truth and a most faithfull keeper of his promise of which no word shall fall to the ground therefore happy we whose good he hath sworne and wretched we if we beleeve not this truth it selfe having bound it with an oath The devill promiseth many things but performes none and Christ promiseth nothing but it is as good as done therefore I will r●…ly on the on the one and not credit the other with the smallest beleefe Q. Doth the Devill know our thoughts or no A. Not but by conjecture for God onely is the searcher of the heart the Devill reads it by observation and can pierce no deeper He is the subtle Serpent and therefore we are fore warned to stop evill motions in the beginning for as a Serpent if he one●… get in his head will easily wind in his whole body so we are counsell'd principi●…s ebsta keepe out the head Q. What is the reason that of later times Divels and visions and apparitions and such like have not beene so frequent as in former times A. Since the light of the Gospell came into the world these Diabolicall delusions and workes of darknesse haue with-drawne themselves which in times of Popery and Ignorance were more frequent as the Oracles at the comming of Christ were Q. Iobs substance was much in Camels a great and knot backed beast and yet it is said this Camel with as much ease shall goe through the eye of an needle as a rich man to enter into heauen now what is the nature of this Camell A. Stories mention that they are of a gentle and towardly disposition and knowing their owne height will stoope downe to receive a burden and then they will erect themselves and passe along if they find themselves over-burdened they will either lye downe or cast it off and therefore noting too much so hardly rich men shall be saved that doe not over-laden with temporall riches and security cast them off to lighten them in their journey to heaven The Camell is a beast very strong and very fierce in his venery it drinks but once in foure daies then mudding the water Of this Beast thus the Poet En citius tenuis per acus transire foramen Deform is poterant inania membr●… Cameli To thred the postern of a Needles eye Is such an Art no wisedome can descry And yet the Scripture saith with as much ease A rich man may be sav'd as one doe these But this is meant of unpenitent rich men that heape Pelion on Ossa and so overburdened thinke to creepe through the narrow gate as strait to such as the Needle eye to the Camell Q. Are the Starres ●…r the Sun living creatures as some have thought A. They are not though Origen seemes to intimate so much because the Starres are commanded to keepe their course and in Iudg. the Starres in their cours●…s fought against Cysera and in Ieremy the Sunn is termed the Queene of heaven And in the Psalmes It commeth forth as a Bridegroom out of his chamber and rejoyceth as a Gyant to runne his course And in Job the Stars are thought to be capable of virtue and vice because there it is said The stars were not pure in his fight yet all these approve not against our first negatiue Q Which is the swiftest starre of all other A. Phosphorus or the morning starre or Euening starre being both one for that riseth first in the morning and setteth last in the Evening this great Planet of some called Venus sometimes goes before the Sunne and sometimes followes the Sunne she is called the wife of the

Sunne because she is up after his setting and rising last up like a good wife looking that all things be in safety after her husband is in bed and first of al rising in the morning Q. Why doe we not see the stars in the day time in regard they alwayes shine A. Because they are darken●…d by the greater light of the Sunne Q. What statre was that that led the wise men unto Christ A. It was no ordinary Starre nor one that was made at the Creation of the other but extraordinary for this especiall occasion and it differed from other starres in brightnesse motion and scituation of place for it was placed in the Firmament of heaven the other in a higher Orbe this in an inferiour region of the Ayre And when the Wise-men came to Bethlem it went and stood ouer the house that these Magi might know it being instructed of God in their owne Ant for they were Astronomers Q. What Art is that that every man is most apt to credit there being no greater danger in any lye A. Physicke and Physicians that make use of all the most vildest things that be as Scorpions Toads Serpents and the like and these will tell thee there is nothing so abject so small or base or hurtfull that this Art will not turne to some good use for God never made the most beautifull thing in the world simply for view and love nor the most deformed for hate but all for use though all things are not knowne nor all virtues of all that are knowne that was for Salomons wisdome to have undertaken to decipher Q. What was the wise mans answer to an ignorant Physician that told his friend he was growne old A. Because I use not many Physicians which implies nor much Physicke Saith another old man These hoary plumes like mosse upon an Oke By seeing much yet suffering more I tooke Long have I seene the worlds uncertaine change Ioy moves not me Affliction is not strange One having spent much money upon the Physicians and being never the better was perswaded by a godly friend that if he had given that money to the poore the true Physician Christ would have cured him On a time it was disputed at Pope Alexanders Table whether it were better for the Common-wealth to have many Physicians or none at all some affirmed they were not to be tolerated in Countrey for Rome was 60. yeares without and neuer better health than at that time saith the Pope and if Physicians had not beene the world would scarce have contained her people by this time A worthy saying of the Pope if they send bodies to the grave he his soules to Purgatory nay hell Q. To whom is life very long or very short A. Life to them that doe nothing very long but to them that are ever doing very short Ars longa vita brevis Q. Who is the best treasurer of his owne goods according to the divine Poet A. He that layes up treasure in heaven Aedifica in patria Bore●…s ubi nullus imber Conde ubi nec furto deripiu●…tur opes Hospititum est tellus coelum patria nostrum Et Regnum et certe quisque parantur opes Lay up thy Treasure to secure thy feare In Heaven where all is sure is trusted there Q. Who was hee that bult the first City A. Cain and that out of his feare to preserve himselfe from his enemies the name thereof was Hanoh and beside this there is no other City named before the flood Gen. 4. 