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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

Clock-bells did both in City and Countrey In London a piece of the Temple Church fell down In the late dissolved Church called the Grey-Fryers now called Christ-Church in the Sermon time one stone falling from the Church killed a young man outright and another stone so bruised a Maid that she lived but four days after the Man and the Maid being fellow Servants in one House divers were bruised and run out of the Church Some stones fell off from the Church of St. Pauls in London and some from the Church of St. Peters at Westminster divers Chimneys lost their tops and Ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to totter this Earthquake did not continue above a quarter of an hour in London but in divers parts in Kent it held them so terrible that the people went out of their Houses for fear they should fall on their heads Of the Rain-Bow The Rain-bow is only the Suns reflection on a hollow Cloud which the edge being repelled and beaten back against the Sun from thence ariseth much variety of colours by reason of the mixture of clouds air and fire-light together If two Rain bows appear at one time they presage Rain to ensue but if one Rain-bow presently after Rain it betokeneth fair weather Of Thunder and Lightning When hot and dry vapours mixt with moisture is exhaled up into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a Cloud these two contraries not agreeing together break forth with great violence so that fire and water break out of the cloud making a roaring noise which we call Thunder and the fire Lightning the Thunder is first made but the Lightning first seen in regard the sight is quicker than the hearing which to prove observe but at some distance when a man is cleaving of blocks or a Carpenter hewing a log and you shall see the fall of the beetle or Ax some little distance of time before you hear the noise of the blow Now of Lightnings there be many sorts that which is dry burneth not all but dissipateth and disperseth its self moist burneth not likewise but blasts and changeth the colour but the clear is of a strange property for it melteth the sword and not singeth the scabberd it draweth vessels dry without hurt to the vessels some rich misers have had their silver melted in their bags and purses and yet neither bag nor purse hurt nay not so much as the wax that sealeth the bag stirred It breaketh the bones and hurteth not the flesh and killeth the Child in the Mothers Womb not hurting the mother what great cause have we to pray as it is in the Letany from thunder and lightning good Lord deliver us What things are not burt with Lightning It entreth not past five foot into the earth it hurteth not the Laurel-Tree such are freed that are shadowed with the skins of Seals or Sea-Calves the Eagle is likewise free Pliny saith Scythia by reason of cold and Egypt by reason of the heat have seldom Lightning A Brief Deseri●tion of the World shewing what it is and of what Parts it consisteth together with other things well worthy of observation THe world may not unfitly be termed a large Theatre of the heavens and earth wherein are contained all bodies both simple and mixt The Greeks calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latine Universitas or Mandus all signifying with us the world It consisteth of two only parts the one Elemental and the other Coelestial The Elemental part contains the four Elements as Fire Air Water Earth The Coelestial parts contains seven several Orbs for the Planets and one for the fixed Stars above which is the Christalline Heaven the first mover which once in 24 hours carries the other round about the Earth and last of all the Empereal heaven the habitation for Saints and Angels with all the rest of Gods elect Within this coelestial part not these only are continued but also the Elemental part it self and whatsoever it containeth within the midst of his concavity by the divine providence of God hangs this dark and gross body of the Earth upon which we mortals live and in respect of the glorious Heavens we should scarce so much as fix our eyes upon it for God hath made us not as other Creatures with a dejected countenance but os homini sublime dedit he hath given to man a lofty and exact countenance according to that of the Poet And where all Beasts look down with groveling eye He gave to man looks mixt with majesty And bids him with expansed looks to view the Sky Plato the most divine amongst the Heathen affirmed that the chief cause why men had eyes given them was to behold the Heavens an admired spectacle of Gods Workmanship for though there be other ends for which we have our senses yet without question this is one and a main one to consider the glorious part of Gods creation and to search into the obstruse Mysteries thereof for God hath made nothing in vain he hath not made these glorious bodies only to be gazed at but to be searched into there being none of the humane sciences that draw us so near to God so that Ptolomy not unworthily in the beginning of his Almagest affirmeth Hanc unam scientiam esse viam ac semitam ad sciendum Deum altissimum which being understood cum grano salis will not be much different from the mind of St. Paul Rom. 1. 