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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

which Tully made this witty Jest O vigilantem Consulem qui toto Consulatus sui tempore somnum Oculos non vidit O watchful Consul who did not shut his Eyes all the time of his Consulship III. Cato the Censor being asked how it came to pass that he had no Statue erected in his Honour who had so well deserved of the Common-wealth I had rather says he have this Question asked me than why I had one erected IV. Fabricius a Roman Consul upon the Offer made to him by King Pyrrhus his Physician to get him poisoned sent him back his Physician with these words Learn O thou King to make a better Choice both of thy Friends and Foes V. Clodius being to be tried for his Life by Roman Judges whom he had bribed with Money to get him off they desired a Guard to secure them so that the Trial might be free and undisturbed But Clodius being acquitted one Catulus made this Reflexion upon them What made you says he so eager for a Convoy Were you afraid to be robbed of the Money you had of Clodius VI. After the Reduction of Paris to Henry IV a Mareschal of France formerly against the King was bribed into a Submission to him The Provost of Merchants of that City having newly made his Submission in the Name of the City the said Mareschal told him that we ought to render unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's My Lord said the Provost we must render it not sell it reflecting upon the Mareschal as a Man bought off out of Rebellion into his Allegiance VII No less Ingenious was the Answer of a Lord Mayor to our King James I. Who being displeased with the City for refusing to lend him a Sum of Money he required threatned that he would remove his Court with all the Records of the Tower and the Courts of Judicature to another Place with farther Expressions of his Indignation Your Majesty answered the Lord Mayor calmly may do what you please therein and your City of London will still prove dutiful but she comforts her self with the Thoughts that Your Majesty will leave the Thames behind you Whereby he gave the King to understand that as long as the Thames should run before the City of London it could not fail of flourishing by the Advantage of Trade whatever Disadvantages it lay under on his Majesty's Side VIII Witty but perhaps too Jocose for his Circumstances was the Answer of Sir Thomas Moor Lord Chancellor in the Reign of Henry VIII Who being committed to the Tower by the King would not suffer his Hair or Beard to be cut And being asked the Reason of it The King and I says he are at Law about my Head and I will be at no Charge to set it off till I know at whose Disposal it must be IX The Lord Bacon before his great Preferment received a Visit from Queen Elizabeth in a Country-house lately built by him What made you said the Queen to him build your House so little Madam answered he to the Queen I do not build it too little but 't is Your Majesty that made me too great for my House An ingenious Answer expressing in few Words both his Modesty and Gratitude X. When the Doge of Genoua came not long since in Person to the French Court with Submissions from the Republick little sutable to a Sovereign State being at Versailles and viewing the Magnificence thereof he was asked by one of the Court What he thought in it most worthy his Admiration To see my self here answered the Doge very pat LADIES I. A Lady used constantly to wait upon another at the beginning of every Year to know what Age they must go for that Year II. A Lady of wonderful Beauty telling another It was a wonder to see her received this handsom Return And when I see you Madam I may say I see a Miracle III. One that had a Petticoat extravagantly dawbed with Gold and Silver was wittily asked What Goldsmith had made her Peticoat IV. It was the way of the late Q. Christina of Sweden to appear always in a Justaucor and a Wig. When she came to Fontainebleau a Country Palace of the French King several Court-Ladies come to wait on Her Majesty stept to salute her with a Kiss The Queen not liking of it dropt these words What Passion transports these Ladies to kiss me thus Is it because I look like a young Man V. A Grandee of Spain having a Collar on of the Order of the Golden Fleece which the Prince's Favour not his own Merit had procured took particular Notice of a sparkling Diamond a Court-Lady wore upon one of her Fingers and said he had rather have the Ring than the Lady But she fitted him as well For having over-heard it she presently made this Return upon him And I should rather chuse the Halter than the Horse meaning him by the Horse and by the Halter his Collar VI. An Author holding a fair Lady with both his hands she got it off from ' em Upon which a Gentleman that stood by told him Sir 't is the finest Piece of Work that ever came out of your hands VII A Gentleman leading a Lady by the hand she told him he held her too fast Madam reply'd he I 'le lay with your Ladyship that before we part you will hold me as fast She laid to the contrary And whilst they were stepping into a Room the Gentleman made as if his foot slipt which made her hold him fast by the hand to keep him from falling And then she owned that she lost the Wager VIII A Lady in company with a Gentleman fell discoursing about the Influences of the Month of May when not only the Earth but all Creatures living upon it find themselves revived by the Sun's Heat After a pretty long Discourse on this Subject I dare trust my Honesty said she to the Gentleman all other Months of the Year which I dare not in May. IX The Place of a Maid of Honour said one is very Ticklish and difficult to keep X. A Curtizan of Rome took place in a Church near a vertuous Lady Who no sooner knew her but she removed to another place The Curtizan observing it Why should you Madam remove thus for my sake said she to the Lady my Infirmity never proves catching but to such as desire it XI A Spanish Lady reading in a French Romance a long Conversation betwixt two Lovers What a deal of Wit says the Lady is here ill bestowed They were together and they were alone XII A French Lady of great Wit jeering another in a Company where a Friend of this Lady was her Friend took her part and made the best of her But the first 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

