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A72872	Margariton A rich treasure discovered of problemes and their resolves. In three parts. Amorous. Naturall Morall and politique. Faithfully translated out of French, for the profit and delight of the ingenious English of both sexes; to serve as a usefull helpe in their discourse.; Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their severall aunswers, in matters of love, naturall causes, with morall and politique devises.	Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Quattro libri di dubbi. English. Adaptations.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.; T. S.; Rawlins, Thomas, 1620?-1670, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 17328; ESTC S123205	97,378	368

looking on the ground and his mouth shut Q. In Chiromancy what signifieth it when the mount of the Sunne is elevated or bowing downward A. It betokeneth much good or much evill Q. And that of Mercury A. Goodnesse or dulnesse of spirit Q. And that of the Moone A. Happy or infortunate voyages Q. And Mars A. Good or evill fortune in battell Q. And the Triangles A. Strength even as Angels doe signifie riches Q. How is the life of man divided A. Into a life contemplative civill solitary and wild Q. What thing is most harde to be tamed A. Necessity which the Gods themselves cannot resist Q. VVhat is requisite to be considered of our birth A. The conception the forme the birth and nourishment Q. From whence commeth deceit A. Of Trust Q. What be the properties of a wise man A. To rule the Starres to know and governe himselfe not to quaile through the assaults of Fortune with good discretion to spend the time not to bee afraid of death and to live neither in feare nor hope Q. What is the state of a covetous man A. Never to have rest and to be alwayes gaping after riches Q. What is the estate of Courtiers A. To be nourished with hope Q. What is the estate of him that loveth vertue A. To aspire alwayes to honourable things Q. Which are the goods of the soule A. Vertue and her traine honour glory quicknesse of spirit memory counsell and discipline Q. Wherein consisteth true Philosophy A. To endeavour to live vertuously Q. What is a chaste woman A. A miracle of miracles the path way to immortality a heavenly thing and an inestimable fortresse Q. Choniclers can they set forth 〈◊〉 illustrate the fortunes of Noble men A. Yea. Q. And Poets likewise A. They doe no lesse delight then instruct Q. Which be the goods of the body A. Nobility riches friends dignity an honest wife many children Q. What is Felicity A. Fortunate vertue Q. Which be the true goods and which the counterfeit of the body of the soule and of Fortune A. The counterfeit goods of the body are deformity and sicknesse Of the soule vice and ignorance and of Fortune base estate and poverty Q. What is Misery A. It is a vicious and infortunate life full of sorrowes and perills Q. Wherein consisteth the Musicke of the soule A. In temperance but as some hold opinion in strength Q. What is the office of an excellent Painter A. To know sundry kinds of beasts the differences of their sexe their age their properties and other things Q. Why were the wise women called Sybillae esteemed Divines A. Because they were the Secretaries and Trumpets of divine Mysteries Q. Whether is it harder to vanquish a Monster or to bridle the affections A. The affections are most harde to be subdued Q. What is the office of a Conquerour A. To pardon the conquered Q. What be the properties of Harlots and Courtizans A. To be ●ull of wily fetches damnable devises tyrannous scornfull subtill ●icorous evill conditioned with ●lluring lookes and shamelesse gestures Q. Why doe men love to wear●ings A. Because the same by circle resembling the Heaven and the precious stone the Starre besides that for the most part they are endowed with marvellous vertue they give also a ●ertaine gladnesse to the eye and to the hand an honour Q. How is the chastity of Lucretia knowne A. By her death as the like of Penelope by long abode Virginia by the disdaine of her Father the Almaig●● Ladies by the halter wherewith they were hanged Cloelia by the sive Sulpitia by the Temple Dido by he● ashes and Hippo by her leaping into the Sea Q. Which bee the instruments of Chastity A. The Target of Medusa the Necklace of Iasper and the Chaine of Diamonds and Topazes Q. VVhereof commeth it that the Palme Tree representeth Constancie A. Because the more it is oppressed and the greater waight it hath the better it is Q. What is the property of age A. To make a man to be good of experience wise in his doings of good counsell when time requireth modest and temperate in word and deed and grave in considerations Q. Why ought a man to avoid carnall love A. Because his pleasures doe incontinently decrease but his sorrowes doe still remaine and he is stuffed with vanities