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A50811	Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1697 (1697)	Wing M2008; ESTC R42126	47,689	172

Cousin answered the King take your own Time a Prince loaded with Laurels as you are cannot move so nimbly XXIX A petty PRINCE of Italy being informed that a Frenchman in his Court had put some Jokes upon him and his Designs ordered him to go out of his Dominions in three Days 'T is too long a Time answered the French Gentleman three quarters of an Hour will serve to obey him By which Answer he pleasantly reflected upon the small Extent of the Prince's Dominions XXX A KING of Spain unfortunate in War having lost several Places and Countries of Consequence his Courtiers nevertheless gave him the Title of Great Which one carping at his Greatness says he is like that of Ditches which the more is taken from them grow the greater XXXI After the Battels of Fleury and Staffarde a Minister of the Emperor at the Court of Portugal insinuating to the KING that France must yield at last being surrounded with Enemies on all Sides Ay but answered the King she has newly made two vigorous Sallies Meaning the aforesaid Battels in which the French had the Advantage XXXII WILLIAM the Conquerour having created his Half Brother Bishop of Bayeux Earl of Kent ordered him afterwards to be Imprisoned on some just Displeasure For which being quarrelled by the Pope the Clergy being then exempted from the Secular Power he returned this Answer That he had committed the Earl of Kent not the Bishop of Bayeux XXXIII WILLIAM RVFVS the Conquerour's Son and immediate Successor made commonly as it were Portsale of the Spiritual Livings One Day two Monks out-bidding each other for an Abbey he asked another of their Company whom he spy'd standing in a Corner what he would give to be Abbot Not one Farthing said he for I renounced the World and Riches that I might the more sincerely serve my God Which Answer did so take with the King notwithstanding his Covetousness that he judged him most worthy to be made Abbot and accordingly bestowed gratis the Abbey upon him XXXIV Philip the warlike Bishop of Beauvais in France being taken Prisoner by our King RICHARD I the Pope wrote in his behalf to the King that he would Release him as a Churchman and one of his beloved Sons The King to vindicate himself sent to the Pope the Armour in which the Bishop was taken with these words ingraven upon it Vide an haec sit Tunica Filii tui that is See whether this be thy Son's Coat or not being the Words which Jacob's Children spake to him when they presented him with the Coat of their Brother Joseph Which the Pope viewing swore that it was rather the Coat of a Son of Mars than a Son of the Church and so left him wholly at the King's Pleasure XXXV The said King RICHARD being told by one Fulke a Priest in great esteem for his Holiness that he kept three Daugh●ers which if he did not dismiss they would procure him God's Wrath How so said the King all the World knows I never had a Child Yea said the Priest you have three and their Names are Pride Covetousness and Lechery Well said the King you shall see me presently dispose of them The Knights Templars shall have Pride the White Monks Covetousness and the Clergy Lechery Thus you have my three Daughters bestowed amongst you POPES I. AN Abbot leaving Rome unsatisfy'd that he could not see the Pope all the while he was there said That the Pope was no more the Visible Head of the Church II. 'T is said of Pope Boniface VIII that he came in like a Fox reigned like a Lion and died like a Dog He came to the Papal Chair in 1295 and held it above seven Years During which he persecuted the Gibelline Faction to the utmost of his Power And they run so much in his head that when the Arch-Bishop of Genoua came before him upon Ash-Wednesday to receive the Ashes according to the Custom of the Roman Church instead of saying Memento quòd Cinis es in Cinerem reverteris the Words used in that Ceremony he mistook the Point and told him Memento quòd Gibellinus es cum Gibellinis morieris III. A Discourse being held before a Pope concerning the Plurality of Livings For my part said the Pope I have but one IV. Pope Alexander VIII was 79 Years old when he came to the Papal See and in three Weeks time he raised all his Nephews He desired to know by one of his familiar Friends what the World said of him who answered that his Diligence in raising his Family was all the Talk of the Town Oh! Oh! reply'd he sono vinti-tre hore e mezza 't is half an hour past 23 meaning his Time was near expired Now in Italy the Clocks strike 24 Hours whereas ours go not beyond 12. V. A Countryman who lookt upon the Pope as a God on Earth pray'd his Holiness that he might have two Crops every Year You shall have it said the Pope but then every Year must be of Twenty four Months VI. Favoriti the late Pope's Secretary reading to his Holiness some Briefs that