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A07448	Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.; Palladis tamia	Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607. Politeuphuia.	1634 (1634)	STC 17835; ESTC S121517	258,252	788

came to no such end become Sun-burnt and as they that sit in an Apothecaries shop doe smell of the fragrancie of that place so they that conuerse with a wise man although not to the end to become wise yet are made bettrr by him Seneca As certaine small creatures when they bite are not felt but the biting is discerned by a little pimple or red spot but in the tumour no wound appeareth so thou shalt find that although conuersing with good men doth not presently profit yet that it hath profited Seneca As a disease by infection doth creepe vnto thy neighbour when as health doth not the same vnto him that is sicke so by keeping company with wicked men good men are easily corrupted when as the contrary doth not follow As the fish Torpedo doth not hurt vnlesse touched but doth after a strang manner transpose her poyson from the hooke to the line and so to the Angle-rod and then to the hand so wicked and pestilent fellowes doe not hurt if thou keepe thy selfe from their conuersation but if thou conuersest with them then very contagiously they infuse their infection Plin. lib. 23 cap. 1. As in husbandry it is not inough that thou shew thy selfe a good husbandman but it is also auaileable with what neighbour thou liuest so in life it is not inough that thou shew thy selfe a good man but it also skilleth with whom thou hast conuersation As the venemous hearbe Aconitum doth kill by contraction so the conuersation of some doth slay by infection Plin. lib. 29. cap. 2. As the Pyrit stone doth not discouer his firie nature except thou dost rub it and then it doth burne thy finger so thou shalt not perceiue the maliciousnesse of some except thou hast some commerce with them As not onely the Load-stone doth draw Iron vnto it but also one Iron doth draw and other being rubbed with the Load-stone so by conuersing together either the profit of vertue or the poyson of vice doth passe from one to another As they that take an Antidote before poyson are not hurt of the poyson so they that haue their minds strengthned and confirmed with wholsome opinions and good instructions are not infected by the speech of impious persons if they chance to fall among them Wines doe not onely relish of the grounds they grow in but also of the trees and plants they grow by so wee doe not onely expresse their natures from whom wee descend but also their manners with whom we liue As they that are bitten of a mad dogge doe not onely become mad but also doe infect others with contagion so they that are possessed with any pestilent opinion doe also infect others with their speeches and conferences As a Hart doth draw venom out of holes by his breath and doth purge them so some by their godly conuersation doe draw others from sinne and conuert them vnto God Basiliu● in Psalterium As the plague doth infect so doth euill company Idem de spiritu sancto As vineger doth corrupt wine so wicked men doe infect the good therefore let vs goe out of Babylon Chryso hom 28. in Matth. As one Whore doth make many fornicators so the wickednesse of a few doth pollute a great part of the people Saluianus de vero iudicio prouidentia Dei lib. 7. Feare AS we doe not driue feare from timerous horses by keeping them in the stable but by leading them by the force of bit and spurre into those places which they feare so also a fearefull and timerous mind is to bee forced that at length it may put off this vaine feare Fr. Lodouicus Granat lib. de deuotine As the body is not capable of pleasures except it bee in good temper so the mind doth not partake of true pleasure except it be void of feare Plut. As a flame raysed by the wind is greater and more vehement but lesse durable and constant so a vehement desier ioyned with feare hath vncertaine pleasure Idem The Crocodile is terrible to those that flye but flyes those that follow so if thou yeeldest or fearest some they wax haughtie and cruell but if thou boldly contemnest them and valorously withstandest them their choler is presently ouer and they put dagger in sheath Plin. lib. 8. cap. 25. As a Chamaeleon because hee is a fearefull beast doth often change colour so they that are timerous want strength do apply themselues vnto pollicies inuent dangerous stratagems Plin. lib. 8. cap. 33. lib. 28. cap. 