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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

that lives Great wife rich fair in all superlatives Yet I these favors would more free resign Than ever Fortune would have had them mine I count one minute of my holy leisure Beyond the mirth of all this earthly pleasure Welcome pure thoughts welcome ye careless Groves These are my Guests this is the court age loves The winged people of the skies shall sing Me Anthems by my sellers gentle Spring Divinity shall be my Looking glass Wherein I will adore sweet Virtues face Here dwells no heartless Loves no pale fac't Fears No short Joys purchas'd with eternal tears Here will I sit and sing my hot youths folly And learn to affect an holy Melancholy And if Contentment be a stranger then I 'le ne're look for it but in Heaven agen Humane Life Charactered by Francis Viscount St. Albanes THe World 's a Bubble And the Life of Man Less than a span In his Conception wretched From the Womb So to the Tomb Curs'd from his Cradle And brought up to years With Care and Fears Who then to frail Mortality shall trust But lines the water and doth write in dust Yet whiles with sorrow Here we live opprest What life is best Courts are but Superficial Schools To dandle fools The Rural parts Are turn'd into a Den Of savage men And where 's a City from all vice so free But may be term'd the worst of all the three Domestick Care Afflicts the Husbands bed Or pains his head Those that love single Take it for a Curse Or do things worse Some wish for Children Those that have them none Or wish them gone What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double strife Our own affections Still at home to please Is a Disease To cross the Seas To any forraign Soil Peril or toil Wars with their noise affrighe us And when they cause We are worse in peace What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born or being born to die A Prisoners Complaint I La●e us'd to resort unto the B●ook To catch the fish with either net or hook Where as 〈◊〉 creatures did I le●rn unto me From danger neither land nor waters free For whilest on Fowls Fishes and Beasts we feed Earth Air and Water shall be ransacked The gluttenous belly to satisfie Thus to preserve one Creatures life how many creatures die I late used to walk abroad i' th fields To take the pleasure spring and summer yields Whereas the Flowers denote to me Of our short life the mutability One day in pomp next day i' th dirt they lie This day we live too morrow we may die For this our life 's so short and full of sorrow None can assure himself to day he shall live till to morrow I once us'd to rise early in the morn To hunt the Fox that enemy to Corn And chase the timerous Hare and by that way I had both pleasure and sometimes a prey But of those Joys I am now quite bereft And unto me alass is nothing left But the remembrance only poor relief To think on Joys that now are past to ease my present grief The Description of a Chast Mistress LIke the Violet which alone Prospers in some happy shade Such my Mistress lives unknown To no looser eye betraid For she 's to her self untiue Who delights i' th publick view Such her beauty as no Arts Have enricht with borrowed grace Her high Birth no pride imparts For she blushes in her place Folly boasts a glorious blood She is noblest being good Cautious she knew never yet What a wanton Courtship meant Nor speaks loud to boast her wit In her silence eloquent Of her self survey she takes But 'tween men no difference makes She obeys with speedy will Her grave Parents wise commands And so innocent that ill She nor acts nor understands Womens feet run still astray If once to ill they know the way She say is by that Rock the Court Where oft Honour splits her Mast And Retir'dness thinks the Port Where her Fame may Anchor cast Vertue safely cannot sit Where Vice is enthron'd for Wit She holds that days pleasure best Where sin waits not on delight Without Masque or Ball or Feast Sweetly spends a winters night O're that darkness whence is thrust Prayer and sleep oft governs lust She her throne makes reason climb While wild passions captive lie And each article of time Her pure thoughts to Heaven fly All her Vows religious be And her Love she vows to me The Surprizal Or Loves Tyranny THere 's no dallying with Love Though he be a Child and and blind Then let none the danger prove Who would to himself be kind Smile he does when thou dost play But his smiles to death betray Lately with the Boy I sported Love I did not yet love feign'd Had no Mistress yet I courted Sigh I did yet was not pain'd Till at last his love in jest Prov'd in earnest my unrest When I saw my fair One first In a feigned fire I burn'd But true flames my poor heart pierc't When her eyes on mine she turn'd So a real wound I took For my counterfeited look Slighted Love his skill to show Struck me with a mortal dart Then I learn'd that ' gainst his Bow Vain are all the helps of Art And thus captiv'd found that true Doth dissembled Love pursue Cause his fetters I disclaimed Now the Tyrant faster bound me With more scorching Bonds in flamed Cause in love so cold he found me And my sighs more scalding made Cause with winds before they plaid Who love not then ô make no shew Love 's as ill deceiv'd as Fate Fly the Boy he 'l cog and woo Mock him and he 'l wound the strait They who dally boast in vain False love wants not real pain Choice Songs which sometimes may be used for the sweetning of tedious Discourse The Baseness of the Whores TRust no more a wanton Whore If thou lov'st health and freedom They are so base in every place 'T is pity that bread should fed 'em All their sence is impudence Which some call good conditions Stink they do above ground too Of Surgeons and Physicians If you are nice they have their spice On which they 'l chew to slour you And if you not discern the plot You have no Nose about you Together more they have in store For which I deadly hate 'em Persumed gear to stuff each ear And for their cheeks Pomatum Liquorish sluts they feast their guts At Chuffins cost like Princes Amber Plums and Macaroons And costly candied Quinces Potato-pies supports the Rump Eringo strengthens Nature Viper wine to heat the Chine They 'l gender with a Satyr Names they own are never known Throughout their generation Noblemen are kin to them At least by approbation If any dote on a Gay-coat But mark what there is stampt on 't A Stone-horse wild with Tool defil'd Two Goats a Lyon Rampant Truth to say Paint and Array