20. for the invisible things of God c. are seen by the Creation of the World In which place as all things created are understood so especially it should seem the coelestial bodies to be intended for these with their beauty magnitude and multitude and with the perpetual stability and wonderful variety of their invariable motions and effects do in a marvellous manner commend the wisdom and goodness of the glorious God and do exceeding much draw us to the admiration love and knowledge of him according to that excellent testimony of the kingly Prophet The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy work And again There is neither Speech nor Language but their Voice is heard among them Psalm 19. 1 2. And in Wisd 13. 4 5. saith Solomon But if they were astonished at their power and vertue let them understand by them how much mightier he is that made them For by the beauty and greatness of the Creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen And from hence sure it is that the Sideral science is by some not unfitly call'd Natural Theology Solid Orbs and Comets to be in the sublunary Region have been maintained by many both elder and later yet by the infallible observations and unparallel'd instruments joyned with the unwearied assiduity and almost invaluable expence of the Tres-noble Tyche they have been found altogether false The Heavens so framed are That they do all declare Gods Glory doth excel The Skyes and Firmament Bright clear and

few good here as amongst them On Rubinus RUbinus is extream in Eloquence For he creates rare Phrase but never sense Unto his Serving man alias his Boy He utters speech exceeding quaint and coy Diminutive and my defective slave My pleasures pleasure is that I must have My Corps Coverture and immediately T'insconce my Person from frigidity His man believ'd all Welsh his Master spoke Till he rails English Rogue go fetch my Cloak On Mambrino MAmbrino having spent all his Estate Went to the wars to prove more fortunate Being return'd he speak such warlike words No Dictionary half the like affords He talks of Flankers Gabions and Scalado's Of Courtneys Parapets and Palizado's Retreats and Triumphs and of Cammisado's Of Sallies Half-moons and of Ambuscado's I to requite the fustian terms he uses Reply with words belonging to the Muses As Spondes Dactyles and Hexameters Stops Comma's Accents Types Tropes and Pentameters Madrigals Epicediums Elegies Satyrs Iambicks and Apostrophes Acrosticks Palinodes and Anagrams ●glogues Sapphicks Lyr'ck Epigrams Thus talking being understood by neither We part as wise as when we came together On Doctor Bond. DOctor Bond to avoid all further strife Riding before turn'd back to kiss his kind wife And was not Doctor Bond then wondrous Riding before to kiss his wife behind In Dolentem DOlens doth shew his Purse and tels you this ●t is more horid than a Pesthouse is For in a Pesthouse many mortals enter But in his purse one Angel dares not venture On Frances FRanks flesh is free and yet it is not free Strange this may seem to some how it should be Franks flesh is free to any who so pleases Franks flesh is not free from French Diseases Besses Bravery BEss does not only hide her privy ware But breast and neck where coyest maids go bare Yet there is one foul unbeseeming place Uncovered left what call you that her face Of a Dwarf Old A Dwarf upon a Pismires back Did get him up to ride He deem'd a tamed Elephant He did as then bestride But while he did advance himself To hold upon his back He ambled down and had a fall That made his Guts cry quack When as the Dwarf was thus unhorst Each laught both great and small Why laugh you Masters quoth the Dwarf What Phaeton had a fall On the Compter BEdlam fate bless thee thou wantst nough but wit And having gotten that we 'r freed from it Bridewel I cannot any way dispraise thee For thou doest feed the poor jerk the lazie Newgate I cannot much of thee complain For once a month thou freest men out o● pain But from the Compter goodness it self defend us To Bedlam Bridewel or to Newgate send us For there in time Wits Work or Law set free Nothing but Money here gets liberty On a Prison A Prison is a house of care A grave for men alive A Touch-stone for to try a friend No place for men to thrive Self-Love VVE to our selves most partial Judges be And faults in others not our selves can see Our enemies we would have them be halter'd But when we judge our selves The Case is alter'd In Cornutum TOms wife is sick and therefore he doth run In haste to fetch the Midwife which being dont He runs to call the women in with speed To help his wife in this her extream need The Child being born then Tom about doth trot ●nd never leaves till he hath Gossips got Tom I needs must say thou hast hard measure ●o take such pains when others had the pleasure Mysus and Mopsa MYsus and Mopsa hardly can agree Striving about superiority ●he Text which saith that man and wife are one Was the chief Argument they stood upon ●he held they both one woman should become ●e held they should be man and both but one ●o they contended daily but the strife Could not be ended till both were one wife De Sanitate Medico HEalth is a Jewel rich which when we buy Physicians