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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

of holy obedience what garments weare they that preserued their wearers from the diuell A. The garments of S. Francis as the Papists tell vs as if the diuell cold not as well know a knaue in a Fryars habit as in any other Q. VVhat is the reason of all other things that the Pope christens his Bels they hauing many times that preheminence before men A. That the sound of them might driue diuels out of the ayre cleare the skies chase away stormes tempests quench fires and giue some comfort to the very dead and the like To which purpose here the Bels ring out their owne peale En ego Campana nunquam denuntio vana Laudo deum verum plebem voco congrego elerum Diffunctos plango viuos voco fulmina frango Vex mea vox vitae voco vos ad sacra venite Sanctos collaudo tonitrus fugo funera claudo Funera plango fulgura frango sabatha pango Exicto Lentos dissipo ventos paco ceuentos Englished Behold my vses are not small That God to praise assemblies call That breke the thūder waile the dead And cleanse the aire of tempests bred With feare keep off the fiends of hell And all by vertue of my knell Q. VVhat numb was the most fatall to Rome A. The sixt number according to the verse ensuing Sextus Tarquinius Sextus Nero Sextus iste scilitet Papa Alexander 6. Semper sub sextis perdita Roma suit What other names or numbers to her woone In the sixt still she lost was Rome vndone Q. VVhat inscription or motto was that according to the fiction which Martin de Asello fixing ouer his Gate by reason of the false povating of the Painter cost him his Bishopricke A. Portapatens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himselfe made the point at nulli and so made it Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it profest knauery discarded him of his Bishoprick as it was a wonder and placed another in his house Who kept the inscription still but only altered the point and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding therevnto Ob vnum punctum caruit Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poore point is all from Martin gone Q. There is a certaine thing that hath not the art of numeration neither knowes the order of time how it passeth and yet least wee should be ignorant or the time should deceiue vs it instructs vs both honestly A. A Clocke vpon which on thus writeth Qui nescit quo vita modo volat audiat bora Quam sit vitae breuis nos docet ille sonus Hee that would know how minutes steale away That peece vp howres that patch out the day This trusty watchman to supply our need Proclaimes our liues short span in their swift speed Q. What are the natures and dispositions of the foure Elements A. The earth is dry the water cold the ayre moyst and the fire hot Q Which is the highest of these Elements A. The fire whose nature is euer to mount vpward and if you turne it downeward it goes out thereupon Thence proceeds Saint Chrysostomes admiration that the Rayes of the Sun in nature hot in quality glorious doth shoot downeward so contrary to the fire Q What fire is that that sometimes followes and sometimes flyeth away A. An Ignus fatuus or walking fire one wherof keeps his station this time neere Windsor the pace of which is caused principally by the motion of the ayre for the swifter one runs the swifter it followes the motion of the ayre enforcing it Q. VVhat thing is that most vsefull and pretious in the world that produceth another of novse nor goodnesse at all A. Fire from whence proceedes smoake of which Lipsius writes Ita te tolle a humo vt absis a fumo Q. VVhat Coales do longest of all other preserne fire A. The Coales of Iuniper of whom it is reported that they haue kept fire a whole yeere together without supply or going out Q. VVhat is that which being the heauiest hardest of all things yet yeelds both to the extremity of fier and water A. A Stone Q. VVhat stone of all other is the greatest wonder A. The flint stone that preserues fire within it a wonderfull secret and benefit to man Q. VVhat is that which being first water afterwards assumed the form of a stone and still retaines it A. The Chrystall congealed by frost Q. What stone is that that yeelds neither to the fire nor to the hammer A. The Adamant which as our Naturalists obserue is dissolued onely by goates blood wherevpon S. Chrysostome writes though the heart of a Sinner be more harder then the Adamant yet wil the blood of Christ mollifie it Q Whether haue stones a vegitiue life or no. A. This if we doubt our Pioners and Mineralists will resolue vs who finde out by experience that although Mineralles buried deepe in the earth yet through diuers vaines and channels suck in moysture and nourishment as doe plants and trees and that they do likewise increase and grow though in a slower progression and degree then other