That enioying is the preparatiue to contemning That hee that seekes opinion beyond merite goes iust so farre backe That no man can obtaine his desires nor in the world hath not to his measure That to studie men are more profitable then bookes That mens loues are their afflictions That Titles of Honor are rattles to still ambition That to be a King is Fames Butte and feares Quiuer That the soules of Women and Louers are wrapt in the portmanque of their senses That imagination is the end of man That wit is the webbe and wisedome the woofe of the cloth so that womens soules were neuer made vp That enuie knowes what it will not confesse That Goodnesse is like the Art Prospectiue one point Center begetting infinite rayes That Man Woman and the Diuell are the three degrees of comparison That this Newes holds number but not weight by which couple all things receiue forme Countrey Newes THat there is most here for it gathers in going That reputation is measured by the Acre That Pouertie is the greatest dishonestie That the pittie of Alasse poore soule is for the most part mistaken That Rost beefe is the best smel That a iustice of peace is the best relique of Idolatrie That the Allegorie of Iustice drawn blinde is turned the wrong way That not to liue to heauenly is accounted great wrong That wisedome descends in a race That we loue Names better then persons That to hold in Knights seruice is a flipperie seruice That a Papist is a new word for a Traitor That the dutie of Religion is lent not pay'd That the reward is lost in the want of humilitie That the Puritane persecution is as a clowde that can hide the glory of the light but not the day That the emulation of the English and Scots to be the Kings Countrey-men thrust the honour on the Welch That a Courtier neuer attaynes his selfe-knowledge but by report That his best Embleme is a hearne dogge That many great men are so proud that they know not their owne Fathers That Loue is the tailworme That a woman is the effect of her owne first fame That to remember to know and to vnderstand are 3. degrees not vnderstood That Countrey ambition is no vice for there is nothing aboue a man That fighting is a Seruing-mans valor Martyrdome their Masters That to liue long is to fill vppe the dayes wee liue That the zeale 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 proper reward of goodnesse is from within the externall is policy That good and ill is the crosse and pile in the aime 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 policy Censure the being Action the life but successe the Ornament That Authority presseth downe with weight and is thought violence policy trips vp the heeles is called the dexterity That this life is a throng in a narrow passage hee that is first out findes case hee in the middle worst hemm'd in with troubles the hindmost that driues both out 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 liberality should haue no obiect but the poore if our mindes were rich That the mysterie of greatnesse is to keepe the inferiour ignorant of it That all this is no Newes to a better wit That the City cares not what the Countrey thinkes S r. T. R. Newes from the very Countrey THat it is a Fripery of Courtiers Marchants and others which haue beene in fashion and are very neere worne out That Iustices of Peace haue the felling of vnder-woods but the Lords haue the great fals The Iesuits are like Apricockes heeretofore heere and there one succour'd in a great mans house and cost deere 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 owne ground and the thriftiest laying of it at anothers Table That debtors are in London close prisoners and heere haue the liberty of the house That Atheists in affliction like blinde beggers are forced to aske though they know not of whom That there are God be thanked not two such Acres in all the Countrey as the Exchange Westminster Hall That onely Christmas Lords know their ends That VVomen are not so tender fruit but that they doe as well and beare as well vpon Beds as plashed against walles That our Cares are neuer worse emploied then when they are wayted on by Coaches That Sentences in Authors like haires in horse taile concur in one root of beauty and strength but being pluckt out one by one serue only 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 forbiddenfruit left because we doe not all eat therof 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 are the best pastime anothers wife and your children worse your wife 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 vnwholsome heere for none euer saw Sparrow sicke of the poxe That heere is no trechery nor fidelity but it is because heere are no secrets That Court motions are vp and downe ours circular theirs like squibs cannot stay at the highest nor returne to the place which they rose from but vanish and weare out in the way Ours like Mil-wheels busie without changing place they haue peremptory fortunes we vicissitudes I. D. Answer to the very Country Newes IT is a thought that man is the Cook of time and made dresser of his own fatting That the fiue Senses 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 do with short cudgells dance the Matachine That those which dwell vnder the Zona Torrida are troubled with more damps then those of Frigida That Policie and Superstition hath of late her masque renr from her face and shee 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
Sir Thomas Ouerburie HIS WIFE With NEW ELEGIES vpon his now knowne vntimely death Whereunto are annexed new Newes and Characters written by him selfe and other learned Gentlemen Editio Septima LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Laurence L'isle and are to bee sold at his shop at the Tigers head in Pauls Church-yard 16 11 To the Reader THE generall acceptance of this matchlesse Poem the Wife written by SIR Thomas Ouerbury is sufficiently approued by many the worth whereof if any other out of malice shall neglect to commend hee may well if it proceed from nice Criticisme be excluded as a Churlish Retainer to the MVSES if from direct plaine dealing he shall be degraded for insufficiencie For had such a Poem beene extant among the ancient Romanes although they wanted our easie conseruations of wit by printing they would haue cōmitted it to brasie lest iniurions time might depriue it of due eternitie If to cōuerse with a Creature so amiable as is here described be thought difficult let the contemplation thereof be held admirable To which are added many Elegies of his vntimely death and Characters and Newes written by himselfe and others his friends Howsoeuer they are now exposed not only to the Iudicious but to all that cary the least scruple of mother wit about them Licet toto nunc Helicone frui Mar. Lau L'isle Elegies of seuerall Authors on the vntimely death of SIR Thomas Ouerburie poysoned in the Tower Vpon the vntimely death of Sir Thomas Ouerburie T' would ease our Sorrowes t' would release our Teares Could we but heare those high celestiall Spheares Once tune their Motions to a dolefull straine In sympathie of what we Mortalls plaine Or see their faire Intelligences change Or face or habit when blacke Deeds so strange As might force pittie from the heart of Hell Are hatch'd by Monsters which among vs dwell The Starres me thinks like Men inclin'd to sleepe Should through their chrystall casements scarcely peepe Or at least view vs but with halfe an eye For feare their chaster Influence might descry Some murdering hand oaded in guiltlesse bloud Blending vile iuices to destroy the good The Sunne should wed his Beames to endles Night And in dull darknesse canopie his Light When from the ranke stewes of adulterous Brests Where euery base vnhallowed Proiect rests Is belcht as in defiance of his shine A steame might make euen Death it selfe to pine But these things happen still but ne're more cleare Nor with more lustre did these Lampes appeare Mercurie capers with a winged heele As if he did no touch of sorrow feele And yet he sees a true Mercurian killd Whose birth his Mansion with much honour filld But let me not mistake those Powers aboue Nor taxe iniuriously those Courts of Ioue Surely they ioy to see these Acts reueald Which in blinde silence haue bin long conceald And Virtue now triumphant whil'st we mourne To thinke that ere shee was foule Uices scorne Or that poore Ouer-buries bloud was made A sacrifice to Malice and darke shade Weston thy Hand that Couvre-feu Bell did sway Which did his life to endles sleepe conuay But rest thou where thou art I le seeke no glorie By the relation of so sad a storie If any more were priuie to the Deed And for the Crime must be adiudg'd