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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

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

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

may not do rightly understand the ways of God A. 1 Dead men who neither do nor can understand his ways 2 Wicked men who may but care not to understand them 3 Fools who desire but have not the apprehension to do it 4 The godly who both understand and practise the same Q. How many sorts of Fasts are used in the world A. Six The sick mans Fast the poor mans Fast the misers Fast the gluttons Fast the hypocrites Fast and the godly mans Fast all which are set down in these following Verses Experience out of Observation says Six sorts of people keep their Fasting days Which if you will in order have them shown Then thus they are distinguisht every one The sick man fasts because he cannot eat The poor man fasts because he wanteth meat The miser fasts with greedy mind to spare The glutton fasts to eat a greater share The hypocrite he fasts to seem more holy The righteous man to punish sinful folly Q. Who be those that lye most freely and without controul A. 1. Great men that few dare reprove 2. Old men that few can gain-say 3. Poets who do it Poetica Licentia 4. Travellers that may lye by authority Q. What two things are those by which many persons are quite ruined and lost both in their Estates and Reputations A. Hounds and Dice of the first of which one thus writeth It is not poor Actaeon 's case alone Hounds have devour'd more Masters sure than one And for Dice the far worse of the two it is almost an infallible fore-runner of misery accompanied with cursed swearing banning fighting and many other mischiefs attendant to it the final end of it being beggary according as one thus Writes Ludens taxillis bene respi●e quid sit in illis Spes tua res tua sors tua mors tua pendet ab illis In English He may suppose who ventureth at Dice Hope health wealth life may be lost in a trice Some to evade these reasons pretend a cunning that they have in the Art to which I answer That the more cunning any is in this Art the more wicked he is in his life and therefore I conclude that the best cast at Dice is to cast them quite away Q. What witty invention was that of him who having placed the Emperor and the Pope reconciled in their Majestick Thrones placed the States of the world before them and what was their several Motto's A. 1 A Counsellor of State had this I advise you 2 Then a Courtier with I flatter you 3 Then a Husbandman I feed you 4 Then a Merchant I match you 5 Then a Lawyer I fleece you 6 Then a Souldier I fight for you 7 Then a Physician I kill you 8 Then a Priest I absolve you all Q. Who was he that in the confusion of Tongues kept both his Language and Religion pure and unchangeable An. Heber the Father of Abraham who when all the rest of the world fell to Idolatry relapsed not from the truth but kept himself free from the impiety of Nimrod and his followers who sought to erect a Building that should reach to Heaven but could not go forward with their design being confounded with the diversity of Languages which was sent amongst them whereby one understood not the other Of which thus writeth the Divine Du Bartus Bring me quoth he a Tro●el quickly quick One brings him up a Hammer hew this Brick Another bids and then they cleave a Tree Make fast this Rope and then they let it flee One calls for Planks another Mortar lacks They bring the first a Stone the last an Ax. Q. In what place according to the opinion of some shall the General Judgment of mankind be A. In the Valley of Jehosaphat because it is said in one place of the Scripture Behold I will bring all Nations together in the Valley of Jehosaphat and plead with them there though others with more reason do think that the place as well as the time is unknown Q. Which deserves the greatest punishment the body or soul for the committting of sin A. Some are of opinion the Soul because without it the Body were nothing which actuates only what the Soul infuseth Others would have the Body as being the chief organ and actor of sin but that they are both culpable and deserve alike punishment is proved by this similitude A master committeth the charge of his Orchard to be kept by two whereof the one is blind the other lame The lame man having persect sight sees golden Apples hanging upon a Tree of which he informs the man that is blind they both covet after them notwithstanding they are forbidden and to attain their desires the blind man that was strong of his limbs takes up the seeing Cripple on his shoulders by which means they accomplish their desires pluck the Fruit and eat thereof Soon after the Master of the Orchard enters enquires and soon finds by whom it was done they were both equally culpable and so are punisht with alike punishment according as they had equally deserved In like manner both Body and Soul lending their furtherance to sin being alike guilty are inseparably punished together for ever Q. What ways did Philip King of Macedon use that he might not forget his mortality A. He had every morning a Page which used to awake him with these words Remember Sir that you are a man according as writes Philip King of Macedon Was daily ro●●s'd and call'd upon By a shrill Page whose Bonjours ran Remember Sir you are a man Q. What said the same King Philip when his Horse casting him on the ground he saw the print of his body in the dust A. See said he we covet the whole earth and how little sufficeth Q. Whether do fools profit more by wise men or wise men by fools A. Cato who himself was a wise man saith that fools are the most profitable to wise men who seeing their folly endeavour to avoid it whereas fools on the Contrary can make no profit of the wisdom of the wise by reason of their folly Q. How came Beda that ancient Father of the English Church to be called Venerabilis A. Some assign this reason that when he was old he became blind and keeping an unhappy Boy to guide him as he walked abroad this Boy one day led him to preach to a heap of stones where concluding his Sermon with Gloria Patri he was by them answered Amen Amen Venerabilis Beda Others say that at his death an unlearned Monk going about to write an Epitaph on him blunder'd thus far on a Verse Hic sunt in Fossa Bedae ossa leaving a space before the two last words and so went to bed which in the morning he found supplied by an unknown hand with the Title of Venerabilis so he made his verse and Beda got his name Q. What Persons of all others do lie in the greatest state A. Beggars who have the Heavens for their