dreames and vaine hopes Q. What is carnall love A. It is a furie full of care a strong sorrow and a weake strength Q. What properties have the Fountaines of Chius A. To make a man foolish and hard of understanding Q. And those of Paphlagonia A. To make them drunke that drinke thereof Q. And that of Suses A. To make the teeth fall Q. And that of Tharsa A. To make the voice pleasant and harmonious Q. And that of the Sunne A. To burne in the night and to be cold in the day Q. What that of Garramanta A. To freese twise in the day and burne twise in the night Q. What that of Examphus A. Bitter filthy and naught Q. What Fountaines of Arabia A. To make cattell change their haire Q. What that of Epirus A. It lighteth that which is put out and putteth out that which is lighted Q. What that of Carthage A. To cast forth oyle to heale beasts withall Q. What that of Neptune A. To make them to dye that doe drinke thereof Q. What the water of Dalmatida A. To make him amorous that drinketh thereof Q. The Rubie wherefore is it good A. Against poyson Q. What is the Granat A. To exhilarate and content the person Q. The Balais what is his property A. Never to bee hot with any fire Q. What the Saphire A. To make humble and chast Q. The lacint stone the Amethyst Sardony and the Asbeste wherefore be they good A. Against the plague drunkennesse evill fortune and fire Q. The Chrysolith Girassoll the ●●sper the Turquis and the Agat wherefore serve they A. To reestablish the braine to make invisible to stanch blood to escape a danger and to give good breath to him that runneth Q. The Berall the Cassidony the Corneline the Corall the Chrystall and the Adamant A. To make the person amorous to preserve the understanding to mitigate hatred and anger to resist lightning to quench the thirst to draw flesh and yron Q. Which is the most worthy person the man or woman A. God hath alwayes given increase of excellency unto the last creature that he created And because the woman was last created and is as it were the chiefe of the worke of God she is truly the worthiest of all being made of the most excellent creature that God created that is to say of man Q. Which is most subject to their appetites either the man or the woman A. The woman was most purified in her creation and so she is most subdued to her appetites best Q. Tell mee the properties of the Phenix the Eagle the Swan the Faucon the Popinjay the Crane the Pelican the Peacocke the Nightingale the Turtle Dove the Pie and the Crow A. To be immortall high minded a good singer to have good wings to bee beautifull vigilant amiable glorious delectable sad chast royall and to prognosticate the time to come Q. The Larke the Cocke the Quaile the Swallow and the Storke what properties have they A. To be pleasant magnanimous delectable sadde and mindfull of a good turne Q. And the Lyon the Tygre the Elephant the Vnicorne the Beare the Hyaena the Wolfe the Panther the Rhinoceron and the Leobert A. To be vigilant swift obedient humble furious inhumaine a devourer to smell well to be faire and of great courage Q. The Bever the Hart the Squerill the fallow Deare the Ape the Foxe the Gray or Brocke the Marteine and the Wolfe engendred of the Hart A. To be providing of long life nimble fearefull a counterfeiter crafty sleepy honourable and spotted Q. What signifieth the colours of white greene yellow golden pale Orenge colour blew pale and cornation colour A. Truth hope gladnesse diminut on of amity inconstancy heate and revengement friendship treason and sorrow Q. The changeable colour the violet the Skye colour and the Tawnie A. Inconstancy government high state and low Q. The mount of Venus being elevated or declined what signifieth the same A. Love or hatred Q. The Mount of Saturne another token of Palmistry what signifieth the same A. Riches or poverty Q. How ought every age of man to be governed A. Sucking babes with milke the Infant with rods the child with shame the young man with good discipline the man with armes the old man with good counsell and the latter age is deceit and twise childishnesse Q. What be the titles of the Sunne A. The Sunne is called the Father of the day the governour of nature the life of the body the eye of the world the heart of nature the King of the Starres and the visible Sonne of God Q. Which be the wings of Time A. The time past the time present and the time to come Q. What bee the teeth whereby Time doth consume all things A. The day the night life and death Q. What is the cause that in our time men be not so excellent as they have beene in times past A. It is Nature which daily groweth worse and worse or else it is because vertue is not so much commended or ●steemed at this present as in times past it hath beene Or else it may be said that it is the custome of each age to make complaint of the present state FINIS Imprimatur T. WYKES March 14. 1639.