to bleed To Heauen I pray with heau'd-vp Hands and Eyes That as their Bodies fall their Soules may rise And as those equally turne to one Dust So these alike may shine among the Iust. And there make vp one glorious constellation Who suffred here in such a differing fashion D. T. To the Memorie of that generally bewailed Gentleman S r. Thomas Ouerburie BVt that w' are bound in Christian pietie To wish Gods will be done and Destinie In all that happs to Men or Good or Ill Suffer'd or sent by that implored Will Me thinks t' obserue how Vertue drawes faint Breath Subiect to slanders Hate and violent Death Wise men kept low others aduanc'd to State Right check't by wrong and Ill men fortunate These mou'd Effects from an vnmoued Cause Might shake the firmest Faith Heauens fixed Lawes Might casuall seeme and each irregular Sence Spurne at iust Order blame Gods Prouidence But what is Man t' expostulate th' Intents Of his high Will or iudge of strange Euents The rising Sunne to mortall sight reueales This Earthly Globe but yet the Starrs conceales So may the Sence discouer Naturall Things Diuine aboue the reach of Humane wings Then not the Fate but Fates bad Instrument Doe I accuse in each sad Accident Good men must fall Rapes Incests Murders come But woe and curses follow them by whom God Authors all mens Actions not their sin For that proceeds from deu'lish Formes within Thou then that sufferd'st by those Formes so vile From whom those wicked Instruments did file Thy drossie part to make thy Fame shine cleare And Shrine thy Soule in Heauens all glorious Sphere Who being good naught les to thee befel Though it appear'd disguis'd in shape of Hell Vanish thy Blood and Nerues true Life alone In Vertue liues and true Religion In both which thou art deathles O behold If thou canst looke so low as Earths base Moulde How dreadfull Iustice larewith lingring Foot Now comes like Whirle-winde how it shakes the Root Of loftie Cedars makes the stately Brow Bend to the Foot how all men see that now The Breath of Infamie doth moue their Sayles Whiles thy deare name by Loues more hartie gales Shall still keep Winge vntill thy Fames extent Fill eu'rie part of this vast Continent Then you the Syre of this thus murder'd Sonne Repine not at his Fate since he hath wonne More Honor in his Sufferance and his Death Succeeded by his Vertues endles Breath For him and to his Life and Deaths Example Loue might erect a Statue Zeale a Temple On his true worth the Muses might be slayne To dye his Honors Web in purest Grayne C. B. Vpon the vntimely Death of the Author of this ingenious Poem S r. THO OVERBVRY Knight poysoned in the Towre SO many Moones so many times gone round And rose from Hell Darknesse vnder ground And yet till now this darkned deed of Hell Not brought to light ô tardie Heauen yet tell If Murther layes him downe to sleep with Lust Or no reueale as thou art Truth and Iust The Secrets of this vniust secure Act And what our feares make vs suspect compact With greater deeds of Mischiefe for alone We thinke not This and doe suspect yet One To which compar'd This but a falling Starre That a bright Firmament of Fire Thy Care We see takes meaner things It times the World The Signes at random thorough the Zodiack hurld The Stars wild wandrings the glib-quick Hinges Which turne both Poles and all the violent changes It ouer-lookes which trouble th'endlesse course Of the high Firmament by thy blest Force Doe hoary winter frosts make forrests bare And straight to Groues againe their shades
And loose men will feare to flatter Children I would haue her beare More for loue of name then bed So each childe I haue is heyre To another maydenhead For she that in the act 's afraids Euery nigh'ts another maide Such a one as when shee s woo'd Blushes not for ill thoughts past But so innocently good That her dreames are euer chast For that Maide that thinkes a sin Has betraide the Fort shee 's in In my visitation still I would haue her scatter feares How this man and that was ill After protestations teares And who vowes a constant life Crownes a meritorious Wife When the Priest first giues our hands I would haue her thinke but thus In what high and holy bands Heauen like twinnes hath planted vs That like Aarons rod together Both may bud grow greene and wither FINIS THE LIVELY PORTRAICTURE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY THE METHOD FIrst of Mariage and the effect thereof Children Then of his contrarie Lust then for his choice First his opinion negatiuely what should not be the first causes in it that is neither Beautie Birth nor Portion Then affirmatiuely what should be of which kind there are foure Goodnesse Knowledge Discretion and as a second thing Beautie The first only is absolutely good the other being built vpon the first doe likewise become so Then the application of that woman by loue to himselfe which makes her a wife And lastly the only condition of a wife Fitnesse A WIFE EAch Woman is a briefe of Woman-kinde And doth in little euen as much containe As in one Day and Night all life we finde Of either More is but the fame againe God fram'd Her so that to her Husband She As Eue should all the World of Women be So fram'd he Both that neither power he gaue Vse of themselues but by exchange to make Whence in their Face the Fayre no pleasure haue But ' by reflex of what thence other take Our Lips in their owne Kisse no pleasure find Toward their proper Face our Eyes are blind So God in Eue did perfit Man begun Till then in vaine much of himselfe he had In Adam God created onely one Eue and the world to come in Eue he made We are two halfes whiles each frō other straies Both barren are Ioyn'd both their like can raise At first both Sexes were in Man combin'de man a Shee-man did in his bodie breed Adam was Eues Eue Mother of Mankinde Eue From Liue-flesh Man did from Dust proceed One thus made two Marriage doth revnite And makes them both but on Hermaphrodite Man did but the well-being of his life From Woman take her Being she from Man And therefore Eue created was a Wife And at the end of all her Sex began Mariage their obiect is their Being then And now Perfection they receiue from Men. Marriage to all whose ioyes two parties be And doubled are by being parted so Wherein the very act is Chastitie Whereby two Soules into one Bodie goe Which makes two one while here they liuing be And after death in their Posteritie God to each Man a priuate Woman gaue That in that Center his desires might stint That he a comfort like himselfe might haue And that on her his like he might imprint Double is Womans vse part of their end Doth on this Age part on the next depend We fill but part of Time and cannot dye Till we the world a fresh supply haue lent Children are Bodies sole Eternitie Nature is Gods Art is Mans instrument Now all Mans Art but only dead things makes But herein Man in things of life partakes For wandring Lust I know t is infinite It still begins and addes not more to more The guilt is euerlasting the delight This instant doth not feele of that before The taste of it is only in the Sense The operation in the Conscience Woman is not Lusts bounds but Woman-kinde One is Loues number who from that doth fall Hath lost his hold and no new rest shall finde Uice hath no meane but not to be at all A Wife is that enough Lust cannot finde For Lust is still with want or too much pinde Bate lust the Sin my share is eu'n with his For Not to lust and to Enjoy is one And more or lesse past equall Nothing is I still haue one Lust one at once alone And though the Woman often changed be Yet Hee 's the same without varietie Marriage our lust as 't were with fuell fire Doth with a medicine of the same allay And not forbid but rectifie desire My selfe I cannot chuse my wife I may And in the choyce of Her it much doth lie To mend my selfe in my Posteritie O rather let me Loue then be in loue So let me chuse as Wife and Friend to finde Let me forget her Sex when I approue Beasts likenesse lies in shape but ours in minde Our Soules no Sexes haue their Loue is cleane No Sex both in the better part are Men. But Physicke for our lust their Bodies be But matter fit to shew our Loue vpon But onely Shells for our posteritie Their soules were giu'n lest man should be alone For but the Soules Interpreters wordes be Without which Bodies are no Company That goodly frame we see of flesh and blood Their fashion is not weight it is I say But their Laye-part but well digested food T is but twixt Dust and Dust Liues middle way The worth of it is nothing that is seen But onely that it holds a Soule within And all the carnall Beautie of my Wife Is but skin-deepe but to two senses knowne