8. Olde age AS they are glad that haue fled from furious and cruell masters so old men ought to reioyce that by the benefit of age they are freed from the infection of lust Plut. As water mingled with wine doth make it moderate and as the sober nymphes doe restraine the drunken god so old men being mingled with youth in a common wealth by their reuerence doe make their rashnesse and ambition more temperate Idem As an old singer doth not leaue his art nor cast away his harpe but maketh that musicke which hath the least trouble and difficultie in it and leaueth the shriller parts of singing vnto youth who are more sit for them so in olde age wee must not altogether leaue of the businesses of the common-wealth but chuse those affaires that are the quietest which agree must vnto this age Idem As the diuersity of the sphericall motions doth temper the motions of all things so the cunctation of old age doth moderate the festination of youth As no man perceiueth when Storkes doe come but that they are come nor any one knoweth when they depart but that they are departed because they doe both in the night very priuily so man perceiueth youth departing but that it is departed neither doth any man vnderstand old age comming but that it is come Plin. lib. 10. cap. 25. A young vine doth yeeld greater plentie of wine but an old vine doeth yeeld better wine so young men speake moe words but old men speake things more profitable As of a running riuer thou hast so much as thou takest vp so of yeares alwayes hasting away thou receiuest no other thing but that thou bestowest vpon perdurant matters As fruit is not found vpon that Tree vpon which first there was no blossomes so wee cannot in age attaine to lawfull honour if we in youth doe not labour in the exercise of some discipline Cyprianus de 12. abusionibus A body that is molested with agues and sicknesse although it be strong yet it is afflicted and weakened but when the diseases are ouerpast it recouereth strength againe so the mind in youth doth abound with feuers and the loue of glory pleasures doth exceedingly possesse it but when old age commeth it profligateth and chaseth away all these passions some by satiety and some by phylosophie Chrysost. Hom. 7. ad Heb. As the hauen is quiet so old age is peaceable and desireth rest Idem hom cum presbyter esset designatus As the canker

the Sunne and wither soeuer it moueth thither the hearbe turneth his head so Courtiers which way soeuer their King doth becke thither they bend Plin. 18. cap. 24. 27. eodem lib. The Crocodile sometimes liueth vpon the land and sometimes in the water shee layeth her egges vpon the land and seeketh her prey in the water so some are both Courtiers Ecclesiasticall persons but in both places very pestilent fellowes Conradus Lycosthenes Rubeaquensis As the Adament cannot draw Iron if the Diamond lye by it so vice cannot allure the Courtier if vertue bee retained Kings AS the Leopard by reason of his sweete sauour doth allure wilde beasts vnto him and so doth destroy them so the Courts of Princes I know not what inticing allurements they haue that draw men into destruction Plin. lib. 8. cap. 27. As the hearbe heliotropium doth alwayes looke to●ards the Sunne and when it is hid doth gather in the flower so many to the Kings becke bend their endeuours and to what thing soeuer they see him inclined to that they addresse themselues Plin. lib. 18. cap. 27. As the crocking of frogs beyond their wont doeth prognosticate an imminent tempest so when the speech of euill men is of most force with Princes and good men are silenced then the confusion of their estate is at hand As the dogges of Malta are especially delighted in among the rich and delicate women of that I le so effeminate Princes doe greatly set by flatterers who both speake and doe all things according to their humours Plin. lib. 3. cap. vltimo That which oyle is vnto flyes emmots and to other insect and entailed creatures that is flattery vnto foolish Princes Those being annointed with oyle doe dye these by flattery and assentation of ●lawbackes are drawne to destruction and they draw their common-wealth into the same predicament Plin. lib. 11. cap. 19. As a vine except thou prune it doeth largely extend it selfe abroad embracing and enfolding all things in her armes so an ambitious Prince is alwayes encroching vpon his neighbours except hee bee now and then curbed As it is dangerous to call vp Deuils because if there bee an errour in any thing it is committed with