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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

Q. Wherein doth hee most manifest himselfe A. In the Scripture the Heralds of his truth and the witnesses of his mercies Q. Wherefore are the holy Scriptures contayning the mysterie of mans saluation folded vp by God in such obscuritie and darkenes as sometimes Maximilian the Emperour in the first of his 8. questions to the learned Abbot Tritemius demanded A. The holy Scriptures as a Father saith vnlesse they bee read with that Spirit by which it is beleeued to be written by the inspiration of Gods ' Siprit for the direction of mans life and that with humilitie and desire to know and be gouerned by it cannot be vnderstood but remaine as a dead letter in the efficacie thereof Concerning whom yet further S. Gregory saith though they haue in themselues that height and depth wherein their mistery may exercise the wisdom of the learned yet haue they also that easinesse and plainenes that the simple may be comforted taught being in themselues that wonderfull riuer both shallow deep wherein as the Lambe may wade the Elaphant may swim Of whose depth S. Austin thus speaketh further The holy Scriptures are thus written saith hee that by their height the proude may bee abased as with their easinesse the simple may be comforted Adding withall that it is our dulnes of capacity that they seeme so hard vnto vs and the vaile of our hearts which cannot bee remoued vnlesse by him which hath the key of Dauid which opens where no mans shuts and shuts where no mans opens which only can open that sealed Booke And therefore as another father saith God hath not wrapt vp these high mysteries of Scripture in such obscuritie as euying mans knowledge but that the study and industry of man might be the more profitably exercised adding withall that no man ought to be too much deiected that he cannot vnderstand euery mysterie therein for that there are some things that to bee ignorant of though they may somewhat subiect thy presumption will not indanger thy saluation for that all things are not necessary to bee perceiued of all And therefore according to Saint Austins rule if thou louest the law of God manifest it in reuerencing that which thou vnderstandest not as in practising that which thou dost vnderstand and thou shalt haue first wherewithall to drinke after stronger meate to eate and possesse thy selfe patience knowing that whilst we are in this mortall flesh wee can perceiue but as in a mirrour yet that hereafter we shall bee translated to a higher Academy where God himselfe shall bee our Schoolemaster and then we shall see him as he is where all shadowes vanish and the substance onely is embraced where being ascended we shall know the truth of all either argued or debated of in this sublunary religion Q. What were those three couiunctions Saint Barnard so wonderfully wondered at the like whereof neither can nor shall euer be done againe vpon the face of the earth A. Three works three coniunctions hath that omnipotent Maiesty made in the assumption of our flesh wonderfully singular and singularly wonderfull euen such as the verie Angels were amazed at 1. Coniunction of God and man 2. Of a Mother and a Virgin 3. Of Faith and the heart of man to beleeue this Q. What is the greatest of these coniunctions A. The first coniunction is wonderfully great wherein is conioyned earth and God Maiestie and infirmitie so much vilenesse and so much puritie for nothing is more pretious then God nothing more vilde then durt ● Nothing lesse wonderfull for by the eare of man was it neuer heard nor by the heart of man euer conceiued that a virgin should bring forth and become a Mother and that there should bee a Mother that should yet remaine a vir-Virgin The third is inferior to both first and second but not lesse strong that mans heart should haue power to beleeue this Q. How many seuerall wayes since the beginning of the world hath God brought foorth man A. Foure wayes according to Anselmus which are these 1. A man without the help of either man or woman as Adam 2. A woman out of man without the helpe of woman as Eue. 3. By both man and woman according to the common course of Nature 4. Of woman wit hout man as Christ. Q. By the coniectures of the learned for how many thousand of yeares from the Creation was the world ordained to continue A. Sixe thousand yeares because that as in 6. dayes the world and all that therein is was created and so God rested the seuenth so thereupon it is probably collected that in 6000. yeares which are but as 6. dayes in Gods account it shall againe be dissolued after which shall follow an euerlasting Sabaoth of rest of this opinion were many of the Fathers and also other more modern writers as that there should be two thousand yeares before the Law and two thousand yeares vnder the Law and two thousand yeares vnder the Gospell Q. But of this what