he had drawn and explaining them unto him in Italian the Pope wept for Joy saying Cosa diranno di noi nella Posterita quando vederanno cosi bella Latinita nostra That is to say What will Posterity say of us when they see this our elegant Latine VII An Astrologer having foretold Pope Vrban VIII that a Comet should appear about the middle of his Reign the Pope fell sick when the Comet appeared But whereas he flattered himself by the foresaid Prediction that his Reign was but half spent he unexpectedly died and so ended both his Life and Reign VIII Pope Alexander VIII being wrought upon by the Spanish Embassador in order to declare against France the Embassador to induce him to it told him that France was in a sinking Condition that it was impossible for her to hold out against so many Powers and that the King was not able any longer to maintain his Armies 'T is true answered the Pope but he makes 'em subsist at the Cost and Charge of his Neighbours CARDINALS I. THE Cardinal of Retz being recalled by the French King went to throw himself at his Majesty's feet Who taking him up by the hand told his Eminence that he wondered to see him with a hoary Head Sir reply'd the Cardinal Thus it is to fall under Your Majesty's Displeasure This great Man says my Author lived like himself in great State in order to which he was fain to borrow but took great care to pay Before his last Voyage to Rome he sent for all his Creditors cast up his Accounts with them and told them he had but such a Sum to pay 'em in some short Time and that his Brother then present would stand Security for it To which his Creditors made this civil Return that far from being come to ask for their Money they had some at his Service A Lady amongst the rest

Delight and Pastime OR Pleasant Diversion FOR Both Sexes Consisting of Good History and Morality Witty Jests Smart Repartees and Pleasant Fancies free from Obscene and Prophane Expressions too frequent in other Works of this kind whereby the Age is corrupted in a great measure and Youth inflamed to Loose and Wanton Thoughts This Collection may serve to frame their Minds to such Flashes of WIT as may be agreeable to Civil and Genteel CONVERSATION By G. M. LONDON Printed for J. Sprint at the Bell and G. Conyers at the Gold-Ring in Little-Britain over-against the Sugar-Loaf 1697. Price 1 s. TO The Honourable EDWARD IRBY Esq Eldest Son of ANTHONY and Grandson to the Most Worthy Knight Sir ANTHONY IRBY both Deceased The Heir and greatest Hopes of his Illustrious Family This MISCELLANY Of Wise and Ingenious Sayings c. Is humbly Dedicated By the Author TO THE READER THE Design of this MISCELLANY is both to Instruct and Divert The Instructive Part consisting of Wise and Ingenious Sayings carries along with it a great deal of good History and Morality In which Sayings the ancient Greeks whilst Learning flourished amongst them excelled to admiration The Diverting Part made up of witty Jests smart Repartees and pleasant Fancies Intermixt with the former and most of 'em above the strain of popular Wit aims at nothing but Innocent Mirth being free from obscene and prophane Expressions too frequent in other Works of this kind Whereby the Age is corrupted in a great measure and Youth inflamed to loose and wanton Thoughts Whereas this Collection may serve to frame their Minds to such Flashes of Wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel Conversation The Epitaphs I own to be for the most part extracted out of Cambden's Remains but so culled and sifted from the rest that you have here the choicest only Some of 'em of a serious and others of a merry strain some Latin and others English Thus you have here Honestum Utile Jucundum useful Morality and witty Diversion The whole reduced under proper Heads not huddled up confusedly together as are commonly other Works of this nature The Contents OF Princes Pag. 1 Popes Pag. 15 Cardinals Pag. 18 Bishops Pag. 21 Statesmen and Courtiers Pag. 26 Magistrates Pag. 39 Ladies Pag. 43 Love and Gallantry Pag. 47 Roman Priests Jesuits and Monks Pag. 49 Lawyers Pag. 58 Physicians Pag. 61 Orators and Philosophers Pag. 63 Authors Pag. 69 Poets Pag. 74 Painters and Pictures Pag. 79 Scholars Pag. 81 War Officers and Souldiers Pag. 83 Tradesmen and Countrymen Pag. 87 Masters and Servants Pag. 91 Marry'd Men and Women Pag. 95 Dying Men and Women Pag. 102 Buryings Pag. 107 Epitaphs Pag. 110 POSTSCRIPT Pag. 135 LICENSED March 12. 