Fuller to be therein most exquisite who is reported that he would walk any street in London and by the strength of his memory tell how many and what Signs they were hanging in that street from the one end to the other according as they were in order As also if five hundred strange names were read unto him after the second or third hearing of them he would repeat them distinctly according as they have been read unto him Qu. What difference is there betwixt Prophets and Poets An. Thus much according to the old Verse Of things to come the first true Prophets are What the other of things past do false declare Qu. What creature is that which at once brings forth nourisheth her young and goeth with young again An. The Hare that fearful but fruitful creature who is represented as the Emblem of good providence because she sleeps with her eyes open Qu. Why do men commonly deck their Houses with Ivy at Christmas An. Ivy is said to be dedicated to Bacchus the God of wine and good cheer at which time men commonly eat and drink hard as one writes At Christmas men do always Ivy get And in each corner of the House it set But why do they then use that Bacchus weed Because they mean then Bacchus like to feed Q. Who brought up the first custom of Celebrating the Twelve days in Christmas with such Feasts and Sports as are still retained in some Gentlemens houses A. The famous King Arthur one and the chief of the Worlds nine Worthies an Institution which the Scottish Writers of these late times very much blame as being a time fitter for our devotion than for our mirth Qu. What is it which being contained in its self yet from it thousands do daily spring and issue A. The Egg from which is produced Fowls Fishes Birds and Serpents Q Was the beard created before the man or the man before the beard A. This seems to be a ridiculous question for most will think that the man must needs be created before the Beard and yet we find it otherwise for all beasts were made before man was made and amongst others the bearded Goat Q Whether was the Egg or Bird first A. Some will say the Egg because all Birds are produced from the Egg but we must know that the first rank of creatures was immediately from God without secondary causes and not produced by the Egg as is since by the course of nature Q. In what part of the world is it that trees bear living Creatures A. In the Isles of Orcades in Scotland wherein grows a Tree that bears fruit like unto a Fowl which dropping down into the water becomes a living creature like to a Duck to which Mr. Cleaveland alludeth in these verses A Scot when from the Gallow-tree got loose Drops into Styx and turns a Soland Goose Q. What Custom was that observed formerly in Scotland the like whereof we hardly read be practised in any Country A. It was called Marcheta Mulieris and took its beginning as the Scottish Write say in the reign of Ewen the third who i● the fifteenth King in their Catalogue after the first Fergus This Ewen being a Prince much addicted or rather wholly given over unto lasciviousness made a Law That himself and his Successors should have the Maiden-head or first nights lodging with every woman whose Husband held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen of all them whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers This was it seems the Knights-service which men held their Estates by and continued till the days of Malcolme Comner who married Margaret the Sister of one Edgar Etheling at whose request he abolished this lascivious ungodly Law ordaining that in the room thereof the Tenants should pay unto their Lords a Mark in money which Tribute the Historians say is yet in force Qu. Who was the most famous whore in her time An. Corinthian Lais who exacted ten thousand Drachma's for a nights lodging which made Demosthenes to cry out Non emam tanti paenitere I will not buy repentance at so dear a rate and occasioned the old verse Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum 'T is not fit for every mans avail Unto Corinth for to sail She was afterwards for her extortions and spoiling the trade of the other petty whores set upon by a company of those strumpets and by them stoned to death as one writes of her At last a Crew of whores did set upon her A whore she was and whores to death did stone her Q. What Laws were those that were so severe and yet were kept and continued for the space of seven hundred years together A. The Laconian or the Laws of Lacedaemonia once a famous Commonwealth in Greece which Laws were compiled by Lycurgus who going a Journey bound the people by oath to observe all his Laws till he returned and being gone from thence commanded that when he was dead and buried his ashes should be cast into the Sea by this means his Laws endured for a long time in Sparta which by reason thereof flourished in great prosperiry Q. What place is it that is accounted the middle or center of the Earth A. Some say Palestine and in particular the Valley of Jehosaphat of which opinion are