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earth_n	creature_n	heaven_n	world_n	8,020	5	4.5844	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66812	Witty apophthegms delivered at several times, and upon several occasions by King James, King Charls, the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas Moor ; collected and revised.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Selections. 1669.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Selections. 1669.; Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646. Selections. 1669.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Selections. 1669.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. Selections. 1669.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3237; ESTC R12699	69,627	178

what Law he hath for it and so we shall break the neck of the quarrel and so said the Lieutenant I shall be hanged by the neck for my labour Whereat the Marquess replyed What friends hast thou in the Garison The Lieutenant made answer I have a wife and a daughter then said the Marquess with some vehemence I protest unto thee if they hang thee I will marry thy wife and provide for thy daughter The Lieutenant replyed I had rather you would marry my daughter and provide for me I protest said the Marquess I will marry thy daughter and I will provide for thee an honourable grave but you shall be hanged first My Lord said the Lieutenant shall I bespeak my grave thou shalt said the Marquess then said the Lieutenant I will be laid in the vault in Ragland Church betwixt your father and your Grandfather and I pray God I may be hanged before I see you again and so flung out of the room leaving my Lord in a most merry vein as possibly could be who remembring himself sent him five pieces to bear his charges The Lieutenant being brought to the General at Monmouth the General dismissed him of his Guard and sent him to Hereford with an oath at his heels that he would hang him if there were no more men in England then the Lieutenant cryed out This makes for us I do but think how finely I shall lie between the two old Earls and how finely the old Earl will lie between my daughters two young legs the particulars whereof being brought to the Marquess the Marquess was not a little perplext between fear of having his new Mistris losing his old friend which he had run himself into between jest and earnest but the greatest sport of all was concerning the hopeful Lady Marquess who was ever and anon enquiring and asking many questions concerning the Marquess whom she never saw what manner of man he was how old whether he went with a staff or no What was the reason he kept his chamber so much and did not come abroad Sometimes what diseases he had and how long it was ago since his Lady died with many other necessary questions to be asked by a woman in her condition nevertheless it stood the Marquess upon to be sollicitous in the business being so prest between two strong Passions Love and Pity and so he sends immediately to Hereford where making some sport of the business there the Lieutenant at last was brought home to his Wife and Daughter who ever after was called my Lady Marquess 32. Discoursing before the Marquess concerning the error of the Manichees who held there were two causes of Heaven and earth viz. that the good and white God made the heaven and man from the middle upward and the black and evil God was the efficient cause of the earth and of man from the middle downwards that was but a foolish conceit said the Marquesse for Gods power and wisdom is shown and seen as well in an Ant as in an Elephant as well in a worm as in an Angel so his Godhead and might appears as well in the earth as in the heavens but methinks it had been a pretty fancy and not far from truth or reason if they had held that Heaven and Earth had been as man and Wife or male and female seeing the Heavens were made as the male part of the world by whose influence motion and dews the earth as the female part thereof out of her womb brings forth all necessary and living creatures 33. On a Discourse of Necromancy the Marquess thus delivered himself that as none can be Scholars in a School and not be subject to the Master thereof So none can study and put in practise the Circles and Art of Magick without committing a horrible defection from God 34. The Marquesse was of a disposition alwaies inclinable to charitable constructions which suffered him not to want excuses or fome cloak or other to throw over any mans imperfections There was a Gentleman of high desert who chanced in the Marquess his hearing to come under the lash of some mens ceasures Alas Gentlemen said the Marquess Will you have corn to grow without ch●…ffe or light to be without its adjoyning darkness or the sweetest hony without unsavoury wax or the pleasant wines or liquors without their Lees and Dregs As soon shall corn gr●… without chaffe as a man of his parts shal●… be free from vain gl●…ry worthless chaffe keeps the corn warm and vain glory fires him to all those brave atchieviments If you set a man on his horse le him have his spurs 35. It was ordinary with the Marquess to entertain Discourse with every man according to the condition and profession he was of and most commonly from the beginning of his Discourse you should never know what the end would be taking delight to deceive the expectation of his Auditor Upon a time there was presented unto him a Lawyer and he was informed hefore-hand how excellent a man he was in his profession the Marquess thought with himself how he might pose him and being brought in with other Gentlemen after they had dined he was presented unto the Marquess Sir said the Marquess I have received a very good character of you they say you are very learned in the Law I would very fain ask you one question Any thing my Lord said the Lawyer that lies within my poor ability I pray said the Marquess who was the first man that ever had a Dedimus potestatem granted unto him the Lawyer was so confounded that he knew not what to say for a long time at last he made a long and learned discourse concerning the original of that Writ and the Marquess gave him the hearing but when he had done he told him that hè came far short of the original thereof for Adam was the first that ever had fulness of power granted unto him viz. when God gave him power to subdue the earth and to have dominion over every living creature The Lawyer thankt his Lordship and told him that he thought the Law had not been so antient Antient said the Marquess there was the beginning of all your Courts of Justice but I see you are but a common Lawyer that cannot derive your Pedigree from thence 36. Aeneas Silvius said to which the Marquess assents That the Christian faith and Law though it had not been confirmed by miracles yet was most worthy to be received for the honesty therof 37. There was a new married couple presented before the Marquess the Bride a goodly proper woman her face well feitured an excellent eye she had but was pitifully disfigured with the small Pox the Marquess looking much upon her and saying nothing to her a long while we all knew that Silence was in labour for some notable Production at last he advanceth toward the young Bride and asked he Gentlewoman Do you know why it is said that God Almighty created