Canopy Q. What is that which hath a voice but no Body speaks yet understands not itself what it says is often heard but never seen A. It is an Eccho said by Ovid to be a fair Maid that pined her self away to nothing for love Qu. Who are those amongst men that attempted to fly like birds A. Daedalus and Icarus Also one of our British Kings if the History of Geoffry of Monmouth be true who attempting to play the Fowl or rather the Fool fell down and brake his neck This King's name was Bladud It is also said that of late years an Italian flew from the top of St. Mark 's Tower in Venice and did it without hurt Q. What likeness have false men to countterfeit money A. Man and money a mutual falshood show Man makes false money money makes man so Q. To what are Souldiers in peace compared unto A. To Chimneys in Summer for though in hot weather we have no extraordinary need of Chimneys yet we do not pull them down as knowing that Winter will come in like manner Soldiers are continued in Peace either to prevent or to be ready if War do come Q. Amongst all Beasts and Birds which are of most beautiful and various colours yet not without some parts of great deformity A. The Peacock among Birds and the Panther among Beasts the first hath a very goodly Train but foul Feet The other a gay Body but deformed Head and therefore it is said that wanting Food and being a Beast but of slow pace she hideth her head whereat all the other Beasts come about her to wonder at her Beauty but coming within the reach of her Claws she catcheth them and makes them become her food Q. To what are out-side Gallants likened unto A. To Cinnamon trees whose bark is better than their whole body Q. What was the old saying concerning Friends A. That it was good to have Friends but bad to need their help since true friendship indeed is very rare No such friends to be found now adays as was Damon and Pythias Alexander and Lodowick Musidorus and Pyrocles Friendship extending now no further than profit according as one wittily versifies Friends like to leaves that on the Trees do grow In Summers prosperous state much love will shew But art thou in adversity then they Like leaves from trees in Autumn fall away He happy is that hath a friend indeed But he more happy that no friend doth need Q. What makes silver look so pale A. To this Diogenes the Cynick answers that it is because so many lies in wait for it Q. Why is it said 't is good to have a wolf cross the way and bad to have a Hare cross it A. By this is meant that when a Wolf crosses away from us it is good luck that we scape him and if a Hare it is bad luck that that scapes us but for any future things that is boded by them I am of the opinion of Cato who when one would needs know what harm attended him by reason that Rats had gnawn his Hose he answered That it was no strange thing to see that but it had been much more strange if his Hose had eaten the Rats Q. Who was the two men the one whereof was never born but died the other was born but never died Ans Adam and Enoch Q. Why do so many men praise poverty and yet covet after riches A. Their actions shew they mean not as they say for although the poor are accounted blessed yet most of them are of Ovid's mind Non tamen haec tanti est pauper ut esse velim Though blessings be for them in store To be their Heir I 'de not be poor Q. Who was the greatest Traveller in his time A. Sir Francis Drake who first put a Girdle about the world of whom a Wit in that Age thus descants Drake who th' encomapss'd Earth so fully knew And whom at once both Poles of Heaven did view Should men forget thee Sol could not forbear To Chronicle his Fellow-Traveller Q. What is the most beautiful thing in the world A. One said the Sun which if so then were blind men of all others most miserable but certainly virtue is most resplendent of all things and which is to be discerned by the eyes of the Soul wherein blind men of all others have the greatest help of Contemplation Q. What is the heaviest burthen that the earth bears A. Sin which is more ponderous than the biggest Mountains or greatest Piles of buildings for it weigheth down even to Hell Q. Which is the longest Letter in the Alphabet A. The letter L. which is more than a yard long Q. Which is the most unnecessary Letter in the Alphabet A. K. because C. is of the same sound Q. What three Vowels are most pernicious to Debtors A. These three IOV. Q. What two words are those that trouble the world A. Meum and Tuum Thine and Mine Q. What are the principal causes of the greatness of Cities A. Although they are many in number yet they are reduced principally to these seven 1. A Navigable River by which there may be continual concourse of Merchants as may be seen by Venice Amsterdam Constantinople and our Metropolitan City of London which as it is thought had it not been for the River of Thames would not have gone on so forward in the rebuilding since that terrible conflagration thereof by fire which may be evidenced in that the buildings towards the River side were the first begun and are the forwardest in finishing 2. The Palace of the Prince for where the Court is there will be continually store of Nobility and Gentry which enriches Tradesmen by selling commodities to them one instance whereof we have by Madrid in Spain which is grown from a mean Village to a very populous City only by the Kings Court. 3. The Residence of the Nobility by whom beautiful Buildings and stately Structures are raised to the great adornment thereof as may be seen in the Cities of Italy where their Nobles and Gentry constantly reside as ours do in Towns and Villages 4. The Seat or Tribunal of Justice which invites Lawyers and their Clients thither in abundance to the great enriching thereof as may be evidenced by the Parliamentary Cities of France and Spiers in Germany 5. Universities or publick Schools of Learning which draw thither the Sons of several Noble persons and Gentlemen from the adjoyning Counties to the great benefit and profit thereof as Paris well knoweth Oxford Collen and several other places 6. Immunities from Taxes and Impositions which cause many persons to come and inhabit in such places their Income being thereby greatest and their Priviledges most as in Naples Florence and Venice which being almost desolate by a Plague were again very suddenly peopl'd by granting Immunities to all Comers 7. The last but not the least is opinion of Sanctity as was evidenced in former times bp the City of Canterbury to