many of our ancient and modern Divines but some of our Historians and Poets allo● the same to Pytho or Pythia a Town in Greece of which they say that Jupiter desirous once to know the exact middle of the Earth let flie two Eagles one from the East the other from the West these Eagles meeting in this place shewed plainly that it was the Navel or mid part of the Earth Q. What are the causes of ebbing and flowing of the Sea A. Several men are of several minds Some ascribe it to the Moon who by her approaching to the South doth by her beams and influences make warm the Sea whence the rising exhalations do proceed wherewith so swelling to empty it self it floweth to the Shores and Havens but descending to the Horizon and Wane as her beams by little and little diminish the waters do fall and abate which causeth her Eddy or Ebb. Others impute it to God and his Spirit moving upon the waters moveth the waters which Iob expresses by the similitude of fire under a pot saying It is God that maketh the Sea boil like a pot which fire is taken to be partly in the saltness of the waters which in the night shows like fire and causes a moving in the same Another reason is for that the Earth hath more fire in it than water which fire lieth hid in the subterraneous stones and this fire doth partly cause the motion of the Sea an Element of it self liquid and active and subject to motion which thereto when once by this fire occasioned the precedent part is thrust forward by the subsequent Others again give this reason that the Earth being round and

the Waters of themselves liquid and moveable when they have run their course as much as they can one way then meeting with the other waters drawn by the same attraction from other places they then return back again but encountring with that huge Mountain of the Sea are beaten back again and so by this means forced to continual motion Qu. Is the Sea higher than the Earth An. This is affirmed to be so and the reasons given therefore are these First because it is a body not so heavy Secondly it is observed by Saylors that their Ships fly faster to the shoar than from it whereof no reason can be given but the height of the Water above the Land Thirdly to such as stand on the shore the Sea seemeth to swell into the form of a mountain till it putteth a bound to their sight But some then will lay how comes it to pass that the Sea hovering thus over the Earth doth not overwhelm it To which I answer that must be attributed to him only who hath made the waters to stand on a heap who hath set them a bound which they shall not pass nor turn again to cover the Earth Qu. Why is the form of Money round An. Because it is to run to every man though it commonly runs up hill to the rich I remember I saw once the picture of a Shilling which had upon the top of it a pair of Wings flying as it were from spades and oars that were pourtrayed on the one side to the picture of an Usurer who was deciphered on the other side underneath was the figure of a Snail with the shilling on his back creeping a slowly peace towards the Oars The explanation of all being set forth by these verses Twelve-pence here first presents him to your Eye Who from the Spades and Oars with wing do fly To the rich Usurer who ready stands To entertain him with a Purse in 's hands Where long being kept at last returns as slo● Back to the Oars as the poor Snail doth g●● Qu. Why is Nummus Latine for Money An. Of Numa Pompilius second King of the Romans the first that caused Money to be made though the Jews attribute the invention thereof to Cain as the Grecians to Hermodice the wife of Midas and some of the Romans to Janus That money was not in former Ages the only Bartery or way of exchange we read in Homer where Glaucus Golden Armour was valued at a hundred Kine and Diomedes Armour at ten onely which kind of bartery is to this day used amongst some of the Irish as at the Barbadoes and Virginia it is commonly by Tobacco or Sugar Our Ancestors the Britains used brass Rings and Iron Rings for their Instruments of Exchange The most usual material of Money amongst the Roman Provinces was seldom Gold or Silver most times Brass sometimes Leather Corium forma publica percussum as Senecae hath it This last kind of Money was by Frederick the Second made currant when he ●esieged Millain the like is said to have been used here in England at the time of the Barons wars which is thought to be the same that is now commonly shown in the Tower and why not since the Hollanders no longer ago than in the year 1574 being in their extremities made Money of Past-board But now such things we in derision hold Nothing will pass but Silver or fine Gold I shall therefore annex here certain Verses describing the person and quality of that ●hild of chase or Lady Pecunia which is so ●uch sought after and catcht at by every ●e giving you assured marks whereby to ●ow her if you can find her She is a Lady of such matchless carriage Wedded to none tho' sought of all in marriage She may be kist yet neither washt nor clipt And if you wooe not wary soon o'reslipt She may be common yet be honest too Which is far more than any Maids can do VVho e're atchieves her speaks her ne'r so fair She 'l not stay long before she take the air She is so proud she 'l not with poor men stay But straight takes pet and goes from him away A rich man may her for a time intreat And with the Usurer she 'l sit i' th' seat She goes in Cloth of silver Cloth of gold Of several worths and values manifold But when she goes in golden Robes best dight Then she 's suspected for to be most light She needs no Physick to recover Health For she 's still currant and as rich in Wealth Some Irish Lady born we may suppose Because she runs so fast and never goes If she be wrong'd