Short euen of Pictures shorter liu'd then Life And yet the loue suruiues that's built thereon For our Imagination is too high For Bodies when they meete to satisfie All Shapes all Colours are alike in Night Nor doth our Touch distinguish foule or faire But mans imagination and his sight And those but the first weeke by Custome are Both made alike which diffred at first view Nor can that difference Absence much renew Nor can that Beautie lying in the Face But meerely by imagination be Enioy'd by vs in an inferior place Nor can that Beauty by enioying we Make ours become so our desire growes tame We changed are but it remaines the same Birth lesse then Beauty shall my Reason blinde Her Birth goes to my Children not to me Rather had I that actiue Gentrie finde Vertue then passiue from her Ancestry Rather in her aliue one vertue see Then all the rest dead in her Pedegree In the Degrees high rather be she plac't Of Nature then of Art and Policie Gentry is but a relique of Time-past And Loue doth onely but the present see Things were first made then words she were the same With or without that title or that name As for the oddes Sexes Portion Nor will I shun it nor my ayme it make Byrth Beautie Wealth are nothing worth alone All these I would for good additions take Not for Good Parts those
two are ill combin'd Whō any third thing frō themselues hath ioynd Rather then these the obiect of my Loue Let it be Good when these with vertue go They in themselues indifferent vertues proue For Good like fire turnes all things to be so Gods Image in Her Soule ô let me place My Loue vpon not Adams in Her Face Good is a fairer attribute then White T is the mindes beautie keepes the other sweet That 's not still one nor mortall with the light Nor glasse nor painting can it counterfet Nor doth it raise desires which euer tend At once to their perfection and their end By Good I would haue Holy vnderstood So God she cannot loue but also mee The law requires our words and deedes be good Religion euen the Thoughts doth sanctifie And she is more a Maide that rauisht is Then She which onely doth but wish amisse Lust only by Religion is withstood Lusts obiect is aliue his strength within Moralitie resists but in cold bloud Respect of Credit feareth shame not sinne But no place darke enough for such offence She finds that 's watcht by her owne Conscience Then may I trust her Body with her Minde And thereupon secure neede neuer know The pangs of Iealousie and Loue doth finde More paineto doubt her false then know her so For Patience is of euils that are knowne The certaine Remedie but Doubt hath none And be that thought once stirr'd t will neuer dye Nor will the griefe more milde by custome proue Nor yet Amendment can it satisfie The Anguish more or lesse is as our Loue This miserie doth Iealousie ensue That we may proue her false but cannot True Suspicion may the will of Lust restraine But Good preuents from hauing such a will A Wife that 's Good doth Chast and more containe For Chast is but an Abstinence from ill And in a Wife that 's Bad although the best Of qualities yet in a Good the least To barre the meanes is Care not Iealousie Some lawfull things to be auoyded are When they occasion of vnlawfull be Lust ere it hurts is best descride a farre Lust is a finne of two he that is sure Of either part may be of both secure Giue me next Good an vnderstanding Wife By Nature wise not Learned by much Art Some Knowledge on Her side will all my life More scope of conuersation impart Besides Her inborne vertue fortifie They are most firmly good that best know Why. A passiue vnderstanding to conceiue And Iudgement to discerne I wish to finde Beyond that all as hazardous I leaue Learning and pregnant wit in Woman-kinde What it findes malleable maketh fraile And doth not adde more Ballast but more Saile Domesticke Charge doth best that Sexe befit Contiguous businesse so to fixe the Minde That Leasure space for Fancies not admit Their Leasure t is corrupteth Woman-kinde Else being plac'd from many vices free They had to Heau'n a shorter cut then wee Bookes are a part of Mans prerogatiue In formall Inke they Thoughts and Uoices hold That we to them our solitude may giue And make Time-present trauell that of old Our Life Fame peeceth longer at the end And Bookes it farther backward doe extend As good and knowing let her be Discreet That to the others weight doth Fashion bring Discretion doth consider what is Fit Goodnesse but what is lawfull but the Thing Not Circumstances Learning is and wit In Men but curious folly without it To keepe their Name when 't is in others hands Discretion askes their Credit is by farre More fraile then They on likely-hoods it stands And hard to be disproou'd Lust's slanders are Their Carriage not their Chastity alone Must keepe their Name chaste from suspition Womens Behauiour is a surer barre Then is their No That fairely doth denie Without denying thereby kept they are Safe eu'n from Hope in part to blame is shee Which hath without consent bin onely tride He comes too neere that comes to be denide Now since a Woman we to Marry are A Soule and Body not a Soule alone When one is Good then be the other Faire Beauty is Health and Beauty both in one Bee shee so faire as change can yeeld no gaine So faire as Shee most Women else containe So Faire at least let me imagine Her That thought to me is Truth Opinion Cannot in matter of opinion erre With no Eyes shall I see her but mine owne And as my Fancy Her conceiues to bee Euen such my Senses both doe Feele and See The Face we may the seat of of Beauty call In it the rellish of the rest doth lie Nay eu'n a figure of the Minde withall And of the Face the Life moues in the Eye No things else being two so like we see So like that they two but in number be Beauty in decent shape and Colours lies Colours the matter are and shape the Soule The Soule which from no single part doth rise But from the iust proportion of the whole And is a meere spirituall-harmonie Of euery part vnited in the Eye Loue is a kinde of Superstition Which feares the Idoll which it selfe hath fram'd Lust a Desire which rather from his owne Temper then from the obiect is inflam'd Beauty is Loues obiect Women Lust's to gaine Loue Loue Desires Lust onely to obtaine No circumstance doth Beauty beautifie Like gracefull fashion natiue Comelinesse Nay eu'n gets pardon for Deformity Art cannot it beget but may encrease When Nature had fixt Beauty perfect made Something she left for Motion to adde But let that Fashion more to Modestie Tend then Assurance Modesty doth set The face in hir iust place from Passions free T is both the Mindes and Bodies Beauty met But Modesty no vertue can we see That is the Faces onely Chastitie Where goodnesse failes twixt ill and ill that stands Whence t is that women though they weaker be And their desires more strong yet on their hands The Chastitie of men doth often lie Lust would more common be then any one Could it as other sinnes be done alone All these good parts a Perfect woman make Adde Loue to me they make a Perfect Wife Without her Loue Her Beauty should I take As that of Pictures dead That giues it life Till then Her Beauty like the Sunne doth shine Alike to all That makes it onely mine And of that Loue let Reason Father be And Passion Mothor let it from the one His Being take the other his Degree Selfe-loue which second Loues are built vpon Will make me if not Her her Loue respect No Man but fauours his owne worths effect As Good and wise so be she Fit for mee That is To will and Not to will the same My Wife is my Adopted-selfe and shee As Mee so what I loue to Loue must frame For when in Mariage both in one concurre Woman conuerts to Man not Man to her FINIS The Authors Epitaph written by himselfe THe Span of my dayes measur'd heere I rest That is my body