things is probable and certaine Q. Is there a difference of prerogatiue among stones A. T' is answered there is For the stone in the Altar hath more honour then the stone in the streete For the one is kneeled vnto with deuotion the other troden on by the feet Q. Which are the most precious stones for mans vse A. The two milstones of the mill Of which the one neuer stirres and the other ne're lies still Q. VVhat birds of all other are the most gentle the most innocent A. The Doue for gentlenesse and simplicity is commended in Scripture for the Doue is among birds as the Sheepe is among beasts frō whose kind no hurt proceeds to man being a sotiable creature for his seruice of whom it is obserued that he yeelds vp his life for the sustenance of man sobbing it out with a kind of meeknesse and patience more then any other creature and for his vse there is nothing vnnecessary for our seruice in the whole composure of him his flesh being good for meate his guts for the strings of Instruments his dung to inrich the field his wooll for cloth so nothing superfluous So likewise the Doue a patient not an offensiue creature without beake or tallents of oppression hauing no other offence against their enemy the Hawke such like more then the swiftnesse of her wing according to the Poet Fello columbo caret rostro non ledit possidet innocuas puraque grana ledit Her food is graine her beake doth not offend No gall this creature hath nor no bad ende And therefore they hate the Hawke as it is said because of his beake Odimus Accipitrem quia semper vinit in armis We hate the Hauke and feare

beasts besides and yet this point is diuided among mortals into many points and with fire sword contended for and sought many are so besotted therewith that they would exchange for a mote of this point their part of Heauen could they meete with a Chapman Q. Where is the Center or Middlemost part of the earth A. At Delphos as the Auncient would haue it to which purpose Strabo tels a Story of two Eagles sent from Ioue one from the East and another from the West which met at Delphos some are of opinion that it is neere the Mount Taurus Ptolomeus thought it vnder the Equinoctiall Strabo at Pernassus a mountaine in Graecia Plutarch was likewise of that opinion But most of our Ecclesiasticall Writers haue thought Iudea to be the middle of the earth and Hierusalem the very point and Center of which opinion was Saint Hirom Hillarius Lyra and others according to the Psalme God hath wrought saluation in the middest of the earth That is at Hierusalem by his passion Yet in respect of the whole world there is no place properly the middle because it is round Q. What were the names of those two theeues that were crucified with Christ A. The Scripture mentioneth not yet we haue it by tradition and from history that they were Dismas and Gesmas Dismas the happy and Gesmas the vnfortunate according the Poet. Gismas Damnatur et Dismas ad Astraleuatur Q. VVherefore is the world round A. Because that it and all therein should not fill the heart of man being a Triangle receptacle for the holy Trinitie Q. How farre is the East distant from the VVest A. A dayes iourney for the Sunne passeth betweene them euery day Q. VVhether is the water or the earth the greater A. It is answered The water is bigger then the earth the aire bigger then the water and the fire bigger then the aire Q. VVhat comparison is there between the Sun and vertue A. So much that when as the Sun is at the highest the lesser shadow doth it cast vpon the earth as the neerer thereto the greater so vertue the more high eleuate it is the more it shines vnseene vnlesse to it selfe and such as participate in the fruition thereof as that other the more vnreall and declining a greater but a worser light to the World A certain old Doctor of the Church compared the Old Testament and the New to the Sun and the Moone the Old borrowing light from the New as the Moone from the Sun the New being wrapped vp in the Old and the Old reuealed in the New Q. VVhat is the highest of all things A. The Sea is higher then the earth the ayre higher then the Sea the fire higher then the ayre the Poles higher then the fire God higher then the Poles higher then God nothing Q. VVhat may the world most fitly be compared vnto A. To a deceitfull nut which if it be opened with the knife of truth nothing is found within it but vacuity and vanity Q. Si fugio sequitur si me fugit illa sequentem Res mira varia est dic mihi queso quid est A. The Rainbow which seemes to vary in colours according to the variation of the minde of him that beholds it Q. VVhat times are we chiefly to select to our selues for the ordering of our affaires and as the most conuement for that purpose A. The morning and the euening in the morning to prepose what wee haue to doe In the euening to consider what we haue done and effected so that we may