value it accordingly On Perfumes THey that smell least smell best which intimates They smell like Beasts that smell like Civet-Cats Of Tyndarus Old A Wight whose name was Tyndar would Have kist a pretty Lass Her nose was long and Tyndar he A flouting fellow was Wherefore unto her thus he said I cannot kiss you sweet Your Nose stands out so far that sure Our lips can never meet The maiden nipt thus by the Nose Straight blusht as red as fire And with this gird displeased thus She spake to him in Ire Quoth she if that my Nose do let Your lips from kissing mine You there may kiss me where that I Have neither nose nor eyne An old Leacher REmbombo stradling goes in great distress As if he had the French P yet confess He will it not nor can I think the same Sith he in France at any time n're came Then since he never came whereas they grew Let all men be appeas'd the tale's untrue For how should he be troubled with French sores Who never used any but English Whores The fencer and Physick Doctor LIe thus the Fencer cryes thus must you guard Thus must you slip thus point thus pass thus ward And if you kill him Sir this trick learn then With this same trick you may kill twenty men Both you and he to me may come to School Thou doest but prate my deed shall shew my Skill VVhere thou hur●stone an hundred I do kill On Epigrams AN Epigram that 's new sharp near and witty Is like a VVench that 's handsome fine young pretty VVhilest they are private they are much respected Once common though still good they are neglected On Saint George SAint George 't is writ his cutting morglay drew And with the same a burning Dragon slew Some say there are no Dragons yet the story Says he preserv'd a Virgin to his glory That Dragons were into my mind doth sink But for a maid I know not what to think Conclusion of the Epigrams Here Muse cast Anchor for a little while And to more mournful matter turn thy stile EPITAPHS On a Hocus Pocus HEre Hocus lies with his tricks and his knocks Whom Death hath made sure as a Juglers box VVho many hath cozen'd by his Leiger-de-main ●s Presto convey'd and here under-lain Thus Hocus is here and here he is not VVhile Death plaid the Hocus and brought him to th' pot On a Bald-pate HEre lyeth John Baker wrapped in mold VVho never gave penny to have his head pol'd Now the Pox and the Plague light on such a device That undid the Barber and starved the Lice On a Drunkard HEre now into this Grave a man is thrust Who is by drinking drunk as dry as dust On Bernard IF Heaven be pleas'd when men do cease to sin And Hell be pleas'd when it a soul doth win If men be pleas'd when they have lost a knave Then all are pleasd here 's Bernard in his Grave On a Cobler HEre lies an honest Cobler whom curst

enough Turn up O Tyrant great Assay whether roasted or raw Thou find'st the better meat Aug. 15. Is according to Tradition the day when the blessed Virgin Mary was both Soul and Body taken up into Heaven Sep. 8. Is in memory of her happy birth ●y whom the Author of all life and safety was born into the world 29 Sep. Michael or Michaelmas is in commemoration of St. Michael the Arch-Angel and of all the nine Orders of holy Angels And it is called the Dedication of St. Michael ●rom the dedicating of a Church in Rome to ●im by Pope Boniface 1 Nov. All Saints or All-hallows is celebrated in commemoration of all the Saints 2 Nov. All Souls is likewise commemora●ed for the Souls of all the faithful departed ●nd these two days All Saints and All Souls were of so eminent observance that no Courts were kept on those days in Westminster-hall The four Sundays of Advent are those pre●eding Christmas day and were instituted as a commemorative of our Saviours Advent or coming to redeem the world by his happy birth Christmas Day or the Nativity of our Saviour Christ is a most solemn Feast yearly celebrated even from the Apostles time to this day in memory of the birth of our Saviour at Bethlehem 28 Dec. Holy Innocents is a Feast in memory of those Babes which Herod slew when he sought for our blessed Saviour in which massacre it is said that a Child of Herods being at nurse was murthered amongst the rest which Augustus hearing of he said it was better to be Herods Hog than his Son because the Jews would eat no Swines flesh The several Feasts of the Apostles and other Saints were instituted by the Church to honour God in his Saints and for us to imitate their holy and godly examples St. Peter and St. Paul are joyned in one solemnity because they were principal and joynt co-operators under Christ in the conversion of the world the first converting the Jews the other the Gentiles as also because both were martyr'd at the same place Rome and on the same day 29 June The four Ember weeks in Latine quatuo●tempora are times of publick prayer of falting partly instituted for the successful ordination of the Priests and Ministers of the Church and partly to beg and render thank to God for the fruits and blessings of the earth Ember comes from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. dies a day others call them Ember day from the ancient custom of eating nothing on those days till night and then only a Cake baked under the Embers or Ashes which was called Panem subcineritium Ember bread Wakes or Countrey