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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

Yet am as little as a mouse When Winter comes I love to be With my red Target near the house Resolution A Robin Red breast Riddle 11. What part of Man may that part be That is an Implement of three And yet a thing of so much stead No woman would without it wed And by which thing or had or lost Each marriage is quite made or crost Resolution The heart of a man a Triangular figure the beginning of Love Riddle 11. Two legs sate upon four legs and eight legs run before in came three legs and upon eight legs fell I count him wise that doth this Riddle tell Resolution It is a Man upon a Horse driving two sheep before him and a Wolf that hath lost one of his legs seizeth the two Sheep Riddle 13. Four and twenty white Buls sat upon a stall Forth came the Red-Bull and over-lickt them all Resolution It is ones Tongue and his Teeth Riddle 14. Learning hath bred me yet I know no letter I have liv'd among books yet am never the better I have eaten up the Muses yet know not a verse What Student is this I pray you rehearse Resolution A Worm bred in a Book Riddle 15. It was not it is not nor never will be Hold up your hand and you shall see Resolution It is the little finger that was not nor is not nor never will be so great as the other fingers Riddle 16. All day like one that 's in disgrace He resteth in some secret place And seldom peepeth forth his head Until Day light be fully fled When in the maids or Good-wives hand The Gallant first had Grace to stand Whence to a hole they him apply Where he will both live and die Resolution A Candle Posies for Rings GOd did decree Our unity Rings and true friends Are without ends We are agreed In time to speed In comely hue None like to you In thy breast My heart doth rest I trust in time Thou wilt be mine Faithful love Can ne're remove No force can move A fixed love 'T is love alone Makes two but one My fancy is Endless as this I seek to be Not thine but thee In thee each part Doth catch a heart My love to thee Like this shall be So decreed And so agreed The love I owe I needs must show As I affect thee So respect me My love for this Deserves a kiss In body two In heart but you As I to thee So wish to me When Cupid fails Thy eye prevails Where hearts agree No strife can be God above Increase our love Heart and hand At your command Where this I give I wish to live Best election Is constant affection Though far apart Yet near in heart Nothing for thee Too dear can be Loves delight Is to unite As I expect so let me find A faithful heart a constant mind The sacred purpose and decree Is manifest in choosing thee My faith is given this Pledge doth show A work from Heaven perform'd below The eye findeth the heart chooseth The hand bindeth and death looseth Wit Wealth and Beauty all do well But constant love doth far excel Fear God and love thou me That is all I crave of thee Be it my fortune or my fault Love makes me venture this assault ACROSTICKS On these words If thou hadst granted I Joy had wanted To a proud rich but deformed Gentlewoman In danger puft you say I prove Fraught with the steam of lust not love Time was you say I priz'd the face High and renown'd as if its grace Ore-past compare but now I seem Urg'd unto wrath to disesteem Honor's attendant unto thy praise And to disrobe thee of thy rays Disgorging thus such surfeits you Sound forth these words I am untrue 'T is true I said three Goddesses Grac'd thy rare parts as like to these Rich Juno was but like a Sow As foul as fat and so art thou Next wisdom was in Pallas but Thou like to her art turn'd a slut Eye-pleasing Venus would admit Delight in bed and you love it Incensed by thy wily mind I thus requite thee in thy kind Ore charg'd with anger venting spleen Yearst to one Fool one Slut one Quean Harbound in one I did compare thee Although truth known I seemed to spare thee Digest me as you please yet know Will ne're did mean what wit did show And though Art taught me to be bold No part I lov'd in thee but Gold Take this from me pray that a fool Espouse thee so thy filth may rule Detain no wise man for thy self No such will love thee but for thy wealth A cross Acrostick on two crost Lovers Though crost in our affections still the flames Of Honor shall secure our noble Names Nor shall our fate divorce our faith or cause The least Mislike of Loves diviner Laws Crosses sometimes are cures Now let us prove That no strength shall Abate the power of Love Honor wit beauty Riches wise men call Frail fortunes Badges In true love lies all Therefore to him we yield our Vows shall be Paid Read and written in Eternity That all may know when men grant no Redress Much love can sweeten the unhappiness Acrostick on Malt Malt is the grain of which we make strong Ale Ale is the liquor that doth make us merry Let but a Toast be put in 't 't will not fail To make the heart light and to sing down derry Another Malt is the grain by which a Fox we gain Ale is the liquor makes our tongues run quicker Let these two boast but the honor of a toast Then sit and tipple 't will your senses cripple Acrostick on time Time with his Sythe brings all to their last home In vain to plead none can withstand his doom Monarchs by Deaths triumphant hand are made Equal i th' grave unto the Sythe and Spade An Acrostick Epitaph on a virtuous Gentlewoman Askest thou Reader who it is lies here No common corps then list and thou shalt hear Goodness rare meekness zeal pure chastity Interr'd together in this ground do lie Behold her acts whilst here she made abode She liv'd belov'd of men dy'd lov'd of God Acrostick on Death Death is the last end of our mortal Race Each hour we spend we thither hie apace A little time it is in life we have Today w' are here tomorrow in our Grave Help us then Lord no aid but thee we crave ANAGRAMS Anagram TOAST A SOTT Exposition A TOAST is like a Sot or what is most Comparative a Sot is like a Toast For when their substances in liquor sink Both properly are said to be in drink Anagram SMOCK MOCKS Exposition Strait-smocks to whoremasters do oft prove Mocks Who thereupon do bann and curse Strait-smocks Anagram ROUND-HEADS HEAVENS ROD. Exposition When Cavaliers by sin offended God The bloody Round-heads were made Heavens Rod. Anagram JOHN TAYLOR Water Poet. LOYAL IN HART Exposition And well he did deserve this Anagram Who was unto his end a Loyal