great ieopardy for they say that Tullus Hostilius was ●troken with a thunderbolt because hee endeuouring by Numa● books to call downe Iupiter had done some things vnskilfully so it is dangerous to conuerse with Princes or with estates of ouerthwart conditions because they being offended at any small matter doe vtterly ouerthrow a man Plin. lib. 2. cap. 55. lib. 28. cap. 2. As the counters of arithmeticians are sometimes in account worth many thousands and sometimes worth nothing so the friends of Kings sometimes can doe any thing and sometimes displeasure being taken they can doeiust nothing Plut. As a temperate aire doth make the earth fruitfull and an vngentle climate doth cause sterility so the fauour and benignity of a Prince doth stirre vp and reuiue honest studies but auarice and currishnesse doth extinguish and kill the Artes. Idem As the load-stone doth draw vnto it all Iron but the Aethiopian load-stone doeth draw another load-stone vnto it ●o the King carieth the people whither ●e lifteth but a great King draweth ●lso other kings vnto him As other beasts leuell their lookes ●t the countenance of the Lyon and ●irds make wing as the Eagle flyes so Regis ad arbitrium totus componitur ●rbis If Saul kill himselfe his armour ●earer will doe the like Such beefe such broth such lips ●uch lettice so such Lords such lay-men In Traians time all men studied ●ustice in what he was iust In Octa●ius dayes each one would be a Poet because he delighted in Poesie As a bridle mastereth an horse and a sterne the ship so a King be he good or bad will after him leade all his people If he serue God the people will serue him also if the King blaspheme his subiects will doe the like Cornelius feared God so did all his houshould Diues cruel so are all his houshould A Kingdome MAny in outward shew seeme glorious all which glory a curst wife at home turneth into sorrow so a Kingdome seemeth to bring all content with it yet it is well knowne that Crownes haue cares and that a courtly life is a miserable splendour Plutarchus As Venus Court cannot brooke a ●iuall so a Kingdome cannot abide a compeere according to the english Hexameter Dame Ve●us and Kingdomes can no riuality suffer As it is dangerous to transplant old 〈◊〉 so innouation in a Kingdome that hath long continued after one manner is full of perill Plut. The hand is not the weaker because it is diuided into fingers but fuller of agility to labour so in a Kingdome the businesses are better done which are imparted to many Idem They that willingly goe into a riuer are nothing at all hurt but they that fall in by chance are greatly astonished so they that aduisedly come to the gouernment of a Kingdome doe moderatly sway their empire but they that rashly intrude themselues into it afterwards repent themselues Idem Boyfterous winds doe most of all shake the highest towres the higher the place is the sooner and sorer is the fall the tree is euer weakest towards the top in greatest charge are greatest cares in largest Seas are sorest tempests enuie shooteth at high markes so a Kingdome is more easily got then kept As Britaine would not containe Porrex and Ferrex and as the same Kingdome could not hold Belinus and Brennus so Thebes could not containe Eteocles and Polynices nor Rome hold Romulus and Remus As Iugurth could not tolerate his Brethren Hiempsal and Adherbal to haue part of his Kingdome so Amulius would not suffer his Brother Numitor to haue any participation of gouernment with him Princes AS they that neither eate nor wash but by the prescription of the Physition doe not enioy health so they that referre all things to thoi●●gement of the Prince they make him more Lordly then the City is willing hee should bee so that nothing can be done rightly except the Prince will it so As the King of the World doth regard great affaires leauing small matters to fortune as Euripedes saith so a Prince should not bee exercised but in great and serious businesse First it is necessary that the rule or square bee right and straight it selfe and then it may direct other things that are applyed vnto it so first it is necessary that a Prince wants faults himselfe and then that hee prescribe lawes vnto others Plut. If you put the hearbe Eruggium into the mouth of a goate when shee stayeth then all the rest doe stay vntill the Shepheard pull out the hearbe so the manners and conditions of a Prince are disseminated among the people after a wonderful manner Idem The Cybind maketh such deadly warre with the eagle that they fighting together are oftentimes taken vp for a prey so Princes making mortall warre betweene themselues are