not passe out of the circuit of her memory His imagination is a foole and it goeth in a pide-coat of red and white shortly he is translated out of a man into folly his imagination is the glasse of lust and himselfe the traitour to his owne discretion An Affectate Traueller IS a speaking fashion hee hath taken paynes to be ridiculous and hath seen more then he hath perceiued His attire speakes French or Italian and his gate cryes Behold me Hee censures all things by countenances and shrugs and speaks his owne language with shame and lisping he will choake rather then confesse Beere good drinke and his pick-tooth is a maine part of his behauiour Hee chuseth rather to be counted a Spie then not a Politician and maintaines his reputation by naming greatmen familiarly He chuseth rather to tell lies then not wonders and talkes with men singly his discourse sonnds big but meanes nothing his Boy is bound to admire him howsoeuer He comes still from great Personages but goes with meane He takes occasion to shew Iewels giuen him in regard of his vertue that were bought in S. Martins and not long after hauing with a Mountebanks method pronounced them woorth thousands enpawneth them for a few shillings Vpon festiuall dayes he goes to Court and salutes without resaluting at night in an Ordinary he canvasseth the businesse in hand and seems as conuersant with all intents and plots as if he begot them His extraordinary account of men is first to tell them the ends of all matters of consequence and then to borrow money of them hee offereth courtefies to shew them rather then himselfe humble Hee disdaines all things aboue his reach and preferreth all Countries before his owne Hee imputeth his wants and pouerty to the ignorance of the time not his owne vnworthinesse and concludes his discourse with halfe a period or a word and leaues the rest to imagination In a word his religion is fashion and both bodie and soule are gouerned by fame hee 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 Hee 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 minde enioyes a continuall smoothnesse so commeth it that his consideration is alwaies at home He endures the faults of all men silently except his friends and to them he is the mirrour of their actions by this meanes his peace commeth not from fortune but himselfe He is cunning in men not to surprize but keepe his owne and bears off their ill affected hurnours no otherwise then if they were flies Hee chuseth not friends by the subsidy-booke and is not luxurious after acquaintance He maintaines the strength of his body not by delicacies but temperance and his minde by giuing it preheminence ouer his bodie Hee vnderstands things not by their forme but qualities and his comparisons intend not to excuse but to prouoke him higher He is not subiect to casualties for Fortune hath nothing to do with the minde except those drowned in the body but he hath diuided his soule from the case of his soule whose weakenesse hee assists no otherwise then commiseratiuely not that it is his but that it is He is thus and will bee thus and liues subiect neither to Time nor his frailties the feruant of vertue and by vertue the friend of the highest A Noble Spirit HAth surueyed and fortified his disposition and conuerts all occurrents into experience betweene which experience and his reason there is marriage 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 incites him none enticeth him and he mooues by affection not for affection he loues glory scornes shame and gouerneth and obeyeth with one countenance for it comes from one consideration Hee cals not the varietie of the world chances for his meditation hath trauelled ouer them and his eye mounted vpon his vnderstanding seeth them as things vnderneath Hee couers not his body with delicacies nor excuseth these delicacies by his body but teacheth it since it is not able to defend its owne imbecillity to shew or suffer Hee licenceth not his weakenesse to weare Fate but knowing reason to bee no idle gift of Nature hee is the Sreeres-man of his owne destiny Truth is his Goddesse and he takes paines to get her not to look like her He knowes the condition of the world that he must act one thing like another and then another To these hee 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 He doth not contemne Fortune but not confesse her Hee is no Gamester of the world which only complaine and praise her but being onely sensible of the honesty of actions contemnes a particular profit as the excrement or scum Vnto the society of men he is a Sunne whose cleerenesse directs their steps in a regular motion when he is more particular hee is the wise mans friend 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 weakenesse of his body thus feeles he no paine but esteemes all such things as friends that desire to file off his fetters and help him out of prison An Olde Man IS a thing that hath beene a man in his dayes Olde men are to bee knowen blind-folded for their talke is as terrible as their resemblance They praise their own times as vehemently as if they would sell them They become wrinckled with frowning and facing youth they admire their old customes euen to the eating of red herring and going wetshod They call the thumbe vnder the girdle Grauity and because they can hardly smell 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 wiping their driueled beards Their discourse is vnanswerable by reason of their obstinacy their speech is much though little to the purpose Trueths and lies passe with an equall affirmation for their memories seuerall is wonne into one receptacle and so they come out with one sense They teach their seruants their duties with as much scorne and tyranny as some people teach their dogs to fetch Their enuy is one of their diseases They put off and on their clothes with that certainty as if they knew their heads would not direct them and therefore Custome should They take a pride in
which though hee bee not drunke yet is not his owne man Hee tels without asking who ownes him by the superscription of his Liuery His life is for ease and leisure much about Gentleman-like His wealth enough to suffice Nature and sufficient to make him happy if he were sure of it for he hath little and wants nothing hee values himselfe higher or lower as his Master is Hee hates or loues the Men as his Master doth the Master Hee is commonly proud of his Masters horses or his Christmas he sleeps when he is sleepy is of his religion only the clock of his stomack is set to go an houre after his He seldome breakes his owne clothes He neuer drinkes but double for hee must bee pledg'd nor commonly without some short sentence nothing to the purpose and seldome abstaines till hee come to a thirst His discretion is to be carefull for his Masters credit his sufficiency to marshall dishes at a Table and to carue well His neatnesse consists much in his haire and outward linnen His courting language visible bawdy iests and against his matter faile he is alway ready furnished with a song His inheritance is the Chamber-mayd but often purchaseth his Masters daughter by reason of opportunity or for want of a better he alwaies cuckolds himselfe and neuer marries but his owne widdow His Master being appeased hee becomes a Retainer and entailes himselfe and his posterity vpon his heire-males for euer An Host IS the kernell of a Signe or the Signe is the shell mine Host is the Snaile He consists of double-beere and followship and his vices are the bawds of his thirst Hee enterraines humbly and giues his Guests power as well of himselfe as house He answers all mens expections to his power saue in the reckoning and hath gotten the tricke of greatnesse to lay all mislikes vpon his seruants His wife is the Cummin-seed of his Doue-house and to bee a good Guest is a warrant for her liberty He traffiques for Guests by mens friends friends-friend and is sensible onely of his purse In a word hee is none of his owne for hee neither eats drinkes or thinkes but at other mens charges and appoyntments An Ostler IS a thing that scrubbeth vireasonably his horse reasonably himselfe He consists of Trauellers though he bee none himselfe His highest ambition is to be Host and the inuention of his signe is his greatest wit for the expressing whereof he sends away the Painters for want of vnderstanding Hee hath certaine charmes for a horse mouth that he should not eat his hay and behinde your backe hee will cozen your horse to his face His curry-combe is one of his best parts for hee expresseth much by the gingling and his mane-combe is a spinners card turn'd out of seruice He puffes and blowes ouer your horse to the hazard of a double Iugge and leaues much of the dressing to the prouerb of Muli mutuo scabient One horse rubs another Hee comes to him that cals lowdest not first hee takes a broken head patiently but the knaue hee feeles not His vtmost honesty is good fellowship and he speakes Notherne what country man soeuer He hath a pension of Ale from the next smith and Sadler for intelligence He loues to see you ride holds your stirrop in expectation A good Wife IS a mans best mooueable a scien incorporate with the stocke bringing sweetfruit one that to her husband is more then a friend lesse then trouble an equall with him in the yoake Calamities and troubles shee shares alike nothing pleaseth her that doth not him Shee is relatiue in all and hee without her but halfe himselfe She is his absent hands eies eares and mouth his present and absent All. She