Makes them so highly prized Yet not one well of ten can tell If ere they were baptized And if not then 't is a blot Past cure of Spunge or Leather And we may sans question say The Devil was their Godfather Now to leave them he receive them Whom they most confide in Whom that that is ask Tib or Sis Or any whom next you ride in If in sooth she speaks the truth She says excuse I pray you The beast you ride where I confide Will in due time convey you A Song MIstake me not I am as cold as hot For though thine eyes betrays my heart o're night Ere morn ere morn ere morning all is right Sometimes I burn And then do I return There 's nothing so unconstant as my mind I change I change I change even as the wind Perhaps in jest I said I lov'd the best But 't was no more than what was long before I 'd vow'd I 'd vow'd I 'd vow'd to twenty more Then I prethee see I give no heart to thee For when I ne're could keep my own one day What hope what hope what hope hadst thou to stay A Song I Loved a Lass alass my folly Was full of her coy of disdaining I courted her thus what shall I sweet Molly Do for thy dear loves obtaining At length I did dally so long with my Molly That Molly for all her faining Had got such a Mountain above her Valley That Molly came home complaining The Invitation VVHy sit you here so dull You lively Lads that love The pleasure of the Plains And sport inchanting Jove My merry Muse brings other News And time invites to go Fill Nectars cup the Hare is up We come to sing so-ho My pipe is of the pure Cane of a Winter-corn By force of Cynthia's lure Transform'd into a Horn. Aurora's look hath chang'd my Crook Into a bended bow And Pan shall keep my patient sheep While here we sing so ho. Let us be like the Swains That only undergoes The pleasures of the Plains In place where Boreas blows And every night take our delight With our she-friend and so Both night and day we 'l sport and play And merrily sing So Ho. To make much of Time GAther your Rose-buds whilst you may Old time is still a flying And that same flower that smiles to day To morrow will be dying The glorious Lamp of Heaven the Sun The higher he is getting The sooner will his Race be run And nearer to his setting That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer And being spent the Worst and worst Times still succeed the former Then be not coy but use your time And while you may go marry For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry The Prisoner VVHen Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my Gates And my divine Althea begins To whisper at the Grates When I lay tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye The Gods that wander in the air Know no such liberty When flowing Cups run swiftly round With no allaying thames Our careless heads with Roses round Our hearts with loyal flames When thirsty grief in wine we steep When Healths and Draughts go free Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty When like committed Linnets I With shriller throat shall sing The Sweetness Mercy Majesty And Glories of my King When I shall sing aloud how good He is how great should be ●nlarged winds that curl the floods Know no such liberty ●tone walls do not a Prison make Nor Iron bars a Cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage ●● I had freedom in my love And in my soul am free Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such Liberty A Song Earn'd shade of Tycho Brache who to us The Stars prophetick Language didst impart And even in life their mysteries discuss My Mistress has o'rethrown my strongest art When custom stragles from her beaten path Then accidents must needs uncertain be ●or if my Mistress smile though winter hath ●ockt up the rivers Summer's warm in me And Flora by the miracle reviv'd Doth even at her own beauty wondering stand ●ut should she frown the Northern wind arriv'd ●n midst of Summer hends his frozen band Which doth to Ice my youthful blood congeal ●et in the midst of Ice still flames my zeal The Lover I Must confess I am in love Although I thought I never should It is with one dropt from above Whom Nature made of purer mould So sweet so fair so all divine I 'de quit the world to make her mine Have you not seen the Stars retreat When Sol salutes the Hemisphere So shines the Beauty called great When fair Rosella doth appear Where she as other women are I need not court her nor despair But I could never bear a mind Willing to stoop to common faces Nor confidence enough could find To aim at one so full of graces Fortune and Nature did agree No woman should be fit for me Yet when her mind is firmly set To lend a smile to none but me Then shall I all my joys forget And smile at quondam misery He who hath such a heavenly mate May think himself most fortunate My dear Rosella make my bliss Happy by your most sweet consent Then shall I think no life like this Which brings to me so much content And you shall by this bargain win Although you loose the