1693 4. Edward Cooke MISCELLANEA OR Wise and Ingenious Sayings c. Of PRINCES I. GREAT was the Freedom the ancient Greeks took with their Princes even to the Reproach of their Vices and some of these were wise enough not to take it ill Witness the Story of a Grecian Lady and PHILIP King of Macedon Which King newly risen from Table his Head intoxicated with the Liquor he had drunk wronged the Lady in a Concern she brought before him Whereupon she appealed from his Judgment To whom said the King To Philip reply'd she when Sober This made him Recollect himself and upon due Consideration finding himself in the wrong he altered his Judgment in the Lady's behalf II. The same King having some Courtiers about him who endeavoured to perswade him to punish a Man of great Worth as having spoken ill of him I must first examine says he whether I have deserved it or not At last he found that the Party had never receiv'd any Favour from him thô he highly deserved it Upon which he sent him great Presents and 't was not long before he heard that the same Man spoke much to his Praise You see then said the King to the same Courtiers that I know better than you do how to silence Detraction To which he added that Princes had it in their Power to get the Love of their Subjects when they pleased and if they were not beloved 't was their own Fault III. PHILIP contending with an able Musician about an Air 'T were great pity said the Musician to him that you should be so Vnhappy as to know this better than I do A proper Lesson for Men in Dignity not to affect excelling in some sorts of Knowledg IV. King Philip's Wife Mother of Alexander the Great hearing that her Son called himself the Son of Jupiter and was worshipped as a God did put a shrewd Jeer upon him For she sent him word and pray'd him not to bring her into Trouble with the Goddess Juno V. ALEXANDER being at Delphos to consult the Oracle forced Apollo's Priestess into the Temple upon an unlawful Day She cry'd out and made what Resistance she could but in vain At last says she to Alexander Thou art Invincible This Oracle answered he will serve my Turn and so let her go Thus the Priestess's Words extorted by his Violence passed for an Oracle VI. Darius King of Persia having offered his Daughter with half his Kingdom to ALEXANDER Parmenio his Favourite told him Were I Alexander I would accept of Darius his Offer So would I replied Alexander if I were Parmenio VII When ALEXANDER lay dying some of his Courtiers asked him where he had laid up his Treasures You will find them says he in my Friends Purses Whereby he insinuated that he had got no Treasures but what he had freely as fast as he had got them disposed of amongst his Friends and that he did not question but they would supply therewith one another when Occasion served VIII King ANTIGONVS having made a strict League with the Athenians they offered one of his Servants the Freedom of their City By no means said the King I will not suffer him to accept of that Honour lest that being some Day or other in a Passion I should be so unhappy as to beat an Athenian IX King PIRRHVS having twice overcome the Romans and finding his Army much weakned by such Victories I am undone says he if I get a third Victory X. Dionysius Tyrant of Syracusa was a Prince who freely ridiculed the Superstition and Idolatry which reigned in his Time amongst the Greeks He was for making use of those Offerings that were made to the Idols which they had no Occasion for The Cloak of Gold which Hieron sent to the Statue of Jupiter Olympius he took and gave instead of it one made of Wool saying That a Cloak of Gold was both too cold in Winter and too warm in Summer Aesculapius his Statue had a Beard of Gold which he clipt off saying That it was not decent for the Son to have a Beard being his Father Apollo had none XI Dionysius had a Son who had violated a Lady of Syracusa Upon which he asked him with an angry Look whether he had ever heard that in

took her up and told her I find Madam that you have eaten Garlick Now 't is well known that those who have eaten Garlick are not sensible of the ill smell of others that have also eaten of the same XIII A Court-Lady gone to see Versailles in the King's Absence Is not this said one to her an Inchanted Pallace 'T is so said she but it wants the Inchanter meaning the King XIV An ancient Lady going to visit a great Man at the point of Death his Daughter refused to let her into his Chamber saying that her Father was not fit for Womens Visits Madam answered the Lady there is no Distinction of Sex at my Age. Of Love and Gallantry I. A Gallant taking his Leave of his dear Mistris upon a Journey he could not dispense with they parted with much ado and with great Reluctancy At last she told him Pray make all the haste you can and remember that a Mistris is a Benefice that requires Residence II. 