7. Q. Which is held to be the greatest City at this day in the world A. Quinsay as Histories report of which wondrous things are delivered it containes in it 1200. Towers and Turrets and so many sumptuous Stone-bridges numberlesse numbers of men Citizens and strangers as who doth not likewise admire at Niniuey which was three dayes journey from gate to gate Q. What is the greatest preserver of friendship A. Nothing is more amiable nor more conjunctive than the likenesse of good affection and manners according to the Poet Haec res jung it junctos et seruat amicos Q. Who is that at ence loves and hates flyes and ●…lowes threats and intr●…ats is d●…ry ●…nd plea●…d would and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at once sad and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thing A. This 〈◊〉 ●…an hardly be resolv●…d unless another Delius shew it yet thus i explibate it in a word It is meant of Love and Lovers for it is a kinde of phrenzy and they are for the time possest with a short madnesse for Amare supere vix dijs conceditur It is a question of Salomon Pro. 6. whether a man can hide fire in his bosome and not be burnt now there is a second question whether Love or Fire burne hotter now the fire must have fuell neere but the fire of Love burnes at a greater distance Q. What are held the most n●…cessary things of a mans life A. Wee desire many things yet we brought nothing into the world nor we shall carry nothing out at death each man layes by his load for the world had bi●… beggard long agoe if rich men could have carried their substance with them In the mean●… time if we have but water fire Iron Salt Bread Milke Honey Wine and Oyle House to cover my head Garments to cover my nakednesse Current mundus forwe have all and enough Q. What is the Physicians best rule for health A. Temperance avoyding satiety and fulnesle A certaine wise King Cyrus by name as stories mention never sate downe without a stomacke nor never rose without an emptinesse So Galen Asclepiades Bartholus all these and many other that tooke their dyet by weight whereas some other gluttons furnished their Tables by Alphabet those were such as the French Proverbe saith Dig their graves with their teeth Q. How many diseases as Deaths Harbingers belong to the body of man as is supposed A. There a●… so many they are hardly to be numbred some Physicians thinke there are two thousand and certainely there is no member in a mans body that is not diversly a●…icted and now of late yeares divers new diseases are sprung up that are without names Diseases increase and Plants and Herbs decay and lose their operations which bring death so neare us he continually lookes in at our windowes and the longer our life is the more numerous are our sinnes even whole Miriades and at last comes death and with a little pin bores through our wall of health so farewell man Constantius our noble Countriman and Emperour more fuller of heroicall vertue than feare of death being sicke and demanding lus Physicians counsell was resolved that a hath of Infants blood would cure him answered I had rather be continually sicke or presently dye then with Herods cruelty preserve one life with so many deaths or a cure worse than the disease A fellow having his legge to be cut off in the thought of his misery cried out and said to that

saith Salomon Giue strong drinke to him that is ready to perish It is the preserver of health by comforting the naturall heat It tempereth chollericke humours and moderately taken rejoyceth the spirits and it much commends the gooduesse of God that out of such a dry and fraile plant so many precious vertues should accrew to man but by the abuse all these vertues are made vices for God was the Author of the Wine but the Divell of drunkennesse Q. What is the reason that in our Grandfathers dayes and fathers likewise there were fewer Vineyards as many yet living can testifie and yet Wine and all things cheaper A. Because Drunkennesse and Gluttony was lesse common in those dayes than now in ours Of Wine one thus further Vina parant animos faciuntque coloribus aptis Cont. Vina parant Asinos faciuntque furoribus aptis Q. What is the greatest wonder in a man A. His Conscicnce which cannot be removed for his heart may bee sooner pulled out of his belly than his Conscience being of it selfe a thousand witnesses as God himselfe a thousand Consciences which at the last day will be in every one of us guilty the Iudge the tortor the prison to judge to accuse condemne or acquit An evill Conscience saith one is like a short bed wherein let a man turne which way hee will hee can finde no ease Nero having slaine his mother was continually tormented in minde and that the first beginning of his tertor Richard the third of England had such apparitions and terrors in his Conscience after his murders that he could not finde a minutes rest A man may sooner sleepe