frames her nature vnto his howsoeuer the Hiacinth followes not the Sunne more willingly Stubbornenesse and obstinacy are hearbes that grow not in her garden She leaues tatling to the gossips of the towne and is more seen then heard Her houshold is her charge her care to that makes her seldome non resident Her pride is but to be cleanly her thrift not to be prodigal By her discretion she hath children notwantons a Husband without her is a miserie in mans apparell none but shee hath an aged husband to whom she is both a staffe and a chaire To conclude shee is both wise and religious which makes her all this A Melancholie man IS a straier from the droue one that nature made sociable because shee made him man and a crazed disposition hath altered Impleasing to all as all to him stragling thoughts are his content they make him dreame waking there 's his pleasure His imagination is neuer idle it keeps his minde in a continu all motion as the poise the clocke he windes vp his thoughts often and as often vnwindes them Penelopes webbe thriues faster Hel 'e seldome be found without the shade of some groue in whose bottom a riuer dwells He carries a cloud in his face neuer faire weather his outside is framed to his inside in that he keepes a Decorum both vnseemly Speake to him he heares with his eyes eares follow his mind and that 's not at leasure Hee thinks businesse but neuer does any he is all contemplation no actiō He hewes and fashions his thoughts as if he meant them to some purpose but they proue vnprofitable as a piece of wrought timber to no vse His Spirits and the Sunne are enemies the Sunne bright and warme his humor blacke and cold varietie of foolish apparitions people his head they suffer him not to breath according to the necessities of nature which makes him sup vp a draught of as much aire at once as would serue at thrice Hee denies nature her due in sleepe and ouer-paies her with watchfulnesse nothing pleaseth him long but that which pleaseth his owne fantasies they are the consuming euills and euill consumptions that consume him aliue Lastly he is a man only in shew but comes short of the better part a whole reasonable soule which is mans chiefe preheminence and sole marke from creatures sensible A Sailor IS a pitcht peece of reason calkt and tackled and onely studied to dispute with tempests He is part of his owne Prouision for he liues euerpickled A fore-winde is the substance of his Creed and fresh water the burden of his prayers He is naturally ambitious for he is euer climing out of which as naturally he feares for hee is euer flying time and he are euery where euer contending who shall ariue first hee is well winded for he tires the day and out-runne darknesse His life is like a Hawkes the best part mewed and if he liue till three coates is a Master He sees Gods wonders in the deep but so as rather they appeare his play-fellowes then stirrers of his zeale nothing but hunger and hard rockes can conuert him and then but his vpper deck neither for his hold neither feares nor hopes His sleeps are but repreeuals
and priuate mens dores to the hazard of their purses and credit There went but a paire of sheeres betweene him and the Pursiuant of Hell for they both delight in sin grow richer by it and are by iustice appointed to punish it onely the Diuell is more cunning for hee pickes a Liuing out of others gaines His liuing lieth in his eyes which like spirits hee sends through chinckes and key-holes to suruey the places of darkenesse for which purpose he studieth the opticks but can discouer no colour but blacke for the pure white of chastity dazleth his eyes He is a Catholike for hee is euery where and with a Politicke for he transformes himselfe into all shapes He trauels on foot to auoid idlenesse and loues the Church entirely because it is the place of his edification He accounts not all sinnes mortall for fornication with him is a veniall sinne and to take bribes a matter of charity hee is collector for burnings and losses ar Sea and in casting account can readily subtract the lesser from the greater summe Thus liues he in a golden age till death by a processe summons him to appeare An Almanacke-maker IS the worst part of an Astronomer a creature compact of figures characters and cyphers out of which he scores the fortune of a yeere not so profitably as doubtfully He is tenant by custome to the Planets of whom he holds the 12. Houses by lease parol to them he payes yeerely rent his study and time yet lets them out again with all his heart for 40 s per annum His life is meerely contemplatiue for his practise t is woorth nothing at least not worthy of credit if by chance he purchase any hee loseth it againe at the yeeres end for time brings truth to light Ptolomy and Ticho-Barche are his Patrons whose volumes he vnderstands not but admires and the rather because they are Strangers and so easier to bee credited then controul'd His life is vpright for he is alwaies looking vpward yet dares beleeue nothing aboue Primium mobile for t is out of the reach of his Iacobs Staffe His charity extends no further then to Mountebanks and Sow-gelders to whom hee bequeathes the seasons of the yeere to kill or torture by The verses in his Booke haue a worse pace then euer had Rochester Hackney for his Prose 't is dappled with Inke-borne tearmes and may serue for an Almanacke but for his iudging at the vncertainty of weather any old Shepheard shall make a Dunce of him He would bee thought the Diuels Intelligencer for stoln goods if euer he steale out of that quality as a flie turnes to a Maggot so the corruption of the cunning-man is the generation of an Empiricke his workes flye soorth in small volumes yet not all for many ride post to Chaundlers and Tobacco shops in Folio To be briefe he fals three degrees short of his promises yet is hee the Key to vnlocke Termes and Law-dayes a dumbe Mercury to point out high-wayes and a Bayliffe of all Marts and Faires in England The rest of him you shall know next yeere for what hee will be then hee himselfe knowes not An Hypocrite IS a gilded Pill compos'd of two vertuous ingredients Naturall dishonesty and Artificiall dissimulation Simple Fruit Plant or Drug he is none but a deformed mixture bred betwixt Euill Nature and false Art by a monstrous generation and may well bee put into the reckoning of those creatures that God neuer made In Church or common-wealth For in both these this Mongrell-weed will shoote it is hard to say whether he be Physicke or a Disease for he is both in diures respects As he is gilt with an out side of Seeming purity or as he offreth himselfe to you to be taken downe in a cup or taste of Golden zeale and Simplicity you may call him physicke Nay and neuer let potion giue Patient good stoole if being truely tasted and rellisht hee be not as loathsome to the stomacke of any honest man He is also Physicke in being as commodious for vse as he is odious in taste if the Body of the company into which he is taken can make true vse of him For the malice of his nature makes him so Informer-like-dangerous in taking aduantage of any thing done or sayde yea euen to the ruine of his makers if hee may haue Benefit that such a creature in a society makes men as carefull of their speeches and actions as the sight of a known Cut-purse in a throng makes them watchfull ouer their purses and pockets he is also in this respect profitable Physicke that his conuersation beeing once truely tasted and discouered the hatefull foulnesse of it will make those that are not fully like him to purge all such Diseases as are ranke in him out of their owne liues as the sight of some Citizens on horse-backe makes a iudicious man amend his own faults in horsemanship If none of these vses can bee made of him let him not long offend the stomacke of your company your best way is to spue him out That he is a Disease in the body where hee liueth were as strange a thing to doubt as whether there bee knauery in Horse-coursers For if amongst Sheep the rot amongst Dogs the mange amongst Horses the glaunders amongst Men and Women the Northerne itch and the French Ache bee diseases an Hypocrite cannot but be the like in all States and Societies that breede him If he be a Cleargy Hypocrite then all manner of vice is for the most part so proper to him as hee will grudge any man the practise of it but himselfe like that graue Burgesse who being desired to lend his cloathes to represent a part in a Comedy answered No by his leaue he would haue no body play the foole in his cloathes but himselfe Hence are his so austere reprehensions of drinking healths lasciuious talke vsury and vnconscionable dealing when as himselfe hating the profane mixture of malt water will by his good will let nothing come within him but the purity of the Grape when he can get it of anothers cost But this must not bee done neither without a preface of seeming lothnesse turning vp the eyes mouing the head laying hand on the brest and protesting that he would not doe it but to strengthen his body being euen consumed with dissembled zeale and tedious and thankelesse babling to God and his Auditors And for the other vices doe but venture the making your selfe priuate with him or trusting of him if you come off without a sauor of the aire which his soule is infected with you hane great fortune The fardle of all this ware that is in him you shall commonly see carried vpon the backe of these two beasts that liue within him Ignorance and imperiousnesse and they may well serue to cary other vices for of themselues they are insuppportable His Ignorance acquites him of all science humane or diuine and of all Language but his mothers holding
