¶
The
Nosegay
of
Morall
Philosophie
.
Note
that
Q.
signifieth
Question
,
and
A.
Answeare
.
Q.
WHAT
is
the
parts
of
a
true
Christian
?
A.
Too
loue
and
honour
God
aboue
al
thinges
,
without
offending
him
in
thought
,
woorde
,
or
déede
;
and
his
neighbour
as
him selfe
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
most
pricketh
a
man
to
liue
well
and
godly
?
A.
To
think
stil
that
he
is
at
the
last
end
of
his
life
.
Q.
What
is
a
court
or
city
without
vertuous
men
?
A.
A
darke
night
without
any
Satrres
.
Q.
What
are
the
most
enemies
to
mans
life
?
A.
Anger
,
excesse
,
colde
,
corrupted
ayre
,
sorrow
,
trauell
,
vrgent
affaires
,
and
a
greate
familie
.
Q.
What
is
vertue
?
A.
It
is
an
harmonie
of
nature
,
wherein
all
good
thinges
accorde
,
and
a
true
ladder
to
mount
to
happines
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
want
that
an
humane
creature
can
haue
?
A.
Want
of
discretion
and
veritie
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
true
philosophie
?
A.
In
vertuous
liuing
.
Q.
What
is
that
doctrine
which
wee
should
necessarily
forget
?
A.
The
vice
of
reuengement
.
Q.
What
thing
is
that
(
aboue
al
others
)
which
the
older
it
is
,
the
better
is
?
A.
True
amitie
or
faithfull
loue
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
remedie
against
the
feare
of
death
?
A.
To
thinke
still
vpon
it
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
spite
that
a
man
can
doe
to
his
enemie
?
A.
To
excell
him
in
well
liuing
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
make
a
man
soonest
to
erre
and
to
be
deceiued
?
A.
To
speake
much
,
and
knowe
lyttle
;
to
spend
much
,
and
haue
little
;
to
presume
much
and
his
power
but
little
;
in
satiable
auarice
;
and
hope
to
liue
long
.
Q.
How
may
one
couertly
dispraise
a
wicked
person
?
A.
In
praising
him
,
and
extolling
him
too
much
.
Q.
What
is
the
chiefe
ground
of
our
saluation
?
A.
To
beleeue
in
God
the
father
,
and
in
Iesus
Christ
his
onely
sonne
our
Lorde
,
and
that
the
holy
Ghost
procedeth
from
them
both
,
without
whom
we
neither
thinke
nor
doe
ought
that
is
good
or
profitable
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
iniury
that
a
prince
,
iudge
or
gouernour
can
doe
to
good
men
?
A.
To
fauour
and
pardon
euill
men
.
Q.
What
is
a
mans
truest
freend
?
A.
His
wisedome
and
prudence
.
Q.
And
what
his
most
foe
?
A.
His
folly
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
principall
points
that
make
a
King
or
Prince
reigne
happily
?
A.
Liberalitie
and
Clemencie
.
Q.
Who
is
father
and
mother
to
wisedome
?
A.
Vse
is
father
,
and
Memorie
is
mother
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
is
easiest
too
learne
,
and
hardest
to
forget
?
A.
Vice
.
Q.
What
is
the
office
of
a
good
housholder
,
and
the
duetie
of
his
wife
?
A.
The
man
ought
to
cary
the
burthen
of
care
,
trauel
and
labour
:
and
the
wife
,
to
bee
faithfull
in
keeping
his
goodes
and
house
,
neate
,
patient
,
and
carefull
to
see
her
husbande
doe
well
.
Q.
What
was
the
reason
that
the
Philosopher
saide
,
a
man
was
more
at
safty
in
hauing
many
enemies
,
than
one
alone
?
A.
Because
in
hauing
many
,
eche
one
attendes
til
his
fellow
doe
the
first
mischiefe
,
and
none
will
begin
.
Q.
For
what
cause
saide
Diogenes
,
that
lame
and
diseased
persons
ought
rather
to
be
called
Lordes
and
maisters
,
then
the
whole
and
sound
?
A.
Because
that
beeing
attainted
with
sicknesse
,
they
rule
and
gouerne
their
pride
,
the
fleshe
,
the
worlde
,
and
all
vayne
glory
,
which
the
other
doe
not
.
Q.
Who
is
maister
of
the
couetous
?
A.
He
that
is
seruant
of
the
liberall
,
that
is
to
witte
,
Money
.
Q.
Who
are
those
men
that
haue
their
tongue
in
their
hearte
;
and
those
other
,
that
haue
their
heart
in
their
tongue
?
A.
The
wisemen
haue
their
tongue
in
their
heart
:
but
the
fooles
haue
their
heart
in
their
tongue
.
Q.
What
are
the
chiefest
vertues
to
be
required
in
a
man
?
A.
To
knowe
God
and
him selfe
,
and
to
keepe
silence
and
his
his
owne
counsell
.
Q.
Wherefore
is
forgetfulnesse
in
many
thinges
preferred
before
memorie
?
A.
Because
we
ofte
recorde
that
which
we
would
not
;
but
cannot
forget
that
which
we
woulde
.
Q.
Who
is
he
alone
,
that
one
may
iudge
and
say
hath
liued
as
long
as
he
would
?
A.
He
that
hath
killed
him selfe
through
dispaire
and
wilfully
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
pathes
that
conduct
a
man
to
pouertie
?
A.
Slouth
,
gluttonie
,
prodigalitie
and
mischaunce
.
Q.
Who
are
those
that
easily
get
fréends
?
A.
The
rich
,
the
liberall
,
the
pitiful
and
the
curteous
.
Q.
What
are
the
engins
traps
,
hookes
and
nettes
that
soonest
deceiue
and
take
man
?
A.
Faire
speech
,
great
giftes
,
desire
of
gaine
,
and
little
knowledge
.
Q.
What
are
the
fiue
thinges
requisite
in
a
common
weale
?
A.
These
:
aged
Schoolemaisters
,
vertuous
,
and
not
vicious
;
skilfull
Captaines
,
valiant
and
not
cowardes
;
learned
priestes
,
ruled
,
and
not
lasciuious
;
yong
Damzels
,
honest
and
not
dissolute
;
vpright
iudges
,
iust
and
not
corruptible
.
Q.
What
estate
is
that
which
maketh
wisemen
fooles
,
and
fooles
wisemen
?
A.
Marriage
.
Q.
What
thing
is
it
,
that
most
abateth
pride
?
A.
Tribulation
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
folly
should
we
iudge
best
?
A.
Alwayes
that
which
is
shortest
.
Q.
From
whence
springeth
all
malice
?
A.
From
lacke
of
knowledge
.
Q.
What
difference
is
betweene
a
Tyrant
and
a
good
prince
?
A.
The
principall
desire
of
a
tyrant
is
,
to
bee
serued
;
and
of
a
good
prince
,
to
be
beloued
.
Q.
What
onely
thing
is
it
that
cannot
ware
olde
?
A.
A
lye
,
for
it
must
needes
be
discouered
.
Q.
What
are
the
most
enemies
to
peace
,
and
chiefe
causers
that
we
haue
not
alwaies
peace
within
our selues
?
A.
Auarice
,
ambition
,
enuy
,
wrath
,
and
pride
.
Q.
By
what
meanes
chiefly
may
a
man
maister
and
rule
himselfe
?
A.
In
rebuking
that
in
himselfe
,
which
he
blameth
in
another
.
Q.
What
is
the
first
poynte
of
folly
?
A.
To
repute
himselfe
wise
.
Q.
To
what
art
or
sort
of
life
and
science
ought
a
father
to
aduance
and
put
his
children
?
A.
To
that
which
by
nature
they
are
most
inclined
vnto
,
being
in
this
worlde
profitable
,
and
in
the
other
worlde
auailable
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
thinges
which
most
vere
and
trouble
a
man
?
A.
Yre
and
enuie
.
Q.
To
whom
should
we
in
no
wise
vtter
our
secretes
?
A.
To
him
that
is
angry
,
when
we
pray
him
not
to
reueale
them
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
tokens
of
a
foole
?