speaking very common to Latinists called Metaphora Q. Whereof commeth the love of two which doe equally loue each other A. Some thinke that it commeth o● their conversation mutuall familiarity other of Angels and spirits assigned to each man And other of the concurrants and conformity of the Planets Q. Whereof proceedeth the rare beauty of women A. Some doe say that it commeth of the temperature of the elements other doe tell reasons more excellent Q. Why did Euripides say that Love was like a Tragedy A. Because that love is evermor● accompanied with heavinesse with complaints and with a hard and bitt●● end Q. Is there any difference betweene the grace of a woman and her beauty or whether be they all one A. I beleeue that there is a difference for the one hath a greater force then the other to cause a man to be content and satisfied Q. Whether is it a greater adventure to get the grace of a faire woman or else to recover it if it were lost A. Jt is a greater act to recover it as J beleeue women being of their owne nature disdainfull and stout in their opinion Q. How may a man doe to obtaine and get the favour of another A. Some do say by merit some other by fortune other doe impute it to the conformity of nature and some do attribute the same to influence or destiny Q. Whether of these three qualities be best to obtaine the grace of women Beauty Riches or Learning A. They which be faire desire to have faire servants Rich those that have wherewithall and the learned love them that be learned But most-commonly riches is best liked of women for their maintenance although with wise women learning is of greatest price Q. Is it possible that a Lover see continually the things that he loveth A. That chanceth to those specially that be not touched with Love that is to wit which can represent to themselves those which be absent by cogitations Q. How may the heart of a Lover liue that is not beloved A. He may live very well considering that it is more pleasure to love as I have at other times affirmed then to be beloved Q. May a man establish lawes to Lovers A. I thinke not but yet I will not deny that they which love by a certaine gift of nature or chance fatall lawes may be established whereunto they may subdue themselves Q. Is there any thing in the wor●● that may retire and draw an amoro●● man from the thing that he loveth A. Onely disdaine may withdraw him more then any other thing Q. Why doe the ancient paint Cu●pido to force himselfe to plucke 〈◊〉 branch of Palme out of the hand of an● other Cupido A. In ancient Bookes there is re●membrance made of two Cupidoes th● one chaste the other lascivious and dishonest The chaste is he that doth strongly bind and bring him that is lascivious and dishonest into subjection Q. How can a Lover dye in himselfe and live in another A. This is cleare that the heart i● more where he loveth then where hee giveth life Q. Wherefore be the angers of Lovers of so little continuance A. Because they are angry for trifles and things of nothing Q. How many sorts of Lovers be there A. Two sorts the one after Plato celestiall and the other vulgar and terrestiall Q. How commeth love in us by judgement or by destiny A. Most often by judgement for divers times men judge before they loue Q. Is there any pleasure in the world that surpasseth the contentation of Lovers A. No for why the seede commeth 〈…〉 the which causeth 〈…〉 throughout all the body Q. Wherefore doe men esteeme women to be an evill like to the fire and to the sea A. Because there is no day but that by womens evils doe come an infinite of misfortunes Q. Which proceedeth most from women sweetnesse or bitternesse A. For one sweetnesse comes a Sea of sharpe sowre bitternesse Q. Whereof commeth it that men compare the state of Lovers to a ship upon the sea A. For the great dangers wherei● they daily be Q. What would a true Lover do being a farre off when he seeth the shi● wherein his Lady is to be in dange● of drowning A. He would make vowes to Love and with joyned hands beseech him t● save her though it cost him a Tape● so big as the mast of the Ship to offe● to his Godhead Q. Why doe wee love the body so much being but earth and corruptible i● A. We love it because we canno● alwayes have it Q. Can the love of the body and 〈◊〉 the spirit agree together or whether b● they contrary A. They be contrary and one a●gainst the other Q. I would know whether the body