That Lightning and greatnesse more feare then hurt From Rome THat the Venereall called veniall sin is to passe in the ranke of Cardinall vertues and that those should be held henceforth his Holinesse beneficiall friends that sinne vpon hope of pardon That where vice is a State-commoditie he is an offender that often offends not That Iewes and Curtezans there are as beasts that men feed to feed on That for an Englishman to abide at Rome is not so dangerous as report makes it since it skills not where we liue so we take heed how we liue That greatnesse comes not downe by the way it went vp there being often found a small distance betweene the highest and the lowest Fortunes That rackt authoritie is oft lesse at home then abroad regarded while things that seem are commonly more a far off then at hand feared From Venice THat the most profitable Banke is the true vse of a mans selfe whiles such as grow mouldy in idlenes make their houses their Tombes and die before their death That many dangerous spirits lie buried in their wants which had they means to their minds would dare as much as those that with their better Fortunes ouertop them That professed Curtezans if they bee any way good it is because they are openly badde That frugalitie is the richest treasure of an estate where men feede for hunger cloath for cold and modestie and spend for Honour Charitie and Safety From Germany THat the infectious vice of Drunken-good-fellowship is like to sticke by that Nation as long as the multitude of Offenders so benums the sense of offending as that a common blot is held no staine That discretions must be taken by weight not by tale who doth otherwise shall both proue his own too light and fall short of his reckoning That feare and a nice fore-cast of euery sleight danger seldome giues either faithfull or fruitfull counsell That the Empire of Germany is not more great then that ouer a mans selfe From the Low Countries THat one of the sureft grounds of a mans libertie is not to giue another power ouer it That the most dangerous plunge whereto to put thine enemie is desperation while forcing him to set light by his owne life thou makest him master of thine That neglected danger lights soonest and heauiest That they are wisest who in the likely-hood of good prouide for ill That since pittie dwells at the next doore to miserie he liueth most at ease that is neighboured with enuy That the euill fortune of the warres as well as the good is variable Newes from my Lodging THat the best prospect is to looke inward That it is quieter sleeping in a good conscience then a whole skin That a soule in a fat body lies soft and is loath to rise That he must rise betimes who would cosen the Diuell That Flatterie is increased from a pillow vnder the elbow to a bed vnder the whole body That Policie is the vnsleeping night of reason That hee who sleepes in the cradle of securitie sinnes soundly without starting That guilt is the Flea of the conscience That no man is throughly awaked but by affliction That a hang'd Chamber in priuate is nothing so conuenient as a hang'd Traitor in publike That the religion of Papistrie is like a curtaine made to keepe out the light That the life of most Women is walking in their sleep and they talke their dreames That Chambering is counted a ciuiller qualitie then playing at tables in the Hall though seruing-men vse both That the best bedfellow for all times in the yeare is a good bed without a fellow That he who tumbles in a calm bed hath his tempest within That he who will rise must first lie downe and take humilitie in his way That sleepe is deaths picture drawne to life or the twi-light of life and death That in sleepe wee kindely shake death by the hand but when we are awaked wee will not know him That often sleepings are so many trials to die that at last we may do it perfectly That few dare write the true newes of their Chamber and that I haue none secret enough to tempt a strangers curiositie or a Seruants discouerie God giue you good morrow B. R. Newes of my Morning worke THat to be good the way is to be most alone or the best accompanied That the way to heauen is mistaken for the most Melancholywalke That the most feare the worlds opinion more then Gods displeasure That a Court-friend seldome goes further then the first degree of Charitie That the Diuell is the perfectest Courtier That innocency was first cozen to man now guiltinesse hath the neerest alliance That sleepe is deaths Leger Embassador That time can neuer be spent wee passe by it and cannot returne That none can be sure of more time then an instant That sinne makes worke for repentance or the Diuell That patience hath more power then afflictions That euery ones memory is diuided into two parts the part loosing all is the Sea the keeping part is Land That honesty in the Court liues in persecution like Protestanss in Spaine That Predestination and constancy are alike vncertaine to beiudged of That reason makes loue the Seruing-man That vertues fauour is better then a a Kings fauorite That being sicke begins a suit to God being wel possesseth it That health is the Coach which carries to Heauen sickenesse the post-horse That worldly delights to one in extreame sickenesse is like a high candle to a blinde man That absence doth sharpen loue presence strengthens it that the one brings fuell the other blowes till it burnes cleere that loue often breakes friendship that euer encreaseth loue That constancy of women and loue in men is alike rare That Arts is truths lugler That falshood playes a larger part in the world then truth That blinde zeale lame knowledge are alike apt to ill That fortune is humblest where most contemned That no porter but resolution keepes feare our of mindes That the face of goodnesse without a body is the worst wickednesse That womens fortunes aspire but by others powers That a man with a female wit is the worst Hermaphrodite That a man not woorthy beeing a friend wrongs himselfe by beeing in acquaintence That the worst part of ignorance is making good and ill seeme alike That all this is newes onely to fooles M ris B. Newes from the lower end of the Table IT is sayd among the folks here that if a man die in his infancy hee hath onely broke his fast in this world If in his youth hee hath left vs at dinner That it is bed-time with a man at three score and ten and hee that liues to a hundred yeeres hath walked a mile after supper That the humble-minded man makes the lowest curtsie That grace before meat is our electiō before we were grace after meatour saluation when wee are gone The soule halts betweene two opinons fals betweene two stooles That a foole at