shall I determine A. Let this Doctrine then suffice thee and all other good Christians that wee are religiously to expect the end of the world and comming of Christ and so dayly expecting prepare our selues thereafter but not curiously to prie into those hidden and vnreuealed secrets not imparted to men or Angels Q. Why almost among all Nations is the name of God expressed in 4 letters A. The learned doe agree that this is done partly from the imitation of the Hebrewes but more especially from the meere prouidence of God which otherwise could not bee as among the Latins it is Deus the Aegyptians Theut the Persians Syro the Hebrewes Adny the Greekes Theos the Arabians Alla the French Dieu the Germans Gott And withall to signifie that as his name consists of 4 letters so his mercie hath a relation therevnto in that he will haue his elect gathered vnto him from out of the foure quarters of the world Q. What are those things that cannot be defined A. The Schoolemen affirme God for his exceeding formosity and beauty Sinne for the exceeding deformitie and loathsomnesse the first matter for the exceeding informitie an● inexistency Q. Which number is the most vitall among men A. Eight because 8. soules were only preserued in the Arke and 8. only in the Scripture mentioned to be raised from death to life Q. Since Adam and Methusalem liued 900. and odde yeares why did God neuer suffer any to accomplish 1000. A. The most of the learned are of opinion that this is not without some deep mystery and which may be partly because a 1000. yeares hath a type of perfection God neuer suffered any to fulfill it to shew that there is no absolute perfection in this world Q. What is man and his perfection in this world A. Man in this world is as he were the center or epitome of all creatures for seuerall creatures liue in seuerall elements as water-fowles and fishes in the water Birds in the ayre Beastes

vpon the earth But man enioyes all these with his head hee lookes vp to Heauen with his minde he lookes into Heauen with his feete hee walkes vpon the earth his armes keepe the ayre as the bird flyes with his eyes hee contemplateth heauen and earth and all sublunarie things hee hath an essence as other bodies produceth his seede as Plants his bones are like stones his blood like the springs in the channels of the earth his hayre like the grasse the ornament of the earth c. hee liues as a Plant flourisheth as a Tree for a man is a tree turned vpward his feete are like the boughes his head like the roote Beside some creatures are onely as Starres some are and liue as Plants some are liue and haue sense as Beasts some vnderstanding as Angels all these concurre in man Est viuit sentit intelligit Q. What three things are those that hee which often remembers shall seldome doe amisse A. That aboue there is an Eare that heares all an Eye that beholds all a Booke wherein all our offences are written Whereunto may likewise bee annexed as a second memento and not inferiour to the first being S. Anselmes obseruation vpon the last day Where at thy right hand shall thy sinnes be accusing At thy left hand infinite Diuels expecting Vnder thee the furnace of hell buruing Aboue thee an angry Iudge Within thee thy conscience tormenting Without thee the world flaming Where only the iust shall be saued Whence to flie it wil be impossible To continue still intollerable Therefore while time is preuent that that in time will bee for as one saith If it bee not preuented it will bee repented Q. Who was hee that neuer laughed but sometimes wept as we reade in the Scriptures A. Christ of whom we read that he three times wept 1. When Lazarus was dead 2. Ouer Ierusalem 3. Vpon the Crosse when he deliuered vp his spirit with cryes and teares Q. There bee foure duties wee chiefly we and among all other are especially bound to pay and which be they Debemus Deo timorem Patriae amorem Parentibus honorem Proximo fauorem To God feare To our Country Loue. To our Parents Honour To our Neighbour fauour A Rule for our Life So Learne as if Thou shouldst liue alwayes so Liue as if Thou shouldst die to morow Suspice coelum despice mundum respice finem Looke vp to heauen despise the world respect thine end Q. There are three especially vnhappy in the Law of the Lord and who are those A. 1. He that knowes teacheth not 2. He that teacheth and doth not 3. He that is ignorant and yet learneth not Q. Was there any writing before the floud preserued notwithstanding the Deluge after it A. T is answered We haue no writing before the flo●d yet S. Iude doth somewhat insinuate of the writing of Henoch and Iosephus and others write that he erected two pillars the one of bricke and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the twofold destruction of the world the one by water the other by fire which by Tradition was preserued to the dayes of the Apos●les Q. What was the sentence according to the opinions of the