CHAP.
VII
.
Hereafter
followeth
the
Resolution
of
certaine
mixt
questions
.
1.
FIrst
,
it
is
demanded
why
the
Gout
happeneth
to
them
most
commonly
that
eat
many
kinds
of
pulses
.
It
is
answered
out
of
Galen
,
because
they
are
hard
and
windy
,
and
not
easily
digested
,
by
reason
of
which
indigestion
2.
N●…xt
is
demanded
,
why
Beanes
being
that
they
are
windy
by
decoction
,
lose
not
their
windinesse
as
Barley
doth
?
To
which
is
answered
,
that
Beanes
are
of
nature
more
windy
than
Barley
,
and
because
they
are
of
a
more
grosse
and
compact
substance
,
therefore
more
hardly
altered
,
than
Barley
which
is
more
thinne
and
easie
.
Wherefore
saith
Isacke
,
according
to
Galen
,
by
decocting
of
Beanes
we
lose
not
their
windinesse
,
but
by
strong
seething
,
we
something
diminish
it
.
3.
Next
is
demanded
why
the
eating
of
Figges
breedeth
Lice
?
By
want
of
shift
,
since
Lice
at
first
are
bred
,
And
after
by
the
same
increas'd
and
fed
:
I
cannot
see
why
Crambo
should
have
many
,
Since
that
is
sure
he
shifts
as
much
as
any
.
Yet
Auicen
thus
farre
commendeth
figges
,
that
they
cause
a
good
colour
in
the
face
,
by
driving
the
blood
to
the
outermost
part
of
the
skinne
.
4.
Next
is
demanded
,
why
wine
being
drunke
after
any
rotten
fruit
tasteth
bitter
?
To
the
which
is
answered
,
that
from
the
fruit
is
derived
a
certaine
bitternesse
which
remaineth
upon
the
tongue
,
which
being
mixed
with
Wine
maketh
it
of
a
bitter
tast
.
Next
is
demanded
whether
new
Hony
be
better
than
old
?
To
the
which
is
answered
,
that
it
is
otherwise
with
Hony
than
with
Wine
,
because
the
newest
Hony
and
the
oldest
Wine
is
ever
the
best
:
and
the
reason
is
,
because
the
nature
of
Wine
is
moyst
,
but
the
nature
of
Hony
dry
:
the
experience
whereof
may
be
taken
in
medicine
,
where
those
having
dry
bodies
are
moystned
with
Wine
,
as
those
that
are
moyst
and
phlegmaticke
are
dryed
with
Honey
.
5.
Next
is
demanded
why
oyle
in
the
top
,
wine
in
the
middle
,
and
hony
in
the
bottome
is
ever
best
to
begin
with
the
last
first
?
It
is
answered
,
because
that
honey
which
is
best
,
is
waightier
than
the
other
,
and
so
sinketh
downe
to
the
bottome
,
and
therefore
in
a
vessell
of
honey
,
that
in
the
bottome
6.
But
in
a
vessell
of
wine
the
middle
,
because
the
bottome
thereof
is
thickned
with
Lees
,
and
the
top
is
troubled
with
ayre
;
whereupon
the
husbandmen
knowing
it
not
sufficient
to
keep
it
in
a
close
house
,
mine
and
digge
deepe
to
lay
it
in
the
ground
,
so
to
remove
it
from
the
ayre
as
much
as
they
can
,
by
which
it
is
so
manifestly
hurt
,
that
it
is
scarce
conserved
in
a
vessell
halfe
full
;
and
therefore
that
in
the
middle
removed
from
these
inconveniences
is
the
best
.
7.
But
that
oyle
which
remaineth
in
the
top
of
the
vessell
,
or
in
a
vessell
halfe
full
,
is
both
the
best
,
and
bettered
thereby
,
because
the
ayre
entring
into
it
,
dries
up
the
vacuous
and
superfluous
humour
wherein
it
lyes
,
so
making
it
both
of
better
taste
and
quality
.
8.
Next
is
demanded
,
why
oyle
sometimes
is
frozen
,
but
wine
more
seldome
?
it
is
answered
,
that
in
oile
there
is
a
cause
of
congelation
being
glutenous
and
thicke
,
which
in
wine
there
is
not
being
of
a
more
liquid
and
strong
vertue
.
9.
Next
is
demanded
,
why
Vinegar
being
that
it
is
most
cold
,
is
never
frozen
,
seeing
that
the
coldest
things
are
most
apt
thereunto
?
It
is
answered
,
because
Vinegar
is
the
most
liquid
amongst
all
other
humours
,
and
the
most
piercing
and
tart
,
which
like
the
sea
being
alwayes
respersed
with
his
owne
bitternesse
,
doth
never
freeze
.
Next
is
demanded
why
pepper
and
mustard
doe
gnaw
the
outward
skin
,
and
hurt
the
stomacke
?
To
the
which
is
answered
,
being
opposed
unto
the
outward
skin
,
it
worketh
thereupon
in
his
full
vertue
and
nature
,
which
is
to
corrode
and
gnaw
;
but
being
descended
into
the
stomacke
,
the
force
thereof
is
abated
through
the
quality
and
nature
thereof
,
and
so
ceaseth
in
that
effect
.
Of
the
dangerous
,
Clymactericall
yeares
and
dayes
of
a
Mans
life
.
EVery
seventh
yeare
throughout
a
mans
whole
life
,
is
a
There
are
likewise
in
the
yeare
three
dangerous
Mundayes
to
beginne
The
first
Munday
in
Aprill
,
which
day
Cain
was
borne
,
and
his
brother
Abel
slaine
.
Second
Munday
in
August
,
which
day
Sodom
and
Gomorah
were
destroyed
.
The
last
Munday
of
December
,
which
day
Indas
was
borne
that
betrayed
Christ
.
Of
the
Excellencie
,
Vertue
,
and
nature
of
Stones
.
THe
Turcoyse-stone
,
if
the
As
a
compassionate
Turcoyse
that
doth
tell
,
By
looking
pale
,
the
wearer
is
not
well
.
Many
other
precious
Iemmes
there
are
that
lose
their
vertue
and
splendor
,
worne
upon
the
firger
of
any
polluted
person
,
and
therefore
lewd
and
uncleane
livers
,
such
as
defile
their
bodies
with
women
,
never
adorne
themselves
with
these
dissenting
Iewels
,
which
would
blush
at
their
shame
,
and
bettay
their
suburbs
,
A
rich
investure
,
saith
one
,
they
are
,
but
of
small
use
in
our
dayes
,
hardly
meeting
with
a
finger
that
spoyles
them
not
.
Like
wise
that
there
is
both
excellent
beauty
and
vertue
in
these
as
in
other
of
that
kind
,
may
appeare
in
the
care
which
Moses
had
to
ad●…rne
the
vesture
of
the
high
Priest
with
12.
Iems
,
which
also
Ezechiel
,
and
S.
Iohn
in
his
Apocalips
have
remembred
,
in
which
there
were
not
onely
beauty
and
colour
,
but
marvellous
effect
.
In
the
end
of
August
,
the
Moone
increasing
,
there
is
found
in
the
Swallowes
belly
a
stone
of
excellent
vertue
for
the
cure
of
the
There
is
likewise
found
in
the
head
of
an
old
Toad
,
a
stone
very
Likewise
there
is
sometimes
found
in
the
head
of
a
Carpe
,
a
A
Direction
for
Study
and
Art
,
delivered
by
a
Gentleman
to
his
Sonnes
,
for
their
securer
election
and
choyce
,
wherewithall
,
shewing
briefly
his
opinion
what
studies
are
most
painefull
,
yet
least
pr●…fitable
;
what
,
contrariwise
,
of
most
worth
to
be
imbraced
,
or
vanity
to
be
rejected
.
FIrst
for
Divinity
,
the
highest
,
Secondly
for
Law
;
if
thou
wouldest
be
soone
rich
,
soone
For
Physicke
,
I
know
not
how
For
Astrology
,
and
the
over-tedious
observation
and
judgement
of
the
starres
,
taken
from
Let
the
Wise
man
,
and
Sages
of
heaven
,
with
their
observations
,
predictions
and
knowledge
,
stand
forth
,
and
save
there
.
And
likewise
Jeremy
in
another
place
,
Feare
not
the
predictions
by
the
heavens
,
because
the
lawes
of
the
people
are
vaine
;
or
their
demonstrations
,
because
they
are
deceitfull
:
which
words
yet
condemne
not
altogether
the
use
of
Astrology
,
which
hath
some
end
and
profit
,
but
condemneth
those
professors
which
make
vaine
ostentation
to
the
people
,
of
certainties
,
by
uncertainties
.
Next
unto
this
is
the
vanity
of
Chyromancers
,
which
by
taking
Like
unto
these
,
or
if
other
more
Nygromancy
is
an
Art
by
which
Like
unto
these
are
Hydromancy
and
Pyromancy
,
which
worke
Hereafter
follow
some
few
receits
of
Albertus
Magnus
,
and
our
former
Author
.
To
powre
scalding
Oyle
,
or
melting
Lead
into
the
hand
,
and
not
be
burned
therewith
.
ANnoynt
the
palme
of
your
hand
with
the
Iuyce
of
Mallowes
,
or
Mercury
,
and
you
may
doe
it
for
a
space
,
but
not
long
,
being
two
of
the
hottest
liquors
that
are
,
into
which
if
you
put
but
Tin
or
Lead
,
they
presently
melt
;
which
water
or
any
other
liquor
besides
effecteth
.
To
keepe
Inke
from
freezing
.
PVt
three
or
foure
drops
of
Aqua
vita
into
the
Standish
,
and
the
Inke
will
not
freeze
,
though
the
weather
be
never
so
hard
.
Of
the
strange
effects
wrought
by
some
members
of
the
Owle
.
TAke
the
heart
of
an
Owle
,
and
his
right
foot
,
and
put
it
upon
one
that
sleepeth
,
and
he
shall
reveale
unto
thee
whatsoever
he
hath
done
,
or
whatsoever
he
knowes
,
that
thou
shalt
aske
him
,
and
this
hath
beene
experienced
of
late
time
.
Of
the
Want
or
the
Mole
.
THe
Want
or
the
Mole
is
a
creature
of
strange
effect
,
as
the
Philosopher
conceives
,
who
being
put
into
the
neast
of
any
Bird
,
can
never
bring
forth
her
young
;
as
also
the
water
wherein
she
is
decocted
,
being
rubbed
upon
any
thing
,
AA
.
that
was
blacke
immediately
changeth
it
into
white
.
Of
the
strange
effects
of
some
parts
of
the
Black-bird
.
IF
the
quils
of
her
right
wing
be
taken
and
hung
up
in
a
house
by
a
red
thred
,
no
creature
can
sleepe
in
that
honse
untill
they
are
taken
downe
;
and
if
the
head
thereof
be
put
upon
any
one
that
sleepeth
,
they
shall
reveale
unto
thee
all
their
secrets
with
a
loud
voyce
,
as
hath
beene
experienced
.
Away
to
make
Doves
increase
and
multiply
.
AUicen
saith
,
that
Aristotle
was
of
opinion
,
that
if
the
milke
of
a
woman
twice
married
over
,
put
into
a
vessell
of
glasle
,
and
either
buried
or
hung
up
in
the
dore
where
the
Pigions
fly●…
out
and
in
,
they
would
keepe
together
,
and
increase
to
infinite
numbers
.
To
untye
a
knot
without
touching
.
GOe
into
a
Wood
,
and
find
where
a
Pye
hath
builded
her
nest
,
and
hath
young
ones
,
and
tye
some
string
round
about
the
hole
where
she
goeth
in
;
the
which
when
she
shall
perceive
,
she
immediately
flyes
for
a
certaine
herbe
which
she
puts
to
the
knot
,
which
presently
breaketh
it
;
then
falleth
the
hearb
downe
,
which
thou
mayst
take
up
and
reserve
to
such
a
purpose
.
Hereafter
followeth
a
Divine
and
Philosophicall
conference
betweene
some
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
and
some
Philosophers
of
Nature
,
proposing
and
propounding
Pious
,
Learned
,
sharp
and
pleasant
Aenigmaes
,
abstracted
out
of
many
and
sundry
Authors
,
as
well
sacred
as
prophane
;
which
marvellously
make
to
comprise
wisdome
,
and
nourishing
of
liberall
wits
,
to
the
informing
of
the
Judgement
,
and
to
the
delight
of
all
lovers
of
knowledge
.
Propositions
follow
.
Q.
IN
what
part
of
a
mans
body
is
his
heart
?
A.
That
Anatomists
will
tell
us
,
and
also
the
Scriptures
will
direct
us
,
that
both
the
heart
of
the
wise
man
,
and
of
the
foole
,
is
in
the
center
or
middle
of
the
brost
:
but
the
Scripture
yet
further
saith
,
that
the
heart
of
a
wise
man
is
in
his
right
hand
,
but
the
heart
of
a
foole
in
his
left
.
Q.
How
doth
the
old
Testament
and
new
begin
?
A.
Both
from
Adam
;
the
one
from
the
first
Adam
;
the
second
from
the
second
Adam
,
describing
his
generation
:
I
onely
admire
the
power
of
that
God
,
which
besides
,
above
,
against
nature
,
effects
whatsoever
he
pleaseth
.
Q.
From
whence
is
the
name
Cardinall
derived
?
A.
Of
Cardus
for
a
hinge
;
for
even
as
a
doore
turnes
upon
his
hinges
,
so
doth
the
Church
of
Rome
upon
these
hinges
the
Cardinals
,
and
by
their
counsell
and
direction
is
governed
:
Of
which
one
writes
in
imitation
of
Virgil
,
Qui
Bauium
non
odit
,
amet
tua
Carmina
meui
?
Qui
satanam
non
odit
,
amet
tua
dogmata
Papa
,
Who
in
mercy
hath
no
hope
,
Let
him
love
thy
Dogmaes
,
Pope
.
Q.
The
Devill
of
old
was
said
to
have
two
daughters
,
Cove●…ousnesse
,
and
Luxury
;
and
he
married
the
one
to
the
Iewes
,
and
the
other
to
the
Heathen
;
and
now
of
their
off-springs
all
Nations
and
sorts
of
people
are
affianced
.
Q.
Why
in
times
past
did
the
antient
build
their
Sepulchers
by
the
highway-side
?
A.
To
admonish
all
men
of
death
.
Diogenes
hearing
of
the
death
of
a
great
rich
miserable
man
,
saith
,
he
hath
not
lived
his
owne
life
,
but
hath
left
it
unto
others
.
Uir
,
Conjux
,
Genetrix
,
natus
,
fraterque
,
sororque
,
Hic
duo
sint
,
quamv
is
nomina
pluracarent
;
Error
enim
sceleri
,
causam
dedit
,
●…iscia
nupsit
,
Illi
quem
peperit
,
filid
mista
patri
.
Husband
,
wife
,
mother
,
sonne
,
and
sister
both
,
And
brother
,
this
paire
make
,
by
plighting
troth
,
at
unawares
.
It
is
said
a
certain
woman
which
error
married
her
sonne
.
Q.
Why
in
old
time
was
there
so
few
,
or
almost
no
Monuments
erected
for
the
dead
,
and
now
so
many
?
A.
Men
desired
to
live
by
their
vertue
and
good
workes
,
and
they
speake
the
good
mans
praise
;
for
God
hath
so
pronounced
,
The
memoriall
of
the
Iust
shall
be
blessed
,
but
the
memory
of
the
wicked
shall
rot
:
and
likewise
those
that
haue
done
well
,
are
without
doubt
with
God
,
and
seeke
not
glory
on
earth
,
having
blessednesse
at
the
head
of
the
fountaine
.
Many
faire
Monuments
now
inclose
not
onely
rotten
bones
,
but
unworthy
bones
and
ashes
.
Many
a
faire
Tombe
stands
like
a
bad
cause
made
good
by
the
guilded
varnish
of
words
and
fri●…nds
.
Q.
Of
the
prodigius
wife
of
Lot
her
Sepulcher
and
change
,
what
sayest
thou
?
A
The
Statuary
,
or
Pillar
of
Salt
into
which
Lots
wife
was
turned
,
was
,
according
as
Alcinus
the
Poet
saith
,
such
an
one
that
you
scarce
know
it
from
glasse
,
or
stone
,
or
mettall
,
but
by
the
saltish
tast
.
At
this
time
and
accident
what
did
Lot
her
husband
,
as
one
questioneth
;
which
is
thus
answered
by
the
Poet
:
Hoc
valdè
hic
miram
,
quod
Lot
non
flectitur
ipsam
,
Nec
sociam
sequitur
,
primo
constantior
Adam
;
Quamquamid
credomag
is
factum
quia
visa
referre
,
I
am
nequit
elinguis
,
qua
si
comperta
referret
:
Forsan
et
in
similes
,
ausis
temeraria
traxit
,
Credulo
&
imposuit
,
virgo
primana
marito
.
Englished
:
Many
hereat
admire
,
he
did
no●…
slacke
His
forward
pace
,
nor
ever
looked
backe
:
He
was
more
staid
than
Adam
,
that
did
eat
Because
his
wife
commended
him
the
meat
:
So
he
escap'd
the
Iudgement
,
and
knew
none
,
Because
he
held
his
way
,
and
journeyed
on
.
Q.
What
body
was
that
that
had
a
portable
Sepulcher
?
A.
Ionas
in
the
Whales
belly
.
Q.
What
was
Absolons
Sepulcher
?
A.
This
degenerate
sonne
of
a
good
father
was
hung
up
in
the
ayre
,
and
covered
over
with
stones
for
the
memoriall
of
so
unnaturall
a
patricide
.
Q.
How
would
Socrates
,
dying
,
be
buried
?
A.
Quoth
he
,
bury
mee
after
the
easiest
and
cheapest
way
.
And
concerning
sumptuous
tombs
and
monuments
,
erected
commonly
in
our
dayes
,
one
asketh
the
question
why
we
so
exceed
therein
,
seeing
those
men
that
talked
with
God
,
would
be
buried
but
in
caves
;
and
they
wanted
not
wealth
,
for
they
were
rich
men
,
as
Abraham
,
Isacke
,
and
the
like
.
Q.