husband our time in the early and wise disposall and accomplishment of our affaires and next That we may also haue the first of these golden verses on our side and the other either frustrated or not strongly against vs which ensue as followeth and first for our early rising and the morning Sanctificat ditat sanat quoque surgere mane Englished To rise betimes hath still beene vnderstood A meanes to inrich make wise preserue pure blood For the second Omnia sireputes transactaetempora vitae Velmale veltemere vel nihil egit homo Englished Suruey all times and there swift progresse scan Rash bad or nothing in them 's done by man Q. VVhether throughout the whole yeere are there more cleere or cloudy dayes A. The dry are more then the Rayny cleere more then the cloudy according to the Poet. Si numeres anno soles nubila toto Inuenies nitidum saepius esse diem Number the dayes the cloudy and the cleere And thou shalt find more faire then foule in the yeere Q. VVhether are some dayes to be accounted infortunate or not as in our Callend are set downe A. They are not as in the Countrimans Counsellor here ensuing is further to that purpose related And therefore Heracluus not without cause blames Hesiod for his distinction of dayes good and euill as if he were ignorant that all dayes were alike To which purpose is here annexed the noble courage and resolution of Lucullus the Captaine who with no lesse happy euent then ripe iudgement being indangered by an enemy and vpon an ominous day as his souldiers termed it surprised animated them on not withstanding to a famous rescue and victory with this perswasion that giuing the onset with resolution they should change a black day to a white and the successe was answerable Q. VVhether is the custome lawfull or not that is commonly vsed for the celebration of our birth dayes A. The Heathens in ancient times had this custome in great esteeme and reuerēce in some measure we may be imitators of thē but how we shold celebrate ours S. Austen hath giuen vs a Rule that is with thankefulnesse and reioycing in God that hee would haue vs born to be temples consecrate to him then truly reioycing when we find in our selues a willingnesse and perfection in some measure to goe forward and indeauour the end of our creation which is the seruice of God vnto the which vnlesse we referre our whole care we shall haue small cause of reioycing but rather to wish we had neuer been borne And most of the fathers are of opinion that none of all the Saints thus celebrated their birth dayes but Gentiles as Pharaoh Herod and the like From Heathens we discend a moment to the Pope and Rome Q. The Pope borrowes two prerogatiues from the Apostles and what are they A. Saint Peters keyes and S. Pauls sword that what he cannot enter into by the one he may enforce by the other after the example of Iulius the 2. Pope of Rome who leading his army along by the riuer Tyber threw therein his keyes saying When Peters keyes profit vs nothing then come out Pauls sword and how it is drawne at this time the world takes notice as against Venice France the Duke of Ferrara and in an hurly burly vnsheathed throughout all Italy The dog that with shut eyes barks against all truth Q. Tell me in the vertue

vpon the earth But man enioyes all these with his head hee lookes vp to Heauen with his minde he lookes into Heauen with his feete hee walkes vpon the earth his armes keepe the ayre as the bird flyes with his eyes hee contemplateth heauen and earth and all sublunarie things hee hath an essence as other bodies produceth his seede as Plants his bones are like stones his blood like the springs in the channels of the earth his hayre like the grasse the ornament of the earth c. hee liues as a Plant flourisheth as a Tree for a man is a tree turned vpward his feete are like the boughes his head like the roote Beside some creatures are onely as Starres some are and liue as Plants some are liue and haue sense as Beasts some vnderstanding as Angels all these concurre in man Est viuit sentit intelligit Q. What three things are those that hee which often remembers shall seldome doe amisse A. That aboue there is an Eare that heares all an Eye that beholds all a Booke wherein all our offences are written Whereunto may likewise bee annexed as a second memento and not inferiour to the first being S. Anselmes obseruation vpon the last day Where at thy right hand shall thy sinnes be accusing At thy left hand infinite Diuels expecting Vnder thee the furnace of hell buruing Aboue thee an angry Iudge Within thee thy conscience tormenting Without thee the world flaming Where only the iust shall be saued Whence to flie it wil be impossible To continue still intollerable Therefore while time is preuent that that in time will bee for as one saith If it bee not preuented it will bee repented Q. Who was hee that neuer laughed but sometimes