learned that Christ wrote with his finger in the dust of the pauement of the Temple A. Some thinke it was the same that he spake Hee that is innocent let him throw the first stone at her others thinke it was this Festucam in oculo cernis trabem in tuo non vides Thou seest the mote in thy brothers eye but not the beame in thine owne Q. What Booke did Samuel write besides those two in Scripture that beare his name A. A Booke of the office and institution of a King Q. What Bookes did Salomon write beside those extant in Canonicall writ A. Salomon wrote three thousand Parables and fiue thousand songs besides that ingens opus of the nature ofal Herbes Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hyssop vpon the wall al destroyed by the Babylonians at the destruction of the Temple Q. Whether God created hurtfull creatures as Scorpions Serpents and such like A. It is answered there are some that seeme euill vnto vs which yet are not simply euill of themselues for no substance is euill of it selfe and the Scripture teacheth vs that Serpents were created among other creatures yet God pronounceth that all were good but that some creatures are now hurtfull to man that is not to be attributed to the first creation but to the second after the lapse or fall of man who if he had persisted in his dutie to God no creature should haue beene offensiue vnto him but ouer them he should haue borne a willing subiection For God made nothing euill neither doth he make sicknesse barrenesse lamenesse or the like but they rather haue deficient then efficient causes as the want of health his good creature is the cause of sicknes the withdrawing of light the interposition of darkenes and so of the like Q. What name was that among the Iewes so highly reuerenced that it was only lawfull for the Priests to name it and that but at the solemne festiuals A. The name Iehouah a word consisting but of seuen letters and yet of al the fiue vowels according to this verse Quinque simul iunctis constas vocabilus vna Dictio est magno maius in orbe nihil Fiue vowels ioynd together make a name In Heauen or Earth none greater then the same Q. What of all other are held to bee things of the greatest difficultie in Scripture to beleeue and of the greatest opposition to sence to conceiue A. Some thinke the creation of the world some the conseruation thereof and all creatures therein some the Incarnation of the Sonne of God others the resurrection of the flesh Besides these there are some that thinke Noes Arke and the vnion and preseruation of so many diuers creatures in it so many moneths fed ordered and at last safely deliuered out Q. In how many chapters doth consist the Canon of the old Testament A. In 777. The Iewish Rabbins haue collected to bee in the Bookes of the Law verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. In Haggai 8064. In the Bookes of Apocripha chap. 173. In the new Testament chap. 260. Malachy which was the last of the Prophets stands as the Porch betweene the Old and New Testament whereat as Tertullian saith Iudaisme ends and Christianitie begins Q. Where was God before hee made the world A. Saint Austin notes this as vain curiositie to enquire as it is to demaund what he did before hee made the same and yet to giue the curious some satisfaction to the first he answers that God dwelt in himselfe at himselfe and was God to himselfe and for the second he was not idle in that he chose vs before the world and purposed in himselfe the creation of all things But hee that will farther busie himselfe to prie into this Arke how all things could

layes hold vpon Christs mercies and euen whilest it is called to day and hee may bee found that bore all our infirmities vpon his crosse O Lord saith S. Bernard I may walke about the heauen and the earth the sea and the dry land but I shal find thee no where so soon as on the crosse there thou feedst there thou sleepst c. And as he further addeth so may euery sinner in this kind concerning his vnworthinesse and his sinnes either to seeke or finde him Non sum laeta seges lolium sum treste sedero Me tamen in messem collige Christe tuam English No fruitfull field am I no blessed wheate But cursed Cockle to weede out not eate Yet though I am this out cast lost sold To sinne yet Lord reduce me to thy fold Q. VVhat is the carelesse liuer compared vnto and most fitly A. To him that seeing his face in the glasse goes away and either forgets his deformitie or cares not to amend it A good and short rule to meditate Quid sis quid fueris quid eris semper meditaris Alwayes meditate what thou art what thou wast what thou shalt be The yong mans question to the old man concerning life and what it is to liue Dic venerande senex humanum viuere quid sit The old man answereth Principium vitae dolor est dolor exitus nigens Sic medium dolor est viuere quis cupiat English The beginning of mans life is griefe and misery the end of it griefe and