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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

that eateth wood in the night shineth and maketh a crackeling but in the day time is knowne to be a Worme and putrifaction so also Vaine-glory shineth glistereth with great pompe in the night of this world to weake and dimme eyes which cannot iudge but by outward appearances but when that cleare and bright day of iudgement shall come wherein God shall reueale the darkest and obscurest things of our soules and shall manifest the secret counsels of ou● 〈◊〉 then those that seemed happy and glorious shall bee knowne to bee ●ilthy and vile and without any hope of saluation Lodouicus Granate●sis in lib. de sept●m Meditationibus Meditatione quinta Braggers THey that are hungry are more prouoked with appetite if they see others eate so braggers are more inflamed with glory when they heare others extolled As many riuals snarle about one loue so they iarre that affect glory and prayse by one thing idem As a Chamaleon is fed with none other nourishment then with the ayre and therefore shee is alwayes gaping so popular applause doth nourish some neither doe they gape after any other thing but vaine prayse and glory As in times past Horostratus and Manlius Capitolinus did and in our age Peter Shak●rly of Pauls Monarcho that liued about the Court. As th● Moone is sometimes bigge sometimes small and sometimes is not seene at all neuer continuing in one estate so Braggers that place their prayse in 〈◊〉 mouthes are someimes extolled as great personages and sometimes depressed as base peasants and sometimes they are no body and sometimes some body as it pleaseth their slipperie tongue to make them Beruardus s●rn●one de Natin●● Ioan. Ba●tistae Gratitude AS wee doe not grudge to giue the pawns backe when the goods are restored so let vs not grudge to restore and repay thankes to God for the benefits that he bestowes vpon vs. Plut. in Moralibus As wee repay Vsurers their money with gaine so let vs repay both God and man Seneca As Beanes and Lupines doe not make the ground leane where they grow but doe fat it so a gratefull man doth make his estate the better of whom hee hath receiued a benefit and rendereth as good as hee receiued Plin. lib. 18. cap. 14. cap. 1● ●odem lib. A learned man is learned albeit hee hold his peace a valiant man is valiant albeit hee hold his hands a good Pylot is skilfull albeit he be on drie land because they are men of perfect skill and nothing is wanting vnto them but opportunitie to shew it so is he also a greatefull man that is onely willing to requi●e and regraciate albeit he hath none other witnesse of it but his owne kind and thankefull mind Seneca de benefic lib. 4. cap. 21. As our Ancestours haue left their learned writings vnto vs their posterity so we should not onely be gratefull ●o one age idem cap. 30. As glory doth rather follow them that flie it so the fruit of a benefite is more gratefully repayed vnto them that doe not expect it Idem lib. 5. de benefi● As it is meete that we ●arden them-that vnwittingly haue offended so they are not to be repayed thanks that haue benefited vs of necessitie Cicero libro 1. de inuentione As fertill fields doe render more then they receyued so should a gratefull man in repaying of thankes Hesi●dus Cicero lib. Offi. Ingratitude AS Swine eating Acornes vnder an Oke neuer looke vp that they may see from whence they come so vngratefull men receiuing benefits from God neuer cast vp their eyes to heauen to giue him thanks Lodouicus Granatensis lib. 1. Ducis peccatorum As he is exceeding vng●acious that hauing receiued large and ample gifts of a king which then forth with mustered vp an armie and setteth vpon the King so is that man most vngratefull that with those same benefits which God hath bestowed vpon him moueth warre and se●●eth himselfe against him ibidem As it is a wickednesse intollerable if a married woman should giue all her ouches tablets rings chaines eare-rings and bracelets which her husband gaue her that shee might bee beautified with them and so please him to an adulterer that she may allure him to her loue so it is ingratitude vnsufferable if