on the top of the mast in a storme than lodge in quiet with this unruly Chamber-fellow it being to many the Hell before Hell Saith the Wise-man A mans Conscience will tell him more then seuen Watchmen on the top of a Tower and it is that from whence all the beames of Reason flow Erasmus saith as the Sunne is to the world that is reason in man for if the Sunne be clouded there is darkenesse so if Reason be ecclipsed notwithstanding the other senses we differ little from bruit beasts I remember I haue heard thee speake before that the earth doth wax old doth it now worke the same effect upon mans body as in former ages and so Virgil describes men of his time long agoe Qualianunc hominis prodierit corporatellus And so likewise Homer as oft as he recites this clause saith Vt nunc homines sunt remembring the former times their length of dayes greatnesse of stature and the like as one to that purpose seemes to imply When as the Age was long the size was great Mans growth consest and recompenc'd his meat But now our longest times decay so soone We are scarce our fathersshadows cast at noone Q. What is the reason that in the holy toogue all the names of God end in the plurall termination although they are joyned in the singular verbe A. This is a mystery and so it is found every where except in that one name of his Essence lehovah and this is the reason that the Hebrewes giue because the Essence is one though the persons three Certaine Divine flowers of Saint Bernard Behold Lord saith Saint Bernard I doe not give what thanks I should but what I can which hast given me an Essence and above that a vegetive life and aboue that a sensitive and aboue that an intellectiue and above that a saving faith which is the soule of my soule and the reason of my reason Lord saith Saint Bernard that thou hast made me I owe my selfe to thy love I owe all mee and so much more then my selfe by how much thou art greater than I for whom thou gavest thy selfe The kingdome of God conceditur promittitur ostenditur precipitur conceditur in predestinatione promittitur invocatione ostenditur in Iustificatione precipitur in Glorificatione The kingdome of God is yeelded promised shewen perceived it is yeelded in predestination promised in Vocation shewen in Iustification received in Glorification Q Whether are the positive or the privative blessings of God more A. The privative blessing of God are no lesse if not more and yet there is few that takes notice thereon as that we are not blind nor dumbe nor deafe that wee live not in continuall darkenesse c. His positive blessings are life cloathing health and such like of which there is neither number nor end of either Q. The Sea is an Element of wonders are there Syrens or Marmaids therein A. Syrens of ancient times were wont to be called the wonders of the Sea and the monsters therein partly having a body of Fish and the upper part flesh and faced like a Virgin singing sweetly but deceitfully thereby to circumvent and endanger the wandring passengers By this deceit would our Ancestors note unto us the danger of pleasure and yet there are that earnestly affirme that there are such things in rerum natura Saint Hierom moraliseth that hastening towards our Countrey wee must avoyd this Syren in what kind soever she allures passing by with a setled resolution that this inchantment pierce not our stopped eares Saith a Father every Creature speakes unto us with three voyces 1 Voyce receive a benefit 2. pay thy benevolence 3. Avoid punishment The heaven saith I give thee lightin the day that thou maist worke saith darkenesse I spread my Curtaine in the night that thou mayst rest The Ayre saith I nourish thee with breath all kind of Fowles I keepe at thy command the water saith I give thee drinke I purge away all uncleannesse and I preserve all my Elementary creatures to thy use from the smallest minnum to the mighty Whale The earth saith I beare thee I nourish thee with bread and wine I fill thy Table with all sorts of Creatures and fruits The second is a voyce of admonition in which the world saith See man how he loved thee which made me for thee I serve thee as thou servest him which made both mee and thee The third voyce the voyce of threatning where the fire saith thou shalt be burnt by me the water saith thou shalt bee drowned by me the earth saith thou shalt be swallowed by mee as some have beene and if thou lay by thy obedience to him wee put off all subjection to thee Theresore saith Saint Gregory all Creatures call upon man to serve him because hee is the summe and epitome of all and that doe and pay thy due homage and all creatures shall willingly obey thee Q. What is the Soule A. It is a spirituall and reall substance created by God to enliven the body and by how much the heaven is more glorious then the earth by so much doth the beauty of the soule excell the body the immediate descent being from God and not from the body for the Wise-man saith Si cum corpore oritur cum corpore moritur If it had his beginning from the body then the

