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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50818	Miscellanea, or, A choice collection of wise and ingenious sayings, &c of princes, philosophers, statesmen, courtiers, and others out of several antient and modern authors, for the pleasurable entertainment of the nobility and gentry of both sexes / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1694 (1694)	Wing M2014; ESTC R31228	47,603	172

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 Daughters 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 stood up and offered him 5000 Crowns which she praid him to accept to supply his Occasions The Cardinal amazed at so great Civility expressed his Sense of it in a most decent manner And turning about to his Hatter It grieves me says he

the Bed A Collation being brought in soon after the King threw a Box full of Sweet-meats under the Bed saying Every body must live XVII A French Marquess used to brag every where that he had writ to the Queen Another who met him by chance in the Palace cry'd out to him Sir I beg the favour of you to Remember me to the Queen next time you write to Her Majesty XVIII A great Officer in the French King's Court shewing his noble Terrass to the Prince of Guimené told him it stood him but in 25000 Livers The Prince who well knew how he came by the Money made this smart Repartee I thought says he the King had paid for it XIX A great Bell being made use of at a Nobleman's House to ring to Dinner a Courtier who was to dine with him said Will the Dinner answer to the Bell XX. An Italian being at Dinner with a Court-Officer who had spent all his Estate and sold a Lordship he had minded how little he did eat Your Lordship says he do's not eat No answered the prodigal Courtier for 't is all eaten XXI Something to that purpose are these French Verses made upon one by Monsieur de Furetiere Paul vend sa Maison de S. Clou A maints Creanciers engagée Il dit par tout qu'il en est soû Je le croi car il l'a mangée XXII A French Courtier who made it his Business to be constantly at Court and to appear in the King's Presence to relate afterwards in Company what he heard the King say telling one day an old Courtier that he had such an Account the Night before from the King's Mouth And I answered the old Courtier heard yesterday Father Bourdaloues Sermon who preached to me the finest Things that ever I heard By which Answer he shewed him the Vanity of his Ostentation in appropriating to himself alone what the King had said to many more that heard him XXIII In the late French King's Reign there was a President called Goussaut well known for his weak Parts A Courtier playing at Picket in a publick Place and finding he had committed an Errour I am says he a meer Goussaut The President who chanced to be there unknown to the Courtier told him that he was a Sot You say right replied the Courtier that 's it I meant to say XXIV Another intertaining several Gentlemen at Dinner had but one Page to wait at Table Growing warm with the Company and desiring them to be merry and drink chearfully Then said one of them give us Change for your Page Meaning that he must change his Page into Footmen to serve 'em with Wine as a piece of Gold is changed for several Pieces of less Value XXV A Foreign Lord dancing at a Ball in the Court of France did it so ungainly that he made himself a laughing-Stock A Friend of his to excuse the Matter said He fights well though he dances ill Then let him Fight and not Dance said one who laughed with the rest XXVI Another being robbed going over the Pont-neuf and relating the Circumstances of it I don't care says he so much for the Loss of my Money as for that of some Love-Letters I had received from my Mistris which the Rogues took along with it 'T is ten to one answered one of the Company but they will find out whose Hand it was Whereby he insinuated as if he had Pick-pockets for his Rivals XXVII A Citizen telling a Courtier that he had just then eased himself of a great Burden by paying a Debt he owed and that he could not apprehend how any Man could sleep that was in Debt For my part answered the Courtier I should rather wonder how my Creditors can sleep well knowing that I shall never pay ' em XXVIII Another Courtier being a Confident of the Amours of Henry IV of France obtained a Grant from the King for the Dispatch whereof he apply'd himself to the Lord High Chancellor Who finding some Obstacle in it the Courtier still insisted upon the Grant and would not allow of any Impediment Que chacun se mêle de son Metier said the Chancellour to him that is let every one meddle with his own Business The Courtier thinking that he reflected upon him for his Confidence My Imployment said he is such that if the King were but twenty Years younger I would not change it for three of yours XXIX A Marquess having got out of the Bastille where he had been imprisoned for a slight Offence came to Court and did his utmost to be taken notice of by the King Who being conscious that he had been too severe upon him had some check upon him for it insomuch that His Majesty did not care to look upon him The Marquess perceiving it made his Address to a Duke and prayed him to inform the King that he freely forgave him and begged of his Majesty that he would be pleased afterwards to look upon him The Duke told the King who being pleased with it shewed ever since a gracious Countenance to the Marquess XXX An envious Courtier being one day very melancholy a Gentleman ask'd what Misfortune had befaln him None at all answered another but that the King has preferred a Man of great Worth XXXI A rich Partisan of France who formerly had been a Lackey going fast in his Coach through the Streets of Paris a Lady walking by was bespattered with Dirt by his Horses This Man says she speaking of the Partisan is of a revengeful Spirit he dirties us because we have dirtied him XXXII The same Lady went to Law with another Partisan who had also been a Lackey and being gone to wait upon a Magistrate who was to be a Judg in the Case she staid some time with her Livery-men in his Withdrawing Room till he came out of his Chamber When he came out he wondered to see a Lady of her Quality with none but her Footmen and was very angry with his Servants for want of their Information A shame says he to leave here a Lady of your Quality with none but Lackeys about you Pray Sir reply'd the Lady be not concerned at it I am very well pleased with my Lackeys and like them best whilst they keep in that Station Thus she cunningly reflected upon her adverse Party XXXIII Sir Walter Rawleigh asking a Favour of Queen Elizabeth Sir Walter said the Queen When d' ye mean to leave off Begging When your Gracious Majesty reply'd he leaves off Giving MAGISTRATES I. CAius Caesar and Bibulus were Consuls of Rome together But this Bibulus had done so little for the Common-wealth that when this Consulship was quoted because two Consuls must be named the Saying was In the Consulship of Caius and Caesar not of Caius Caesar and Bibulus II. So ambitious were the Romans of the Consulship that when Maximus died on the last Day of his Caninius petition'd that he might fill up as Consul the remaining part of that Day Upon

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 hard ●o Baptize III. A Priest being asked what Saint was ●he Patron of his Church His Name 〈◊〉 answered he I know not only I know him 〈◊〉 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 Fleche 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 wa● 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 Tradesmen left their Shops the Merchants their Business the Lawyers their Clients and the Physicians their Patients to hear him But he that preached there the next Year after settled Things in so a good Posture that none of them forsook their