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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

the Gallowes if imprisonment Inne him not by the way Humane understanding followes high science slowly but fooles and women quest with Quando He cannot justly be deemed dishonest that putteth supposition to the proofe though with charge but he that knowes a thing to bee false and for wicked gaine leades others to repentance therein is a knave A bold foole hath great advantage in quiet ouer a sober wiseman for the foole accounts an earthquake but the earth's Morice-dance Thunder the Cloudes Colique the warrs a may-game fighting at sharpe a sport till hee bee beaten to better respects Take him for one of the unworthies that cannot endure the prayse of another In abstruse things arguments are endlesse obedience is better than Sacrifice Base sloathfull minds never thinke themselues satisfied for small panes The word good fellow as it is now senced by the vulgan imports a drunkard in a man a light huswife in a woman In our youth the senses bore the dominion but in our age the understanding should It is a poore back-biting stinking shift to caluminate authentique Authorities and Authors but plaine Roguerie to decurte or mispoint their writings Aproud man of all others should not be penurious for it engenders his hatred and due contempt Study reade practise and doe what can be to obtaine knowledge yet you shall finde an Ignorant will contemne all rather then lose the opinion of himselfe I am many times forc't by the lawes of hospitalitie to endure the hearing of goodmen calumniated but I beare it the easier because the servants of vice doe it In argument strive not too violently with an Obstinate for as staires mounts us to a chamber so must you graduate him An unlearned disputant is troublesome company but if angred very evill society ' and a sponge for defamatory intelligence Bookes are the best companions can bee for they keepe their passions inward and you neede not be troubled with them longer then you list or will A good booke should be read three times first to set his method secondly his matter thirdly to gather his instruction Anothers oppinion of thee concerns thee not so much as thine of thy selfe in which thou shouldest not bee partiall I never tooke a quicke answerer to have a great understanding for small things are sooner contracted then great We haue three things to doe in this world though some say but two viz. to avoide evill to doe good and things necessarie or indifferent Seest thou thy poverty and improsperitie makes enemies of thy former thought friends Faint not therefore for they were but outward friends not in ward and are like dogges that follow the meate not the men A prejudicate conce● workes like Yeast in a weake judgment Never trouble your selfe with anothers immagination or what hee speakes o● thee in secret for it is no● worth thy understanding unlesse hee durst speake it openly Hee that backbites other let him take care hee weare cleane linnen himselfe and keepe no company with women and doggs Point not at an others spots with foule fingers When I behold a man bravely accoutred a Lacedaemonian euen to the shoulders I thinke of Adams nakednesse and smile to see how For-like the world esteemes us more for the case then the carkase Passions are of diverse natures and choler the most unruly and untunable to all gentle societie which if you can command you are master of the captaine Disprayse by a foole Queane or Knave may stick like burs for the time but they pearce no further then the outside of the stookings and garments and are rather an honest mans comendation There 's secret poyson to the soule lurking in the bottome of great bowles of wine Men for the most part shake hands with sobrietie in the third cup of wine women in the second children in the first Bacchus and Venus are neere friends yet will Bacchus breake Venus her glasse when hee is much drunke A coniurer without learning showes his divell is but an asse or the spirit hee workes by an ignorant slave Drunkenesse is the gate to all vice or a paire of spectacles to see the Divell and his workes by Life cannot dye that which wee vulgarly call death is but dissolution of partes God his fire is life which may bee removed but cannot be extinguished That pleasure which is modest moderate and permanent is most to bee desired and highest to bee found A robust breeding makes a rough spirit and condition and is apter to anger then reformation There 's no telling a bred Seaman his errors aboordship or a drunkard hee is so when hee is so A voluptuous man will be master of his word that is hee will rather command it then it shall force him but a just man is a servant to his promise They are the proud indeed who overpasse the bounds of their calling and parts to challendge respect of others Our Appetites are Danaus daughters and our bodies their Tubbs Good objects stay and helpe the wandering of our mindes hence the Historicall use of pictures and holy Images are not unprofitable though Devotion sometimes overshoots the marke The cleanest of our clay houses have many durty corners which like Sluts wee loue not to looke upon till wee are chidden by affliction Men in Ancient time fought to preferre vertue vertuous men now silkewormes doung hath gotten the upper place A Flye with a candle does as a Foole with a fray and mony A Poet hath advantage of a true Historian for hee can fashion men as they should bee with invention onely the other ought to report them truely as hee finds them in many records Vaine boasting of knowledge showes emptinesse therein or vaine glory thereof He that steepes his Iest in his owne laughter is like him that swallowes his spettle but uncomely Ancient Heralds did denote the qualitie of deserts pretily and properly when they gave the field Sables to gownmen a field Gules to deserving Soldiers Argent and Or to men favoured in Courts of great Princes c. But now they sell monsters and cruell beasts to one another Few men weare in their coate Armours Lambes Doves and such harmlesse creatures but ravenous devouring and horrible beasts and birds which denotes that Pride is cruell and this invention is a child be got by warre A Serjant at law will endure the discharge of a great peece as stoutly as the proudest souldier of us all Sleepe of the body is the Image of its death and dreaming showes the soule is neither at home or needs sleepe A translator of bookes is but as one that deales anothers bread to all about him A translator an Anagrammatist are both in a narrow roome or entry cannot bestirre their witts if they deale truely Vulgar and meane witted people that meddle with the affaires of mighty Potentates resemble clownes and russettings in a Stage-play when they presume to sit in the play kings seat A students wife precizely fine and faire denotes her husband hath oft