in name and ill abide it Of all men Justice Touch-stone must decide it She is a Vagrant sure else there is none Because she 's always rambling from home Nothing can cause her for to take her rest But clip her Wings and lock her in a Chest Qu. What City is that which is Founded the Waters compassed in with waters and ha●● no other walls but the Sea An. The City of Venice situate in the be some of the Adriatick Sea which hath continued unshaken or conquered since the fi●● building 1152 years it hath for convenience of Passage 4000 Bridges and very near 1200● Bo us They have an A●senal in which a● kept 200 Galleys in their Magazine of W● they have Armour sufficient for 100000 Soldiers amongst which are 1000 Coats of Plate garnished with Gold and covered with velvet so that they are sit for any Prince in Christendom there are said to be 200 Houses therein fit to Lodge any King whomsoever they have several Houses stored with Masts Sayls and other Tacklings and are at this present the chiefest Bulwark of Christendom against the Turk Qu. When a Man dyes which is the last part of him that stirs and which of a Woman An. When Man and Woman dyes as Poets sung His Heart 's the last that stirs of her the Tongue Qu. What Answer gave one to a Barber who bragged that Kings sate bare to their Trade An. He bid him that they should remember as well that they must stand to Beggars whilst they did sit Qu. What is the common saying that is appropriated to Poland An. That if a man have lost his Religion there he may find it there being tolerated Papists Lutherans Calvinists Arrians Anabaptists Antitrinitarians and all Sects what-soever The same saying is now applied to Amsterdam in Holland Qn. What other thing is remarkable there An. It is a custom there that when in the Churches the Gospel is reading the Nobility and Centry of that Country draw out their Swords to signifie that they are ready to defend the same if any dare oppugn it The same reason questionless gave beginning to our custom of standing up at the Creed whereby we express how prepared and resolute we are to maintain it although in the late times of Rebellion some tender Consciences holding it to be a Relique of Popery being more nice

who found out the use of Paper should not have his memory perserved by Paper In former ages men wrote in the dust upon stones pencil'd upon Lawrel leaves upon barks of Trees according to the Poet. In barks of Trees Shepherds their loves engrav'd Which remain'd i' th' hole when the rind away was shav'd Qu. Who first invented Letters An. Cornelius Tacitus an approved Latin Historian ascribeth it to the Egyptians his words are these Primi per formas animalium Egypti c. The Egyptians first of all expressed the conceptions of the mind by the shapes of beasts and the most ancient monuments of mans memory are seen graven in stones and they say that they are the first inventers of Letters then the Phoenicians because they were strong at Sea brought them into Greece and so they had the glory of that which they received from others for there goeth a report that Cadmus sailing thither in a Phoenician ship was the Inventer of the Art amongst the Greeks when they were yet unexpert and rude Some record that Cecrops the Athenian or Livius the Theban and Palamedes the Grecian did find out sixteen Characters at the time of the Trojan war and that afterward Simonides added the rest But in Italy the Etrurians learned them of Demaratas the Corinthian and the Aborigines of Evander the Arcadian thus far Tacitus But Lucan the Historical Poet attributeth the first invention of them to the Phoenicians in these verses of his Pharsalia Phoenices primi fama si ereditur ausi Mansuram rudibus vocem signare figuris Phoenicians first as fame to us affords Dar'd in rude Characters engrave our words But notwithstanding this of Tacitus and Lucan no question but the Jews were herein skill'd before either of them and that there was writing before the Flood which St. Jude doth somewhat infinuate of the writing of Enoch and Josephus and others write that he crected two Pillars the one of brick and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the two-fold destruction of the world the one by water and the other by fire which by Tradition was preserved to the days of the Apostles Qu. By whom was Brachygraphy or the Art of Short-writing invented An. This is uncertain Dion saith that Maecenas that great Favorite of Augustus and Favorer of Learning did first find out certain Rules and Figures ad celeritatem scribendi for the speedier dispatch of writing and for those less vulgar Letters which the Latines call Ciphrae and whereof every exercised States-man hath peculiar to himself they were first invented by Julius Caesar when he first began to think of the Roman Monarchy and were by him in his Letters to his more private and tryed friends used that if by misfortune they should be intercepted the contents of them should not be understood Augustus one of the greatest Politicks of the world had another kind of obscure writing for in his Letters of more secrecy and importance he always used to put the Letter immediately following in the order of the Alphabet for that which in ordinary writing he should have used As for the Art of Short-writing or Brachygraphy aforesaid it is grown to a great perfection in our Age the chief Masters whereof have been Mr. Skelton Mr. Jeremiah Rich c. Qu. Who were the Inventers of Ships and Shipping An. No doubt but it came first from the Ark of Noah which he had provided for the safety of him and his in the universal Deluge which Ark setling on the Mountains of Ararat and there a long time remaining gave the Phoenicians a Sea-people a pattern whereby they might make the waters passable The Heathen writers which knew