Feasts used always to be observed on the Sunday next after that Saints day to whom the Parish Church was dedicated and took its original from a Letter written by Gregory the Great to Melitus Abbot who was sent into England with Austin the Monk in these words It may therefore be permitted them meaning the English that on the Dedication days or other solemn days of Martyrs they make them Bowers about the Churches and refreshing themselves and feasting together after a good religious sort kill their Oxen now to the praise of God and increase of Charity which before they were wont to sacrifice to the Devil c. Bedes Eccl. Hist Chap. 30. And they were called Wakes because on those feasts the people were wont to awake from sleep at the several Vigils of the Night and go to prayer but that custom was long ago laid aside and the Feasting part also little or nothing regarded Besides these we have three other days by act of Parliament set apart for Religious holy Duties viz. the fifth of November when some bloody Papists intended to have blown up the Parliament-House with Gunpowder in the third year of the Reign of King James the second the 30 of January a day of humiliation for the execrable murther of King Charles the first And the third the 29 of May a day of thansgiving for the happy Restauration of King Charles the second Qu. What is the observation that is commonly made on St. Pauls day being the 25 of January An. If Saint Pauls day be fair and clear It doth betoken a happy year But if it chance to Snow or Rain Then shall be dear all kind of Grain And if that winds be aloft Then shall we hear of wars full oft And if it do thunder that day Great dearth shall be as wise men say Another Observation When our Lord doth lye in our Ladies Lap Then O England beware a clap Other short Observations for each Month in the year January If the Sun shine the twelfth of January there shall be store of wind that year February If it thunder upon Shrove-Tuesday it foretelleth wind store of fruit and plenty the Sun beams being early abroad and so much as he shineth on that day the like he will shine every day in Lent March So many Mists as there be in March so many hoar Frosts there will be after Easter April If it rain upon Ascension day which most cammonly falleth in April it doth betoke● scarcity of all kind of food for Cattel but being fair it signifieth plenty May. If the Sun shine upon the twenty fifth o● May wine shall prosper well also in the end of May if Oaks begin to bear Blossoms i● doth foreshew great store of Tallow and Frui● June If it rain the twenty fourth day of June Hazel-nuts will not prosper July If it be fair three Sundays before St. Jame's day Corn will be good but wet Corn will wither August If the wind change on St. Bartholemews day at night the following year will not be ●ood September So many dayes old the Moon is on Michaelmas day so many Floods will be that winter October If leaves now hang upon the Trees it portends a cold winter or many Catterpillers November If on the tenth of November the Heavens be cloudy it prognosticates a wet winter if clear and dry a sharp winter December If Christmas-day comes in the new of the Moon it is a token of a good year and so much the better by how much it is nearer the new Moon the contrary happeneth in the decrease Thus each month doth procure an observation Which may be made useful unto the Nation For if that we do things but rightly weigh We will believe what our Forefathers say Who by experience knew such things to be And so preserv'd them for posterity Qu. What is that they call the Golden Number Epact Circle of the Sun Dominical Letter c. An. The Golden Number is the Revolution of 19 years in which time all the Lunations or Aspects betwixt the Sun and Moon return to the same place they were in before and is so called either because it was sent in Golden Letters from Alexandria in Egypt to Rome or for that it is written in red or Golden Letters in the Kalendar The Epact is the number of 11

dayes which the Solar year doth exceed the Lunar the one consisting of 365 dayes the other of 354 so that in every 4 years there is added a number more than 30 which being greater than the Epact can be for from change to change there can be but 30 days therefore 30 being taken from that excess the remainder is the Epact for the next year The Epact is thus found out multiply the Golden Number of the year by 11. the product whereof if it be under 30 is the Epact but if it be above 30. they divide the product by 30. and the remainder shall be the Epact Qu. What is the Circle of the Sun An. The Circle of the Sun is a Revolution of 28 years in which time the Dominical Letters make all their several changes and is called the Solar Circle because it comprehends all the varieties and changes that the Sunday Letter can have Qu. What is the meaning of the Dominical Letter An. The Dominical Letter is alwaies one of these seven A. B. C. D. E. F. G. and sheweth the Sunday Letter all the year But in Bissextile or Leap-year there be two Dominical Letters whereof the first holdeth from the beginning of January to St. Mathias Eve and the other to the years end The Golden Number and the Dominical Letter change the first of January and the Epact the first of