man spend and consume his fortitude strength health and riches which God hath giuen him to glorifie and honour him withall vpon euill workes and most filthy and dishonest actions ibidem As Iuy cleauing to the boughts of trees is raysed alo●t through the helpe of another so base peasants mounting aloft through the countenance of mightie men become a meanes to strangle them of whom they were promoted Plut. in Moralibus The stone Siphnius being heated in oyle waxeth hard otherwise it is very soft so some are made worse by be●efits As hee is an ill Father that giues his daughter to a diuorced man as he is an ill housholder that commits his goods to a spend-thrie●t as he doates that leaues his Sonne to a couetous Gardian so is hean ill benefactor that bestowes his benefits vpon thankelesse persons Seneca lib. quarto de ben cap. 27. As that seruant is exceeding vngracious that hauing recieued kindnesse of his master for his ill deeds if he repay ingratitude so is that man exceeding faultie that for all his misdeeds done against God receiueth benefits and yet remaineth thanklesse Basilius in 2. ad Timoth. hom 5. As a husband louing his wife tenderly to make his affection knowne vnto her bestowing vpon her many great presents of Gold and costly iewels is very heauie if shee dissemble the gifts which hee hath bestowed vpon her and say shee hath purchased them by her owne money so God can in no wise bee pleased with vs if wee will conceale or else attribute to our selues the graces which hath bestowed vpon vs which he would haue to be testimonies tokens and demonstrations of the inuiolable loue and fidelitie that hee beareth vnto vs. As Alexander Phrygius who of Poets is commonly called Paris was ingratefull to Menelaus and to the King of Sydon who had giuen him friendly entertainment as Dictys Cretensis writeth in his first Booke de Bello Troia●o in stealing away the ones wife and treacherously killing the other so M. and D. Brutus C. Cassius C● domitius C. Trebonius Q. Tulliu● Cimber they two Seruilij Casca Hala and many others were very vnthankfull to Iulius Caesar who slue him with three and twenty wounds in the Senate house albeit he had la●ely pardoned them for their fighting against him on Pompeys side as sait● Appian in his second Boo●● of Romane ciuill warre As the Romanes suffer●● P. Scipio Aphricanus the first wh● defended them from so many perils most miserably to dye in Lynter●um so the second Scipio Aemilianus Aphricanus for all that he subdued Carthage and Numantia which refused to become tributaries to the Romans found in Rome a murtherer but not a reuenger As the Athenians were ingratefull to These●s and Solon

wonne immortall credit to their natiue speech being encouraged and graced by liberall patrones and bountifull Benefactors so our famous and learned Lawreate Masters of England would entitle our English to farre greater admired excellency if either the Emperour Augustus or Octau●a his Sister or noble Mecaenas were aliue to reward and countenance them or if our witty Comedians and stately Tragedians the glorious and goodly representers of all fine wit glorified phrase and quaint action be still supported and vpheld by which meanes for lacke of Patrones Oh! ingratefull and damned age our Poets are soly or chiefly maintained countenanced and patronized In the infancy of Greece they that handled in the audience of the people graue necessary matters were called wise men or eloquent men which they ment by Vates so the rest which sang of loue matters or other lighter deuises alluring vnto pleasure and delight were called Poetae or makers As the holy Prophets and sanctified Apostles could neuer haue foretold nor spoken of such supernaturall matters vnlesse they had beene inspired of God so Cicero in his Tuscalane questions is of that mind that a Poet cannot expresse verses aboundantly sufficientiy and fully neither his eloquence can flow pleasantly or his words sound well and plenteously without celestiall instinction which Poets themselues doe very often and gladly witnesse of themselues as namely Ouid in 6. Fast. Est De●s in nobis agitante calescimus illo c. And our famous English Poet Spenser who in his