are easily drawn aloft by engins deuices so that which thou canst not doe by force thou maist easily atchieue by Art and reason As in houses there are portals before the entrie and as Cities haue suburbs by which they are gon into so before vertue the liberall Arts are placed for it is gon vnto by this way Philo de congressu quarend● eruditionis gratia As the Gate is the entrance into an house so learnings encyclopedarie is the entrie vnto Vertue Idem lib. de profugis As the sight doth receiue light from the ayre so the mind doth receiue light from liberall disciplines that it may be made more sharpe and piercing for the mysteries of Phylosophie Aristoteles La●rtium lib. 5. cap. 1. As those first letters by which children learne their elements doe not teach the liberall Arts but are as an induction vnto them so the liberall Arts doe not bring the minde vnto vertue but p●epare it and make it fit for vertue Seneca Epist. 89. As the diggers of Wels many times doe not find the water they seeke for so they that se●ke for perfection and felicitie in Arts doe misse of their end Philo lib. de Plantatione Noe. EDVCATION AS many vnprofitable weeds grow in a field which are naught themselues but yet are the signes of a fertile and plentiful ground if any man would till it so many vnruly affections of the minde being bad of themselues doe argue no badde wit if education did rightly apply them Plut. There is not almost any tree but it waxeth wild and crooked if it want culture so there is no wit so happy but it degenerateth without orderly education Idem They that bring vp horses well doe teach them to obey the bridle so hee that will in struct Children must first make them at tentiue idem There is no horse that well brooketh his Rider but he that is tamed by Arte and cunning so there is no wit but it is barbarous and 〈◊〉 except it bee tamed by education and trained to moderation by precepts idem There is no beast so wild which is no● tamed by skill so there is no wit so rude and clownish which by education groweth not milde idem As a husbandman vnderprops yong trees that they may encrease and grow straight so he that educateth yong wits addeth precepts and wholsome admonitions least they wander awry idem As Corke is in vaine tied to Nets that they may swimme if the Leade be so proportioned that it drawes them vnder water so wee are instructed in vaine in the precepts of well liuing if our wickednesse will not suffer vs to arise out of foolishnesse idem As a field vntilled doth not only remaine vnfruitfull but also doth bring forth many weeds so youth capable of reason except it be exercised in honest precepts doth not onely not become good but runneth into many vices idem A Beare doth bring forth shapelesse whelps doth forme them by licking so it is meete that a yong wit be polished by long industry Plin. li. 8. ca. 26 The yong Cuckow being a bastard deuoureth the legitimate birds and the dam too so many brought vp with great cockering as Cockneys be ouerthrow their educators Plin. li. 10. ca. 9 A tree vnfruitfull of it selfe by grafting becommeth fruitfull so a slender wit by good education may be brought to very good passe Plin. lib. 17. cap. 14. A tree of the owne nature doth beare but one fruit but by grafting bringeth forth many kinds so they that haue nothing but their own nature to direct them doe alwayes pipe one tune but they that by education grow artistes haue many harmonious Diapasons As there be certaine fountaines that by drinking of them doe change the skinne and haires of man and beast into white and blacke so in the countenaunce and forehead of a man doth shine with what precepts hee hath been endued from what authours he hath drawne the conditions of his life As potters clay and morter while they are moist and soft are easily fashioned to any likenesse so young rude minds are fit for any discipline Plin. lib. 36. cap. 24. As the herbe Fenegreeke the worse it is vsed the better it prospereth so some children the lesse they are cockered the better they are Plin. lib. 16. cap. 16. Morter is presently to bee vsed because it quickly hardeneth and drieth so young yeares is forthwith to bee framed to learning and good manners before it grow hard and will nor admit the hand of the fashioner Plin. lib. 36. cap. 24. The Adamant is mollified by one thing otherwise it yeeldeth not to the Smithes hammer so there is