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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08592	A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1614 (1614)	STC 18904; ESTC S120266	28,037	66

vnderstand are three degrees not vnderstood That country ambition is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there is nothing aboue a man That fighting i● a Seruingmans valour martyrdom their Masters That to liue long is to fill vp the daies wee liue That the ●●ale of some mens religion reflects from their friends That the pleasure of vice is indulgence of the present for it endures but the acting That the properreward of goodnesse is from within the externall is pollicie That good and ill is the crosse and pile in the game of life That the soule is the lampe of the body reason of the soule religion of reason faith of religion Christ of faith That circumstances are the atomies of policie censure the being action the life but successe the ornament That authoritie presseth downe with weight and is thought violence policie trips vp the heeles and is called dexteritie That this life is a throng in a narrow passage hee that is first out finds ease hee in the middle worst hemb'd in with troubles the hindmost that driues both our afore him though not suffering wrong hath his part in doing it That God requires of our debts a reckoning not payment That heauen is the easiest purchase for wee are the richer for the disbursing That liberalitie should haue no obiect but the poore if our minds were rich That the misterie of greatnesse is to keep the inferior ignorant of it That all this is no newes to a better wit That the Citie cares not what the Country thinks Sr. T. R. Newes from the very Country THat it is a fripery of Courtiers Merchants and others which haue been in fashion and are very neere worne out That Iustices of peace haue the felling of vnderwoods but the Lords haue the great falls That Iesuits are like Apricocks heretofore here and there one succour'd in a great mans house and cost deare now you may haue them for nothing in euery cottage That euery great vice is a Pike in a pond that deuoures vertues and lesse vices That it is wholsomest getting a stomacke by walking on your own ground the thriftiest laying of it at anothers table That debtors are in London close prisoners and here haue the libertie of the house That Atheists in affliction like blind beggers are forced to aske though they know not of whom That there are God be thanked not two such acres in all the country as the Exchange and Westminster-hall That only Christmas Lords know their ends That w●omen are not so tender fruit but that they doe as well and beare as well vpon beds as plashed against walls That our carts are neuer worse employed than when they are wayted on by coaches That sentences in Authors like haires in an horsetaile concurre in one roote of beauty and strength but being pluckt out one by one serue onely for springes and snares That both want and abundance equally aduance a rectified man from the world as cotton and stones are both good casting for an hawke That I am sure there is none of the forbidden fruit left because we doe not all eat thereof That our best three pilde mischiefe comes from beyond the sea and rides post through the country but his errand is to Court That next to no wife and children your owne wife and children are best pastime anothers wife and your children worse your wife and anothers children worst That Statesmen hunt their fortunes and are often at default Fauorites course her and are euer in view That intemperance is not so vnwholesome heere for none euer saw Sparrow sicke of the pox That here is no trechery nor fidelitie but it is because here are no secrets That Court motions are vp and down our● circular theirs like squibs cannot stay at the highest nor returne to the place which they rose from but vanish we are out in the way Ours like mill-wheels busie without changing place they haue peremptorie fortunes we vicissitudes I. D. Answer to the very Country Newes IT is thought heere that man is the coole of time and made dresser of his owne fatting That the fine Sences are Cinque ports for temptation the trafficke sinne the Lieutenant Sathan the custome tribute soules That the Citizens of the high Court grow rich by simplicitie but those of London by simple craft That life death and time doe with short cudgels dance the Matachiue That those which dwell vnder the Zona Torrida are troubled with more damps than those of Frigida That Policie and Superstition hath of late hir masque rent from her face and she is found with a wry mouth and a stinking breath and those that courted her hotly hate her now in the same degree or beyond That nature too much louing her owne becomes vnnaturall and foolish That the soule in some is like an egge hatched by a young pullet who often rigging from her nest makes hot and cold beget rottennesse which her wanton youth will not beleeue till the faire shell being broken the stinke appeareth to profit others but cannot her That those are the wise ones that hold the superficies of vertue to support her contrary and all-sufficient That clemencie within and without is the nurse of rebellion That thought of the future is retired into the country and time present dwels at Court That I liuing neere the churchyard where many are buried of the pest yet my infection commeth from Spaine and it is feared it will disperse further into the kingdome A. S. Newes to the Vniuersitie A Meere Scholler is but a liue booke Action doth expresse knowledge better then words so much of the soule is lost as the body cannot vtter To teach should rather be an effect then the purpose of learning Age decaies nature perfects Arte therefore the glory of youth is strength of the gray head wisdome yet most condemne the follies of their owne infancie runne after those of the worlds and in reuerence of antiquitie will beare an old error against a new truth Logick is the Heraldry of Arts the array of iudgment none it selfe nor any science without it where it and learning meet not must bee either a skilfull ignorance or a wilde knowledge Vnderstanding cannot conclude out of moode and figure Discretion conteines Rhetorique the next way to learne good words is to learne sense the newest Philosophie is soundest the eldest Diuinitie Astronomie begins in nature ends in magicke There is no honestie of the body without health which no man hath had since Adam Intemperance that was the first mother of sicknesse is now the daughter Nothing dies but qualities No kinde in the world can perish without ruine of the whole All parts helpe one another like States for particular interest So in arts which are but translations of nature There is no sound position in any one which imagine false there may not from it bee drawne strong conclusions to disproue all the rest Where one truth is granted it may be by direct meanes brought to confirme any other