March Easter day never talleth lower than the 23 of March nor higher than the 25 of April Shrove sunday hath his range between the first of February and the 7 of March Whit-sunday between the 10 of May and the 13 of June and for a Rule for Shrovetide the Tuesday after the change of the Moon in February is always Shrove Tuesday Qu. What causes the Eclipses and Full of the Moon An. The Eclipse of the Moon is caused by the interposition of the Earth betwixt the Sun and her for she being a dark body of her self and having no light but what she borrows by reflection from the Sun so far as the Earth interposes so much of her is darkened The cause of the Sans Eclipse is when the Moon passes betwixt the Sun and us and shadows some of the body thereof from our sight so that what part is interposed by the Moon cannot be seen by us by reason she is a dark body hiding the same from our sight The Moon being in right opposition against the Sun causes her to be at the full as her increase is by drawing nearer to opposition and her decrease by departing further off Qu. Of what substance be the Stars what are their motions and what causeth blazing Stars An. The Stars are of the same substance with the Moon thick aad not transparent as the Heavens borrowing all their light from the Sun being otherwise of themselves dark bodies and shine as well in the day as the night though by reason of the Suns refulgent beams they are not obvious to our sight And as for their motion it is the same of the Heavens wherein they are placed Shooting or blazing Stars are hot fumes of a thick substance like glew which being exhaled above in the air and bovering alost until it be kindled flyes like a squib through the Air but if it mount to a higher place and there be kindled it turneth to a blazing Star A brief discourse of the natural cause of Airy Meteors as Snow Hail Rain c. YOu must first understand that there be four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth the Fire is hot and dry the Air hot and moist the Water cold and moist and the Earth cold and dry These four Elements are the simples whereof all things under the Moon are made compounded and mixt Of Rain Rain is a cold vapour and earthly humour drawn from the Earth by the vertue of the Sun and the rest of the Planets into the middle Region of the Air where by the extremity of cold it is thickned into the body of a Cloud which the wind driving before it it doth dissolve and fall upon the Earth Of Snow Snow is ingendred of Rain the Cloud congealing through extremity of cold but not altogether so hard as Hail Pliny writes that the Hail sooner melts than Snow and that Hail falls oftner in the day than the night Of Hail Hail is likewise ingendred of Rain which the excessive cold when the Cloud dissolves freezes the drops and congeals into Ice whereby great and irregular stones do sometimes fall on the Earth Stow in his Annals reports that in the time of King Henry the 8. Anno 1545 there fell in Lancashire Hail-stones as big as mens fists and that which is most strange some were of the shape of mens faces others were fashioned like Gun-holes c. In the 23 year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth August 12. Anno 1581. there fell a great shower of Hailstones which were fashioned like the Rowels of spurs and were two or three inches about Of Frost and Dew Dew is a thin vapour which through the faint heat of the Suns elevating it self but a little from the Earth presently at night descendeth again which in the Spring-time is called Dew but in the Winter by means of cold being congealed it is called Frost Of Wind. Wind is hot and dry fumes drawn from the Earth by the Stars which seeking to fly to the Sun is by the freezing cold driven back but from the fields fumes another fire which carries them back again so that thereby together with the confluence of other exhalations rising out of the Earth his motion is forced to be rather round than right and the reason why he bloweth more sharply one time than another and in some places more than others and sometimes not at all is fumes arising out of new exhalations and out of Floods Fenns and Marshes joyning with it to encrease his force the defect or dulness whereof may either allay or increase it as also the Globe or rotundity of the Earth may be the cause of the blowing of it more in one place than in another or Mountains Hills or Woods may hinder his force from blowing in all places eqnal whereas upon the Plain and broad Sea it bloweth with an equal force and as for the stilness or ceasing thereof it cometh to pass divers ways either by frost closing or congealing up the pores of the earth whence it should issue or by the heat of the Sun drying up fumes and vapors that should encrease it and whereof it is ingendred Of Earth-quakes Earth-quakes are caused by plenty of wind which getting into the holes and caverns of the earth and wanting a vent the earth closing again causeth the shaking or Earth-quake which is more violent according to the quantity of wind so inclosed Anno 1580. in the 22 year of Queen Elizabeths Reign happened a terrible Earth-quake at London and generally throughout all England by violence whereof the great Clock-bell a● Westminster struck against the hammer as divers