Shepheards Calender lamenting the decay of Poetry at these dayes saith most sweetly to the same Thē make thee wings of thine aspiring wit And whence thou camest flye backe t● Heauen apace c. As a long Gowne maketh not an Aduocate although a Gowne bee a fit ornament for him so timing nor versing maketh a Poet albeit the Senate of Poets hath chosen verse as their fittest rayment but it is that faining notable images of vertues vices or what else with that delightfull teaching which must be the right describing note to know a Poet by Sir Philip Sidney in his Aplogy for Poetry A comparatiue discourse of our English Poets with the Greeke Latine and Italian Poets AS Greece had three Poets of grea● antiquity Orpheus Linus and Musaeus and Italy other three anci●nt Poets Li●ius Andronicus Ennius and Plautus so hath England three ancient Poets Chaucer Gower and Lydgate As Homer is reputed the Prince of Greeke Poets and Petrach of Italian Poets so Chaucer is accounted the God of English Poets As Homer was the first that adorned the Greeke tongue with true quantity Piers Plowman was the first that obserued the true quantity of verse without the curiositie of Rime Ouid writ a Chronicle from the beginning of the World to his owne time that is to the raigne of Augustus the Emperour so hath Harding the Cronicler after his maner of old harsh timing from Adam to his time that is to the raigne of King Edward the fourth As Sotades Maronites the Iambicke Poet gaue himselfe wholy to write impure and laciuious things so Skelton I know not for what great worthinesse surnamed the Poet Laureat applyed his wit to scurrili●ies and ridiculous matters such among the Greekes were called Pantomimi with vs Buffons As Consaluo Periz that excellent learned man and Secratary of King Philip of Spayne in translating the Vlysses of Homer out of Greeke into Spanish hath by good iudgement auoided the faulte of Riming although not fully hit perfect and true versifying so hath Henrie Howard that true and noble Earle of Surrey in translating the fourth booke of Virgls Aeneas whom Michael Drayton in his Englands heroycall Epistles hath eternized for an Epistle to his faire Geraldine As these Neoterickes Iouianus Pantanus Politianus Marullus Tarchani●ta the two Strozao the father and the Sonne Palingenius Mantuanus Phyl●lphus Quintianus Stoa and Germanu● Brixius haue obtained renowne and good place among the ancient Latine Poets so also these English men being Latine Poets Gualter Haddon Nicholas Car Gabriel Harney Christopher Ocland Thomas Newton with his Leyland Thomas Watson Thomas Campion Brunswerd and Willey haue attained good report and honourable aduancement in the Latine Empire As the Greekes tongue is made ●amous and eloquent by Homer Hesiod ●euripedes Aeschilus Sophocles Pinda●us Phocylides and Aristophanes and ●he Latine tongue by Virgill Ouid Horace Silius Italicus Lucanus Lucretius Ausonius and Claudianus so the English tongue is mightily enriched and gorgeou●ly inuested in rare ornaments and resplendent habiliments by sir Philip Sidney Spencer Daniel Drayton Warner Shakespeare Marlow and Chapma● As Xenophon who imitate so excellently as to giue vs effigiem iusti imperij the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus as Cicero saith of him made therein an absolute heroicall Poem and as Heliodorus writ in prose his sugred inuention of that picture of Loue in Theagines and Theagines and Cariclea and yet both excellent admired Poets so Sir Philip Sidney writ his immortall Poem The Countesse of Pembrookes Arcadia in prose and yet our rarest Poet. As Sextus Propertius said Nescio quid magis nascitur Iliade so I say of Spencers Fairy Queene I know not what more excellent or exquisite Poem may bee written As Achilles had the aduantage of Hector because it was his fortune to be extolled and renowned by the heauenly verse of Homer so Spencers Elifa the Fairy Queene hath the aduantage of all the Queenes in the world to bee eternized by so diuine a Poet. As Theocritus is famoused for his Idyllia in Greeke and Virgill for his Eclogs in Latine so Spencer their imitatour in his Shepheards Calender is renowned for the like argument and honoured for fine