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CATO VARIEGATVS OR Catoes Morall Distichs : Translated and Paraphras'd , with variations of Expressing , in English verse .

By Sr. Richard Baker Knight .

LONDON Printed by Anne Griffin , and are to be sold by Anne Bowler dwelling at the signe of the Marigold in Paules church-yard . 1636.

To the Reader .

A Lover of Learning , translated these● verses of Cato into English , some twelve years since : whose labour , I cannot blame : but tying himselfe , strictly to the words ; he could not alwaies , either so fully , or so gracefully , expresse the mening : for indeed , the words of one language , cannot alwaies be reached , by the very same words of another : which made an Able man , in this cause to say : Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere . And therefore seeing the sence especially in precepts , is principally to be regarded , there is iustly a liberty given , in this kinde , not onely to use Periphrases , but Paraphrases also , as the cause may require , which liberty if I be censured by any to have used too liberally : Yet so long as Sensus est in tuto , and nothing is said , but what is drawn , Epotentia verborum : I expect to be excused at least , if not commended : And if many of these , seeme rather Paraphrases , or rather Collateral Conceits then translations : yet seeing they tend all to the same sence : and that the direct translations are sent before , as set alwayes next the latine : they are but after the fashion of young men ; who weare thin cloaths , in cold winter , but haue good warm wast-cotes vnder them , and some men , may bee of that disposition , to take as much delight , in the conceit of the Expressing● as in the expressing of the conceit-And indeed , this kinde of writing , seemes not onely away of meditation , but a Fruit : Not only an Exercise , but a Dilating of Invention ; and if there were nothing else , but the Variety ; we see , how much the Eye , is delighted with varietie of colours , in the same obiect ; the Eare , with variety of Descant upon the same Plaine song ; & euen Nature herselfe , seemes delighted with it : For , who doubts , but into one forme of a Flower , she could have infused all kinde ofsents ; and all , of sappes , but that shee takes a pleasure , in the variety of Formes . Some man will perhaps say ; Here is variety indeed ; but one well done were better then all : what good doth choice , where All is Refuse stuffe ? It is true : but let this man bring better stuffes out of his warehouse ; & then , let these be thrown away : till then , he may content himselfe with these ; They may keepe him warme , though not make him fine . And seeing there is variety of Iudgements ; it is not unfit , to tender them , variety of Expressings : some may take better with one Iudgement : some , with another : and oftentimes , one Expressing , gives lustre to another , and makes the reason , which lay hid before to looke abroad : which is not yet , another thing ; but the same thing , in another light : and lastly , being Praecepts of Morality ; they cannot haue too many allurements . How soever it be ; the worke I am sure , is such , as need not repent me , of one moneth spent in writing it : Nor thee , whosoever thou art of one houre spent in reading it . I have quoted in the margent such places in divine writings , as are consonant & agreeing with these Precepts of Cato ; that we may see , how farre it hath pleased God , to illuminate even Heathen men , in matters of Morality . And I intended , to have set at the end , a Patterne of the like variety in Latin ; done eyther by Virgil , or by Ausonius : and translated in a greater variety into English : but considering , this present work is it selfe , nothing else , but variations : I have chosen rather to omit it , least it might be thought , a supernumerarie idlenesse : yet thus much , we may gather by it ; that even the Ancients scorned not , this variety of expressing ; either as an exercise to the Writer , or a delight to the Reader ; and seeing it hath beene now so long forborne ; it may come in also , as a novelty : and so I may suppose my selfe to haue two good supporters , ( varietie & noueltie ) to helpe to beare out my own imperfections .

Now for the Cato , that was the Author of these verses , whether it were a Person , or but a Name onely , ( as Cicero called his booke De senectu●e Cato Major , to giue it the more lustre of grauitie ) it is uncertaine , but certaine it is , what Cato it was , is nothing certaine : and not much more certain , what time he liued ; only Io. Scal. by some probable coniecture gathereth : that he lived , about the times of the Emperours Commodus and Severus : which might well bee : seeing the saeculum of yeeres , about an . Dom. 170. next proceeding ; was in sobriety of manners , amongst the Romans , of all other , the most flourishing . And though the Emperours themselves were not yet Christians ; yet they made approches toward it , in Morall Doctrine , as neere , as could be : as , well testifies that excellent Booke of Morality : written by the learned Emperour , Marcus Aurelius Antonius ; father vnto Commodus : which , to the great commendation of the Translatour , is lately published amongst us : out of which perhaps this Cato , whosoever hee was , might make choice of some speciall Precepts : and put them , into short Disticks ; for the better reteining them in memory . And for my selfe ; if any man thinke me Repuerascere ; and to enter upon a worke , that were fitter for a schoole boy : let him know , that one Planudes , long since , and of late , Ioseph Scaliger , two excellent men , & of singular learning ; haue Both of them , thought it no disparagement to their grauitie , to translate them into Greeke ; as , many learned men haue likewise done into other languages ; whose Examples , I dare boldly oppose to the Censure of any , or all Inferiour Iudgements .

Cato Variegatus . SI Deus est . Animus , nobis ut carmin●● dicunt : Hic tibi praecipue , sit p●ra mente c●lendus . 1 If God a Spirit be , as Poets write : He must be worship , with a minde upright . Or thus , 1 The chiefest duty of thy life is this : To serve God purely , who a spirit is . Or thus , 1 As God , in truth a Spirit is , so He In spirit and in truth , must worship● be . Or thus , 1 Gods outward worship , must not be neglected : But 't is the inward that is most respected . Or thus , 1 God must be serv'd with Tongue ; with every part : But no such service , as an upright Heart . 2 Plus Vigila semper , Ne● somno deditus este : Nam diu●nr●a quies , Vitiis alimenta ministrat . 2 Wake alwayes more , and be not given to sleepe : Pro. 6. 9. & 19. 15. & 10. 13. & 24 30. 33. Much sleepe doth vices , both Beger and Keepe , Or thus . 2 Give not thy selfe to sleepe , but waking rather : Much sleeping , is to vice both N●rce and Father . Or thus , 2 Vse waking more , and be 〈◊〉 given to sloth : From whence all vices have both birth and growth . Or thus . 2 Sleepe not too much : vices will soone be dead . If with the milke of sloth , they were not fed . Or thus . 2 Vse walking more , yeeld not when sleepe 〈◊〉 : Much sleeping is the soyle that manures Vices . Or thus , 2 A dr●wsie body , makes the minde be such 〈◊〉 Hee 's good for no good , that loves sleeping much . Or thus , 2 Confine thy sleepe ; but doe not banish it , Though much be too much ; yet a Fit is fit . Or thus , 2 Not sleepe , but sleeping much , must be withstood : Much resting makes men restie to all good . Or thus , 2 Hold sleeping short ; Hold watchfulnesse in price : Much resting is the Exercise of Vice . Or thus , 2 Be walking more , sleepe but what needs thou must : Much sleepe breeds in the minde a kinde of 〈◊〉 . Or thus , 2 〈…〉 Or thus , 2 〈…〉 Or thus , 2 Sleepe is both Prodigals , and Misers Crime : It Hoords yet wasts , the ch●efest Treasure , Time . Or thus , 2 Much Sleepe , is a Betraying Vertues Ward : It tyes the senses hands , which are her Guard . Or thus , 2 Much Opium doth the sences overcome : And what is sleepe , but Natures Opium ? Or thus , 2 Though Sleepe , the name of Lifes refreshing merits : Yet much Sleepe , is a surfet to the Spirits . Or thus , 2 Sleeping , is as the oyle of our Lifes Lampe : Little , Refreshes : Too much , makes a Dampe . Or thus , 2 Be Master of thine Eyes ; not They of thee : Sleepe makes a Drone ; t is waking makes a Bee . 3 Virtutem primam esse puta , Compescere lingnam . Iam. 3. 21. Pro. 10. 19. Ecclus 5. 13 & 20. 1. 2. Pr●ximus Ille De● , qui scit ratione tacere . 3 Count it a Vertue chiefe , thy Tongue to bridle ; Hee 's next to God , whose words are never Idle . Or thus , 3 T is a great Guift , to speake in sense and season ; But greater farre , to hold Ones Tongue with reason . Or thus , 3 What meanes the double Fence , the Tongue about , Of Teeth and Lips , but least it should breake out ? Or thus , 3 Many can roule the Tongue ; and make it run , But Turne , and make a S●oppe , is hardly done . Or thus , 3 The Tongue , hath this one rare , yet common Notion : It Vertue shewes , no lesse in Rest , then Motion . Or thus , 3 Speake not at all , or else speake wisely ; least It shew thee , First a Man , and then a Beast . Or thus , 3 The stronger the Tongue is , the man 's the weaker : Hee that can hold his Tongue , is the best speaker . Or thus , 3 The tongue , both stirres Debate , and makes it Cease : He holds Peace best , that best can hold his peace . Or thus , 3 The Tongue may thus , be Encreast , or Decreast ; Rul'de well , It makes an Aug●ll , Ill , a Beast . 4 Sperne Repugnando tibi t● Contrarius esse : Conueniet ●uss● , qui secum dissides ipse . 4 Take head , ●est to thy selfe thou Crossing be : Pro. 26. 7. Eccles. 9. 4. 29 : & 5. 10. Who thwarts himselfe , with whom can he agree ? Or thus , 4 Looke that thy deeds and words be Prayers : for Hee That s odde to himselfe , with none can even be . Or thus , 4 If thou with others , wouldst all quarrels Cease● B●g●●ne first , with thy selfe to be at peace . Or thus , 4 Be sure thy selfe , and Thou , be One ; for One In peeces with himselfe , can peece with none . Or thus . Be constant to thy selfe , and doe not rome : Hee 's but a Vagabond , that hath no Home . Or thus , 4 When thou art gone one way ; doe not decline : A crooked Rule , can never make streight line . Or thus , 4 Fall not out with thyselfe ; but still be one : He can be no mans friend , that 's not his owne . Or thus , 4 Be none of those , of whom a man may say Two can agree , if one be ou●o'th way . 5 Si vitam in spicias hominum , si denique mores : Quum culpas alios , Neme sine crimine vivit . 5 If on the lives of men , thou cast thy thoughts ; Stand not a blaming some ; for All have faults Or thus . 5 If lives of men , be lookt into and sought : Some more , some lesse ; but None , without his fault , Or thus , 5 Looke into all mens lives , and you shall see Not this ; or that man ; but all , faulty be . Or thus , 5 This you shall finde , if to mens lives attend : The most are starke nought ; and the best may mend . 6 Quae nocitura tenes , quamvis sint eara , relinque . V●●litas opibus praeponi tempore debet . 6 Leave off the things , though deere , which hurt thy health : For safety alwayes , must take place of wealth . Or thus , 6 For beare things hurtfull , though thou hold them deere ; Better , hard Fare ; then surfet with good Cheere . Or thus , 6 What thou holdst hurtfull ; make of it no store : Better , be safe with lesse ; then spoyld with more . Or thus , 6 Not Gold , if over weight , worth keeping thinke : Better , goe empty , safe ; then laden , sinke . Or thus , 6 Please not thy fancy , to displease thy sence : Profit sometimes , yeelds to convenience . 7 Constans & lenis , vt Res expostulat , Esto : Temporibus mores , sapiens sine crimine mutat . 7 Be Constant or Remisse , as is the case : For wise men , change their course , with time and place . Or thus , 7 Be sterne , or milde , as thou the cause dost finde : For change of time , makes wise men , change their minde . Or thus , 7 Be gentle , or sever , as cause may be : To change with time , is wise mens Constancy . Or thus , 7 To be now sharpe , Now gentle ; ●s no Crime : Wisdome makes men , Chamaelions of time . Or thus , 7 T is no fault , to be sterne , then milde agen : Time makes Chamaelions of the wisest men . Or thus . 7 If men , to one thing , be Now prone , Now loath : The difference of time may warrant Both. Or thus , 7 Sternenesse , Remisnesse , Harshnesse Lenity , Are All good : and None good , as cause may be 8 Niltemere Vxori , de servis Crede querenti : Saepe etenim mulier , quem Coniux diligit , Odit . 8 Blame not a seruant streight , thy wife reproves : For , women hate them oft , their Husband loves . Or thus , 8 A wifes complaints of servants , often savour Not of their faults , but of her Husbands savour . Or thus , 8 Your wives complaints of Servants , harke not to : Perhaps she loves them not , because you doe . Or thus , 8 Blame not streight , servants when your wife makes mone She therefore finds fault , because you finde none . Or thus , 8 When servants oft , you heare your wife accuse : If they be of your choyce , she cannot chuse● Or thus , 8 Condemne not seruants though your wife reprove them : 'T is Cause enough of her hate , that you love them . Or thus , 8 Complaine of servants , needs your wife must doe : Shee cannot love a servant ; and you too . 9 Quumque mones aliquem , nec se velit ille ●oneri : Sitibi sit carus , ● ol● defistere Captis . 9 When thou warn'st one , that take no warning will : If he thy friend be ; give him warning still . Or thus . 