Fort within What life so sweet as natural love It doth expel all worldly care It makes us like the gods above And shews us truly what we are Where true love reigns there is small odds ●etwixt us mortals and the Gods Upon passionate Love NO man loves fiery passion can approve As either yielding pleasure or promotion ● like a mild and luke-warm zeal in love Although I do not like it in devotion ●esides man need not love unless he please No destiny can force mans disposition How then can any die of that disease When as himself may be his own Physician Some one perhaps in long Consumption dry'd And after falling into love may die But I dare lay my life he ne're had dy'd Had he been healthy at the heart as I. Some others rather than incur the slander Of false Apostates may true Martyrs prove But I am neither Iphis nor Leander I 'le neither hang nor drown my self for love Yet I have been a Lover by report And I have dy'd for love as others do But prais'd be Jove it was in such a sort That I reviv'd within an hour or two Thus have I lov'd thus have I liv'd till now And know no reason to repent me yet And he that any otherwise shall do His courage is no better than his wit EPIGRAMS New and Old To the Reader THou that read'st those if thou commendst them all Thou 'st too much milk if none thou 'st too much gall Another MY Book the World is Verses are the men You find as

they are and kiss it thrice so doing their devotion to Mahomet The carrying it about the streets hath no question in it a touch of the Jew this Ceremony being borrowed from that of carrying about the Ark on the shoulders of the Levites The other main part of it which is the Adoration is derived from the Heathens there never being a people but they which afforded divine honors to things inanimate But the people indeed I cannot blame for this Idolatrous devotion their Consciences being perswaded that which they see pass by them is the very body of their Saviour Certainly could the like belief possess the understanding of Protestants they would meet it with as great devotion The Priests and Doctors of the people therefore are to be condemned onely who impose and enforce this sin upon their Hearers and doubtless there is a reward which attendeth them for it Pope Innocent about the year 1215. in a Council at Rome was the first ordained it ordering that there should be a Pix made to cover the Bread and a Bell bought to ring before it The Adoration of it was enjoyned by Pope Honorius An. 1226. both afterwards encreased by the new Solemn Fast of Corpus Chrisbi day by Pope Urban the fourth An. 1264. and confirmed for ever with multitudes of Pardons in the Council of Vienna by Clement the fifth An. 1310. Qu. What other Popes were they which brought up as ridiculous Customs stil used amongst them An. Sergius the second was the first that changed his name for thinking his own name Bocca de Porco or Swines mouth not consonant to his dignity he caused himself to be called Sergius which president his Successours have followed varying their names contrary to their natures So if one be a Coward he is called Leo if a Tyrant Clement if an Atheist Pius or Innocens if a Rustick Urbanus and so of the rest Sextus the fourth brought in Beads and our Ladies Psalter Sergius the third instituted the bearing about of Candles for the purification of the blessed Virgin Mary Celestine the second was the Inventer of that mad kinde of Cursing by Bell Book and Candle Sergius the fourth was the first that on Christmas night with divers Ceremonies consecrated Swords Roses or the like which afterward are sent as a Token of love and honor to such Princes as they like best Leo the tenth sent a consecrated Rose to Frederick Duke of Saxony desiring him to banish Luther The like did Clement the seventh to our Henry the eighth for writing against Luther Paul the third sent an hallowed Sword to James the fifth of Scotland when he began the War with our Henry the eighth The like did Julius the second to our Henry the seventh in his Wars against his Rebels Boniface the eighth instituted the Roman Jubile and decreed that it should be solemnized every hundred years but by Clement the sixth it was brought to fifty Clement the fift first brought in Pardons and Indulgences and such like trumpery Qu. What is the Popes chief stile wherein the number of the Beast is reckoned as in the thirteenth of the Revelation and the last Verse is manifested in these words Here is wisdome let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 666 An. VIcarIVs generaL Is DeI In terris Englished Gods General upon Earth Thus reckoned DCLVVIIIIII Qu. What is the Anagram of Roma the Latine word for Rome An. Amor or Love which one cast into this Distich Hate and Debate Rome through the world hath spread Yet Roma Amor is if backward read Then is 't not strange Rome hate should foster No For out of backward love all hate doth grow Qu. What number was most fatal to Rome An. The sixth number according to this Verse Sextus Tarquintus Sextus Nero Sextus iste Scilicet Papa Alexander 6. Semper sub sextis perdita Roma fuit What other names or numbers to her won In the sixth still she lost was Rome undone Qu. Why is Rome taken to be Babylon mentioned in the Revelations An. Because it is said there that the whore thereof sitteth on a beast with seven heads which cannot so properly be understood of any place as this being built upon seven hills namely 1 Palatinus 2 Capitolinus 3 Viminalis 4 Aventinus 5 Esquilinus 6 Caetius 7 Quirnialis governed by seven Kings viz. 1 Romulus 2 Numa 3. Annus Martius 4 Tullus Hostilius 5 Tarquin Priscus 6 Servius Tullus 7 Tarquin superbus And acknowledging several sorts of Rulers 1 Kings 2 