no wit nor disposition so rusticall and sauage but by onething it may be ordered and and tamed Plinius lib. 37. cap. 4. An Ape doth almost kill her young ones by embracing them so many Parents doe corrupt their Children by immoderate loue and affection in the i● bringing vp Plin. lib. 9. cap. 54. In the tillage of ground first it is meete that the ground be good next that the tiller bee skilfull and then that the seed be good so in the tillage and culture of the minde the nature and disposition of the Child doth resemble the Earth the Scoole-master the tiller and the wholesome instructions the seed Plutarchus de liberis educandis As cart wheeles bended by force can neuer againe bee brought to their former rectitude so some wits depraued by education can neuer againe bee corrected Idem in Moralibus As ground the better it is the more it is spoyled if it bee not tilled so wits the ●iper they are the worse they become if they be not instructed ibidem As all grounds are not fruitfull that are tilled so all wits do not bring forth fuit that are well educated Cicero libro 2. Tusc. quaest As an husbandman delighteth to see fruite of that tree hee planted and a Shepheard to see encrease of those sheep hee keepeth so doth a Schoole-master and a Tutor reioyce to see those wits thriue and prosper which they haue vertuously and industriously taught and tutered Seneca lib. 2. epist. 34. As branches of trees growne crooked of a long time cannot bee brought to straightnesse although they be often bended with the hand so they that are scarce honestly borne and scarce ingeniously brought vp doe alwayes looke to the ground that is they loue base and vile things neither euer are lifted vp vnto vertuous or valorous endeuours Politianus in Lamia As in a fat ground which no tiller hath touched grow thornes bushes so often in a generous minde vnlesse ingenious education helpe vices spring vp with vertues Idem de ira As husbandmen weed their fields of hurtfull plants so parents and teachers should weede vices out of the minds of their children and Schollers ibidem An vntamed horse becommeth dangerous so an vntaught sonne becommeth mischieuous As a field long neglected groweth wild and bringeth forth briers and thornes so youth neglected bringeth forth vices

inclined to that place where the Sunne shineth and being depriued of the Sunne dyeth and as Lunaris hearbe is long as the Moone waxeth bringeth forth leaues and in the wayning shaketh them off so a louer whiles hee is in the companie of his Lady where all ioyes encrease vttereth many pleasant conceits but banished from the sight of his Mistresse where ●ll mirth decreaseth either liueth in Melancholy or dyeth with desperation As Andromache whensoeuer shee saw the Tombe of Hector could not refraine from weeping or as Laodamia could neuer behold the picture of Protesilaus in wax but shee alwayes fainted so louers whensoeuer they view the image of their Ladies though not the same substance yet the similitude in shadow they are so benummed in their ioynts and so bereft of their wits that they haue neither the power ●o moue their bodies to shew life nor their tongues to make answere There must in euery Triangle bee three lynes the first beginneth the second augmenteth the third concludeth it a figure so in loue three vertues affection which draweth the heart secrecie which increaseth the hope and constancie which finisheth the worke without any of these rules there can bee no triangle without any of these vertues no loue There is no man that runneth with one legge no bird that flieth with one wing so no loue lasteth 〈◊〉 one limme As the earth wherein the mines of siluer and gold is hidden is profitable for no other thing but metals so the heart wherein loue is harboured receiueth no other seed but affection When the Hoppe groweth high it must haue a pole when the Iuie spreadeth it cleaueth to the flint when the Vine riseth it draweth about the Elme so when Virgins wax in yeares they follow that which belongeth to their appetites loue loue As fire cannot be hidden in the flax without smoake nor Muske in the bosome without smell so neither can loue be hidden in the breast without suspition As the straightest wands are to b● bent when they be small so the precife●t Virgins are to be wonne when they 〈◊〉 young As fire when it bursteth out catcheth hold soonest of the driest woode so loue when it is reuealed fasteneth easiest vpon the affectionate will As an English man cannot abide 〈◊〉 a stranger to be his