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A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

that he giueth to others Q. How may one knowe a maister from a seruaunt A. In marking how he can rule his appetite Q. What is the Smell of smelles A. Bread Q. What is the sauour of sauours A. Salt Q. What is the greatest loue of al loues A. That which a Father beareth to his children Q. What is the best and most notable inchauntement that women can vse to obtaine the loue of their husbandes A. To be silent peaceable pacient solitarie and honest of the which fiue hearbes they may make a medicine the which séene not tasted of their husbandes they shall not onely be loued but also worshipped Q. What fruite should one thinke best and worst A. The treasure of the Indians is not to be compared to that fruite which a woman beareth in her womb if it be honest and vertuous Q. What are the strongest thinges amongst all other and without comparison A. God Trueth and Vertue Q. What is the easiest thing to get and obtaine A. That which one desireth most Q. What are the thinges amongst all others common to man A. Life Dishappe Laughing and wéeping Q. VVhat signe is it to sée many rich Phisitions in a Citie A. A signe of excessiue aboundance of delightes and vices for the man by excessiue delights becommeth sicke and out of health Q. VVhy is a good woman though not faire compared to the Phesant and an euill woman though faire to the Sabie Marter or foynes A. Because that although the fethers of the Phesaunt be of little account yet is the flesh good and wholsome whereas contrary the skinne of the Marter or foynes is had in price but the flesh is nothing worth Q. How comes it to passe that many haue a cardinall or red nose A. Because saieth Diogenes their flesh is yet raw and vnboyled Q. VVhereof procéed so many discordes and controuersies betwéen princes and their subiects A. The subiectes complaine of the little loue of their Princes and the Princes complayne of the disobedience of theyr subiectes Q. VVhy did the Philosopher iudge an euill woman to be worse then hell A. Because hell tormenteth the euill only but a wicked woman tormenteth both the good and the had Q. How comes it to passe that many now adayes will goe gay clad outwardly and not studie to amende their viees inwardely A. For lacke of wisdome and superabundance of folly Q. VVho is the mother most pitifull of all other mothers who although her sonne hath dispised her and often troden her vnder his féete yet in fine receaueth him againe into her entrales A. It is the earth general mother of all mankinde Q. VVherein consisteth true wisdome A. In iudging truly of thinges and estéeming euery one according to his value not desiring vile things as precious nor reiecting precious thinges as vile and abiecte Q. VVhy ought one equally to winne the loue of the foole as well as of the wise man A. Because the foole shall not hate him and dispraise him wheras the wiseman doth loue him and praise him Q. What are the thinges that can neither be bought nor solde for price nor esteemed at any value A. Vertue Libertie Health Knowledge an Renowme Q. What is the beast that most byteth and doeth least hurt A. It is he saieth Diogenes that reprehendeth his friendes without flatterie for as dogges and flatterers bite the one for to wound the other to dispoile so true friends correct the faultes of their neighbours and bite them to amend and lay folly aside Q. What sortes of people amongst all others are most worthy of blame A. They that vse reproch Q. What are the things by reason estéemed most loyall in the world A. Fire Earth Water Ayre Sléepe Hunger Thirst and Death for they serue the poore as well as the rich Q. What are the true conseruers of heith A. Sobrietie Moderate labour to hold the séede of Nature to be mery and liue in a healthfull place Q. Who are those that yéeld themselues to voluntary captiuitie A. They that become subiect to women or wine Q. What is charitie A. To loue God for him selfe and his neighbour for the loue of God Q. What is the worst warre that is A. The warre viscerale that is when a man is enemie to him selfe Q. Why did the auncient fathers iudge husbandrie to bee the onely exercise that a man should vse A. Because that with pleasure it also bringes profit Q. How comes it to passe that some children disperse and scatter their fathers goodes being dead so soone A. Because none knoweth how to kéepe a thing but he that hath gotten it with labour Q. What is goodwill A. The foundation of good workes and good workes are the messengers of another world FINIS Verses of a blessed life HOw happy is that wight that holdes himselfe content With goodes and giftes aright which nature doth present No substance els saue this but full of care it is Who hath to serue his neede be he contented then Whose substance