A.
To
be
angry
too
much
and
without
a
cause
,
to
laugh
without
measure
and
vppon
no
occasion
.
Q.
What
beaste
is
that
which
byteth
most
venomously
?
A.
Of
wilde
beasts
,
it
is
a
backbyter
;
and
amongest
tame
,
the
flatterer
.
Q.
What
is
the
right
propertie
and
nature
of
Fortune
?
A.
To
feare
the
valiant
,
vertuous
and
couragious
:
and
foyle
the
verlet
,
vitious
,
and
coward
:
and
if
she
shewe
herselfe
fauourable
to
make
many
become
fooles
,
drunken
,
blind
and
puffed
vp
with
pride
.
Q.
How
should
a
maister
behaue
himselfe
with
his
seruantes
?
A.
Not
to
be
too
familiar
with
them
,
to
admonish
them
often
,
&
therwithal
not
to
discorage
them
from
doing
well
:
not
to
be
too
seuere
nor
too
parciall
,
but
to
consider
how
hee
was
vsed
himselfe
.
Q.
By
what
meanes
may
a
king
make
himselfe
a
Monarch
?
A.
By
good
counsel
,
eloquence
,
liberalitie
and
martiall
discipline
.
Q.
How
should
the
wiseman
liue
with
the
foole
?
A.
As
the
Phsition
doth
with
the
patient
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
remedy
that
a
man
can
vse
,
being
depriued
of
a
thing
,
which
hee
helde
deere
and
esteemed
?
A.
To
perswade
himselfe
it
is
not
lost
,
but
lent
;
or
else
payde
away
as
being
none
of
his
owne
,
but
borrowed
.
Q.
What
doe
most
men
now
a
dayes
in
the
worlde
?
A.
One
sorte
search
without
cease
,
and
find
nothing
:
another
sort
finde
so
much
that
they
are
wearied
,
and
yet
not
satisfied
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
way
to
auoide
surfetting
?
A.
The
rich
man
to
liue
soberly
,
and
the
poore
man
to
labour
diligently
.
Q.
How
should
one
behaue
himselfe
not
to
be
deceiued
in
this
worlde
?
A.
Eyther
to
flee
the
company
of
men
altogether
,
or
else
presently
to
dye
.
Q.
What
are
the
three
best
giftes
that
man
can
haue
heere
on
earth
?
A.
An
art
or
facultie
to
preuaile
against
Fortune
health
and
liuelines
of
his
body
and
person
,
and
lastly
vertue
&
force
of
his
minde
and
courage
.
Q.
Which
are
the
foure
purses
,
most
requisite
to
him
that
goes
to
law
?
A.
The
first
is
good
counsel
,
the
second
is
money
,
the
third
craft
and
subtiltie
,
and
the
fourth
diligence
and
patience
.
Q.
What
is
mans
life
without
doctrine
?
A.
A
tree
without
fruite
,
and
an
Image
of
death
.
Q.
Who
is
the
wisemans
gouernesse
?
A.
Patience
.
Q.
And
who
the
fooles
?
A.
Folly
.
Q.
What
are
those
thinges
amongest
al
other
that
merit
the
palme
of
inconstancie
?
A.
The
sea
,
the
winde
,
the
moone
,
time
,
loue
,
fortune
,
and
the
common
people
.
Q.
What
is
he
on
earth
that
most
resembleth
God
?
A.
The
iust
man
.
Q.
How
is
a
noble
and
valiant
courage
to
be
mainteined
?
A.
By
labour
,
exercise
and
trauell
.
Q.
For
what
cause
is
old
age
feared
so
much
?
A.
Because
shee
comes
ordinarily
accompanied
and
seldome
or
neuer
alone
.
Q.
What
shoulde
we
seeke
to
agyne
at
ech
mans
handes
?
A.
Their
fauour
and
freendship
,
that
can
neuer
hurt
vs
.
Q.
Why
is
man
,
aboue
all
wilde
beastes
whatsoeuer
,
reputed
most
cruell
?
A.
Because
being
(
as
he
is
often
)
inobedient
to
reason
,
he
exerciseth
his
cruelty
against
man
,
&
his
like
:
wheras
contrarie
the
Lyons
Tygers
,
serpents
,
and
such
like
,
are
freends
to
their
owne
sexe
,
and
not
enemies
.
Q.
What
effect
shoulde
worldely
welth
chiefly
haue
?
A.
To
free
their
possessours
from
labour
and
calamitie
.
Q.
What
force
or
efficacie
hath
knowledg
and
learning
?
A.
To
induce
the
good
to
waxe
better
,
and
the
ill
to
waxe
no
worser
.
Q.
What
is
he
in
this
worlde
that
can
doe
all
thinges
?
A.
The
only
vertuous
man
.
Q.
What
foure
thinges
are
those
which
ech
man
coueteth
to
get
and
no
lesse
desireth
to
preserue
?
A.
Health
for
his
person
,
riches
for
his
house
,
honour
in
a
common
weale
,
and
life
euerlasting
in
another
world
.
Q.
How
should
a
Prince
behaue
himself
towardes
his
Subiectes
?
A.
Like
a
good
Gardiner
,
that
gathereth
the
leaues
and
not
the
rootes
;
or
a
good
shepherd
,
that
keepeth
his
sheepe
carefully
from
the
woolfe
,
and
sheeres
them
at
time
of
the
yeere
,
not
cutting
their
skinne
off
.
Q.
What
are
the
elements
and
grounds
of
all
euill
?
A.
Enuie
,
pride
,
auarice
,
and
ambition
.
Q.
How
comes
it
to
passe
,
that
Phisitions
thinke
they
may
kill
their
patientes
without
reprehention
?
A.
Because
the
grounde
couereth
their
workinges
.
Q.
What
is
anger
or
furie
?
A.
A
certaine
briefe
kinde
of
rage
or
folly
.
Q.
What
lawes
were
those
which
Draco
commaunded
inuiolably
to
be
obserued
and
written
with
mans
bloode
?
A.
To
stone
Rogues
and
vacabounds
being
healthfull
and
ydle
,
and
to
put
to
death
the
vnthankefull
.
Q.
What
is
the
whole
course
and
propertie
of
mans
life
?
A.
To
be
borne
wéeping
,
to
line
laughing
,
and
to
dye
sighing
.
Q.
What
is
one
of
the
principallest
causes
why
regions
cities
and
prouinces
doe
rebell
often
against
their
Souereignes
?
A.
The
negligence
of
the
gouernours
,
who
in
place
of
shepheardes
and
good
kéepers
doe
commit
the
flocke
vnto
rauening
wolfes
and
gréedy
dogges
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
,
that
one
true
fréende
shoulde
wish
to
another
?
A.
Safetie
,
health
,
honour
,
&
prosperitie
.
Q.
When
wil
the
good
time
come
again
?
A.
When
wee
are
gone
,
and
good
men
in
our
places
.
Q.
What
is
the
spéediest
way
to
become
rich
?
A.
To
appouerish
the
appetites
,
and
bee
content
with
that
which
one
hath
.
Q.
What
is
frendship
?
A.
It
is
(
saith
Cicero
)
the
Sunne
of
the
worlde
,
without
the
which
the
whole
worlde
should
lye
in
darkenes
and
without
order
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
way
to
become
euery
day
better
and
better
?
A.
To
enquire
of
wisemen
and
our
familiars
what
folkes
say
of
vs
:
and
if
they
praise
vs
rightly
,
to
perseruer
(
without
being
proud
of
it
)
in
well
doing
;
if
not
,
to
amende
our
life
,
and
make
that
they
may
say
well
of
vs
.
Q.
What
is
the
chiefest
refuge
that
an
offender
still
hath
?
A.
To
sweare
and
lye
.
Q.
From
whence
procéedeth
now
adaies
such
aboundance
of
wicked
persons
and
wickednes
in
the
world
?
A.
From
the
lacke
of
good
persons
and
goodnes
.
Q.
Who
is
the
particular
Emperour
and
guyde
of
euery
mans
lyfe
?