misery and the middle noting but griefe and misery which conioynes both the middle and end and makes one compleate masse of sorrow of all of which we may say as one saith VVhat ioy to liue on earth is found VVhere griefe and cares do still abound And therefore the more firmely to fixe this exhortation againe he sayth yong men heare me an old man that beeing a yong man heard old men and haue both by relation and experience found the truth hereof Q. What sinne is that which by making Q. What sin is that which by making others contemptible in a mans own eyes makes his owner contemptible in the eyes of God A. Pride a sin so much beaten against by the learned of all ages that it is admired how it hath preserued a life so flourishing to these times of ours A Pythy aenigma whereof to that purpose is here infixed O SVPER Be Mors SVPER Te Cur SVPER Bis Deus SVPER Nos Negat SVPER Bis vitam SVPER nam Englished O proud man Death is aboue thee Why wilt thou be proud Seeing God aboue vs Denies to the proud The life aboue Further motiues for humility If these deiect thee not then consider a little further with me whither thy life will leade thee which is to death and whither death will carry thee but to iudgement But before we come to speake of the iudgment let vs a little consider death Mors antror sū retror sū considerata Death considered backwards and forwards Mors solet innumeris morbis abrūpere vita M Omnia mors rostro deuorat ipsa fu O Rex princeps sapiēs seruus stultus miser aege R Sis quicunque belis paluis et vmbra eris S Englished The many sorrows that are heirs to breath And twins adioyn'd to it are freed by death With whose impartial sith the wise the iust Princes kings are al mowed down to dust Q. What is there concerning the last iudgement Iudicabit iudices iudex genera lis Ibi nihil proderit dignitas papa lis Siue sit episcopus siue Cardina lis Reus condēnabitur nee dicetur qua lis Ibi nihil proderit multa allega re Neque accipere neque replica re Nee ad Apostolicam sedem appella re Reus condemnabitur bene sciens qua re Cogitate miseri qui qualis es t is Quid in hoc iuditio dicere potes tis Quo nec erit codici locus nec diges t is Christus Iudex Demō actor reustes t is Englished Before this Iudge all Iudges must appeare Despight their greatnesse dignitie or place For to be iudgd as they haue iudged here VVhere feare nor friendship Iustice shall out face Excuses there to alledge will but vaine As to appeale vnto the sea of Rome For there the guiltie though he much doe fame Shall not peruert his iustice nor his doome VVeigh then must wretched man thine estate How in this iudgement thou-maist stand vpright Where shall no booke be opened to relate But euen the conscience shall it selfe indight Q. What shall be the last words that shal be spoken in this world A. Come ye blessed Go ye cursed c. Aspera vox ite sed vox benedicta venite Ite malis vox est apta venite bonis Frō which bitter word I pray with S. Bern. Deliuer me O Lord in that day Q. What language according to the coniectures of some learned shall we speake in the world to come A. The Hebrew a language that Christ himself spake in this world and the most ancient most sacred of all other and which was not changed at the confusion of Babel the next wherto is the Greeke as most rich then the Latin most copious Q. Which of al the Psalmes of Dauid is the longest and which the shortest A. The shortest is the 117. the longest the 119. the one cōsisting of 175. ver reckonning 4. lines where the meeter ends to a verse as the other of 2. stanzes Q. Which of all the Psalmes of Dauid is the most mournfull compassionate A. The Psalme 77. Q. What Psalme is that the wicked nay the verie diuels themselues according as Athanasius writeth tremble and quake to heare reade or recited A. 68. Psalme Let God arise and see his enemies scattered How many Innes or lodging did the Son of God vse in this world Prima domus Christi fuit alnus virginis almae Altera praesepe cruxtertia quarta sepulchrum Englished Our Sauiours first house was the Virgins wombe Second his stall third crosse and fourth his tombe testifieth vnto another that it waxeth olde as doth a Garment or the birth of a woman and experience it selfe findes that both in the fruitfulnesse strength and operation of hearbes plants and vetigables the defect and decay whereof is dayly seene and the lessening of the operation and virtue most sensibly perceiued in the languishing dolor of many incurable diseases Q. Wherefore doe the Iewes breake the glasse in which the bride and bridegroome drinke A. To admonish them that all things are transitorie and brittle as that glasse and therefore they must bee moderate in their pleasures Q. Wherefore haue all Iewes a ranke smell or savour A. Some thinke because they are of a bad digestiō others think because they vse not labour nor exercise but liue by vsury some think the wrath of God vpon them the immediate cause howsoeuer they haue bin a people strangly dispersed ouer the face