doth exceede shall serue for other men Abundance brings in paine more then enough is vaine Who mountes to honours loft and sits on fortunes wheele From top is tossed oft and oft adowne doth reele With thunder claps we see hie Towers soone shaken bee Warre griefe nor enuie fell repaire not to the place Where meane estate doeth dwell He is in Angels case And he that needes fewe thinges Needes better far then kings Of worldly Wealth O Fount of flattery worldly wealth The nource of care and soules vnhealth To haue thee is an hell of dread To want thee gulphe of greefe indeede For Wisdome O God of Fathers mine the God Lord of mercies most Thou blessed father blessed Sonne and blessed holy Ghost Which with thy word all things hast made and all things doest ordaine That in this world abide and breath or els where do remaine Blesse thou thy handie worke O Lord and graunt me wisdome pure Which euer is about thy seate and euer shall endure For I thy handmaides Sonne O Lord a feeble creature am Briefe is my time briefe is my ioy briefe is the life of man Too weake also my wisdome is to vnderstand thy will Send then thy heauenly Sapience Lord out of thy holy hill That she by thee may me instruct what steppes I best may treade And how from mens traditions best I this my life may leade For all their workes are vaine O Lord their studies I detest Thou onely Lord of Sion hill art he can make me blest Bent to content T. C. Jmprinted at London by Thomas Dauson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vintree

¶ THE Nosegay of morall Philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours and now newely and succinctly drawne togegether into Questions and Answers and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed ¶ Jmprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson 1580. To the right woorshipfull and his singular good Lady and mistres the Lady Martin of London Thomas Crewe wisheth long life with increase of all happines and woorship I Was bold Madam for two causes to dedicate this Nosegay vnto your ladishippe The first is the gentle acceptāce that I know it shal haue at your hands who haue alwaies been a fauourer of learning of them that are learned The seconde is that comming out vnder the name of so woorthie a Patronage it shal be the better accepted of all men I am bounde also for twoo causes to doe the same first to satisfie in part the duetie which I owe vnto you and to shew some signe of the loue that I ow to you and yours Secondly that the worlde may see that alwayes a green tree is not fruitles but that that garden which before bare brābles and thistles if it be wel tilled will beare also sweet smelling flowers The slips hereof were set in sundry Italian gardens with branches therof I met at Paris which smelled so sweetely that I tooke the paines to transport them hither into England and to binde them vp in this small nosegay the which I pray your Ladiship so to accept as with 〈◊〉 humble hearte I present the same Thus wishing continually the increase of your woorship with al other things which you would either to you and yours I ende Your Ladiships most duetifull to commaund Thomas Crewe ¶ The Nosegay of Morall Philosophie Note that Q. signifieth Question and A. Answeare Q. WHAT is the parts of a true Christian A. Too loue and honour God aboue al thinges without offending him in thought woorde or déede and his neighbour as him selfe Q. What is that which most pricketh a man to liue well and godly A. To think stil that he is at the last end of his life Q. What is a court or city without vertuous men A. A darke night without any Satrres Q. What are the most enemies to mans life A. Anger excesse colde corrupted ayre sorrow trauell vrgent affaires and a greate familie Q. What is vertue A. It is an harmonie of nature wherein all good thinges accorde and a true ladder to mount to happines Q. What is the greatest want that an humane creature can haue A. Want of discretion and veritie Q. Wherein consisteth true philosophie A. In vertuous liuing Q. What is that doctrine which wee should necessarily forget A. The vice of reuengement Q. What thing is that aboue al others which the older it is the better is A. True amitie or faithfull loue Q. What is the best remedie against the feare of death A. To thinke still vpon it Q. What is the greatest spite that a man can doe to his enemie A. To excell him in well liuing Q. What are the thinges that make a man soonest to erre and to be deceiued A. To speake much and knowe lyttle to spend much and haue little to presume much and his power but little in satiable auarice and hope to liue long Q. How may one couertly dispraise a wicked person A. In praising him and extolling him too much Q. What is the chiefe ground of our saluation A. To beleeue in God the father and in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lorde