alone might content the Lover A. Not if he be vertuous gentl● and of a good nature Q. When a woman answereth nothing to the request made vnto her is i● a signe that she agreeth thereunto A. Sometimes yea sometimes no whereof a man can ground no certaine judgement if he pursue no further Q. Wherefore doe young women love perfumes so much A. They be all Venus children And the Greeke Poets affirme that Venus never departed from any place without leaving an exquisite perfume behinde her for witnesse of her presence Besides this all perfumes and good odours doe either open the appetite or else prouoke Venus Q. Wherefore doe men compare the beauty of a woman to a flower A. Because it is soone come and soone gone Q. Why doe men feigne that Love liveth among flowers A. Because that flowers give continuall hope of fruit and even so doth Love for hee nourisheth and entertaineth his servants continually with hope trusting to enjoy at the last the fruit longed for Q. Of two Lovers which shall wee esteeme more to be favoured him from whom his Lady shall take away a Nosegay and put it in her bosome or him 〈◊〉 whom she shall giue a nosegay that she 〈◊〉 selfe did weare A. The properties of women is 〈◊〉 take and not to give J say then that 〈◊〉 shall be best beloved to whom she sha●● give the nosegay Q. Of what colour should women 〈◊〉 most desired A. I would desire them to be of th●● colour wherewith men paint vertu●● which i● Red but men doe desire th●● 〈…〉 Q. Of whom have 〈…〉 to close their eares against the suppli●●cations of poore Lovers A. Of the Serpent Aspis which 〈◊〉 deafe and venemous Q. Wherefore doe men say that 〈◊〉 woman hath the looke of a Serpent an● the eye of a Basiliske A. By reason of the great subtilty and craft wherewith they use to entra●● and draw men to their love Q. Be Hearbes medicinable for love A. Yea J have seene the experience thereof at Mantua a City in Italy al●●eit Ovid cryeth out that loue can find ●o remedy in hearbes Q. Wherefore is the life of a lover ●ot beloved compared to hell A. He that made such comparison did it by

ayre which breaking the powers the body becommeth very light Q. What is the cause that round egges doo bring forth males and they which be long females A. Because in the round Egges all the vertue is equally divided throughout all the extremities and in the long egge the vertue is much extended and lesse closed and so of lesse heate then the other Q. Why is not wine good fasting A. Because it engendreth the crampe 〈◊〉 maketh a man dull and heavie Q. Why doe Physitians vse to touch the pulse of the right arme A. Because it is the part that is most hot Q. But wherefore will they not that the patient hold his hand hard closed nor yet stretched forth A. Because the Sinewes and arteri●● be strained the hand being either stretched or closed Q. Whereof commeth it that Hares have so feeble sight A. Because the Hare is a beast very sleepie and too much sleepe hurteth the sight Or else it is of too much swiftnesse for overmuch swiftnesse is hurtfull to the eyes Q. How chanceth it that the pawe●● of a Beare are better venison then 〈◊〉 other part of his body A. That commeth of their contin●● all agitation and stirring for the Bear●● doth continually walke and beate wi●● his feet Q. Why doe Physitians call a disor●dinate appetite Fames Canina 〈◊〉 hunger of a Dog A. Because Dogs are without me●●●ure in the appetite of eating Q. Why doe Dogs scommer with so great paine A. Because their bowell and receiving Gut is larger at that part where it joyneth with the belly then it is at the place where it endeth Q. Why are they more sleepie that have great heads then others A. The greater the head is the more vapours it comprehendeth Q. Why doe Dwarfes love to sleepe much A. Because great plenty of humors get forthwith into their heads which engender in them a desire to sleepe Q. Wherefore are they most hungry that have large and grosse veynes A. Because they bee of nature dry and adust Q. VVhat causeth them that dwell towards the South to bee lesse subject to the falling sicknesse then ●ther people A. Because they be sound within and full of heate Q. Whereof commeth it that the oyle of Lentiles doth heale the inflamamation of the Gummes A. Because it is good to take away all hot and burning humors Q. Why doth the edge of a knife turn when one doth cut waxe A. Because that every Agent in his action is also patient that is