wept as we reade in the Scriptures A. Christ of whom we read that he three times wept 1. When Lazarus was dead 2. Ouer Ierusalem 3. Vpon the Crosse when he deliuered vp his spirit with cryes and teares Q. There bee foure duties wee chiefly we and among all other are especially bound to pay and which be they Debemus Deo timorem Patriae amorem Parentibus honorem Proximo fauorem To God feare To our Country Loue. To our Parents Honour To our Neighbour fauour A Rule for our Life So Learne as if Thou shouldst liue alwayes so Liue as if Thou shouldst die to morow Suspice coelum despice mundum respice finem Looke vp to heauen despise the world respect thine end Q. There are three especially vnhappy in the Law of the Lord and who are those A. 1. He that knowes teacheth not 2. He that teacheth and doth not 3. He that is ignorant and yet learneth not Q. Was there any writing before the floud preserued notwithstanding the Deluge after it A. T is answered We haue no writing before the flo●d yet S. Iude doth somewhat insinuate of the writing of Henoch and Iosephus and others write that he erected two pillars the one of bricke and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the twofold destruction of the world the one by water the other by fire which by Tradition was preserued to the dayes of the Apos●les Q. What was the sentence according to the opinions of the learned that Christ wrote with his finger in the dust of the pauement of the Temple A. Some thinke it was the same that he spake Hee that is innocent let him throw the first stone at her others thinke it was this Festucam in oculo cernis trabem in tuo non vides Thou seest the mote in thy brothers eye but not the beame in thine owne Q. What Booke did Samuel write besides those two in Scripture that beare his name A. A Booke of the office and institution of a King Q. What Bookes did Salomon write beside those extant in Canonicall writ A. Salomon wrote three thousand Parables and fiue thousand songs besides that ingens opus of the nature ofal Herbes Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hyssop vpon the wall al destroyed by the Babylonians at the destruction of the Temple Q. Whether God created hurtfull creatures as Scorpions Serpents and such like A. It is answered there are some that seeme euill vnto vs which yet are not simply euill of themselues for no substance is euill of it selfe and the Scripture teacheth vs that Serpents were created among other creatures yet God pronounceth that all were good but that some creatures are now hurtfull to man that is not to be attributed to the first creation but to the second after the lapse or fall of man who if he had persisted in his dutie to God no creature should haue beene offensiue vnto him but ouer them he should haue borne a willing subiection For God made nothing euill neither doth he make sicknesse barrenesse lamenesse or the like but they rather haue deficient then efficient causes as the want of health his good creature is the cause of sicknes the withdrawing of light the interposition of darkenes and so of the like Q. What name was that among the Iewes so highly reuerenced that it was only lawfull for the Priests to name it and that but at the solemne festiuals A. The name Iehouah a word consisting but of seuen letters and yet of al the fiue vowels according to this verse Quinque simul iunctis constas vocabilus vna Dictio est magno maius in orbe nihil Fiue vowels ioynd together make a name In Heauen or Earth none greater then the same Q. What of all other are held to bee things of the greatest difficultie in Scripture to beleeue and of the greatest opposition to sence to conceiue A. Some thinke the creation of the world some the conseruation thereof and all creatures therein some the Incarnation of the Sonne of God others the resurrection of the flesh Besides these there are some that thinke Noes Arke and the vnion and preseruation of so many diuers creatures in it so many moneths fed ordered and at last safely deliuered out Q. In how many chapters doth consist the Canon of the old Testament A. In 777. The Iewish Rabbins haue collected to bee in the Bookes of the Law verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. In Haggai 8064. In the Bookes of Apocripha chap. 173. In the new Testament chap. 260. Malachy which was the last of the Prophets stands as the Porch betweene the Old and New Testament whereat as Tertullian saith Iudaisme ends and Christianitie begins Q. Where was God before hee made the world A. Saint Austin notes this as vain curiositie to enquire as it is to demaund what he did before hee made the same and yet to giue the curious some satisfaction to the first he answers that God dwelt in himselfe at himselfe and was God to himselfe and for the second he was not idle in that he chose vs before the world and purposed in himselfe the creation of all things But hee that will farther busie himselfe to prie into this Arke how all things could