of the earth slaughtered tormented in al coūtries France Spaine Portugall Germany and England some of their offences were washing clipping the kings coyne circūcising stealing of christian children pricking them full of holes for their blood which they cōceited wold cure the leprosie ranke smel both of their breath skin In king Iohns time they were fined at 1000. marks a man vpon penalty of not payment to lose their teeth an old Iew had 6. of his teeth pulled out because he refused to pay his fine Many 1000. of them were slaughtered in diuers kingdomes vpon a rumour spred that they had poysoned all the wells in those countries and where euer they liue at this day among Christians they liue in subiection and slauery to them they most hate Q What country in the world is the most desolate and solitarie A. The countrey of the Sodomites where Sathan wanne so much ground that whereas according to Strabos description stood 13. cities scituate vpon one of the most fruitfull soyles in the whole earth euen a second Eden or garden of Paradise for pleasure beauty whence sprong those clustering grapes from those vines of Engeddi so renowned in Scripture stands not now one of those cities to magnifie her selfe aboue her fellowes but all with Sodome the Lady of them all desolated and destroyed not one stone left vppon another nor no other witnesse of their somtimes being more then the dry smell of fire brimstone the heauy iusticers of God that destroyed thē for the fruit of that vine that made glad the heart of man in thē peruerted from his true vse to sin and drūkēnes are only found now apples of a beautious appearance but touch them and they are but ashes and of a sulphurous sauour an ayre of so poysonous a vapour aboue that as Historiographers write stifles the fowles that fly ouer it that they fall downe dead and the fishes likewise in that dead sea vnder it poysoned as they fall in or flote from the siluer streames of Iordan that thence emptie themselues into that sulphurous lake There are foure kinde of men that lay clayme to their owne or others and but one rightly and these are they 1. The first saith that which is mine is thine and that which is thine is mine and this is the Ideot 2. The second sayth that which is mine is mine and that which is thine is thine and this is the indifferent man 3. The third saith that which is mine is thine and that which is thine is thine owne and this is the godly man 4. The fourth saith that which is thine is mine that which is mine is mine owne and this is the wicked man Christ all and without Christ nothing Possidet ille nihil Christum qui perdidit vnum Perdidit ille nihil Christum qui possidet vnum Q. What doe wee owe vnto our neighbour A. Three things that is to say nostrum nosse in consiliis nostrum posse in subsidiis nostrum velle in desideriis To counsell to assist to desire his good Three things are most precisely necessarie for euery Christian man and what they are Faith without the which we cā not please God A good name without the which we cā not please our neighbour A good cons. without the which we cā not please our selues Of the latter which one writes O vita secura vbi est conscientia pura O life secure that hath the conscience pure Q Why do yong men many times say they are yonger then they are and old men they are older then they are A. This doth youth that hee may seeme to preserue the flower of his youth the longer this doth age to regaine more reuerence and authoritie but either foolishly Q. Hee that learnes from youth who doth he resemble A. He that eats grapes before they are ripe drinks wine before it be setled Q But who doth hee resemble that drawes his precepts from old men A. He that eates ripe grapes and drinks old wine for seniores sunt saniores incipientes insipientes And likewise Quae laboriosa fuere inuentuti studia ea suntiucūda senectuti otia Whose studies were not painfull in youth their pleasures are more perfect in age and truely she lends the more nourishment whē to the other but as Bastards she withdraweth it from them Q. Why are Cats and Whelps brought forth blinde A. Because that drawing neere to their maturity and ripenesse they wound and pierce the Matrixe with their clawes wherupon by their Dams they are hastily and imperfectly cast forth before their time Q. Why blood issues afresh from an old member or wound many dayes before made and dryed vp the murderer approching neere vnto it A. Our Naturalists obserue diuers Naturall causes to the effecting of the same which for their vncertainty wee meddle not withal But thus conclude that murther shall not bee concealed or vnreuenged and to that ende that blood of the slaughtered cries for vengeance at the hands of God which God so regarding by that meanes answeres to approue to man what often seemeth doubtfull Q VVhy doth the affections of Parents runne vpwards to their