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A59997	VVits labyrinth, or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases together with some hundreds of most pithy, facetious and patheticall complementall expressions / collected, compiled and set forth for the benefit, pleasure or delight of all, but principally the English nobility and gentry by J.S., gent.	Shirley, James, 1596-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing S3494; ESTC R10940	22,813	63

put it in a Casket for your selfe When mynes are to bee blowne up men digge lowe Let plenty spread your boord and charity take away Great men to Princes are like valleyes unto hils they may be councelled by them not controwled Conscience is seldome seene in cloath of gold Great fortunes earned are great slaveries Where Beggars once take almes they look for 't ever Storms are at sea when it is calme at land You feede some discontent Discontent 's a mould fit to cast mischiefe in Hee that hath the muses smyle hath moneyes frowne Better to fight with Lyons then with Lawes Heaven is the poore mans champion Sorrow ends not when as it seemeth done Truth hath a quiet breast Where words are few they are seldome spent in vaine Mens ends are mark'd more then their lives before You seeke no shelter to avoid the storme A tide of woes comes rushing on all at once Thankes is the exchequer of the poore Things past redresse ought to be past care Teares shew their love but want their remedy Your heart is not confederate with your tongue Griefe's not to be asswag'd by flattery Chastity is a thing not known in Court Nothing is hard to them that dare to dye Cherish desert in all Men are not fit to live in the state they hate The easinesse doth much abate the edge No pain 's so irksome as a forc'd delight There needes no flattery but where desert is wanting He 's next in right that hath the strongest power Sometimes noble blood is hid in rags Feare argues a base spirit Death is the last and the extream'st of ills Vertue is paid her due by death alone Time weares out what art or nature cannot bring about When lust is up all women are alike None can finde the subtle cunning of a womans minde You give a drop of honey in a sea of gall Ther 's no resisting of necessity There is a cloud obscures my sunne Late providence procures long repentance Blinde is the censure of uncertainties Great sorrow is alwayes dumbe The greatest vertue is true patience My heart was never feaver-shook with feare All censures soone take fire The dawne of mid-night is the Drunkards noone Chastity is a Virgins riches To shut your lips fast take this locke of gold A faulty woman never wants excuse Women are like to Venice glasses one cracke spoyles them As kinde as the sunne to the new-come spring As constant as the needle to the adamant Good things abus'd convert unto the worst An Eagles nest disdaines to hatch a crow Small flies it'th spiders web are ta'ne When great ones teare the web and free remaine No man ever durst sweare for his wife but Adam Innocence wrong'd is crown'd Thieves are Diana's Forresters or Gentlemen of the shade As melancholy as a lovers lute or haire Tread not upon my patience A railing wife is worse then a smoaky house As bountifull as mynes of India Your letters speakes your minde As wanton as a goate Discretion is the better part of valour A false comfort is worse then a true wrong Suspition alwayes hath a ready tongue In poyson there is physicke Wake not a sleeping wolfe As neare of kinne as the parish heyfer to the towne bull Discretion is the better part of man Let wisdome be your guide Uneasie lyes the head that weares a Crowne Olde folkes are times doating chronicle He is walk'd the way of nature and of death Abate your fury As quicke and fiery as the palfrey of the sunne There 's flattery in friendship The man that would have sold the Lyons skinne while the beast liv'd was kill'd with hunting him Noble mindes contemne dispaire or danger There is more safety in a tygers jawes To wretched men death is felicity No beast is so fierce but knowes some touch of pitty A wren may prey where an Eagle dares not perch 'T is good to sort occasion When clouds appeare wise men put on their cloakes The minde of man mistrusts ensuing dangers The waters swell before a boysterous storme Riches are in fortune as great a good as wisedome is in nature Hope is such a bate it covers any hooke Calumnies are answered best with silence Health is the blessing of the rich and riches of the poore The sunne that sets may rise againe Play not with or delay not opportunity Guilty persons suspect what they deserve Mischiefe doth ever end where it begun It is an act