not Noah attribute the Inventing of Shipping to several persons Strabo to Minos King of Crete Diodorus Siculus to Neptuno who was therefore called The God of the Sea Tibullus the Poet referred it to the Tyrians a famous flourishing Commonwealth among the Phoenicians saying Prima ratem ventis credere docta Tyros The Tyrians first the Art did find To make Ships travel with the wind The Egyptians received this Invention from the Tyrians and added much unto it for whereas first the vessels were either made of an hollow tree or of sundry boards joyned together and covered with beasts skins which kind of Vessels are still in use in America the Phoenicians brought them to strength and form but the Egyptians added Decks unto them they also invented the Galley of two banks on a side which vessels by length of time grew so large that Ptolomy Philopater made one of no fewer than fifty banks of oars on one side Large Ships of burthen called Circera we owe to the Cypriots Cock-boats or Skiffs to the Illyrians Brigantines to the Rhodians and Fregats or swift Barks to the Cyrenians As for the Tacklings the Boetians invented the Oar Daedalus and his son Icarus the Masts and Sails which gave the Poet occasion to feign that those two made wings to their bodies and fled out of Crete and that Icarus soaring too high melted his wings and was drowned the truth indeed being that presuming too far on his new invention he ran against a Rock and so perished For Hippagines Ferry-boats or vessels for the transporting of Horse we are indebted to the Salaminians for Grapling-hooks to Anacharsis for Anchors to to the Tuscans and for the Rudder Helm Stern or Art of steering to Typhis who seeing that a Kite when she flew guided her whole body by her tayl effected that in the devices of Art which he had observed in the works of Nature About the year 1300. one Flavio of Melphi in the Kingdom of Naples found out the Compass or Pyxis Nautica consisting of eight Winds onely the four principal and four collateral and not long after the people of Bruges and Antwerp perfected that excellent Invention adding twenty four other subordinate Winds or Points so that now they are in all to the number of thirty two By means of this excellent Instrument and withal by the good success of Columbus the Portugals Eastward the Spaniards West-ward and the English North-wards have made many a glorious and fortunate Expedition Qu. Having thus shown by what means Navigation hath arrived to the height that now it is next tell what Commodities are most proper to several Countreys whither our Merchants go to traffique An. Our most provident and wise Creator hath so ordered it that there might be a sociable Conversation betwixt all Countreys that there is none of them so plentifully stockt but hath need of the Commodities of another Countrey nor is any Countrey so barren or destitute but it hath some one or more Commodities to invite Merchants to traffique with them some of which are thus set down by the divine Poet Du Bartus in his Colonies Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candie Currants Muscadel and Oyls From the Molucco's Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia come From India Gums rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria

Myrrh as unto a man ready for his sepulchre Three kings to th' King of Kings three Gifts did bring Gold Incense Myrrh as Man as God as King Three Holy Gifts be likwise given by thee To Christ even such as acceptable be For Myrrh tears for Frankincense impart Submissive prayers for pure Gold a pure heart Qu. Wherefore did Pilate wash his hands after he had condemned our Saviour An. Vainly thinking by that Ceremony to wash the blood off from his guilty Conscience O faciles animi qui tristia crimina caedes Fluminea tolli posse putatis aqua Too facile souls which think such heinous matters Can be abolish'd by the River waters We before spoke of the Popes Christening of Bells now we will shew you in what manner it is done The Bell that is to be baptized is so hanged that it may be washed within and without Then in comes the Bishop in his Episcopal Robes attended by one of his Deacons and sitting by the Bell in his Chair saith with a loud voice the 50 53 56 66 69 85 and 12 Psalms or some of them then doth he exercise severally salt and water and having conjured these ingredients into an Holy-water he washeth with it the Bell both on the inside and the outside wiping it dry with a Linnen Cloth he then readeth the 145 146 147 148 149 and 150 Psalms then he draweth a Cross on it with his right thumb dipped in hallowed Oyl Chrisme they call it and then prayeth over it His Prayer finished he wipeth out that Cross and having said over the 48 Psalm he draweth on it with the same Oyl seven other Crosses saying Sanctificetur consecretur Domine Campana ista in nomine c. After another Prayer the Bishop taketh the Censor and putting into it Myrrh and Frankincense setteth it on fire and putteth it under the Bell that it may receive all the fume of it This being done the 76 Psalm read and some other prayers repeated the Bell hath received his whole and entire baptism and is from thenceforth very fit and able to ring out Ding Dong Dong Qu. Who are those that pray for all Defend all Feed all Devour all An. In the representation of an ancient picture it was thus resolved The Pope with his Clergy says I pray for you all The Emperor with his Electors I defend you all The Clown with his sack of Corn I feed you all at ●ast comes Death and says I devour you all For Mors ultima linea rerum Death is a Pursivant with Eagles wings That strikes at poor mens doors and gates of Kings Further Verses upon Death Death is a Fisher-man the world we see His Fish-pond is and we the Fishes be He sometimes