What
thing
was
that
which
was
brought
forth
in
the
world
,
liv'd
in
the
world
,
sinn'd
not
in
the
world
,
spake
in
the
world
,
died
in
the
world
,
and
yet
shall
never
bee
partaker
of
the
world
to
come
?
A.
Balaams
Asse
.
Q.
When
is
it
that
the
dead
burie
the
dead
?
A.
Then
when
those
impious
dead
in
sinne
,
bury
the
dead
in
body
.
Q.
Why
is
it
not
read
in
holy
Scripture
,
nor
am●…ng
the
Fathers
,
nor
any
Ecclesiastical
writers
,
that
the
devill
ever
swore
?
A.
That
impure
spirit
wants
a
soule
,
and
so
hath
nothing
to
sweare
by
,
so
cannot
tye
himselfe
to
any
promises
,
being
the
father
of
lyes
,
and
a
manslayer
from
the
beginning
.
Christ
hath
sworne
many
times
which
is
King
of
kings
,
and
of
truth
the
Truth
,
and
a
most
faithfull
keeper
of
his
promise
,
of
which
no
word
shall
fall
to
the
ground
;
therefore
happy
we
whose
good
he
hath
sworne
;
and
wretched
we
if
we
beleeve
not
this
truth
it selfe
,
having
bound
it
with
an
oath
:
The
devill
promiseth
many
things
,
but
performes
none
;
and
Christ
promiseth
nothing
but
it
is
as
good
as
done
;
therefore
I
will
r●…ly
on
the
on
the
one
,
and
not
credit
the
other
with
the
smallest
beleefe
.
Q.
Doth
the
Devill
know
our
thoughts
or
no
?
A.
Not
,
but
by
conjecture
;
for
God
onely
is
the
searcher
of
the
heart
:
the
Devill
reads
it
by
observation
,
and
can
pierce
no
deeper
.
He
is
the
subtle
Serpent
,
and
therefore
we
are
fore
warned
to
stop
evill
motions
in
the
beginning
:
for
as
a
Serpent
if
he
one●…
get
in
his
head
will
easily
wind
in
his
whole
body
;
so
we
are
counsell'd
,
principi●…s
ebsta
,
keepe
out
the
head
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
of
later
times
,
Divels
,
and
visions
,
and
apparitions
,
and
such
like
,
have
not
beene
so
frequent
as
in
former
times
?
A.
Since
the
light
of
the
Gospell
came
into
the
world
,
these
Diabolicall
delusions
,
and
workes
of
darknesse
haue
with-drawne
themselves
,
which
in
times
of
Popery
and
Ignorance
were
more
frequent
as
the
Oracles
at
the
comming
of
Christ
were
.
Q.
Iobs
substance
was
much
in
Camels
,
a
great
and
knot
backed
beast
,
and
yet
it
is
said
,
this
Camel
with
as
much
ease
shall
goe
through
the
eye
of
an
needle
,
as
a
rich
man
to
enter
into
heauen
:
now
what
is
the
nature
of
this
Camell
?
A.
Stories
mention
,
that
they
are
of
a
gentle
and
towardly
disposition
,
and
knowing
their
owne
height
,
will
stoope
downe
to
receive
a
burden
,
and
then
they
will
erect
themselves
and
passe
along
;
if
they
find
themselves
over-burdened
,
they
will
either
lye
downe
or
cast
it
off
;
and
therefore
noting
too
much
,
so
hardly
rich
men
shall
be
saved
that
doe
not
,
over-laden
with
temporall
riches
and
security
,
cast
them
off
to
lighten
them
in
their
journey
to
heaven
:
The
Camell
is
a
beast
very
strong
,
and
very
fierce
in
his
venery
;
it
drinks
but
once
in
foure
daies
,
then
mudding
the
water
.
Of
this
Beast
thus
the
Poet
:
En
citius
tenuis
,
per
acus
transire
foramen
,
Deform
is
poterant
inania
membr●…
Cameli
.
To
thred
the
postern
of
a
Needles
eye
,
Is
such
an
Art
no
wisedome
can
descry
;
And
yet
the
Scripture
saith
,
with
as
much
ease
A
rich
man
may
be
sav'd
,
as
one
doe
these
.
But
this
is
meant
of
unpenitent
rich
men
,
that
heape
Pelion
on
Ossa
,
and
so
overburdened
thinke
to
creepe
through
the
narrow
gate
as
strait
to
such
as
the
Needle
eye
to
the
Camell
.
Q.
Are
the
Starres
,
●…r
the
Sun
living
creatures
,
as
some
have
thought
?
A.
They
are
not
,
though
Origen
seemes
to
intimate
so
much
,
because
the
Starres
are
commanded
to
keepe
their
course
;
and
in
Iudg.
the
Starres
in
their
cours●…s
fought
against
Cysera
;
and
in
Ieremy
the
Sunn
is
termed
the
Queene
of
heaven
:
And
in
the
Psalmes
,
It
commeth
forth
as
a
Bridegroom
out
of
his
chamber
,
and
rejoyceth
as
a
Gyant
to
runne
his
course
:
And
in
Job
,
the
Stars
are
thought
to
be
capable
of
virtue
and
vice
,
because
there
it
is
said
,
The
stars
were
not
pure
in
his
fight
;
yet
all
these
approve
not
against
our
first
negatiue
.
Q
Which
is
the
swiftest
starre
of
all
other
?
A.
Phosphorus
,
or
the
morning
starre
,
or
Euening
starre
,
being
both
one
;
for
that
riseth
first
in
the
morning
,
and
setteth
last
in
the
Evening
:
this
great
Planet
,
of
some
called
Venus
,
sometimes
goes
before
the
Sunne
,
and
sometimes
followes
the
Sunne
;
she
is
called
the
wife
of
the
Sunne
,
because
she
is
up
after
his
setting
,
and
rising
;
last
up
,
like
a
good
wife
,
looking
that
all
things
be
in
safety
after
her
husband
is
in
bed
,
and
first
of
al
rising
in
the
morning
Q.
Why
doe
we
not
see
the
stars
in
the
day
time
,
in
regard
they
alwayes
shine
?
A.
Because
they
are
darken●…d
by
the
greater
light
of
the
Sunne
.
Q.
What
statre
was
that
that
led
the
wise
men
unto
Christ
?
A.
It
was
no
ordinary
Starre
,
nor
one
that
was
made
at
the
Creation
of
the
other
;
but
extraordinary
for
this
especiall
occasion
;
and
it
differed
from
other
starres
in
brightnesse
,
motion
,
and
scituation
of
place
;
for
it
was
placed
in
the
Firmament
of
heaven
,
the
other
in
a
higher
Orbe
,
this
in
an
inferiour
region
of
the
Ayre
:
And
when
the
Wise-men
came
to
Bethlem
,
it
went
and
stood
ouer
the
house
,
that
these
Magi
might
know
it
,
being
instructed
of
God
in
their
owne
Ant
,
for
they
were
Astronomers
.
Q.
What
Art
is
that
that
every
man
is
most
apt
to
credit
,
there
being
no
greater
danger
in
any
lye
?
A.
Physicke
and
Physicians
,
that
make
use
of
all
the
most
vildest
things
that
be
,
as
Scorpions
,
Toads
,
Serpents
,
and
the
like
,
and
these
will
tell
thee
there
is
nothing
so
abject
,
so
small
,
or
base
,
or
hurtfull
,
that
this
Art
will
not
turne
to
some
good
use
;
for
God
never
made
the
most
beautifull
thing
in
the
world
,
simply
for
view
,
and
love
;
nor
the
most
deformed
,
for
hate
;
but
all
for
use
,
though
all
things
are
not
knowne
,
nor
all
virtues
of
all
that
are
knowne
;
that
was
for
Salomons
wisdome
to
have
undertaken
to
decipher
.
Q.
What
was
the
wise
mans
answer
to
an
ignorant
Physician
that
told
his
friend
he
was
growne
old
?
A.
Because
I
use
not
many
Physicians
;
which
implies
,
nor
much
Physicke
.
Saith
another
old
man
,
These
hoary
plumes
,
like
mosse
upon
an
Oke
,
By
seeing
much
,
yet
suffering
more
,
I
tooke
.
Long
have
I
seene
the
worlds
uncertaine
change
;
Ioy
moves
not
me
,
Affliction
is
not
strange
.
One
having
spent
much
money
upon
the
Physicians
,
and
being
never
the
better
,
was
perswaded
by
a
godly
friend
,
that
if
he
had
given
that
money
to
the
poore
,
the
true
Physician
,
Christ
,
would
have
cured
him
.
On
a
time
it
was
disputed
at
Pope
Alexanders
Table
,
whether
it
were
better
for
the
Common-wealth
to
have
many
Physicians
,
or
none
at
all
:
some
affirmed
they
were
not
to
be
tolerated
in
Countrey
,
for
Rome
was
60.
yeares
without
,
and
neuer
better
health
than
at
that
time
;
(
saith
the
Pope
)
and
if
Physicians
had
not
beene
,
the
world
would
scarce
have
contained
her
people
by
this
time
.
A
worthy
saying
of
the
Pope
;
if
they
send
bodies
to
the
grave
,
he
&
his
soules
to
Purgatory
,
nay
hell
.
Q.
To
whom
is
life
very
long
,
or
very
short
?
A.
Life
to
them
that
doe
nothing
,
very
long
;
but
to
them
that
are
ever
doing
,
very
short
:
Ars
longa
,
vita
brevis
.
Q.
Who
is
the
best
treasurer
of
his
owne
goods
,
according
to
the
divine
Poet
?
A.
He
that
layes
up
treasure
in
heaven
.
Aedifica
in
patria
,
Bore●…s
ubi
nullus
&
imber
,
Conde
ubi
nec
furto
,
deripiu●…tur
opes
;
Hospititum
est
tellus
,
coelum
patria
nostrum
,
Et
Regnum
,
et
certe
,
quisque
parantur
opes
.
Lay
up
thy
Treasure
,
to
secure
thy
feare
,
In
Heaven
,
where
all
is
sure
is
trusted
there
.
Q.
Who
was
hee
that
bult
the
first
City
?
A.
Cain
;
and
that
out
of
his
feare
to
preserve
himselfe
from
his
enemies
,
the
name
thereof
was
Hanoh
;
and
beside
this
,
there
is
no
other
City
named
before
the
flood
,
Gen.
4.
7.
Q.
Which
is
held
to
be
the
greatest
City
at
this
day
in
the
world
?
A.
Quinsay
,
as
Histories
report
;
of
which
,
wondrous
things
are
delivered
;
it
containes
in
it
1200.
Towers
and
Turrets
,
and
so
many
sumptuous
Stone-bridges
;
numberlesse
numbers
of
men
,
Citizens
and
strangers
:
as
who
doth
not
likewise
admire
at
Niniuey
,
which
was
three
dayes
journey
from
gate
to
gate
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
preserver
of
friendship
?
A.
Nothing
is
more
amiable
,
nor
more
conjunctive
,
than
the
likenesse
of
good
affection
and
manners
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
Haec
res
&
jung
it
,
junctos
,
et
seruat
amicos
.
Q.
Who
is
that
at
once
loves
and
hates
,
flyes
and
●…lowes
,
threats
and
intr●…ats
,
is
d●…ry
●…nd
plea●…d
,
would
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
at
once
sad
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
thing
.
A.
This
〈◊〉
●…an
hardly
be
resolv●…d
,
unless
another
Delius
shew
it
;
yet
thus
i
explibate
it
in
a
word
:
It
is
meant
of
Love
and
Lovers
,
for
it
is
a
kinde
of
phrenzy
,
and
they
are
for
the
time
possest
with
a
short
madnesse
;
for
Amare
&
supere
vix
dijs
conceditur
.
It
is
a
question
of
Salomon
,
Pro.
6.
whether
a
man
can
hide
fire
in
his
bosome
,
and
not
be
burnt
?
now
there
is
a
second
question
,
whether
Love
or
Fire
burne
hotter
;
now
the
fire
must
have
fuell
neere
,
but
the
fire
of
Love
burnes
at
a
greater
distance
.
Q.
What
are
held
the
most
n●…cessary
things
of
a
mans
life
?
A.
Wee
desire
many
things
yet
we
brought
nothing
into
the
world
,
nor
we
shall
carry
nothing
out
;
at
death
each
man
layes
by
his
load
;
for
the
world
had
bi●…
beggard
long
agoe
,
if
rich
men
could
have
carried
their
substance
with
them
.
In
the
mean●…
time
,
if
we
have
but
water
,
fire
,
Iron
,
Salt
,
Bread
,
Milke
,
Honey
,
Wine
,
and
Oyle
,
House
to
cover
my
head
,
Garments
to
cover
my
nakednesse
,
Current
mundus
,
forwe
have
all
and
enough
.
Q.
What
is
the
Physicians
best
rule
for
health
?
A.
Temperance
,
avoyding
satiety
and
fulnesle
.
A
certaine
wise
King
,
Cyrus
by
name
,
(
as
stories
mention
)
never
sate
downe
without
a
stomacke
,
nor
never
rose
without
an
emptinesse
:
So
Galen
,
Asclepiades
,
Bartholus
,
all
these
,
and
many
other
,
that
tooke
their
dyet
by
weight
,
whereas
some
other
gluttons
furnished
their
Tables
by
Alphabet
;
those
were
such
as
the
French
Proverbe
saith
,
Dig
their
graves
with
their
teeth
.
Q.
How
many
diseases
(
as
Deaths
Harbingers
)
belong
to
the
body
of
man
,
as
is
supposed
?
A.
There
a●…
so
many
they
are
hardly
to
be
numbred
:
some
Physicians
thinke
there
are
two
thousand
;
and
certainely
there
is
no
member
in
a
mans
body
,
that
is
not
diversly
a●…icted
;
and
now
of
late
yeares
,
divers
new
diseases
are
sprung
up
that
are
without
names
;
Diseases
increase
,
and
Plants
and
Herbs
decay
and
lose
their
operations
,
which
bring
death
so
neare
us
,
he
continually
lookes
in
at
our
windowes
;
and
the
longer
our
life
is
,
the
more
numerous
are
our
sinnes
,
even
whole
Miriades
:
and
at
last
comes
death
,
and
with
a
little
pin
bores
through
our
wall
of
health
,
so
farewell
man
.
Constantius
,
our
noble
Countriman
,
and
Emperour
,
more
fuller
of
heroicall
vertue
than
feare
of
death
,
being
sicke
,
and
demanding
lus
Physicians
counsell
,
was
resolved
,
that
a
hath
of
Infants
blood
would
cure
him
,
answered
,
I
had
rather
be
continually
sicke
,
or
presently
dye
,
then
with
Herods
cruelty
preserve
one
life
with
so
many
deaths
,
or
a
cure
worse
than
the
disease
.
A
fellow
having
his
legge
to
be
cut
off
,
in
the
thought
of
his
misery
cried
out
and
said
to
that
skil
,
that
death
loves
not
Chyrurgery
.
Vah
non
est
tanto
digna
dolery
salus
.
The
Pope
is
called
Summus
;
that
is
,
the
highest
;
because
he
is
suprajus
,
contrajus
,
&
extrajus
:
because
he
is
aboue
Law
,
against
Law
,
and
without
Law
.
A
Cardinall
for
his
exceeding
great
pride
being
rebuked
by
a
King
of
France
,
who
told
one
that
the
Apostles
in
their
times
were
more
humble
and
plaine
,
answered
nothing
thereto
,
but
told
the
King
,
Kings
in
ancient
times
were
Heardsm●…n
and
Shepherds
.
A
great
man
demanded
of
the
Pope
,
for
the
pompe
of
his
Church
why
he
did
not
create
more
new
Cardinals
;
that
(
quoth
he
)
willingly
I
would
doe
,
if
I
could
create
a
new
world
,
for
this
is
too
little
for
those
that
are
already
:
Tres
su●…t
convive
,
Germanus
,
Flander
,
&
Anglus
,
Dic
quis
edat
melius
,
quis
meliusve
bibat
:
Non
comedes
Germane
,
bibis
tu
non
bibes
Anglus
,
Sed
Comedis
Comedis
Flandre
bibisque
bene
.
Three
feasts
there
are
,
you
hardly
can
match
such
,
Betwixt
the
English
,
German
,
and
the
Dutch
:
Now
of
these
three
,
which
are
they
of
the
rest
,
That
eat
and
drinke
,
or
drinke
and
eat
the
best
?
Thou
German
for
thy
drink
claim
thou
thy
share
,
Thou
English
,
for
thy
trencher
take
thou
care
;
Then
Dutchman
out
of
both
take
thou
thy
fare
.
Q.
Whether
doe
Cups
of
silver
,
or
Cups
of
glasse
sooner
quench
the
thirst
?
A.
Cups
of
Glasse
:
for
Cups
of
silver
doe
a
little
allay
it
for
the
time
,
but
that
thirst
is
incurable
;
for
crescit
amor
nummi
,
quantum
ipsa
pecunia
crescit
.
Q.
What
was
Socrates
excuse
for
his
frugall
fare
to
his
wife
?
A.
If
they
be
our
friends
,
here
is
enough
;
if
they
be
not
,
here
is
to
much
.
A
certaine
drunken
man
called
Sobriety
the
beasts
vertue
,
and
would
be
opposite
so
much
,
that
he
made
himselfe
a
beast
.
Q.
What
makes
the
Terrestriall
Globe
?
A.
The
earth
and
the
water
makes
this
one
globe
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
Terra
atque
vnda
,
Globum
faciunt
quis
crederet
unum
,
Scilicet
haec
semper
manat
,
at
ill●…
manet
.
The
earth
and
water
,
though
they
rest
and
move
,
Are
married
in
one
globe
by
powerfull
Iove
.
Q.
What
is
the
world
for
her
instability
compared
unto
?
A.
To
the
wheele
which
ever
turns
round
of
which
one
writes
,
Vtrota
voluitur
indique
pingitur
ut
rota
mundus
;
Quippe
volubilis
,
et
variabilis
as
ruibundus
.
Another
of
the
world
.
In
mundo
nihil
constat
,
in
orbe●…
vertitur
orbis
,
Quid
mirum
?
recti
qued
sit
in
orbe
nihil
.