sences are described A. Gen. 27. vers 4. seeing ver 18. hearing ver 21. touching ver 25. tasting ver 27. smelling The 5. windowes of the soule of which one thus writes S Lucem occulis video varios discerno colores H Consona me iuvat offendit simphonia discors S Fragrāti oblector visioso offendor ●dore T Insipidum sapidum quid sit me indice constat T Sentio quid Callidum aut Gellidum quid molle quid asprum The seeing light colors doth discry The hearing tunes and discords doth arraine The smelling odors sweet and sowre doth try The taste respects the Cookes both art and paine The touching hard and soft and hot and cold Through these 5. windowes doth the soule behold Q What is the least member in the body and yet darkens the whole man A. The eye lidde Q. Is the most perfect eyesight sometimes deceiued A. Oftentimes and assoone as any other of the sences for example cast a straight staffe into a troubled water and ●t appeares to the eye as crooked and wauering Stand vpon the shore thou seest the ship goe stand vpon the ship why then thy eye will tell thee the shore goes and the ship stands stil. So the head being distempered thou shalt thinke fixt things moue and one flame two Q What is the the swiftest of all things in the world A One answered the Sun because his speed is such that in a day he compasseth the whole circuit of the earth But another replyed that thought was swifter then that because it trauelled the whole world in a moment Q. VVhat foure euils are those that chiefly trouble a house Sunt mala terna domus imber mala femina fumus Quartū cū mane surgunt pueri sine pane A smoke a storm a contentious wife Three ils are found that tire a husbands life To which a 4. is by the prouerbe sed When children crye for hunger wanting bread Of Martin Luther and P. Melancthons eloquence and sweetnesse Diuisae his operae sed mens suit vnica pauit Ore Lutherus oues flore Melancthon apes Twixt Luther and Melancthon so long gone There works were diuers though there faith was one For Luther soundnes loded by degrees His sheepe as did Melanctons flowers his bees Q. VVhat meanes this speech nourish not the whelpe of the Lion A. It giues to vnderstand that wee are not to cherish any power aboue the Law nor to foster that strength that may afterwards oppresse zs. Q. Why do they that are troubled with the Gowt euer loue to talke most A. Because they cannot runne with with their feete they loue to run with their tong For the benefit of any mēber we are depriued of hauing two of them wee esteeme the other in the reckoning of them both as concerning the eye no man desires to be blinde or to haue but one eye yet if any mischāce should befall the one wee esteeme the other the dearer as it follows in the v. 9 Non habeo nec habere velim quod sitamen ad sit Noncareā craesi si mihi dētur opes Mine eye I would not sell for drosse Thogh Craesus wealth repayrd my losse None more blind the Bayard as the saying is nor none more forward to venture then he that least knowes the dangers that he enterprises as by this example is made manifest The trees on a time went forth to select them a king and in their progresse they came to the Oliue tree and sayde vnto it raigne ouer vs and be king but it refused saying shall I forsake my fatnesse wherewith I am suppled and man is nourished no I wil not with these and the like reasons refused their offer Then they came to the figge tree and sayd raigne ouer vs who answered shall I leaue my sweetnesse and fruites more delicate then the hony of Hybla Then they came to the Vine and shee refused saying shall I forgoe my sweet shade and comfortable clusters that comfort and make glad the heart of man it shall not bee Then spake the Bramble let me be king ouer you that I may curbe you with sharpe lawes thus what the good refused the worst offers to take vppe and embrace for none are more ambitious then the vnderseeming as in the proposition before declared Q What waters of all other are the most deceitfull A. The teares of a woman the which in the blessed weeper are called the bloud of the soule Q. VVhat creatures of all other are the most wanton A. Insatiate women acording to the Poet● Gallin● Gallus ter qui ni sufficit vnus At ter quin● viri vix sufficit mulieri One Cocke sufficeth twise fiue hen Scarce one lewd woman twise 5. men Q. VVhat women of all other are the most fruitfull A. Beggars wiues that of all other one would think should be most barrē Q. Of imperious women what did Cato report A. Cato sayde our wiues rule the common wealth for wee gouerne the people and our wiues gouerne vs. To which purpose Themistocles said O wife the Athenians rule the Gretians I the Athenians thou me thy son thee Therfore in my opinion he spoke not amis that sayde hee neuer knew common wealth nor priuate family well