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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

serpents Q. VVhether was the Eg or the bird first A. The reason of this cannot bee vnderstood naturally since the Egge without the Bird nor the Bird without the Egge could be brought foorth But we are to vnderstand that the first ●a●ke of Creatures were immediately f●om God without any other secondary cause and this great difference there is betweene God the first nature and the second Nature Q. What thinkest thou of this question whether the drunken man drinkes vp the wine or the wine drinkes vp him A. It is either for when thou hast the Wine in the cup it is in thy power but when it is in thy body thou art in the power of it when thou drinkest first thou takest the Wine for thy pleasure but after thou hast drunke it it taketh thee first it is a seruant and yeelds it selfe vnto the drinker but afterwards spreading it selfe into the veines it becomes a Master and is like fire in the top of the Chimney Q. In a certaine Banquet much wine being giuen to Diogenes hee powred it downe on the ground and being asked the reason why he spilt it A. Answered If I drinke it I not onely spill it but it also spils me Q. How many wayes doth man fall A. The question is infinite we die a thousand wayes though we are born but one Sunt hominum morbi mille sed vna salus He hath a thousand diseases and but one health Q. The diuell asked a holy man these three questions 1. VVhat was the greatest wonder that euer God made in a little circuite To which the holy man answered the face of man that being all of one substance and forme there should not bee found in all the world two men their faces like in all things and that in so small a roome God had blased all the sense 2. VVhether the Earth were higher then the Heauens To which he answered that the body of Christ which is the substance of the Earth as from Adam was exalted aboue the Heauens and so the Earth to be higher 3. How much was the distance between Heauen and Earth To the which the holy man answered not containing himselfe any longer with patience thou knowest the space better then I for thou measuredst it when thou fellest from Heauen so neuer I at which speech the Deuill vanished away Q. Diogenes being asked what win● of all others he loued best A. Answered that which he dranke of another mans cost Q. VVhat is the heauiest burthen that the Earth beares A. Sinne for sinne weighes downe to Hell Q. VVhat tree in the forrest doth the Serpent most hate to come neare A. The Ash according to Virgill the fairest in the wood which the Serpent neither comes vnder nor within the shade as also the Iuniper tree Q. VVhat seed is that which ioyneth together England and France and many other farre distant Countries A. Heempseed of which is made the sayles for ships which transport them farre and neare Q. VVhat three wayes are they among other that are not to be found out A. Via auis via Nauis via Iuvenis ● The flight of a Bird the passage of a Ship and the way of a yong man Q. VVhat foure things are those that especially peruert Iustice. A. 1. Fat gifts 2. Hatred 3. Fauour 4. Feare Q. What may Law in the abuse thereof most fuly be compared vnto A. To a thicke● of Brambles into which by tempest the poore Sheepe being driuen from the plaines come there for refuge and so loose their fleeces Q. What was a great man of this Kingdome vsed to compare Courtiers vnto A. To Ember● weeks or Fasting●Eues the hungryest and the leanest of themselues yet bordering still vppon great ones Q Who be those that may lie most freely and without controule A. 1. Great men that few men dare reproue 2. Olde men that few men can gaine say 3. Trauellers that may lie by authoritie Q. What is that which is commendable both to doe and not to doe A. To know when to speake and when to keep silence according to the Poet. Scire loqui laus est laus est quoque scire tacere Illa magis pulchra est haec quoque pulchra magis Q. What things are those most virtual and of greatest secrecie and force aboue other A. Christus vim verbis vim gemmis vim dedit herbis Verbis maiorem gemmis herbisque minorem Or thus Stellis ac herbis vis est sed maxima verbis Englished To herbes and stones much vertue Christ affords But more to speech for life and death are words Q. What is the greatest of all moueable things yet commanded by the least violence