equall nor to be dared by any so he cannot by any meanes suffer a partner in his loue As there are foure kinds of warres forraine ciuill combate and in the conscience so there are foure kinds of loue spirituall carnall temporall and common F. Iohannes à S. Geminian● lib. 1. de caelo elementis cap. 4. As the Raine-bow hath foure principall colours in it red iacinth colour azure and greene so loue especially worked foure passions in the soule zeale excesse hatred and languorment Ibidem As the Sun-beames pierce deepely so doth loue Ibidem Loue is likened to the Figge Tree whose fruits is sweete whose Roote is more bitter then the claw of a Bittor to the Apple in Persia whose blossome sauoureth like Honny whose bud is more sowre then gall and to a Labyrinth which leadeth vs into worser paines then Sisiphus suffereth into moe torments then Tantalus abideth and into greater griefe then Ixion beareth As no man can be twice happy as Saint Hierome writeth in an Epistle to Iulia Chapter foure so to be wise and take to loue is scarcely graunted to Ioue aboue As Stars abound in Heauen Hares in Athon and Bees in Hybla so loue is full of slights The sting of a Serpent by continuance enuenometh the whole body he that is charmed of the Torpido by procrastination runneth mad ●o the pricke of loue by delay is vncurable As Anacreon who spake by experience and writ by proofe calleth loue a tyrant mischieuous cruell hardy vnkind foule vngrious cursed wicked the cause of all mischiefe the forgetter of reason the father of frenzie the disturber of the minde the enemy to health the sinke of sorrow the garden of griefe and to conclude a confused Chaos of miserie so that if it might be seene with bodily eyes or be an obiect to our exteriour sences the Basiliske is not more feared nor the Cockatrice more auoided then loathsome loue would be eschued and detested so Miltiades the Athenian was wont to say that of all the plagues wherewith the gods did afflict mortall men loue was the greatest in that they sought that as an heauenly blisse which at last they found their fatall bane As Demophoon was false in loue to Phillis Aeneas to Dido Iason to Medaea Paris to Oenone so true loue was Charites to her husband Laepolenus Cornelia to Gracchus Iulia to her Pompey Artemisia to Mausolus Panthea to Abradatus Portia to Brutu● Alceste to Admetus Penelope to Vlisses Sulpitia to Le●tulus Hipparchia to the Philosopher Crates and Macrina to her Torquatus As Iupiter enforced Apollo to flie his Kingdome Paphos and to liue exild in Thessalie so loue there constrained him to keepe King Admetus sheepe As Cupids dart caused Diana to loue the swaine Endimion and Calisto to loue Ioue so it caused Clitia to loue Phoebus and Cloris Mercury As swouning mortifieth euery member as pestilence infecteth euery part ●s poyson pierceth euery vaine so loue if in time it bee not looked vnto will bring body and minde to vtter confusion As the vertues of loue are many so the inconueniences are infinite There is no cloth so fine but Moates will eate it no Iron so hard but rust will fret no wood so sound but wormes will putrifie it no metall so course but fire will purifie it so there is neither Man nor Woman so free but loue will bring them into thraldome and bondage As Lordship can brooke no matership so neither can loue according to chat verse Dame Venus and Kingdomes can no riuality suffer As the wisest man said Canticles 8. that loue is strong as death and zeale is cruell as the graue the coales thereof are fiery coales and a vehement flame Much water cannot quench loue neither can the flouds drowne it so all writers with one mouth haue confessed that the godliest men that euer were the valiantest men that euer were haue beene brought by loue to most outragions impietie to most extreame folly and most vile villanie That there haue beene none so stoute but loue hath made them stoupe none so wise but loue hath made them fooles none so shamefast but loue hath made them bold They haue recorded that loue is aboue Lord or Lawes aboue Prince or priuiledge aboue friend or faith Where loue leadeth no Master is made account of no King cared for no friend forced of no dutie respected no honesty regarded but all things done according to the passion which preuaileth ouer vs so that they haue thought that loue is some heauenly influence and no earthly accident Selfe-Loue THere is no creature that more feruently loueth her young ones then an Asse and an Ape so many vnlearned idiots doe more esteeme their