9 Warning a friend , that doth thy warning sleight : Yet hold thy course still : and Doe Friendship , Right . Or thus . 9 If warning thou a friend , hee leave not Erring : Yet Erre not thou , in leaving off , Deterring . Or thus , 9 Warning a friend , that takes no admonition ; Yet warne him still : Continuance workes Contrition . Or thus . 9 Telling a friend his faults ; 't is fault as much In thee , to leave ; as in him , to be such . 10 Contra verbosos , noli contendere verbis : Eccle , 10. 4 Ecclus. 8. 3. Sermo datur cunctis : Animi sapientia Paucis . 10 Strive not in words , with men whose words are many : All men can speake , but wisely speake , skarce any . Or thus , 10 Words against wordy men , thou must not vse : That 's their owne weapon ; thou must wisdome chuse . Or thus , 10 Strive not , of talking men , the day to get : Least it be said ; Two Parrats are well met . Or thus , 10 To strive to put downe , men of words , is vaine : For Most have Tongue at will ; but Few have Braine . Or thus , 10 To make men hold their Tongues , would do them wrong Most men would be no men , but for their Tongue . Or thus , 10 To strive in words , with men of words , Despise : A victory of words , sits not the wise . 11 Dilige sic alios , vtsis tibi carus ●micus . Pro. 9. 11. Eccles. 9. 12. 1. 2. & 29. 20. & 14. 11. Sic bonus est● bonis , ne te mala damna sequantur . 11 Love others so , thou love thy selfe still most : Be good to good men ; but not to thy Cost . Or thus , 11 Others love is the Bye ; thy owne the Maine : Put not thy selfe to losse for others gaine . Or thus , 11 Love thy selfe without stint ; others , in measure : Take care , thou take no hurt , for no mans pleasure . Or thus , 11 To all , be loving ; but of none , be fond : Be not so Free , to bring thy selfe in Bond. Or thus , 11 Loves Bonds thou must embrace ; other Bonds ●●ee ; Be not so Free , as not to keepe thee free . Or thus , 11 Love first thy selfe : let others love be last : Where wit is Herauld ; so will love be plac't . Or thus , 11 Th' account betweene thy friends and thee , so cast : Thou Feast not them , and bring thy selfe to Fast , Or thus , 11 Thy owne turne serv'd , let others Dole come after : Be not so franke ; to make thy selfe a laughter . Or thus , 11 Be friend to others ; but thy owne friend , first : The kinde Foole , of all kindes of Fooles , is worst . 12 Rumores fuge ; ne incipias novus Author haberi : Non ulli tacuisse , nocet ; Nocet esse locutum . Pro. 13. 3. Eccle. 9. 19. 7. 10. & 41. 23. 12 Spread no reports ; least thou be Author thought : By silence , None ; by speech , much hurt is caught . Or thus , 12 Spread no Reports , least thou , for Author runne : Sylence , hath none ; Speech , many hath undone . Or thus . 12 Spread no Reports , least thou be charg'd withall : Silence goes safely ; Speech , makes many fall . Or thus , 12 Spread no Reports ; least they spread thee againe ; Speaking turnes often to the speakers paine . Or thus , 12 Let not thy Tongue , speake all thine Eares doe heare ; Least , thou mayst chance , to buy thy speaking deere . Or thus . 12 Be not the brickewall , of words that may fright : Thou see'st , from whence they come ; not where , they light . Or thus , 12 Spread no Reports , left thou be thought to make them : Thou know'st not how , Interpreters may take them . Or thus , 12 Spread no Reports , what ever thy words are : No Text so cleare ; but that a Glosse may marre . Or thus : 12 Spread no Reports ; Doe not thy words expose : To Descanting of men ; perhaps thy foes . Or thus , 12 Spread no Reports ; thou know'st not Fames encrease : The safest hold , is for to hold ones peace . 13 Spem tibi promissi certam promittere noli : Rara fides ideo est , quia mults multa loquuntur . Eccle. 9. 1●● 11. 13 On no mans Promise , build thy expectation : For Faith is rare ; and words are but a Fashion . Or thus , 13 Upon mens words , grow not streight confident : To give good words , is but a complement . Or thus , 13 Thinke not a thing streight done , when men professe : Men promise faire , when they meane nothing lesse , Or thus , 13 Rely not on mens words : words are but wind : And come but from the lippes , not from the minde . Or thus , 13 You le finde mens promises , but flender cheere : Faith is flowne hence : onely her Tongue left here . Or thus , 13 Thinke Accidents without substances ; and then You have the right stampe , of the words of men . 14 Quum te aliquis laudat , ●udex tuus esse memento ; Plus aliis de te , quam tu tibi credere noli . 14 When thou art praisd ; be Iudge thy selfe thereto : Thou better knowst thy selfe , than others doe . Or thus . 14 Take not mens prayses of thee , as thy Due : Vnlesse thy owne Heart , know them to be true . Or thus . 14 When any praise thee ; Iudge if it be iust : And doe not take mens praises up on trust . Or thus , 14 When men praise thee ; doe thou Iudge them ; and show : Whether , They , Thee , or Thou , Them better know . 15 Officium alterius , multis narrare memento : Atqui aliis quum tu benefeceris , Ipse sileto . 15 Others good turnes to thee , Divulge to many : But thy good turnes to others ; not to any . Or thus , 15 When others shew thee kindnesse ; let all know it : But when thou shewst to others ; never show it ; 16 Muliorum quum facta senex , & dicta recenses : Eccles , 9. 19. 8. Fac tibi succurrant , iuvenis quae feceris ipse . 16 When old , thou Censurest the deeds of men : Remember , what being young , thy selfe didst then . Or thus , 16 When thou art old ; censure not young mens Act● : But call to minde first , thy owne youths defects . Or thus , 16 Iudge not of young mens words and deeds , before Thou have examinde well , thy owne youths skore . Or thus , 16 When thou wilt be a Censor of mens carriage : Looke first , now much thy owne is in arrerage : Or thus , 16 Make this thy Rule , in iudging young mens way : What thy owne way was , when thou wert as They. 17 Ne cures si quistacito sermone loquatur : Eccles. 9. 21 , 24 , 28. Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omina dici . 17 When men be whispering softly ; Never care : They thinke all said of them that guilty are . Or thus . 17 Whether men talke a loud ; or soft and still : What i's t to thee ; if thou have done no Ill. Or thus , 17 Who doubt mens whispering talk ; shew themselves vicious : T is guilcinesse of minde , makes men suspitious . Or thus , 17 Care not , what men betweene them whispering be : So long as Conscience whispers not to thee . 18 Quum fueris faelix , qua sunt adversa Caueto : Pro 20 21. & 27 , 23 , 24 Eccle. 9. 18. 25. Non eodem cursu , respondent vltima Primis . 18 When thou art at the best ; then feare the worst : The last times alwayes , answer not the first . Or thus . 18 In thy prosperity ; take heed of Crosses : A life begunne in Gaynes , ends oft in losses . Or thus , 18 When skies are cleere , take heed of Overcast : Our life like wine , hath all the Lees at last . Or thus , 18 When Dice runne faire , take heed of casting out : The wheele of Fortune , brings the worst about . Or thus . 18 In times of store , for times of want provide : Ther 's Flud : and then an Ebbe in every Tide , Or thus , 18 In Fortunes Blisse , take heed of Fortunes Curse : The Elder that she growes , she growes the worse . Or thus , 18 In present calmes , to future stormes attend : Fortune , like cloath , hath alwayes a Fagend . 19 Quum dubia & fragilis nobis sit vita tributa : In morte alterius , spem tu tibi ponere noli . 19 Since thou art sure to Dye , thou knowst not when : Put not thy hope , in death of other men . Or thus , 19 Since all are mortall ; what more vaine can be Then hope to bury them , may bury thee . Or thus , 19 Since God a fraile , vncertaine life doth give thee : Hope not on dead mens shooes , that may out live thee . Or thus , 19 Why should we hope , of being others Heyres ? Doth not our owne sand runne , as fast as Theirs ? Or thus , 19 Since in us all , Life hath a doubtfull scope : To hope for dead mens Goods , is dead mens Hope . Or thus , 19 What contract canst thou make with Death ; that He Should serve his writs on others , and spare thee ? Or thus , 19 It is not Hope , but wan hope to surmize : That thou shalt live , to close anothers eyes . Or thus , 19 Since all our lives , are brittle Glasse and weake , What reason thine should hold ; and others breake ? Or thus , 19 Why shouldst thou thinke , t' out live them that be old : Though thou art young ? D●th death a scantling hold ? Or thus , 19 Thinke not thy selfe from Death the more at rest For being young ; 't is greene fruit , Death loves best . Or thus , 19 Thinke not , that life 's a fruit , not fit to gather But when t is ripe : Death likes it unripe rather . Or thus , 19 Lifes fruit is tender ; seldome comes to good : Death is a Frost in May ; nips it i' th Bud. Or thus , 19 The lives of men seeme in two seas to swimme : Death comes to young folkes : and old , goe to him . Or thus , 19 Which may we count , to death the greater haster , The old , hath lesse to goe : the young , runnes faster . Or thus , 19 No certaine time , is set to be lifes border ; Death takes away by lot , and not by order . Or thus , 19 Old folkes so gastly are ; and looke so grimme : That death feares them , as much as they feare him . Or thus , 19 To thinke , t' out live thy youngers , midnesse were● Thine Elders , Folly ; therefore Both forbeare . 20 Exiguum munus , quum dat tibi pauper amicus . Eccles 9. 4. 8. Accipito placide ; plene & laud●re memento . 20 When a poore friend , a small gift gives to thee : Take it in worth : and let it praysed be . Or thus , 20 When a poore friend presents thee some small toye : Shew thy acceptance by some show of joy . Or thus , 20 When a poore friend , for some small thing makes shift : Looke on the Givers minde , not on the Gift . 21 Infantem nudum , quum ie Natu●a crearit : Paupertat is onus , patienter ferre memento . 21 Since Infants , bare and naked , borne we were : Let us our Poverty , with patience beare . Or thus . 21 Even nature teacheth , Poverty to beare : Since bare , and naked , made by her we were . Or thus , 21 What child , that 's good ; would skorn his Mothers blessing Then skorn not barenesse , which is Natures dressing . Or thus , 21 She that gave Life gave Barenesse ; Is sh'a Mother , In giving life ? A stepdame , in the other , Or thus , 21 Since Poverty is Natures Gift : and Gifts Of Nature , All are good : why seeke we shifts ? Or thus , 21 Barenesse and Poverty ; are of Natures giving , In Birth and Death ; and why not then , in living ? Or thus , 21 Nature that 's simple ; why wouldst thou have mixt ? Poore , first and last ; and why not Poore betwixt ? Or thus . 21 Richmen , and Poore ; what difference between them ? All Borne ; All dead , alike ; the rest , a Dreame . Or thus , 21 We came into the world , without a clout : And in as poore a pickle we goe out . Where lifes both Ends , are in so meane degree : What matter is 't ; how meane the middle be . Or thus , 21 We came into the Word , without a robe : And we goe out againe , as poore as Iob : If Earth unto us , should a heaven prove ; How could we looke , to have a Heaven , above . Or thus , 21 Since Nature made us poore : le ts patient be : Shee better knowes , what 's good for us , then we . 22 Ne time as illam , quae vitae est vltima finis : Qui Mortem metuit , quod Vivit , perdit idipsum . Eccle. 9. 14. 1● , 17 , 18 22 Feare not that Ende of life , which Nature gives : He that feares Death ; looseth , even that he lives . Or thus . 22 Feare not that End of life , which is the last ; The feare of Death , puts Lifes mouth out of taste . Or thus , 22 Doe not thy minde to frightfull fancies give ? To live , still fearing Death , is not to live . Or thus , 22 Betimes thinke on thy last End ; and be steady : He that feares Dying , is halfe dead allready . Or thus , 22 Feare not least Death , should thee of life deprive : Such Feare , puts life , into her Grave alive . Or thus , 22 Feare not the houre , that life shall lose her light : Where such Feare is , she never hath but night . Or thus . 22 Feare not lifes last ; each day Death cuts our skore ; And yet not Felt : the last , will doe no more . Or thus , 22 Feare not the time , that life shall end her taske : The Feare of Dying is Deaths Antimaske . Or thus , 22 What cause have we , at Death to take offence ? If Feele , we live still : if not live , No Sence . Or thus , 22 As good to fall ; as still to feare we were ; Feare is as deadly , as the Fall we feare . Or thus , 22 Feare not lifes End ; to feare , that Dye we shall , Makes life a Death ; and so , no life at all . Or thus , 22 Feare is it selfe a Death ; then Death comes on : And makes Two Deaths , where we might scape with one Or thus , 22 What day is liv'd , but that , to death we give ? Who therefore , would not Die ; He must not live . Or thus , 22 Feare's never good , but when it may preserve : Then feare not Death ; for which no feare will serve . Or thus , 22 Possesse thy minde in peace ; stint Passions strife : Neither Feare death ; nor Be in love with life . 23 Si tibi pro meritis , nemo respondet amicus : Ecclus. 20. 16● Incusare Deum noli ; sed te ipse coerce . 23 If th●u find'st no friend , answer to thy merits : Yet charge not God withall ; but calme thy spirits . Or thus . 