subject to contraries Q. How commeth the humor in the eye called Glauconia which is like Christall and hurteth the sight A. Eyes infected with that humor be like the eye of a Civet and doth come of the aboundance of the Christ all in humour Q. Why doth Licorice take away thirst A. Because of his moystnesse Q. Why is the Liver of a Wolfe medicinable for them that be diseased in the Liver A. By reason of a certain secret vertue in the same Q. VVhy be they more hardy then another that have hairy breasts A. Because they have a boyling heart Q. VVherefore is Milke evill for the teeth and gums A. Because of the immoderate coldnesse Q. Why doth Lettise provoke s●eepe A. Because it engendreth grosse humours Q. VVhereof commeth it that Lent●les and Colewortes be hurtfull to the sight A. That commeth of their crassitude and thicknesse Q. VVhere of commeth it that by too much eating of Lentiles are engendred Cankers A. That commeth of the melancholicke blood which Lentiles doe e●gender Q. How chanceth it that Lions have no marrow in their bones A. Through the extreame heate of the said beast Q. But why doth the shining and brightnesse of the Moone hurt the 〈◊〉 A. Because it moveth the humours of the braine and cannot afterwards resolve them Q. VVhy doe some dye by too much Ioy A. Because the spirits doe abandon and forsake the heart Q. VVhy should men beware of too much fasting A. Because long fasting engendreth a heape of ill humours and causeth feeblenesse and loathsomenesse Q. Why is vineger very good for cholericke persons and hurtfull to the● that be melancholike A. Because it refresheth choller and dryeth melancholy Q. What causeth the eyes to shed forth teares A. Coldnesse is the occasion which naturally doth make thick and restrain whereby teares proceed Q. VVhy have things that be very sweet and odoriferious a certaine spic●● of bitternesse A. Sweet smells doe alwayes search hot places which commonly are 〈◊〉 what bitter Q. VVhereof commeth it that things that nourish and encrease milke doe warme moderately without drying A. Because such things doe engender blood whereof milke commeth Q. Why be all nourishing things participant with sweetnesse A. Because all sweet things be very temperate Q. VVhereof commeth it that wine in processe of time is of greater heate A. Because the waterish parts doe vanish and avoyd Q. Whereof commeth it that some wines are sower so soone A. Because in the vintage time they were replenished with superfluous humours Q. Why doe men rather vse Sorrell then Vineger against the inflamations of the Intestines and Bowels A. Because that Sorrell is more moderate then Vineger And whosoever is ●iseased therewithall should not vse any medicine that is sharpe or violent but ●●ther pleasant Q. VVhereof commeth it that yellow Choller is alwaies bitter and the blacke egre and sharpe A. Heate causeth bitternesse and cold causeth sharpenesse Q. VVhy is Catarre or Rewme sometimes sweet sometimes sharpe and somtimes salt A. Of a certaine mixture of the humours Q. Why doth the wilde Bore pisse before he doth runne or flye away A. To dispatch himselfe of the heavinesse of his vrine the more swiftly 〈◊〉 runne Q. VVherefore doe Physitians giv● to Infants and young children a hear●● called Abrobatum in English Sother●●wood A. Because it killeth wormes Q. How chanceth it that Scorpion●● doe smite and hurt side-waies A. Because their pricke and sting 〈◊〉 crooked Q Why doe men waxe pale wh●● they be afraid A. Because the blood flyeth away and retireth to the vitall parts Q Why doth the sea called Mare mortuum bring forth neither Plant nor ●ish A. Through the great bitternesse of the same Q. VVhat is the cause that a salt thing being heated againe waxeth bitter A. Bitternesse commeth of adustion Q. VVhy hath the Scorpion venome in her taile A. Because venome is the excrement of the Scorpion Q. VVherefore did nature make mens eares so eminent standing out and of gristles A. To be more quicke of hearing and to bee lesse grieved when they be hurt Q. VVhy cannot Milke creame or curd being incorporated with Honey A. Because hony with his vertue incisive and abstersive doth let it Q. VVhy doth not artery or sinew being cut grow againe as flesh doth A. Because they be spermatick members Q. Wherefore doe the leaves of a Service Tree fall together at one instant A. Because he hath no viscous or slimy humour Q. Wherefore is a Bay tree alwaies greene A.

