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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

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. The Second Edition That Author best of all doth write Who mixeth Profit with Delight London Printed by T. S. and sold by the Book-sellers of London and Westminster 1680. THE NEVV HELP TO DISCOURSE Quest WHat is the chief end of writing Books Answ For instruction and information whereas idle Books are no other than corrupted Tales in Ink and Paper or indeed Vice sent abroad with a License wherein two are guilty of evil he that writes them and he that reads them being in effect like the brutish sin of Adultery wherein two are concerned in the same sin and therefore his resolution was good who said That for bad Books he would write none lest he should thereby hurt others in the reading of them nor would he read any of them for fear the Author should answer for his sin by being corrupted by them Quest What Book of all others is the best Answ The Holy Scriptures contained in 〈◊〉 Old and New Testament wherein the Mysteries of our Salvation are contained being the Book of all books and in compa●●●on of which no book is comparable Qu. Of how many chapters doth this Book consist An. In the Old Testament or Bible there are 777. In the new Testament 260. In the Books of Apocrypha 173. The total being 1210. And for the number of Verses in the Old Testament the Jewish Rabbins have computed them thus In the Books of the Law Verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. and in Haggai 8064. Total 23203. Q. Are there no other Books mentioned in the Old Testament but those which we have now at this day A. Yes there were the Books of Iddo and Gad the Seers besides Solomon wrote three thousand Parables and five thousand Songs with a Book of the Nature of all Herbs Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hysop upon the wall Samuel also writ a Book of the Office and Institution of a King There were also Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel besides those we have in the Scripture being as is judged written far larger all which Were supposed to be lost in the Jewish Captivity at Babylon Q. What was St. Augustine 's answer to one who demanded what God did before he made the World A. That he was ordaining a Hell for such kind of Enquirers Where the Scripture hath not a mouth to speak we ought no● to have a tongue to ask Q. What was the greatest love that ever w● shown in this World A. The love of God to poor sinners wh● gave his only begotten Son to dye for us of which one thus writeth God is my gift himself he freely gave me Gods gift am I and none but God shall have me Q. In what things had woman the Preheminence of man in the Creation A. In these three First that whereas man ' was made of the dust or slime of the earth woman was made of that dust or slime refined Secondly man was made out of Paradise woman in Paradise And thirdly when God is said to be about to make woman he is said to build her as being about to make a curious Edifice or more excellent structure than that of man Q. What Book next to the Holy Scripture would you chiefly desire the rest being taken away A. Theodore Beza being asked this question answered Plutarch an excellent Author for his Lives and Morals Another said Seneca whose divine Sentences in his Book are so squared by the Rules of Christianity that St. Hierom concluded him amongst the Catalogue of Divine Writers Another preferred the Thesaurus Historiarum being a Compendium of most Histories and worthy Examples And that Ornament of History Dr. Heylin gives the preheminency to Sir Walter Rawleigh's History of the World which he calls Primus in Historia Q. St. Bernard a learned Father of the Church greatly wondred at three Conjunctions the like whereof never was nor never will be and what were they A. 1. Conjunction of God and man 2. Of a Mother and a Virgin 3. Of Faith and the heart of man to believe the same The first whereof is most wonderful that the Deity should be joyned to the Humanity Heaven to Earth Majesty to Infirmity The second also very wonderful that a Maid should be a Mother and yet remain a pure Virgin The third though inferior to the two first yet wonderful that a mans heart should have power to believe the same Reason doth marvel how Faith tell can That a Maid should be a Mother God a man But cease so to marvel and believe the wonder For Faith is above and Reason is under Q. How long according to the opinion of some men shall the world continue from the Creation to the end thereof A. The Thalmudists were of opinion that it should continue six thousand years of which opinion also were some of the fathers and others of our Modern Writers because that as God created the World in six days and rested the seventh so in six thousand years which are in account of God