Even
as
a
wheele
is
turned
on
his
pinne
,
The
world
so
in
the
world
,
and
all
therein
.
Q.
How
much
distance
doe
Astronemers
reck●…n
from
the
center
of
the
earth
,
to
the
spheare
of
the
moone
,
and
to
the
fixed
stars
?
A.
To
the
Moone
16340.
to
the
spheare
of
the
fixed
Starres
,
17269660.
But
this
question
is
more
deepe
than
can
be
truly
resolved
by
me
or
any
other
.
Syraeides
denyes
the
height
of
heaven
can
be
measured
by
any
:
so
saith
another
wise
man
,
the
height
of
heaven
,
the
depth
of
the
earth
,
and
the
heart
of
Kings
are
undemenfitive
.
It
is
God
that
measures
the
heavens
with
his
spanne
,
weighs
the
mountaines
and
hils
in
a
ballance
,
and
gathers
the
waters
into
his
fist
,
Esay
40.
12.
22.
T
is
he
onely
that
knowes
these
obscurities
,
the
heights
above
,
and
the
bottomes
below
;
where
fadome
line
could
never
sound
the
depth
.
Hesiodus
triflingly
saith
,
if
a
line
were
let
downe
from
heaven
,
in
ton
dayes
it
would
not
come
to
the
earth
:
but
these
,
as
inscrutable
,
we
leave
,
though
it
argues
our
ignorance
in
our
owne
dwelling
.
Q.
Whether
was
Peter
ever
at
Rome
?
A.
This
question
hath
bred
much
controve●…sie
:
but
we
deny
that
Peter
was
ever
there
,
but
Simon
hath
,
and
many
other
Simoniacks
.
Q.
What
may
covetous
Patrons
be
likened
unto
?
A.
To
the
Deuils
Factors
,
that
buy
and
sell
livings
as
men
buy
and
sell
horses
in
a
Faire
,
a
faire
Chapmandise
;
and
these
care
not
so
a
man
have
Entia
,
whether
he
have
Scientia
or
no
,
or
Conscientia
or
no
;
because
they
make
account
that
silver
is
better
than
Latine
.
Q.
What
doth
David
understand
by
a
dead
dogge
,
and
a
flea
?
A.
In
these
words
he
doth
upbraid
Saul
of
cruelty
,
that
he
himselfe
being
a
Prince
,
should
so
fiercely
seeke
revenge
of
one
so
lowly
in
his
owne
eyes
,
as
to
compare
himselfe
to
a
dead
dogge
,
which
other
dogs
will
not
bite
,
and
to
a
Flea
which
wee
trample
under
foot
.
Every
man
is
tender
of
himselfe
,
and
therefore
we
write
our
evil
deeds
,
and
other
menswrongs
we
doe
,
in
the
dust
;
but
our
good
workes
,
and
our
wrongs
,
in
marble
:
according
to
the
Poet
:
Pulvere
quiledit
,
scribit
,
sed
marmore
laesus
.
Q.
What
weapons
are
those
that
are
both
the
Instruments
of
warre
and
peace
?
A.
The
Sword
and
the
Mattock
as
it
is
in
the
holy
Writ
,
Swords
are
turned
into
Mattocks
,
&c.
Q.
Is
it
just
to
hate
the
person
for
his
vices
sake
,
or
to
loue
the
vices
for
the
persons
sake
?
A.
It
is
a
fault
in
either
;
for
thou
shalt
not
hate
thy
brother
in
thy
heart
:
we
must
love
the
person
,
and
hate
the
vice
.
Diogenes
seeing
a
fellow
begging
for
his
living
,
said
,
well
done
friend
,
thou
labourest
that
thou
mayst
not
labour
.
Q.
What
are
those
two
great
inventions
in
the
world
,
invented
and
found
out
about
150.
yeares
agoe
,
and
both
by
a
Fryar
named
Sivart
?
A.
Printing
and
Gunnes
:
of
which
one
writes
,
Printing
and
Gunnes
are
both
but
late
inventions
Quicknesse
of
worke
is
either
their
intentions
:
Since
whether
they
haue
wrought
more
harme
or
good
;
They
have
brocht
such
doctrines
,
let
so
many
blood
:
Is
yet
unjudg'd
.
Honest
a
siquid
feceris
cum
maximis
laboribus
,
Cedentibus
laboribus
,
Dulcis
manebit
gloria
:
Sui
turpe
quid
comiseris
cum
gaudij
amplissimis
,
Abibit
omni
gaudium
turpi
manente
infamia
.
He
that
with
labour
vertue
doth
attaine
,
The
labour
's
past
,
but
the
vertue
doth
remaine
:
But
if
with
infamy
thou
pleasure
buy
,
The
pleasure
passeth
,
though
the
shame
ne're
dye
.
Few
words
,
but
full
of
sense
,
which
ought
to
be
written
upon
every
ones
dore
,
carved
upon
th●…ir
posts
,
printed
upon
their
hearts
,
and
expressed
in
their
lives
.
What
difference
betweene
the
rich
man
and
the
foole
,
both
dye
alike
:
and
betweene
the
Ashes
of
Vashty
the
most
beautifull
Queene
that
ever
was
,
and
the
blackest
Aegyptian
bond-woman
?
No
distinction
can
be
made
,
as
not
for
beauty
,
so
not
for
wisdome
:
but
put
them
both
naked
into
an
unknowne
Countrey
,
and
then
the
difference
shall
be
easily
discerned
:
For
a
wise
man
is
more
precious
than
riches
,
and
nothing
is
worthy
his
comparison
:
length
of
dayes
is
in
his
right
hand
,
and
in
his
left
glory
and
riches
.
Pontanus
relates
of
a
Traveller
that
said
he
had
beene
at
Bonouia
,
but
said
he
had
not
met
with
one
living
wise
man
,
but
many
dead
ones
,
and
those
tyed
in
chaynes
,
meaning
Bookes
.
Q.
Whether
is
Wisedome
or
Riches
more
precious
?
A.
Wisdome
;
and
that
have
divers
wise
men
chosen
before
Riches
:
as
Salom●…n
chose
Wisdome
,
and
not
Riches
:
Moses
forsooke
Pharaohs
Court
,
Diogenes
the
Court
of
Alexander
to
●…onverse
with
Philosophers
:
and
what
doth
it
profit
a
foole
to
have
wealth
,
when
it
cannot
buy
Wisdome
,
Q.
What
is
the
mind
and
study
of
the
slothfull
man
?
A.
Saint
Bede
will
answer
,
the
slothfull
will
and
will
not
:
he
would
reigne
with
God
,
but
not
labour
with
God
:
they
like
the
reward
when
it
is
promised
,
but
not
the
worke
when
it
is
to
bee
done
:
but
they
must
know
,
Qui
non
laborabit
in
hoc
seculo
,
non
manducabit
in
futuro
:
and
it
is
labour
that
nourisheth
the
most
generous
minds
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
troublesome
idlenesse
?
A.
Divers
jesting
at
supper
,
amongst
other
questions
,
this
was
propounded
:
one
was
of
one
opinion
,
and
another
of
another
,
but
Publius
said
,
the
gout
in
the
feet
.
This
tale
was
moralized
upon
by
certaine
labouring
,
but
ignorant
people
,
that
thought
the
Magistrate
and
the
Minister
lived
in
too
much
ease
,
and
too
much
honour
,
and
with
too
little
paines
,
when
their
labor
,
as
they
thought
,
was
too
great
,
their
profit
and
esteeme
too
little
:
To
this
a
comparison
was
made
on
a
time
,
when
silly
sheepe
could
speake
;
and
then
at
such
a
time
it
was
the
sheepe
said
to
her
master
,
I
marvell
much
,
that
we
receiving
nothing
of
thee
,
but
are
forced
to
seeke
our
livings
out
of
the
earth
,
from
whom
yet
thou
takest
wooll
and
Cheese
,
and
Lambes
,
yet
thy
dogge
that
brings
thee
none
of
these
profits
,
he
is
fed
with
bread
from
thine
owne
hand
.
But
then
it
is
said
,
that
the
dogge
thus
replied
,
And
worthily
I
receive
my
allowance
,
for
I
am
he
that
keepe
and
preserve
you
,
lest
theeves
steale
you
,
or
wolves
devoure
you
,
whose
custody
if
I
neglect
,
you
cannot
eat
one
morsell
securely
:
The
sheepe
hearing
this
,
was
content
with
every
lot
,
and
ever
since
,
being
so
conui●…ted
,
have
held
their
peace
.
Extant
to
this
there
is
another
story
,
how
on
a
time
the
members
complained
against
the
belly
,
how
it
was
idle
,
and
did
nothing
,
but
devoured
their
labours
;
and
how
every
member
tooke
paines
,
and
they
were
all
weary
,
and
would
continue
their
exercise
no
longer
for
this
idle
member
:
this
done
,
the
belly
debarr'd
from
her
wonted
allowance
,
imparted
no
strength
to
the
hand
,
the
legge
grew
feeble
and
could
not
walke
,
and
the
whole
body
could
not
support
it selfe
for
feebl●…nesse
:
which
seene
and
perceived
,
a
Parliament
was
called
,
and
every
officer
put
to
his
former
taske
,
and
all
became
as
before
.
Q.
Of
sleepe
what
doe
the
Philosophers
averre
?
A.
That
it
is
the
Porch
betweene
life
and
death
:
that
death
is
a
long
sleepe
,
and
sleepe
a
short
death
;
that
it
is
natures
sithe
that
cuts
away
halfe
our
life
.
Of
Dreames
.
One
dreamed
that
hee
should
not
beleeve
dreames
,
because
they
are
for
the
most
part
false
:
if
hee
did
beleeve
them
,
then
it
followes
that
hee
should
not
beleeve
them
:
if
he
did
not
beleeve
them
,
then
it
followes
that
hee
should
have
beleeved
them
,
because
they
were
dreames
and
false
,
their
contrary
being
true
.
Q.
Is
that
compact
lawfull
or
possible
amongst
the
living
,
that
the
first
dead
should
come
backe
to
his
fellow
and
bring
newes
of
the
state
of
the
other
world
?
A.
It
is
neither
lawfull
not
possible
,
though
such
fables
be
ordinary
in
Popery
;
and
so
Baronius
stories
it
,
that
Marcellus
Ficynus
,
returned
backe
according
to
his
compact
,
to
reveale
what
hee
had
seene
:
but
we
are
taught
otherwise
in
holy
Writ
,
where
the
rich
man
would
have
sent
Lazarus
to
have
forewarned
his
brethren
,
but
could
not
.
Q.
What
is
thought
of
Pylats
wives
dreame
,
that
had
truth
with
it
?
A.
Many
have
severall
opinions
thereof
:
some
thinke
it
was
the
devils
suggestion
to
hinder
mans
redemption
:
other
,
that
she
was
a
godly
matron
,
and
saw
his
Innocency
,
which
God
would
have
at
all
times
to
appeare
:
and
if
it
had
beene
of
Satan
,
it
migh●…
more
haue
advantaged
his
purpose
to
have
dealt
with
the
hig●…
Priests
,
and
the
rest
of
his
enemies
:
but
the
reason
of
this
w●…
the
providence
of
God
so
to
manifest
his
innocency
.
Q.
What
foure
small
creatures
are
those
on
the
earth
,
which
f●…
their
wisdome
are
preferred
before
men
?
A.
1.
Formica
a
ferendis
micis
:
The
Ant
so
called
of
carrvin●…
of
crumbs
,
which
for
their
wisedome
are
termed
a
people
,
an●…
that
they
provide
their
meat
in
summer
,
and
fearing
tempests
,
labour
by
Mooneshine
.
2.
The
Conies
,
a
people
likewise
not
strong
,
but
they
make
their
houses
in
the
Rocke
.
3.
The
Locusts
have
no
King
,
yet
they
goe
forth
in
swarmes
.
4.
The
Spider
that
weaveth
the
web
that
is
in
palaces
of
kings
,
thas
no
mortall
man
can
imitate
,
and
all
this
but
a
net
for
flyes
;
yet
marke
with
what
curiosity
shee
disposeth
her
threds
.
Pallas
me
docuit
,
texendinosse
laborem
,
Nulla
mihi
manus
est
,
pedibus
tamen
omnia
fiunt
.
Of
this
one
writes
,
where
God
is
present
,
the
weakest
Spiders
weo
is
a
Castle
:
where
absent
,
the
strongest
Castle
is
but
a
Spiders
web
:
As
these
presage
death
,
and
so
labour
to
prevent
it
,
so
the
Squirrell
presaging
stormes
,
turnes
the
little
window
in
her
draw
,
ever
fromwards
it
,
Q.
What
creature
of
all
other
is
the
most
profitable
to
man
,
in
whom
is
nothing
but
good
?
A.
The
sheepe
,
our
founder
,
content
with
her
owne
coat
and
colour
,
though
by
vs
her
allusion
varied
many
wayes
,
and
changed
into
many
colours
:
of
which
one
writes
,
Quid
meruistioves
,
placidum
pecus
,
inque
tuendo
Natum
homines
?
pleno
quae
fertis
in
ubere
nectar
,
Mollia
quae
nobis
vestras
velamina
lanas
Prabetis
,
vitaque
magis
quam
morte
juvatis
.
Englished
.
This
gentle
Creature
,
of
all
good
things
full
,
That
feeds
us
with
her
flesh
,
clothes
us
with
wooll
,
Liues
with
us
as
friend
,
why
should
the
knife
After
so
many
takings
,
take
her
life
?
Q.
What
Creatur
s
of
all
other
love
their
young
most
?
A.
The
Asse
and
the
Ape
:
the
Asle
will
passe
through
a
thousand
obstacles
to
come
to
her
young
,
yea
,
even
through
fire
:
the
Ape
killeth
his
young
with
too
much
dandling
:
to
these
may
be
likewise
added
the
Turtle
and
the
Storke
.
Q.
In
what
things
are
many
men
Imitators
of
Apes
?
A.
In
following
the
follies
and
vices
of
other
men
,
rather
than
their
vertues
:
like
sheepe
,
one
going
before
,
all
the
rest
following
after
,
though
into
danger
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
inhumane
thing
,
and
reckoned
as
prime
am
ngst
other
vices
?
A.
Ingratitude
;
which
the
very
beasts
scorne
to
repay
,
as
you
may
read
more
at
large
in
Aulus
Gellius
,
of
the
old
Lion
that
had
the
thorne
in
his
foot
,
when
Antroclus
comming
,
by
signes
that
he
made
to
him
perceiued
it
,
and
ventured
to
pull
it
out
;
which
done
,
the
Lion
not
onely
did
him
no
hurt
himselfe
,
but
protected
him
from
all
others
,
and
ever
after
acknowledged
his
kindnesle
.
Q.
Whether
are
their
greater
creatures
on
the
earth
,
or
in
the
Sea
:
Solo
aut
Salo
?
A.
There
is
nothing
,
as
some
Writers
affirme
,
that
is
on
the
Land
,
but
the
same
is
in
the
S●…a
;
but
bigger
creatures
are
in
the
Sea
,
than
on
the
Land
:
the
Behemoth
is
a
beast
like
many
beasts
,
which
for
his
hugenesse
is
said
to
drinke
up
Iordan
,
upon
whom
scale
is
so
fastned
to
scale
,
she
can
hardly
be
pierced
:
this
beast
is
thought
to
be
either
the
Whale
or
the
Crocodile
,
more
largely
spoken
of
in
Iob
:
The
Elephant
,
a
creature
of
the
land
,
of
incomparable
bignesse
&
strength
,
amongst
other
not
to
be
paralleld
,
so
likewise
divers
other
:
but
here
I
meane
not
pursue
this
story
,
else
might
I
draw
out
my
discourse
somewhat
longer
,
in
parallelling
the
Creatures
of
the
Sea
and
the
Land
,
as
Plutarch
doth
his
Greeks
and
Romans
,
but
those
you
may
read
more
at
large
in
Aristotle
,
Gesner
,
and
others
.
The
King
of
beasts
is
the
Lion
,
and
his
terrour
consists
most
in
the
eye
,
and
in
his
roaring
:
Whereupon
it
is
,
The
Lion
roares
,
and
who
is
not
asraid
?
Amos
3.
8.
And
it
fills
all
other
beasts
with
such
terror
,
that
those
that
by
their
swistnesse
can
escape
betake
them
to
their
heeles
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
envious
creature
against
man
,
and
what
the
most
louing
?
A.
The
Wolfe
and
the
Dogge
;
Albertus
Magnus
writes
,
that
he
had
a
Dogge
that
would
hold
a
Candle
all
supper
time
:
and
the
love
of
this
Creature
is
so
great
,
that
some
that
have
had
their
masters
slaine
,
and
buried
,
would
not
remove
from
the
place
,
till
they
were
starved
away
;
and
after
they
have
noted
the
murderer
,
and
discovered
him
by
their
strange
seizing
on
him
,
and
would
not
be
beaten
off
till
the
matter
by
this
strangenesse
hath
beene
discovered
and
found
out
.
Betweene
the
Wolfe
and
Lambe
there
is
such
an
Anpithathy
in
nature
,
that
being
dead
,
and
theis
skinnes
made
into
Tabers
,
the
sheepes
skinne
will
not
sound
till
the
other
be
removed
away
.
Q.
What
little
Serpent
is
that
against
whose
sting
and
poyson
there
is
no
remedy
.
A.
The
Aspicke
,
whose
stroke
is
mortall
:
Cleopatra
,
that
sumptuous
Queene
of
Aegypt
,
being
desirous
to
dye
,
to
prevent
Caesars
purpose
in
her
owne
disgrace
,
would
be
stung
to
death
by
these
Serpents
;
and
to
that
end
,
a
Countrey
man
brought
her
two
covered
over
with
greene
leaves
in
a
Basket
,
and
so
had
accesse
through
Caesars
.
Watchmen
:
when
after
shee
was
strucke
,
dressed
her selfe
in
all
her
richest
robes
,
and
so
went
and
layd
her selfe
upon
her
bed
,
and
dyed
,
her
wayting
Gentle
woman
sitting
at
her
feet
;
for
which
Caesar
was
much
grieved
,
intending
her
spoyle
should
have
graced
his
triumphs
throughout
Rome
:
The
story
is
more
at
large
in
Daniels
Hystorie
,
and
in
many
other
Authors
that
write
of
this
woman
.