Graces with the Muses whereof it came that Aelius Comodus the Emperor was so farre in love with Martiall that hee termed him to be his Virgil. Q. Are men to be commended for their corporall beauty sake A. No But for their vertue wisedome counsell and force which declare what manner of minds they have within Q. What caused Driopas the Athenian to establish this Law That whosoever had conceived any evill opinion of God should have his head cut off A. Because there is no worse thing then to have an evill opinion of him which hath made and mainteineth all things Q. What manner of thing is ●●ligion A. It is the true knowledge of Gods owne service Q. Wherefore did Alcibiades reject all kind of Musicke saving when he was at the Table at his meales A. Because Musicke provoked him to conceiue delight familiarly to talke at the Table Q. A strange Question whereof I ●●ould faine be resolved One Stesichorus lying in his Cradle a Nightingale lighted on his mouth and sung vpon the same A. It was a presage that Stesichorus should prove an excellent singer Q. What profit bringeth Musick to him that hath delight in the same A. It sharpeneth the spirit not onely to know the harmonie of the voyce but also it maketh the person to have a better judgement to indite either in 〈◊〉 or prose Q. What is true Philosophy A. The knowledge of goodnesse and how to live well Q. What caused the Poets to vse so ●●ny fictions and inventions A. To allure men to abandon their ●●barous conditions and brutish behaviours and to turne themselves to vertue and exercises Q. What was the cause of the death of Cinna A. Because hee was cruell towards his Souldiers and constrained them to fight perforce and by compulsion Q. What is Patience A. A voluntary sufferance in things difficult for love of honour and profit Q. VVhat is Constancy A. It is a vertue which conserveth good counsell and maketh a man persevere in honourable deeds Q. What is Opinion A. It is a stay fixed either in deed 〈◊〉 word which maketh vs obstinately 〈◊〉 follow our fancy although it be without reason onely to be superior in all controversies Q. What is Iustice A. After the mind of the ancient Poets it is a celestiall vertue powred down from God into our spirits that 〈◊〉 might the better honour love and san●ctifie him as author of all things an● therefore Princes were for good respect called of Homer Iupiters schollers Q. What is the property of Iustice A. To love and honour God above all things and our neighbour as our selfe Q. How many kinds of Iustice bee there A. Foure that is to say Divine Naturall Civill and Judiciall Q. Of what things is the world gouerned A. By reward and punishment Q. What is divine Iustice A. It is that which maketh vs to acknowledge God to be our Creator the beginning and end of all things and him of whom all creatures receive life without participation of mortall things Q. What is naturall Iustice A. It is alwayes one in all men and varieth nothing through the diversity of Regions and Nations being alwaies convenable to Nature And as divine Iustice sheweth the duty towards God even so naturall Iustice is subject to the satisfaction of nature The Disciples of Socrates affirmed that naturall Justice is a knowledging 〈…〉 and just things and agreeable to naturall reason which thing whosoever doth vse shall become good of himselfe Q. What is civill Iustice A. Jt is appertaining to a Prince or Magistrate whose office is to provide●● that the people be well ruled and governed and that no harme be done vnto the place whereof he hath the rule Q. What is 〈◊〉 civill Iustice A. That consisteth in being reasonable to all men and to discerne the just from the vnjust Q. Why were Achilles and Sylla ●●prehended for their victories A. Because they were cruell and insolent towards their enemies when they had overcome them The contrary 〈◊〉 Caesar Alexander Hannibu●● ●●nius and Aege●● all which 〈◊〉 greatly praised for their victories Q. Before whom is it lawfull 〈◊〉 man to vaunt himselfe of well doing A. Before the valiant or before 〈◊〉 that know him not or have small knowledge what vertue is Q. Why was Metellus despised A. For being too much desirous to have surpassed Sertorius to whom notwithstanding he was not comparable in 〈◊〉 Q. How ought a man to vse the goods 〈◊〉 Fortune A. That they may become subject to man and not man to them following the verse of Horace Et mihires non me rebus submittere 〈◊〉 conor