Angler-like doth with us play And slily takes us one by one away Diseases are the murthering hooks which he Doth catch us with the bait Mortality Which we poor silly Fish devour till strook At last too late we feel the bitter Hook At other times he brings his Net and then At once sweeps up whole Cities full of men Drawing up thousands at a Draught and saves Onely some few to make the other Graves His Net some raging Pestilence Now he Is not so kind as other Fishers be For if they take one of the smaller Frye They throw him in again he shall not die But Death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to Net Qu. Why do the affections of Parents run upwards to their Children and not their Childrens un downward to them An. Experience tells us that Parents are more tender and loving to their Children by far than Children are dutiful and obsequious to their Parents Even as the Sap in the Root of a Tree ascends into the Branches thereof but returns not from the branches to the Root again but runs forth from thence into seed so parents love their Children who return not that love to them again but their affections run forwards to a further procreation Hence comes it to pass that one father with more willingness brings up ten children than ten children in his want will sustain one Father And whereas you hear of one unnatural Parent you shall hear of ten disobedient children Qu. Have the Heavens a particular influence upon the same Climate though the Inhabitants be changed An. Yes they have for as these Caelestial bodies considered in the general do work upon all sublunary bodies in the general by light influence and motion so have they a particular operation on particulars An operation there is wrought by them in a man as born at such and such a minute and again as born under such and such a Climate The one derived from the setting of the Houses and the Lord of the Horoscope at the time of his Nativity the other from that Constellation which governeth as it were the Province of his birth and is the Genius or Deus Tutelaris loci Qu. In what Points doth the Greek and Muscovite Church differ from that of the Romesh and the reformed An. In these ten 1. Denying the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son 2. Denying Purgatory but praying for the dead 2. Believing that holy men injoy not the presence of God before the Resurrection 4. Communicating in both kinds but using leavened bread and mingling warm water with wine which both together they distribute with a spoon 5. Receiving children of seven years old to the Sacrament because then they begin to sin 6. Forbiding extream Unction Confirmation and fourth Marriages 7. Admitting none to Orders but such as are married and prohibiting marriage to them that are actually in Orders 8. Rejecting carved Images but admiring the painted 9. Observing four Lents in the year And tenthly reputing it unlawful to fast on Saturdays The main points in which the Grecians and Muscovite differ is in this manner of distributing the Sacrament and the exacting of Marriage at the Ordination of Priests Qu. Wherein do the Cholchians differ from other Christians their Neighbours An. In three circumstances 1. In not Baptizing their Children till the eighth year 2. In not entering into Churches till the sixtieth year but hearing Divine Service without the Temple 3. In dedicating their youth to theft and rapine their old Age to the difficult work of Repentance Qu. Whereon do the Jacobites differ from the Greek and Roman Church An. In four several opinions 1. They acknowledge but one Will Nature and operation in Christ 2. They use circumcision in both Sexes 3. They sign their children with the sign of the Cross imprinted with a burning Iron 4. They affirm Angels to consist of two substances fire and light These Jacobites are so called from Jacobus Syrus who lived Anno 530. the Patriarch of this Sect is always called Ignatius he keepeth residence at Garani in Mesopotamia and is said to have 160000 Families under his jurisdiction Qu. Of what Sect are those Christians called Melchites

Clock-bells did both in City and Countrey In London a piece of the Temple Church fell down In the late dissolved Church called the Grey-Fryers now called Christ-Church in the Sermon time one stone falling from the Church killed a young man outright and another stone so bruised a Maid that she lived but four days after the Man and the Maid being fellow Servants in one House divers were bruised and run out of the Church Some stones fell off from the Church of St. Pauls in London and some from the Church of St. Peters at Westminster divers Chimneys lost their tops and Ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to totter this Earthquake did not continue above a quarter of an hour in London but in divers parts in Kent it held them so terrible that the people went out of their Houses for fear they should fall on their heads Of the Rain-Bow The Rain-bow is only the Suns reflection on a hollow Cloud which the edge being repelled and beaten back against the Sun from thence ariseth much variety of colours by reason of the mixture of clouds air and fire-light together If two Rain bows appear at one time they presage Rain to ensue but if one Rain-bow presently after Rain it betokeneth fair weather Of Thunder and Lightning When hot and dry vapours mixt with moisture is exhaled up into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a Cloud these two contraries not agreeing together break forth with great violence so that fire and water break out of the cloud making a roaring noise which we call Thunder and the fire Lightning the Thunder is first made but the Lightning first seen in regard the sight is quicker than the hearing which to prove observe but at some