Poeticall inuention and most exquisit wit As Parthenius Nicaeus excellently sung the prayses of his Arete so Daniel hath diuinely sonetted the matchlesse beauty of his Delia. As euery one mourneth when hee heareth of the lamentable plangors of Thracian Orpheus for his dearest E●ridice so euery one passionateth when he readeth the afflicted death of Daniels distressed Rosamond As Lucan hath mournefully depainted the ciuill wars of Pompey and Caesar so hath Daniel the ciuell warres of Yorke and Lancaster and Drayton the ciuell warres of Edward the second and the Barons As Virgil doth imitate Catullus in the like matter of Ariadne for his story of Queene Dido so Michael Drayton doth imitate Ouid in his Englands Heroical Epistles As Sophocles was called a Beefor the sweetnesse of his tongue so in Charles Fitz-lefferies Drake Drayton is termed Golden-mouth'd for the purity and pretiousnesse of his style and phrase As Accius M. Attiliu● and Milithus were called Tragoediographi because they writ Tragidies so may wee truly terme Michael Drayton Tragoediographus for his passionate penning the downfals of valiant Robert of Normandy chast Matilda and great Gaueston As Ioan Honterus in Latine verse write three Booke of Cosmography with Geographicall tables so Michael Drayton is now penned in English verse a Poem

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 both Vniuersities LONDON Printed by William Stansby and are to be sold by Richard Royston at his Shop in Iuie Lane 1634. To the Reader TRiasunt omnia is as old a● father Time All morall Phylosophie is diuided into three parts Ethicall Oeconomicall and Politicall All Law is reduced to three heads to the Law of Nature to ancient custome and to the ordinances of men And to insist in our ●wne state All our Parliaments consist of three sorts of people Nobilitie Cleargie and Comminaltie And all our tryals and iudgements are determined after three formes and manners by Parliament by Battell and by the great Assise So all the force of wit may flow within three chanels and bee contriued into three heads into a Sentence a Similitude an Example Carolus said that warres were maintained with victuals money and Souldiours so Wit is nourished with Sentences Similitudes and Examples And therefore as three things are necessarie for a Scholler a Will a Wit and a Booke so I hold that Sentences Similitudes and Examples are as necessarie to vphold a Wit Iulius Caesar vsed to carry three things about with him when he followed the wars his pen to write the whole course of the Romanes successe in their warres his Bookes to find himselfe occupied and his Launce to repulse his enemies so he that would write or speake pithily perspicuously and persuasiuely must vse to haue at hand in readinesse three kind of orn●ments and effectuall motiues Sentences Similitudes and Examples Wherefore as Pythagoras wished three things for himselfe Health Beautie and Riches so I considering the necessitie and excellency of these three heads haue long wished the accom●ishment publication of them And in truth what can I desire more then to see the naked Truth arrayed in Sentences fitting the tast of Phylosophers inuested in Similitudes loued of Oratours and approued by Examples the rule and leuell of the vnstayed and raging multitude Saint Augustine desired to see three things Paulus Aemilius triumphing Saint Paul Preaching and Christ vpon the Crosse in the first hee desired to see the glory of the earth in the second the glorie of the Gospell and in the third the glorie of Heauen so haue I long desired to see three things Truthes soundnesse in Sen●ences her elegancie in Similituds and approbation by examples And now I haue my wished desire Wherefore I may reioyce for three things as Philip King of Macedonia reioyced Hee ioyed that hee had wonne the Games at Olympus by the running of his Chariots that his Captaine Parmenio had ouerthrowne the Dardarians and that his wife Olympia had borne him a Sonne called Alexander So I exceedingly reioyce and am glad at my heart that the first part of Wits Common-wealth contayning Sentences hath like a braue Champion gloriously marched and got such renowned fame by swift running