Q. Whereof proceeded the saying of Poets that Mars was armed with Di●●●●onds A. To declare that a Prince ought to be strong not in body but in heart 〈◊〉 courage Q. What is the property of a good Captaine A. To be gentle politique wise and witty not be discouraged in hard fortune nor inflamed in prosperity Such was Hanniball See a further description hereof in the 24. Novell of the Pallace 〈◊〉 pleasure Q. From whence came the great r●●now● that in olde time the Cimbri●●●nd ●nd Celtiberians atchieved in the warres A. Because they esteemed the 〈◊〉 of honour to be in the warres and had rather fley their owne children then they should be thrall and taken of their enemies Q. Why doe some praise Anger A. Because it doth commonly accompany courage Q. How many kinds of Amity bee there A. Three that is to say profitabl honest and delectable Q. Why was Dionisius expelled by the Locrences A. Because he being curteously received of them in the time of his ●●●●●ishment vsed dishonest orders toward●● their wives Q. Why did Amphitryon give 〈◊〉 sonne Hercules to Euristeus A. To teach him to flye the volu●●tuousnesse of the Thebanes and 〈◊〉 accustome him with honest labo●● 〈◊〉 following the vertues of Euristeus Q. Whereof proceedeth the difference between one man and another A. By digressing from Philosophy 〈◊〉 that it riseth through the trayell 〈◊〉 ●he soule when it passeth into our ●●cies descending from God through the Lodiaque and the white Circle In which passage all soules take their affections and doe participate with all the natures and motions of each Sphere and Starre according to their aspects Q. What is Choler A. Jt is an anger soone come and soone gone proceeding of a feeble ●eate Q. What is taken of the Planet Sa●●ne A. Reason eloquence and vnder●●anding as of Iupiter force of doing 〈◊〉 Mars boldnesse and of the heate 〈◊〉 the Sunne feeling and opinion and 〈◊〉 forth Q. What is hatred A. It is an anger that hath taken 〈◊〉 Q. What is discord 〈◊〉 and Morall and politique Question● A. It is a frowardnesse and anger comming of hatred which maketh men rebellious to the Cōmon-wealth which indeed is the destruction of all human●● things Q. What is Concord A. It is a vertue which in short time maketh small and weake things to grow as Salust saith 〈…〉 cresc●●● Q. Why

the course of the Element and of the Sunne it can make the Moone to be as red as blood appease the windes make the earth to tremble enchant Beasts and cause 〈◊〉 Man or woman to be loved perforce Q. But how can the Negromance doe such strange things A. With perfumes conjuration● ceremonies charmes and characters Q. VVhat is he that is like unto the Image of Sardanapalus A. A man well proportioned of body but of brutish nature Q. VVhat doth Fortune represent with her apple of Gold A. That good spirits are accompanied with good Fortune Q. VVhat meaneth a Plow in the hands of a Labourer A. That travell is the true treasure of man Q. VVhat signifieth a Wolfe carrying a Lambe in his mouth A. A man that careth not what hurt ●e doth to another Q. VVhat betokeneth a man with his Purse open A. That a wise man spareth nothing for his health Q. What signifieth a Ship sunke in the bottome of the Sea A. That the perill of other ought to make us take better heed Q. What doth the Ants carrying of ●orne represent unto us A. Those that live of the sweat of other mens browes They teach us also in youth to provide for age as they in Harvest doe provide to live withall in Winter Q. How may wee represent gratitude and acknowledging of good turnes which we have received A. By a Storke that nourisheth the ●●●mme Q. And great travell with little profit how should we paint that A. By a child that swimmeth Q. What is to be vnderstood by a Serpent A. That an evill disposed person cannot accustome himselfe to goodnesse Q. What signifieth a man that is painted with Gold in the right hand and fire in the left A. That he is not worthy to be a partaker of the felicity which hath done no friendship in time of adversity Q. What doth he betoken that breaketh his head against the wall A. That he esteemeth his life but a little which contendeth with great men Q. VVhat representeth a Quadrant vnto us A. That nothing ought to be done without counsell Q. VVhat is Envie A. An horrible monster Q. VVhere is her habitation A. At the Court. Q. If she should happen to be banished from thence whither would she goe A. To Monasteries and Conuents