Plynie
writeth
of
this
Serpent
,
that
it
hath
some
sense
,
or
rather
affection
,
and
if
it
conceive
a
wrong
,
will
find
out
the
party
,
and
approach
unto
him
thoroughout
all
dangers
.
Q.
What
little
Creatures
are
those
,
that
for
workemanship
excel
,
and
with
their
workmanship
cloath
man
?
A.
The
Silke-worme
,
that
out
of
her
owne
bowels
weaves
a
bottome
,
n
which
they
involve
themselves
,
and
inclose
themselves
in
death
:
to
whose
Art
,
Courts
,
and
your
costliest
Gallants
are
indebted
for
their
silke
:
and
whose
choycest
colours
,
yet
after
their
costliest
dyes
,
may
be
matched
by
the
Butterfly
,
as
Stelia
saith
,
even
the
freshest
colours
in
the
Court
of
Spaine
:
for
he
that
dresseth
this
Worme
to
match
the
Courts
bravery
,
cloathes
the
Lillies
of
the
field
to
match
Salomons
Royalty
:
yea
,
and
your
Gallants
of
these
times
,
and
the
most
costly
,
such
as
hang
whole
Lordships
on
their
backes
,
whole
Manors
on
their
legges
,
are
not
cloathed
like
one
of
these
:
and
yet
for
all
this
,
Nudus
ut
interram
venit
,
sic
●…ndus
abibit
?
.
There
is
extant
of
Constantius
our
former
Author
,
and
noble
Emperour
,
that
in
his
time
he
set
out
a
Proclamation
,
but
farre
from
his
intention
,
yet
to
this
purpose
,
that
all
Christians
should
depart
his
Court
,
or
forsake
their
Religion
,
and
none
but
licentious
and
irreligious
Courtiers
should
inhabit
:
Vpon
this
,
many
grounded
Christians
contemning
such
honours
sayd
them
downe
and
departed
;
which
the
Emperor
seeing
would
forsake
all
rather
than
God
,
recald
them
backe
,
and
set
them
in
chiefe
places
,
banishing
the
rest
;
for
,
saith
he
,
how
will
they
be
loyall
to
mee
,
that
are
not
true
to
so
good
a
master
as
God
.
Q.
Is
faith
to
be
kept
with
an
Enemy
?
A.
It
is
:
for
we
are
not
so
much
to
weigh
to
whom
we
have
sworne
,
as
by
whom
wee
have
sworne
;
and
hee
that
beleeveth
thee
swaring
by
the
name
of
God
,
and
hath
beene
deceived
,
is
more
faithfull
than
thou
that
so
hast
deceived
him
.
A
deceptation
betweene
an
Ide●…
,
and
a
wise
man
out
of
Petrarch
.
Orator
.
I
know
my selfe
to
be
a
wise
man
.
Ideot
.
Learned
,
it
may
be
tho●…
wilt
say
;
Learned
there
are
some
,
though
but
few
,
but
wise
men
almost
none
:
some
are
learned
by
Art
,
but
fooles
by
nature
:
for
it
is
one
thing
to
speake
wisely
,
another
thing
to
live
wisely
,
another
thing
to
be
thought
a
wise
man
,
but
the
greatest
thing
to
be
a
wise
man
:
and
there
is
some
that
say
,
there
is
not
a
wise
man
,
which
whether
that
bee
true
or
false
,
I
will
not
dispute
.
Orat.
The
Hebrewes
say
,
their
Salomon
was
a
wise
man
,
and
yet
his
wisdome
was
ecclipsed
by
his
number
of
Wives
and
Concubines
that
drew
him
to
Idolatry
.
O
,
but
the
Romans
had
wise
men
,
Loelius
and
Cato
;
and
Greece
it selfe
,
while
it
flourished
,
had
seven
Wise
men
,
but
now
they
common
in
all
societies
.
Id.
Yea
,
such
are
now
accounted
wise
in
all
societies
,
that
creepe
upon
their
bellies
with
the
Serpent
,
and
licke
up
the
worldly
dust
:
and
he
that
brings
most
honey
to
his
hive
,
hee
is
accounted
the
most
wise
;
but
it
is
in
the
worlds
reckoning
,
not
in
truths
iudgement
,
and
so
I
leave
them
to
their
wisdome
:
But
to
decypher
a
wise
man
,
I
have
heard
him
to
be
the
chiefe
,
that
in
every
action
can
counsell
himselfe
wisely
.
Secondly
,
He
that
can
obey
a
wise
mans
counsell
;
Wise
men
were
never
more
scarce
than
in
this
particular
time
of
noted
wise
men
,
for
then
wisdome
had
left
the
earth
,
which
now
so
abounds
in
every
place
.
Q.
What
labour
of
all
other
,
is
the
most
sweetest
to
remember
?
A.
Iucundi
acti
labores
:
labors
past
are
pleasant
,
especially
the
labours
of
an
industrious
youth
,
recounted
in
the
goodnesse
of
a
knowing
age
:
therefore
,
saith
one
,
Tolerate
laborem
for
san
et
haec
olim
memonisse
iuvabit
.
Q.
Amongst
this
Dispute
of
Philosophers
,
one
demanded
what
was
Philosophy
?
A.
It
was
resolved
to
bee
that
which
was
a
cure
for
all
diseases
,
both
in
body
and
minde
;
to
be
that
which
teacheth
a
man
to
bee
good
for
goodnesse
sake
,
and
not
for
feare
or
compulsion
:
and
that
was
the
summe
and
substance
of
all
Philosophy
,
which
so
many
large
volumes
can
but
anatomize
,
and
is
here
comprized
in
two
words
.
Sustinendo
,
et
Abstinendo
:
that
by
the
one
we
be
not
too
much
dejected
,
nor
by
the
other
too
much
puffed
up
:
an
answer
worthy
of
Apollo
and
the
Muses
.
And
to
this
purpose
saith
another
,
it
consists
faerendo
et
spaerendo
.
Q.
What
is
the
wisest
of
all
things
?
A.
Th●…es
Milesius
answered
,
Time
;
for
it
finds
out
,
teacheth
and
altereth
all
things
.
But
one
of
Pythagoras
Schollers
of
late
time
said
the
contrary
,
and
that
it
was
the
most
rude
and
unknowing
,
and
the
master
of
all
ignorance
:
for
with
his
owne
long
waste
,
it
wrapt
all
things
in
ignorance
.
Times
office
,
saith
one
,
is
To
shew
the
Beldam
daughters
of
her
daughters
,
To
make
the
child
a
man
,
the
man
a
child
,
To
slay
the
Tyger
,
that
doth
live
by
slaughter
,
To
tame
the
Vnicorne
,
and
beasts
most
wild
:
To
fill
with
worme-holes
stately
Monuments
,
To
feed
Oblivion
with
decay
of
things
,
To
blot
old
books
,
alter
their
contents
,
To
plucke
the
quils
from
ancient
Ravens
wings
:
To
spoyle
Antiquities
of
hammerd
steele
,
And
turne
the
giddy
round
of
Fortunes
wheele
.
Q.
How
are
mettals
to
bee
knowne
,
and
how
is
a
mans
heart
to
be
discovered
?
A.
Aera
puto
nosci
tinitu
vt
pectora
verbis
,
Sic
est
nam●…
;
id
sunt
utraque
quale
sonunt
.
For
words
and
mettals
is
one
touchstone
found
,
And
that
's
the
eare
,
for
both
are
knowne
by
th'
sound
.
Q.
How
many
are
mentioned
in
Scripture
to
have
beene
raised
from
death
to
life
?
A.
Eight
:
1.
The
widdowes
sonne
of
Screpta
,
by
Elias
:
2.
the
sonne
of
another
widow
,
by
Elizeus
:
3.
one
buried
in
Elizeus
Sepulcher
:
4.
Iayrus
daughter
:
5.
the
sonne
of
another
widdow
in
Naim
,
Luk.
7.
15.
6.
Lazarus
by
Christ
:
7.
Tabitha
by
Peter
:
8.
Eutichus
by
Paul
,
Act.
20.
22.
So
onely
eight
persons
preserved
in
the
Arke
.
Q.
How
many
steps
hath
the
Courtiers
ladder
?
A.
There
is
no
man
riseth
but
by
more
steps
than
one
:
but
there
is
only
one
to
come
downe
,
or
rather
a
downeright
precipitation
:
It
is
,
saith
one
,
the
Stepmother
of
vertue
,
and
the
purgatory
of
rich
men
.
Therefore
let
him
that
feares
the
headlong
comming
downe
,
feare
the
steepy
going
up
:
for
,
Plures
beavit
Aula
,
plures
perdidit
,
et
quos
beauit
perdidit
.
And
as
another
saith
,
Qui
Iacet
in
Plano
,
non
habet
vnde
cadat
.
I
call
heare
to
witnesse
the
most
fortunate
of
Courtiers
,
the
slipperinesse
of
this
footing
:
Seianus
with
Tyberius
,
Clito
with
Alexander
the
Great
,
Philotas
,
and
others
Histories
are
ful
of
these
examples
:
therefore
he
that
is
wise
with
Demosthenes
,
let
him
say
,
Tanti
poenitere
non
aemum
:
for
,
Tutius
in
caula
blanda
quam
vivitur
aula
:
Aula
vale
,
caula
sim
magis
ipse
comes
.
The
Countrey
hall
more
freely
yeelds
a
life
Of
quiet
peace
,
not
mixt
with
Courtly
strife
:
Court
therefore
fare
thou
well
,
I
know
this
true
,
The
Country
I
embrace
,
so
Court
adue
.
Q.
Why
then
should
one
come
to
the
Court
,
and
conuerse
with
great
ones
?
A.
A
young
Divine
commended
the
faith
of
the
Divels
;
for
,
saith
he
,
they
beleeve
and
tremble
:
So
,
heare
what
Courts
speake
,
but
with
a
kinde
of
terrour
;
and
come
to
Court
,
as
a
man
would
come
to
the
fire
;
where
if
hee
come
too
neare
,
he
shall
be
burnt
:
if
he
keepe
too
farre
off
,
he
shall
be
a
cold
.
Medium
tenuisse
beatum
.
Q.
What
thing
is
that
which
for
the
brittlenesse
is
compared
unto
a
mans
life
?
A.
A
Glasse
,
which
though
nothing
is
more
brittle
,
with
safe
keeping
may
be
preserved
long
:
but
bee
wee
never
such
wary
Pylots
,
we
dash
this
fraile
vessell
,
for
all
our
care
,
against
one
Rocke
or
other
;
it
comes
unprevented
for
all
our
care
,
nay
,
undeserved
,
if
we
respect
onely
disorder
,
even
as
the
Poet
thus
more
fully
expresseth
it
:
Mane
virens
flos
est
,
cinis
est
sub
vespere
vita
,
Fide
,
cinis
rursus
,
flos
gener●…sus
erit
.
I'
th
morne
a
flowre
,
at
night
cut
downe
and
shore
,
Yet
faith
shall
one
day
this
dead
flowre
restore
.
Q.
What
is
that
short
,
more
short
,
most
short
?
Ver
breve
,
flos
brevior
,
vita
brevissima
:
At
bene
si
morimur
,
vita
paerennis
erit
.
Englished
.
The
spring
is
short
,
a
flower
more
short
,
mans
life
most
short
of
all
:
Yet
a
good
life
shall
peece
out
death
,
no
death
shall
be
at
all
.
What
better
than
life
?
A
good
fame
:
what
better
than
good
fame
?
A
mind
conscious
of
Innocence
:
what
better
than
that
?
To
dye
well
.
To
live
to
the
world
is
death
;
but
to
Christ
,
life
.
Of
sudden
feares
,
they
are
more
said
to
colour
the
haires
,
than
age
;
as
is
experienced
by
Mariners
:
Rebus
in
aduersis
,
venit
acclerata
accelerata
senectus
.
Q.
What
is
that
that
takes
away
teeth
,
and
addeth
wrinkles
,
and
turnes
our
gold
of
youth
,
into
the
dust
of
age
,
and
so
changeth
us
,
as
if
we
were
old
new
ones
?
Non
habitus
,
non
ipse
color
,
non
gressus
eunt
is
,
Non
species
eadem
,
quae
fuit
ante
manet
.
Englished
:
Not
habit
,
colour
,
forme
,
ought
we
enjoy
,
But
he
is
chang'd
worse
,
better
to
destroy
.
An
old
man
said
,
hee
carried
a
great
load
,
for
he
bore
80
yeares
,
and
all
the
troubles
these
had
begot
.
Another
old
man
said
,
before
Age
I
cared
how
to
live
well
,
in
age
how
to
dye
well
.
Old
men
,
they
say
,
carry
their
feet
in
their
hands
,
and
their
teeth
in
their
pockets
:
that
is
,
a
Staffe
and
a
Knife
.
Q
Who
are
those
in
holy
Scripture
that
are
called
childr●…n
of
an
hundred
yeares
old
?
A.
Those
that
have
runne
over
many
yeares
from
their
birth
,
yet
never
entred
into
the
schoole
of
wisdome
,
feare
of
God
,
or
divine
knowledge
:
old
in
years
,
but
yong
in
knowledge
.
Q.
Are
there
not
some
men
that
spend
their
lives
altogether
in
vanity
?
A.
A
many
that
when
they
are
going
out
of
the
world
,
know
not
wherefore
they
came
;
being
like
to
him
that
hath
sayled
upon
the
sea
,
but
hath
more
beene
tossed
hither
and
thither
than
gone
forward
to
arrive
at
his
wished
port
:
of
such
a
man
one
may
say
,
This
man
hath
not
sailed
much
,
but
beene
tossed
long
:
so
hee
that
lives
long
,
and
profits
nothing
in
goodnesse
,
may
not
be
said
to
have
lived
a
long
life
,
but
to
have
beene
here
long
.
If
life
is
to
be
desired
of
a
wise
man
,
it
should
bee
for
no
other
cause
then
to
effect
some
thing
worthy
of
life
,
and
that
might
profit
himselfe
and
others
,
which
having
done
,
hee
hath
lived
enough
,
having
fulfilled
the
office
of
an
honest
man
:
Of
which
one
thus
instanceth
it
of
Cicero
;
If
thou
respect
the
applause
of
the
people
,
whensoever
thou
dyest
,
thou
hast
lived
but
a
little
:
if
what
thou
hast
done
,
thou
hast
lived
enough
:
if
the
injuries
of
Fortune
,
and
the
present
state
,
th●…u
hast
lived
too
long
:
if
the
memory
of
thy
workes
,
thou
shalt
live
for
ever
.
A
good
man
thus
having
finished
his
course
,
may
then
say
,
Sufficit
Iehovah
tolle
animam
meam
hospita
terra
vale
.
Q.
What
is
that
,
the
more
you
take
from
it
,
the
more
it
is
increased
,
and
the
more
you
adde
to
it
,
the
more
it
is
diminished
?
A.
Many
sticke
hereat
,
and
deny
that
any
such
thing
can
be
,
but
wee
finde
it
to
bee
a
hole
in
a
Cloth
.
Q.
Whether
did
mans
nature
infect
mans
person
,
or
mans
person
infect
nature
?
A.
The
first
man
did
infect
nature
,
but
now
nature
infects
man-kinde
,
the
whole
lumpe
being
poysoned
.
Q.
What
is
the
chiefest
and
greatest
sinne
of
all
other
?
A.
There
is
no
sinne
greater
than
the
sinne
of
Infidelity
,
to
beleeve
that
any
truly
repented
of
,
is
greater
than
can
be
forgiuen
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
Non
crimen
maius
,
quam
crimen
dicere
maius
,
At
solui
possit
,
sanguine
Christe
tuo
.
Englished
:
No
crime
so
great
,
whilst
here
on
earth
we
live
,
As
to
despaire
God
cannot
mercy
give
.
This
was
the
despairing
speech
of
Cain
;
but
Saint
Austine
answers
,
Th●…yest
,
Cain
;
for
the
mercy
of
God
is
greater
than
all
the
sinnes
in
the
world
.
Q.
On
what
day
was
Marriage
instituted
?
A.
There
are
that
doe
imagine
on
the
eighth
or
ninth
day
from
the
Creation
;
and
so
it
appeares
by
Saint
Austin
and
Danaeus
disputing
thereupon
:
as
whether
Adam
knew
his
wife
before
his
fall
,
and
he
answers
affirmatiuely
;
but
yet
so
that
Eve
denyes
to
have
conceiued
at
that
time
,
or
before
his
fall
,
that
being
an
effect
of
the
punishment
.
Q.
What
River
was
that
in
Palestina
,
that
slowed
all
the
six
dayes
,
and
on
the
seventh
was
dry
?
A.
The
River
of
Sambatia
,
from
whence
it
tooke
the
name
:
Oadmirable
of
the
Law
,
which
in
ancient
time
it
held
;
but
now
the
Priesthood
,
and
the
Law
being
changed
,
it
keepes
not
his
course
.
This
River
flowed
all
the
week
with
such
violence
,
that
his
torrent
would
carry
with
it
mighty
stones
,
yet
on
the
Sabbath
would
be
dry
.
Q.
Since
all
water
sinkes
downward
,
how
doth
the
water
in
fountaines
spring
upwards
?
A.
It
is
compelled
by
a
fiery
spirit
that
drives
it
upwards
,
but
after
it
falls
into
his
owne
course
.
Q.
What
water
was
that
,
that
was
the
Index
either
of
Innocencie
or
offence
?
A.
The
water
that
the
woman
suspected
of
Adultery
,
after
certaine
Ceremonies
by
the
Priest
done
,
should
take
and
drinke
,
and
it
should
,
if
shee
were
guilty
,
turne
into
bitternesse
,
with
which
her
belly
should
swell
,
and
her
thigh
rot
,
Num.
5.
27.
Q.
What
is
the
figure
of
the
water
?
A.