A.
His
owne
conscience
and
vnderstanding
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
gifte
,
and
torment
that
a
man
can
giue
his
enemie
,
in
reconciling
him selfe
to
him
in
amitie
?
A.
To
giue
him
his
daughter
in
marriage
,
to
the
ende
that
shee
may
torment
him
:
which
hapneth
ofte
among
princes
.
Q.
Of
what
value
ought
a
prince
his
woorde
too
be
?
A.
Of
that
value
that
a
priuate
mans
othe
should
be
.
Q.
What
may
a
mans
body
most
properly
be
called
?
Q.
The
sheath
or
cace
of
the
Soule
,
the
slaue
or
seruant
of
the
minde
,
vnder
whose
subiection
God
,
nature
,
&
reason
,
haue
put
him
as
a
thing
altogether
brutall
too
a
thing
of
vnder
standing
,
and
a
thing
mortall
to
a
thing
immortall
.
Q.
What
disease
doe
meates
being
too
hoat
,
commonly
ingender
?
A.
The
leprosie
and
a
corruption
of
blood
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
armour
to
attain●
to
vertue
?
A.
Labour
,
hunger
,
thirst
,
heate
,
colde
,
confrancie
,
Patience
,
and
perseuerance
.
Q.
What
is
iustice
?
A.
It
is
a
great
honour
and
glory
to
them
that
vse
it
,
and
a
great
gaine
to
them
to
whom
it
is
vsed
.
Q.
To
what
may
the
whole
vulgare
people
be
compared
?
A.
To
a
greate
beaste
hauing
innumerable
seete
,
and
no
heade
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
rule
that
a
man
may
holde
with
his
wife
?
A.
To
admonish
her
often
,
to
reprehende
her
seldome
,
neuer
to
lay
handes
on
her
,
but
if
shee
be
good
to
fauour
her
,
to
the
ende
that
shee
may
continue
so
;
and
if
shee
be
euill
,
to
suffer
her
,
to
the
ende
that
shee
waxe
not
woorse
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
and
surest
guard
that
aprince
can
haue
?
A.
The
loue
of
his
subiectes
.
Q.
Why
doeth
one
man
beare
enuie
too
another
?
A.
Because
(
sayth
Cicero
)
he
is
not
as
the
enuied
is
,
&
that
the
enuied
is
better
then
he
.
Q.
What
are
those
thinges
(
amongest
all
other
)
which
wee
shoulde
in
no
case
haue
affiance
in
?
A.
In
the
chaunce
of
the
dice
,
in
olde
prosperitie
,
in
cloudes
in
the
Summer
,
or
faire
weather
in
the
winter
,
nor
in
the
beutie
of
a
woman
.
Q.
Wherin
consisteth
humanitie
chiefly
?
A.
In
gentle
speech
,
In
curteous
déedes
,
and
fréendly
hospitallitie
.
Q.
What
is
an
olde
man
amorous
?
A.
A
knight
in
the
Chesse
play
who
helpeth
a
man
to
loose
his
money
,
and
yet
cannot
deliuer
him
from
perill
:
others
say
that
he
is
like
vnto
a
hog
with
a
white
heade
and
a
greene
tayle
.
Q.
For
what
cause
did
Timon
the
Philosopher
so
detest
and
hate
all
mankinde
?
A.
He
hated
the
euell
,
for
their
vices
and
offences
,
and
the
good
,
because
that
(
like
him
)
they
did
not
hate
the
euill
.
Q.
What
is
Idlenes
?
A.
The
diuels
Darling
and
a
familiar
enemie
,
who
when
he
is
once
entred
,
openeth
the
gate
to
all
vices
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
a
man
can
doe
without
learning
it
?
A.
Laugh
and
weepe
.
Q.
What
rule
should
one
obserue
in
conuersation
and
companie
of
men
?
A.
If
he
with
whome
we
be
conuersant
,
be
our
superiour
in
knowledge
,
it
behooueth
vs
to
heare
him
,
and
obey
him
;
if
he
be
our
equall
,
to
consent
and
agree
to
him
;
and
if
he
be
our
inferiour
,
to
perswade
him
fréendly
and
gently
.
Q.
In
what
place
is
silence
most
to
bee
obserued
?
A.
At
the
table
in
feastes
,
and
banquets
,
and
at
playes
.
Q.
What
signified
those
presentes
,
which
Darius
sent
to
the
Scithians
,
to
wit
,
the
Mole
,
the
frogge
,
the
birde
and
dartes
?
A.
The
mole
signified
the
earth
;
the
frog
,
the
water
;
the
birde
,
the
ayre
;
and
the
dartes
,
armes
.
Q.
What
are
those
abuses
which
most
corrupt
the
worlde
?
A.
-
The
Wiseman
without
Woorkes
.
-
The
Olde
man
without
Religion
.
-
The
Young
man
without
Obedience
.
-
The
Rich
man
without
Charitie
.
-
The
Poore
man
without
Humilitie
.
-
The
Greate
Lorde
without
Vertue
.
-
The
Christian
without
Fraternitie
.
-
The
Bishoppe
without
P●etie
.
-
The
Prince
without
Justice
&
mercy
.
-
The
People
without
Law
&
discipline
.
-
And
the
woman
without
shame
&
honesty
.
Q.
What
be
the
true
vertues
required
in
a
man
?
A.
To
be
a
good
Christian
,
iust
of
his
woord
,
and
secret
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
meane
,
to
knowe
the
qualities
of
a
man
,
and
whether
he
be
to
be
trusted
or
not
?
A.
One
must
consider
what
his
woorkes
,
conditions
,
woords
,
behauiour
,
and
fréendes
are
;
and
make
enquirie
how
he
hath
behaued
himself
in
times
past
with
those
with
whom
he
hath
practised
and
delt
,
and
whose
company
he
hath
vsed
.
Pares
cum
paribus
facillimè
congregantur
,
&
mores
dispares
disparia
studia
sequuntur
.
Q.
What
two
thinges
are
those
which
make
the
publike
weale
to
floorish
,
or
decay
?
A.
Vnion
,
and
dissention
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
Seigniory
or
gouernment
,
that
a
man
can
attaine
to
?
A.
To
gouerne
himselfe
,
for
it
is
a
more
vertue
for
a
man
to
bridle
his
affections
,
then
to
vanquish
his
Enemie
.
Q.
What
thinges
are
those
amongest
al
other
that
breede
most
ioye
in
the
hearse
of
man
?
A.
To
haue
wise
children
,
store
of
goods
and
reuenge
ouer
his
enemies
.
Q.
Why
are
the
Lawes
that
men
dec
make
,
compared
to
spiders
webs
.
A.
Because
if
little
Flies
come
,
they
are
easily
taken
,
and
holden
:
but
if
greate
Drones
come
,
they
passe
through
and
breake
all
.
That
is
to
say
,
Little
theeues
are
soone
taken
and
hanged
:
but
the
greate
are
so
strong
in
money
,
that
they
with
their
authoritie
and
freendship
breake
all
.
Q.
What
was
the
dayly
lesson
of
the
Lacedemonians
,
which
by
the
appointment
of
Licurgus
the
lawmaker
was
euery
day
published
,
to
the
end
to
be
wel
obserued
?
A.
To
honour
God
,
to
be
pacient
in
aduersitie
,
to
obey
the
rulers
,
to
apply
themselues
to
trauell
and
labour
,
and
to
returne
from
the
warres
either
conquerours
or
els
deade
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
vertue
that
a
Prince
or
great
Lord
can
desire
or
couet
to
haue
?
A.
To
be
alwayes
superiour
in
well
doing
.
Q.
What
be
the
properties
of
prudence
and
iustice
?
A.
Not
to
be
deceiued
,
nor
deceiue
no
bodie
.
Q.
What
be
the
twoo
prickes
that
incite
a
man
most
to
learne
artes
and
sciences
?
A.
Hope
and
loue
.
Q.
What
thinges
amongest
all
others
are
those
which
profit
a
man
most
to
thinke
least
of
them
?
A.
