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Counsellor Manners, his last legacy to his son enriched and embellished with grave adviso's, pat histories, and ingenious proverbs, apologues, and apophthegms / by Josiah Dare.
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Dare, Josiah, 17th cent.
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without a skilful Pilot. And furthermore take along with thee these few advices and necessary cautions which I shall give thee First be grave sober and reserved Momus found great fault that the great Creator had not made men with Windows in their Breasts that men might have seen into their insides and a bold Atheist he was that thus durst impeach the wisdom of God but sure I am 't is a very grand folly for any man to make as it were such a Window in his own Breast especially when he Travels into foreign Countries the way to put by those mischiefs which may befall thee in thy Travels is to lye at a close guard and not be like Cristal for every one to see through thee If thou travellest into Italy munite thy self there from three things most especially The Men. The Women The Inquisition For the Men there are very jealous and vindicative the Women unchast and allective and very much affected with the English above all men and the Inquisition is like Hell from whence there is no Redemption to avoid which in all those Countries where that is set up take heed of raising disputes concerning matters of Religion for this will make thee guilty of as rash a madness and as huge an imprudence as that of the Quaker who resolved to go from London to Rome to confute and convert the Pope If thou thinkest him to be Antichrist let no man however hear thee call him so in his own Territories and Dominions Learn more wit of that Collier who durst not bid a Fig for my Lord Mayor till he had got beyond Temple-Bar which is out of the Limits of his jurisdiction One of our Countrymen intending in his Travels to visit Rome was highly commended for his rare parts and abilities in all manner of Learning to his Holiness who was then by birth an Englishman who upon his commendatory Letters the more to shew honour and respect due to the merits of the Gentleman went himself in person to shew him the Vatican where after many Discourses and the turning over of many Books he took him aside into one of the Criel Windows and conjured him to tell him ingeniously his thoughts of the Pope assuring him with many deep promises and protestations that he should not be prejudiced by it in the least whereupon the Gentleman freely told him that he thought the Pope to be a great Wen growing in the Nape of the Churches neck which some foolish people mistook to be the head of it This was a very bold but withall a very dangerous resolution of the Question notwithstanding all ingagements passed for his security since it is a Maxim amongst all of the Romish perswasion Nullam fidem tenendam esse cum Haereticis That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks My last Advice in the point concerning Travelling into other Countries shall be this be sure before thou visit other Nations and Kingdoms to acquaint thy self well with the knowledge of that in which thou hast been born and bred for it will be a great shame to be inquisitive into what is done abroad in other Countries and to be wholly ignorant how things stand at home in thine own for this were to do as the Lamiae who carried their Eyes shut up in a Box when they were at home and put them into their Heads only when they went abroad XCVI To conclude be useful where thou dost live that those who live about by and with thee may both want and wish for thy presence still Be temperate and sober at thy Meals and Compotations and look to thy Mouth for there commonly most diseases enter and more graves are made with mens teeth than their hands and the Knife kills more than the Sword When thou art invited to an extraordinary etertainment that thou mayest not be tempted to exceed the bounds of temperance and sobriety Carve or Discourse he who Carves is kind to two he that Discourses is kind to all Scorn no mans love though he be of never so mean degree that person deserves to be bitten by that Dog whom he will not stroak when he kindly sawns upon him Much less make any one though never so much below thy self justly thy Enemy remembring that Fleas can bite as well as Lions and that Bees can sting as well as Serpents Pitch thy Behaviour low thy projects high Be humble to thy Superiours gentle to thine Equals affable to thine inseriours courteous to all Be not light to follow every mans opinion like a young Spaniel that quests at every Bird that rises before him Etiam ab errore facilè discedere levitatis est saith Scaliger to discede over easily even from an Errour argues too much levity yet would I not have thee perversly obstinate in thy own courses or opinions it is the Character of a Fool to abhor instruction hard Wax will never take any impression and Wisdom will never commit Burglary to break in upon those who lock and Bolt their doors against her though a man cast an empty Bottle into the Ocean yet if it be close corkt it will still be but an empty Bottle Amongst all those Treatises which may leave thee Wiser than they found thee I commend to thy frequent reading the Proverbs of King Solomon and his Ecclesiastes or the Preacher Finally my Son serve love and fear God to whose Grace Mercy and Protection I leave thee And so farewel until we meet in another World FINIS Errata Which together with some smaller literal faults the Courteous Reader is desired to excuse and with his Pen to amend Page 5. line 17. read Patrizare for Patricare p. 20. l. 24. r. quoque for quique p. 27. l. 16. r. not for no. l. 28. r. the Hen had untr 〈…〉 there for he had untrust a point there p. 28. l. 12 〈…〉 â—onabus nostris for Nebulonibus nostris Other Faults there may be but they are not worth speaking of and therefore I shall not speak much of them But let the Reader take this for good advice and as a general rule never to read any Book whatsoever until he has corrected the faults if they are collected in an Errata for so he shall prevent the committing any himself LICENSED October 26. 1672. R. L.