children and not their children run downewards to them A. Euen as the sap in the root of a tree ascends into the branches thereof and from the branches returnes not into the root againe bu runs out from thence into seed so parents loue their children but children so loue not their parents but their affections runs forward to a further procreation wherby it comes to passe that a father with more willingnesse brings vp ten children then ten children in his want sustaines one father Q How is it that there be many more women in the world then men A. Some thinke because women are exempted from the warres from the seas imprisonment and many other troubles and dangers of the land to be a reason sufficient So others likewise there are that thinke this may be a reason because in the whole course of Nature the worst things are euer most plentifull to which effect Plynie tels a Story of a certaine field-mouse that euery moneth brings forth thirty when the Elephant a creature of vse and seruice is three yeeres in trauell with one Questions of the Earth Q. How many miles is the earth in circuit A. It is vncertaine and cannot rightly bee defined for as the Lord saith who hath measured the earth yet the Mathematicians Astrologiās are of opinion that it is 4. times 5400. miles but howsoeuer in respect of the Heauens they conclude it but a point where euery Star in the eight spheare is esteemed bigger then the whole circumference thereof where if the body of the earth should bee placed in the like splendor it would hardly appeare yet as saith a Father we make this little so great a matter so admiring this miserable dust on which not onely wee that are but dust wormes do creepe but also many other wormes

sences are described A. Gen. 27. vers 4. seeing ver 18. hearing ver 21. touching ver 25. tasting ver 27. smelling The 5. windowes of the soule of which one thus writes S Lucem occulis video varios discerno colores H Consona me iuvat offendit simphonia discors S Fragrāti oblector visioso offendor ●dore T Insipidum sapidum quid sit me indice constat T Sentio quid Callidum aut Gellidum quid molle quid asprum The seeing light colors doth discry The hearing tunes and discords doth arraine The smelling odors sweet and sowre doth try The taste respects the Cookes both art and paine The touching hard and soft and hot and cold Through these 5. windowes doth the soule behold Q What is the least member in the body and yet darkens the whole man A. The eye lidde Q. Is the most perfect eyesight sometimes deceiued A. Oftentimes and assoone as any other of the sences for example cast a straight staffe into a troubled water and ●t appeares to the eye as crooked and wauering Stand vpon the shore thou seest the ship goe stand vpon the ship why then thy eye will tell thee the shore goes and the ship stands stil. So the head being distempered thou shalt thinke fixt things moue and one flame two Q What is the the swiftest of all things in the world A One answered the Sun because his speed is such that in a day he compasseth the whole circuit of the earth But another replyed that thought was swifter then that because it trauelled the whole world in a moment Q. VVhat foure euils are those that chiefly trouble a house Sunt mala terna domus imber mala femina fumus Quartū cū mane surgunt pueri sine pane A smoke a storm a contentious wife Three ils are found that tire a husbands life To which a 4. is by the prouerbe sed When children crye for hunger wanting bread Of Martin Luther and P. Melancthons eloquence and sweetnesse Diuisae his operae sed mens suit vnica pauit Ore Lutherus oues flore Melancthon apes Twixt Luther and Melancthon so long gone There works were diuers though there faith was one For Luther soundnes loded by degrees His sheepe as did Melanctons flowers his bees Q. VVhat meanes this speech nourish not the whelpe of the Lion A. It giues to vnderstand that wee are not to cherish any power aboue the Law nor to foster that strength that may afterwards oppresse zs. Q. Why do they that are troubled with the Gowt euer loue to talke most A. Because they cannot runne with with their feete they loue to run with their tong For the benefit of any mēber we are depriued of hauing two of them wee esteeme the other in the reckoning of them both as concerning the eye no man desires to be blinde or to haue but one eye yet if any mischāce should befall the one wee esteeme the other the dearer as it follows in the v. 9 Non habeo nec habere velim quod sitamen ad sit Noncareā craesi si mihi dētur opes Mine eye I would not sell for drosse Thogh Craesus wealth repayrd my losse None more blind the Bayard as the saying is nor none more forward to venture then he that least knowes the dangers that he enterprises as by this example is made manifest The trees on a time went forth to select them a king and in their progresse they came to the Oliue tree and sayde vnto it raigne ouer vs and be king but