To
be
inquisitiue
of
another
mans
doinges
,
and
forget
his
owne
,
to
be
be
curious
to
know
the
secretes
of
princes
;
and
too
take
thought
for
foode
for
the
fishes
of
the
Sea
.
Q.
For
what
cause
is
the
qualitie
of
the
Peacocke
compared
to
the
nature
of
the
rich
man
?
A.
Because
the
peacock
commonly
climbeth
vpon
house
sides
and
high
places
,
to
plume
himselfe
and
shewe
his
faire
tayle
:
&
the
rich
man
commomly
searcheth
degrees
,
and
dignitie
to
be
seene
,
praised
,
and
esteemed
.
Q.
To
whom
is
not
Venus
hurtfull
?
A.
To
them
that
are
not
yet
borne
.
Q.
To
what
kinde
of
people
is
death
most
acceptable
and
least
fearefull
?
A.
To
the
afflicted
.
Q.
What
thinges
are
those
that
are
better
olde
then
newe
?
A.
Wine
,
Fish
,
Oyle
,
dry
wood
to
burn
,
an
olde
horse
to
ryde
,
and
an
olde
dogge
to
barke
,
and
aboue
all
these
an
old
fréend
,
and
approoned
.
Q.
What
is
a
fréende
?
A.
A
freende
is
another
ones
selfe
,
and
freendes
are
one
heart
or
one
mind
in
two
bodies
.
Q.
What
are
the
most
terrible
beastes
of
the
worlde
?
A.
Of
Forrests
,
hilles
and
dales
,
beares
and
Lyons
:
of
Townes
and
cities
,
flatterers
,
vsurers
and
backbyters
.
Q.
For
what
cause
did
Plato
,
say
that
when
fathers
are
riche
,
the
children
are
seldome
vertuous
?
A.
For
that
betweene
ease
,
and
aboundance
of
riches
,
vyce
commonly
(
not
vertue
)
doth
dwell
and
hath
residence
.
Q.
How
should
a
man
be
born
to
liue
happily
in
this
world
?
A.
Either
a
king
to
reuence
him
on
his
enemies
,
and
to
correct
vices
:
or
a
foole
not
to
know
what
sinne
meaneth
,
but
to
liue
without
thought
,
care
or
molestation
of
minde
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
and
greatest
rent
,
that
one
can
haue
?
A.
Sparing
:
and
if
our
goodes
bee
not
sufficient
for
vs
,
to
make
our selues
sufficient
for
our
goodes
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
path
to
bring
one
honour
and
renowme
?
A.
Alwaies
to
be
such
a
one
as
we
would
haue
our selues
esteemed
.
Q.
What
is
modestie
?
A.
A
right
moderation
of
our
appetites
,
obeying
reason
.
Q.
Who
is
he
aboue
al
others
that
may
be
estemed
rich
?
A.
He
that
is
least
couetous
,
and
most
consent
with
that
he
hath
.
Q.
Why
is
it
better
for
a
man
too
bee
iudge
or
Arbitratour
betwéene
twoo
of
his
enemies
,
then
twoo
of
his
fréendes
?
A.
Because
in
deciding
a
controuersie
betweene
twoo
of
his
enemies
,
he
shall
without
doubt
gain
the
fauour
of
the
one
of
them
:
whereas
on
the
contrary
part
he
shall
loose
the
fauour
of
one
of
his
freendes
.
Q.
For
what
cause
did
the
Philosopher
counsell
vs
to
take
rather
a
little
wyfe
than
a
great
?
A.
Because
alwayes
a
little
euill
is
better
then
a
great
.
Q.
What
is
it
that
maketh
a
prince
vnhappy
.
A.
To
think
and
perswade
himselfe
that
all
thinges
are
lawfull
for
him
,
and
to
giue
his
eare
to
parasites
and
flatterers
.
Q.
What
is
pietie
properlie
to
be
called
?
A.
It
is
the
honour
which
we
owe
first
to
God
,
next
to
our
country
,
and
then
to
our
parentes
and
kinsefolkes
.
Q.
What
is
corporall
beautie
?
A.
A
Tyrant
momental
,
a
stil
deceiuer
,
and
a
familiar
enemie
.
Q.
What
are
the
proper
titles
of
the
Sunne
?
A.
The
father
of
the
day
,
the
gouernour
and
eye
of
the
worlde
,
the
heart
of
nature
,
the
king
of
Starres
,
quickning
the
bodies
,
as
well
of
reasonable
as
vnreasonable
creatures
.
Q.
What
is
the
chiefe
let
that
a
young
man
cannot
be
wise
?
A.
Lacke
of
experience
.
Q.
What
are
the
fiue
enemies
to
peace
?
A.
Pride
,
yre
,
ambition
,
auarice
,
and
enuie
.
Q.
Which
are
the
best
helpes
to
come
to
dignity
?
A.
Counsell
,
eloquence
,
liberalitie
,
and
military
discipline
.
Q.
What
is
the
fairest
creature
of
the
worlde
?
A.
It
is
,
sayth
Aristotle
,
man
adorned
with
vertue
.
Q.
What
was
the
manner
of
the
Assyrians
in
marrying
their
daughters
?
A.
They
solde
the
fairest
at
the
sounde
of
a
trumpet
,
to
him
that
would
giue
most
,
and
with
that
money
they
married
the
foulest
,
so
that
it
cost
them
nothing
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
requisite
for
a
merchant
to
haue
?
A.
Money
,
credite
,
diligence
,
faire
words
,
and
keeping
of
his
promise
.
Q.
What
be
the
thinges
that
are
moste
requisite
in
a
woman
or
young
mayd
?
A.
Beautie
,
and
honestie
in
her
woorde
,
deede
and
attire
;
diligence
in
a
houshold
;
and
skil
in
washing
,
sewing
,
and
spinning
,
but
chiefly
in
holding
her
peace
.
Q.
What
are
the
best
manners
a
man
can
haue
,
and
most
easie
to
obtaine
?
A.
Liberalitie
,
and
truthe
in
woorde
and
déede
.
Q.
What
is
the
cause
that
little
folkes
are
sooner
angry
then
the
great
?
A.
They
resemble
heerein
little
chimneis
;
which
ordinarily
are
more
smokie
then
the
great
:
or
little
pistols
,
which
discharge
their
●●otte
sooner
then
great
cannons
.
Q.
What
are
the
poore
mens
riches
?
A.
Their
children
.
Q.
What
are
the
three
thinges
that
are
good
for
euery
man
?
A.
To
vnderstand
well
,
to
speake
better
,
and
to
doe
best
of
all
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
,
that
a
yong
damzell
should
chiefly
eschewe
?
A.
The
haunts
of
doores
or
windowes
the
familiaritie
of
spinners
and
launderers
,
and
to
giue
or
take
nothing
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
armor
that
a
man
can
weare
or
carry
?
A.
A
man
can
weare
or
cary
no
better
armour
then
faith
and
trueth
.
Q.
What
thing
is
without
comparison
far
greater
then
all
other
thinges
?
A.
The
mercie
of
God
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
why
mankinde
is
worthilie
compared
to
the
serpent
called
Vipera
?
A.
Because
the
nature
of
the
female
is
,
when
shee
feeles
her selfe
great
with
young
ones
)
to
bite
of
the
heade
of
the
male
:
and
for
her
desertes
,
it
comes
to
passe
that
the
young
dipers
to
reuenge
their
fathers
death
,
gnawe
themselues
out
of
her
bellie
.
Thus
if
the
father
suffer
,
the
mother
rests
not
vnpunished
,
and
in
fine
the
children
beare
their
share
,
and
it
comes
to
them
as
they
haue
deserued
also
.
Q.
Who
are
they
that
easily
get
frends
?
A.
The
faire
spolten
,
the
rich
,
the
liberal
and
the
curteous
.
Q.
What
are
the
whippes
,
that
excessiuely
torment
the
heart
,
and
abridge
the
life
of
man
?
A.
Enuy
,
excesse
,
and
the
losse
of
goods
by
vs
gotten
,
the
folly
of
freends
,
and
pouertie
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
may
be
saide
aliue
amongest
the
liuing
?