23 If men , for thy deservings prove unkinde : Yet blame not God ; but moderate thy minde . Or thus , 23 If thou be kinde to friends ; They not to thee : Yet doe not lay the blame , on Gods Decree . Or thus , 22 Because thy friends not gratious are to thee ; Wilt thou to God , Ungratious therefore be ? Or thus , 23 To finde thy friends ungratefull , is a curse : But for it , to repine at God , is worse . Or thus , 23 If all thy friends unthankfull prove to thee : Yet , doe not Thou to God , but thankefull be . 24 Ne tibi quid Desit , qu●sitis vtere parce : Vtque quodest , serves ; semper tibi deesse putato . 24 To keepe from want ; spend prodigally never : To keepe from spending ; Th●nke , thou wantest ever . Or thus . 24 That , want thou mayst not ; save what thou hast got : That save thou mayst ; Thinke , that thou hast it not . Or thus , 24 The best way not to want , is , to be sparing ; The way to spare ; To be , for want still caring . 25 Quod praestare potes , ne bis promiseris vlli : Ne sis Ventosus , dum vis vrbanus haberi : P●● . 3. 28. 25 Promise not Twice , a thing within thy might : Least thou instead of kinde , be counted light . Or thus , 25 Let men , no lightnesse in thy Promise finde : P●aying with Aire , thou shalt be thought but winde . Or thus . 25 Thy Promise breaking , is the Truths denying : And is , but a more solid kinde of lying . Or thus . 25 Discredit not thy Promise , with delay : Least no man trust hereafter , what you say . Or thus , 25 Performance of thy Promise doe not sleight : Why shouldst thou make thy selfe a Graine too light ? Or thus , 25 Promise once made , Intend to keepe it streight : Who would be counted light , that may be weight ? Or thus , 25 In ma●ing promise ; ●hy faith stands at stake : Doe it thou must ; or else thy faith forsake . Or thus , 25 Who promise breakes , when he can doe a thing , Is like a foolish Bird : clips her owne wing . Or thus , 25 That promise is a due Debt ; make no doubt ; Who Promise breakes , is the true Bankerout . Or thus , 25 In keeping Promise ; if thou canst , be Iust : Why shouldst thou goe a lying upon trust ? 26 Qui simulat verbis , nec Corde est fidus amicus . 〈…〉 Tu quoque fac simile ; sic Ars deluditur arte . 26 When one is Friend in words , but not in Heart : Be thou so too : so Art is mockt with Art . Or thus . 26 When One is much in words ; in Truth , not much ; Be thou so too ; Feigning is made for such . Or thus , 26 When one beares thee no love ; yet makes a show : Doe thou so too : It may be Blow for Blow . Or thus , 26 When One meanes thee no good , yet speakes thee faire ; Doe thou the like : so thou shalt make a Paire . Or thus , 26 When One professeth Loue , but is not sound : Doe thou the like to him ; such Hare ; such Hound . Or thus , 26 When one pretends Love , that hath no such thought . Doe thou the like : so Dottrels must be caught . 27 Noli homines nimium bl●nd● sermone prob●●● Fistula dulce canit , Volucrem dum decipit A●ceps . 27 Trust not to men , for their faire speeches making : The Pipe sounds sweetly , while the Byrd is taking . Or thus , 27 When men come hony mouth'd ; if you but watch , you 'l finde their words but lime twigs ; shine to catch . Or thus . 27 In fawning words , thinke not true meaning streight : What good doe trapps , vnlesse they haue a baite ? 28 Quum tibi sint Nati , nec opes ; tunc artibus Illos Instrue , quo possint inopem defendere ●itam . 28 When thou hast children , and no goods to giue : Then traine them up , in trades , whereby to liue . Or thus . 28 When thou hast children ; and small sustentation : Then , giue them portions , in good education . 29 Quod vile est , carum : quod carum , vile putato : Sic tibi nec Cupidus , nec Auar us nosceris ulli . 29 Account base things , as deere : deere things as base : So shalt thou haue selfe-peace : and others grace . Or thus . 29 To hold things base and deere in equall price : Abates both clogge and staine of avarice . Or thus . 29 Account no oddes , betweene things base and deere : A gilt or wooden dish , make both one cheere . Or thus , 29 Thinke Bewter ; Silver● and Thinke Silver Bewter . What are they more or lesse ; if Thou be Newter ? 30 Quae culpare soles , eatune feceris ipse : Ecclus. 20. 1 Turpe est doct●ri , qu●m cu●pa redarguit ipsum . 30 Doe not thy selfe , what thou art wont to blame : A Teacher , to need Teaching , is a shame . Or thus , 30 In blaming others , looke thy selfe bee free : T is shame to Censure them , may Censure thee . Or thus , 30 What thou cal'st soule ; let it thy selfe not soyle : T is shame for Teachers , when their faults recoyle . Or thus , 30 What thou findst fault withall ; forbeare to doe : T is shame to be both Iudge and Guilty too . Or thus , 30 Blame not in others , what thy selfe may touch : T is shame , when one may say , Thy selfe is such . Or thus , 30 When you condemne ; be sure , you guiltlesse stand : T is shame , to see a Iudge hold up his hand . 31 Quod instum est , petito ; vel quod videatur honestum : Nam stultum est , petore id , quod possit iure negari . 31 Aske that is iust : at least , iust to the Eye : T is shame to aske , what t is iust to deny . Or thus , 31 Aske that is iust ; t is Folly , if not Pride , To aske a thing , may iustly be denide . Or thus . 31 Aske not , but what is iust ; t is want of wit To aske a thing , thou know'st to be unfit . Or thus , 31 Be sure , thy s●ite be iust : an uniust suite Proclaimes its owne Denyall ; or stands mute . Or thus . 31 Aske that is iust ; at least in estimation : To aske a thing uniust ; is meere Temptation . Or thus . 31 Aske that is iust ; who things uniust doth craue : Makes him he askes , a Foole ; Himselfe , a Knave . 32 Ignotum tibitu , noli praeponere notis : Cognita , In●●cio constant ; In cognita , cas● . 32 Preferre not strangers before them thou know'st : In those , thou Ventur'st ; In these , Iudgement showest . Or thus . 32 Rather then strangers , men thou know'st approve : Iudgement shews These ; t is chance , how Those may prove . Or thus , 32 Better , things knowne , then unknowne to advance : As much as Iudgement better is then chance . 33 Quum dubia in certis versetur vita periclis : In lucro tibipene diem , quicunque laboras . Ecclns. 14. 17. 18. & 17. 2. 33 Since Life is threatned every houre with Death : Count that day gain'd , in which thou draw'st thy breath . Or thus , 33 Since every day , of life might be thy last : Count that day more then due , which thou hast past . Or thus , 33 Amongst the gaynes , that you have made the day : Account the Day it selfe , you iustly may . Or thus , 33 So Imminent is Death ; Dangers so rise : That we may Count , Each New day , a New life . Or thus , 33 So fraile is life ; Dangers so manifold : That New dayes are but scape Goats of the old . Or thus , 33 What 's life , or Health ? what 's beauty , strength , or breath ? All is but Interest of our Debt to Death . Or thus , 33 All sit at Interest , while they draw their breath ; He that takes use of life ; Payes use to Death . Or thus , 33 Each day that 's liv'd , is gaind : poore Gaine God wot : That makes one so much poorer , as is got . Or thus , 33 If we count that day gaynd , which we have past : That s lost , that s past ; and so , that s gain'd , that s lost . Or thus , 33 Death and we Both ; lay claime , to the same houres : What s past , is His ; and onely that is ours . 34 Vincere quum posses , interdum Code sodali : Obsequio quoniam dulces retinentur a●ici . 34 Loose sometime to a friend , when thou couldst gaine : Such kindnesses , doe Friendships League maintaine . Or thus , 34 Yeeld sometimes to a friend , whom thou couldst master : Such tricks of love , tye friendships knot the faster . Or thus , 34 Not allwayes strive with friends , thy force to show : T is victory sometimes , to take a blow . Or thus , 34 Wrastle not still with friends , thy strength to prove : The Mastry to be tride with friends , is love . Or thus , 34 When thou couldst Bend a friend ; Thy selfe yet bow : One must Beginne love ; and then , why not Thou ? Or thus , 34 Thus stand the mutuall services of friends : One , first Beginnes a kindnesse , Th' other , Ends. Or thus , 34 In oddes of friends , where one must loose ; One win : Never straine courtsey , who shall first beginne . Or thus , 34 When one to other , shewes a friendly part : Hee , that Beginnes first , seemes to have the start . Or thus , 34 When we by friends , doe any losse sustaine : Wee seeme to buy their friendships new againe . Or thus . 34 The losses that by friends , to thee accrue : Are but the Rents , that are to Friendship due . Or thus , 34 These are the Noates ; make friends so well agree : Thou yeeldst to him ; and then he yeelds to thee . Or thus , 34 Where friends to one another , doe not yeeld : Such lye in Garrison ; nere come ith'field : 35 Ne dubites , quum magnapetas , impendere parva : Ecclus. ●0 . ●0 . Hisetenim rebus Conjungit Gratia cares . 35 Small things are well Bestowd , where great are sought : So deerenesse may , with things not deere , be bought . Or thus , 35 Asking great things , to give small , never shrinke ; Such small things get more love , then one would thinke . Or thus , 35 Who gives small things , in asking great , is thrifty ; A gui●● of five , may get a suit of Fifty . Or thus , 35 Hee s no good Husbandman , that will mislike : To sow a Py●te where he may reape a strike . Or thus , 35 Thou neither Husbandman , nor Husband art : If for a Quarter , sticke to sow a Quart. Or thus , 35 A Feather give , when for a Goose you aske ; Who but a Goose , would grudge at such a taske ? 36 Litem inferre Cave , cum que tibi Gratia juncta est : Prov. 17. 14. & 15. 1 & 20. 3. & 25. 8. 9. Ecclus. 28. 11. Ira , odium generat ; Concordia nutrit amorem . 36 Avoide Contentious brabblings with thy friends ; Concord , breeds Love ; Anger , in Hatred ends . Or thus , 36 Stand not in Suites , where thou in league dost stand : Debate breeds Hate : Concord is Loves right hand . Or thus , 36 Begin no strife , where thou in Love mayst end : What good , to winne a cause : and loose a friend ? 37 Servorum culpis , quum te dolar urget in iras : Pr●u . 19. 21. & 25. 28. Ecclus. 4. 30. Ipse tibi moderare , tuis ut parcere possis . 37 When servants faults , move thee to indignation : Let thy owne worth , move thee to moderation . Or thus . 37 When servants anger thee : shew thy selfe then More Master of thy selfe , then of thy men . Or thus , 37 If thee to wrath , a servant mooved hath , Yet be not thou a seruant to thy wrath . 37 Be M●s●●line : & let not servants faults Engender wrath , upon thy female thoughts . Or thus . 37 Keepe greater state , then that thy servants ryot Should have the honour , to disturbe thy quiet . Or thus , 37 Be milde to servants ; let not their excesse , Make thee exceed in that , which makes thee lesse . Or thus , 37 If Servants doe a fault : yet patient be ; No fault so great in them , as wrath in thee . 38 Quem super are potes , interdum vince ferendo : Ecclus 7. 8. Iames 5. 10 11. Ecclus. 1. 23 Maxima enim Morun● semper Patientia , virtus . 38 Beate sometimes● by forbearing whom thou beatest : Of Morall vertues , Patience is the greatest . Or thus , 38 Master by meekenesse , whom thou couldst by force : To change for Patience , Rage ; is a good course . Or thus , 38 T is Mastery sometimes to take a Fall : Hee knowes no manners , that still takes the wall . Or thus , 38 Give ground sometimes , when overcome you can : Sufferance is Manners ; Manners maketh man . 39 Conserva potius quae iam sunt parta labore : Quum labor in damno est ; Crescit ●●rial●s Egestas . Ecclus. 25. 3 39 Take care to keepe , as well as paines to Get : When labour growes a looser : want growes great . Or thus . 39 Save rather that , which thou already hast : Where paines retaines no Gaines ; want comes at last . Or thus , 39 If thou canst get , but not keepe what is got : Beggery , when all is done , will be thy lot . Or thus , 39 The way to Thrive , is more to Keepe then Get : What s the Sunne rising , if as soone it set ? Or thus , 39 When thou hast dig'd a well , that water gives ; What good wilt doe , if poure it into Sives ? Or thus , 39 As one hand brings in , Th' other must lay up : Else thou mayst haue to Dyne , but not to sup . Or thus , 39 Hold fast thy state ; why shouldst thou looke for more ; And couldst not keepe that , which thou hadst before ? Or thus . 39 Hold fast thy state ; why wilt thou rather waste : In hope to get more , then keepe that thou hast ? Or thus , 39 Keepe that thou hast ; and doe not want Importune : T is hard to Play au After Game of Fortune . Or thus , 39 Make Conserves of thy Gaynes : thou canst not tast : Of Fresh fruits alwayes ; but Conserves will last . Or thus , 39 Keepe rather that , thou hast already got : Learne of the Ant: Nip each graine , least it rot . Or thus , 39 T is an old saying ; spend , and God will send ; But what ? Beggery , and Barenesse , in the end . 40 Dapsilis interdum notis , & carus amicis Ecclus. 14. 11. Quum fueris falix ; semper tibi proximus esto . 40 When thou hast store , be franke to them are deerest ; Be francke to all ; but to thy selfe be neerest . Or thus , 40 When thou hast plenty ; plentifully give ; But yet forget not , that Thy selfe must live . Or thus , 40 Vse Hospitality to friends ; to All ; But not to bring thy selfe , to th' Hospitall . Or thus , 40 In keeping Christmas , something may be spent ; But not to make the whole yeare after Lent . Or thus , 40 Carue to thy friends , of tha● is good and fit : But for thy selfe , keepe alwayes the best Byt. Or thus , 40 The odds thou mak'st , betweene thy skinne● and cloak : Make that , betweene thy selfe , and other folke . Or thus , 40 Thy bounty may have leave , sometimes to roame : But still remember , Love beginnes at Home .