Consuls 3. Decemviri 4 Tribunes 5 Dictators 6 Emperors and 7 Popes Qu. How many times hath Rome been taken by forraign Nations An. Ten. 1. By the Gauls under the conduct of Brennus the brother of Belinus King of Britain 2. By Alarick King of the Gothes who conquered Rome Campania and Naples 3. By Genserick King of the Vandals a people which inhabited the Countrey now called Swethland 4. By Totila King of the Gothes 5. By Odoarer King of the Heruli who drave Augustus out of Italy and twice in thirteen years laid the Countrey desolate 6. By Theodoricus King of the Gothes called by Zeno the Emperor to expel Odoarer 7. By Gundebald King of the Burgundians who having ransacked all Italy returned home leaving the Gothes in possession of the same who after they had continued there seventy two years were at last subdued by Belisarius and Narses two of the bravest Captains that served the Roman Emperors This Belisarius was a true Example of the mutability of Fortune who having served his Countrey in great Command for many years was at last brought to that necessity as to stand by the high-wayside and beg Date obolum Belisario Give a half-penny to Belisarius 8. The eight time was by the Moors and Sarazens followers of Mahomet his Law Gregory the fourth being Pope 9. By Henry the fourth Emperor of Germany Gregory the seventh being Pope 10. By Charles Duke of Burbon An. 1528. in which Rome suffered more than by the siege and sacking of the most barbarous Nations Clement the seventh being then Pope Qu. How many Natural Languages or Mother Tongues which have no affinity with others are spoken in Europe An. Fourteen 1. Irish spoken in Ireland and the West of Scotland 2. British in Wales 3. Cantabrian or Biscany nigh unto the Cantabrian Ocean and about the Pyrenian Hills 4. Arabique in the Mountains of Granada 5. Finnique in Findland and Lapland Dutch though with different Dialect in Germany Holland Denmark Swethland and Norway 7. Chanchian which the East Friezlanders or Canchi speak among themselves for to strangers they speak Dutch 8. Slavonish of great extent and use especially in the Turkish Countreys 9. Illyrian on the East side of Istria and in the Isle of Veggin 10. Greek 11. Hungarian 12. Epirotique in the Mountainous parts of the Kingdom of Hungary 13. Jaxygian on the North-side of Hungary between Danubius

alike An. In the Grave which shade Diogenes to say being searching in the Charnelhouse amongst the dead skuls that he could find no difference betwixt the skull of King Philip and another mans All in the Grave alike are made The Scepter and the Sithe and Spade Qu. What would become of a great sort of men if every one were served in their kind An. A number of Tailors would be damn'd for keeping a Hell under their Shop-board many Broakers would make their Wills'at Tiburn if the searching for stolen Goods which they have received should like a plague but once come amongst them Two parts of of the Land should be whpped at Bridewel for Leachery and three parts be set in the stocks for drunkenness Qu. Wherein hath the Beggar a priviledge over great persons An. In that he cannot fall lower than he is whereas the great man is subject to that of the Poet In ways to greatness think on this That slipp'ry all Ambition is Qu. What was the dyet of former ages in those days which were called the Golden Age of the world An. They catcht not their surfeits with eating of Capon Partridge and Pheasant their dyet was Apples Roots Nuts Dates ●igs c. and sometimes for rarities Butter Cheese and Eggs and for drink instead of Sack Claret Muscadine Ippocrass Mum Beer or Ale their beverage was the cool streams distilling from some uncorrupted Fountain a description whereof we have in the eighth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis concerning the entertainment which Philemon and Bancis gave to Jupiter and Mercury Ponitur hic bicolor sincerae bacca Minervae Intibaque radix lactis massa coacti Ovaque non acri leviter versata familla Prunaque in patulis redolentia mala camestris Hic nux hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis Et de purpureis collectae vitibus uvae Omnes fictilibus nitidae They on the table set Minerva's fruit The double colour'd Olive Endive root Radish and Cheese and to the Board there came A dish of Eggs rare roasted by the flame Next they had Nuts course dates and Lenten Figs And Apples from a basket made of twigs And Plums and Grapes cut newly from the Tree All serv'd in Earthen dishes Houswifely Qu. What passion is most natural unto Man An. Love which entereth in at the eyes and pierceth the heart many setling their loves on such objects for which they can give no reason Qu. Whether is Love the cause of likeness or likeness the cause of love An. Both. Qu. What creatures are those some living and some dead that rule all the world An. The Sheep the Goose and the Bee for the Sheep yields Parchment the Goose Quils to write it and the laborious Bee brings Wax to seal it as one hath wittily deliver'd in these verses The Bee the Goose the Sheep Do so maintain the might Of Monarchs Kings and States That wrong suppress not right The Bee brings sealing Wax The Goose our writing Quils The Sheep his Parchment coat or skin For Deeds and dead mens Wills Qu. What is the general saying concerning the Italian women An. That they are Mag-pies at the door Saints in the Church Goats in the Garden Devils in the House Angels in the Streets and Syrens in the Windows Qu. What Passion is most prevailing over the nature of man An. Fear of which we read that it hath in one night turned the hair of the head from black to white but most memorable is that example of one who was pretended to be let blood to