A.
A
man
amongst
wisemen
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
amongst
al
others
,
that
a
man
ought
to
obserue
and
commend
in
all
estates
and
times
?
A.
Not
to
waxe
proude
in
prosperitie
,
nor
dispaire
,
in
aduersitie
not
to
reuenge
ech
iniury
receaued
,
nor
to
enuy
and
fret
at
the
prosperitie
of
another
man
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
guides
which
lead
a
man
streight
to
the
Hospitall
of
pouertie
?
A.
Play
,
gluttonie
,
slouth
,
and
whordome
.
Q.
What
thing
is
more
necessary
then
fire
or
water
?
A.
A
true
freende
,
or
true
friendship
.
Q.
For
what
cause
is
it
better
to
fall
amongest
rauens
then
flatterers
?
A.
Because
rauens
only
feed
on
them
that
are
dead
,
but
flatterers
deuoure
them
that
are
aliue
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
people
ought
we
most
to
flee
and
haue
feare
of
?
A.
Those
that
haue
their
tongue
dipped
in
honie
,
and
their
hearte
in
gall
.
Q.
What
is
a
quiet
life
?
A.
A
dead
Sea
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
precious
ornament
that
a
young
maiden
can
haue
?
A.
Silence
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
principal
plagues
,
that
princes
ought
to
take
héede
of
?
A.
To
cal
their
owne
follies
and
rashnes
prudence
,
their
crueltie
iustice
,
and
to
fatten
themselues
with
the
miseris
and
calamitie
of
the
poore
people
and
to
fauour
flatterers
.
Q.
What
things
are
those
that
cannot
be
hidde
nor
dissembled
?
A.
Riches
,
loue
,
dolour
,
hate
,
the
cough
,
and
smoke
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
are
easily
and
neuer
gotten
againe
.
A.
A
woorde
once
spoken
,
virginitie
and
tyme
.
Q.
What
ought
a
good
father
to
leaue
his
children
,
when
he
dyeth
?
A.
The
good
,
nothing
;
and
the
euill
,
lesse
:
For
the
good
childe
,
though
he
haue
nothing
,
yet
can
lacke
nothing
:
and
the
more
the
wicked
childe
hath
,
the
woorse
he
is
.
Q.
What
are
the
proper
goodes
of
the
bodie
?
A.
Health
,
beautie
,
force
,
nimblenes
,
and
a
ioyfull
olde
age
.
Q.
What
are
the
proper
euilles
of
the
bodie
?
A.
Sicknes
and
foulenes
.
Q.
What
are
the
goodes
of
the
minde
?
A.
Science
and
vertue
.
Q.
What
is
felicitie
?
A.
It
is
a
vertue
right
happie
.
Q.
What
are
the
diseases
of
the
Soule
?
A.
Vice
and
ignorance
.
Q.
What
are
the
diseases
of
Fortune
?
A.
Base
estate
and
pouertie
.
Q.
How
shal
a
maister
kéep
himself
from
being
angry
?
A.
In
remembring
that
he
shall
not
alwayes
be
serued
,
but
sontimes
serue
,
neither
obeyed
,
but
himself
obay
the
prison
of
the
body
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
the
Philosophers
call
Bacchus
the
foolish
God
?
A.
Because
he
makes
them
fooles
which
ouercharge
themselues
too
much
with
his
Septemb●ne
Licour
.
Q.
What
is
the
state
of
a
couetous
person
?
A.
Neuer
to
haue
rest
,
but
to
be
alwaies
an
hungred
and
vnsatisūied
.
Q.
What
is
the
infallible
gaine
that
sluggardes
and
sleepers
incurre
?
A.
They
liue
in
sinne
,
and
dye
(
that
is
to
say
,
sleepe
)
without
profit
.
Q.
What
sauce
dyd
the
Lacedemoniens
best
like
with
their
meate
?
A.
Hunger
,
thirst
,
trauell
,
sweat
,
and
taking
of
paine
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
pernicious
thing
that
we
haue
in
our selues
?
A.
The
lone
of
our selues
.
Q.
What
are
the
wings
of
time
?
A.
The
past
,
the
present
,
and
the
future
?
Q.
What
is
the
best
art
and
most
necessarie
for
a
man
to
learne
?
A.
The
art
of
warre
.
That
is
to
say
,
like
a
Christian
to
warre
against
the
fleshe
,
the
worlde
and
the
Diuell
.
Q.
Why
doe
we
naturally
hate
pouertic
?
A.
Because
she
causeth
diuers
to
erre
out
of
the
right
way
.
Q.
Wherein
censisteth
true
philosophie
?
A.
In
strining
to
lyue
vertuously
.
Q.
What
is
a
chaste
and
honest
woman
?
A.
She
is
a
miracle
of
all
miracles
,
a
degree
of
immortalitie
,
a
crowne
of
triumph
.
Q.
Why
doe
olde
folkes
loue
their
rithes
so
well
?
A.
Because
they
had
rather
leaue
them
to
their
enemies
being
deade
,
then
in
their
life
time
be
in
daunger
of
their
fréends
for
them
.
Q.
What
is
the
first
point
of
wisdome
?
A.
To
know
ones
self
.
The
which
thing
howe
much
the
more
difficult
it
is
,
so
much
the
more
profitable
it
is
.
Q.
Wherein
differeth
the
angry
man
from
the
mad
man
?
A.
Surely
in
time
.
Q.
How
should
one
correct
the
ignorance
of
youth
?
A.
By
the
prudence
of
age
.
Q.
To
whom
is
pouertie
hurtfull
?
A.
To
him
that
cannot
beare
it
patiently
.
Q.
What
is
the
sauce
of
trauell
?
A.
Rest
.
Q.
Why
would
the
Carthaginiens
haue
all
their
Magistrates
rich
?
A.
Because
they
helde
opinion
,
that
hee
that
was
poore
,
coulde
not
minister
iustice
aright
.
Q.
What
is
anger
properly
?
A.
A
kinde
of
rage
and
folly
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
is
vndoubtedly
free
?
A.
He
that
is
not
a
slaue
to
his
owne
affections
.
Q.
What
is
it
that
makes
a
man
nought
?
A.
Too
much
libertie
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
,
which
are
seldome
seene
together
in
one
person
?
A.
Beautie
and
chastitie
,
wisedome
and
riches
,
youth
and
continence
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
cannot
speake
?
A.
He
that
cannot
holde
his
peace
.
Q.
What
is
true
liberalitie
?
A.
It
is
to
giue
to
the
needy
,
&
to
them
which
haue
or
doe
well
deserue
it
without
being
required
,
or
hope
of
any
recompence
agayne
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
deede
that
a
prince
can
doe
in
his
countrey
?
A.
To
exile
the
wicked
,
and
rewarde
the
good
.
Q.
Why
did
Alexander
the
greate
more
honour
his
schoolemaister
then
his
father
?
A.
Because
he
saide
he
had
life
of
his
father
but
fora
certaine
time
;
but
of
his
maister
,
for
euer
.
Q.
What
is
wine
?
A.
The
death
of
the
memorie
,
the
poyson
of
the
complexion
,
the
corruption
of
beautie
,
the
debilitation
of
force
and
vertue
,
the
bannishment
of
the
flower
of
ones
age
,
and
the
bloode
of
the
earth
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
Image
of
man
?
A.
His
speech
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
most
incite
vs
to
vertue
?
A.
The
loue
of
honour
and
feare
of
blame
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
make
a
publike
weale
to
floorish
?
A.
It
encreaseth
by
good
counsell
,
equitie
,
and
vnitie
:
and
dooth
decaye
by
disorder
and
dissention
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
Counsellour
of
all
others
?
A.
Time
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
liue
ioyfully
?
A.
In
putting
his
hope
in
thinges
vnperishable
.
Q.
What
are
the
téeth
of
time
whereof
he
consumes
all
thinges
?
A.
The
day
,
the
might
,
life
and
death
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
Nurce
of
power
?
A.