Liber Secundus . SIpotes , Ignotis etiam prodesse mement● : Vtilius Regn● est , meritis acquirere amic●s . 1 Even strangers , if thou canst , Be thou releiving : T is worth a Kingdome , to get friends by Giving . Or thus , 1 Let them thy good deeds know , that know thee not : A Kingdome is but Friends , by merits got . Or thus , 1 Let Vertues Iustre , even to strangers show thee : Is t not a Glory , that more Love , then know thee ? Or thus , 1 That s the right goodnesse , which to all extends : Ones skarce halfe good , that s good to none but friends . Or thus , 1 Give cause , even strangers may thy worth approve : What King so great , as He whom all men Love ? Or thus , 1 Let even strangers , be thy Bounties Objects : A King in Friends , excels a King in subiects . Or thus , 1 Thy worth would bounded be in narrow space : If no more feele thy hand , then see thy Face . Or thus , 1 More lovd then knowne ; more Knowne by Grace then Face : This fruit they reape , that Charity embrace . Or thus , 1 That s truest Charity , which to All extends : For while it Counts ; it makes , even Foes our friends . 2 Mitte Arcana Dei , Cal●mque inquirere , Quid sit : 〈…〉 Quum ●is Mortalis , quae sunt Mortalia , Cura . 2 Search not Gods secrets ; nor to Heaven ascend : Since thou art Mortall ; Mortall things attend . Or thus . 2 What Heaven is : and what Gods secrets are : Seeke not to finde ; let Earth of Earth take care . Or thus , 2 What God and Heaven is ; search not to know : What are the things Above ; to us Below ? Or thus , 2 About Gods hidden workes , straine not thy wit : To Humane Creatures , Humane things best fit . Or thus , 2 Gods secrets , Riddles are ; for which a man , Is no fit Oedypus , Doe what he can . 3 Linque metum Lethi , Nam stultum est tempore in omni : Dum Mortem metuis , amittere gaudia vitae . 3 Leave ●eare of Death ; for what Folly more rise : Then fearing Death , to lose the joyes of life ? Or thus , 3 Leave fearing death : let life have some delights : Which can have none , as long as Death affrights . Or thus , 3 Leave feare of Death ; who can have merry heart : As long as Feare stands brandishing Deaths Dart ? Or thus , 3 Leave feare of Death : what pleasure can life have ; When feare still keepes her thinking , of her Grave ? Or thus , 3 Leave feare of Death : what mischiefe greater were Then feare a mischiefe , that comes with a feare ? Or thus , 3 Leave to feare Death : for Death beares life a spight : And hurts her more , with terrour then with might . Or thus , 3 Leave feare of Death : why shouldst thou not adhere : Rather to life , in Ioy ; then Death in Feare ? Or thus , 3 Make Death looke merrily : what shrewder turne : Then putting Death in Blacks : to make life mourne ? 4 Iratus dere in certa contendere noli : Impedit Ira animum , ne possit cernere verum : Pro. 14. 29. Eccle. 7. 9. 4 Contend not Angry , about doubtfull things , Anger , the minde , into starke blindnesse brings . Or thus , 4 Strive not in doubtfull things with angry sprite : Anger feeles up the minde , from seeing right . Or thus , 4 In doubtfull matters , how can Truth be seene , When Anger stands before it , as a skreene ? Or thus , 4 In doubtfull things , no Angry man sees right : Doubt makes the object lesse ; Anger the light . 5 Fac sumptum propere , quumres desyderat ipsa : Dandum ●tenim est aliquid , quum Tempus postulat , aut Res. Pro. 11. 24. 5 Be ready to bestow , as Cause requires : For something must be given , to Times desires . Or thus , 5 Spare not to spend , when there is just occasion : From Cause and Time , we must seeke no Evasion . 6 Quod nimium est fugit● ; Parvo gaudere memento : T●ta mage est puppis , modic● quae●●● mine fertur . 6 With little be content : seeke not Extremes : The Ship goes safest , in the smaller streames . Or thus , 6 Be not Aspiring ; nor too lofty flie : No Falls so dangerous , as those from High . Or thus , 6 Seeke not Extremes : 't is the conceit of Pride , To thinke it never Fl●d , without Spring-tide . Or thus , 6 Be not more curious , then needes to be : Brightnesse is for the Stars , cleannesse for thee . Or thus , 6 If little be enough ; Much is too much : Why seekst thou then to be such , and not such ? Or thus , 6 When Natures turne is servd ; the rest runs ore : Little serves that ; then never seeke for more . 7 Quod pudeat , s●ci●s prudens celare memento : Ne plures culpent id , quod tibi displicet vni . 7 With what thou mayst be sham'd ; disclose to none : Least many blame , what now thou blam'st alone . Or thus . 7 Why shouldst thou make that knowne ; which t is too much : Thou knowst thy selfe ? sores are not fit to touch . Or thus . 7 Faulty in Doing , Be wise in Concealing : Faults are twice done , when of ones owne Revealing . Or thus , 7 When thou commitst a fault ; tell not the same : What needs a Theatre to shew thy shame ? Or thus , 7 Blaze not abroad to others , thine owne Evill : This were to light a candle , to the Devill . 8 Nol● putes pravo● homines peccata lucrari : Temporibus peccata latent ; sed temp●re parent . 8 Thinke not , that men can steale sinnes , and goe quite : Sinnes lurke a time ; but Tyme brings them to light . Or thus , 8 Thinke not , that men can gaine their doing wrong : Times mute awhile ; but keepes not Counsayle long . Or thus , 1 Thinke not that men can si●ne and goe invisible ; To Times cleere Eyes , the most hid things are visible . Or thus , 8 Thinke not , that si●res , once doue , are gone and past : Time is a Blab ; and will tell all at last . Or thus , 8 No sinne was ever cloakt with such disguise : but hath lyen open alwayes to Times Eyes . Or thus , 8 No sinne was ever done ; nor ever shall : But for a reckoning , Time is sure to call . 9 Corporis exigui , noli contemnere vires : Consilio pollet , cui vim Natura negavit : 9 Skorne not the strength , of men of little size ; Whom Nature makes lesse strong , she makes more wife . Or thus , 9 Slight not small statures : t is not said in vaine ; The lesser Head , the better is the Braine . Or thus , 9 Marke Natures course ; and you shall finde , she puts Her Choicest wine , in Runlets , not in Buts . Or thus , 9 Despise not littlemen , t is natures guise : To give the greater sight , to lesser Eyes . Or thus . 9 Little men have their worth ? t is Natures pleasure : To adde in weight ; what she abates in measure . Or thus . 9 He knows not Nature , that small statures mocks For whom she makes no Oxe , she may a Foxe . Or thus . 9 Nature is wise ; and gives not All to One : To some more Brai●e ; to others greater bone . Or thus . 9 By bulke of Body , Indge of men who can ? Great bones make Drones ; '● is spirit makes a man . Or thus . 9 Marke inward worth ; and you shall finde it then : that lesser bodies make not lesser men . 10 Cui scierisnon esse parem te , tempore Cede : Victorem a victo supera●● faeye videmus . 10 Finding thy selfe too weak , sound a retreat : We see the Conquer'd oft , the Conquerour beat . Or thus . 10 Forbeare when overmatcht ; and doe not fret : Though beaten now , thou mayst hereafter beat . Or thus , 10 To give ground , when there s Ods , never disdaine : He that yeelds now , may fight againe , and Gaine . Or thus . 10 Yeeld being too weak ; and stand not out mens laughter , Thou mayst perhaps , have better Cards hereafter . Or thus , 10 Yeeld when thou art too weake ; and never fret : Though lose a Game ; yet thou mayst win the set . Or thus , 10 Thy forces fay●ing , be content to yeeld : Who winnes it now , may after lose the Field . Or thus . 10 The cause bidds yeeld ; but Valour cannot flie : Then Valour is , in a fool●s custody . Or thus , 10 Why not yeeld , when too weake ? Valour sayes , No : Valour is but a Foole , for saying so . Or thus , 10 To fly , when overmatcht ; doth not Disparage : It comes from strength of wit , Not want of Courage . Or thus , 10 It is not Valour , but Foole-hardinesse : To see the Danger more , and flee it lesse . Or thus , 10 What hope , for such men ever to recover ; That stand an Ill match out : and nere give over ? Or thus , 10 There s no Bow , shoots so farre , as made of Ewe , Because it bowes and turnes ; and so must you . Or thus , 10 The strongest may be overlaid ; and where You finde it so ; t is wisdome to forbeare . Or thus . 10 Who yeelds not being too weake ; is but a Mocke : And stands it out , but like a Lenton Cocke . Or thus , 10 What man but meanly read in wisdomes Grammer , Would be an Anvile , that may be a Hammer ? Or thus , 10 To yeeld when overmatcht , can be no Crime : Thou yeeldst not , to the Foe but to the Time . Or thus , 10 To goe backe , being too weake : in wisdomes Eye Is but to Traverse ground ; t is not to Fly . Or thus , 10 Who yeeld though loose the day , yet winne the time : Flee , but to fight againe : Fall but to climbe . Or thus , 10 Who Triumphs now , may be in Triumph ledde ; The Garland stands not still , on one mans Head . 11 Adversus notum , noli contendere verbis : Lis minimis verbis interdum maxima crescit . Pro. 25. 8. & 15. 1. 11 With thy Acquaintance , have no warre of words ; A small stri●e oft , from words proceeds to swords . Or thus , 11 To thy Acquaintance give noe termes of Ire : A litle Blowing , kindles a great Fire . Or thus . 11 Doe not in harsh termes , with thy friend Contend : Harsh words , are Blowes ; and chiefely , from a friend . Or thus , 11 Provoke not with thy wrangling , a friends minde : Vnkinde words oft , put Kindnesse out of kinde . Or thus , 11 Offend not a friends Eares , with being louder . What may not a sparke doe , if light on Powder ? Or thus . 11 Irritate not a friend , with words of Ire : His Humour may be Flaxe , if thine be Fire . 12 Quid Deus intendat , Noli per quirere sorte : Quid statuat de te , sine te deliberst ipse . lob . 23. 8. 9. 12 Gods purpose towards thee , search not by lots : Thy part to thee , without thee he allots . Or thus , 12 Search not Gods counsailes , by unlawfull Art : He meanes not , what he meanes , to thee t'impar● . Or thus , 12 Concerning Gods intents , never Demurre : He meanes not to make thee his Counsailour . Or thus , 12 Thinke not , to conjure Gods designes : must Hee What He cons●●res on thee , Cons●●● with thee ? Or thus , 12 Search not by Lots , what Gods intentions be : His Counsailes , must be councell unto thee . Or thus , 12 Thou canst not found the Depth of Gods least motion : M●ns Plummets are too short , for such an Ocean . 13 In vidiam nimio cultu vitare mement● : Quae s●non 〈…〉 molestum est . EccIus , II. 4. 13 Procure not Envy , with too great a Traine : Which though it hurt not , yet to beare , is paine . Or thus , 13 Draw not on Envy , with too costly carriage ; Which , though perhaps not hurtfull , doth disparage . Or thus , 13 Make not thy selfe Envide , with too much bravery : Envy a Bondage is , though not a slavery . Or thus , 13 Why should thy Fompe draw Envy , as a Prize ? You loose mens Hearts , although you gaine their Eyes . 14 Esto ani●●o forti , qu●● 〈…〉 : Nemo di● gaude● , quod Indic● vincit iniq●● . Pro. 19. 14. 14 Condemn'd uniustly . yet in Heart be strong ; What 's got by unjust Doome , lasts never long . Or thus . 14 Condemn'd uniustly , let this case thy woe : T is seldome long enioyd , that 's go●●en so . Or thus , 14 Condemn'd by wrong , 〈◊〉 this thy mindeerect : The l●●ge , may rule the Cause , but not th' Effect . Or thus , 14 Be not cast downe , when cast uniustly downe : No man weares long , ●n ●●iust Iudges crowne . Or thus : 14 If thou be wrong'd in Iudgement ; let it goe : A victory hath no Triumph , gotten so . 15 Litis praeteritae , Noli 〈…〉 : Post 〈…〉 Pro. 17. 9. 15 Doe not Repeate the words of Brabbles past : Least , when the winde ●o laid , 〈◊〉 raise new B●ast . Or thus , 15 Never let words of brawles past , be repeated : Cold bloud , by hot blouds words , is oft new heated . Or thus , 15 He Erres , that words of Brabbles past , remembers : This is , to stirre old coales , rak't up in Embers . 16 Necte Collaudes , Nec te Culpaveris ipse . Hoc faciunt stulti ; quos Gloria vexat inani● . Pro. 25 27. EccIus . 15. 9. 10. 11. 16 Neither Commend thy selfe ; Nor yet Accuse ; For , this doe Fooles , whom vaine conceits abuse . Or thus , 16 To Discommend , or Prayse thy selfe , Refraine : Who but a Foole would shew himselfe so vaine ? Or thus , 16 To Braise , or Blame thy selfe , are Both , Extreames : Such talk use Fools , who make themselves their Theams Or thus , 16 Neither Dispraise thy selfe ; nor yet commend : One is a wrong End ; Th' other , to no End . Or thus , 16 Of thy owne Praise or Blame , no Trumpet be : Why should mens Eares , stand wayting upon thee ? Or thus , 16 To Praise , or Blame thy selfe , shewes little wit ; Ones more then Needs ; the other , more then 's fit . Or thus , 16 What can to Praise or Blame thy selfe , releeve thee ; If Blame , who cares ? If Praise , who will believe thee ? Or thus , 16 Make not thy owne Prayse , or Dispraise , thy story : The One is Folly : Thother , is Vaineglory . Or thus , 16 Praise not , nor Blame thy selfe ; though thou art able . The One , deserves a whip : Thother , a Bable . 17 Viere quaesitis parce ; quum sumptus abundat : Labitur exiguo , quod partum est tempore longe . Ecclus. 6. 3 17 Be sparing in Expence● Excessive spending Brings what was long a getting , to quicke Ending . Or thus , 17 Vse sparingly thy Goods ; Goods are as Oakes : Long time in growing ; Cut downe with few strokes . Or thus , 17 Spend sparingly : Let something be preservd : No Meanes can serve , where no Meane is observd . Or thus , 17 Live sparingly : One wastefull houre may spend , More , then the sparing of an Age can mend . Or thus . 17 Be sparing constantly ; and not by fits : One day may spend more , then a whole life gets . 18 Insipiens Esto , quum Tempus postulat aut Res : Stultitiam simular eloco , Pro. 24. 7. Prudentia summae est . 18 To be a Foole sometimes , doe not despise : A folly counterfait , is oft most wise . Or thus . 