valiant Captain Achilles that he did more abhor lying than death remember how that the Cretans for lying became a by-word to the whole world much less do thou add to thy lying execrable wishes Munster writeth of Popiel the Second King of Poland who had ever this word in his mouth if it be not true I would the Rats might eat me but shortly after being at a Banquet he was so fiercely assailed by Rats that neither his Guard Fire or Water could preserve him from them Neither be thou like those Jesters who practice lying and telling strange inventions of their own which are most false to please for a time the Hearers nor like those who devise and spread false News and account it good sport to deceive the simple but be thou slow to tell News and Tales whatsoever thou seest or hearest of others either meddle not with it but strive to be quiet and do thine own business or if it so concern thee that thou must needs speak of it take heed that thou do not mistake any part of it many things are so spoken that they may be taken well or ill yea and what can be said but some one or other may turn it into an evil Meaning as the Spider that out of the best Flowers will suck some Poison but be thou of the mind to take every thing the best way and as it were by the right handle knowing that it is the Devils property to make the worst of every thing Thou mayest be deceived in what thou hearest another speak because thou canst not see the Heart and Meaning of the Person much more in that which thou hast of him by Hear-say for Reports are commonly very faulty and seldom hold truth in all points and those that told it thee are apt to deny it again if thou hast not witness and so thou mayest run thy self into great trouble therefore imitate Epimenides the Painter who after his return from Asia being enquired of News answered I stand here to sell Pictures not to tell News Neither follow thou the example of vain Travellers and Praters who meerly out of vanity and because they would say something set such things as they have seen or heard upon the Tenter-hooks stretching them most palpably beyond all credit or coining incredible things out of their own Mint that never before saw any light and have no more affinity with Truth than the opinion of Copernicus of the motion of the earth or that Relation of our Country-man of the New World in the Moon or of Domingo Gonzales and his flight thither upon the Wings of his Ganzas I have read of a Knight who shall be nameless that rendred himself ridiculous by this Means for using to make multiplying Glasses of what he in his long and great Travels had observed professed that he once conversed with a Hermite who was in the opinion of all men able to commute any Metal into Gold with a Stone he kept still hanging at his Girdle and being asked of what kind it was and not readily answering the witty Lord of Saint Albans standing by said he did verily believe it was a Whet-stone Make not Lies upon thy self as many do boasting vain-gloriously of themselves praising their knowledge and bragging of what great acts they have done as if they only were wise when alas it is well known they are otherwise such men may fitly be compared to the Bell in the Clock-house at Westminster which had this Inscription about it King Edward made me Thirty thousand and three Take me down and weigh me And more shall ye find me But when this Bell was taken down and weighed this and two more were found not to weigh twenty thousand Such vain-glory as this being like a Window Cushion specious without but stuft with Hay within or some such Trash wherefore when a Souldier bragged of a Wound in his Forehead Augustus asked him whether he did not get it when he lookt back as he fled XXVI Go not vauntingly and proudly as some who go as if they were the only men of their Country and speak and look very high and losty when they have scarce any home to go to or any thing to maintain their Highness and Lostiness imitating the Spaniards who are highly conceited of themselves great Braggers and extreamly proud even in the lowest ebb of Fortune which appeareth by the Tale of the poor Cobler on his death bed who commanded his eldest Son coming to him for his last Blessing to endeavour to retain the honour worthy so noble a Family also a Woman of that Country attended on by three of her Brats went a begging from door to door some French Merchants travelling that way and pitying her case offered her to take into their Service the bigger of her Boys but she proud though poor scorning as she said that any of her Lineage should endure an Apprentiship returned this answer that for ought she or any knew her Son simple as he stood there might live to be King of Spain such Braggadocios as these are like the Peacock who though he be hatched on a Dunghill yet is he the proudest of Birds Nay some of these are so proud that they are ashamed of their Parents resembling those Beasts who think themselves well hid if they can but hide their Heads never remembring Sir Thomas Moor who being Lord Chancellor in his time and consequently in an Office next and immediately to the King himself and having his own Father living and at that time but one of thâ— inferiour Judges of the Kings Bench that then was never went to Westminster Hall to sit in the Chancery there but he would go up to the Kings Bench where his Father then sate and there on his Knees would ask him blessing before a multitude of beholders so little was he ashamed of his Father though then in a far lower Condition than himself XXVII Take heed of being too ceremonious and complemental lest thou give others an occasion to think that thou art full of Craft because thou art full of Courtesie the bowings bendings and cringings of some resemble but such gestures as men use when they go about to catch â—otterils yet there are some Cereâ—â—â—â—es in giving men their due Titles of Honour according to their several Degrees either when we write to them or talk with them which we cannot omit without the imputation of being ill-bred thou must not write to a Knight or an Esquire thus To Mr. B. G. Knight or Esquire but must call the one Right-Worshipful the other Worshipful nor must thou stile a Lord Right Worshipful but Right Honourable or a King or Prince Right Honourable but in discourse thou shalt say to a King and it please your Majesty to a Prince and it like your Highness to a Lord and it like your Honour to a Knight or an Esquire and it like your Worship to an Arch-Bishop and it like your Grace to a Bishop and it please your