but as six daies it shall again be annihilated when shall follow an eternal Sabbath of rest to all the Faithful Others reckon it after this manner two thousand years before the Law two thousand years under the Law and two thousand years under the Gospel But this account agreeth not right with the Calendar of Time and therefore we may conclude that those who account not right the years which are past must needs be ignorant of those which are to come Besides our Saviour saith that of that day and hour the very Angels in Heaven themselves are ignorant Let us therefore rather labour to prepare our selves against that day than curiously seek to pry into such hidden and unrevealed things Q. In what part of the world was it where the Cock crowed so loud that all the men of the world heard it A. In Noah's Ark. Q. What is the Anagram for the name of the Virgin Mary A. MARY Anagramma ARMY And well her Name an Army doth present In whom the Lord of Hosts did pitch his tent Q. What answer gave Queen Elizabeth when being a prisoner in the Reign of her Sister Queen Mary she was by one of the Bishops demanded her opinion concerning the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament A. Christ is the Word that spake it He took the Bread and brake it And as the Word did make it I do believe and take it Q. Who are those that cannot will not

in doubt by Laws or Might Mean time France a Wonder saw A Woman Rule ' gainst Salique Law But Reader be advis'd and stay Thy Censure till the Judgment-day Then shalt thou know and not before Whether Saint Witch Man Maid or Whore The Statute of this noble Virago all in Brass being habited all in compleat Armor standeth at this day in Orleans upon the middle of their Bridge Qu. Wherein doth Man chiefly differ from Beasts An. In two things especially Ratione Oratione Reason and speech Qu. How do Philosophers divide the parts of Life An. Into three the Vegetive the Sensitive and the Rational the Vegetive is that of Plants Trees c. the Sensitive is of Beasts Fowls Fishes and the like but the Rational is only peculiar to Man though I must confess many are of opinion that several beasts are endued with more than an ordinary reason of which they instance the Elephant and of whom they deliver this story That in the great Battel betwixt Alexander the Great and King Porus an Indian Emperor the Elephant which King Porus rode on seeing his Master strong and lusty rushed into the thickest of Alexanders Army but when he perceived Porus to grow faint he withdrew himself and kneeling down received all the Arrows shot against his Master in his own Trunk Qu. By what means may every man be accounted an honest man An. By endeavouring to be what he desires to seem Qu. What was an excellent Motto which comprehendeth it in the means whereby a man may quickly grow rich Counsel I know will quickly be hearkned unto by all An. Nec habeo nec careo nec curo I have not I want not I care not which he enjoyeth that hath only content as the Divine Poet said My wishes are but few all easie to fulfill I make the limits of my power the bounds unt● my will Qu. What are the differences or kinds Musick An. Among the Ancients I have met with three kinds of Musick viz. First that of the Greeks which consisteth altogether of lon● Rules or Spendans This was the gravest and saddest of the rest called by Aristotle Moral because it setled the affections Boetius whom we account the Classical Author in this Faculty calleth it Lydian because in much use with those of that Nation and now as generally received by the Italian This is the Musick which Elisha called for ●● invite unto him the Spirit of prophecy King 3. 15. and this is it which is yet sung ● Churches a practice which we derive fro● the Ancients though some of late have opp●sed it and which is much commended ●● that Doctor of the Latin Church St. Austin The second kind consisteth of a mixture of long and short Notes or of the Dactylus which is termed active because it raiseth up the affections Boetius calleth it the Dorian because it had been in much esteem amongst the Dorians a Greek People we may now call it English as being much used by us and is that Musick which cleareth the Spirits and is so soveraign an Antidote to an afflicted mind The third sort is that which consisteth altogether of short Notes or Tribrachy and is by Aristotle said to be ravished because it unhingeth the Affections and stirreth them up to lasciviousness Boetius termeth it Phrygian as being the strain of that wanton and luxuriant people in these days we may call it French as being most delighted in by the striving Spirits and lightness of that Nation But the best Musick far more sweet than honey Is when a man 's own Purse gingles with money Qu. In what do several Nations differ concerning their Aera or computation of Time from which every reckoning takes its beginning