Q. VVhereof proceedeth it that children doe not love the father so well as the father doth the children A. Love is alwaies advanced and ●oth never turne backe againe especially for the desire that a man hath to make his posterity perpetuall Or rather it proceedeth of this that the father hath nothing of the son but the soone hath and holdeth all of the father Q. Whereof commeth it that although every man is desirous of knowledge yet very few doe apply themselves to scien●es and Art● A. Because to attaine to sciences great ●aine is to be taken and is subject to his pleasure a thing contrary to contemplation or else some doe want the ●ight way and meane to study Q. Why is a Philosopher painted naked A. Because both in verity and Philo●ophy there needeth not coverture but is necessary that all things be handled ●ainly and purely and ought to bee ●oyd of all sophisticall colours and car●all affections Q. Why did Euripides say in his Tragedy entituled Medea that womens wit is unapt to goodnesse but very well inclined to unhappinesse A. Because a Woman is a creature unperfect and where Perfection is not there can rest nothing that is good Q. VVhy is the counsell that a woman giveth upon the sodaine of much estimation and that which she doth devise and study nothing worth A. Even as unreasonable creatures are induced and provoked to their actions without any resistance by a certaine superiour occasion which is Nature even so the Woman although of her selfe she be evill yet the understanding and knowledge that Nature hath given her which will not be deceived no● yet abuse or deceive any person doth provoke her at the first motion to give good advice But if she have leysure by study to follow her own inclination all that she will doe shall be little worth Q. Why be women more covetous the●● men A. Because they 〈…〉 will set by them 〈◊〉 riches Q. Why be reasonable creatures 〈◊〉 short life A. The perfection of transitory thing 〈◊〉 not measured by time for the life of reasonable creatures although it be ●●orter yet is more desired then the life brute beasts Q. Why is death called the last of terrible thiugs A. Because she is terrible both to them ●●t thinke to be immortall and also ill livers and to those that dye of a ●●lent death but not to others Q. Why is sneesing deemed a good ●●ne and not belching A. Because sneesing commeth from ●e head which is as it were the Lord ●●d Ruler of the body Q. Why is it a thing so shamefull 〈◊〉 ill a woman A. Because she is weake and not able resist Q. Why did the Painter Phidias 〈◊〉 Venus setting her feete upon a ●●rtoise A. To declare that a woman of honour is no runner out of the doores but keepeth her selfe within her house Q. VVhereof commeth it that many Ladies have so greatly esteemed the leaves and seed of Agnus Castus A. Because it is enemy to Leache●y Q. Why did nature ordaine that when Bees doe engender no man can see them A. To teach us shamefastnesse and modesty Q. Why are cloathes of silke bette● esteemed then those of wooll A. Because silke is more fine and light better coloured more bright and orient then woollen Q. VVhat is it that breedeth envi● most in man A. To bee sad and Melancholicke Q. VVhat manner of motion hath envie A. Slow and heavie Of what age is she A. Old crooked withered having pale and leane face her tongue infected with poyson Q. From whence commeth the beauty that is in the neckes of Pigeons and in Peacockes feathers A. Of the variety and diversity of colours Q. What is the property of mans heart A. To faigne and dissemble Q. Why is the Camaeleon so marvailous A. Because he transformeth himselfe into all colours Q. Whereof commeth the brightnesse that is in rotten wood A. Nature sheweth us thereby that there is nothing so abject but it hath some vertue Q. VVhat is the property of the Sirenes A. To bring death by singing Q. Wherein consist the effects of vertue A. In words and in deeds Q. How may a man seeme gentle in his behaviour A. By his gate or going by countenance by his manner of living and above all things by his civility Q. How are secret advertisements disclosed A. By letters by weapons in love and by courses of armes Q. How must a man doe reverence A. By putting off his cappe and bowing downe his head Q. How ought a man to obey his superiours A. With fidelity goodwill devotion feare and hope Q. How is a man modest in his behaviours A. When his hand is on his stomacke his eyes