gouerned where the hen crew and the cock held his peace for though it be sayde of women that they are so able of tongue that 3. of their clappers will make a reasonable noyse for a market yet though they talke they should not commaund or at least wise should not gouerne Q. Whether was the night or the day first A. Thal. Milesius answereth the night was before the day as in the creation is manifest so the euening and the morning were the first day From which notwithstanding wee vary in our opinions as preferring the day before it and for because the euening is but the latter part of the day which must precede it Q. How many colours are there in the Rainebow A. Various colours but two especially most apparant a watry and a fiery colour which two colours expresse two iudgements the one of water past in beginning of the world and the other of fire to come in the end thereof Q. Which is the longest day in all the yeere A. S. Barnaby answereth that which hath the shortest night Q. How many are the properties of good wine A. As many as there are senses in mans body for to euery sense should good wine haue a relation 1 To the sight good colour purenesse and cleerenesse 2 To the hearing being powred forth a sparkling and speaking noise 3 To the taste sweetnesse 4 To the touching coldnesse 5 To the smell sweetnesse Q. How many are the veines in the body of man A. As many as there are dayes in the yeere of which one thus writeth That euery thing we doe may vaine appeare We haue a veine for each day in the yeere Q. How many bones are there in the body of man A. It is answered

neuer losse of dayes Q. It being demanded of Aristotle whether a fault committed in drunkennesse were to be punished or remitted a man not being the ●● himselfe A It was answered Hee which in drunkennesse committed any offence was worthy of double punishment first for being drunke secondly for his offence therein Q. Who are those that draw death out of that wherwith others preserue life A. The Drunkard and the Glutton Q. What two Monasillables are those that diuide the whole world A. These two Pronownes Mine and Thine Q. Of Retribution how many bee the sorts and what are the best or worst degrees therein A. There are foure sorts which are these following 1. To repay good for good fitnesse 2. To repay euill for euill peruersenesse 3. To repay euill for good Diuellishnesse 4. To repay good for euill Blessednesse Q How many things are chiefly required in a good Chirurgion A. These three properties 1. A Hawkes eye 2. A Lyons heart and 3. A Ladies hand Q. Cato repented himselfe of three things and what were they A. 1. That euer hee beleeued a woman 2. That he euer spent time idlely 3. That hee euer went by water when he might goe by land Q What were those three things Saint Austin wished he had liued to haue seene Paulum in ore Romam in flore Christum in corpere A. 1. Rome in her flourishing estate 2. To heare Saint Paul preach 3. To haue seen Christ in the flesh But we saith Lactantius will giue God thankes that wee are not Pagans but Christians that wee liue in the time of the new Testament and not of the Olde Q Plato gaue thankes to nature for foure things and what were they A. 1. That he was a man and not a Beast 2. That hee was a man and not a woman 3. That he was a Grecian and not a Barbarian 4. That he liued in the time of Socrates Q. In how many formes doth a Physition appeare to his Patient A. In these three formes 1. In the forme of an Angell when he promiseth helpe 2. In the forme of a God when he performes it 3. In the forme of a Deuill when he asketh his reward And therefore it is the Physitions rule Accipe dum dolet Take the sound fee whilest the sicke hand giueth it Q. What three things are those that chiefly preserue life A. A ioyfull Heart a quiet Minde a moderate Diet. Q. What two things are those that make equall the Miserable and the Happy A. Sleepe and death Q. What passion and disease are those that cannot be hid A. Loue and the Chin● cough Q. What is the cause that the Deuill aboue any other beast of the field should assume the forme of a Serpent and that out of the putrifaction of mans body wormes and serpents should be produced A. It is answered according to Melancthon because man was puft vp with the Poyson of the Serpent in Paradise the Deuill hath euer since delighted in the forme of a Serpent for the conquest then atchieued in that shape and to this day it is reported that in some part of Africa and Asia are found Serpents that Deuils doe inhabite And that out of mans corruption Serpents doe and should spring the cause is manifest that it is from the impuritie and filthinesse of sinne of which as one implyeth it is not vnnecessary that out of a mans flesh a substance of the greatest sinne against God should creatures be ingendred of the greatest hate and enmity to man Q. What is the wisest of all things