The
figure
of
the
water
is
round
,
and
every
drop
affects
rotundity
,
as
you
may
perceive
:
likewise
water
powred
into
a
pot
will
bee
alwayes
highest
in
the
middle
;
and
though
removed
,
it
will
be
so
still
;
and
that
is
the
reason
that
if
you
behold
a
ship
from
the
shore
,
after
a
while
you
lose
the
sight
.
Expound
me
this
verse
,
●…St
sera
aquis
constans
,
reserat
quam
lignea
clavis
,
Venator
capitur
,
libera
casse
fera
est
.
I
thus
untwist
this
knot
.
Sera
was
the
red
Sea
,
clavis
lignea
,
Moses
staffe
;
Venator
,
or
the
hunter
Pharaoh
,
to
whom
the
Sea
opening
,
rashly
entred
in
,
when
the
waters
closing
upon
all
his
Army
,
drowned
it
:
fera
,
or
the
wild
beasts
,
were
the
people
of
Israel
,
which
went
over
dry
foot
.
To
this
miraculous
overthrow
may
the
Spanish
Navy
have
some
parallell
;
for
upon
the
Otian
never
floted
such
another
,
thinking
,
like
Pharaoh
,
to
have
eaten
up
our
Israel
:
In
number
so
many
,
in
strength
so
powerfull
,
in
the
yeare
1588.
the
day
of
Saint
Iames
the
patron
for
Spaine
,
and
stiled
for
Assurance
,
the
Invincible
Navy
;
and
yet
as
this
by
this
miraculous
hand
discomfited
,
and
what
had
the
poore
English
done
to
deserve
this
?
Quid
meus
Aeneas
in
te
committere
tantum
?
Q.
What
waters
doe
we
accou●…
the
best
?
A.
1.
Waters
of
Baptisme
,
which
are
signes
and
seales
of
our
justifying
faith
.
2.
Waters
of
Teares
that
wee
shed
for
our
sinnes
.
3.
From
youth
corrected
,
which
promise
amendment
.
4.
Water
of
the
Mill
whereby
our
bread
is
prepared
.
But
one
to
this
merrily
added
,
that
is
the
most
pleasant
that
is
brought
forth
to
wash
hands
at
dinner
and
supper
.
Q.
What
is
the
Summum
bonum
,
or
chiefe
felicitie
of
the
world
?
A.
Some
of
the
Philosophers
,
and
Heathens
,
thought
it
consisted
in
health
,
some
in
wealth
,
some
in
strength
,
some
in
riches
,
some
in
beauty
,
and
the
like
,
but
these
groped
hood-winck'd
:
but
wee
have
better
learned
this
Summúm
Bonum
,
saith
Saint
Bernard
:
Devote
,
O
Lord
,
my
soule
to
thee
,
let
it
be
chained
to
thy
love
,
let
it
breath
and
gaspe
after
thee
,
onely
desiring
thee
,
let
it
have
nothing
sweet
but
to
speake
of
thee
,
to
heare
of
thee
,
and
thy
memory
and
glory
,
often
to
record
and
remember
what
my
God
would
give
mee
;
let
him
take
them
all
away
,
so
hee
give
mee
himselfe
.
Whatsoever
other
opinions
there
are
,
they
are
vaine
and
frivolous
;
and
he
drawes
water
into
a
sieve
,
and
torments
himselfe
with
vaine
cogitations
,
that
delights
himselfe
in
the
Creature
,
but
ascends
not
to
the
Creator
,
to
whom
all
other
Iucundity
compared
,
is
bitternesse
;
all
sweet
things
,
sowre
;
all
joy
,
griefe
;
all
mirth
,
sadnesse
;
all
pleasure
,
madnesse
:
therefore
hee
is
too
covetous
whom
this
chiefe
good
sufficeth
not
.
Vt
fugiam
omne
scaelus
,
et
amem
super
omnia
numen
,
Da
mihi
frena
timor
,
da
mihi
calcar
amor
.
Englished
.
To
drive
me
forward
,
and
to
pull
me
backe
,
To
every
vertue
that
I
may
adhere
,
Give
mee
thy
spurre
of
love
,
thy
bit
of
feare
.
Christ
is
our
mouth
by
whom
we
speake
to
the
father
,
our
eye
by
whom
wee
see
the
father
,
our
right
hand
by
whom
wee
offer
to
the
father
.
Q.
There
are
some
that
are
there
where
they
are
not
yet
,
and
live
not
where
they
are
:
and
who
are
those
?
A.
Saint
Chrysostome
affirmes
this
of
the
Godly
,
that
live
upon
the
earth
,
but
have
their
conversation
in
heaven
In
medio
consistit
virtus
.
It
was
truly
said
,
when
Christ
was
crucified
betweene
two
theeves
,
If
ever
goodnesse
were
in
the
midst
of
evill
,
then
it
was
:
to
which
purpose
is
here
inserted
a
rare
and
admirable
picture
of
the
passion
,
Ecce
crucili
affixum
qui
cuncta
,
mouente
mouentur
,
Cuius
cuncta
bibunt
sontibus
,
ecce
silit
:
Qui
fab●…icat
brutis
,
auibusque
sedalia
pendens
,
Nil
sua
quo
ceruix
sustineatur
habet
.
Est
nudus
largitor
opum
,
spetiosior
astris
,
Liuit
et
est
justus
victima
pro
scelere
:
Qui
dat
sceptra
gerit
de
sentibus
ecce
coronam
;
Latrones
inter
gloria
summa
probro
est
:
Quique
refrigerium
est
,
ipse
est
solaminis
expers
,
Et
vitae
Dominus
,
mortuus
ipse
jacet
:
Haec
dixisse
velim
,
sed
tu
memor
esto
totaque
Tanta
,
tui
causa
sustinuisse
Deum
,
Englished
:
Behold
the
mover
of
all
motion
stayd
,
The
fount
that
all
refresh'd
,
stopt
and
decayd
:
He
that
made
beasts
and
birds
to
runne
and
flye
,
Hath
scarce
a
place
where
's
weary
head
may
lye
:
The
master
of
all
wealth
,
and
each
mans
store
,
Himselfe
is
naked
,
and
in
all
things
poore
:
He
that
gives
Crownes
and
Scepters
,
nothing
scornes
Himselfe
to
weare
a
piercing
Crowne
of
Thornes
.
A
certaine
Gentleman
abroad
at
Supper
,
at
the
closure
thereof
,
put
an
Apple
into
his
pocket
;
saith
another
standing
by
,
Sir
,
why
are
you
carefull
for
to
morrow
,
for
of
all
the
yeares
that
I
have
lived
,
I
was
never
yet
assured
of
a
morrow
:
so
likewise
said
another
inuited
to
a
morrowes
feast
,
If
you
will
any
thing
with
me
now
,
I
am
ready
;
but
of
all
my
life
long
,
I
have
not
yet
beene
assured
of
a
morrow
:
To
the
former
question
the
first
Gentleman
answered
,
therefore
I
put
up
this
apple
,
that
I
may
not
care
for
to
morrow
,
for
nature
is
content
with
little
:
O
from
how
few
shall
you
heare
this
confession
,
that
of
all
their
life
long
they
haue
not
had
a
morrow
.
Q.
Whether
death
is
more
to
be
seared
,
the
corporall
,
or
the
eternall
?
A.
The
Eternall
,
Saint
Austen
shall
answer
thee
:
that
death
which
men
feare
most
,
is
but
the
seperation
of
the
soule
from
the
body
,
when
it
would
willingly
stay
in
;
but
the
second
death
,
which
men
feare
not
,
is
the
seperation
of
the
soule
from
God
:
The
first
death
takes
the
soule
out
of
the
body
,
when
it
would
willingly
stay
in
;
the
second
keepes
the
soule
in
the
body
,
when
it
would
willingly
depart
.
Q.
How
many
are
the
messengers
of
death
?
A.
Three
:
Casualty
,
Infirmity
,
and
old
Age
:
the
first
shewes
death
lying
in
ambush
:
the
second
,
appearing
:
the
last
,
present
:
we
dye
not
,
for
the
most
part
,
altogether
,
but
by
degrees
;
and
as
wee
increase
in
dayes
,
so
our
life
decreaseth
:
first
,
we
lose
Infancy
,
then
child-hood
,
then
youth
,
even
till
we
have
lost
all
the
time
that
we
have
passed
to
yesterday
,
and
the
very
time
wee
now
live
wee
spend
on
till
death
:
we
passe
by
the
Temple
of
faith
and
piety
,
to
the
Temple
of
glory
and
perpetuall
happinesse
,
where
those
everlasting
rewards
are
so
great
they
cannot
be
measured
,
so
many
they
cannot
be
numbred
,
so
copious
they
cannot
be
terminated
,
so
precious
they
cannot
bee
valued
.
Iulius
2.
Pope
(
as
stories
mention
)
being
dead
,
came
to
heaven
gates
,
and
there
knocked
with
authority
;
Saint
Peter
being
angry
,
asked
who
so
importunately
knocked
:
this
Pope
answered
,
It
is
I
,
open
quickly
:
Who
art
thou
,
quoth
Saint
Peter
?
Iulius
the
Pope
,
replyed
he
:
What
hast
thou
to
doe
heare
with
heaven
,
that
hast
so
oft
sold
it
?
no
man
accounts
that
his
owne
,
which
he
hath
sold
:
and
so
was
he
shut
out
,
and
worthily
;
for
all
they
say
they
have
Navis
,
Terrae
,
&
clavis
Coeli
.
One
demanded
of
Eucritus
the
Philosopher
,
whether
hee
had
rather
bee
S●…crates
or
Croesus
?
Quoth
he
,
Croesus
while
I
live
,
but
Socrates
when
I
dye
.
Q.
Whether
is
it
better
to
envy
,
or
to
be
envied
?
A.
To
be
envied
:
for
hee
that
is
envied
,
is
alwayes
the
happier
man
.
Q.
Whether
is
the
shining
of
the
Moone
cold
or
hot
?
A.
It
is
cold
,
which
doth
something
allay
the
heat
that
the
beames
of
the
Sunne
hath
made
in
his
passed
progresse
.
Q.
It
is
vouched
before
in
this
discourse
,
that
there
is
nothing
so
deformed
nor
contemptible
on
earth
,
that
hath
not
in
it
some
kinde
of
good
:
to
what
use
serveth
the
Scerpion
,
the
Toad
,
the
Serpent
,
and
such
like
?
A.
Of
the
Scorpion
is
made
an
excellent
salve
against
all
swellings
,
and
of
Serpents
and
Toads
is
made
an
excellent
powder
against
the
stone
,
and
to
provokeurine
.
For
nought
sovile
that
on
the
earth
doth
ltve
,
But
to
the
earth
some
special
good
doth
give
.
&c.
Platos
counsell
to
young
men
which
hee
would
have
to
imitate
the
Ivie
,
being
weake
of
themselves
,
to
get
a
prop
to
support
them
.
Q.
Upon
the
birth
of
children
,
whether
have
parents
more
cause
ofjoy
,
or
griefe
?
A.
This
is
resolved
upon
,
that
with
children
a
fountaine
of
teares
spring
up
to
the
parents
:
for
if
you
compare
them
to
a
nurserie
,
of
some
you
shall
late
gather
fruit
,
of
others
never
:
If
good
,
feare
lest
they
continve
not
:
if
evill
,
lasting
sorrow
,
in
the
inte
rim
uncertaine
joyes
,
but
certaine
cares
.
Q.
What
is
the
chiefe
of
all
meats
,
and
what
the
chiefe
of
all
savces
?
A.
Bread
of
all
meats
:
for
whether
we
eat
it
by
it selfe
,
or
continually
with
other
meats
,
yet
we
are
never
weary
of
it
,
being
the
staffe
of
life
,
and
signe
in
the
Sacrament
.
And
of
all
sauces
,
I
say
not
hunger
,
but
Salt
is
a
principall
,
a
sauce
that
the
diveil
for
his
relish
doth
abhorre
;
for
Salt
is
an
embleme
of
eternity
and
immortality
,
being
not
onely
able
to
preserue
it selfe
from
rottennesse
and
corruption
,
but
all
other
things
;
and
therefore
Salt
by
the
command
of
God
himself
was
to
have
a
principall
place
on
the
Table
a●…id
the
sacrifices
.
Q.
What
is
the
meaning
of
th●…
phrase
of
Plantus
M●…
non
unifid●…
Antro
,
the
Mouse
trusts
not
to
one
hole
?
A.
It
admonisheth
us
to
have
more
friends
than
one
,
more
strings
to
our
bow
than
one
.
Hee
that
fames
hims●…lfe
to
be
a
friend
in
words
,
and
is
not
so
indeed
;
he
that
hath
Ave
in
his
mouth
,
but
hath
ve
and
Cave
in
his
heart
,
is
worse
than
one
that
coynes
false
money
,
worse
than
Ieabor
,
nay
,
worse
than
Iudas
that
kist
and
kild
.
Q.
What
is
a
mind
full
of
cares
resembled
unto
?
A.
To
wormes
and
rottennesse
amongst
the
bones
;
and
therefore
Damacles
,
amid
all
his
dainties
,
could
take
no
delight
,
because
his
mind
was
troubled
at
the
Sword
that
hung
over
his
head
by
a
slender
haire
.
Q.
What
is
the
only
great
security
in
the
world
,
and
meanes
to
prevent
feare
?
A.
To
feare
nothing
but
God
;
for
he
that
feares
not
him
,
feares
every
thing
;
and
hee
that
feares
him
,
needs
to
feare
nothing
else
,
for
his
feare
excludes
all
other
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
excellent
action
of
the
hands
?
A.
Their
Elevation
in
prayer
,
Innocent
hands
and
a
pure
heart
.
Q.
Spots
of
Infamy
,
can
they
be
washt
out
?
A.
They
are
scarce
purged
off
with
Niter
,
therefore
take
heed
of
their
stampe
:
guilty
Pylate
may
wash
his
hands
,
but
not
cleare
his
Conscience
.
A
certaine
workman
had
pictured
Uenus
sleeping
,
with
this
inscription
,
O
traveller
,
passe
by
and
awake
not
the
goddesse
;
for
if
shee
open
her
windowes
,
shut
up
thine
:
For
as
the
Poet
advis●…th
,
Cum
vultu
pungit
,
cum
verbis
dulcitur
vngit
,
Affectum
fingit
,
complexu
pectora
stringit
;
Sires
procedit
,
animam
cum
corpore
ledit
.
He
that
but
looks
,
his
journy
doth
begin
,
He
that
but
likes
,
is
stept
a
stept
more
in
;
Who
so
inchaind
his
pace
doth
forward
bend
,
He
hath
enioy'd
,
and
is
at
's
journeyes
end
.
Q.
Which
of
all
Hercules
labours
was
his
hardest
to
overcome
?
A.
Love
.
Q.
How
many
sorts
of
creatures
hath
Ged
made
?
A.
Three
:
one
not
covered
with
flesh
:
the
second
,
covered
with
flesh
,
but
dyes
not
with
the
flesh
:
the
third
is
covered
with
flesh
,
but
dyes
with
the
flesh
:
of
these
:
the
first
are
Angels
;
the
second
,
men
;
the
third
,
bruit
beasts
.
Sum
decor
in
manibus
,
sustento
senem
rego
gr●…ssus
,
Sum
terror
canibus
,
gest
at
pro
duce
f●…ssus
.
Englished
.
I
am
the
old
mans
leg
,
the
weake
mans
stay
,
I
am
his
weapon
,
and
his
guide
by
th'
way
.
Q
What
are
the
Countrymans
prognostication
of
the
Raine-bow
?
A.
1.
It
is
observable
that
it
changeth
to
what
colour
a
man
conceiveth
;
and
if
it
bee
red
like
to
an
Oke
,
or
fire
,
or
blood
,
it
prognosticates
a
fruitfull
Vintage
;
if
of
yellow
colour
,
like
to
the
Corne-fields
,
it
presageth
a
plentifull
haruest
:
thirdly
,
if
it
bee
of
a
greene
colour
,
plenty
of
Oyle
:
and
see
the
Bow
,
saith
the
Wiseman
,
and
blesse
him
that
made
it
so
faire
and
spatious
,
and
in
such
variety
,
in
that
blessed
Covenant
:
One
saith
,
the
Raine-bow
is
to
be
reckoned
among
one
of
the
great
wonders
of
nature
.
Q.
Of
what
thing
may
the
course
of
the
Sunne
admonish
vs
?
A.
The
course
and
progression
os
the
Gospell
,
which
came
first
out
of
the
East
,
that
is
,
from
Iudaea
;
from
thence
into
the
South
,
into
Graecia
;
from
thence
into
the
West
,
which
is
this
last
angle
of
the
world
,
that
is
,
Germany
and
England
,
and
so
it
hath
finished
his
course
;
and
because
the
Evening
is
now
come
,
Lord
stay
with
vs
.
And
this
splendant
rising
of
the
Sunne
is
not
seene
to
all
Nations
at
one
instant
,
but
first
to
the
Persians
,
then
to
the
Greekes
,
and
Italians
,
and
the
more
Easterne
Countries
;
last
to
the
Spaniards
and
English
.
At
the
Passion
,
two
Sunnes
were
ecclipsed
at
once
;
the
Sunne
of
the
Element
was
ecclipsed
for
the
Sonne
of
heaven
,
the
Rockes
cleft
for
their
Spirituall
Rocke
;
the
graves
opened
,
and
the
dead
rose
,
for
him
that
was
free
among
the
dead
:
God
so
shut
up
the
eye
of
the
Sunne
,
that
darkenesse
was
upon
the
earth
at
middle
of
the
day
,
against
all
naturall
causes
,
God
commanded
the
Sunne
that
it
should
not
shine
,
and
it
vaild
him
in
darknesse
.
Lucian
the
Martyr
saith
,
hee
will
bring
the
Sunne
for
a
witnesse
against
this
wickednesse
.