a maine part of his behauiour Hee chooseth rather to be counted a Spie then not a Polititian and maintaines his reputation by naming great men familiarly He chooseth rather to tell lyes then not wonders and talkes with men singly his discourse sounds big but meanes nothing and his boy is bound to admire him howsoeuer He comes still from great personages but goes with meane He takes occasion to shew lewells giuen him in regard of his vertue that were bought in S. Martins and not long after hauing with a Mountebaneks method pronounced them worth thousands empawneth them for a few shillings Vpon festiuall daies he goes to Court and salutes without re-saluting at night in an Ordinarie hee confesseth the businesse in hand and seemes as conversant with all intents and plots as if he begot them His extraordinary accompt of men is first to tell them the ends of all matters of consequence and then to borrow mony of them hee offereth curtesies to shew them rather then himselfe humble He disdaines all things aboue his reach and preferreth all Countries before his owne Hee imputeth his wants and pouertie to the ignorance of the time not his owne vnworthines and concludes his discourse with a halfe period or a word and leaues the rest to imagination In a word his religion is fashion and both body and soule are gouerned by same he loues most voices aboue truth A Wise-man IS the truth of the true definition of man that is a reasonable creature His disposition alters alters not He hides himselfe with the attire of the vulgar and in indifferent things is content to be gouerned by them He lookes according to nature so goes his behauiour His mind enioyes a continuall smoothnesse so cometh it that his consideration is alwaies at home Hee endures the faults of all men silently except his friends and to them hee is the mirrour of their actions by this meanes his peace commeth not from fortune but himselfe He is cunning in men not to surprise but keepe his owne and beats off their ill affected humours no otherwise then if they were flies Hee chooseth not friends by the subsidie booke and is not luxurious after acquaintance Hee maintaines the strength of his body not by delicacies but temperance and his minde by giuing it preheminence ouer his body Hee vnderstands things not by their forme but qualities and his comparisons intend not to excuse but to prouoke him higher Hee is not subiect to casualties for fortune hath nothing to doe with the minde except those drowned in the body but he hath diuided his soule from the case of his soule whose weaknesse he assists no otherwise than commiseratiuely not that it is his but that it is Hee is thus and will be thus and liues subiect neither to time nor his frailties the seruant of vertue and by vertue the friend of the highest A noble Spirit HAth surueyed and fortified his disposition and converts all occurrents into experience between which experience and his reason there is a mariage the issue are his actions He circuits his intents and seeth the end before he shoot Men are the instruments of his Art and there is no man without his vse occasion encites him none enticeth him and hee mooues by affection not for affection hee loues glory skornes shame and gouerneth and obeyeth with one countenance for it comes from one consideration He calls not the varietie of the world chances for his meditation hath trauailed ouer them and his eye mounted vpon his vnderstanding seeth them as things vnderneath Hee couers not his bodie with delicacies nor excuseth these delicacies by his bodie but teacheth it since it is not able to defend it 's owne imbecilitie to shew or suffer He licenseth not his weaknes to weare fate but knowing reason to be no idle gift of nature he is the Steeres-man of his owne destinie Truth is his Goddesse and hee takes pains to get her not to looke like hir He knowes the condition of the world that he must act one thing by another and then another To these he carries his desires not his desires him and stickes not fast by the way for that contentment is repentance but knowing the circle of all courses of all intents of all things to haue but one center or period without all distraction he hasteth thither and ends there as his true and naturall element Hee doth not contemne fortune but not confesse her He is no Gamster of the world which onely complaine and praise her but being only sensible of the honestie of actions contemnes a particular profit as the excrement or skum Vnto the societie of men hee is a Sunne whose clearenesse directs their steps in a regular motion when he is more particular hee is the wise-mans freind the example of the indifferent the medicine of the vicious Thus time goeth not from him but with him and he feeles age more by the strength of his soule than the weaknesse of his body thus feeles he not paine but esteemes all such things as frends that desire to file off his fetters and helpe him out of prison An old Man IS a thing that hath been a man in his daies Old men are to bee knowne blindfolded for their talke is as terrible as their resemblance They praise their owne times as vehemently as if they would sell them They become wrinckled with frowning and facing youth they admire their owne customes euen to the eating of red herring and going wet-shod They call the thombe vnder the girdle grauitie and because they can hardly smel at all their posies are vnder their girdles They count it an ornament of speech to close the period with a cough and it is venerable they say to spend time in wyping their driueled beards Their discourse is vnanswerable by reason of their obstinacie and their speech is much though little to the purpose Truthes and lyes passe with an equall affirmation for their memories seuerall is worne into one receptacle and so they come out with one sense They teach their seruants their duties with as much scorne tyrannie as some people teach their dogs to fetch Their enuie is one of their diseases They put off and on their clothes with that certaintie as if they knew their heads would not direct them and therefore custome should They take a pride in halting and going stiffely and therefore their staues are carued and tipped they trust their attire with much of their grauitie and they dare not go without a gown in summer Their hats are brushed to draw mens eyes off from their faces but of all their Pomanders are worne to most purpose for their putri fied breath ought not to want either a smell to defend or a dog to excuse A Country Gentleman IS a thing out of whose corruption the generation of a Iustice of peace is produced Hee speakes statutes and husbandry well enough to make his neighbours thinke him a wise-man hee is well skilled in Arithmetike