distance when a man is cleaving of blocks or a Carpenter hewing a log and you shall see the fall of the beetle or Ax some little distance of time before you hear the noise of the blow Now of Lightnings there be many sorts that which is dry burneth not all but dissipateth and disperseth its self moist burneth not likewise but blasts and changeth the colour but the clear is of a strange property for it melteth the sword and not singeth the scabberd it draweth vessels dry without hurt to the vessels some rich misers have had their silver melted in their bags and purses and yet neither bag nor purse hurt nay not so much as the wax that sealeth the bag stirred It breaketh the bones and hurteth not the flesh and killeth the Child in the Mothers Womb not hurting the mother what great cause have we to pray as it is in the Letany from thunder and lightning good Lord deliver us What things are not burt with Lightning It entreth not past five foot into the earth it hurteth not the Laurel-Tree such are freed that are shadowed with the skins of Seals or Sea-Calves the Eagle is likewise free Pliny saith Scythia by reason of cold and Egypt by reason of the heat have seldom Lightning A Brief Deseri●tion of the World shewing what it is and of what Parts it consisteth together with other things well worthy of observation THe world may not unfitly be termed a large Theatre of the heavens and earth wherein are contained all bodies both simple and mixt The Greeks calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latine Universitas or Mandus all signifying with us the world It consisteth of two only parts the one Elemental and the other Coelestial The Elemental part contains the four Elements as Fire Air Water Earth The Coelestial parts contains seven several Orbs for the Planets and one for the fixed Stars above which is the Christalline Heaven the first mover which once in 24 hours carries the other round about the Earth and last of all the Empereal heaven the habitation for Saints and Angels with all the rest of Gods elect Within this coelestial part not these only are continued but also the Elemental part it self and whatsoever it containeth within the midst of his concavity by the divine providence of God hangs this dark and gross body of the Earth upon which we mortals live and in respect of the glorious Heavens we should scarce so much as fix our eyes upon it for God hath made us not as other Creatures with a dejected countenance but os homini sublime dedit he hath given to man a lofty and exact countenance according to that of the Poet And where all Beasts look down with groveling eye He gave to man looks mixt with majesty And bids him with expansed looks to view the Sky Plato the most divine amongst the Heathen affirmed that the chief cause why men had eyes given them was to behold the Heavens an admired spectacle of Gods Workmanship for though there be other ends for which we have our senses yet without question this is one and a main one to consider the glorious part of Gods creation and to search into the obstruse Mysteries thereof for God hath made nothing in vain he hath not made these glorious bodies only to be gazed at but to be searched into there being none of the humane sciences that draw us so near to God so that Ptolomy not unworthily in the beginning of his Almagest affirmeth Hanc unam scientiam esse viam ac semitam ad sciendum Deum altissimum which being understood cum grano salis will not be much different from the mind of St. Paul Rom. 1. 20. for the invisible things of God c. are seen by the Creation of the World In which place as all things created are understood so especially it should seem the coelestial bodies to be intended for these with their beauty magnitude and multitude and with the perpetual stability and wonderful variety of their invariable motions and effects do in a marvellous manner commend the wisdom and goodness of the glorious God and do exceeding much draw us to the admiration love and knowledge of him according to that excellent testimony of the kingly Prophet The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy work And again There is neither Speech nor Language but their Voice is heard among them Psalm 19. 1 2. And in Wisd 13. 4 5. saith Solomon But if they were astonished at their power and vertue let them understand by them how much mightier he is that made them For by the beauty and greatness of the Creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen And from hence sure it is that the Sideral science is by some not unfitly call'd Natural Theology Solid Orbs and Comets to be in the sublunary Region have been maintained by many both elder and later yet by the infallible observations and unparallel'd instruments joyned with the unwearied assiduity and almost invaluable expence of the Tres-noble Tyche they have been found altogether false The Heavens so framed are That they do all declare Gods Glory doth excel The Skyes and Firmament Bright clear and