An. The Christians make their Epoch the Birth of Christ which happened in the year of the world 3962. but this reckoning they ●sed not till the year 600. Follow in the mean ●ime the civil Account of the Empire The Mahumetans begins their Hegira or Computation from the return of their Prophet to Mecha after he was driven thence by the Philarchae Anno Christi 617. The Grecians reckoned by Olympiads the first of which is placed in the year of the World 3187. but this Account perishing under the Donstontinopolitan Emperors they reckoned by Indictions every Indiction containing 15 years the first beginning whereof was about the year of Christ 313. which among Chronologers is still used The Romans reckoned first from the building of their City which was A. M. 3213. and afterwards from the 16 year of the Emperor Augustus A. M. 1936. which beginneth somewhat before our Epoch from the Birth of Christ This reckoning was used among the Spaniards till the Reign of Ferdinand the Catholick The Jews had divers Epochs as the Creation of the World in the beginning of Time Secondly from the universal Deluge Anno 1565. Thirdly from the confusion of Tongues Anno 1786. Fourthly from Abraham's Journey out of Chaldea into Canaan Anno 2021. Fifthly from the departure of the Children of Israel out of Aegypt Anno 2451. Sixthly from the year of Jubile Anno 2499. Seventhly from the building of Solomons Temple Anno 2432. And eightly the Captivity of Babylon Anno 3357 The most usual reckoning in England is only that of the Worlds Creation and Christ's appearance in the flesh the first seldom used but only by Chronologers and Writers of Histories Qu. Since Adam Methusalem and some other of the Patriarchs lived nine hundred and odd years why did God never suffer any man to accomplish a thousand An. Some learned Persons give this reason because a thousand years hath in it a type of perfection and God never suffered any to fulfil it to shew that there is no absolute perfection in this world Qu. What two Philosophers were those who were so eminent for two notable qualities wherewith they were endued the like of them not to be foundin our modern Histories An. Democritus and Heraclitus the first whereof alwayes laughed the other continually wept which two different passions are much canvased by Authors which of them is most suitable to humane Nature indeed our appetites are most greedy to desire the first but sound reason rightly weighed will conclude for the last Solomon tell us that it is better for us to go into the house of mourning them into the house of laughter and that the laughter of fools is madness Besides History tells us that Agelastus the Grandfather of Crassus a very wise man was so reserv'd that he never laughed in all his life but once which was when he saw the Ass eating of Thistles But what need we go any farther than 〈◊〉 Holy Wtit if we consider our blessed Saviour we cannot find in the Scripture that he laughed but that he wept we read of these three times 1. When Lazarus was dead 2. Over Jerusalem 3. Upon the Cross when he delivered up his Spirit with cryes and tears Qu. What four things are those which we are by Divinos

plains come there for refuge and so loose their fleeces or like to the Spiders web in which the little flies are catcht but the great ones break through with ease Qu. Wherein did the old Romans shew the love that they bear unto Virtue An. In erecting a Temple to Honor into which none could come but he must first pass through the Temple of Virtue to signifie that those that trode in the paths of Justice and Virtue should at last be crowned with honor and dignity Qu. What is the reason that women love their ease more than men An. When man lay dead-like woman took her life From a crookt embleme of her nuptial strife And hence her bones would be at rest her ease She loves so well and is so hard to please Qu. Wherein consists the praises of a Country life An. The Countrey-man is thrice happy in this that he plays not with his wings in the golden flames of the Court nor setteth his foot into the busie throngs of the City nor runneth up and down in the intricate mazes of the Law but resting contented in the Winter to sit by a countrey fire and in the Summer to lay his head on the green pillows of the Earth where his sleep is soft slumbers and his waking pleasant as golden dreams His highest ambition is to get up unto the Mountains where he thinks himself a petty King the greatest Trees standing trembling before him to do him reverence which he calleth his Nobles on each side of him he beholdeth ranks of Oaks which he counteth his Guards the Willows that bend at every blast he accounteth his flatterers and the Vallies humbled at his feet he termeth his slaves No Prince in the world keeps more skilful Musicians the Birds are his consort and the wind instruments they play upon yield ten