Vertue
:
for
where
she
is
,
there
must
power
néedes
be
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
bread
that
one
can
eate
?
A.
That
which
we
haue
laboured
or
taken
payne
for
.
Q.
Who
is
the
rich
man
that
onely
can
loose
nothing
?
A.
The
wise
man
.
Q.
What
is
humanity
?
A.
It
is
a
vertue
conioyned
with
good
affection
,
&
a
beneuolence
mingled
,
or
tempered
with
dexterity
.
Q.
Howe
shall
one
knowe
a
wise
man
from
a
foole
at
the
table
?
A.
As
he
shall
knowe
a
ful
caske
or
vessel
from
an
emptie
.
For
as
the
empty
one
maketh
farre
more
noise
then
that
which
is
ful
:
so
doeth
the
foole
make
more
babling
and
adoe
,
then
the
wiseman
.
Q.
What
title
doeth
the
good
payer
merite
?
A.
Magnaest
tua
fides
.
Greate
is
thy
fayth
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
requisite
to
doe
or
bring
any
thing
to
passe
.
A.
To
forecast
it
,
to
consider
of
it
,
to
determine
vpon
it
,
and
to
doe
it
.
Q.
When
is
the
time
too
take
a
wife
?
A.
For
the
young
man
not
yet
,
and
the
old
neuer
,
saith
Diogenes
.
Q.
Wherein
was
the
honestie
of
Socrates
most
apparantly
knowne
?
A.
In
hyding
his
heade
with
his
Cloake
,
when
he
hearde
euill
spéeches
vttered
.
Q.
Who
is
he
in
this
world
,
that
is
only
frée
from
flatterers
?
A.
The
poore
and
indigent
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
things
the
are
néedefull
and
requisite
in
all
works
?
A.
Knowledge
how
to
doe
it
,
power
able
to
doe
it
,
and
wil
to
be
ready
to
doe
it
.
Q.
From
whence
is
sprong
sparing
or
niggardnes
?
A.
From
ingratitude
.
Q.
What
is
the
hardest
thing
for
a
man
to
doe
?
A.
To
know
himselfe
,
to
vanquishe
his
affections
,
and
to
keepe
his
owne
secret
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
feare
?
A.
That
which
feareth
vs
from
dooing
euill
and
thinking
wickedly
.
Q.
What
is
dauncing
?
A.
A
kinde
of
folly
,
for
no
man
daunceth
fasting
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
thinges
that
a
man
should
meruell
at
?
A.
The
one
is
,
to
haue
founde
a
wiseman
;
and
the
other
is
,
to
see
him
angry
.
Q.
What
is
golde
?
A.
A
venomous
brightnes
.
Q.
What
is
flatterie
?
A.
A
suger
nette
.
Q.
What
is
death
?
A.
A
flight
from
the
perils
of
life
.
Q.
What
should
true
freendship
be
?
A.
True
freendship
ought
to
be
immortal
,
and
hatred
mortal
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
and
easiest
way
to
learne
to
speake
?
A.
To
holde
his
peace
,
and
heare
wisemen
.
Q.
Whereon
dependeth
the
price
of
a
Gemme
or
Jewel
?
A.
On
the
appetie
of
the
buyer
,
and
falshoode
of
the
seller
.
Q.
What
is
loue
?
A.
It
is
a
delicate
thing
gotten
with
great
difficultie
,
and
lost
easilie
.
Q.
Who
is
the
most
vngrateful
creature
of
the
worlde
?
A.
He
that
is
vngratefull
towardes
God
.
Q.
Why
haue
the
men
of
auncient
time
painted
loue
with
a
flower
in
his
one
hand
,
and
a
fishe
in
his
other
?
A.
To
shewe
that
he
is
Lorde
both
of
Sea
and
land
.
Q.
What
ouercomes
our
enemies
,
and
weares
away
al
griefe
?
A.
Time
.
Q.
What
is
loue
?
A.
A
maister
,
which
by
his
arte
draweth
one
likenes
to
another
without
violence
.
Q.
What
are
the
three
euilles
not
able
to
be
suffred
?
A.
Fire
,
water
,
and
a
woman
.
Q.
Of
what
is
prudence
composed
?
A.
Of
things
good
and
euill
.
Q.
What
is
prosperity
?
A.
A
stage
play
or
pastime
of
fortune
.
Q.
What
is
the
possession
that
is
least
sure
in
this
worlde
?
A.
Riches
without
wisedome
.
Q.
What
kind
of
beauty
most
delighteth
vs
?
A.
That
which
is
of
it selfe
naturall
,
and
without
arfe
.
Q
What
is
the
way
to
kéepe
good
men
safe
from
euill
?
A.
Distance
of
place
.
Q
Where
to
serue
riches
?
A.
To
ayde
the
good
,
and
hinder
the
wicked
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
ouercommeth
all
thinges
?
A.
Time
.
Q.
Wherein
lyeth
the
glorie
of
riches
?
A.
In
vsing
them
well
,
not
in
hauing
them
.
Q.
To
whom
doeth
a
man
ofte
become
bounde
,
and
yet
oweth
him
nothing
?
A.
To
him
vnto
whom
he
telleth
his
secrete
.
Q.
What
is
the
lightest
and
swiftest
thing
that
is
?
A.
The
heart
and
thought
of
man
.
Q.
Who
is
sister
to
Justice
?
A.
The
Lawe
.
Q.
Who
are
the
wisest
Liers
in
this
worlde
,
and
most
to
be
praysed
?
A.
They
(
saieth
Diogenes
)
which
tell
folkes
they
wil
be
marryed
,
and
yet
remain
single
.
Q.
What
is
that
wich
boyleth
without
fire
?
A.
A
youthfull
blood
.
Q.
Who
is
the
most
foole
in
this
worlde
?
A.
He
that
thinkes
himselfe
most
wise
.
Q
What
is
the
strongest
thing
in
this
worlde
?
A.
Necessitie
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
vice
,
that
a
vicious
man
can
haue
?
A.
To
be
shorte
in
trueth
,
and
large
in
lying
.
Q.
Of
what
essence
or
quality
are
mundane
riches
?
A.
They
are
gotten
with
care
,
preserued
with
feare
,
and
lost
with
dispaire
.
Q.
What
is
Sicknes
?
A.
The
scourge
both
of
body
and
soule
.
Q.
What
thing
soonest
maketh
a
merchantman
rich
?
A.
Credite
,
and
keeping
of
promise
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
in
giuing
receiueth
?
A.
He
that
giueth
to
the
deseruers
and
needie
.
Q.
What
is
a
medicine
against
all
mischiefe
?
A.
Patience
.
Q.
What
is
religion
?
A.
A
true
knowledge
of
the
seruice
of
God
,
with
good
obseruance
of
his
Lawes
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
soonest
depraueth
and
marreth
young
wittes
?
A.
Wanton
talke
and
yll
examples
.
Q.
What
are
those
dead
,
that
are
quicke
,
and
make
fooles
wisemen
,
causing
Asses
,
calues
,
and
sheepe
to
become
men
?
A.
They
are
bookes
replenished
with
good
admonitions
,
examples
and
preceptes
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
destroyeth
the
memorie
of
euill
?
A.
The
contemplation
of
goodnes
.
Q.
What
should
good
fathers
and
maisters
teache
children
?
A.
That
in
their
youth
,
which
they
would
haue
them
doe
in
their
age
.
Q.
Why
is
pouertie
of
some
men
had
in
great
commendation
?
A.
Because
it
maketh
men
industrious
,
watchfull
and
vertuous
.
Q.
What
number
of
freendes
or
enemies
should
one
haue
?
A.
A
little
number
of
freends
,
and
no
enemies
at
all
.
Q.
What
is
the
noblest
part
in
a
man
?
A.
Reason
,
for
by
the
same
he
doth
that
that
is
iust
,
and
deliuereth
him selfe
from
sinne
.
Q.
Whereunto
may
the
errour
of
a
maister
,
captaine
or
prince
be
compared
?
A.
To
a
shipwrack
,
or
a
ship
,
that
by
breaking
drouneth
himselfe
and
others
?