18 Seeme ignorant sometimes , of what thou knowest : In wit dissembled , oft most wit thou showest . Or thus , 18 Folly sometimes comes out of wisdomes schoole : None but wise men , can counterfeit a Foole. Or thus , 18 There 's time and place , when Folly may be fit : To Personate and Act , the part of wit . Or thus , 18 Thou mayst if time and place , thou well discernest : Both ●lay the Foole : and yet be wise in Earnest . Or thus , 18 Would any Pedlers , if they were not Typsies : Open their Packs amongst a sort of Gipsies ? Or thus , 18 Wisemen not alwayes , lay abroad their wit : But when occasion , time and place are fit . Or thus , 18 Wit to convenience , is so much devote ; It yeelds sometimes , to put on a Fooles coate . Or thus , 18 Wisdome is like the sunne ; shines when she list : And when she pleases , hides her in a Mist. Or thus . 18 This we may learne in observations schooles ; Fooles cannot be wise men ; wisemen ca●●fooles . Or thus . 18 In stinting wisdome , greatest wisdome lies : No man i● ever wise , that 's Over wise . Or thus , 18 If Time and due respect , be not his schoole : The wiser that one is , he is more foole . Or thus , 18 If Time and place , be not before his Eyes : There may be wisdome : yet the man not wise . Or thus , 18 He onely , wisdome may be said to have ; That holds it as a Lord ; not as a slave . Or thus , 18 I bid not be a foole , but seeme to be : When cause requires it , Else thou art not free . Or thus . 18 No man is wife , whose wisdome is his Master : What can he doe , that ca●nnot rule his Waster ? Or thus , 18 That man is onely wi●e ; and hath true wit : That can be so ; or not so : as is sit . 19 Luxuriam fugit● ; 〈…〉 Crimen Avaritiae : Pro. 28. 16. Ecclus. 10. 9 & 18. 32. nam sunt Contraria Fam● . 19 Shunne Covetousnesse and ryot , as two shames : That bo●th are contrary to mens good Names . Or Thus , 19 S●yll ' and Charibdis , are two Rock● to flye at : Thinke ; One is Avarica : the other Ryot . 20 N●li tu quaedam referenti Credere semper : Pro. ●0 . 19. Exigua ijs tribuenda fide , Ecclus. 19. 14. qui multa l●qu●ntur . 20 Credit not alwayes him , tels this or that : His Credit might be more , if lesse his chat . Or thus , 20 Beleeve not alwayes him that brings thee Tales ; Such mens words beare no weight , in iudgements ●kales Or thus , 20 Credit not men , by whom still Newes are borne : Their words must needs be light , are so much worne . Or thus , 20 Credit not alwayes them , that talke a vye : How can their Tongues but lye ; that never lye ? Or thus . 20 These great Tale bearers ; are like Almanacks : If one Report hold weight ; ther 's twenty lacks . 21 Que potus peccas Ignoscere tu tibinoli : Pro. 20. 1. & ●● 20. 30 Esay 5. 11. Nam Crimen nullum vini est , sed culpa bibentis . 21 Excus● not faults , committed in thy wine : The wine is not too blame : the blame is thine . Or thus . 21 They Erre , that faults in Drinking veniall thinke : The fault , is not the wines ; but theirs , that drinke . Or thus , 21 Distempers in thy Drinke ; Doe not avow : The Drinke is temperate ; but intemperate Thou . Or thus , 21 In faults of Drinke , canst thou be innocent ? When thou art Actour ; Drinke but th' Instrument ? Or thus , 21 What is much Drinke , but the Braynes Inundation ? Are not men mad , that mak 't a Recreation ? Or thus , 21 Excesse of Drinke Devasts , and drownes all Good : What is it , but a Remnant , of Noys Fludde ? Or thus . 21 Thy Braines are weake enough , when at the best : Why wilt thou let them be with Drinke opprest ? Or thus . 21 In this one fault of Drinke all are included : What Fault can want , where Reason is excluded ? Or thus , 21 Other Faults , Reason quit , but let sence stay : Drinking , sweepes Reason , sence , and all away . Or thus , 21 No marvell men thinke faults in Drinke , Defensible , Of that makes sencelesse , how can they be sensible ? Or thus , 21 'T is strange , noe warning makes men Drinke forbeare : But 't is the Bellies faul : , that hath noe Eare. 22 Consilium are anum tacito committe s●dali : Ecclus. 1● . 17. 19. & 27 16. 17. & 37 8. 13. Corporis auxilium medico Committe perite . 22 Thy secrets to a secret friend Commit : Thy Bodies cure , to the Physition fit . Or thus , 22 Intrust thy secrets , where they may be sure : Intrust thy Body , where it may have cure . 23 Noli successes indignos ferre moleste : P 10. 24. 1. Indulget Fort●●● malis , ut ladere possit . 23 Grieve not at Fortunes favouring wicked wayes : To make faules greater , t is her use to Raise . Or thus , 23 Take not to heart ungodly mens successe ; Where fortune favours more , she favours lesse . Or thus , 23 Let bad mens good successe , neere breed thy woe : T is for no good , that fortune hugs them so . Or thus , 23 Envy not men , whom Fortune seemes still wooing : Fortune hath no good meaning , in so doing . Or thus , 23 Pitty bad men , whom Fortunes Blessings lade : She hotter shines , to make them sooner fade . Or thus , 23 When Fortune still her favour is affoording , To wicked men : Know , she goes then a Birding . Or Thus , 23 Fret not at those , have Fortune singing still : Shee s one of Homers Syren●● sings to kill . Or thus , 23 It matters not , what Fortune gives : but why : Her good , to bad , to Hurt : to good , to try . 24 Prospice qui venin●●t , hos casus esse ferendes : Nam levius laedit , quicquid praevidimus ●●te . Pro. 22. 3. 24 Foresee the chances , that on thee may light : Their force is much abated , by foresight . Or thus , 24 Forecast the chances , thou mayst chance to beare : Evils foreseene , grow lesser then they were . Or thus , 24 Foresee the Ils , must be suffer'd : such Foreseeing , Weakens their Blow ; though hinders not their Being . Or thus , 24 Forecast ils , ere they come : for when the minde ' Meets them , as 't were halfe way , they grow more kinde● Or thus , 24 ●vils are worst when suddaine ; Least ; Foreseene ; They Rot with foresight ; that would else be Greene. Or thus , 24 Twill be sore Crossing out , thy crosses skore : If thou Forecast them , in thy minde before . Or thus , 24 To cast ills before hand ; is in a kinde , ' The casting up a Trench before the minde . Or thus , 24 Twill be a meanes , to make Ills meaner be ; If thou goe to them , ere they come to thee . Or thus , 24 Evils are like a wolfe ; seene , ere they come : Doe little hurt ; Not seene , they strike us dumbe . Or thus , 24 All Evils , are on Goods , or Body cast : Which when the minde Foresees ; the worst is past . 25 Rebus in adversis , Pro. 14. 10. animum submittere noli : Spem retine : spes vna hominem , nec morte relinquit . 25 Cast downe by fortune ; cast not downe thy Head : Keepe Hope : and Hope will keepe thee , even dead . Or thus . 25 Though Fortune frowne : Despayre not yet to thrive : Keepe Hope : for , Hope keep 's life it selfe a live . Or thus . 25 Though Fortunes stormes , be great and manifold : Yet Hope : for , Hope 's an Anchor that will hold . Or thus , 25 In stormes of Fortune , doe not thou despaire : But Hope : for , Hope can make a foule day , faire . Or thus , 25 When thou art most opprest ; yet Hope : for , Hope In streights of Fortune , gives thy Fortune scope . Or thus , 25 If thou be toft with tempests , stormes , and thunders : Yet Hope : for , Hope 's a thing , that can doe wonders , 26 Re●● tibi quam nosces aptum dimittere noli : Fr●nte Capillata , Post est occasio calva . 26 Slight not an offerd thing , that fits thy minde ; Time , hath a locke , Before ; is Bald behinde . Or thus , 26 Take Reason when t is offerd ; and be wise : Time useth not to make a Proffer twice . Or thus . 26 Neglect of Opportunity , is a Vice : Of which you cannot be an Actor twice . Or thus , 26 When time offers it selfe ; be sure to take it : Once gone before , nere look to overtake it . Or thus , 26 Take Balls at Bownd ; Time is , as he is usd : Kinde at first hand ; but froward , once refus'd . Or thus , 26 Take fruits when they be ripe : for that once past , Nature gives over : and they fade as fast . Or thus , 26 To let Time slip , is a recurelesse crime . You may have Time againe ; but not the Time . Or thus , 26 Take fruites when they be ripe ; Take Bals at bound : Else those grow rotten ; and these fall to ground . Or thus , 26 Time is as proud , as Tide : in this much one : That must be waited on ; This waytes for none . 27 Quod sequitur , specta ; quodque Imminet , ante videte : Illum Imitare Deum , partem qui spectat utramque . Pro. 4. 25. 27 Marke , what is past ; and what s to come , Foresee ; Like Ianus , let thine Eyes on Both sides be . 28 Fortior vt valeas , interdum parci●r Esto : Pauca volupta●i debentur , Plura saluti . Ecclus. 37. 29. 30 & 31. 19. 20. 28 To strengthen Health , Eat oft in sparing measure : We owe more to our Health , then to our Pleasure . Or thus . 28 Eate sometimes lesse , thy Health may be the more : For we are more on Healths , then Pleasures skore . Or thus . 28 Forbeare meat sometimes , though thy stomack crave it : For Pleasure must give place , if Health will have it . Or thus , 28 Eate sometimes sparing , thou mayst healthfull live : We take from Health , what we to Pleasure give . Or thus , 28 If thou shalt eate to please ; not to make strong : Thou shalt have neither strength , nor Pleasure long . Or thus , 28 We eate to make us strong ; and yet the longer , We spare to eate sometimes , we grow the stronger . Or thus , 28 Be temperate in thy meate , and thou shalt finde : Thy Body more disposd , more light thy minde . Or thus , 28 Eate not to please : but what for Health is best : Pleasure is but a wayter : Health 's the Guest . Or thus , 28 To change for Pleasure Health , is no good Boot : Pleasure is but a Leafe ; Health is the Roote . Or thus : 28 Let Health be steward of thy meate , not pleasure ; Health 's a good Husband : Pleasure hath no measure . Or thus , 28 Pleasure and Health , i' th Bodyes Common wealth , Are severall Factions ; Facting Holds with Health . Or thus , 28 Fasting sometimes saves a Physitians Fee : Yet Physicke ministers as good as He. Or thus . 28 Some physicke is to cure : some to prevent : But Fasting serves , both this and that intent . Or thus , 28 Hard Commons make sound sheepe ; your fattest pasture May sooner feed them ; but they Rot the faster . Or thus , 28 A temperate Dyet , is Healths chiefe preserving : Luxuriant Feeding , is as Bad as sterving . Or thus , 28 Rich men of poore , this one advantage get : That they may kill themselves , with better meate . Or thus , 28 To fill thy stomacke alwayes , is not best : To fast sometimes , is to make Health a feast . 29 Iudicium Populi , nunquam contemp●eris unu● : Ne nulli placeas , dum vis contemnere mult●s . Ecclus. 7. 7. 29 Slight not a multitude , thy selfe alone : Least , while thou sleightest many , thou please none . Or thus , 29 If thou alone , the people dost Oppose ; A thousand t is to One , that thou wilt lose . 30 Sit tibi praecipue , quod primum est , Cura salutis : Tempora ●e Culpes , quum sis tibi Causa deloris . 30 Of Health , the chiefest thing , take chiefest thought : Charge not the times , with what is thy owne fault . Or thus , 30 Looke chiefely to thy health : if sicke thou be ; Lay not the blame , on spring and Fall , but Thee . 31 Somnia necures ●nam Me●s humana quod ●ptat : Dum vigilans sperat ; per somnum Ceruit id ipsum . 31 Regard not Dreames ; for what men wish should be , And waking , hope ; the same in sleepe they see . Or thus , 31 Care not for Dreames ; for , what men thinke of deepe , And wish awake ; that followes them in Sleepe . Or thus , 31 Care not for Dreames ; they are but steps that stay Vpon the minde : which Thoughts troad in the day .
Liber Tertius . 1 INstrue Praeceptis ani ●●●● ; Nec discere cesses : Nam sine Doctrina , Vit rest quasi Marti● Image . 1 Furnish thy minde with Arts : Cease not to learne : Without which 〈◊〉 can life from death discerne● Or thus , 1 To fill thy minde with Precepts , labour most ; For without learning , life i● but deaths Ghost . Or thus , 1 Learning , above all other treas ●●es set : Without which , life is but Deaths counterfeit . Or thus , 1 Learne still , and with it let thy minde be fed , For without learning life it selfe is dead . Or thus , 1 What good doe eyes , if it be alwaies Night ? No more doth life , if learning give not light . Or thus , 1 Let Learning be thy light : Knowledge thy marke : Or else the minde but wanders in the darke . Or thus , 1 Body by Soule ; and Soule by Learning lives : That Life without this life , small comfort gives . Or thus , 1 Learning is Lifes Perfume , and ornament : without which , Life hath but a dismall sent . Or thus , 1 Learne still● for without learning no man can Be more , then the Anatomy of a man . Or thus , 1 Learne still : and thou shalt come to plaine discerning : That Life is but Deaths Image , without learning . 2 Fortunae Donis semper parere memento : Non opibus bona Fama ditur , sed moribus ipsis . 2 As Fortune shewes her gifts , so shew thou thine : Not wealth , but vertuous Life makes men to shine . Or thus , 2 Be Fortune what she will : Be thou the same : Mens Carriage ; not their wealth carryes the Name . Or thus . 2 When Fortune , does her worst ; thou best mayst bee ; And mayst shame Fortune , more then Fortune thee . Or thus . 2 Fortune with all her Gifts , and gaudy ●elfe : Can give no better Name , then sh' hath herselfe . 3 Quum recte Vivas , ne cures verba malorum : Arbitrit non est nostri , quid quisque loquatur . 3 When thou livst well ; care not for lewd mens chat : T is more then we can doe , to hinder that . Or thus . 3 Live well ; and never care , what men be talking : T is not in us , to keepe mens Tongues from walking . Or thus , 3 Looke to thy Life ; and care not for mens talke : For , doe the best thou canst , lewd Tongues will walke . Or thus , 3 Care what thou dost ; care not , what s said of thee : Vertue it selfe , is not from slander free . Or thus , 3 Balance thy selfe ; weigh not mens wrongfull nips : No worth of ours , can soder up lewd lips . Or thus , 3 When thou liv'st well ; care not though men speake ill ; Our lives we can , we cannot Rule their will . Or thus , 3 Some men speake ill ; not to give men their Dues : But they speake ill , because they cannot chuse . Or thus , 3 When thou liv'st well ; of mens words make no matter : Doe not Dogges barke at Moone-shine in the water ? Or Thus , Be nere so milde , yet some will call thee cruell , Lewd Tongues are Fires that burne , and have no Fuell . Or thus , 3 No worth of thine , can set Tongues such a stint : But some will speake , as some men looke a squint . 4 Productus tostis , salvo tamen ente pudore : Quantum●● cunque p●ies , ●elato crimen amici . 4 Brought for a witnesse ( what with Conscience Thou safely canst ) conceale thy friends offence . Or thus . 