of horrour Heaven never failes the innocent Good wits are greatest in extreamity To plead for the guilty hurts the innocent Mischief's feed like beasts till they be fat and then they bleed Brave minds are strongest in extreamities The most doe favour errour Reason is the ground of arts Your complements call your faith in question You may improve your vertue Death hath more doores than one Truth is a word that doth in every language relish well Play not too long upon my patience Mine eyes begin to summon me to sleepe Love is alwayes jealous In full fields the gleanings are allowed The end still crownes the deed Best natures are soonest wrought upon Where shall I borrow patience A storme is comming I must provide for harbor Man's right to every thing wains with his wealth 'T is a dangerous thing to steale prey from a Lyon The worst deeds are made good with good successe Flatterers looke like friends as wolves like dogs Misery of vertue ill is made good with worse A wronged hart will breake a rib of steele but vent it selfe You are a gulfe of all ingratitude Dishonest things have bitter rivers though delicious springs Truth is not made of glasse Princes discontents are like the flames of Etna not to be quench'd Pray yield my innocence justice Doe not inforce your merrits so your selfe Where medicines loath it grieves men to bee heal'd Danger alwayes haunts desert Submission is a full and compleat recompence Reward goes backward honour on his head We must to vertue for our guide resort Innovation is more dangerous than errour All faults are still-born that from greatness grow Frailty is fruitfull The height of love is still wonne with denyings Guilt carries feare with it Flattery like the plague pierceth unfelt Keepe not fire in your bosome lest it consume you You cherish a viper in your bosome which will destroy you The Politician or Machevilian covers hate with smiles A Politician must like lightning melt the very marrow yet not pierce the skinne An olde husband is good to make screene of to stand next the fire whilst his young wife sits behinde him and keeps a friends lips warme You with your hand turn Fortunes wheele about Vertue is the fountaine whence honour springs Let no mans birth be blemish to his worth We must give way to want 'T is manners to take kindnesse Necessity must be obeyed The feast of Marriage is not lust but love When Cynthia's pride 's at full she waynes againe Death is the greatest Monarch in the world Love is a

VVits Labyrinth OR A briefe and compendious Abstract of most witty ingenious wise and learned SENTENCES and PHRASES Together with some hundreds of most pithy facetious and patheticall complementall Expressions Collected compiled and set forth for the benefit pleasure or delight of all but principally the English Nobility and GENTRY Aut prodesse aut delectare potest By I. S. GENT. LONDON Printed for M. Simmons 1648. TO The Illustrious and Generous the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom of England I. S. wisheth all encrease of Honour Happinesse and Prosperity Right Honourable I Know it will appear strange preposterous to many to see a Poem of this nature in these distracted and confused times when scarce the iron hand of Warre is ceast but like a fearefull and prodigious Commet stil hangs over us threatning ruine and destruction to this royall Kingdome set forth to the view and Censure of the World For noble Gentlemen I must ingenuously confesse it had beene much more sutable to the Times had it had its birth in our Halcyon dayes when blest peace and prosperity reigned in our happy Albion but since 't is so unhappy to breathe life in this unnaturall age let it begge your favourable and candid censures not of Abortive but a Posthumus And now to vindicate my self from foule detraction which the envious and carying Zoylusses Momusses of all ages by their virulent tongues pens to prejudice and traduce the workes of others have too frequently but most falsely cast upon Writers I shall endeavour to give you some satisfactory reasons of publishing this my Pamphlet As first because I never heard or read of any booke of this subject set forth in the English tongue although in all other languages they are most frequent The next is for the benefit pleasure or delight of the Reader especially now in these sad and disconsolate times it being a great refreshment and recreation to the minde of man by way of divertion to take him off from the consideration of these danger-threatning times and entertaine his thoughts sometimes with sweete variety of matter according to that saying Interpone tuis interdum gaudea curis ut posses animo quemvis sufferre laborem