death for being blinded and his arms bound the Chyrurgions that were about him only saying How bravery he bleeds on his arm How gallantly on that although they did nothing to him at last one saying Now the blood comes from his very heart when they came to unblind him they found him liveless struck stark dead with a panick fear Qu. Why is man called Microcosmus or the little world An. As being the Epitome of the great Volume of Nature borrowing from the Angels soul from the brute Animals sense from Plants life from other creatures bigness but above all inferiors is endued with that prerogative of casting up his eyes to Heaven to behold the excellencies of the Creation wherein other Creatures are deficient Pronaque cum spectent anim alia caetera terram Os homini sublime dedit coelumque videre Jussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus And where all beasts look with grovelling eye He gave to man looks mixt with Majesty And will'd him with bold face to view the Skie Qu. What Art is that which makes use of the vilest things in the world An. Physick which makes use of Scorpions Flies Wasps Serpents Ear-wiggs Toads and such like nothing though to our apprehension never so seeming vile but serves to some use according to that of the Poet There 's nought so vile that on the Earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give Nor ought so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from virtue stumbling on abuse Virtue it self turns Vice being mis-apply'd And Vice sometimes by action 's dignifi'd Qu. Whether is the life of a rich covetous Citizen that swims in wealth and treasure caring for none nor beloved of any or the lives of a Countrey Yeoman or Farmer who lives in a mediocrity betwixt poverty and riches yet content with his estate which of these two is first to be preferred An. Better it is in the solitary woods and in the wild fields to be a man among beasts than in the midst of a peopled City to be a beast among men In the homely village art thou more safe than in a fortified Castle the stings of Envy nor the bullets of Treason are never shot through those thin wal Sound Healths are drunk out of the wooden dish when the Cup of Gold boyls over with poyson The Countrey cottage is neither batter'd down by the Cannon in the time of War nor pestered with clamorous Suits in time of Peace The fall of Cedars that tumble from the tops of Kingdoms the ruine of great Houses that bury families in their overthrow and the noise of shipwrack that beget even shricks in the hearts of Cities never send their terrors thither that place stands as safe from the shock of such violent storms as the Bay-tree does from lightening Qu. Who are the subjects that pay tribute to the Countrey Farmer An. The Meadow gives him her pasture the Trees pay custom with their fruit the Plough sends him in Corn the Ox bestows upon him his labor and the Sheep cloathes him with his wool Qu. How came the famous Poet Buchanan off when travelling into Italy he was for the freeness of his writing suspected of his Religion and taken hold of by some of the Popes Inquisitors An. By writing to his Holiness this Distich Laus tua non tua fraus virtus non copia rererum Scandere te fecit hoc decus eximium

the Coach in which she came thither giving her by that ceremony to understand that she must restra in her self from gadding abroad and that being now joyned to an Husband she must frame her self to live and tarry with him without any hope of departure Qu. Wherein is a good wife compared to a Snail An. Because she carries her house on her head but a bad wife makes her husband headed like a Snail I know not which lead most unnatural lives Horn-headed husbands or light wag-tayl'd wives Qu. Whether is better wealth or wit An. This may be resolved by several circumstances that folly is the most hatefullest thing in the world a man without wisdom is but a moving block and though adorned with golden trappings his long ears will show him to be an Ass for folly in a mans breast like the sin of murther will not be hid Qu. Why do rich men love more servently than poor men An. Though some do say that in Love there is no lack yet when once wealth Loves fuel is spent we oftentimes see Love thereby is also extinguisht according to that of the Poet Love is maintain'd by wealth when all is spent Adversity then breeds the discontent Qu. What four things be those that be grievous to our eye sight An. 1. Smoke out of the moist Wood. 2. Wind in a storm 3. An empty purse 4. To see our enemies fortunate and our 〈…〉 Qu. In what place of Europe is it where the Barrels are so much preferred before the Bar An. Hamburg in Germany in which Town are 777 Brewers and but one Lawyer the reason why there is such a huge disproportion between the number of Brewers and Lawyers is because their differences are sooner divided over a Can than by course of Law thus strong beer which in some Countries breeds quarrels here ends them where strife ceaseth there is little need of the Lawyer Qu. What man of all others is most worldly miserable An. He who having once sate on the top of Fortunes Wheel is after by the blind Goddess brought to want and penury according to the Poet Adversity hurts none but only such Whom whitest Fortune dandled has too much Qu. Of which Countrey were the seven Sleepers what were their names and how long according to tradition was the time that they slept An. History tells us that they were born in Ephesus and lived in the time of the seventh persecution under Decian the Emperor their names were 1. Maximilian 2. Malchus 3. Marcianus 4. Denis 5. Iohn 6. Seraphion and 7. Constantius These men to avoid the heat of the persecution fled to a