Q.
What
is
the
sharpest
weapon
that
is
?
A.
A
wicked
tongue
.
Q.
What
thing
is
most
delectable
?
A.
That
which
a
man
most
desireth
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
know
the
wicked
?
A.
By
comparing
them
with
the
good
.
Q.
How
is
the
vertue
of
a
man
tryed
?
A.
By
aduersity
,
as
golde
is
by
fire
.
Q.
What
is
the
property
of
an
honest
man
?
A.
To
knowe
how
to
doe
good
and
euill
:
good
,
to
the
good
;
and
euil
,
to
the
wicked
.
Q.
What
are
the
two
good
thinges
of
little
or
no
estimation
?
A.
The
beauty
of
an
harlot
;
&
word
,
wisdome
or
counsell
of
a
poore
man
.
Q.
Where
lieth
the
treasure
of
a
foole
?
A.
In
his
tongue
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
euill
speaking
.
Q.
How
should
a
child
behaue
himself
towardes
his
father
?
A.
If
the
father
be
gentle
,
he
should
loue
him
;
if
not
,
he
shoulde
suffer
him
.
Q.
What
are
those
two
thinges
that
make
a
man
ouercome
?
A.
Pacience
&
a
sure
trust
in
God
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
escape
all
euils
?
A.
In
not
obeying
(
saith
Diogenes
)
women
.
Q.
Why
doe
olde
men
dye
with
lesse
payne
then
young
men
?
A.
Because
their
senses
are
already
debilitated
.
Q.
What
is
maruell
?
A.
The
sister
of
ignorance
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
couetousnes
is
most
commendable
?
A.
To
be
couetous
of
time
when
it
is
well
employed
.
Q.
How
is
a
true
freende
knowne
?
A.
At
need
,
and
in
a
doubtful
matter
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
true
amitie
?
A.
In
vnitie
and
equalitie
,
of
wilus
whether
it
be
in
louing
and
liking
one
thing
,
or
loathing
and
hating
another
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
warres
are
good
?
A.
Those
which
beginne
without
feare
,
continue
without
perill
,
and
ende
without
damage
.
Q.
What
are
the
good
turnes
which
become
euill
?
A.
Those
which
are
euilly
placed
,
or
bestowed
vpon
vngratefull
and
naughtie
persons
.
Q.
Which
are
the
best
houses
in
a
citie
?
A.
Those
which
harbour
the
feare
of
God
in
them
,
and
where
the
gaine
surmounteth
the
dispense
.
Q.
What
are
those
kind
of
people
which
dye
twise
?
A.
They
which
are
kilde
with
their
own
proper
weapons
.
Q.
Of
whence
spring
good
lawes
?
A.
Of
euill
customes
,
as
good
order
doth
of
disorder
.
Q.
By
what
meanes
may
one
best
fortifie
a
citie
.
A.
By
the
concorde
of
the
citizens
.
Q.
For
what
cause
did
the
olde
Sages
counsell
young
men
not
to
take
a
rich
wife
?
A.
Because
that
if
shee
be
rich
,
shee
will
not
be
content
to
be
a
wife
,
but
wil
be
a
maister
or
a
mistresse
,
in
commaunding
,
chiding
,
correcting
,
and
brauling
.
Q.
What
way
should
a
man
take
to
become
humble
?
A.
He
ought
to
consider
the
thinges
of
him
yil
done
.
Q.
For
what
cause
doe
the
Sages
think
that
the
Image
of
vertue
ought
to
be
hanged
vp
?
A.
To
shew
that
she
ought
not
to
sleepe
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
of
base
birth
make
himselfe
noble
?
A.
In
liuing
vertuously
.
Q.
Howe
may
a
man
liue
to
get
him
a
good
fame
?
A.
He
must
liue
in
opinion
,
that
all
his
enimies
still
here
and
sée
what
he
doth
,
and
saith
.
Q.
At
what
time
shall
one
know
a
good
brother
?
A.
At
the
diuision
of
his
fathers
Patrimony
.
Q.
How
should
one
speake
to
wise
men
?
A.
Soberly
,
modestly
,
and
reuerently
.
Q
What
Countrey
shoulde
wée
account
best
?
A.
That
which
is
gouerned
by
the
good
,
and
the
gibets
flowred
with
the
euil
.
Q.
Howe
should
a
man
become
a
king
?
A.
In
gouerning
himself
,
&
subduing
his
affections
to
the
yoke
of
reason
.
Q.
What
are
the
conditions
of
a
good
maide
seruant
?
A.
Shee
ought
to
be
careful
,
faythfull
,
patient
,
neate
and
pleasant
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
poyntes
,
which
shew
the
conditions
of
a
man
?
A.
His
speech
,
his
cating
,
his
attyre
,
his
practize
and
company
kéeping
shew
his
life
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
thinges
inestimable
,
and
vncomparable
?
A.
Science
,
health
,
vertue
,
and
libertie
.
Q.
What
are
the
soure
thinges
that
sconest
deceiue
men
?
A.
Fayre
speech
,
great
giftes
,
desire
of
gaine
,
and
little
knowledge
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
thinges
that
presage
an
euill
ende
?
A.
An
ill
beginning
,
contempt
of
good
counsell
,
to
doe
more
then
one
can
,
and
not
to
continue
in
a
thing
well
begunne
.
Q.
What
sicknes
comes
by
ydlenes
?
A.
Loue
.
Q.
Which
are
the
men
that
haue
a
double
life
?
A.
The
good
men
liuing
vertuously
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
time
cannot
consume
,
although
sometime
it
seeme
swallowed
vp
?
A.
Trueth
.
Q.
What
be
the
pointes
of
a
good
schoolmaister
?
A.
To
be
prudent
vertuous
,
diligent
,
skilfull
,
patient
,
true
,
a
myrrour
of
vertue
,
eloquent
,
ful
of
good
examples
,
hauing
a
goód
eye
,
&
to
be
as
a
father
towards
his
schollers
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
children
?
A.
To
be
angry
&
appeased
lightly
,
to
open
al
that
they
know
,
&
to
delight
in
their
likes
.
Q.
What
profiteth
it
to
giue
to
him
,
that
neyther
meriteth
nor
deserueth
?
A.
As
much
as
the
raine
falling
vppon
stones
or
grauell
.
Q.
What
is
abstinence
?
A.
It
is
a
vertue
of
the
soule
brideled
by
reason
,
the
which
withholdeth
vs
from
the
disordinate
lusts
that
we
haue
towardes
the
the
pompes
of
this
worlde
.
Q.
What
is
continencie
?
A.
It
is
a
vertue
of
the
soule
which
subdueth
our
sensual
appetites
to
reason
in
such
sort
,
that
as
by
abstinence
auarice
is
gouerned
,
so
by
continencie
lust
is
brideled
.
Q.
What
is
Sobrietie
?
A.
It
is
a
vertue
ruling
eating
&
drineking
,
without
the
which
euery
other
vertue
is
dimmed
and
darkened
.
Q.
What
is
the
last
solace
in
aduersitie
?
A.
Hope
.
Q.
How
behooueth
it
vs
to
liue
in
this
world
?
A.
Like
a
shamefast
man
at
a
banquet
,
who
taketh
naught
but
what
is
giuen
him
,
and
if
the
cup
be
not
recht
him
,
drinketh
not
.
Q.
Why
should
not
we
giue
credite
to
the
worlde
in
any
cace
?
A.
Because
it
is
false
and
fallible
,
neuer
paying
that
which
it
promiseth
,
nor
dooing
to
his
creature
as
it
ought
to
doe
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
reason
to
mooue
twoo
being
at
strife
to
accord
?
A.
To
perswade
them
to
consent
to
veritie
,
for
she
will
please
both
of
them
.
Q.
Why
did
Alexander
the
great
iudge
it
better
,
to
giue
ones
daughter
in
marriage
to
a
poore
man
being
wise
,
then
to
a
rich
man
being
a
foole
?
A.
Because
the
rich
foole
is
still
readie
to
be
poorer
,
when
the
wise
poore
man
is
stil
in
possibilitie
to
be
richer
.