bodies end would determine that but after the soule once lives it never dyes it dwels in the body and governes it as the Pylot in the Ship directing it from haven to haven the Soule is all this while imprisoned in the body and yet to it some bodies are pallaces to others streightned prisons according as one writes one She who 's saire body no such prison was But that a Soule might well bee be pleas'd to passe An age in her And so further speaking of the freedome of the Soule in death saith then Think that a rusty peece dischargd is flowne In sunder and the bullet is his owne Q. Wherefore is the Soule of man called the Lanthorne of God A. For the Light that is infused into it by God in whom all the Divine faculties dwell and therefore for the most part is put for the whole man for mens cuiusque es est quisque Of secret writings The Ephesians Act. 19. 19. had certaine writing and magicall notes which they used in every place and alwayes came away victors It was the Ephesians that used curious and unlawfull Arts which when Saint Paul heard of them and to that end wrote bitterly against them they gathered their bookes together and in open view burned them which in estimation were worth fifty thousand peeces of silver Suetonius reports in the lives of the twelve Coesars Eoistles of his to be so obscure and secret that they could not bee read but by former Intelligence for one letter went in the roome of another as D for A and so of the rest Q. What is the most faithfull messenger and yet carries with it both reoson and speech A. An Epistle or Letter of which one writes Discere fit charum quamvis primo sit amarum But it Letters of secrecie shall be intercepted then to prevent that Pliny writes of an herbe called Goats Lettuice which with the milke thereof writing on any ground-worke or paper and dust strewed afterward on and dryed may be perfectly read Likewise to write with new milke is a safe way and deceives the eyes putting but a little cole-dust upon it and then what could not be seene before is apparantly read Likewise to write with the juyce of an Onion being wet may be perfectly read and not before discerned and this was practised by one of the gunpowder-Traytors out of the Tower in a letter written to Garnet the letter was common for the body of it that was ordinary complement but the margents contained the mysterie so discouer ed and found out Q. What is that the more feet it hath the slower it goes the fewer the more upright and swist it walkes about the world and hath twice ten hornes A. A man not yet come to his Staffe Q. Whether is it better to bee sprung from good parents or to bee good in enes selfe A. To bee good and not to live by anothers blood or fame according to the Poet Miserum est aliena incumbere fama To live by others breath I hold a sickly state And if I were to chuse a wife I such a choyce would hate As had not many living goods for me to tast and see But onely such as now are dead in th' ancient pedigree Q. What doe we most love and best esteeme A. Those things we hardest atchieue according to the Poet Quod venit exfacili faciles segnesque tenemur Quod spes quodque metu torsit habare juvat Englished But light wee reckon that wee slightly gaine Valuing the subject as it costs us paine Q. What small garment is that which is made of cheape wooll and yet of most incomparable price A. The Episcopall Robe which was used to be given gratis from the Antients and of it selfe is of small value yet now with the inchanted Roses the Agnus Deies the Apostolicall breves the exorcises swords and woodden crosses it costs many thousands before it sits on the Popes backe The Pope saith that for Layickes to read the Scriptures in a knowne tongue is to set pearles before Swine Q. What was the most monstrous Embassage that hath beene heard of A. An Embassage came to Rome by three Embassadours the one whereof was troubled with the Gout the other with wounds in his head and the third with tremor in the heart which Cato observing said to the Senate laughing Here is an Embassage come without head or heart or feet Q. Why hath God given us two of all members of the body A. That if by any accident the one faile it may bee supplyed by the others helpe and therefore wee haue two hands two legges two feet two eares two eyes but but one Soule to shew the incomparable value thereof that it is more worth then all the world for what shall a man giue for the ransome thereof Q. Whether is the lighter plague that of the Sword or of the tongue A. That of the Sword for that onely wounds the body but this the soule the tongue is many times accessory to murder stirres that fire that nought but blood can quench Saint Bernard saith the detractors tongue is a threefold lance that at one blow wounds three the speaker hearer and him that is detracted further hee saith the Detractor hath the Divell in his tongue the hearer in his eare the consenter in his heart it is sayd betweene the heart and the tongue there should bee a marriage for it is Uerbum in c●…rde before it bee Uerbum in ore and those words that are spoken by the tongue without the consent of the heart are said to be conceived in Adultery Q. Whether is our Country or our parents to be more honoured A. It is the answer of a Wiseman that our Countrey that our Countrey was before our parents and therefore first to be honoured Q. May it be one Ship should compasse the whole world A. That with wonder have our eies beheld in our noble Countryman Drake and so hath the sound of the Gospell gone over the whole world so that now we beleeve the end of the world not to be farre off ●…he number of 40 is a time re●…keable in holy Scriptures for penitency and affliction for 40 dayes Christ fasted for our sinnes 40 yeares wandred the people in the wildernesse 40 dayes had the Ninivites to repent 40 dayes continued the waters of the flood c. Q. Doth money make a rich man A. It doth not but the contrary for that is never too little that is enough and there is never enough where there is not content though too much for our happinesse or infelicity is of our owne making Q. When doe enemies profit us and friends hurt us A. That is done so when as an enemy justly reprehends us it profits but when a friend falsly praiseth us it hurts us Q. Of what Nations consisted the foure Empires Assirij primiregnarunt postea P●… Post Persas Graeci Germani 〈◊〉 dominantur Englished The Assirian first the Persian then began The Graecian next the