Hereupon
the
Chaldean
Astronomers
amazed
,
after
they
had
heard
and
seene
such
an
unwonted
spectacle
,
as
the
Sunne
to
goe
ten
degrees
backe
,
came
to
Ierusalem
to
enquire
thereafter
,
as
did
the
wise
men
at
the
birth
of
Christ
,
to
know
the
reason
of
the
Starre
:
the
complaint
of
the
Sunne
,
according
to
our
Po●…t
:
Heu
mihi
cum
vasti
peragro
latissima
mundi
,
Maenia
,
quam
sa●…cti
est
portio
parua
gragis
:
Tota
Asia
in
tenebris
versatur
,
et
Africa
caeca
est
;
Tot
magnus
olim
qua
paeperere
viros
:
Vix
nunc
extromis
Europe
infinibus
haeret
,
Grex
pius
et
raram
,
sentit
egenus
opem
,
&c.
Alexan.
Mag.
said
,
the
world
was
not
capable
of
two
Sunnes
,
nor
one
kingdome
of
two
Emperours
.
Sol
Angvis
et
Annius
,
et
superaddita
norma
:
Quid
usquam
?
Est
rerum
his
vitam
tribuunt
,
a●…gentque
tributam
.
Quidnam
illud
esse
putas
?
Res
una
in
Pelago
,
et
telluris
omnibus
oris
,
Nascitur
ac
oriens
est
maxima
deficiensque
In
medio
vita
minimum
quam
porta
vigore
.
This
is
a
shadow
,
which
is
longest
at
his
beginning
,
shortest
in
his
middle
,
and
longest
at
his
end
.
Tunc
Sol
decedens
crescentes
duplicat
vmbris
.
Q.
What
is
meant
to
measure
our
owne
shadow
?
A.
To
measure
our
owne
shadow
is
to
teach
us
no
other
thing
then
not
to
be
puft
up
with
prid●…
,
with
any
successe
,
or
honour
,
seeing
the
shadow
no
more
honours
the
body
,
then
before
in
his
length
.
Q.
What
is
the
fairest
object
to
behold
?
A.
A
certaine
King
of
the
Egyptians
,
being
asked
what
was
the
most
beautifull
thing
to
looke
upon
,
answered
,
The
Light
;
the
companion
,
wife
,
and
danghter
of
the
Sunne
:
yea
,
t
is
true
,
that
God
is
light
,
and
darkenesse
is
irksome
to
all
men
:
and
that
appeares
by
our
owne
experience
,
as
also
by
the
words
of
old
Toby
the
blinde
,
Pleasant
is
the
light
,
and
delectable
,
with
our
eyes
to
behold
the
Sunne
,
which
though
the
swiftest
of
all
things
,
yet
no
man
can
perceive
his
motion
,
nor
would
so
thinke
,
but
that
wee
fee
it
removed
from
the
East
unto
the
West
,
about
the
earth
,
being
yet
bigger
than
the
earth
166
times
.
Q.
In
what
part
of
the
earth
,
if
letters
be
written
in
the
dust
,
doe
they
longest
abide
?
A.
On
the
top
of
Olympus
,
a
Mountaine
in
Macedonia
,
where
no
wind
blowes
,
nor
raine
falls
,
for
it
exceeds
in
height
all
this
humid
region
of
the
Ayre
where
,
Birds
live
:
and
there
bee
those
yeare
by
yeare
to
goe
up
to
Sacrifice
,
and
what
writing
,
or
whatsoever
they
leave
,
they
finde
it
untoucht
or
unshaken
;
which
could
not
be
if
wind
or
raine
fell
or
blew
upon
that
place
:
rud
yet
this
Mountaine
,
in
the
universall
Deluge
,
was
ouerflowne
.
What
is
this
,
Torqueo
torquentes
,
sed
nullum
torqueo
sponte
,
Ladere
nec
quemquam
volo
,
in
prius
ipse
reatum
,
Contrahat
et
veridem
studeat
decerpere
caulam
:
Fervi
amor
hominis
,
turgescunt
membranocentis
.
This
is
meant
of
a
Nettle
.
Q.
Magnates
and
Magnetes
,
similitudes
in
names
,
what
consonancie
is
betweene
them
in
nature
?
A.
Thus
much
:
for
as
the
one
drawes
gold
unto
it
,
so
doth
the
other
Iron
,
according
to
the
P●…t
Cuncta
trahunt
ad
s●…
Magnates
Aurea
sicut
:
Ad
se
Magnetes
,
ferria
cuncta
trahunt
.
Englished
:
The
Rich
man
is
a
Loadstone
that
drawes
gold
,
As
the
other
Iron
,
but
more
stronglier
hold
.
Q.
What
now
are
these
times
termed
?
A.
Not
the
Iron-age
,
as
some
now
mis-construe
it
,
but
the
golden
age
,
for
new
all
things
are
put
to
sale
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
Aur
ea
nunc
vero
sunt
secula
plurimis
auro
,
Uenit
honos
,
auro
conciliatur
amor
:
Omnia
auro
sunt
venalia
,
auro
fides
,
auro
vis
,
auro
leges
.
The
golden
age
this
may
be
rightly
told
,
For
every
thing
is
set
to
sale
for
gold
.
Q.
What
is
a
thing
very
strange
in
these
times
?
A.
A
closed
hand
and
open
Iustice
.
Q.
What
is
the
dearest
losse
of
all
other
?
A.
Time
:
according
to
the
Poet
,
Art
comes
so
slow
,
and
life
so
fast
doth
flye
;
we
learne
so
little
,
and
forget
so
much
:
of
which
saith
one
,
we
have
not
avery
short
time
,
but
we
lose
a
great
deale
of
it
;
wee
doe
not
receiue
a
very
short
life
,
but
we
make
it
so
:
we
are
prodigals
,
as
he
that
thus
complayned
in
his
more
serious
cogitation
:
of
which
saith
one
,
Audivi
Iuvenem
premeret
quem
serior
aetas
,
Merentem
tacitos
,
preteri●…sse
die●…
Q.
What
saith
Saint
Bernard
of
time
?
A.
He
saith
,
wee
should
more
remember
to
thinke
on
God
,
than
to
breath
:
and
hee
saith
further
,
that
all
time
,
wherein
God
hath
not
beene
remembred
in
,
is
lost
.
To
this
further
addes
Tully
,
Correct
what
is
past
,
governe
well
the
present
,
and
prouide
for
the
future
:
If
thou
sleepe
,
awake
:
if
thou
stand
,
enter
:
if
thou
enter
,
runne
:
if
thou
runnest
,
flye
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
part
of
the
day
for
stud
?
A.
Aurora
Musis
amica
:
and
David
himselfe
teacheth
the
same
same
thing
,
My
voyce
shalt
thou
heare
betimes
in
the
day
,
early
in
the
morning
will
I
direct
my
prayer
unto
thee
.
Q.
Why
is
the
morning
colder
then
the
evening
?
A.
Because
it
more
partakes
of
midnights
cold
,
but
the
evening
of
mid-dayes
heat
.
Q.
What
was
Iulius
Caesars
distribution
of
time
,
Alex.
magnus
Iulianus
,
and
one
Alphred
a
King
of
the
Brittaines
,
being
compelled
to
spend
most
part
of
the
day
in
warlike
affaires
,
they
divided
the
night
into
three
parts
;
one
part
for
rest
,
the
second
for
ordering
of
publike
affaires
,
and
the
third
part
for
study
:
but
there
are
some
that
want
time
,
and
some
others
that
have
too
much
,
how
may
that
be
?
A.
The
industrious
want
time
,
and
the
idle
are
oppressed
with
time
.
these
spur
a
forward
horse
,
whiles
the
other
strive
to
raine
him
in
.
Q.
Whether
is
more
cleare
the
night
or
the
day
?
A.
The
night
with
the
Moone
and
all
her
Starres
,
is
farre
more
darke
then
the
day
with
her
one
light
,
according
as
saith
the
Poet
:
Sit
nox
eentoculo
quamvis
oculatior
Argo
,
Plus
vno
cernit
lumine
,
luscadies
.
Though
the
night
have
many
eies
yet
all
this
light
Equals
not
day
,
nor
th'
twentieth
part
so
bright
.
An
aged
man
being
asked
how
old
he
was
,
answered
,
the
yeares
I
had
,
are
gone
,
therefore
I
am
not
farre
from
my
rising
,
nor
my
set
:
Istud
patet
,
hoc
latet
,
the
one
is
knowne
,
the
other
hid
:
take
away
what
is
past
,
and
sever
that
uncertaine
,
that
is
to
come
,
from
thy
life
,
and
O
how
ltttle
remaines
!
Temporibus
in
puncto
,
fugientis
pe●…deo
nec
nam
,
Quod
nondum
est
,
nec
quod
iam
fuit
ante
meum
.
Q.
What
creature
of
all
other
is
thought
to
be
the
wisest
,
and
yet
in
many
things
is
more
foolish
than
the
bruit
creatures
?
A.
Man
:
for
the
Fox
being
forewarned
will
come
no
more
into
the
trap
,
the
Wolfe
no
mo●…
into
the
ditch
,
the
Dogge
unto
the
staffe
,
but
man
will
runne
an
hundred
times
into
the
selfe
same
folly
.
Q.
Who
is
hee
that
is
set
forth
to
us
in
holy
Writ
,
of
whose
beginning
nor
end
,
neither
father
nor
mother
,
nor
Ancestour
is
described
,
nor
end
?
A.
Melchisedeck
,
that
King
,
and
Prophet
,
and
type
of
God
.
Q.
Why
did
not
God
at
one
instant
create
all
the
men
that
ever
should
be
in
the
world
,
as
hee
did
the
whole
number
of
Angels
?
A.
It
pleased
his
Wisdome
,
in
succession
of
time
,
by
course
of
generation
,
mankinde
should
bee
daily
multiplied
,
and
subjected
under
sinne
.
Anaxagoras
the
Philosopher
being
asked
to
what
end
hee
wa●…
borne
,
answered
,
to
behold
this
goodly
frame
of
the
world
,
and
all
the
wonders
there
of
:
but
withall
he
should
have
knowne
this
,
Quid
mentem
transisse
polo
,
quid
profuit
altum
Erexisse
caput
,
pecudum
si
more
perirent
,
Q.
What
riches
are
those
that
cannot
be
exhausted
?
A.
Good
turnes
;
for
these
,
with
bestowing
,
doe
increase
;
and
by
scattering
abroad
,
are
gathered
together
:
if
thou
keepe
them
,
thou
hast
them
not
;
if
thou
distribute
,
thou
losest
them
not
.
One
saith
,
the
pinch
of
poverty
is
great
,
but
more
the
burden
of
riches
ill
gotten
,
according
as
the
Poet
wittily
writes
:
Aeris
scruus
,
eris
site
species
trahat
aeris
ceri
cur
haeres
,
cras
aeris
non
eris
haeres
.
Q.
If
there
were
a
voyce
given
to
wealth
and
riches
,
what
doest
thou
thinke
they
would
speake
.
A.
If
Goods
,
of
which
thy
house
is
full
,
could
speake
,
they
would
answer
thee
,
As
thou
wouldest
have
us
to
be
goods
to
thee
,
so
we
would
have
a
good
master
:
or
they
woud
whisper
their
chiefe
Lord
against
thee
,
as
thus
:
Behold
,
thou
hast
given
our
master
so
much
wealth
,
and
he
is
evill
,
what
doth
it
profit
him
to
have
all
,
that
hath
not
thee
.
Q.
What
foure
things
were
those
that
the
ancient
heathen
were
wont
sweare
by
,
because
they
found
nothing
more
perfect
then
this
number
foure
,
for
there
are
(
say
they
)
foure
elements
,
fire
,
ayre
,
water
,
and
earth
:
foure
seasons
of
the
yeere
,
Spring
,
Summer
,
Autumne
and
Winter
:
foure
qualities
of
all
things
,
Hot
,
Cold
,
Moyst
,
and
Dry
:
foure
compasles
of
Heaven
,
East
,
West
,
North
and
South
.
Q.
Whether
of
these
two
is
more
foolish
,
Croesus
that
cast
his
money
into
the
Sea
,
in
contempt
,
or
Midas
that
out
of
covetousnesse
wisht
all
that
he
touchtmight
turn
to
gold
,
and
so
as
the
Poets
faine
,
his
meat
was
turned
into
gold
and
choaked
him
:
but
the
meane
is
ever
safest
,
as
both
these
extreames
foolish
.
Severus
the
Emperour
being
ready
to
dye
,
sight
out
,
and
said
,
I
have
beene
all
things
,
and
now
nothing
profits
me
.
Another
thus
admonisheth
his
worldly
friend
,
saying
,
O
vaine
man
!
why
doest
thou
trouble
thy selfe
in
seeking
after
goods
of
body
or
goods
of
minde
,
love
that
one
good
,
in
whom
are
all
goods
.
Q.
Who
is
the
most
industrious
mam
that
Stories
make
mention
of
?
A.
Hippias
Eleus
,
who
as
he
had
a
generall
insight
in
all
learning
,
yet
was
not
ther
with
so
fully
content
,
but
he
was
seene
in
the
more
meaner
sciences
,
that
not
the
ring
on
his
finger
but
hee
made
it
himselfe
,
as
also
his
owne
cloathes
,
and
what
ever
he
used
,
but
hee
is
accounted
the
true
wise
man
that
learnes
from
every
man
,
hee
the
strong
man
that
masters
his
owne
affections
:
hee
the
true
rich
man
,
that
rejoyceth
in
his
owne
store
;
which
is
the
levell
many
misse
,
which
makes
their
life
miserable
,
according
as
a
learned
writer
thus
delivers
it
:
The
aged
man
that
coffers
up
his
gold
,
Is
plagu'd
with
cramps
,
and
gouts
,
and
painfull
fits
,
And
scarce
hath
eyes
his
treasure
to
behold
,
But
like
stil
pining
Tantalus
,
he
sits
Having
no
other
pleasure
of
game
,
Then
torment
that
it
cannot
cure
his
paine
.
So
then
he
hath
it
when
he
cannot
use
it
,
And
leaves
it
to
be
mastred
by
his
yong
,
Who
in
their
pride
doe
presently
abuse
it
:
Their
Father
was
too
weake
and
they
too
strong
To
hold
this
blessed
,
cursed
fortune
long
.
Q.
Two
fathers
and
two
sonnes
had
beene
a
hunting
and
catcht
three
haires
,
and
every
one
had
one
,
and
how
could
that
be
?
A.
It
is
said
of
the
grandfather
,
the
father
and
the
sonne
,
which
are
out
two
seeming
three
,
the
father
being
both
sonne
and
father
.
Musica
damnoru
guomodo
sehabet
thus
by
which
it
is
unpleasant
,
and
so
it
sounds
.
Utinam
montes
nos
obruerent
Repleta
enim
malis
est
anima
nostra
,
Miserabiles
factisumus
,
Faciem
enim
nostrum
operuit
caligo
,
Sol
autem
justiti
ae
nunquam
crietur
nobis
,
La
Lassatis
it
aque
nobis
nulla
datur
requies
.
Englished
.
O
would
the
hils
might
fall
on
us
,
For
we
are
fild
with
griefe
,
And
miserable
is
our
case
,
Of
sinners
being
chiefe
:
For
we
of
comfort
are
depriv'd
,
And
bard
of
all
reliefe
.
Q.
Why
doe
tho●…e
that
carrie
bur
hens
for
the
most
part
sing
?
A.
Because
the
sence
being
delighted
with
the
mirth
,
is
the
lesse
capable
of
her
sorrow
.
Q.
May
it
be
that
stollen
pleasures
should
be
thought
more
sweet
then
an
honest
fruition
in
lawfull
marriage
?
A.
We
desire
forbidden
things
,
and
that
is
the
preversenesse
of
our
fiesh
,
that
will
not
be
brideled
with
no
lawfull
bounds
,
and
wee
see
by
experience
that
many
men
that
have
at
home
beautiful
wives
neglect
their
own
better
,
and
pray
upon
others
more
deformed
.
For
Vertue
as
it
never
will
bee
mou'd
,
though
lewdnesse
court
it
in
the
shape
of
heaven
;
So
Lust
,
though
to
a
radiant
Angell
linckt
,
will
sort
it selfe
in
a
terrestrial
bed
,
and
prey
on
garbige
.
Q.
Be
there
more
faiths
or
Religions
in
the
world
than
were
of
antient
?
A.
To
answer
with
Moses
,
here
wee
may
enter
into
a
Cloud
of
darkenesse
,
unlesse
wee
follow
the
thrid
of
Christ
to
guide
us
out
of
our
blinde
steps
,
wee
lose
our selves
in
this
labyrinth
:
for
according
to
our
Author
,
Ie.
Oudoneus
,
Plurima
apud
veteres
fidei
,
nec
nulla
fiderum
,
Mentio
,
priscorum
,
nam
fuit
vna
fides
.
Of
Faith
,
the
Antients
knew
no
more
than
one
:
Is
any
now
hath
many
,
hee
hath
none
,
But
the
world
is
now
divided
into
foure
parts
,
and
foure
faiths
possesse
the
same
:
to
wit
,
Iudaisme
,
Christianity
,
Mahumatisme
,
and
Paganisme
:
and
out
of
all
these
generals
,
are
sprung
many
new
branches
,
but
stand
thou
by
the
way
side
,
and
aske
of
the
old
way
,
and
walke
in
that
,
and
thou
shalt
find
rest
.
Q.
Is
it
in
mans
power
to
make
gods
?
A.
The
antient
and
vaine
Gentiles
thought
it
lawfull
for
them
so
to
doe
,
but
the
more
wise
laughed
at
their
folly
:
so
likewise
doe
now
the
more
fond
Papists
,
which
arrogantly
professe
,
and
proudly
glory
,
Qui
creauit
me
,
dedit
mihi
creare
se
,
as
saith
our
pleasant
Poet
;
the
Priest
is
high●…r
than
the
King
,
more
happy
than
Angels
:
this
is
not
to
demand
if
the
Potter
can
make
a
pot
,
but
to
demand
of
the
pot
if
it
can
make
a
Potter
.
As
ridiculous
was
this
,
that
Alexander
the
Great
should
,
denying
his
descent
,
call
his
mothers
chastity
into
question
,
and
procure
letters
from
the
Graecians
,
that
in
their
decretall
they
should
instile
him
god
.
So
Herod
would
haue
his
words
rev●…renced
as
the
words
of
God
,
but
the
successe
of
this
was
miserable
,
for
his
belly
was
eaten
out
with
wormes
.
Q.
How
many
were
thought
to
be
the
Heathen
gods
?