'T is the Way in Savoy the first time one has his Vein breathed to be presented by his Friends A Young Man of that Country having received a Present from his Mistris upon such an Occasion returned her Thanks for it with these Words You have says he considered the Wound of my Arm but you forget that of my Heart III. A Gentlewoman who had two Gallants one of 'em with a wooden Leg grew big with Child and the Question was which of them should father it He that had the wooden Leg offered to decide it thus If the Child says he comes into the World with a wooden Leg I shall father it if not the Child shall be yours IV. A wanton French Gentlewoman being ordered by the Queen Mother then Regent to go into a Monastery he that brought her the Queen's Order told her the Queen left her the Liberty to chuse what Monastery she pleased Then says she I won't go to a Nunnery but to a Monastery of Monks which she named and where she might have Work enough V. Another young Lady was to be sent to a Nunnery of Filles Repenties or Converted Maidens But a Lady opposed it and being asked the Reason Because says she she is neither Converted nor Maiden VI. Another as wanton as the former blaming her Brother's extravagant Passion for Gaming When will you leave off Gaming said she to him When you cease to Love then I shall cease to Play answered he Then reply'd the Sister you are like to be a Gamester as long as you live VII A Coldness having continued some time betwixt two Persons that formerly had a Love for each other they met accidentally in a Place where they fell to play But said the Gentleman What is it we play for For a Return of Love said the Lady Of Roman Priests Jesuits and Monks with Passages upon their Preaching and the Auricular Confession I. A Roman Priest being grievously troubled with the Stone resolved to be Cut. But when the Surgeon was ready for the Operation Won't it says he disable me from the Act of Generation II. Another being in drink when a Child was brought him to Church to be Baptized could not find out the Ministration of Baptism in the Ritual At last having turned over many a Leaf to little purpose This Child says he is very hand to Baptize III. A Priest being asked what Saint was the Patron of his Church His Name answered he I know not only I know him by sight IV. At Nola in the Kingdom of Naples the Jesuits have a College called d' Arquo the Bow and another in France at a Town of Anjou called la Flêche or the Arrow On which one wittily composed this following Distich Arcum Nola dedit dedit illis alma Sagittam Gallia quis Funem quem meruere dabit In English thus Nola the Bow and France the Shaft did bring But who shall help them to the hempen String V. There are Monks said one that have a strict Rule and a large Conscience The Outside of whose Monasteries is all Peace and Religion whilst the Devil and War are within VI. 'T is strange said another that the Minimes should eat no Flesh and yet smell so much as they do of a Shoulder of Mutton VII A Bernardine Monk having invited a Benedictine to Supper the first desired the other to say Grace or as they call it the Benedicite Benedictus says he benedicat The other in answer to it made this Return Bernardus Bernardet VIII The Thunder fell one day upon the Steeple of the Augustines Church at Paris Upon which one said It was God's great Mercy he had sacrificed only their Steeple to his Justice for had the Thunder faln into the Kitchin 't is like they had all perished IX A Gentleman seeing the Monks called Feuillans building according to the several Orders of Architecture asked why they did not rather build according to their Order X. A late French Bishop had no sooner given up the Ghost but his Room was presently plundered A Cordelier among the rest having got the Bishop's Breviar snatched also a rich Crucifix saying Crucifixus etiam pro nobis XI A Monk being sent from Anger 's to Paris to be punished for his lewd Course of Life amongst Women was brought before a Judg who had then two Ladies with him 'T is for your sakes Ladies said the Monk that I am now brought to this Had not you been reply'd the Judg so loose upon Ladies you would not have brought these Fetters on your self XII In a Book printed at Bourdeaux 't is said that a Carmelite knocking at Heaven's Door St. Peter would not let him in saying We see none here but Carmelites When you can make up a Dozen you shall be let in not before XIII An Abbot who had a mind to make his Abbey secular told the French King that he had the worst Monks in the World and that they would not say the Exaudiat If they be so bad said the King I ought not to rely upon their Prayers and do freely dispence them with their Exaudiat XIV Another who had four Abbies three of which he bestowed upon his Nephews invited one Day a Friend of his to come and play with him at Picket I don't care answered his Friend to play with a Man who discarded so many Abbeys XV. Another Abbot extreamly given to Playing lost 2000 l. at least at one sitting with a Duke The Duke pressed him for the Payment so that the Abbot was fain to sell all he had which fell much short of the Sum. An Interposer pray'd the Duke to forgive the rest in Acknowledgment whereof the Abbot should make an Ode to his Praise but the worst he could make For says he when the World shall know that you made so great a Present for a wretched Piece they will conclude you would have been much more liberal for a good one XVI 'T is said of Father Bourdaloue that when he preached at Rouen the