A. Tha. Mal. answered Time for it finds out all things teacheth and altereth all things Q. What People are those that haue but one Day and Night in the whole yeare A. Those that liue vnder the Pole Articke for to those the Sunne neuer ascends the Horizon 24. degrees nor comes vnder it so that they haue sixe signes aboue and sixe beneath it Q. Whether may the Bat be reckoned amongst the number of birds or Mice A. The Bat possesseth such an euennesse betwixt both that shee cannot iustly bee sayd to be absolutely either the one or the other for she hath wings but no feathers shee flies but in the Euening shee hath teeth which no bird hath and she nourisheth her yong with milke which no bird doth yet because she hath wings and flies wee reckon her among the Number of Birds Q. What birds are the most wicked but the shortest liu'd A. Sparrowes which for their much salacitie and wan●onnesse liue not aboue two yeares Zenocrates telles a story of a Sparrow which pursued by a Hawke flew into his bosome for refuge which he tooke and kept and the bird would still attend on him Q. What creatures of all other are the longest liu'd A. Man the Dawe the Hart and the Phoenix whereas most other compared with them are short the Hare liuing but ten yeares the Cat as many the Goat but eight the Asse 30. The Sheepe ten the Dogge 14 and sometimes 20. The Bull 15. the Oxe because gelded 20. the Sow and Peacocke 20. the Horse 20. and somtimes 30. the Doue eight the Turtle eight the Partrich twentie and fiue Q What Creature of all other sheds Teares at his death A. The Hart that fearefull and drie creature that brayes after the water Brookes Psal. 24. Q. What chiefly fats a Horse A. The eye of the Master Q. One asked Aristotle what was the fruit of all his Phylosophy A. Who answered to do that out of a free disposition which lawes and enforcements doe compell others vnto Q. What kinde of Creatures are those that sleepe not with their owne faces A. Painted women for the most part suspitious harlots Q. What is that that is too hard for one to keepe enough for two and too much for three A. A Secret Q. To whom may a man best commit his secret A. To a common Lyar for hee shall not bee beleeued though hee tell truth Q What waters of all others ascend highest A. The Teares of the faithfull which God gathers into his Bottle Q. Of all the Fishes in the Sea which do our Naturalists obserue the swiftest A. The Dolphin which swimmes faster then either Bird or Arrow flies which fish of all others is most dangerous to Marriners Q. What three Letters are those that make vs bond men and free A. They are E V A which inuerted are A V E the Angels salutation Q. VVhat two Letters are those that yong Infants first cry out vpon A. E A according to the Poet Clamabunt E A quotquot nascuntur ab Eua. All cry out of E. and A. That are borne of Eua. The males especially vpon A. and the females vpon E. except Zoroastes of whom it is read that hee was borne laughing who as Plinie notes was the first finder out of Magicke Q. VVhat is that which being contained in it selfe yet from it thousands doe dayly spring and issue A. The Eg frō whence are produced fowles fishes birds and

of the Loadestone euer turneth to the north-pole with the foot thereof to the South pole touched with the one side turneth Eastward with the other side Westward c. Of the Hermaphrodite Whilest my mother bare mee in her wombe she went to the Gods to know what shee had conceyued whether Male or Female Phoebus sayd it was a Male Mars a female Iuno neither Beeing borne I was an Hermaphrodite After seeking my destiny from these Gods Iuno sayde I should bee slaine with a sword Mars that I should bee hanged Phoebus that I should bee drown'd which was my fortune Climbing vp a tree from thence I fell vpon my sword my foote hung in a bough my head in the water so being neither Male nor Female but both I was neyther hanged nor drowned nor slaine but all Q. Seeing the flye is so small a creature why hath Nature giuen her 6. feete to goe beside winges to flye withall when the Elephant so great a Creature hath no wings and yet but foure feet Another Seeing the wolfe brings foorth more young then the sheepe afterward wolues eate those sheepe men kill those sheepe and yet how comes it that there be more sheepe then wolues Q. VVhat did our auncients holde to bee the greatest wonders in the world A. The Pyramides of Egypt built by the Israelites vnder the oppression of Pharaoh which were 50. cubites high 40. cubits thicke in compasse twelue Germaine miles The tower of Pharaoh the Walles of Babylon The Temple of Diana of Ephesus The tombe of Mausole and others Q. There are three thinges memorable that Spaine boasts of and what are those 1 A B●idge ouer which the water flowes that is vsed to runne vnder all other bridges 2 A City compassed with fire which is called Madrill by reason of the wall that is