A.
The
Poet
will
tell
you
:
Inno
,
Vesta
,
Minerua
,
Coeres
,
Diana
,
Venus
,
Mars
,
Mercurius
,
Iovis
,
Neptunus
,
Vulcanus
Apollo
.
Besides
many
other
inferior
gods
,
as
Virtumnus
,
Pomanae
,
Flora
,
Cumina
,
Priapus
,
with
as
many
more
as
were
crochets
in
Idle
braines
:
an
hundred
gods
more
than
worlds
Q.
What
thinkest
of
Fortune
,
that
imputative
goddesse
?
A.
Fortune
,
as
the
chiefest
,
was
adored
of
the
Antients
,
to
whom
was
attributed
the
ordering
of
all
humane
affaires
,
whose
power
the
Poet
thus
extols
:
Fartunamultis
,
dat
nulli
satis
;
Si
Fortuna
volat
fies
de
Consule
Rhetor
,
Aut
de
Rhetore
Consull
.
No
foe
to
Fortune
,
no
friend
to
Faith
,
No
wealth
to
wit
,
the
Wise
man
saith
.
Apelles
being
asked
why
he
pictured
Fortune
sitting
,
answered
,
because
shee
knew
not
how
to
stand
in
any
place
:
but
wee
know
this
,
Fortune
and
Chance
are
all
guided
by
the
hand
of
providence
Q.
What
are
the
seven
wonders
of
the
world
?
A.
These
are
reckoned
amongst
antient
Writers
,
though
some
vary
in
their
relation
:
1.
The
Pyramides
of
Nile
,
which
were
50.
cubits
high
,
in
thicknesse
40.
the
compasse
about
twelve
German
miles
.
2.
The
Tower
of
Pharaoh
.
3.
The
walls
of
Babylon
.
4.
The
Temple
of
Diana
of
Ephesus
.
5.
The
Tombe
of
Mausoll
.
6.
The
Colossus
of
the
Sun
,
70.
Cubits
high
.
7.
The
Image
of
the
Olympian
Jupiter
.
To
this
hath
beene
added
the
golden
Colossus
,
erected
by
the
Babylonians
60.
Cubits
high
,
and
the
breadth
of
60.
Cubits
,
the
greatest
that
ever
was
amongst
the
Pagans
,
and
the
most
magnificent
,
and
almost
beyond
beleefe
:
Our
fayrest
workes
and
wonders
,
compared
to
the
fabricke
of
this
universe
,
are
but
like
mole-hils
,
amid
the
worke
of
Ants.
Q.
When
was
the
beginning
of
time
?
A.
Plato
saith
,
when
the
world
was
made
,
and
at
the
end
of
the
same
it
shall
cease
to
bee
:
in
the
meane
time
it
consists
of
foure
parts
,
as
if
it
walked
upon
foure
legges
,
Spring
,
Summer
,
Autumne
and
Winter
:
of
which
one
writes
,
Poma
dat
Autumnus
formosa
cst
messibus
estas
,
Ver
praebet
flores
,
Igne
levatu
hiems
.
Englished
:
Autumne
brings
fruits
,
and
Summer
ripes
the
corne
,
The
Spring
brings
flowers
,
in
winter
cold
is
borne
:
This
with
lesse
sufferance
wee
beare
off
all
harme
,
By
keeping
houses
close
and
fires
warme
.
Q.
What
part
of
the
yeere
is
it
that
more
feeds
the
eye
than
the
belly
.
A.
The
Spring
:
but
Summer
and
Autumne
both
.
Q.
What
dead
thing
is
that
buries
the
quicke
,
so
to
keepe
it
alive
and
preserve
it
.
A.
Ashes
,
wherein
fire
is
raked
up
.
Cauis
Plin.
Secundus
the
Writer
of
his
naturall
Hystorie
,
prying
too
neare
to
see
and
finde
out
the
cause
of
the
continuall
burning
of
the
mountaine
Veshnvius
,
was
himselfe
choaked
with
fuliginous
Ashes
,
and
sulphurous
vapours
,
in
the
yeare
of
his
age
,
56.
Anno
Christi
,
82.
Q.
What
Bird
of
all
other
is
the
hugest
?
A.
The
Strutiocamelus
,
which
are
found
in
Affrica
of
the
bignesse
of
a
man
on
horsebacke
,
and
whose
egges
are
a
Talent
weight
.
Q.
What
Bird
of
all
other
is
the
most
just
,
and
the
most
godly
?
A.
The
Storke
:
for
she
brings
up
her
young
with
some
kind●…
of
Iustice
,
and
shee
is
sayd
to
off●…r
up
the
first
of
her
young
to
God
,
by
casting
the
first
out
of
her
nest
:
shee
is
a
great
destroyer
of
Serpents
,
and
therefore
in
Thessaly
it
is
as
much
danger
to
kill
one
of
these
Birds
,
as
to
kill
a
man
.
Q.
May
it
be
by
any
Art
that
a
Chicken
may
be
hatched
without
sitting
upon
?
A.
There
bee
some
that
have
effected
it
by
laying
an
egge
in
the
sand
,
or
covering
it
over
with
warme
dust
in
the
Sunne
,
as
likewise
this
thing
is
usually
done
in
other
Countreyes
,
by
their
skill
;
that
is
,
by
keeping
alwayes
to
it
a
certaine
temperate
heat
.
Symonides
being
asked
how
long
he
had
lived
,
answered
,
a
little
time
,
but
many
yeares
.
Another
being
asked
,
answered
,
hee
had
beene
borne
but
a
yeare
,
but
that
beene
oftentimes
doubled
.
Q.
What
is
he
that
is
said
to
till
another
mans
ground
,
and
leave
his
owne
barren
?
A.
The
Adulterer
:
Theoginis
thus
expounds
it
:
Est
invisa
mihi
mulier
vaga
,
inersque
m.
ritus
;
Aiterius
fundum
quisque
arare
cupit
.
That
Husband
is
no
husband
,
but
a
Drone
,
That
tills
anothers
ground
,
and
not
his
owne
.
A
Spirituall
description
of
seed-time
and
baruest
.
Saith
a
Father
,
When
we
conceive
good
desires
,
wee
cast
our
seed
into
the
earth
;
when
we
beginne
good
workes
,
it
springs
up
;
when
we
come
to
the
perfection
of
good
workes
,
we
come
to
eare
;
when
wee
are
accustomed
therein
,
then
we
are
corne
in
the
eare
.
I
cannot
yet
make
an
end
,
for
I
have
oft
wondred
that
from
the
smallest
seeds
,
for
the
most
part
,
should
spring
the
greatest
trees
;
where
in
that
smalenesse
,
so
great
a
wonder
should
lye
hid
,
where
the
root
,
where
the
barke
,
where
the
bowes
,
where
the
fruit
,
didst
thou
perceive
any
thing
in
the
seed
when
it
was
cast
into
the
earth
?
Is
it
not
then
as
possible
from
the
hand
of
that
power
,
to
re-unite
us
againe
,
being
once
something
,
as
to
make
this
great
Tree
cut
of
almost
nothing
:
Vnists
Deus
ambo
semel
,
Deus
ambo
reum
,
Hujus
ego
vivus
,
mortnus
,
huius
ero
.
Q.
Were
there
Vines
before
the
flood
?
A.
There
were
not
,
but
immediately
after
:
and
the
first
Inventer
and
planter
,
was
Noah
;
and
he
was
the
first
that
tasted
the
strength
thereof
in
the
effect
:
God
in
this
creature
,
no
doubt
,
ordaining
a
singular
benefit
for
the
comfort
of
man
:
of
whose
first
invention
the
Poets
haue
fabled
many
things
;
the
vertues
of
it
is
to
comfort
drooping
spirits
,
procure
sleepe
,
and
cause
forgetfulnesse
of
evill
:
and
therefore
saith
Salomon
,
Giue
strong
drinke
to
him
that
is
ready
to
perish
:
It
is
the
preserver
of
health
,
by
comforting
the
naturall
heat
:
It
tempereth
chollericke
humours
,
and
moderately
taken
,
rejoyceth
the
spirits
:
and
it
much
commends
the
gooduesse
of
God
,
that
out
of
such
a
dry
and
fraile
plant
,
so
many
precious
vertues
should
accrew
to
man
;
but
by
the
abuse
,
all
these
vertues
are
made
vices
:
for
God
was
the
Author
of
the
Wine
,
but
the
Divell
of
drunkennesse
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
in
our
Grandfathers
dayes
,
and
fathers
likewise
,
there
were
fewer
Vineyards
,
as
many
yet
living
can
testifie
,
and
yet
Wine
and
all
things
cheaper
?
A.
Because
Drunkennesse
and
Gluttony
was
lesse
common
in
those
dayes
than
now
in
ours
.
Of
Wine
one
thus
further
,
Vina
parant
animos
,
faciuntque
coloribus
aptis
:
Cont.
Vina
parant
Asinos
,
faciuntque
furoribus
aptis
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
wonder
in
a
man
?
A.
His
Conscicnce
,
which
cannot
be
removed
;
for
his
heart
may
bee
sooner
pulled
out
of
his
belly
than
his
Conscience
,
being
of
it selfe
a
thousand
witnesses
,
as
God
himselfe
a
thousand
Consciences
,
which
at
the
last
day
will
be
in
every
one
of
us
,
guilty
,
the
Iudge
,
the
tortor
,
the
prison
,
to
judge
,
to
accuse
,
condemne
,
or
acquit
.
An
evill
Conscience
,
saith
one
,
is
like
a
short
bed
,
wherein
let
a
man
turne
which
way
hee
will
,
hee
can
finde
no
ease
.
Nero
having
slaine
his
mother
,
was
continually
tormented
in
minde
,
and
that
the
first
beginning
of
his
tertor
.
Richard
the
third
of
England
,
had
such
apparitions
and
terrors
in
his
Conscience
,
after
his
murders
,
that
he
could
not
finde
a
minutes
rest
:
A
man
may
sooner
sleepe
on
the
top
of
the
mast
in
a
storme
,
than
lodge
in
quiet
with
this
unruly
Chamber-fellow
,
it
being
to
many
the
Hell
before
Hell
.
Saith
the
Wise-man
,
A
mans
Conscience
will
tell
him
more
then
seuen
Watchmen
on
the
top
of
a
Tower
:
and
it
is
that
from
whence
all
the
beames
of
Reason
flow
.
Erasmus
saith
,
as
the
Sunne
is
to
the
world
,
that
is
reason
in
man
:
for
if
the
Sunne
be
clouded
,
there
is
darkenesse
;
so
if
Reason
be
ecclipsed
,
notwithstanding
the
other
senses
,
we
differ
little
from
bruit
beasts
.
I
remember
I
haue
heard
thee
speake
before
that
the
earth
doth
wax
old
,
doth
it
now
worke
the
same
effect
upon
mans
body
,
as
in
former
ages
?
and
so
Virgil
describes
men
of
his
time
long
agoe
,
Qualianunc
hominis
prodierit
corporatellus
.
And
so
likewise
Homer
,
as
oft
as
he
recites
this
clause
,
saith
,
Vt
nunc
homines
sunt
;
remembring
the
former
times
,
their
length
of
dayes
,
greatnesse
of
stature
,
and
the
like
:
as
one
to
that
purpose
seemes
to
imply
:
When
as
the
Age
was
long
,
the
size
was
great
,
Mans
growth
consest
,
and
recompenc'd
his
meat
:
But
now
our
longest
times
decay
so
soone
,
We
are
scarce
our
fathersshadows
cast
at
noone
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
in
the
holy
toogue
all
the
names
of
God
end
in
the
plurall
termination
,
although
they
are
joyned
in
the
singular
verbe
?
A.
This
is
a
mystery
,
and
so
it
is
found
every
where
,
except
in
that
one
name
of
his
Essence
,
lehovah
,
and
this
is
the
reason
that
the
Hebrewes
giue
,
because
the
Essence
is
one
,
though
the
persons
three
.
Certaine
Divine
flowers
of
Saint
Bernard
.
Behold
,
Lord
(
saith
Saint
Bernard
)
I
doe
not
give
what
thanks
I
should
,
but
what
I
can
,
which
hast
given
me
an
Essence
;
and
above
that
,
a
vegetive
life
;
and
aboue
that
,
a
sensitive
;
and
aboue
that
,
an
intellectiue
;
and
above
that
,
a
saving
faith
,
which
is
the
soule
of
my
soule
,
and
the
reason
of
my
reason
:
Lord
,
saith
Saint
Bernard
,
that
thou
hast
made
me
,
I
owe
my selfe
to
thy
love
,
I
owe
all
mee
,
and
so
much
more
then
my selfe
,
by
how
much
thou
art
greater
than
I
,
for
whom
thou
gavest
thy selfe
.
The
kingdome
of
God
,
conceditur
,
promittitur
,
ostenditur
,
precipitur
;
conceditur
in
predestinatione
,
promittitur
invocatione
,
ostenditur
in
Iustificatione
,
precipitur
in
Glorificatione
.
The
kingdome
of
God
is
yeelded
,
promised
,
shewen
perceived
;
it
is
yeelded
in
predestination
,
promised
in
Vocation
,
shewen
in
Iustification
,
received
in
Glorification
.
Q
:
Whether
are
the
positive
,
or
the
privative
blessings
of
God
more
?
A.
The
privative
blessing
of
God
are
no
lesse
,
if
not
more
;
and
yet
there
is
few
that
takes
notice
thereon
,
as
that
we
are
not
blind
,
nor
dumbe
,
nor
deafe
,
that
wee
live
not
in
continuall
darkenesse
,
&c.
His
positive
blessings
are
life
,
cloathing
,
health
,
and
such
like
:
of
which
there
is
neither
number
nor
end
of
either
.
Q.
The
Sea
is
an
Element
of
wonders
,
are
there
Syrens
or
Marmaids
therein
?
A.
Syrens
of
ancient
times
were
wont
to
be
called
the
wonders
of
the
Sea
,
and
the
monsters
therein
;
partly
having
a
body
of
Fish
,
and
the
upper
part
flesh
,
and
faced
like
a
Virgin
,
singing
sweetly
,
but
deceitfully
,
thereby
to
circumvent
and
endanger
the
wandring
passengers
:
By
this
deceit
would
our
Ancestors
note
unto
us
the
danger
of
pleasure
:
and
yet
there
are
that
earnestly
affirme
,
that
there
are
such
things
in
rerum
natura
.
Saint
Hierom
moraliseth
,
that
hastening
towards
our
Countrey
,
wee
must
avoyd
this
Syren
in
what
kind
soever
she
allures
passing
by
,
with
a
setled
resolution
,
that
this
inchantment
pierce
not
our
stopped
eares
.
Saith
a
Father
,
every
Creature
speakes
unto
us
with
three
voyces
:
1
Voyce
receive
a
benefit
,
2.
pay
thy
benevolence
.
3.
Avoid
punishment
.
The
heaven
saith
,
I
give
thee
lightin
the
day
,
that
thou
maist
worke
:
saith
darkenesse
,
I
spread
my
Curtaine
in
the
night
,
that
thou
mayst
rest
.
The
Ayre
saith
,
I
nourish
thee
with
breath
:
all
kind
of
Fowles
,
I
keepe
at
thy
command
:
the
water
saith
,
I
give
thee
drinke
,
I
purge
away
all
uncleannesse
,
and
I
preserve
all
my
Elementary
creatures
to
thy
use
,
from
the
smallest
minnum
,
to
the
mighty
Whale
.
The
earth
saith
,
I
beare
thee
,
I
nourish
thee
with
bread
and
wine
;
I
fill
thy
Table
with
all
sorts
of
Creatures
,
and
fruits
.
The
second
is
a
voyce
of
admonition
,
in
which
the
world
saith
,
See
man
how
he
loved
thee
,
which
made
me
for
thee
;
I
serve
thee
as
thou
servest
him
which
made
both
mee
and
thee
.
The
third
voyce
,
the
voyce
of
threatning
,
where
the
fire
saith
,
thou
shalt
be
burnt
by
me
:
the
water
saith
,
thou
shalt
bee
drowned
by
me
:
the
earth
saith
,
thou
shalt
be
swallowed
by
mee
,
as
some
have
beene
:
and
if
thou
lay
by
thy
obedience
to
him
,
wee
put
off
all
subjection
to
thee
.
Theresore
,
saith
Saint
Gregory
,
all
Creatures
call
upon
man
to
serve
him
,
because
hee
is
the
summe
and
epitome
of
all
,
and
that
doe
and
pay
thy
due
homage
,
and
all
creatures
shall
willingly
obey
thee
.
Q.
What
is
the
Soule
?
A.
It
is
a
spirituall
and
reall
substance
created
by
God
to
enliven
the
body
;
and
by
how
much
the
heaven
is
more
glorious
then
the
earth
,
by
so
much
doth
the
beauty
of
the
soule
excell
the
body
;
the
immediate
descent
being
from
God
,
and
not
from
the
body
:
for
the
Wise-man
saith
,
Si
cum
corpore
oritur
,
cum
corpore
moritur
:
If
it
had
his
beginning
from
the
body
,
then
the
bodies
end
would
determine
that
,
but
after
the
soule
once
lives
,
it
never
dyes
,
it
dwels
in
the
body
,
and
governes
it
,
as
the
Pylot
in
the
Ship
,
directing
it
from
haven
to
haven
:
the
Soule
is
all
this
while
imprisoned
in
the
body
,
and
yet
to
it
some
bodies
are
pallaces
to
others
streightned
prisons
:
according
as
one
writes
one
,
She
who
's
saire
body
no
such
prison
was
,
But
that
a
Soule
might
well
bee
be
pleas'd
to
passe
An
age
in
her
.
And
so
further
speaking
of
the
freedome
of
the
Soule
in
death
,
saith
then
,
Think
that
a
rusty
peece
dischargd
is
flowne
In
sunder
,
and
the
bullet
is
his
owne
.
Q.
Wherefore
is
the
Soule
of
man
called
the
Lanthorne
of
God
?
A.
For
the
Light
that
is
infused
into
it
by
God
,
in
whom
all
the
Divine
faculties
dwell
,
and
therefore
for
the
most
part
is
put
for
the
whole
man
:
for
,
mens
cuiusque
es
est
quisque
.