the vpper end of the table is the bread before the salt He that hates to bee reprooued sits in his owne light Hunger is the cheapest sawce and nature the cheapest guest The sensible man and the silent woman are the best discoursers Repentance without amendment is but the shifting of a foule trencher He that tels a lie to saue his credit wipes his mouth with his sleeue to spare his napkin The tongue of a icster is the fiddle that the hearts of the company dance to The tongue of a foole carues a peace of his heart to euery man that sits next him A silent man is a couered messe The contented man onely is his owne caruer He that hath many friends eates too much salt with his meat That wit without discretion cuts other men meate and his owne fingers That the soule of a chollericke man sits euer by the fire side That patience is the lard of the leane meat of aduersity The Epicure puts his money into his belly and the Miser his belly into his purse That the best company makes the vpper end of the table and not the saltseller The superfluity of a mans possessions is the broken meate that should remaine to the poore That the enuious keepes his knife in his hand and swallowes his meat whole A rich foole among the wife is a gilt empty bowle amongst the thirsty Ignorance is an insensible hunger The water of life is the best wine He that robs mee of my inuention bids himselfe welcome to another mans table and I will bid him welcom when he is gone The vaine-glorious man pisseth more then he drinks That no man can drinke an health out of the cup of blessing To surfet vpon wit is more dangerous then to want it He that 's ouercom of any passiō is dry drūk T is easier to fill the belly of faith then the eye of reason The rich glutton is better fed then taught That faith is the elbow for a heauy soule to lean on He that sinnes that he may repent surfets that hee may take physicke Hee that riseth without thankesgiuing goes away and owes for his ordinary Hee that beginnes to repent when he is old neuer washed his hands till night That this life is but one day of three meales or one meale of three courses childe-hood youth old age That to sup well is to liue well and that 's the way to sleepe well That no man goes to bed till he dies nor wakes till he is dead And therefore Good night to you heere and good morrow heereafter I. C. Newes from the Church IT is thought heere that the world was made for man and not man for the world and that therefore they take a crosse course that lye downe there That those that will not rise their souls must and carry their bodies to Iudgement That we haue spent one inheritance already and are prodigall of this That there is no hope beyond mercy and that this is that time the next is of Iustice. That Christ when hee went away left good seede in his Church and when hee comes againe he shall finde Christians but not faith That the Diuell hath got vpon vs the same way that hee did at the first by drawing shadowes ouer substances as he did the body ouer the soule That Protestants weare the name of Christ for a Charme as Papists doe the Crosse. That States vse it the Clergy liue by it the People follow it more by a stream then one by one That all are religious rather then some That euery one lookes to another but not to himselfe That they go so by throngs to Heauen that it is to bee feared they take the broader waye That the Church is in the world like a Ship in the Sea the Elect in the Church like Ionas amongst the Mariners That to mend this is to cheate the Diuell to turne man the right side outward and set the soule foremost againe That the soule may be too ranke too if wee looke not to it and so a Puritane often times meets a Papist in superstition another way That to binde from and to indifferent things is equall though it be thought otherwise That some out of a good meaning haue fallen this way into a vice That these faults are more subtill and therefore lesse perceiued and lesse to be blamed but as dangerous as the other if they take heed That the rule is in all things the body and the soule must goe together but the better before That wee haue contended so long about the body of Religion that some men thought it was dead That so Atheists are come into the Church and that it will be as hard to cast them out as Diuels That those which haue thus broken the peace of Ierusalem are obliged to satisfaction and those which first gaue them cause of amendment That they are a good medicine one for another and both a good Composition That a pure Bishop is the best gouernment if the pride on both sides would let them know it That all Controuersies for the most part leaue the truth in the middle and are factious at both ends That the Church hath this good by them they cleanse the way for others but not for themselues That sincerity in the cause of truth is more worth then learning That too much and too little knowledge haue made the world mad That we haue a shorter cut to it and a surer way then Drake had ouer the world if wee could find it out That euery man is a briefe of the whole as he is so he is greater then a King That euery King is a briefe of his Land and hee hath a Patterne of the gouernment of it alwayes abour him That as the honour that he giues vnto his Nobles and Counsellours is a charge so is that which God giues him That as hee requires an account so he must giue That he is the Image of God in his Kingdome as man is in the World That therefore the Subiects owe him obedience as the Creatures doe Man That those that will not obey are neither good Subiects nor good men That to obey well is as great a thing as to gouerne and more mens duties That those that thinke not so know not the Christians part which is to suffer That though States bee naught if they professe Religion they may deliuer many men safe to Heauen though they goe not themselues and so they are like bad Ministers That this is Gods vse of both and of the world too to conuey his Elect to their place That the outward face of the Church hath but the same vse and the Elect are the Church themselues That they are the Temple of the holy Ghost and therefore ought to plucke downe their Idols and set vp God there That the Idolles of these times are Couetousnesse Pride Gluttony Wantonnesse Heresies and such like admiration and seruing of our selues That we must make all time an occasion of
amendment because the Diuell makes it an occasion to tempt That he is a Spirit and therefore is cunninger then we Thar there is no way to resist him but by the Spirit of God which is his Master That this is the gift of God which he giueth to all that are his That it is encreased by the word and held by humility and prayer That Faith is the effect of it and workes the assurance That thus the vnderstanding and will which is the whole soule of man is made vp againe and sanctifies the body That so wee are the members of Christ. That our Head is in Heauen as a Pawne that where he is we shall bee That there is no opinion but knowledge for it is the Science of soules and God the Teacher I. R. Newes from the Bed THat the bed is the best Rendevou of mankinde aud the most necessarie ornament of a Chamber That Souldiers are good antiquaries in keeping the old fashion for the first bed was the bare ground That a mans pillow is his best Counseller That Adam lay in state when the heauen was his canopie That the naked truth is Adam and Eue lay without sheets That they were either very innocent very ignorant or very impudent they were not ashamed the heauens should see them lye without a couerlet That it is likely Eue studied Astronomie which makes the posteritie of her Sex euer since to lye on their backs That the circumference of the bed is nothing so wide as the conuex of the heauens yet it contains a whole world That the fiue Senses are the greatest sleepers That a slothfull man is but a reasonable Dormouse That the Soule euer wakes to watch the bodie That a Iealous man sleeps dog-sleep That sleep makes no difference between a wife man and a foole That for all times sleep is the best bedfellow That the deuill and mischiefe euer wake That Loue is a dreame That the preposterous hopes of ambitious men are like pleasing dreames farthest off when awake That the bed payes Venus more custome then all the world beside That if dreames and wishes had been all true there had not been since Poperie one Maide to make a Nun of That the secure man sleeps soundly and is hardly to be awak't That the charitable man dreames of building Churches but starts to thinke the vngodly Courtier will pull them down againe That great sleepers were neuer dangerous in a state That there is a naturall reason why popish Priests chuse the bed to confesse their women vpon for they hold it necessarie that humiliation should follow shrift That if the bed should speake all it knowes it would put many to the blush That it is fit the bed should know more then paper R. S. Newes from Shipbord THat Repentance without amendment is like continuall pumping without mending the leake That he that liues without Religion sayles without a compasse That the wantonnesse of a peacefull Common-wealth is like the playing of the Porpesse before a storme That the foole is Sea sick in a Calme but the Wisemans stomacke endures all weathers That passions in a foole are Ord'nance broken loose in a storm that alter their propertie of offending others and ruine himselfe That good Fortunes are a soft quick-sand aduersitie a rocke both equally dangerous That Vertue in pouertie is a ready rigg'd Ship that lyes wind bound That good fashion in a man is like the Pilot in a Ship that doth most with least force That a Fooles tongue is like the buye of an Ankor you shall