Cave in the mount of Celion where they fell fast a sleep which Caves mouth was stopped up by their persecutors and they remained sleeping therein 208 years until the time of Theodosius the Emperor when it being again opened they came out of the same well and lively as if they had slept but one night Qu. Who is the Father of all Lies and untruths An. We read in the Scripture that the Devil is the Father of lies to which we may add as a second cause wide-mouth'd tatling Fame according to that of the Poet Error by Error tales by tales great grow As Snowbals do by rouling to and fro To which also we may add that of Ovid. The thing false told grows great as it would burst And every one adds second to the first Qu. What is the Character that one giveth in his censure of several Kings in Europe An. That the Emperor of Germany is Rex Regum because he hath under him such a number of Reguli or free Princes the King of Spain Rex Hominum because of his subjects reasonable obedience the King of France Rex Asinorum because of their infinite Taxes and impositions and the King of England Rex Diabolorum because of his subjects often insurrections against and depositions of their Princes Of the River Nilus in Egypt It is uncertain where this famous River hath its head or Fountain whether in the Mountain of the Moon or the Lake Zembre in Aethiopia interior but certain it is that it runneth in one continual Channel till it washeth the midland of Aegypt having in the mean space several Cataracts which is a great fall of the waters that maketh such a hideous noise as not only deafeth the by-dwellers but the Hills also are torn with the sound as Lucan hath it Cuncta tremunt undis multo murmure montus Spumens invictis albescit fluctibus amnis The noise the mountains shakes who roar in spight To see th'unvanquisht waves cloath'd all in white Before it taketh its influx into the Sea it divideth it self into seven Channels or Mouths namely 1. Heracleoticum 2. Bolviticum 3. Schanitium 4. Patinicum 5. Mendesium 6 Caniticum 7. Pebusiacum This Nilus from the 15. day of June swelleth above his banks the space of forty days and in as many more gathereth his waters again to their proper bounds If it flow not to the height of fifteen Cubits then the earth is deficient in her abundance of encrease for want of moisture and if the waters surmount the superficies of the earth more than seventeen Cubits then like a drunken man it cannot produce its natural operations as having its stomach as it were over-laid and surcharged with too much liquor but if the mean be granted no Countrey can brag of such abundance whereof the aforesaid Lucan Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Iovis in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo the Earth content with its own wealth doth crave No forraign Mars nor Jove himself they have Their hopes alone in Nilus fruitful wave During this inundation the Beasts and Cattel live on the Hills and in the Towns to which they are before hand driven and there are till decrease of the waters fodderd As for the Towns and Villages they stand all on the tops of the Hills and at the time of the Flood appear like so many Islands commerce and entercourse is not a jot diminished for Skifs and the like Boats supply the places of Horses and Camels transporting safely and speedily the market-men and their commodities from one Town to another Now beside the fertility a second commodity arising from this inundation of the Nile is the health it bringeth with it for the plague which here often miserably rageth upon the first day of the Flood doth instantly cease insomuch that whereas 500 die in Caire the day before the day following there dyeth not one A third strangeness in this River is that keeping its waters together it changeth the colour of the Sea farther into the Mediterranean than the Sea can thence be discerned A fourth miracle is that not in fruit onely but in producing live creatures also it is even to wonder fruitful according to Ovid Namque ubi discernit madidos septemsluus agros Nilus antiquo sua flumina reddidit alveo Plurima Cultores versis

that lives Great wife rich fair in all superlatives Yet I these favors would more free resign Than ever Fortune would have had them mine I count one minute of my holy leisure Beyond the mirth of all this earthly pleasure Welcome pure thoughts welcome ye careless Groves These are my Guests this is the court age loves The winged people of the skies shall sing Me Anthems by my sellers gentle Spring Divinity shall be my Looking glass Wherein I will adore sweet Virtues face Here dwells no heartless Loves no pale fac't Fears No short Joys purchas'd with eternal tears Here will I sit and sing my hot youths folly And learn to affect an holy Melancholy And if Contentment be a stranger then I 'le ne're look for it but in Heaven agen Humane Life Charactered by Francis Viscount St. Albanes THe World 's a Bubble And the Life of Man Less than a span In his Conception wretched From the Womb So to the Tomb Curs'd from his Cradle And brought up to years With Care and Fears Who then to frail Mortality shall trust But lines the water and doth write in dust Yet whiles with sorrow Here we live opprest What life is best Courts are but Superficial Schools To dandle fools The Rural parts Are turn'd into a Den Of savage men And where 's a City from all vice so free But may be term'd the worst of all the three Domestick Care Afflicts the Husbands bed Or pains his head Those that love single Take it for a Curse Or do things worse Some wish for Children Those that have them none Or wish them gone What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double strife Our own