equiualent with Philips Chariots that thrice within one yeare it hath runne thorow the Presse If this second part of mine called Wits Common-wealth contayning Similitudes being a stalke of the same stemme shall haue the like footmanship and find the same successe then with Parmenio I shall be the second in Philips ioy And then Philips ioy will eft-soones be full for his Alexander whom not Olympia but a worthy Scholler is conceiuing who wil fill the third part of Wits Common-wealth with moe glorious Examples then great Alexander did the world with valiant heroicall exploits Lampedo is iudged happy for euer as Pliny writeth for three causes for that she was a Kings Daughter a Kings Wife and a Kings Mother Thales to one that asked him who was happy said Quicorpore sanus est fortuna diues animo eruditus So I iudge him of an happy Wit who is profound and substantiall in Sentences eloquence and ingenious in Similituds and rich and copious in Examples The first part being published some yeares agoe hath had the worlds fauour and furtherance which hath made him so cranke young and fresh that thrice in one yeare hee hath renued his age a spring more then is in fruitfull Saba If this second part may find as much fauour and countenance with you gentle Reader as Antimachus the Poet found with Plato it shall bee instar-omnium to me and therewith contented I shall willingly send this second with the first to take what fortune Wit will send him Which I hope and wish may bee as kindly accepted as I doe heartily offer them Which if I shall perceiue neuer was Aristotle more gratefull to Alexander nor Enuius to Scipio nor Virgill to Augustus nor Horace to Mecaenas nor Pliny to Vespasian nor Plutarch to Traian then I shall bee to you gentle Reader whom I beseech the Highest to blesse with increase of vertuous qualities in the mind with augmentation of dignitie in the world and with perpetuitie of e●erlasting felicitie in Heauen FRANCIS MERES The Authours both sacred and profane out of which these similitude● are for the most part gathered A AEsopus Agapetus Diaoconus Albertus Nouicampianus Ambrosius Angelus Politianus Anthonius Appianus Arnobius Aristoteles Athanasius Athenagoras Auicen Augustinus Authour actionis contra Mariam Scotorum Reginam B Biblia sacra Basilius Beda Bernardus Clar●uallensi● Benardus Iustinianus Bernardus Scardaeonius Bion. C Caelius R●odiginus Caesarius Arclatensis Chronicles of England Chrysostomus Cicero Clemens Alexandrinus Clemens Romanus Climacus Columella Conradus Lycosthenes Rubeaquensis Conradus Gesnerus Cyprianus Cyrillus Alexandrinus Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus D Damas●enus Dem●sthenes Dyctis Cretensis Diadochus Diogenes Laertius Dion Chrysostomus Dion Nicaeus Dioscorides Doctor Play●ere Dorotheus Archimandrita Dugo Philonius E El●●●us Calentius Epictetus Epiphanius Erasmus Esayas Abbas Eugubinus Euripedes Eusebius Emissenus F Franciscus Patritius Fulgentius Fulgosus G Geminianus Gregorius Nazianzenus Gregorius Nyssenus Gregorius Papa Guerricus abbas Gulielmus Peraldus H Hermas seu pastor nuntius penitentiae● Hector Pi●tus Heliodorus Henricus de Hassia Herodotus Hesiodus Hieronimus Hilarius Hippocrates Homerus Horatius Hugh Broughto● I Iacobus de Valentia Idiotae contemplationes Ignatius M. Iohn Fox M. Iohn Lilly M. Iohn Harington Iohn Capgraue Iohannes Stobaeus Iouianus Pontanus Irenaeus Isaac presbyter Isidorus Clarius Iustinus Phylosophus martyr Iuuenalis L Lanctantius Laurentius Iustinianus Leon Baptista Alberto Lodouicus Granatensis Lodouicus Viues Lord de la Nouue M Macarius Mantuanus Marcus heremita Martialis M●ximus monachus M●rcurius Trismegistus Munster N Nilus abbas Nilus monachus O Olympiodorus Optatus Mileuitanus Origenes Ouidius P Palladius Petrus Chysologus Petrus Ramus Pettie Philipus Boroaldus Philo Iudaus Picus Mirandula Pindarus Plato Plinius Plutarchus Polanchus Pomponius Mela. Polybius Procopius Gazeus Propertius Ptolomaeus Pythagoras Q Quin●ilianus R Rabbi Moyses M. Richard Hackluyt Richardus Victorinus Robert Greene. Rupertus S Salonius Saluianus Sansonius Saxo Grammaticus Seneca Sir Phillip Sidney Sidonius Apollinaris Solinus Stella Strabo Synaesius