all of flints enuironi●g it round about 3 An other bridge on which continually 1 0000. cattell are fed vnder which the water runs 7. miles vnder ground and then breakes foorth againe Besides a great mountaine of Salt from which whatsoeuer is taken it presently increaseth to the quantity againe Q. In what part of the World is it that trees breade liuing creatures A. In the Isles of O●chades in Scotland wherein growes a tree neare the sea side that beares a fruit like vnto a fowle which dropping downe into the water becomes a liuing creature like a Ducke if it fall vpon the drye land it pu●rifies and tu●ns to no●hing but this is reported rather by historie then by the people of that Countrey Q. May it bee that without wood an Oxe boyle it selfe A. By preconiecture to forerunne this Discouerie might leade a man into some conceyted admiration therefore to stoppe that labour of the braine the Schythians teach vs this secret of their necessity for liuing in a Country where grows no wood they kill an Oxe and then take out all the bones from the flesh and of the bones make a fire that rosts or boyles him so it is sayde the Oxe rosts or boyles himselfe Q What was the answere of Bias to one that demaunded of him what was done in hell A. That he neuer was there nor euer talked with any that came from thence Albertus Duke of Saxony was wont to say that hee had three Monasteries three wonders in his Citie and what were they 1 P●edicant Fryers which had much corne and no fields 2 Franciscans which had much money and no rents 3 Of the order of S. Thomas which had store of children and no wiues Q. What are the differences betweene the former and later ages of the Worlde for length of dayes stature of body beauty riches and the like A. The difference in some degrees is very great in others more small for first concerning length of dayes or long life betweene the former ages and the later there is no comparison for before the flood men liued 900. and odde years as Methusal●th Adam and others Now with vs the odde yeares are almost counted long life and then as the Age was long so the size was great large of stature mightie of strength which in our times are shrunke vp to a handful For Beautie the Scriptures make mention of Vashti Esther and others and our Chronicles of Rosamond Matilda Shores wife and others all liked and approoued of by Kings yet notwithstanding the blazed features of these many are of opinion that some Beauties of our times of lesse note are not inferiour to some of these if not exceeding And as for riches Abraham Lot and Iob are styled for their mightinesse in that blessing to let passe the two former whose Heardsm●n diuided the Countries and come to Iob concerning whom is more particularly expressed whose substance in Cattel as the Scripture testifieth was 700. sheepe 3000 Cammels 500. yoke of Oxen and 500 shee Asses and at last all this was doubled Amongst some others to produce in parallel neere our times this one It is found in a Record in the Tower that Syr Hugh Spencer the elder who liued in the time of King Edward the second had in substance and for the prouision of his house 28000. sheepe 1000. Oxen and Steres 1200 Kyne and Calues 140 Mares and Colts 160 drawing Horse 2000. Hogges 300. Bullockes 40. Tunne of Wine 600. Bacons 600. Muttons in Larder 10. Tunne of Syder Plate Iewells and Money 10000. pound This done the Censure is suspended and left to the iudicious Readers consideration to giue verdict Hereafter follow certaine Epigrams some olde reuiued and some new published 1. Of a Lawyers absence A Vertuous Dame that saw a Lawyer rome Iustly reprou'd his stay so long from home Saying to him that in his absence thence His wife might lacke her due beneuolence But to bee quit himselfe of such disgrace Answer'd it thus by putting of a Case One owes a hundred pounds now tell me whether Is best to haue such payment altogether Or take it by a shilling and a shilling Whereby the Bagge might be the longer filling Sure quoth the Dame I thinke it were no losse If one receiu'd● such payment all in grosse Yet in your absence this may cause your sorrows To feare for want your wife should twelue pence borrow Epig. 2. In Getam Geta from Wooll and weauing first beganne Swelling and swelling to a Gentleman When he was Gentleman brauely dight Hee left not swelling till hee was a Knight And from a Knight thus higher to surmount He swell'd on bigger till hee was a Count And still proceeding carelesse of his first He swel'd to be a Lord and then hee burst Epigr. 3. Prouerbs vpon Complexions To a Red man reade thy Read With a Browne man breake thy bread At a Pale man draw thy knife From a blacke man keepe thy wife Exposition The Red wise The Browne trusty The Pale peeuish the Blacke lustie Epig. 4. In superbum I tooke the wall one thrust me rudely by And told me the Kings way did open lye I thank't him that