affections Still at home to please Is a Disease To cross the Seas To any forraign Soil Peril or toil Wars with their noise affrighe us And when they cause We are worse in peace What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born or being born to die A Prisoners Complaint I La●e us'd to resort unto the B●ook To catch the fish with either net or hook Where as 〈◊〉 creatures did I le●rn unto me From danger neither land nor waters free For whilest on Fowls Fishes and Beasts we feed Earth Air and Water shall be ransacked The gluttenous belly to satisfie Thus to preserve one Creatures life how many creatures die I late used to walk abroad i' th fields To take the pleasure spring and summer yields Whereas the Flowers denote to me Of our short life the mutability One day in pomp next day i' th dirt they lie This day we live too morrow we may die For this our life 's so short and full of sorrow None can assure himself to day he shall live till to morrow I once us'd to rise early in the morn To hunt the Fox that enemy to Corn And chase the timerous Hare and by that way I had both pleasure and sometimes a prey But of those Joys I am now quite bereft And unto me alass is nothing left But the remembrance only poor relief To think on Joys that now are past to ease my present grief The Description of a Chast Mistress LIke the Violet which alone Prospers in some happy shade Such my Mistress lives unknown To no looser eye betraid For she 's to her self untiue Who delights i' th publick view Such her beauty as no Arts Have enricht with borrowed grace Her high Birth no pride imparts For she blushes in her place Folly boasts a glorious blood She is noblest being good Cautious she knew never yet What a wanton Courtship meant Nor speaks loud to boast her wit In her silence eloquent Of her self survey she takes But 'tween men no difference makes She obeys with speedy will Her grave Parents wise commands And so innocent that ill She nor acts nor understands Womens feet run still astray If once to ill they know the way She say is by that Rock the Court Where oft Honour splits her Mast And Retir'dness thinks the Port Where her Fame may Anchor cast Vertue safely cannot sit Where Vice is enthron'd for Wit She holds that days pleasure best Where sin waits not on delight Without Masque or Ball or Feast Sweetly spends a winters night O're that darkness whence is thrust Prayer and sleep oft governs lust She her throne makes reason climb While wild passions captive lie And each article of time Her pure thoughts to Heaven fly All her Vows religious be And her Love she vows to me The Surprizal Or Loves Tyranny THere 's no dallying with Love Though he be a Child and and blind Then let none the danger prove Who would to himself be kind Smile he does when thou dost play But his smiles to death betray Lately with the Boy I sported Love I did not yet love feign'd Had no Mistress yet I courted Sigh I did yet was not pain'd Till at last his love in jest Prov'd in earnest my unrest When I saw my fair One first In a feigned fire I burn'd But true flames my poor heart pierc't When her eyes on mine she turn'd So a real wound I took For my counterfeited look Slighted Love his skill to show Struck me with a mortal dart Then I learn'd that ' gainst his Bow Vain are all the helps of Art And thus captiv'd found that true Doth dissembled Love pursue Cause his fetters I disclaimed Now the Tyrant faster bound me With more scorching Bonds in flamed Cause in love so cold he found me And my sighs more scalding made Cause with winds before they plaid Who love not then ô make no shew Love 's as ill deceiv'd as Fate Fly the Boy he 'l cog and woo Mock him and he 'l wound the strait They who dally boast in vain False love wants not real pain Choice Songs which sometimes may be used for the sweetning of tedious Discourse The Baseness of the Whores TRust no more a wanton Whore If thou lov'st health and freedom They are so base in every place 'T is pity that bread should fed 'em All their sence is impudence Which some call good conditions Stink they do above ground too Of Surgeons and Physicians If you are nice they have their spice On which they 'l chew to slour you And if you not discern the plot You have no Nose about you Together more they have in store For which I deadly hate 'em Persumed gear to stuff each ear And for their cheeks Pomatum Liquorish sluts they feast their guts At Chuffins cost like Princes Amber Plums and Macaroons And costly candied Quinces Potato-pies supports the Rump Eringo strengthens Nature Viper wine to heat the Chine They 'l gender with a Satyr Names they own are never known Throughout their generation Noblemen are kin to them At least by approbation If any dote on a Gay-coat But mark what there is stampt on 't A Stone-horse wild with Tool defil'd Two Goats a Lyon Rampant Truth to say Paint and Array