it refused saying shall I forsake my fatnesse wherewith I am suppled and man is nourished no I wil not with these and the like reasons refused their offer Then they came to the figge tree and sayd raigne ouer vs who answered shall I leaue my sweetnesse and fruites more delicate then the hony of Hybla Then they came to the Vine and shee refused saying shall I forgoe my sweet shade and comfortable clusters that comfort and make glad the heart of man it shall not bee Then spake the Bramble let me be king ouer you that I may curbe you with sharpe lawes thus what the good refused the worst offers to take vppe and embrace for none are more ambitious then the vnderseeming as in the proposition before declared Q What waters of all other are the most deceitfull A. The teares of a woman the which in the blessed weeper are called the bloud of the soule Q. VVhat creatures of all other are the most wanton A. Insatiate women acording to the Poet● Gallin● Gallus ter qui ni sufficit vnus At ter quin● viri vix sufficit mulieri One Cocke sufficeth twise fiue hen Scarce one lewd woman twise 5. men Q. VVhat women of all other are the most fruitfull A. Beggars wiues that of all other one would think should be most barrē Q. Of imperious women what did Cato report A. Cato sayde our wiues rule the common wealth for wee gouerne the people and our wiues gouerne vs. To which purpose Themistocles said O wife the Athenians rule the Gretians I the Athenians thou me thy son thee Therfore in my opinion he spoke not amis that sayde hee neuer knew common wealth nor priuate family well gouerned where the hen crew and the cock held his peace for though it be sayde of women that they are so able of tongue that 3. of their clappers will make a reasonable noyse for a market yet though they talke they should not commaund or at least wise should not gouerne Q. Whether was the night or the day first A. Thal. Milesius answereth the night was before the day as in the creation is manifest so the euening and the morning were the first day From which notwithstanding wee vary in our opinions as preferring the day before it and for because the euening is but the latter part of the day which must precede it Q. How many colours are there in the Rainebow A. Various colours but two especially most apparant a watry and a fiery colour which two colours expresse two iudgements the one of water past in beginning of the world and the other of fire to come in the end thereof Q. Which is the longest day in all the yeere A. S. Barnaby answereth that which hath the shortest night Q. How many are the properties of good wine A. As many as there are senses in mans body for to euery sense should good wine haue a relation 1 To the sight good colour purenesse and cleerenesse 2 To the hearing being powred forth a sparkling and speaking noise 3 To the taste sweetnesse 4 To the touching coldnesse 5 To the smell sweetnesse Q. How many are the veines in the body of man A. As many as there are dayes in the yeere of which one thus writeth That euery thing we doe may vaine appeare We haue a veine for each day in the yeere Q. How many bones are there in the body of man A. It is answered

yeare by a 11. the product whereof if it bee vnder 30. is the Epact but if it be aboue 30. then diuide the product by 30. and the remainder shall bee the Epact The knowledge of the Epact serueth to finde out the Age of the Moone The Goulden Number and Dominicall letter change the first of Ianuarie and the Epact the first of March Easter day neuer falleth lower then the 22. of March neuer higher then the 25. of April Shroue Sunday hath his Range betweene the first of February and the seuenth of March. Whit●onday betweene the 10. of May and the 13 of Iune What is the Equinoctiall and wherefore is it ● so called THe Equinoctiall is a great Circle which being in euery part equally distant from the two Poles of the World diuideth the Spheare in the very middest thereof into equal parts and therefore it is called of some the Cincture or girdle of the World It is called the Equinoctiall because that when the Sunne toucheth this Circle which is twice in the yeare it maketh the day and the night of an equall length throughout the world which Equinoctiall happeneth in the Spring and in Autumne about the 11 of March and the 13. of September Q. What are those 12. signes or Images placed before our Calenders about the Anatomy of mans body A. Those 12. Signes or Images are 12. starres euery one of them containing many starres whose influences are very powerfull ouer humane bodies Q What makes the full Moone and whence proceedeth her Eclipse A. Her opposition against the Sunne makes her full but her Eclipse or darkening caused when the Sunne is opposite vnto her diametally and the Earth in the middest betweene them both which beeing thicke and not transparent casting his shadow to that point which is oposit to the place of the Sun will not suffer the