4 Brought for a witnesse ; if thou canst , so doe : That thou maist cleare thy friend , and Conscience too : 5 Sermones blandos , blasosque cavere memento : Simplicitas , veri fama est ; frans ficta loquendi . 5 Suspect words spoken smooth ; and yet in paine ; Truths voice is simple : Fraud is faine to Feigne . 6 Segnitiem fugito , qua vitae Ignavia fertur : Nam cum animus languet , consumit inertia corpus . 6 Fly sloth , the moth of life : for when the minde Wants its due nourishment , the Bodie 's pinde . Or thus , 6 Fly slothfulnesse ; which we may iustly call A Megrim , not of Head , but Heart and all . Or thus . 6 Fly Sloth ; which is a seeming loath to live ; Body and Minde , no mutuall comfort give . Or thus , 6 Fly Sloth , which is a Calme worse then a storme ; And doth our leaking ship of life more harme . Or thus , 6 Fly sloth ; which is to life an irksome Guest , it take so much Rest , that it takes no rest . Or thus , 6 Fly Sloth ; which Body pines ; and Minde be ●●●mes : It is a taste of Death , before Death comes . Or thus . 6 In drowsie men , what differs life from Death , More than for ( salt to keep them sweet ) their Breath ? 7 Interpone tuis , interdum gaudia curis ; Vt possis anim● quemvis sufferre lab●rem . 7 Mixe with thy Studies sometimes Recreation : That so the spirits may have relaxation . Or thus , 7 Thou must not alwayes worke ; nor alwayes Play : This , That a breathing gives ; That , this a stay . Or thus , 7 Care spends the spirits : if it alwayes spend , And no supply by mirth ; 't will soone have end . Or thus , 7 Myrth after Care , is the Mindes Holyday : It in●ermi●eth Care , that care it may . Or thus , 7 The Minde is as a Bow ; if This still bent : If That still Caring ; both grow impotent . Or thus , 7 Not Mirth , nor Care alone ; but enter wreathed : Care gets Mirth ; stomack : Myrth makes Care long breathed Or thus . 7 Not Care , nor Mirth alone , but both by turnes : The minde , without Care rusts ; without Mirth , mourns . 8 Alterius Dictum , aut Factum , ne carpseris vnquam : Exemplo simili ne te deriderat alter . 8 At others Deeds or Words , no Carper be : Least , as thou Carp'st at them , they Carpe at thee . Or thus , 8 Skoffe not at that , which others doe or say : Least others thee , in thy owne mony pay . 9 Quod tibi sors dederit , tabulis suprema notato : Augendo serva ; ne sis quem Famalequatur . 9 The stocke , and state , thy friends have left to thee : Keepe and Encrease , least thou a By word be . 10 Quum tihi Divitiae , superant in fine senecta : Ecclus. 14. 13. 17. & . 33 27. Munificus facito vivas , nonparcus amicis : 10 When life neere spent , thou still hast riches store ; See thou be liberall ; and give almes the more . Or thus . 10 When thou hast more , then thy old life can spend : Be franke , t is fit , thy Goods end , with thy end . Or thus , 10 When extreame old , thou art extreamely rich : Let bounty make it knowne , that thou art such . Or thus , 10 When Death now threats , to take thy Goods from thee ? Doe thou take them from Death : and Bounteous be . Or thus , 10 Since wealth skornes not , thy Age to wayte upon : Place it , where it may live , when thou art gone . Or thus , 10 Since Fortune hath thee , all thy life attended : Cast her not off , but to some friends Commended . Or thus . 13 Though Fortune stay , to bring thee to Deaths doore : Yet manners learne ; and take thy leave before . Or thus , 10 When thou art come , with riches nere the Grave : Loose not the benefit , thy Almes Deeds may have . Or thus , 10 When life neere spent , thou hast still store of wealth : Let charity , make way , for thy soules health . Or thus , 10 When Goods in Almes , are well destributed : One seemes to hold them still , when he is Dead . Or thus , 10 What I gave , that I have : One writ on 's Grave : Then old and Rich ; Give , that thou still mayst have . 11 Vtile Consilium Dominus ne despice servi : Nullius sensum , si prodest , tempseris unquam : Ecclus. 10. 25. 11 Good counsaile , from a servant never slight : What matter , who : so what is said , be right . Or thus , 11 Skorne not a servant to be thinet Adviseer : A Foole sometimes , see● more then one thats wiser . 12 Rebus & in censu , sin●n est , quod fuit ante : Ecclus. 2. 4. & ●9 . 23. Fac vivas Contentus eo , quod tempora pr●bent . 12 If Fortune have thy Goods throwne over boord : Yet live content , with what the times affoord . Or thus , 12 If thy Estate be not as it hath beene : Yet be Content , and try , what time will winne . Or thus , 12 In fall of Goods ; to fall in Heart , Disdaine : But be content ; woods cut , may grow againe . Or thus , 12 If Fields and Fermes , thou hast lesse then have beene : Then Patience hath a Field more , to walke in . Or thus . 12 If Fortune be growne pinching in her wrath : Then cut thy co● , according to thy cloth . Or thus , 12 If Fortuen give thee lesse , then she hath done : Then make lesse fire ; and walke more in the Sunne . Or thus , 12 Never make wonder , at Moone Fortunes change : if change she should not ; That would be more strange . Or thus , 12 What s Fortune but a Moone ? sometimes i' th wayne : Sometimes at Full : nere constant in one veyne . Or thus , 12 If Fortune powre upon thee all her Gall : Yet patience hath a spleene , will hold it all . Or thus , 12 If all the weights of Fortune , on thee fall : Yet patience hath a backe will beare them all . Or thus , 12 The Burden of Misfortune , never feare : No Burden's great , that patience helpes to beare . Or thus . 12 At losse of worldly Goods , never looke pale : It is but a high winde , turn'd to a Gale . Or thus . 12 Why should the change of Fortune , make thee pale : Thou dost but leave the Hill , to walke i' th Vale. Or thus , 12 If Fortune , of her Ankers , have thee ridde , Patience can make an Anker of a thridde . Or thus , 12 When thou hast lesse than that thou hadst before : If thou canst'o●e content : thou hast the more . Or thus , 12 Content is all , we ayme at , with our store . If that be had with little , what needes more ? Or thus . 12 Content is great ; though little bee the meate : The Great in Little , makes the Little , Great . 13 Vxorem f●ge , ut ducus sub nomine Dotis , 〈…〉 Nec retinere v●lis , si coeperit esse molesta . 13 Take heed thou marry not a wife for Portion : Nor keepe her longer than she keepes proportion . Or thus . 13 Take not a wife for wealth : or if thou doe , If once she grow insulting ; let her goe . 14 Multorum disce exempl● , qu● Facta sequaris , Tit. 2. 7. Pro. 21. 11. Quae fugias ; ●ita est ●●bis alien● , Magistra . 14 By others learne , what to Embrane , or shunne : Their lives may be our guides , what course to runne . Or thus . 14 by others , take example , what is Errour , And what is right ; their lives may be our Mirrour . Or thus . 14 No schoole can better teach us what t' embrace , And what to 〈◊〉 , than others shame or Grace . Or thus , 14 Make other men thy patternes ; what to follow , And what to Flie● their lives are out Apollo . 15 Quod potes id tentato , ●p●ris in pondere pressus Succ●●bat labor , & frustra tent at a relinquas . 15 Take no more on thee , than thou canst performe : Least fainting under it , thou leave with Skorne . Or thus , 15 Attempt but what thou canst ; least in the race Thou faint and tire ; and leave it with disgrace . Or thus , 15 Attempt but what thou canst ; least thou be faine To turne in at the Signe of Labour in vaine . Or thus , 15 Undertake not too much : least without thanke , Thou prove thy selfe a bragging Mountibanke . Or thus , 15 Strive not above thy strength : least thou be glad To take such Pay as Babell's Workmen had . 16 Quod nosti hand recte factum , Lev. 5. 1. nolite ●ilere : Ne videare malos imit●rt velle tacendo . 16 Conceale no Deed thou knowest to be naught : Least , for concealing , thou as bad be thought . Or thus , 16 Conceale not what thou justly dost mislike : Least thou be thought , as like to doe the like . Or thus , 16 Silence consents : 't is therefore necessity To tell mens faults , least thou be Accessary . Or thus , 16 Conceale not what thou knowst ill done : Concealing In Acts Fellonious , is as bad as stealing . Or thus , 16 Conceale not mens ill doings : least men Read Thy Will as wicked as the others Deed. Or thus , 16 Sylence may make an Innocent be guilty ; If it conceale mens doings , that are filthy , Or thus . 16 Conceale not mens ill Deeds ; least thy Concealing Make thee be thought as bad , as them their Dealing . Or thus . 16 If thou a Theft know ; let it be reveal'd : A Theefes Concealour , is a Theefe conceal'd . 17 Iudicis auxilium , sub iniqua lege rogato : Ipsae etiam leges cupiunt vt iure regantur . 17 From wrong of Law ; seeke to the Iudge , for Right : For even the Lawes require an oversight . Or thus , 17 Wrong'd by the Law , Implore the Iudges might : It is the Lawes owne suit , to bee set right . Or thus , 17 Appeale thou to the Iudge : from the Lawes spight : For even the lawes themselves appeale to right . Or thus , 17 Fly to the Iudge , when thou art wrong'd by law : For even Law must it selfe , be kept in awe . Or thus , 17 When Law would strike , the Iudge may be a shield : The Dumbe Law , to the speaking Law tnust yeeld . Or thus , 17 When Lawes doe freeze , the Iudges Hearts may thaw : And Iudges are a Law , even to the Law . Or thus . 17 When Lawes are harsh ; the Iudges must be milde : Else , all Humanity will be Exil'd . Or thus , 17 No Law can be a Rule , so streight and iust : But it may Rule awry ; If Iudges lyst . 18 Quod merito pateris , patienter perfer id ipsum : Quum que reus tibi sis , ipsum te Iudice Damna . 18 What thou deservst to beare ; beare without grudge : And Guilty to thy selfe , Be also Iudge . 19 Multa legas facit● : Perlectis , perlege multa : Nam Miranda canunt , sed non Cr●denda Poetae . 19 Read much , and much read ; Read much more ; In briefe : Poets are all for wonder , not beleefe . Or thus , 19 Read much ; and much read ; Read it againe : Indeed Poets speake strange things , but not alwayes Creed . Or thus , 19 Read more and more : and still Reade more : and know , Poets tel wonders , but not Gospell though . Or thus , 19 Never give over Reading by thy will : Poets sing sweet ; but above Ela still . Or thus , 19 Never give over Reading , nor forbeare it . Though Poets tell thee wonders , Doe not sweare it . Or thus , 19 Be Reading still ; and never shut thine Eyes : Poets tel Tales , are neither Truths nor lies . Or thus , 19 Be Reading still : Poets can give a passe , To that shall never be , nor ever was . Or thus , 19 Thy Bookes and thee , let nothing part asunder : In Poets mouthes , A miracle is no wonder . 20 Inter Convivas , Ec●lu● 31. 7 , 8 , 9. fac sis sermone modestus : Ne dicare lrquax , dum vis ●rbanus haberi , 20 Amongst Ghests at a Feast , be no Debater : Least seeking praise of wit , thou prove a prater . Or thus : 20 When thou art at a Feast , much talke refraine : Leaft thou be thought , to have more Tongue , then brain Or thus , 20 When thou art at a Feast ; forbeare much talke : Men come not thither , to heare thy Tongue walke . 21 Coniugis Iratae noli tu verba timere : Nam struit infidias lachrymis , quum faemina plorat . 21 Let not the Angry words of thy wife fray thee ; T is when a woman weepes , she meanes to pay thee . Or thus , 21 Feare not thy wifes hot words : t is womans guise : Plaine , when she plaigues ; deceitfull , when she cries . 22 Vtere quaesitis , sed ne vide aris abuti : Qui sua consu●unt , quum D●st , aliena sequuntur . 22 Abuse not thy Estate , with riotous dealing : For , Riot wounds with want ; want cures with stealing . Or thus , 22 Vse thy Estate ; but Foole it not away : Turn'd out of all ; Men turne to Birds of prey . Or thus , 22 Use ; but with temper : that which thou hast got : No Leech like One , that had ; and hath it not . Or thus , 22 Vse that thou hast ; but Use it with discretion : Evacuation's madde , for new Repletion . Or thus , 22 Use thy Estate ; but give it not the slippe : Want makes the Old wife tro●t , the Young wife trippe . Or thus , 22 Be not prof●se in spending : when all failes , Men live not by their hands , but by their Nailes . Or thus , 22 Use that thou hast , but make no wilfull waste : All gone ; men turne to Cannyballs at last . 23 Fac tibi propanas , M●rtem non esse timendam : Quae bona si non est Finis tamen illa malorum . 23 Resolve ; of Death , no feare is to be had : Which , though not good ; yet Ends all that is bad . Or thus , 23 Where Death is feard ; it seemes not understood : Is not the End of Evils , a Ioyfull Good ? Or thus , 23 Be not afraid of Dying : hast not thou Good Cause to welcome that , brings th' Olive bough ? Or thus , 23 Who would feare Death ? which though an End it be : Yet not of Vs , but of our Misery . Or thus , 23 Soule brought a Bed of Body , and Delivered , Is Death : Is not hee , that feares this , white liverd ? Or thus , 23 Death is an End , These following follow Cato , but go a Christian step be●ond him . and a Beginning too : As that ; not ill : as this ; a thing we woe . Or thus , 23 This one thing were enough to raise deaths price : That , ther 's no way but it , to Paradise . Or thus , 23 These Goods are onely in Deaths Cabbin kept ; All weeping , left : all weeping past , unwept . Or thus , 23 With this account , all feare of Death is fled ; To live as long as live ; and longer , Dead . Or thus , 23 Be this thy mindes , both quietnesse and strife : To make thy life a Grave ; thy Grave a life . Or thus , 23 Make life a Grave ; by being dead to sinne ; The Grave , a life , by Hope to Rise agen . Or thus , 23 This I resolve ; and let the houres fly ; To live upright ; and if I dye , I dye . 24 Vxoris linguam , si frugi est ● ferre memento : Nomque malum est , te nolle puti ; hanc non posse tacere . 24 Beare with thy wifes Tongue , if her truth thou see ; Why should she , silent ; Thou not patient be ? Or thus , 24 If thy Wifes Tongue be all , as well she may Thy Patience aske ; as Thou , her silence pray . 25 Aequa diligito caros pietate parentes : Nec matrem offendas , dum vis banus esse parenti . 25 Love both thy Parents , Ecclus. 3. 8. & 7. 27. in an equall measure : Displease not one , to doe the other , pleasure . Or thus , 25 Love equally thy Father , and thy Mother : And doe not scratch the one ; to claw the other .