man Or thus Well was thy Anagram Loyal in Hart Who from thy Loyalty did never start Anagram LOSTE STOLE Exposition This Anagram mysterious sence may boast For what is stole is found in what was lost Anagram JAYLER A RAYLE Exposition This doth befit the Jaylor wondrous trim He at the Prisoners Rails and they at him FANCIES A Fancy upon words HE that 's devoted to the GLASS The Dice or a Lascivious LASS At his own price is made an ASS. He that is greedy of the GRAPE On reason doth commit a RAPE And changeth habit with an APE The Lover whose devotion FLIES Up to the Sphere where bounty LIES Makes Burning-glasses of his EYES If long he to that Idol PRAY His sight by Loves inflaming RAY Is lost for ever and for AY He that loves Glass without a G Leave out L and that is he EVANK is a word of fame Spell it backward it is your name These Lines may be read backwards or forwards being both ways alike Deer Madam Reed Deem if I meed Another to the same effect Lewd did I live and Evil did I dwel Thoughts   valued     c   may B. Searching   Love   ICVB 2 yy for me Qu   a   d   tr   fu   stra     os   nguis   irus   isti de   nere   vit H   Sa   m   Chr   vul   la.   Quos anguis dirus tristi de funere stravit Hos Sanguis mirus Christi de vulnere lavit The Countrey-Mans Guide OR AN APPENDIX For the Use Of the Country-man Containing divers necessary and useful Rules and Instructions of the Year Moneths and Days With other things of delight and profit Being brief Explanations of many things which to an intelligible Reader may seem ambiguous Calculated by Art for the Benefit of all those which desire to understand what they buy or read London Printed in the Year 1680. The Country-Mans Guide Of a Year what it is with the difference betwixt the English and Gregorian Account A Year is that space of time wherein the Sun runs his perambulation through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack containing 12 Solar moneths 13 Lunar 52 weeks 365 days 6 hours and 6 minutes which 6 hours in four years space being added together make one day which we commonly call Bissextile or Leap-year and is added to the Kalendar on the 25 of February making that moneth every fourth year 29 days long which at other times is but 28. This account was thus named by Julius Caesar the first Roman Emperor who reduced the year to a better method than before and from him it was called the Julian Account yet still the six minutes remained un-numbred which in tract of time arose to some dayes and therefore Gregory Pope of Rome to make the year exactly answerable to the Suns diurnal course casting up the days which those minutes amounted unto placed his Festivals exactly answerable to the Suns progress which in sixteen hundred years hath amounted to ten days and is from him called the Gregorian Account being used in all those parts beyond Sea which acknowledge the Popes Supremacy Qu. From whence do the twelve Moneths derive their Names An. January is so called from Janus who was pictured with two faces signifying the beginning or entrance of the year February took its name from Febura March from Mars the God of War April signifieth the growth or springing of the year May is the Majors and June the Juniors season July was so called from Julius Caesar August from Augustus the second Roman Emperor September signifieth the seventh moneth for the Romans before the time of Julius Coesar reckoned their moneths from March so October signifieth the eighth November the ninth and December the tenth which if you reckon from January the account will be otherwise Qu. How many days is in each moneth An. Thirty days hath September April June and November All the rest hath thirty and one Except it be February alone But every Leap year at that time February hath twenty nine Of the day with several divisions thereof An Artificial day consists of 12 hours a Natural Day 24 hours The Athenians began their Day from Sun-set but the Jews Chaldeans and Babylonians from Sun-rise The Egyptians and Romans from midnight of whom we took pattern to count the hours from thence the Umbrians from noon The parts of a politick or civil day according to Macrobius are these The first time of the day is after midnight the second in Latine Gallicinium Cocks crow the third Canticinium the space between the first Cock and Break of day the fourth Diluculum the break or dawn of the day the fifth Mane the morning the sixth Meridies noon or Mid-day the seventh Pomeridies the afternoon the eighth Serum diei Sun-set the ninth Suprema tempestas twi-light tenth Vesper the Evening the eleventh Prima Lux Candle time the twelfth Nox concubia bed-time the thirteenth Nox intempesta the dead time of the night The Jews did divide their Artificial day into four Quarters allowing to every Quarter three hours accounting the first hour of the first Quarter at the Rising of the Sun and the third hour of the second Quarter they called the third hour and the third hour of the second Quarter they called the sixth hour which was mid-day The third hour of the third Quarter the ninth hour and the second hour of the fourth Quarter the eleventh hour and the twelfth and last hour of the day they call Even-tide The day is accounted with us for the payments of money between Sun and Sun but for Indictments of murther the day is accounted from midnight to midnight and so likewise are fasting days The Principal Feasts and Holy-days in the whole year expounded SInce more buy Almanacks than understand them and are ignorant of our Festival days for their better understanding I shall briefly yet plainly anatomize and declare the meaning of them Sunday or our Lords day dies Diminicus is a day dedicated by the Apostles to the more particular service and honour of Almighty God and transfer'd from the Jewish Sabbath to the day following in memory that Christ our Lord rose from the dead and sent down the Holy Ghost on that day whence it is called our Lords Day and Sunday from the old Heathen denomination of dies Solis the day of the Sun to which it was sacred though others think it took its name from the Son of God his rising from the Grave that day to which thus alluded Mr. Owen in his Epigrams Sunday I 'le call that day spight of precise On which the glorious Son of God did rise 1. Jan. The Circumcision of our Lord vulgarly called Newyears-day was instituted in memory of the Circumcision of our Lord on the eighth day from his Nativity according to the prescript of the old Law Gen 17. 12 when he was named Jesus as the Angel hath foretold Luk. 1. 14.