Moone to receiue any light from the Sunne without whose supply shee is alwayes a darke body for from it she borroweth all her light Of what substance bee the Starres THe starres bee of the same substance that the heauens be wherin they are placed differing only from them in thicknesse which demensitude makes them more apt to receiue and retaine the light of the Sunne which thereby become visible to our sight for the heauens themselus being pure thinne and transparent and without colour is not visible as the Starres which shine aswell in the day as in the night although not perceiued by reason of the Sunnes greater light Q. What motion haue the starres A. The selfe same motion that the Heauens haue wherein they are placed which is as some say by the primum mobile or first mouer turned by God himselfe as euery one of the rest by his proper intelligence and whereas the 7 Planets or wandering Starres doe change their places now here now there that is not by theyr owne proper motion but by the motion of the heauens wherein they are placed for a starre beeing of a round shape hath no members to walk from one place to another but only by the motion of the Heauen wherein they are fixed Q. What comparison is therein theyr greatnesse betweene some starres and the earth A. Though their farre distance of them from the earth makes their raye approach our eye in a sharpe pointed Angle wherby they seem to our sight and iudgement no broder then our hand breadth Yet is euery fixed Starre farre greater in compasse then the whole earth Euery wandring starre likewise is bigger then the same Luna Venus and Mercury excepted Sol is bigger then the Earth 166 Times Saturne is bigger then the Earth 95 Times Iupiter is bigger then the Earth 91 Times Mars is bigger then the Earth 2 Times Venus lesser then the Earth 32 Times Mercury least of all and is contained of the Earth 3143 Times The Nature of these 7. Planets or wandring starres Saturne is colde and drie Iupiter hot and moist Mars extream hot and drie Sol hot and somwhat drie Venus temperately cold and moist Mercurie of a changeable Nature Luna cold moist Of the seuen Ages of Mans life with the predominancy of these 7. Planets or wandring starres in euery one of them The Astrologians haue diuided mans life according to the Diuision of the World into 7. Ages ouer euerie which Age one of these Planets or starres haue their Regiments assigned 1 The first Age is called Infancie which beginneth with the first childhood and hath his continuance for the space of 7. yeares ouer which Luna or the Moone raigneth as may wel appeare by their moysture● agreeing with the influence of that Planet Queene ouer seas and flouds and children 2 The second Age is Childhoode which goes onward 7. yeares more and continueth till the 14. yeare of their life ouer which Mercurie is assigned Patron for then participating of their Regents influence Children are inconstant yet of some comprehending Capacity some what inclineable to learne 3 The third age proceedeth forward 8. yeares and is tearmed I●●entu● youth or Stripling age it wanders betweene 14. 22. ouer which season Venus is predominant for then they are amorous lustfull loathsome of childish sollies and inclineable to more dangerous vices 4 The fourth Age beginneth at 22. and endeth 34. containing 12. yeares In the which station the Epithite or Denomination is a yong mā ouer this age the Planet Sol is chiefe Regent in which season reason discretion like the beams thereof begin to spread forth to enlighten the vnderstanding and to exhale and sucke vp the thicke mists of ignorance follie and then begins a man to know he is a man 5 The fift Age is called Virile or Mans Age and that proceedes where the other ends continueth forward sixteene yeares ouer which season Mars is chiefe gouernour Now in this time a Man begins to bee couetous churlish chol●erick c. 6 The sixt Age runs forward 12. yeares more and leaues him not till he hath numbred 62. this age is tearmed olde age though his toe touch but the heele thereof Now ouer this Iupiter is predominant and hee inclineth to Iustice moderations and Religion and all other actions of goodnesse and piety 7 The seuenth and last age continueth forward 18 yeares it leaues a Man at 80 in the clawes of weaknesse and infirmity For age it selfe without sicknesse which seldome liues at ods there with is an infirmity to this decrepit Age few creepe to by reason of the Planet Saturne which is most melancholy and slow of all other thereby his euill influence more inforcing a man to decline and droope become froward cold and melancholy then otherwise he should Likewise these foure diuisions of Mans life are compared in this manneer to the 4. Seasons of the yeare 1 His Infancy to the Spring hote and moist 2 His Youth to the summer hote and drie 3 His Manhoode to Autumne cold and moist 4 Senectus or olde age to Winter colde and drye Q. Why did men liue longer