and that the holy Ghost procedeth from thē both without whom we neither thinke nor doe ought that is good or profitable Q. What is the greatest iniury that a prince iudge or gouernour can doe to good men A. To fauour and pardon euill men Q. What is a mans truest freend A. His wisedome and prudence Q. And what his most foe A. His folly Q. VVhat are the twoo principall points that make a King or Prince reigne happily A. Liberalitie and Clemencie Q. VVho is father and mother to wisedome A. Vse is father and Memorie is mother Q. What is the thing that is easiest too learne and hardest to forget A. Vice Q. What is the office of a good housholder and the duetie of his wife A. The man ought to cary the burthen of care trauel and labour and the wife to bee faithfull in keeping his goodes and house neate patient and carefull to see her husbande doe well Q. What was the reasō that the Philosopher saide a man was more at safty in hauing many enemies than one alone A. Because in hauing many eche one attendes til his fellow doe the first mischiefe and none will begin Q. For what cause saide Diogenes that lame and diseased persons ought rather to be called Lordes and maisters then the whole and sound A. Because that beeing attainted with sicknesse they rule and gouerne their pride the fleshe the worlde and all vayne glory which the other doe not Q. Who is maister of the couetous A. He that is seruant of the liberall that is to witte Money Q. Who are those men that haue their tongue in their hearte and those other that haue their heart in their tongue A. The wisemen haue their tongue in their heart but the fooles haue their heart in their tongue Q. What are the chiefest vertues to be required in a man A. To knowe God and him selfe and to keepe silence and his his owne counsell Q. Wherefore is forgetfulnesse in many thinges preferred before memorie A. Because we ofte recorde that which we would not but cannot forget that which we woulde Q. Who is he alone that one may iudge and say hath liued as long as he would A. He that hath killed him selfe through dispaire and wilfully Q. What are the true pathes that conduct a man to pouertie A. Slouth gluttonie prodigalitie and mischaunce Q. Who are those that easily get fréends A. The rich the liberall the pitiful and the curteous Q. What are the engins traps hookes and nettes that soonest deceiue and take man A. Faire speech great giftes desire of gaine and little knowledge Q. What are the fiue thinges requisite in a common weale A. These aged Schoolemaisters vertuous and not vicious skilfull Captaines valiant and not cowardes learned priestes ruled and not lasciuious yong Damzels honest and not dissolute vpright iudges iust and not corruptible Q. What estate is that which maketh wisemen fooles and fooles wisemen A. Marriage Q. What thing is it that most abateth pride A. Tribulation Q. What kinde of folly should we iudge best A. Alwayes that which is shortest Q. From whence springeth all malice A. From lacke of knowledge Q. What difference is betweene a Tyrant and a good prince A. The principall desire of a tyrant is to bee serued and of a good prince to be beloued Q. What onely thing is it that cannot ware olde A. A lye for it must needes be discouered Q. VVhat are the

of the persen A. His speech drinking and eating the apparel of his body his conuersation and the experience of his doings Q. VVhat are the twoo things most necessarie for the sure guarde of ones life A. Good fréendes or els great enemies Q. VVho is he that leades a merry life A. He that liues a veriuous life Q. VVhat is a man A. He is sayth Aristotle a stranger on earth a Pilgrime exemple of malady a pray of time a play of fortune an Image of ruine a ballance of enuie and calamitie and all the rest fleugme and choler Q. VVho are the best craftsmen amongst all others A. The good for they without sin fault or offence do al things well and perfectly Q. What is the thing that most mainteineth artes A. Honour Q. How may men obtaine iust things at the handes of their betters A. In asking vniust thinges Q. What is prosperitie A. A vaine pastime of fortune Q. What is the last solace in aduersi t is A. Hope Q. Wherewith should riches be sustained and accompanied A. With Prudence Q. What is the greatest let that a man can haue to become happy A. Folly Q. VVhich is the best beautie A. That which is wtout arte or payting Q. VVhat arte learneth he the is stil sick A. To die Q. VVhat is the office of a good Prince A. To be valiaunt iust seuere haughtie to chastice the euill and reward the good to roote out vices and plant vertues and to to be a Tyrant and a Iudge potentate or officer to be a théefe A. To spend much and haue little Q. VVhat are the thrée things amongst others that a good housholder shoulde take heede of A. Of new wine gréene wood and whot bread