finde his heart by it wheresoeuer it lyes Wisdome makes vse of the crosses of this world asskilfull Pylots of Rocks for Sea-marks to saile by H. R. Newes from the Chimney corner THat wit is Brushwood Iudgment Timber the one giues the greatest flame the other yeelds the durablest heat and both meeting makes the best fire That Bawdes and Atturneyes are Andyrons that hold vp their Clyents till they burne each other to Ashes they receiue warmth by these these by them their destruction That a Wise-rich-man is like the backe or stocke of the Chimney and his wealth the fire it receiues not for it owne need but to reflect the heat to other good That House-keeping in England is falne from a great fire in a hot summers day to boughes in the Chimney all winter long That mans reason in matter of faith is Fire in the first degree of his ascent flame next smoake and then nothing A young fellow falne in loue with a Whore is said to be falne asleepe in the Chimney corner Hee that leaues his friend for his wench forsakes his bed to sit vp and watch a coale That the couetous rich man onely freezes before the fire That Choller is an ill guest that pisses in the Chimney for want of a Chamber-pot That chaste Beautie is like the bellowes whose breath is cold yet makes others burne That hee that expounds the Scriptures vpon the warrant of his owne spirit only layes the brands together without tongs and is sure at least to burne his owne fingers That the Louer keeps a great fire in 's house all the yeere long That deuotion like fire in frostie weather burnes hottest in affliction That such Fryers as flie the world for the trouble of it lye in bed all day in winter to spare firewood That a couetous man is a dog in a wheele that toyles to roast meat for other mens eating The Pagans worshipping the Sunne are said to hold their hands to the Gloworme in stead of a coale for heat That a Wisemans heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coales his passions from burning the house That good deeds in this life are coales raked vp in embers to make a fire next day FINIS
but my soule his guest Is hence ascended whither nestber Time Nor Faith nor Hope but onely loue can clime Where being now enlightned Shee doth know The Truth of all men argue of below Onely this dust doth heere in Pawne remaine That when the world dissolues she come againe Characters OR Wittie descriptions of the properties of sundry Persons A good Woman A Good Woman is a comfort like a man Shee lacks of him nothing but heat Thence is her sweetnes of disposition which meets his stoutnes more pleasingly so wooll meets yron easier then yron and turnes resisting into embracing Her greatest learning is religion and her thoughts are on her owne Sexe or on men without casting the difference Dishonestie neuer comes neerer than her eares and then wonder stops it out and saues vertue the labour Shee leaues then eat youth telling his lushious tales and puts back the Seruingmans putting forward with a frowne yet her kindnes is free enough to be seene for it hath no guilt about it and her mirth is cleare that you may looke through it into vertue but not beyond She hath not behauiour at a certaine but makes it to her occasion Shee hath so much knowledge as to loue it and if she haue it not at home shee will fetch it for this sometimes in a pleasant discontent she dares chide her Sexe though she vse it neuer the worse She is much within and frames outward things to her minde not her minde to them She weares good clothes but neuer better for she findes no degree beyond Decencie Shee hath a content of her owne and so seeks not an husband but findes him She is indeed most but not much to description for she is direct and one and hath not the varietie of ill Now shee is giuen fresh and aliue to a husband and shee doth nothing more then loue him for she takes him to that purpose So his good becomes the businesse of her actions and shee doth her selfe kindnesse vpon him After his her chiefest vertue is a good husband For Shee is Hee A very Woman A Very Woman is a dow-bakt man or a Shee ment well towards man but fell two bowes short strength and vnderstanding Her vertue is the hedge Modestie that keeps a man from climing ouer into her faults Shee simpers as if she had no teeth but lips and she diuides her eyes and keeps halfe for her selfe and giues the other to her near Youth Being set downe shee casts her face into a platforme which dureth the meale is taken away with the voider Her draught reacheth to good manners not to thirst and it is a part of their mysterie not to professe hunger but Nature takes her in priuate and stretcheth her vpon meat Shee is Marigeable and Fourteene at once and after she doth not liue but tarrie Shee reads ouer her face euery morning and sometimes blots out pale and writes red She thinks she is faire though many times her opinion goes alone and she loues her glasse and the knight of the Sunne for lying Shee is hid away all but her face and that 's hang'd about with toyes and deuices like the signe of a Tauerne to draw Strangers If shee shew more shee preuents desire and by too free giuing leaues no Gift Shee may escape from the Seruing-man but not from the Chamber-maide Shee commits with her eares for certaine after that shee may goe for a Maide but she hath been lien with in her vnderstanding Her Philosophie is a seeming neglect of those that be too good for her Shee 's a yonger brother for her portion but not for her portion of wit that comes from her in a treble which is still too big for it yet hir Vanitie seldom matcheth hir with one of her owne degree for then she wil beget another creature a begger and commonly if shee marrie better shee marries worse Shee gets much by the simplicitie of her Sutor and for a iest laughes at him without one Thus she dresses a Husband for her selfe and after takes him for his patience and the land adioyning yee may see it in a Seruingmans fresh Naperie and his Leg steps into an vnknowne stocking I need not speake of his Garters the tassell shewes it selfe If she loue she loues not the Man but the beast of him Shee is Salomons cruel creature and a mans walking-consumption euery caudle shee giues him is a purge Her chiefe commendation is shee brings a man to repentance Her next part Her lightnesse gets her to swimme at top of the table where her wrie little finger bewraies caruing her neighbors at the latter end know they are welcom and for that purpose shee quencheth her thirst She trauels to and among and so becomes a woman of good entertainment for all the follie in the countrie comes in cleane Linnen to visit her she breakes to them her griefe in Sugar cakes and receiues from their mouthes in exchange many stories that conclude to no purpose Her eldest Sonne is like her howsoeuer and that dispraiseth him best her vtmost drift is to turne him Foole which commonly she obtaines at the yeeres of discretion Shee takes a iourney sometimes to her Neeces house but neuer thinks beyond London Her Deuotion is good clothes they carrie her to Church expresse their stuffe and fashion and are silent if she be more deuout shee lifts vp a certaine number of eyes in stead of prayers and takes the Sermon and measures out a nap by it iust as long She sends Religion afore to Sixtie where shee neuer ouertakes it or driues it before her againe Her most necessarie instruments are a waiting Gentlewoman and a Chamber-maide shee weares her Gentlewoman still but most often leaues the other in her Chamber-window She hath a little Kennel in her lap and she smells the sweeter for it The vtmost reach of her Prouidence is the fatnesse of a Capon and her greatest enuie is the next Gentlewomans better gown Her most commendable skill is to make her Husbands fustian beare her Veluer This she doth many times ouer and then is deliuered to old Age and a Chaire where euery bodie leaues her A Dissembler IS an essence needing a double definition for hee is not that hee appeares Vnto the eye he is pleasing vnto the eare not harsh but vnto the vnderstanding intricate and full of windings he is the prima materia his intents giue him forme he dieth his meanes and his meaning into two colours he baites craft with humilitie and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition He winnes not by batterie but vndermining and his racke is soothing Hee allures is not allur'd by his affections for they are the brokers of his obseruation He knowes passion onely by sufferance and resisteth by obeying He makes his time an accomptant to his memorie and of the humors of men weaues a net for occasion the Inquisitor must looke through his iudgment for to the eye only he is noâ— visible A