trouble in his studies The Mother knowes best whether the child be like the father or no Lustfull people resemble those sharp-stomack't gluttons that take delight to often whet their knives and so weare them for the Bellies sake to the back A foole that tels some dull saltlesse jeast to hold company with wit crackers is like Aesops asse that imitated the fauning dogge It is musicke of the sphears to heare a wise and learned man discourse but a trouble to the eare and a burthen to the mind to heare an ignorant foole prattle Hee that hath valiantly approved himselfe in his youth is excused for answering swearing brabling darers in his age and hee that hath written well is excused for speaking much In our childhood we were fooles in our manhood we are servants of care in our age Porters to diseases Reprehend not thy friend too plainly unlesse thou knowest him wise else thou shalt find it unseasonable at all times An opticke multiplying Glasse is like a travelling young gallants thoughts or a vulgar Alchimists hopes both great through perspective Hee that strives to agrandize himselfe above his place shall finde envye lye lurking a th' wart his way and in Court it lies smiling too Souldiers and Saylors should bee the Godliest men of all other professions because so often exposed to danger and the saylor is reasonable at sea and cannot abide whistling but at Land they are both Vpzeefreeze Why should any bee immoderately covetous or unfittingly penurious who hath neither Childe nor a lease of his life You may more offend a Pedagogues disposition by breaking Priscians head then by wounding Reasons side with non-sence Lawiers because they are in the shipps poope neere the stirrage of the State thinke their places before the Martialists but soldiers know their precedence for they are in the force-castle the difference is the lawiers have often apparitions of good Angells when the soldiers many times are payed with crackt crownes Suppose our Thunder and lightning to bee one of the fairest dayes in Hell but the burning of Sodome and Gomorath their ordinary weather He that strives to live beyond his meanes and place puts a burthen upon his lives backe An usurer that lives upon eight in the hundred is like a pike that feeds and lives by devouring the smaller fish but the difference is when Death brings him to the dresser hee butters himselfe There is no presumption from the Center of the begger to the circular of the promoted rich if graduated by vertue and worthy deserts for vertue was the first promoter There are 3. sorts of honest men viz. your exchangeman for the bearing up of his credit your cautionarie for feare of lawes but your true honest man is hee that is so for it selfe Nature workes by her ordained quallitie on quantitie your Vniversitie Physition on forme by prescript but an empirike layes about him like a Fencer Libelling is but an itching of the wit but if hee be taken scratching hee smarts more for it then his reader profitts thereby A libeller of great Princes errors is like on throwes the snuffe of a candle amongst a heape of people which a wise and moderate man treades out When thou findest vanity beare too much dominion in thy humors thinke on thy Death judgment Heaven and Hell The ouer lavish talke of a thick-witted foole is like the roasting of a fatt goose much folly droppes into the dripping-pan of others eares It is no wisdome to refuse the fruits of August for the flowers of May that is to give Benefits for fayre words Vituperate no man to couer thine owne defects A striving affected quicknesse denores a giddie and unstable condition It is not materiall what men say but what Reason speakes in men Esteeme not so much what the societie bee you keepe as what the company is For company is the cloathes of your habit Prejudicate that most common lawes esteeme all quallities excepting his owne and ready mony as hee speakes French To deeme a Man by his actions and deeds is the certaine and unfailable way of judging Hee is not out of the estate of grace who chides himselfe for errors but hee who is caried by vice like a straw on a streame inconsiderately The rust of usury many times frets in the Childrens fortunes There is nothing proclaymes a mans wisdome more then the gouernment of his passions for fooles through the spectacles of fury see repentance in the red letters of their shame It is the Naturall of most ignoble spirits to iudge and censure others in the worse part but noble Sr P. S. sayd evill speaking of others comes of the evill wee have in our selves Euill men delight to make others so but a good man is apten to amend his owne defects then to accuse others Seeke to remoue thy crosses by fervent prayer to God and withall doe honestly what thou maiest for the Armes of heaven sayeth one are our endevours make the husbandman thy example A man growne shamelesse in his talke is like a bagg full of Eeeles and snakes if opened who knowes what comes out first A Musitian or a Poet over-curious to give his fantasies compositions is as a gardener that denies leaves and smelling flowers for matters of delight and recreation are but so in comparison of the fruites and seeds of necessary arts and sciences Mariadge in the budd of making is like the moneth of Aprill but May and the heat of Sommer over and familiaritie worne to September things appeare naked and as they are and sometimes have cold greefes When I heare people in comaparison of disgrace with one another as I am as good or better then hee or shee c. I deeme such wordes proceeds from the want of true judgment wisdome and goodnesse and that they both may mend Where private opinion is sole judge of ambiguous texts there unitie is no houshold guest either in Philosophy Alchimie naturall Physicks c. Little young birds and women are very different in sufferance for much handling kills the one and makes the other wanton Actions are others bookes where wee reade by their thoughts and accordingly iudge It is the periphrasis of a foole when hee hath spoken as hee thinkes well to aske the hearers if be not so Sleight loves are sullied with smalle distastes but a well grounded affection is like a strong how hardly broken unlesse extreamely ouer-drawne Musicke in young men hath fingers but in aged men only eares Many are better guarded then regarded but a criminal shall have faultie spy-faults enough going to prison Novelties with a wife man are but as dust brusht or blowne off by examination but stick in a fooles mind as the durt of Paris in an Englishmans cloathes A low'd raenting Speaker that engrosseth all the talke may well be called the Drum of the Company and a woman of the same quality the Fife It is a laudable quality to keepe touch as they call holding promisse but when it is against