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heaven_n	earth_n	see_v	world_n	12,890	5	4.5277	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96909	Worcesters apophthegmes or witty sayings of the Right Honourable Henry (late) Marquess and Earl of Worcester, delivered upon severall occasions, and now published for the benefit of the reader. By T.B. a constant observer, and no lesse admirer of his Lordships wisdom and loyalty.	Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1650 (1650)	Wing W3535; Thomason E1350_2; ESTC R204142	43,802	125

end of every action before ever we enterprized a beginning viz. What then APOPHTH 27. HE was wont to say That a plain dealing Friend whose friendly Councel was requited with choller and disgust was like a turfe that whilst a man bestowed breath upon it to inliven it returnes thanks to the well-willer by spitting fire in his face APOPHTH 28. WE were talking of an old drunken fellow who having us'd his body to disorder in drinking all his life time and at last giving it over presently dyed O said the Marquess if you take a brand out of the fire that is thoroughly burnt it will fall in peeces but if you let it lie there still it may remaine a pritty while before it turne to ashes APOPHTH 29. THe Marquess was a very devout man and us'd prayer very much and you should never see his closet doore open but you might perceive he had been weeping which he would endeavour to conceale by wiping his eyes but he could never wipe away either the swelling or the redness as it was commonly observ'd by all the Servants that had nearest relation to him and indeed to all those who had any familiarity with him for after dinner he admitted all Gentlemen into his presence whom he would constantly entertain with a Chapter either out of the book of patience or else out of Derxelius upon eternity or out of an excellent Manuscript called The love of God which had 100. Chapters all upon that Subject which he would read with such devotion that often-times his teares would overthrow their bankes which I having observ'd to be so frequently perform'd told him I thought it did him much hurt No said the Marquess This issue of the soule must not be stopt if you knew but what a fire I have to quench you would rather wish me to provide more water Have you not such a saying in Scripture that they who sowe in teares shall reap in joy I wish that I could so weepe all my life that I might laugh in death and sing in Heaven and I were a happy man A●OPHTH XXX I Was walking one day with his Lordship in a private walk that was about the round Tower and there we spied where a bird had made her nest whom we disturb'd from hatching her young ones and sitting upon her eggs which act of nature my Lord compared unto the manner of the creation for said he God having made his nest the world and brought forth his young at first unperfected did by his spirit incubare and by his wings of providence spread over them he gave them life and power and by his word he brake the shel et sic pullulavit mundum APOPHTH XXXI WE were talking upon occasion of Christs miracles viz of his turning water into wine and of the five loaves and two fishes why said the Marquesse these miracles he works amongst us every day but that they are so ordinary unto us that we take no notice of them God sends rain upon the earth this water gets up into the vine and the sappe of the vine-tree God turneth into wine And as few graines of Corne as will make five louves being sowed in the earth will multiply and increase to such advantage as will feed 5000 with bread and two fishes will bring forth so many fishes as will suffice so many mouthes APOPHTH XXXII WE were discoursing before him concerning the errour of the Manichees who held that 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 evill God was the efficient cause of the earth and of man from the middle downward That was but a foolish Conceit said the Marquess so 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 angell so his Godhead and might appears as well in the earth as in the heavens but methinks it had been on my conceit a pretty fancie and not so far from truth or reason if they had held that heaven and earth had been man and wife or male and female seeing the heaven was made as the male part of the world by whose influence motion and dewes the earth as the female part thereof out of her wombe brings forth all necessary and living Creatures APOPHTH XXXIII THe Marquess was of a disposition allways inclining to charitable constructions which suffered him to want excuses or some cloake or other to throw over any mans imperfection There was a Gentleman of high desert who chanced in the Marquesses hearing to come under the lash of some mens Censures Alas Gentleman said the Marques will you have Corne to grow without chaffe or light to be without its adjoyning darkenesse or the sweetest hony without unsavory wax or the pleasant wines or liquors without their lees and dreggs as soon shall corn grow without chaffe as a man of his parts shall be free from vain glory worthlesse chaffe keeps the corn warme and vain glory fires him to all those brave atchievements if you set a man on an horse let him have his spurrs APOPHTH XXXIV THe Marques was one day reading us a Lecture of patience in our adversity among the rest of those witty sayings which came from him he told us that there was nothing so bad but was good for something for said he if there were no silence there would be no musick for the suddain stops that are in musick adde to the grace and perfection of the Art ignorance is a spur to knowledge darkness a pavilion to the Almighty a Cabbin or drawn Chamber for us to sleep in a Dungeon for the Judge to punish his Delinquents and a foile for the Painter to make his shadowes so are afflictions good for our instructions and adversities for our amendments APOPHTH XXXV THere was an old rich Vsurer and fornicator who had a plot upon the body and estate of a handsome young Widow an inheritrix of an Estate which this old miser thought rather convenient then great enough for him wherefore having a mind rather to enjoy then have her and knowing that she was in debt courted her with offering to leave her monies as an argument of his affection which she accepted of offering to bind her Estate for the repayment hoping that the tie of his person would be a freedom of her Estate thus with his money he got his foot into her Estate and by a false promise stept into her bed as often as he had a mind to lie doubly six yeares he stav'd her off who bedstav'd him in within her own sleeping-room but at last that she might be sure of the substance she urg'd him to the ceremony and that so much that at last he gave her a flat deniall whereupon she denies him the former familiarity he enters upon her Estate and answers the kindness of her admittance of him into her own bed with the discourse