he to guess who was thy Father Which struck home Metellus his Mother having a wanton Character XIX A late Orator got his Hair cut off in order to wear a Wig which did so strangely alter his Countenance that his nearest Friends could scarce know him again Being imploy'd to open a Conference which he did to admiration a Friend of his told him after the Conference Sir I knew you again only by your Eloquence AVTHORS I. CICERO to express what Advantage he reaped from reading of good Authors has these Words Soleo saepe in aliena Castra transire non tanquam Profuga sed tanquam Explorator II. Pura Impuritas is the Character Lipsius gives of Petronius Pura in reference to the Style Impuritas meaning the obscene Discourses that are in it III. An Author making a System of the World and having spent many whole Days about it Remember says a Friend of his unto him that when God created the World he rested the seventh Day IV. Isaac Vossius intertaining one Day Monsieur de Sorbiere at Dinner pressed him to drink telling him that Sorberius came à Sorbendo V. An Author's House being on fire whilst he was poring on his Books he called to his Wife and bad her look to it You know says he I don't concern my self with the Houshold VI. When Varillas his History of Heresies came out his very Friends found many Flaws in it Which made one of them tell him between Jest and Earnest that he had writ a Book full of Heresies VII Dr. Heylin a noted Author amongst us especially for his Cosmography hapned to lose his Way going to Oxford in the Forest of Whichwood Being then attended by one of his Brother's Men the Man earnestly intreated him to lead the Way till he had brought him past the Wood to the open Fields But the Doctor telling him he could not tell which Way to lead him Strange said the Fellow that you who made a Book of the whole World cannot so much as find your Way out of this Wood. VIII The French Book called Les Origines de la Langue Françoise and written by Monsieur Menage being mentioned to Queen Christina Menage says she is a Man who will not only know whence a Word comes but whether it goes IX One having writ a Book in order to publish it sent it first to a competent Judg to peruse it and have his Opinion of it Who having perused the same told him his Opinion was that he should leave out one Half and suppress the other X. Another being come to wait on a Learned Man in the Winter Season and sitting with him by the Fire pulled a Copy out of his Pocket which he intended for the Press and begged of him to cast his Eye upon it Who having read some Pages over but finding little or nothing in 't fit for the Publick held the Book to the Fire saying Sir if you please we may bring it to Light presently and you will find this the best way to gratify the Publick XI A Gentleman telling an Author that he was reduced to live upon the Muses Milk That cannot be reply'd the Author being the Muses are Virgins and therefore without Milk unless you have prostituted them XII In the Year 1665 the French Academy were very busy in settling the Gender of a Comet some being for the Masculine and others for the Feminine Gender At last starts up one of their Members saying To what purpose is all this Debate when the Comet now to be seen may easily determine the Point 'T is but looking adds he under its Tail XIII An Author having found but one Fault of the Printer's in a Book of his finished at the Press was in a quandary whether he should make it Errata or Erratum But a Friend of his told him Let me but peruse the Book I warrant you I shall find another Fault and that will make it Errata XIV A French Author in an Epigram of his against a Maker of Anagrams expresses thus the Pains he takes to find Words in Words Evisceratis Verba quaerit in Verbis XV. Daniel Heinsius loved Drinking which discomposed him sometimes for his Lectures After one of his drinking Bouts some unlucky Students pasted up these Words over the Door of his Lecture-Room Daniel Heinsius non leget hodie propter hesternam Crapulam XVI To one saying that Tertullian's Style is Dark it was answered that it is like Ebony full of glorious Darkness XVII Monsieur Vaugelas having obtained a Pension from the late French King by the Mediation of Cardinal Richelieu the Cardinal told him I hope Sir you will not forget the word Pension in your Dictionary No my Lord answered Vaugelas neither will I forget the Word Gratitude XVIII A famous Member of the French Academy being gone to the Academy took the Abbot Furetiere's Place whom he had had no Kindness for Some time after he said reflecting upon Furetiere Here 's a Place Gentlemen where I am like to come out with a thousand Impertinencies Go on answered Furetiere there 's one out already POETS I. PHiloxenes a Greek Poet having been condemned by Dionysius the Tyrant to work in the Quarries for not approving some Verses of his making the Tyrant released him to shew him some new Verses of his And as he had a great Ambition to pass for a good Poet so he did not doubt but the Releasing of Philoxenes would induce him to give his Approbation to this his Trial of Skill But he was much surprised when the Poet hearing his new Verses cry'd out Let me go back again to the Quarry II. Another Poet who had often presented Augustus with Verses to his Praise the Emperor in a jocose humour told him one Day that it was but just he should make him some Return for his Verses and at the same time presented him with an Epigram he had made Which being read by the Poet he presently pulled a Purse out of his Pocket in which were some Pieces of Gold This he presented to the Emperor telling him that he wished he had a better Present to make him in Return of his fine Verses Thus he cunningly insinuated to the Emperor that a Poet ought not to be paid by a Prince in his own Coyn and Augustus was so pleased with the Fancy that the Poet fared much the better for it afterwards III. Pontanus having made an Enigm upon a Hole in this following Verse Dic mihi quid majus fiat quo pluria demas Scriverius answered extempore Pontano demas Carmina major erit IV. When Mary Stuart was Wife to King Francis I this Verse was made upon her Jure Scotos Gallos Thalamo Spe possidet Anglos V. An Italian Poet having offered a Copy of Verses of his to the Censure of an excellent Critick he made such Corrections and Alterations in it that it proved quite another Thing Tutto se nê andato in limatura Is all filed away into Dust said the Poet

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