permanent His handy work doth tell Day unto day doth teach And of the Lord do preach His wondrous works relating Night unto night doth show That every one might know His wisdom them creating There is no speech nor Land But this doth understand Though it far distant lyes Yet doth it heart the noise Acknowledging the voice And Language of the Skyes c. Qu. At what time of the year according to the opinion of many men was the world created An. That the world began in Autumn is of late the opinion of many both Divines and Chronologers And yet of old the ancient Fathers Eusebius Basil Athanasius Ambrose Cyril of Jerusalem Augustine Nazianzen Damascen Bede Psidore c. were persuaded otherwise Yea in a Synod holden in Palestine by Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea it was agreed that the World was made in the Spring Nor is that but a great question betwixt two furious Rabbins for though the Rabbins for the most part be for Autumn yet R. Josua maintains the contrary against Eleazer another great Rabbi who contends for Autumn True it is that the year of Jubilee began alwayes at Autumn howbeit the first month of the year was to be reckoned from the Spring which is as Moses saith to the Israelites Ezod 12. 2. This shall be to you the beginning of Months as if he had said though whilst you were in Aegypt you followed another reckoning yet it was divers from that which ye had at the first for this is to you the beginning of months or the natural head of the year Nor did the Chaldeans with whom Abrabam lived a long time reckon otherwise And successively since Astrologers have accounted the revolutions of the world from the vernal Equinox at the Suns entrance into the first scruple of Aries Translated out of Manilius Lib. 4. ALl Animals that be do groveling lye Or in the Earth the Water or the Sky One rest one sence one belly like in all Which they communicate in general But man consists of soul and body linkt Of Councils capable of voice distinct He into natural causes doth inspect And knows what to devise how to direct Into the world he Arts and science brings And searcheth out the hidden birth of things The unplow'd earth he to his will subdues And all it brings forth he knows how to use The untam'd Beasts he doth at pleasure bind He in the Seas untroden paths doth find He only stands with an erected brest As the sole Victor over all the rest His Star-like eyes into the Stars inquire The Heavens themselves he scales if he desire He seeks out Jove his thoughts will not be ty'd The Stars from him in vain themselves do hide He not content to look them in the faces Ransacks their Houses there most secret places This is the scope of mans all prying mind Himself he hopes amongst the Stars to find Of the unfortunate and fatal Days in the Year THe ancient Astronomers have observ'd certain days in every month to be held very fatal and unfortunate in which they accounted it ominous to begin or undertake any matter which days be as follow January the 1 2 4 5 10 15 17 and 19 February the 8 10 and 17. March the 15 16 and 19. April the 16 and 21. May the 7 11 and 20. June the 4 and 7. July the 15 and 20. August the 19 and 20. September the 6 and 7. October the 5. November the 15 and 19. December the 6 7 and 9. Also they will have in every change of the Moon two unfortunate days in which they advise no man to begin any work or undertake any journey because it shall come to no good end Which days be these In Jan. the 3 and 4 days of the new Moon In February 5 and 7 In March 6 and 7. In April 5 and 8. In May 8 and 9. In June 5 and 15. In July 3 and 13. In August 8 and 13. In September 8 and 13. In October 5 and 12. In November 5 and 9. In December 3 and 13. Others there be which note out of the whole year six most unfortunate days above all other wherein they advise no man to bleed or take any drink because the effects of the Constellation work mightily to death and in other respects they be right unfortunate which days be these January the 3. April the 30. July the 1. August the 1. October the 2. December the 30. Others again there be which observe three dangerous Mundays to begin any business fall sick or undertake any journey viz. First Munday in April on which day Cain was born and his Brother 6 bel slain Second Munday in August on which day Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed 31 of December on which day Jadas was born that betrayed Christ Likewise throughout England the 28 of December being Innocents day is called Childermas or Cros●-day and is so accounted every week Moreover there be certain unfortunate and bad days in the year called Dog-Days which be very prejudicial to mans health they begin the 19 day of July and end the 27 of August the malignity of which days Pliny reporteth Lib Chap 40. of his Natural History Exact rules to find out the beginning and ending of the Terms with the number of their Returns HIllary Term begins always the 23 of January and ends February the 12 and hath four Returns Easter Term begins always on the Wednesday fortnight after Easter ends the Munday after Ascension day and hath five Returns Trinity Term begins always the Fryday after Trinity and ends the Wednesday fortnight after and hath four Returns Michaelmas Term begins October the 23. and ends November the 21. and hath six Returns Note that the Exchequer opens 8 days before any Term begins except Trinity Term before which it opens only 4 days Of Weights and Measures commonly used in England THe most common Weight used in England are Troy and Avoirdupois by the first is weighed Wheat Bread Gold Silver c. which Troy-weight contains in every pound twelve ounces every ounce twenty penny weight and every penny weight twenty four grains whereby a mark weight ariseth just to eighty ounces By the second and more common weight of Avoirdupois is weighed all kind of Grocery ware Physical drugs and gross wares as Rosin Pitch Hemp c. and all Iron Copper Tin or other metals this weight hath sixteen ounces to the pound and is divided into grains scruples drams and ounces so that one pound Avoirdupois contains 16 ounces 128 drams 384 scruples and 7680 grains How Ale and Beer it measured These two sorts of Liquors are measured by pints quarts pottles gallons firkins kilderkins and barrels so that a barrel of Beer contains two kilderkins four Firkins thirty six gallons seventy two pottles 144 quarts and 282 pints A Barrel of Ale is two kilderkins four firkins thirty two gallons sixty four pottles 128 quarts and 256 pints so then the Barrel of Ale is less than the Barrel of Beer