And lastly although this Poem is but a collection of divers sentences phrasers c. as appeareth in the Title not methodically composed or digested it being unpossible in a subject of this nature so to doe but promiscously intermixt with variety and delight which many yeares since in times of my better prosperity I gathered out of some hundreds of Authors never having the least thought of putting it to Presse Yet now by the importunity or rather the commands of some noble friends to whose endearements for their noble favours I owe my gratitude I have adventured or rather presumed under your noble patronage and protection to put it into print And noble Gentlemen let mee indulge your favours not to reade it with prejudicate opinions for then I know you will doome it to scorne and your contempt but that you will behold it with a gracious and favourable aspect rather pittying then censuring the Author and where you finde it worthlesse and unusefull you would bury it in the Ocean of your goodness thereby you will oblige me for to be Your Honours in all humble observance and duty I. S. A Briefe and compendious abstract of most witty Ingenious wise and learned SENTENCES and PHRASES Vertue illustrates true Nobility Bounty and mercy grace Nobility Bounti 's the badge of true Nobility Reputation is the soule of Honour THE sicknesse of the bodie oft-times proves physick to the soule Afflictions are preparatives for grace Vertu 's more worth then all the hidden treasures of the earth Mercie 's the object of a Christian Sinne and grace are incompatible This world 's a moment to eternity All earthly treasures are but vanities Heaven is the object of the soule of man Content is the crown of earthly happinesse Vertue and grace runne parallel with Heaven All qualities that spring from vertue have their reward Where beauty is there needs no other plea Riches are lent for to relieve the poor He that relieves the poor gives almes to Heaven Bounty and liberality consists not in feasting the rich but feeding the poore Hee that contemns the poore may forget Heaven The rich mans bounty is the poore mans Exchequer To feede the hungry cloath the naked and relieve the poore is a Sacrifice heaven is well pleased with The sicknesse of age is avarice the errours of youth profanenesse The memory of past misfortunes augments the present happinesse Revenge sweetens disgrace Innocence is the safest armour Storms divided abate their force Melancholy is the nurse of frenzie Worth should ever be admired and vertue lov'd Conquests hard got are sweete and glorious Let vertue be the object of your will Desperate torments must have desperate cures Mans greatest extreamity is Heavens best opportunity Grant mee gracious heaven the head of Solomon and the heart of David He is Master of any mans life that contemnes his owne Whosoever writes a modern history and follows truth too neare the heeles it may chance strike out his teeth No man can so change himself but that his heart may bee sometimes seene at his tongues end The minde ought to have reason to remember that passion ought to be her vassall not her Master Hee 's of a poore spirit that declines every mans anger The covetous man relishes any thing that comes of free cost Money comes neere the nature of a spirit it is so subtle it opens lockes drawes curtaines buyes wit sells honestly Affection flowes uncompelled Your feares abuse you Shew not a guilt of so much weakenesse in you It is in vaine to interrupt our fate What is decreed above becomes not mortalls to dispute Redeeme your selfe to liberty againe Ambition like a torrent ne're lookes back Ambition is the last affection a great minde can put off Let not faith seeme cheaper for springing out of penitence The dignity of truth is lost by much protesting few are vertuous when reward 's away They are petty crimes are punish't great rewarded Attempts begun with danger still end with glory As crimes doe grow justice should rowze her selfe Better thy fortunes should forsake thee then thy vertues Let falshood flee thy breast Let not hatred harbour in thy bosome Adde not to the ill you have done Resolution ever waits the noble mind Obey necessity and lick the Lyons feet till happier times By your delayes you hasten miseries Betray not your selfe to filthy lust or base contempt Let revenge sleepe Laugh not at aged sorrow Destract not from your self Sell not your liberty Sell not your soul for such a vanity as eye-pleasing beauty Make tryall of your vertues No hell so low which lust and women cannot lead unto Into how sad a toyle ambition and swift ryot run into when mean content sits low happy and secure No course that 's violent can