Liber Quartus . DEspice Divnias , Eccle. 5. 10 11. 1● . lam . 5. 1. 2. Pro. 23. 4. 5. 1 Tim 6. 9. Ecclus. 31. 1. 5. & 40. 18. si vis anime esse beatus : Quas qui suspic●●● , 〈◊〉 semper a●ari . 1 Scorne Riches , if to happinesse thou aspire : Who Riches love , are Beggers in Desire . Or thus . 1 Scorne Riches ; if a faire life thou desire ; Monies admirers , live but in the mire . Or thus , 1 This were enough , to prove Riches accurst ; If nothing else : They make men still athirst ; Or thus , 1 Happy , who riches from his Heart removes ; And wanting , needs them not ; nor Having , loves . Or thus . 1 Who would Imagine , rich men Beggers were ? Yet so they are , still craving ; still in feare . Or thus . 1 It need no riddle be , whereat to stagger : A man may be a Richman ; Yet a begger . Or thus , 1 Riches consist not , in the having store : But in the having no desire to more . Or thus , 1 Beggery consists not , in an empty chest ; But in an empty minde , that cannot rest . Or thus , 1 To be an Actuall Begger , is a curse : Yet the Habituall begger , is the worse . Or thus , 1 The Actuall begger , may be helpt by having : Th' Habituall cannot : still more had , more craving . Or thus , 1 The Actuall begger , doth but want at worst : Th' Habituall wants it more ; because more thirst ; Or thus , 1 A begger wants but that , which he hath not ; But rich men want , even that which they have got . Or thus , 1 A begger hath much paine , a rich man more : Hee , but of want : They , both of want , and store . Or thus , 1 If happinesse thou love , then love not Riches , For such mens minds , are never without stitches . Or thus , 1 Our bodies turne to earth , if Death arrive : Because we turne our mindes , to earth ; alive . 2 Comm●da Natura , Ecclus. 31. 19. 20. & 40. 18. nullo tibi tempore deer unt : Si fue t is contentus eo , quod postulat vsus . 2 Natures supplyes , shall never faile to thee : If with things needfull , thou contented be : Or thus . 2 Enough for Nature , thou shalt alwayes finde : If thou to nature 〈◊〉 conforme thy minde . Or thus . 2 Your store will alwayes Natures want exceed : If you can thinke , you want but what you need . Or thus , 2 If thou art not content , unlesse have store ; Thou wouldst not be content ; If thou hadst more : Or thus , 2 Little is store to one content : and store , Is little to him , that still longs for more . Or thus , 2 Nature gives all men , a sufficient lot : But they runne after Toyes , and soe it not . Or thus , 2 If Natures treasures , thou desire to finde : Search not the Mines of India , but the mind . 3 Dilige Denari , sed parce Dilige formam : Que●● Nemosanctus , nec hon●stus captat ab are . 3 Love Monies forme , but loue it not too much : Which no good man , lov'd ever for the touch . Or thus . 3 The forme of mony Love ; but not the stuffe : Much is too much ; a little is enough . 4 Quum sistincuatus , nec Remratione gubernes : Noli Fortunam quae non est , dicerec aecam . 4 When thy affaires succeede not to thy mind : Say not , that Fortune , which is not , is blind . Or thus , 4 When thou by thy improvidence art orethrown : Accuse not Fortunes blindnesse , but thine owne . Or thus , 4 Accuse not Fortune , if thy state decline : Fortune is not too blame , the fault is thine . Or thus , 4 'T is blindnesse , to thinke Fortune blind , and not That we are blind , when we have blind mens lot . Or thus , 4 What we call Fortune , is not hap , or chance : But good our care : Bad , our misgovernance . Or thus , 4 Fortune 's no word of Cause , but of Event : The cause our selves ; then let our selves be shent . Or thus , 4 Fortune , Adverse or prosperous , never call ; Vpon our owne legs , we must Rise or Fall . Or thus , 4 Fortune , thy state can neither make , nor marre : Our selves the Forgers of our Fortunes are . Or thus , 4 Events successfull , or Adverse betide us : As we have cleere , or dimmer Eies to guide us . Or thus , 4 Fortune is never blinde , if thou have Eyes : Nor ever sees , but when thy selfe art wise . 5 Quum fu●ris faelix , Ecclus. 30. 14. 15. 16. Corpus curare memento : Aeger Dives habet ●●m●es ; se non habet ipsum . 5 Regard thy Body , more then worldly pelse● A sicke rich man hath mony ; not himselfe . Or thus , 5 Breferre thy body , before worldly wealth ; Riches are of a lower fourme , then Health . Or thus , 5 To gather Riches , Doe not hazard Health : For truth to say ; Health is the wealth of wealth . 6 Verbera quum t●leris , Discens aliquando magistri : Fer Patris ingenium , quum verbes exit in Iram . 6 Since thou at Schools , wert by thy Master beaten : Thy Father beare , when Anger makes him threaten . Or thus , 6 If of a Master , thou hast blowes abidden : Then of a Father grudge not to be chidden . 7 Res age quae prosunt , Rurs●s 〈◊〉 memento , In queis Error inest ; nec spes est certa laboris . 7 Seek wayes of profit : but tread not amisse : In wandring By-waies ; where no profit is . Or thus , 7 Looke after things of profit ; but take heed : Of Idle courses that no profit breed . Or thus . 7 Intend to things of value : but refraine All fond Designes ; where nothing's got but paine . Or thus . 7 Bestow thy time , in that may quit thy cost : But labour not in things , where labours lost . Or thus , 7 Set not thy rest up ; on things base and meane : Who ever knew a Sexton , made a Deane ? Or thus , 7 Who aymes not high ; shall never shoot but low : And then aswell , may cast away his bow . Or thus , 7 Who the Philosophers stone , 'to make , assay : Though misse the End : meere secrets , by the way . Or thus , 7 If things of worth and value be a●●aid● Though misse Penelope ; you may get her maid . Or thus . 7 Sow in good ground : what is in barren sowd ; Is seed ; and Time ; and labour ; ill bestowde . 8 Quod donare potes gratis , Ne ve●de roganti : Nam recte fecisse , bonis in parte lucrorum est . 8 To sell what thou canst freely give , refraine : Good men account good deeds the greatest gaine . Or thus , 8 Give freely what thou canst , rather then sell : Who gives to good men ; hath not he sould well ? 9 Quod tibi suspectum est ; confestim Discute quid set . Namque solent , primo quae sunt neglecta , nocere . 9 What you suspect ; search instantly to know : For , things at first neglected , worser grow . Or thus , 9 Vpon the first suspicion of a thing : Looke to it , least it get a stronger sting . Or thus . 9 What thou suspectest , search without delay : Evils neglected doe not use to play . Or thus . 9 Suspitions search , if safety thou desire : A sparke not look't to , may set House a fire . Or thus , 9 In all things be suspitious ; then Advise : Then doe according ; and then thou art wise . 10 Quum ●e detineat Veneris damnosa volupt as Indulgere Gulae noli , qua ventris amicaest . 10 When thou to Venus banefull play dost bend : Fly Gluttony , which is the Bellies friend . Or thus , 10 When thou art taken , with lusts banefull pleasure , Pamper not up thy Flesh ; which knowes no measure . Or thus , 10 The acts of Venery , and Gluttonizing : Are acts that have a certaine sympathizing . Or in a contrary sense : 10 When thou intendest Venus wanton play : Flie Gluttony , which lookes another way . Or thus . 10 The Acts of Venus , Lust and Gluttony : Are acts that have a plaine Antipathy . 11 Quum tibi proponas animalia cuncta timere : Vnum praecipi● tibi plus homine●● esse timendum . 11 Finde cause to feare all Beasts you easily can : But I advise you more , to feare one Man . Or thus , 11 Our feare of hurt , from Beasts , may be the least : Man is to man , a more Beast than a Beast . 12 Quum tibi praevalidae fuerint in corpore vires , Fac sapias ; sic tu p●teris vir fortis haberi . When Nature makes thee strong , make thy selfe wise : Both joyn'd , will make thee valiant in mens Eyes . Or thus , 12 When thou art strong , be wise too , if you can : These two , make up true valour in a man . Or thus , 12 Strength's Valors hand ; Wisdome his Eye ; 't were shame That Valour should be either Blinde or lame . Or thus , 12 Bodily Strength , and wisdome of the Minde : Where both these meet , there valour is in Kinde . 13 Auxilium a nobis petito , Pro. 27. 9. & 17. 17. Ecclus. 6. 14 , 16. si forte laboras : Nec quisqam milior Medieus , quam fidus amicus . 13 In thy Distresses , seeke thy Friends reliefe : A faithfull Friend is Physicke for all griefe . Or thus , 13 If thou be sicke , or sore ; or ill at ease : A faithfull Friend , is th' onely Hippocrates . Or thus , 13 Seeke to a Friend , where thy owne eyes be dimme : Blinde in thy selfe , thou mayst have Eyes from him , Or thus . 13 In thy Disaste●s , get friends to appeare : No Constellation hurts , if Friends be neere . Or thus , 13 A Friend is all in All ; in Beggry , wealth : In Danger , safety ; and in sicknesse , Health . Or thus , 13 Who ever saw a Phoenixe ? onely Hee : That hath a true Friend , doth the Phoenix see . 14 Quum fis ipse Nocens , Ecclus. 34. 19. m●ritur cur victima prote : Stultitia est , morte alterius sperare salutem . 14 Why dies a Beast , when thou commit'st the fault ? Can a Beasts Offering , be thy Ransom thought ? 15 Quum tibi vel fecium , vel fidum quaeris amicur● : Nontibi Fortuna ist hominis , Ecclus. 6. 7. & 37. 1. 6. sed vita petenda . 15 To take thy marke ; a faithfull friend to finde . Aime not at wealth ; but at the life and minde . Or thus , 15 In choosing of a Friend , observe but this : Regard not what hee hath , but what hee is . Or thus , 15 Choose Friends , as if a choosing sheepe you were : Looke to their soundnesse , not what wooll they beare . Or thus , 15 Thou must to goodnesse , not to Goods attend : Or else thou mayst have friends , but not a Friend . Or thus , 15 A faithfull friend is best knowne by this marke : He 's lesse discern'd i' th light than in the darke . Or thus , 15 When thou wouldst finde a Friend to sticke unto : Not Mannours make the man , but manners do . Or thus , 15 Never make doubt , what Friendship should be got : Wealth makes a Bowt ; but Vertue ties the Knot . Or thus , 15 A faithfull Friend is hard to light upon : All the rich men that are , can scarce make One. Or thus , 15 Where may we goe , to finde a faithfull Friend ? Whither ? but to Vtopia , or worlds End . Or thus , 15 If thou wouldst finde a Friend sincere and Simple : Looke him not at th' Exchange , but at the Temple . Or thus , 15 If thou wouldst finde a Friend without disguise : Looke not amongst the Wealthy , but the wise . Or thus , 15 To know a Friend , that 's more in Heart , than Lips : Marke him not in the Sunne , but in th' Eclips . Or thus , 15 Friendship and Wealth , have severall works to do . Friendship makes two , One ; and Wealth makes One , two . Or thus , 15 Friendship and Wealth , stay never long together : Wealth onely faire : Friendship likes any weather . Or thus , 15 What Friendship joyes in , that makes wealth to groane : Friendship will have a partner , wealth will none . Or thus , 15 A Reall friend a Cannon cannot batter : With Nom'nall friends ; a squib's a per'lous matter . Or thus , 15 This one mishap , all other farre exceeds : That we still trust to friends , Egyptian Reeds . 16 Vtere quaesitis opibus ; Fuge nomen Avari : Quo tibi Divitias , Eccles. 2. 24. & 3. 13. & 5. 18. & 9. 7 , 8. Ecclus. 10. 29. & 14. 3. 7. & 20. 17. si pa●per semper Abundas . 16 Vse thy Estate , bid Niggards name avant : What good doth wealth , if wealthy , still thou want ? Or thus , 16 Use that thou hast ; be not thy monies slave : What use to have ; if not use what you have ? Or thus . 16 Use that thou hast , and long not after more : What good doth store , if onely kept in store ? Or thus : 16 Use thy Estate , what art thou else the better ? What good doe Feete , if alwaies in a setter ? Or thus● 16 Use that thou hast , and be no Miser thought : To have and want , is greater curse than fault . Or thus , 16 A Misers Tenure hath a double curse : Active , it hath much ill ; Passive much worse . Or thus , 16 A Misers reckoning hath a double score : Hee doth much ill , and yet hee suffers more Or thus , 16 To have , and use it , are two severall Dowres : Either wee must have both : or neither 's ours . Or thus , 16 To want , and not to have it , is a curse : But yet to have it , and not use it , worse . Or thus . 16 Not having , but the using makes men wiser : Not wanting ; but not using , makes a Miser . Or thus . 16 Use that thou hast , 't is great skill to be able : To read how Miser , may spell miserable . 17 Si Famaus servare cupis , dum vivis , honestam : Fac fugias animo , Ecclus. 15. 6. & 41 , 12. qua sunt mala gaudia vitae . 17 If thou desire the Fame of a good Name : Then shunne those toyes of joyes , which soyle the same . Or thus , 17 If in the world thou wouldst have good Report : Then Flie the world ; and all the worlds vaine Sport . Or thus , 17 If in true Honour thou desire to Shine : Then all false Joies of life , thou must Decline . Or thus , 17 If in the course of Honour thou wouldst Runne : Thou must vaine sports , and all false pleasures Shunne . Or thus , 17 A good Name , is a sad and sollid Treasure : And Runnes from all them , that runne after Pleasure . Or thus , 17 A good Name is the Prize of Earthly Races : But is not got with running Wilde-goose Chaces . Or thus , 17 Looke not to have Fames Trumpet sound thy Name : And yet to have a St●mpet blow the same . 18 Quum sapias animo , Eccles. 8. 6. Noli videre senectum : Nam quicunque senet , puerilis sensus in illo est . 18 Scoffe not at Age : nor let it be revil'de : To mocke an Old man , is to mocke a Childe . Or thus , 18 Laugh not at those defects which Old age sends : In Childhood , life beganne ; in Childhood ends . Or thus , 18 When thou art young , mocke not Old folkes decay : They were as Thou ; and Thou shalt be as They. Or thus , 18 Who would mocke Children ? and Old folks are more : Twice Children , They ; Once now ; and once before . Or Thus , 18 Nature by Age , seemes to raise childhoods price : Which , other Ages once , makes Childhood twice . Or thus , 18 Childhood so harmelesse is : Middle Age so vaine : That Nature makes Old age turne Childe againe . Or thus , 18 Who scoffe at Age , scoffe at their owne Desire : For who that lives , but doth to Age aspire . Or thus , 18 Let him that mockes Old age , this Doome sustaine : Either die Young ; or Old , be crackt in 's braine . 19 Disce aliquid ; nam qum subito Fortuna recessit : Ars remanet ; Prov. 4. 18. Eccles. 7. 12 Ecclus. 21. 21 , & 51. 28. Vitamque hominis non deserit unquam . 19 Get Knowledge : for when Fortune slips away : Yet Art stayes with thee , and will ever stay . Or thus , 19 Learne something : for when Fortunes trust deceives thee : Yet Art is as thy Heart that never leaves thee . Or thus , 19 Get Learning , for when outward things decay : Yet Art is neither Times nor Fortunes prey . Or thus , 19 All other things , like Flowers , are fading seene : Learning is like the Laurell , alwaies greene . Or thus , 19 Get Knowledge : Fortune takes what Fortune gives : Knowledge alone , in spight of Fortune lives . Or thus , 19 Get Knowledge , other things a man may lose : Knowledge is that , which once come , never goes . Or thus , 19 Get Learning ; other things are seas'd on daily : Art only's priviledg'd ; and feares no Baily . Or thus , 19 Get Knowledge , other things are but as Leases : Art onely is in Fee , and never ceases . Or thus , 19 Learne something : Wealth is of a casuall quality : Art onely hath a certaine Immortality . 20 Perspicito tecum tacitus quid quisque Ecclus. 7. 5. 7. & 4. 27. & 27. 7. loquatur . Sermo etenim mores & celat , & indicat idem . 20 Be silent , and observe what each man sales : For , speech mens manners , both hides and bewraies . Or thus , 20 If mens Conditions thou desire to know : Their Speeches marke : These them both hide and show . Or thus , 20 To marke carefully mens speech : Speech is a starre : Both hides and showes , what mens Conditions are . 21 Exerce studium , quamvis perceperis Artem : Vt cura , Ingenium ; Sic & manus adiuvat usum . 