Of
secret
writings
.
The
Ephesians
,
Act.
19.
19.
had
certaine
writing
and
magicall
notes
,
which
they
used
in
every
place
,
and
alwayes
came
away
victors
:
It
was
the
Ephesians
that
used
curious
and
unlawfull
Arts
,
which
when
Saint
Paul
heard
of
them
,
and
to
that
end
wrote
bitterly
against
them
,
they
gathered
their
bookes
together
,
and
in
open
view
burned
them
,
which
in
estimation
were
worth
fifty
thousand
peeces
of
silver
.
Suetonius
reports
,
in
the
lives
of
the
twelve
Coesars
,
Eoistles
of
his
to
be
so
obscure
and
secret
,
that
they
could
not
bee
read
but
by
former
Intelligence
,
for
one
letter
went
in
the
roome
of
another
,
as
D
for
A
,
and
so
of
the
rest
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
faithfull
messenger
,
and
yet
carries
with
it
both
reoson
and
speech
?
A.
An
Epistle
or
Letter
:
of
which
one
writes
,
Discere
fit
charum
,
quamvis
primo
sit
amarum
.
But
it
Letters
of
secrecie
shall
be
intercepted
,
then
to
prevent
that
,
Pliny
writes
of
an
herbe
called
Goats
Lettuice
,
which
with
the
milke
thereof
writing
on
any
ground-worke
,
or
paper
,
and
dust
strewed
afterward
on
,
and
dryed
,
may
be
perfectly
read
.
Likewise
to
write
with
new
milke
,
is
a
safe
way
,
and
deceives
the
eyes
,
putting
but
a
little
cole-dust
upon
it
,
and
then
what
could
not
be
seene
before
,
is
apparantly
read
.
Likewise
to
write
with
the
juyce
of
an
Onion
,
being
wet
,
may
be
perfectly
read
,
and
not
before
discerned
:
and
this
was
practised
by
one
of
the
gunpowder-Traytors
out
of
the
Tower
,
in
a
letter
written
to
Garnet
:
the
letter
was
common
,
for
the
body
of
it
that
was
ordinary
complement
,
but
the
margents
contained
the
mysterie
so
discouered
and
found
out
.
Q.
What
is
that
,
the
more
feet
it
hath
,
the
slower
it
goes
;
the
fewer
,
the
more
upright
,
and
swist
it
walkes
about
the
world
,
and
hath
twice
ten
hornes
?
A.
A
man
not
yet
come
to
his
Staffe
.
Q.
Whether
is
it
better
to
bee
sprung
from
good
parents
,
or
to
bee
good
in
enes
selfe
?
A.
To
bee
good
,
and
not
to
live
by
anothers
blood
,
or
fame
.
according
to
the
Poet
:
Miserum
est
aliena
incumbere
fama
.
To
live
by
others
breath
,
I
hold
a
sickly
state
,
And
if
I
were
to
chuse
a
wife
,
I
such
a
choyce
would
hate
As
had
not
many
living
goods
for
me
to
tast
and
see
,
But
onely
such
as
now
are
dead
in
th'
ancient
pedigree
.
Q.
What
doe
we
most
love
,
and
best
esteeme
?
A.
Those
things
we
hardest
atchieue
:
according
to
the
Poet
:
Quod
venit
exfacili
,
faciles
segnesque
tenemur
:
Quod
spes
,
quodque
metu
torsit
habare
juvat
.
Englished
:
But
light
wee
reckon
that
wee
slightly
gaine
,
Valuing
the
subject
as
it
costs
us
paine
.
Q.
What
small
garment
is
that
which
is
made
of
cheape
wooll
,
and
yet
of
most
incomparable
price
?
A.
The
Episcopall
Robe
,
which
was
used
to
be
given
gratis
from
the
Antients
,
and
of
it selfe
is
of
small
value
,
yet
now
with
the
inchanted
Roses
,
the
Agnus
Deies
the
Apostolicall
breves
,
the
exorcises
,
swords
,
and
woodden
crosses
,
it
costs
many
thousands
before
it
sits
on
the
Popes
backe
.
The
Pope
saith
,
that
for
Layickes
to
read
the
Scriptures
in
a
knowne
tongue
,
is
to
set
pearles
before
Swine
.
Q.
What
was
the
most
monstrous
Embassage
that
hath
beene
heard
of
?
A.
An
Embassage
came
to
Rome
by
three
Embassadours
,
the
one
whereof
was
troubled
with
the
Gout
,
the
other
with
wounds
in
his
head
,
and
the
third
with
tremor
in
the
heart
:
which
Cato
observing
,
said
to
the
Senate
laughing
,
Here
is
an
Embassage
come
without
head
,
or
heart
,
or
feet
.
Q.
Why
hath
God
given
us
two
of
all
members
of
the
body
?
A.
That
if
by
any
accident
the
one
faile
,
it
may
bee
supplyed
by
the
others
helpe
,
and
therefore
wee
haue
two
hands
,
two
legges
,
two
feet
,
two
eares
,
two
eyes
,
but
but
one
Soule
,
to
shew
the
incomparable
value
thereof
,
that
it
is
more
worth
then
all
the
world
:
for
what
shall
a
man
giue
for
the
ransome
thereof
.
Q.
Whether
is
the
lighter
plague
,
that
of
the
Sword
or
of
the
tongue
?
A.
That
of
the
Sword
,
for
that
onely
wounds
the
body
,
but
this
the
soule
:
the
tongue
is
,
many
times
,
accessory
to
murder
,
stirres
that
fire
,
that
nought
but
blood
can
quench
.
Saint
Bernard
saith
,
the
detractors
tongue
is
a
threefold
lance
,
that
at
one
blow
wounds
three
,
the
speaker
,
hearer
,
and
him
that
is
detracted
:
further
hee
saith
,
the
Detractor
hath
the
Divell
in
his
tongue
,
the
hearer
in
his
eare
,
the
consenter
in
his
heart
:
it
is
sayd
,
betweene
the
heart
and
the
tongue
there
should
bee
a
marriage
;
for
it
is
Uerbum
in
c●…rde
,
before
it
bee
Uerbum
in
ore
:
and
those
words
that
are
spoken
by
the
tongue
,
without
the
consent
of
the
heart
,
are
said
to
be
conceived
in
Adultery
.
Q.
Whether
is
our
Country
,
or
our
parents
to
be
more
honoured
?
A.
It
is
the
answer
of
a
Wiseman
,
that
our
Countrey
;
that
our
Countrey
was
before
our
parents
,
and
therefore
first
to
be
honoured
.
Q.
May
it
be
one
Ship
should
compasse
the
whole
world
?
A.
That
with
wonder
have
our
eies
beheld
in
our
noble
Countryman
Drake
:
and
so
hath
the
sound
of
the
Gospell
gone
over
the
whole
world
,
so
that
now
we
beleeve
the
end
of
the
world
not
to
be
farre
off
.
●…he
number
of
40
is
a
time
re●…keable
in
holy
Scriptures
for
penitency
and
affliction
:
for
40
dayes
Christ
fasted
for
our
sinnes
,
40
yeares
wandred
the
people
in
the
wildernesse
,
40
dayes
had
the
Ninivites
to
repent
,
40
dayes
continued
the
waters
of
the
flood
,
&c.
Q.
Doth
money
make
a
rich
man
?
A.
It
doth
not
,
but
the
contrary
;
for
that
is
never
too
little
,
that
is
enough
;
and
there
is
never
enough
where
there
is
not
content
,
though
too
much
;
for
our
happinesse
or
infelicity
is
of
our
owne
making
.
Q.
When
doe
enemies
profit
us
,
and
friends
hurt
us
?
A.
That
is
done
so
when
as
an
enemy
justly
reprehends
us
,
it
profits
;
but
when
a
friend
falsly
praiseth
us
,
it
hurts
us
.
Q.
Of
what
Nations
consisted
the
foure
Empires
?
Assirij
primiregnarunt
,
postea
P●…
Post
Persas
Graeci
,
Germani
〈◊〉
dominantur
.
Englished
:
The
Assirian
first
,
the
Persian
then
began
;
The
Graecian
next
,
the
German
now
the
man
.
Q.
Of
what
estates
consists
the
Columnes
of
the
Roman
Empire
?
A.
Of
4
Dukes
,
4
Marquesses
,
4
Landgraves
,
4
Burgraves
,
4
Earles
,
4
Barons
,
4
young
Lords
,
4
Knights
,
4
Citizens
,
4
Pages
,
4
Clownes
.
Q.
What
was
the
Answer
of
that
cowardly
fugitive
?
A.
That
he
had
rather
laugh
in
health
after
his
flight
,
then
be
praised
,
being
dead
,
after
the
battell
:
one
said
,
for
his
enemies
flight
he
would
make
him
a
silver
bridege
.
Q.
Whether
is
it
more
easie
to
judge
betweene
enemies
or
friends
?
A.
Bias
was
used
to
say
,
that
hee
had
rather
judge
betweene
Enemies
;
for
betweene
friends
he
should
get
an
enemy
,
but
betweene
enemies
,
a
friend
.
Q.
Where
is
it
that
no
man
is
counted
evill
,
but
bee
that
doth
no
evill
?
A.
In
the
company
of
the
wicked
,
theeves
,
robbers
,
and
the
like
.
Q.
Who
are
those
that
live
and
speake
after
their
death
?
A.
Learned
and
godly
Writers
,
as
the
Poet
will
tell
you
:
Vivere
post
obitum
doctos
vis
nosse
viator
,
Quod
legis
ecce
loquor
,
vox
tua
namque
mea
est
.
Know
that
our
Learned
Writers
dead
and
gone
,
They
have
two
liues
,
where
other
have
but
one
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
use
of
all
learning
?
A.
To
make
a
ladder
to
mount
thee
up
to
heaven
:
for
otherwise
,
if
a
man
had
all
Sciences
,
ad
unguem
,
all
Languages
ad
verbum
;
if
a
man
had
all
the
learning
in
Plutarchs
Volumnes
,
if
these
gifts
and
knowledges
to
himselfe
did
not
teach
him
to
bee
more
than
a
man
,
to
reach
nearer
to
heaven
,
all
these
were
but
common
benefits
.
Aristotle
being
about
to
dye
,
certaine
of
his
Disciples
standing
about
him
,
thus
commended
his
soule
,
Now
hee
that
receives
the
soules
of
all
Philosophers
,
receiue
thine
.
Severus
the
Emperour
,
about
to
dye
,
said
,
I
haue
beene
all
things
,
and
now
shall
be
nothing
.
Q.
Who
was
hee
,
that
the
same
,
moment
he
was
buried
,
was
againe
revived
,
and
came
forth
of
his
grave
?
A.
A
certaine
man
buried
in
that
Tombe
where
the
Prophet
was
,
touched
but
his
bones
,
and
was
revived
thereby
,
2
King
.
3.
21.
Eccles.
48.
2.
A
wonderfull
Epitaph
set
up
,
in
Bononia
apud
Spingeides
,
or
Spinx
in
which
,
according
to
the
opinion
of
learned
men
,
there
lyes
more
wisdome
then
is
compiled
in
many
bookes
:
and
so
it
followes
,
Aelia
Lelia
Crispis
,
neither
man
nor
woman
,
nor
Androgina
neither
mayd
,
nor
young
man
,
nor
old
woman
,
neither
chast
nor
harlot
,
but
all
,
was
taken
away
,
neither
by
hunger
,
nor
sword
,
nor
poyson
,
nor
fire
,
nor
plague
,
but
by
all
;
and
hee
is
neither
in
heaven
,
nor
the
waters
,
nor
the
earth
,
but
every
where
.
Lucius
Agatho
Priscius
,
neither
husband
nor
lover
,
neither
necessary
nor
deseruing
,
neither
laughing
nor
weeping
,
neither
Mountaine
nor
Pyramid
,
nor
Sepulcher
,
but
all
,
knows
and
knows
not
who
put
her
there
:
eos
qui
volet
consulat
,
for
none
but
Oedipus
can
this
interpret
.
Q.
Doth
.
education
alter
nature
,
or
not
?
A.
It
doth
,
as
it
was
sufficiently
experimented
by
Lycurgus
two
dogges
,
the
one
sprung
from
a
good
breed
,
and
hunters
kind
,
the
other
from
a
worse
race
,
but
better
brought
up
and
exercised
in
hunting
,
whilst
the
other
was
brought
up
at
home
,
and
pampered
in
idlenesse
:
now
after
this
,
threre
is
a
game
set
before
them
out
of
the
Forrest
,
and
a
service
of
meat
;
this
houshold-dogge
he
forsakes
the
game
,
and
falls
to
his
porridge
,
the
other
,
he
beares
all
over
to
follow
the
game
:
and
herein
is
the
difference
of
Education
tryed
,
as
may
well
appeare
to
be
a
new
nature
:
likewise
this
is
found
true
in
the
practice
upon
better
subjects
.
Cleanthes
being
asked
the
difference
betweene
Logicke
and
Rhethoricke
,
first
hee
shewed
his
clouched
hand
,
and
then
by
and
by
his
open
hand
.
Stobeus
sayth
,
Deliver
not
in
many
words
a
little
,
but
in
few
words
much
.
Ernesius
counsell
to
his
sriend
.
Take
heed
thou
requirest
not
great
things
in
thy
suit
,
lest
hee
to
whom
thou
suest
may
doe
it
,
but
with
some
vexation
to
himselfe
;
or
if
he
deny
it
with
sorrow
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
though
contained
in
a
small
circuit
,
yet
with
her
voracity
,
keepeth
,
snatcheth
,
and
devoures
all
things
?
A.
The
stomacke
,
which
if
it
wants
naturall
food
,
cuts
sharper
than
a
Razor
,
will
breake
stone-walls
,
will
compell
a
man
to
eat
Cats
,
Dogges
,
Leather
,
or
the
most
vildest
things
that
are
,
as
hath
beene
experienced
in
divers
siedges
and
famines
,
where
a
mouse
hath
beene
sold
at
weight
of
silver
.
Q.
Amongst
Saint
Pauls
many
and
Divine
Epictles
,
which
doe
you
account
the
most
excellent
?
A.
Holy
,
and
lively
,
and
heavenly
are
all
;
for
he
learned
wisedome
out
of
the
third
heavens
:
but
yet
to
mee
,
of
all
the
other
,
those
which
he
wrote
,
being
in
bonds
,
to
the
Ephesians
,
to
Tim●…thy
,
to
the
Col●…ssians
;
like
that
Noble
Souldier
that
maintained
Christs
cause
the
more
valiant
before
his
Enemies
,
and
in
the
midst
of
them
,
so
did
this
Christian
Champion
:
So
hee
begate
Onesimus
in
bonds
;
for
though
hee
was
captive
,
the
word
of
God
was
free
:
for
hee
reserved
both
a
liberall
tongue
,
and
a
plentifull
stile
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
guilty
part
of
Time
?
A.
Opportunity
:
which
if
neglected
,
maketh
the
best
thing
unrespected
,
according
to
the
Poet
:
Like
to
a
poore
man
so
befriended
,
Or
Summers
Chimneys
,
Winter
ended
;
Or
like
to
Souldiers
,
warres
being
done
,
Or
like
to
Dogges
,
their
races
runne
,
Or
like
to
beauty
wrinkled
old
,
Or
like
a
secret
knowne
,
and
told
,
So
Time
of
all
the
dearest
cost
,
Not
taken
by
the
fore-top
,
lost
.
And
for
the
guilt
,
anotherthus
,
O
Opportunity
,
thy
guilt
is
great
,
'T
is
thou
that
executes
the
Traytors
treason
,
Thou
setst
the
Wolfe
,
where
hee
the
Lambe
may
get
,
Whoeuer
plots
the
finne
,
thou
points
the
season
:
And
in
thy
shady
cell
,
where
none
may
spy
him
,
Sits
sinne
to
seize
the
soules
that
wander
by
him
.
Thou
mak'st
the
Vestal
violate
her
oath
,
Thou
blow'st
the
fire
when
temperance
is
thaw'd
,
Thou
smotherest
honesty
,
thou
murderest
truth
,
Thou
foule
abettor
,
thou
notorious
band
:
And
to
expresse
thy
nature
here
in
briefe
,
Thy
honey
turnes
to
gall
,
thy
joy
to
griefe
.
When
wilt
thou
be
the
humble
suppliants
friend
,
And
bring
him
where
his
cause
may
be
obtain'd
;
When
wilt
thou
sort
an
howre
great
strife
to
end
,
Or
free
the
soule
that
wretchednesse
hath
chain'd
,
Give
Physicke
to
the
sicke
,
ease
to
the
pain'd
?
The
poore
,
lame
,
blind
,
halt
,
creep
,
cry
out
to
thee
,
But
they
ne're
meet
with
Opportunitie
,
&c.
Q.
Why
is
the
earth
barren
of
grasse
,
where
richest
Mines
of
gold
and
silver
lye
under
buried
?
A.
Because
wise
Nature
hath
lock'd
up
and
covered
deep
those
mettalls
which
shee
fore-saw
should
herafter
trouble
the
world
,
and
made
the
Carpet
that
covereth
them
,
as
barren
as
the
brest
of
some
of
these
unprofitable
rich
Iaylors
.
Q.
What
was
Diogenes
reason
●…herefore
he
counselled
his
friend
not
to
lend
money
?
A.
Because
,
saith
hee
,
if
thou
lend
,
thou
shalt
not
receive
again
;
if
thou
doe
,
not
so
soone
;
if
so
soone
,
not
so
good
;
if
so
good
,
then
thou
losest
a
friend
:
To
this
purpose
agrees
the
old
saying
,
I
once
had
mony
and
a
friend
,
And
joy'd
them
both
together
,
I
lent
my
mony
to
my
friend
At
need
to
doe
him
pleasure
:
His
need
supplied
,
hee
sleighted
mine
,
And
did
not
backe
repay
The
money
at
his
pointed
time
,
And
at
my
fixed
day
.
I
sought
my
money
of
my
friend
He
paid
it
backe
in
hate
;
My
money
had
I
lost
,
my
friend
,
And
now
repent
too
late
.