thousand several tunes Thus doth he rest secure whilest he doth lie Too low for Envy and for scorn too high Qu. Who are the most proud and imperious of all others An. Such as have been raised from the Dunghil to some preferment according to that old English Proverb of ours Set a Beggar on Horseback and he will ride to the Devil With which agreeth that of the Poet None looks to be accounted More than a Beggar mounted Qu. What is the difference of valour in several persons An. Some are truly valarous and those are such who will nobly engage in a just quarrel others are cowardly valorous to which alludeth the Proverb Make a Coward fight and he will kill the Devil and to this purpose we have a story of a Gentleman that kept a Welshman to his man It so fortuned that as they rid abroad they were set on by two thieves The Gentleman defended himself for a good space while his man stood still looking on but offering no help to his master At length the Gentleman having received some wounds was forced to yield and deliver up his money to the thieves but withal requested them that since his man would not fight he yet might receive some of the blows and therefore desired them to give him three or four good stroakes over the back this was no sooner desired but as readily granted and as soon performed But Taffy feeling the smart of the blows his welsh blood was soon up he thunders lightning and revenge upon them soon disarms one of the thieves and with his sword deeply wounds the other so that in a little space they both became the objects of his mercy the money they received is re-delivered and upon their knees they ask pardon The third are such as are only valiant in their drink of which last the Poet thus writes Qu. Who onlie in his Cups will fight is like A Clock that must be oyl'd well e're it strike Qu. How many veins are there in the body of a man An. As many as there are days in the year according as it is set down in this verse For that in us all things may vain appear We have a vein for each day in the year Qu. How many bones are there in a perfect man An. 284. which are thus singlely collected i● the head forty nine in the breast sixty seven in the arms and hands sixty one in the fee● sixty in all 284. according to the Poet. The bones which do support our Earthly Tower Are numbered two hundred eighty four Qu. How many teeth hath a man according to the Poets Rule An. Sunt homini dentes triginta duo comedentes The Grinders which in time are said to cease Are numbered thirty two at best increase Qu. Which were the most famous Tyrants in their time An. 1. Nero a Heathen Roman Emperor who commanded Rome to be set on fire and then accused the Christians for doing it he also most unnaturally caused his Mothers belly to be ripped up that he might see the place of his conception 2. Caligula another Roman Emperor who wished that all the people of Rome had but one neck that he might strike it off at a blow 3. Phalaris a Tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily for whom Perillus made a brazen Bull into which those whom he intended to torture were put a fire being made under it the extremity of the heat causing them to roar out made the brazen statue to bellow like a Bull the Tyrant only just in this causing Perillus to hansel it first himself upon which Ovid thus writes Nec enim lex justior ulla Quam necis Artificis arte perire sua Most just it is a man should be tormented With that which first his cruel wit invented 4. Dionisius a King of the said country of Sicily whose Tyrannies were so odious that there were continual execrations poured on him only one old woman prayed for his life who being asked the cause made answer that she knew his Grand-father to have been bad and after by prayers they had obtained his death his Son succeeded far worse than the Father and after their curses had also prevailed over him came the present Tyrant worse than either for whose life she was resolved to pray lest after his decease the Devil himself should come amongst them Qu. Why do great persons bear themselves up high over their inferiors seeing we are all made of one mould An. Because too much familiarity breeds contempt the Eagle scorns to meddle with the Kite the Lyon with the Mouse to conend with an ignoble enemy is an act inglorious and to conquer them almost as much dishonour as by them to be overcome Qu. Wherefore do the Jews break the Glass in which the Bride and Bridegroom drink An. To admonish them that all things in this world are transitory and brittle as the Glass and therefore they must be moderate in their pleasure and desires Qu. What custom had they of Baeotia in Greece concerning their marriage of the daughters An. When the Bride was carried home to her betrothed Husband they used to burn before the door the Axel-tree of

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