21 Practise thy Art , though th' art thou have already : As study makes thee know ; Vse makes thee ready . Or thus , 21 Practise thy Art still , though the Art thou knows , By study it was got , by use it growes . Or thus , 21 Practise thy art , though it thou understand : Care bred in it the braine ; use in the hand . 22 Multum venturine c●res tempera Fati , Iames 4. 14. Ecclus. 40. 2. Non meiuit M●rtem , qui scit contemnere vitam . 22 Much care not , to what destiny thou art borne : He feares not death , that can hold life in skorne . Or thus , 22 Be not much troubled , what Fates thee attend : He that can skorn● : life needs not feare his end . Or thus , 22 Care not , what time , Death shall dissolve this slime , He that scornes life , can die at any time . Or thus , 22 Care not what time , thy time of dying is , To one prepar'd , no time can come amisse . Or thus , 22 What matter is it , when or bow thou dyest ? Life 's not so goodly , when it is at highest . Or thus . 22 What 's life , that in it , we should place our joyes ? We eate , drinke , talke , walke , laugh , and all but toies . Or thus , 22 Life is to men , as it doth seeme unto them , They that are fond on 't ; much good may it doe them . 23 Disce , Ecclus. 8 , 9. sed a Doctis . Indochos ips● Doceto : Propaganda etenim rerum doctrina b●●arum . 23 Learne thou of Learned men : th' unlern'd of thee : So learnings Race , must propagated be . Or thus , 23 Let learned men teach thee : Teach thou , th' unlearned : In this sort , must the ship of Ar●● be sterned . 24 Ho● bibe quod possis , Pro. 23. 2● . 30. Ecclus. 31 29 , 25. 31. si tu vis vivere sanus : Morbi ca●sae moli , Nimiae est qu●●nque vol●p●● . 24 Drinke not too much ; if thou thy health intend : Every Excesse , hath some Defect in th' End . Or thus , 24 Drinke not extreamely if thou love thine ease : Every Extreme breeds some extreme Disease . Or thus , 24 Drinke what thou canst well beare : surfets to some , As well by drinking , as by eating come . Or thus , 24 Drinke moderately ; if health thou wilt maintaine : Excesse of pleasure breeds excesse of paine . Or thus , 24 Thinke not , to breake thy head , with Drinke is good : For , though it bleeds not , yet it teints the blood . Or thus , 24 Drinke serves the Bodies moysture to maintaine : When that turn 's se●v'd ; the rest but drowns the braine . Or thus , 24 Thy braines would shine , if washing every day , Did wash them cleane ; not wash them cleane away . Or thus . 24 Drinke , but in temper : Pleasure without measure , Brings thee at last , to measure without pleasure ? Or thus● 24 Drinke not too much : what man that were not vaine Would broach his mouth , to set a tylt his braine ? Or thus , 24 Drinke what thou c●●st well beare : for more then that Brings present madnesse ; future , God knows what . Or thus , 24 Drinke not too much : such Drinking will in Fyne , Have a worse skore , then paying for the wine . 25 La●d iris quodcunque palam ; quodcunque probaris : Hoc vide , Ecclus. 5. 10. ne rursum 〈◊〉 crimine damnes . 25 Dispraise not that , which thou hadst prais'd before : Least thou for lightnesse , be dispraised more . Or thus . 25 Seeme not to have two Tongues within your Head : By Contradicting , what before you said . Or thus , 25 Be not a weather cocke , to change thy mind , In praising , and Dispraising with the wind . Or thus , 25 To praise a thing at one ti●●e , and another To vilifie the same ; is lightnesse Feather . Or thus , 25 To Praise a thing ; and dispraise it againe : Is , with the Tongue , to play lege●demain . Or thus , 25 First to extoll ; then vilifie againe Shews both a gadding tongue ; and giddy Braine . 26 Tranquillis rebus , Iob. 24. 24. semper quae adversa cavate : Rursim in adversis , ●elius sperare memento . 26 In calmy times , take heed of stormes may rise : In stormie times , hope well , for calmer skies . Or thus . 26 Since Fortune of her wheele , is still a turning , Griefe , well may hope for joy , and joy feare mourning . Or thus , 26 On Fortunes lightnesse , set thou up thy rest , In wealth , to feare : in want , to hope the best . Or thus , 26 Nature , for two estates , hath given two passions , Hope , for dejectings ; feare for exaltations . Or thus , 26 Wealths Armes is feare : Wants , Hope : so want is best , In better Armes ; though wealth , in better Crest . Or thus , 26 When Fortune smiles , doubt it to be but hollow , And when she frownes , doubt not but smiles will follow . Or thus , 26 Thou maist give Fortune leave , to frowne a while , For having ●rown'd ; shee 'l turne about , and smile . 27 Discere necesses , Iob 32. 9. cuta sapie●●i● crescit , Ra●● d●tur longo Prudentia temporis usu . 27 Cease not to learne from this doth wise ●ome rise , Time without learning , seldo ne makes men wise . Or thus , 27 Cease not to lerne : wisedome by care doth climbe , He knows not much , that 's taught by onely time , Or in a contrary sense : 27 Cease not to learne : wisedome by care doth climbe , And then grows rare , when it is taught by time . Or thus , 27 Cease not to learne : that 's wisedomes first degree : Adde time to it , and then , 't will perfect be . 28 Parce laudato ; Ecclus. 6. 7. 8 , 9. nam quem tu sape probaris , Vna dies , qualis fuerit , oftendet amicus . 28 Praise not too fast ; for , whom thou oft hast praised , One houre will shew , on what weake ground t' was raised . Or thus , 28 Be spare in setting a Friends praises forth , For , till the try all day , al 's nothing worth , Or thus , 28 Praise not a friend too much : onely one day , Will tell more of him , then all you can say . Or thus , 28 Praise not too fast , thy praise may chance to run , Where thy friends worth , will scarce come creeping o● . Or thus , 28 Praise not a friend too much : least if you pay● His wages before hand ; he run away . Or thus , 28 Praise not a friend too fast ; it is not tho● , But time and proofe , that must his praise alow . Or thus . 28 Praise not a friend too much : a sadder wound May come by praises lost , then friend not found . Or thus , 28 Praise not too much ; left thou be forc'd in th' end : To eate thy words , and vomit up thy friend . Or thus , 28 Praise not a friend , upon bare intimation : There 's more belongs to proofe , then protestation . Or thus , 28 Make no post haste , to put friends in thy Creed . Many are friends in shew , but Few in Deed. Or thus , 28 You cannot count one happy , till he die : You must not count a Fri●●nd untill you trie . 29 Ne pudeat quae nescieris , Ecclus. 21 12. te velle d●c●ri : Scire aliquid , laus est ; culpa est , Nil discere velle . 29 What thou knowst not , thinke no shame to be taught : To know , is praise : no will to learne , the Fault . Or thus , 29 What thou knowst not , be willing to be taught : The will to learne , makes Ignorance 〈◊〉 fault . 30 Cum Venere & Baccho lis est , Ecclus. 19. 12. & 31. 27. 28 sed juncta voluptas : Quod blandum est animo complectere : sed fuge ●ites . 30 Venus and Bacchus , have both strife and joy : Avoyd the strife : The joy thou maist enjoy . Or thus , 30 In love and wine , there is both strife and rest : Thy part 's to part them : and then take the best . 31 Demisso tacitos animo vita●e ●●●●ento : Ecclus. 19. 26 , 27 , 28. & 27. 22. 23 Qua flu●non platidum est , for san latet ●ltius ●nda . 31 Offilent , solemne , sullen men beware : The streame runs smooth , where deepest waters are . Or thus ; 31 When you see men , that words and lookes can keepe , The stream tels what they are ; more smooth , more deep . Or thus , 31 The streame runs smooth where deepe ; and such is one , That saies not much , and lookes like Fryer Iohn . Or thus ; 31 Looke to such men , as looke deject and still : The still Sow alwaies eats up all the ●will . 32 Quum tibi displiceat rerum Fortuna tuarum : Alterius specta , quo sis discrimine prior . 32 When thy owne Fortune , seemes to thee a curse , Marke others ; see , what numbers there are worse . Or Thus , 32 Why shouldst thou grieve , or think thy own case strange , When most are such , with whom thou woulst not chang● ? Or thus , 32 If Fortune now give thee not thy content , Wert thou , as some are ; how should she be shent ? Or thus , 32 When thou conceivest , Fortune doth beshrow thee : Thinke , in what case are others , farre below thee . Or thus , 32 Thinke when thou envy'st others , thy superiours : How many envy thee , that are inferiours . Or thus 32 What needs the Moone with envy looke so pale ? Shee 's great to stars , though to the sunne be small . Or thus , 32 If nothing else content thee , yet this may : The Best , have better ; the worst , worse then they . Or thus , 32 All Fortunes Oddes , is by comparisons Eye , Looke up , or downe ; and thou art low , or high . 33 Quod potes , id tenta : nam littus carpereremis : Tutius est multo , quam velum tendere in Altum . 33 Strive not above thy strength : the shoare to keepe : Is safer farre , then launch into the Deepe . Or thus . 33 To deale in things above thy reach , Refraine : The shore is alwaies safer , then the Maine . Or thus , 33 Climbe not too high ; least thou endangerd be : Low bowes are strong ; but weake , at top o' th Tree . Or thus , 33 Thinke not thy forces , greater then they are : Conceit is able , Able-parts to marre . Or thus . 33 Let not presumption , worke thy owne deceit : No greater Mountibanke , then selfe-conceit . 34 Contra hominem iustum , Pro. 3. 30. & 22. 22. 23 Esay 19. 21 Ecclus. 35. 18. prave contendere Noli ; Semper enim Deus iniustas ulciscitur iras . 34 Seeke not to justle just men from their right , God never failes revenge , to vnjust spight . Or thus , 34 Strive not unjustly , against one that 's just , God takes his part ; and Answere it thou must . Or thus , 34 Let not just men , unjustly feele thee strong : God is himselfe , Revenger of all wrong . Or thus . 34 Wronging iust men , you wrong not them alone , God makes account , of their cause , as his owne . Or thus . 34 Be not unjustly , with just men at oddes , The cause is theirs , but the Revenge is Gods . Or thus , 34 Offer no wrong to iust men , though you might : God is a god of Vengeance , in their Right . Or thus , 34 By iust mens wrong , doe not Gods wrath procure , He strikes not alwaies soone , but alwaies sure . 35 Ereptis opibus , nolitu flere querendo : Sedg●ud● potius , tibi quum conting it habere . 35 Loosing thy riches , doe not fall a weeping : But rather ioy thou hadst them once in keeping . Or thus , 35 If thy goods be flowne from thee : doe not cry , But rather ioy , thou hadst them to let fly . 36 Est Iactura gravis , Ecclus. 19 10. quae sunt amittere damnis : Su● quaedam quae ferre decet patienter amice . 36 'T is great disaster , to loose all by losses : Yet for some friends , we suffer must some crosses . Or thus , 36 The losse is great , when all away is swept : Yet there are some things better lost then kept . Or thus , 36 It needs must grieve , to be with losses ●rost : Yet , what is lost for friends , is never lost . 37 Tempera longa tibi , noli promittere vitae : Quocunque ingrederis , sequitur Mors , Iob. 14. 14. & 21. 23. Ecclus. 14. 12. corporis V●br● . 37 Make to thy selfe , no Promise to live long : Death as thy shadow , followes thee all along . Or thus , 37 How canst thou Promise to thy selfe long life ; Which but a thred holds ; and Death holds the knife ? Or thus . 37 All Promises of Life , deceitfull are , Death 's nearer to us , then we are aware . Or thus , 37 While men their daies of life , are multiplying : They live not longer ; but are longer Dying . Or thus . 37 How can we reckon upon lifes Extent . That know not , what we have , till all be spent ? Or thus . 37 Why shouldst thou count thy life to be an Ell ; When if it reach to be a spanne , t is well . Or thus , 37 Death searcheth all our ports ; and when we thinke Our ship most sale ; we spring a leake , and sinke . Or thus , 37 This partiall Errour , on mens mindes is growne : They thinke Death , others case , but not their owne . Or thus , 37 We must Examples to our selves apply ; Such men dide young , or suddaine : why not I ? 38 Thure Deum placa : Vitulum sine erescat ●●tr● : No credas placare Deum , quum cade litatur . 38 Incense for Sacrifice : Leave calves for plowes ; Thinke not , thou canst please God , with bloudy Vowes . 39 Cede locum lasus Fortuna ; Cede Potenti : Ladere qui potu●t , prodesse aliquando valebit . 39 Give Fortune place : Give place to men in place : Who hurts thee now , may one day shew thee grace . Or thus , 39 Vaile to ill Fortune Vaile to men of might : Who wrong thee now , may after , doe thee Right . 40 Quum quid peccaris , Cas●●igata te ipse subinde : Vulnera dum sa●as , Dolor est medicina doloris . 49 For every fault , 〈…〉 some chastisement sustaine : In healing wounds , Paine is the Cure of paine . Or thus , 40 When faults are done ; let chastisement beginne : The Paine of pennance , cures the paine of sinne . Or thus , 40 Punish thy selfe , for every idle vaine : T will aske some rubbing , to get out a staine . Or thus , 40 Pen●ance for sinne , must not be counted v●yne ; No wound is cur'd but with some sence of paine . Or thus , 40 To every sinne , some chastisement impart : Men will be loath to sinne ; if sure to smart . 41 Damnaris nunquam post longum tempus amicum : Mutavit mores : sed pignor a prima memento . 41 Condemne not friends , whom long Experience proves . What if they Change ? Thinke thou of their first loves . Or thus , 41 Condemne no friend , that of Times sealing is ; Say he be chang'd ; yet thou hast Pawnes of his . Or thus , 41 Condemne no friend , whom often tride thou hast . Suppose he change : Thinke thou , of that is past . Or thus , 41 Condemneno friend , where Time gives Evidence : Say he be changed ; Thinke t is thine own offence . 42 Suspectus cave sis , Ecclus. p. 1. Ne sis miser omnibus horis : Na●● timidis & suspectis , aptissima mors est . 42 Be not suspitious , least thou alwaies cry : Suspitious men , and cowards , were best Dye● Or thus , 42 For men suspitious , there is no releife : Nothing but Death , can remedie their griefe . 43 Quum fam●los fueris proprios mercatus in vsus , Ecclus. 7 , 20 , Vt serv●s dicas , homines tamen esse memento . 43 When for thy use , thou buyest servants : the● Though slaves , thou call them ; yet know they are Men. 44 Quam primam capi●ndatibi est Occasi● prima , Ecclus. 4 , 20 , Nerursus quaer as quae iam neglexer is ante . 44 Neglect not the first opportunity : Lest it neglected , after neglect thee . Or thus , 44 Take hold of opportunity , before : Least offered and refus'd ; it come no more . 45 Morte repentina , Prov. 4. 17. noli gaeudere malorum : Felices obeunt , Ecclus. 8. 7 quorum sine crimine Vita est . 45 At bad mens suddaine dying , be not glad : Where life was good ; no kinde of death is bad . Or thus . 45 At bad mens suddaine Ends , doe not reioyce . The best men , cannot of their deaths make choice . Or thus , 45 Never reioyce , at bad mens suddaine death , What matter , in what for me , death stops our breath ? 46 Quum tibi sit eoniux , Ne Res & Fama laboret : Vitandum ducas Inimicum Nomen amici . 46 Having a Wife : Take heed of such a friend : That may thy Fame detract , and Fortunes spend . 47 Quum tibi contigeris , studio cogn●scere multa : Fac discas multa , et vita nil vell● doceri . 47 Having learned much ; learne more ; and shun as naught : 47 The Will of being unwilling to be taught . FINIS .
Faults escaped in Printing , correct thus .

IN the Epistle page 2. line 4. for next proceeding , read next praeceding . fol. 4. li. 19. Prayers read Paires . p. 18. l. 7. for word , r. world p. 49. l. 20. to the Phisitian r. to a Phisitian● f. 50 l. 6. Faults r. Falls . fol. 51. li. 13. T will be sore crossing out : re . T will be some crossing out . fo. 75. li. 11. a rich man more : r. yet rich men more . fo. 88. li. 17. To marke : blot out , Te : fol. 89. l. 4. bred in it , r. bred it , in .

In the quotations also there are Errours crept in , which if they be not blotted out to his hand ; I desire the Reader to blot out , as namely .

The quotation out of Ecclus. upon the 26 Distich , Lib. 1. The quotation out of Ecclus. upon the 2 Distich , Lib. 2. The quotation out of Ecclus. upon the 13. Distich , Lib. 3.

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