Q. VVhat is the onely thing that lettes vs to know a friende from a dissembler A. Pouertie Q. VVhat is the difference betwéene a wise man and a foole A. The same saieth Plato that is betwéene a sicke man and a Phisition and as much saieth Aristotle as is betwéen a quick man and a dead Q. Why are women by Marcus Aurelius compared to shippes A. Because to kéepe them wel and in order there is alwaies somthing wanting although it be but a naile Q. What are the thinges conuenient for one to speake well A. Courage skill vse and pleasantnes Q. Why did Propertius thinke gold to be the strongest thing of this world A. Because it breaketh cities walles heartes of men sayth lawes and all orders and to say trueth we liue in this golden age wherein it rayneth so Q. At what houre is it best to dine A. The rich man when he wil the poore man when he may Q. When is man woorse than a beast A. When he rageth beyond reason Q. What are the thinges that most anger a man and make him most vnpatient A. To serue an vnthankfull maister to aske and not obteyne to giue and haue no thankes and to loose his time in a long and booteles sute Q. What are the foure members of a mans body that are neuer full to the toppe A. The eares of hearing the hands of heaping the tongue of speaking and the heart of destring Q. What are a mans most enemies A. His familiars or them of his familie it may also be vnderstoode of his vices as his folly or euel gouernment Q. What are the thinges that are onely requisite wherewith to gouerne the worlde well and orderly A. Gain loue to sée his seruice is acceptabe Q. What is requisite in an honest man A. To heare patiently to answere discretely to offend no man and to serue euery one Q. When was loue and charitie lost in the world A. When money came in reputation Q. What is the propertie of a good seruant A. To obey patiently to serue diligently to speake ioyfully and to be loyall Q. What is the greatest fault with Cicero that can be in a good man A. To approue and praise the euill for the good Q. What is the thing that euery one most coueteth and least exerciseth by the which al debates questions and processe are decided A. Reason Q. Who are they that may be called twise miserable A. They that couet to knowe of the Astrologians that which cannot be eschewed Q. What is Science A. It is like the roote of a trée and the operations are the branches Q. How learneth one to do euill A. In doing nothing Q. What are the true tokens to knowe a wise man by A. To endure is the first poynte the seconde is if he exalte not himselfe when he is praysed and the third is to kéepe hissecrete to himselfe Q. What are the things necessary and requisite for a good Iudge A. To heare with patience to aunswere with prudence to giue sentence with iustice and to execute with mercie for being vnpacient in hearing vaine in answering partial in iudging and cruell in executing he is better worthy to be iudged then iudge Q. Why did wise men forbid vs to call mundans goods our own A. Because the which we may be depriued of by reason is not our owne but fortunes But onely vertue which we get our selues is our owne Q. What effectes haue the foure Elements in mankinde A. The earth engendreth the fleshe the water humors the ayre wind or breath and the fire naturall heate Q. What difference is there betwéene citie dogs and dogs of the country A. The Citie dogs bark at them that go euill apparelled and the countrey dogges at them that go gay Q. Whereon dependeth a mans good name A. On the tongues of other men Q. What profiteth it early rysing A. Early rising is good for the health and early rising is good for the wealth Q. What are the foure good mothers that bring forth foure euill daughters A. Trueth getteth hatred familiaritie contempt vertue ignorance riches enuie Q. What is it to be praised of fooles wicked and euill persons A. It is better to be dyspraised of wise skilful and honest persons Q. VVhat are the riches of mariage A. Faith concord and progenie Q. What is the thing most difficulte to measure A. It is time because it ought so iustly to be measured that there be not too little to do good nor too much to do euil Q. VVhy did the Thebans kil and strangle their male Children that were too sayre and their daughters that were too foule A. Because they thought that men excessiue faire were vnperfect women and women too foule were beastes Q. What two instructers should a man haue to get vertue A. One dumb that is to say bookes and another speaking that is to say a maister Q. VVhat thing is most capable A. Place for it comprehendeth al things Q. What is the thing that meriteth the palme of all beautie A. The world Q. Who is the strongest amongst men A. He saieth Plato that can vanquish his anger and kéepe his owne secret Q. How might a man do to liue iustly A. Let him take that counsel for him self