or strength A. A Ship commaunded by the sterne a little peece of wood Q. Who is the most renowmed for memorie that stories make mention of A. Seneca who writes of himselfe that he was able to recite 2000 names after they were once read vnto him Q. What breakes the shell at the comming out of the chicken A. It is answered and that by a double reason the one because in that time the shell by continuall heat and sitting vpon becommeth tender and soft so that the least stirring effecteth it another cause of breaking thereof and that is the principall is the defect of nourishment which at the ende of the time is wasted in the shell which the chicken wanting exposeth it selfe to seeke and so breaketh it as likewise the defect thereof is the naturall cause of all other Birds Q. Whose Cocke whose Dogge and whose seruant may bee kept at the cheapest rate A. The Millers Cocke the Butchers Dogge and the Inne-keepers seruant Q. What was that Citie Aristotle so magnified aboue others for beauty largenesse and strength A. The Citie of Babylon the Walles whereof were fiftie cubits thicke 200. cubits high this Citie was foure-square 15. miles from corner to corner 60 miles in compasse it had 100. Gates with threesholds and postes of Brasse which when it was taken by Darius by drawing the riuer Euphrates drye those that dwelt in the farthest parts heard not of it in three dayes It was destroyed according to the Prophesie of Ieremie and is now a desert for wild beasts Hereafter follow certaine Grammaticall Questions Q. Which is the best verse in all Virgill A Aeneid 6. Discite Iustitiam moniti non temnite Diuos Q. Which is the worst in all Virgill A. Aeneid 1 Flectere si nequeo superos Acherenta mouebo Q Which is the worst in all Ouid de arte amandi A. Semibouemque virum semi virumque bouem Q. Which is the best of all Tullies Epistles A. The best and longest of all that is extant is ad Q. fratrem propretorem minoris Asiae most excellent and worthy the reading of it Q. Which of all the Fathers is the hardest of all the Poets the most crabbed A. Tertullian and Persius which Persius when Tertullian read found it so craggy and hard he threw aside saying if he

with humour to giue fancy tast When as some other whose successe more bad Tugs 60. years like leathern Adā clad For skinnes or figge leaues for to hide his skinne Whose heart being plaine hee cannot this way sinne Whose total substance all his hopes to boote Was neuer worth the trust of such a shute What should I say of this vnequall lotte Would God thus haue it surely I thinke not Though some distinctions hee would haue to bee Yet not in such a terrible degree Hee would not haue thee see thy brother lacke Then flake thy cost and cloath some naked backe Hee would not haue thee see thy brother pine But him sustain'd from that excesse of thine If for thy selfe thy whole endeauours tend If what thou hast thou wouldst bee thine heyre and spend Then know like that rich glutton thou mayest craue A droppe and be denide because he gaue Not to the needy crummes that did belong Droppes were denide him for to coole his tongue Vpon the late Starre This yeare there hath appear'd a streaming starre Within our natiue Hemisphere or clime But whether it brings vs newes of peace or warre Of plague or famine who i' st can diuine Though some interprete it to change of State Hostile inuasion or some great mans end Rumors of warres here landed to vs late Or like particulars that they entend But since the Character hath such a letter That none can vnderstand but he that writ Let 's feare the worst our sins and make vs better And not to other ends enterprete it For in the same there 's matter vnderhil'd Which shall not to our knowledge be made plaine Till the portant and purpose bee fulfil'd For neuer came such messengers in vaine How ere with meekenesse let vs kisse the rod Hoping the best yet leauing●al to God Epit. 4. S● Tho. Becket Pro Christi sponsa Christi sub tempore Christi In templo Christi verus amator obit Englished For Christ his Spouse his Cause and at Christ tide Within Christs temple Christs true louer dyde Epit. 5. Written by a Religious Gent before his death Earth take my earth Sathan my sinne I leaue The world my substance Heauen my soule receiue Vpon Ionas in the Whales belly Buried I am and yet I am not dead Though neither earth inclose nor stone me keepes I speake I thinke with liuing ayres am fed In liuing tombe in vnfaddom'd deepes What wight besides my selfe for shame or grace Ere liu'd in death in such a tombe or place Epitaph 6. In Verolamium A forgotten Citie sometimes neere Saint Albons Stay thy foot that passest by Here is wonder to discry Churches that inter'd the dead Here themselues are sepulchred Howses where men slept and wak't Here in ashes vnderrak't In a word to allude Here is corne where once Troy stood Or more folly home to haue Here 's a City in a graue Reader wonder thinke it then Cities thus should dye like men And yet wonder thinke it none Many Cities thus are gone Epit 7. Vpon a Chambermaid Vnderneath this stone is laide A Ladies sometimes Chambermaide Who was yong and plump and prety And yet a Maid alas 't was pittie Epit. 8. Vpon a Loue sicke youth Here lyeth he he lyeth here That bounst and pitty cride The Dore not op't fell sicke alas Alas fell sacke and dide Epit. 9 On a rich couetous Lawyer Within this euerlasting Tombe Whose house containes her dead till doome Is one possest here to abide That yet had liu'd and had not dide If Death like him would haue agreed At any rate to haue been fee'd Or if he could at point of death That sold his wind haue bought but breath This crosse to him could neere so fall To haue wed the Church that woo'd the Hall Epit. 10. Vpon a Citizen From wares and cares fained breath Heere I at last am freed by death If that my dealings were not iust The more I feare the lesse I trust What though 100. Blue coates sing My friends did● mourne the bels did ring The earth receiu'd me with applause All doth not better mend my cause Fed I the hungry cloath'd the poore Made I these friends to goe before No I left wealth behind vnspent Coines vnreceiu'd that I had lent And suites vnended wag'd by cost And all I left behind is lost Good deeds I did and gifts I gaue Those went before me those I haue Epit. 11. A memento for mortalitie Taken from the view of Sepulchres of so many Kings and Nobles as lye interred in the Abbey of Westminster Mortality behold and feare What a change of flesh is here Thinke how many royall bones Sleepe within this heape of stones Hence remou'd from beds of ease Dainty fare and what might please Fretted roofes and costly showes To a roofe that flats the nose Which proclaimes all flesh is grasse How the Worlds faire Glories passe That there is no trust in Health In youth in age in greatnesse wealth For if such could haue repreeu'd Those had been immortall liu'd Know from this the World a snare How that greatnesse is but care How all pleasures are but paine And how short they doe remaine For here they lie had realms and lands That now want strength to stir their hands Where from their Pulpits seel'd with dust They preach In Greatnes is no trust Heere 's an Aker sowne indeed With the richest royalst seed That the earth did ere sucke in Since the first man dide for sin Here the bones of birth haue cride Though Gods they were as men they dyde Here are sands ignoble things Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings With whom the poore mans earth being showne The difference is not easily knowne Here 's a world of pompe and state Forgotten dead disconsolate Kings Thinke then this sith that mows down Exempts no meaner mortall things Then bid the wanton Lady tread Amid ●hese mazes of the dead And these truely vnderstood More shall coole quench the blood Then her many sports aday And her nighty wanton play Bid her paint till day of doome To this fauour she must come Bid the Marchant gather wealth The Vsurer exact by stealth The proud man beat it frō his thought Yet to this shape all must be brought A short addition or memento hereunto annexed vpon the death of Queen ANNE See here this plotte for all her store With greedy throate still gapes for more Which with our griefe and her successe Concludes not now in emptinesse For newly now shee hath tom'bd in earth One great in good as high in birth Vnto a hopefull Prince the mother Wife to one King and sister to another A king her father euery way borne high Match't great liu'd great in speare of maiestie Yet notwithstanding this bloud high discēt As rich in virtue and more eminent Respectiue liber all with a plenteous hand Where desert crau'd or she might vnderstand A needfull good or seasonable supply To such her streame of goodnes neere

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