Q.
What
maketh
a
man
to
become
brane
?
A.
desire
of
honour
and
glory
.
Q.
Who
is
the
queene
of
morall
vertues
?
A.
Hope
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
health
?
A.
In
not
being
ydle
,
nor
filling
the
body
too
full
of
wyne
and
meate
.
Q.
What
is
the
highest
wisedome
?
A.
To
know
God
.
Q.
What
man
is
woorst
conditioned
?
A.
He
that
delighteth
to
speake
yll
of
all
the
worlde
.
Q.
By
what
meanes
may
women
be●●
become
Maisters
and
Rulers
of
their
husbands
?
A.
In
suffering
&
obeying
paciently
.
Q.
What
is
science
?
A.
It
is
like
vnto
a
soule
when
the
works
are
the
body
.
Q.
Which
is
a
good
woman
?
A.
Shée
that
appeares
outwardly
euill
.
Q.
When
is
money
good
?
A.
When
it
serues
ones
turne
too
doe
good
.
Q.
What
is
a
thing
vncurable
?
A.
The
dishonor
of
a
foole
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
neuer
wil
be
riche
?
A.
He
that
neuer
will
be
suffised
.
Q.
What
is
the
mother
of
true
ignorance
?
A.
To
be
ignorant
in
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
ashamed
to
learne
.
Q.
What
is
pacience
?
A.
It
is
to
endure
willingly
a
thing
of
an
euill
digestion
,
to
haue
and
tast
thereby
honor
and
profite
.
Q.
Whereon
liueth
the
iust
man
?
A.
On
fayth
.
Q.
Who
is
hee
that
conuerteth
good
turnes
into
euill
?
A.
He
that
geueth
to
an
vngratefull
or
a
wicked
person
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
drawes
a
mans
money
out
of
his
purse
?
A.
A
good
thing
good
cheape
.
Q.
What
is
the
right
way
to
deceaue
a
nigarde
?
A.
To
vse
liberality
towardes
him
.
Q.
What
are
the
maintainers
of
all
artes
?
A.
Honour
,
hope
,
and
loue
.
Q.
Wher
vnto
may
a
woman
be
compared
,
that
is
richly
apparreled
,
and
yet
foule
and
illfauoured
?
A.
Vnto
a
dunghill
couered
with
grasse
.
Q.
To
what
may
this
world
be
compared
?
A.
To
a
great
caue
of
fantasies
mingled
togeather
?
Q.
What
is
the
cause
that
wee
sée
not
spades
,
rakes
,
and
shouels
in
the
handes
of
Princes
;
and
contrary
wise
scepters
,
and
crownes
vpon
the
head
of
Country
clownes
and
rusticke
felowes
?
A.
The
breuity
of
our
time
will
not
let
vs
sée
it
.
Q.
How
comes
it
to
passe
that
there
are
so
many
Cookes
and
fine
vressers
of
meate
now
adayes
?
A.
Because
the
worlde
is
wholy
geuen
to
delightes
,
and
is
more
weake
and
negligent
then
of
olde
time
it
was
.
Q.
What
beast
is
most
enimie
to
man
,
and
most
changeable
amongst
all
others
?
A.
Thou
hast
sayde
:
it
is
man
.
Q.
How
doth
mans
body
mamteine
him selfe
in
all
ages
?
A.
In
the
cradle
with
milke
,
in
childhoed
with
roddes
,
in
gréene
youth
with
shame
and
good
discipline
,
in
mans
estates
with
armes
,
in
elder
age
with
counsell
,
and
last
of
all
with
a
staffe
he
goeth
senselesse
towards
his
graue
.
Q.
What
is
vertue
ioyned
with
noblenesse
?
A.
A
mixture
of
true
humanitie
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
the
more
he
serues
,
the
more
frée
he
is
?
A.
He
that
serues
an
honest
man
,
or
in
an
honest
cause
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
déedes
of
a
wiseman
?
A.
To
make
his
enemy
his
friende
,
a
wicked
person
good
,
a
foole
wise
,
an
ignorant
skilfull
,
and
to
apply
himselfe
too
the
time
.
Q.
What
is
the
victory
of
many
agaynst
one
?
A.
A
very
crowne
of
infamie
.
Q.
What
is
nobility
of
birth
without
the
ornament
of
vertue
?
A.
A
right
Sunne
beame
ouershadowed
with
Cloudes
.
Q.
What
is
presumption
of
knowledge
?
A.
The
default
of
vnknowledge
.
Q.
What
is
Courage
without
Counsel
?
A.
A
Horse
without
a
bridle
,
which
runneth
headlong
in
his
race
till
he
fall
.
Q.
What
is
liberalitie
?
A.
A
poore
vsuresse
which
gaineth
the
goodwill
of
him
,
on
whom
she
is
bestowed
.
Q.
What
is
enuie
?
A.
A
certaine
fretting
beast
,
sworne
euemie
to
the
vertuous
.
Q.
What
is
paynting
?
A.
A
still
kind
of
Poetrie
.
Q.
What
is
death
?
A.
The
Horison
which
bringeth
the
day
of
the
soule
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
desperate
enterprise
that
one
can
take
in
hand
?
A.
To
gouerne
a
womans
will
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
treasure
of
treasures
?
A.
Sense
and
discretion
.
Q
What
is
the
greatest
pouerty
in
this
worlde
?
A.
Ignorance
.
Q
What
is
the
scourge
of
the
Soule
?
A.
Sorrowe
.
Q.
What
is
the
scourge
of
the
Bodie
?
A.
Sickenesse
.
Q.
What
was
the
cause
that
auncient
Philosophers
would
eate
no
more
but
of
one
sort
of
meate
at
a
time
?
A.
Because
they
woulde
not
haue
to
doe
with
Phisicke
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
Partisane
shields
and
buckler
of
Princes
?
A.
The
penne
of
a
good
writer
defending
&
guarding
their
glory
in
the
record
of
eternall
memorie
.
Q
What
is
one
of
the
greatest
shames
that
a
man
can
receiue
?
A.
To
be
ouercome
in
honesty
,
turtesie
,
or
any
other
vertue
by
them
that
are
reputed
to
be
his
inferiours
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
people
ought
a
man
not
to
quarrell
with
?
A.
Not
with
the
good
,
for
offending
them
;
nor
with
the
euill
,
least
they
offend
him
.
Q.
Howe
may
one
properly
call
temporall
faculties
?
A.
Disturbers
of
rest
,
dullers
of
the
spirite
,
nets
to
take
worldlinges
in
,
and
pricks
to
pearce
hungry
soules
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
may
truely
be
called
valiant
?
A.
Hee
that
loueth
his
life
,
and
feareth
not
his
death
.
Q.
What
is
the
dust
that
most
blindeth
mans
eyes
?
A.
The
dust
of
golde
.
Q.
What
kind
of
people
haue
least
friends
in
this
worlde
?
A.
The
poore
and
distressed
.
Q.
Howe
and
when
shall
wée
trust
any
man
:
A.
When
wee
haue
eaten
a
bushell
of
salt
with
him
.
Q.
Who
is
page
,
attendant
still
on
glory
and
prosperitie
?
A.
Enuie
.
Q.
To
whom
is
a
couefous
man
good
?
A.
Nought
to
all
men
,
and
woorse
to
him selfe
.
Q.
Of
what
qualitie
should
one
take
a
wife
?
A.
Equal
and
conformable
to
his
owne
estate
.
Q.
What
is
banishment
?
A.
A
ciuill
death
.
Q.
What
be
the
three
thinges
wherein
specially
a
common
weale
consisteth
,
and
without
the
which
it
can
neither
floorish
nor
endure
long
.
A.
Religion
,
pollicie
,
and
learning
.
Q.
What
doeth
a
couetous
man
want
?
A.
All
thinges
.
Q.
What
doth
a
poore
man
want
?
A.
Not
much
.
Q.
What
doeth
a
contented
man
want
?
A.
Nothing
.
Q.
What
be
the
goods
of
fortune
?
A.
Noblenesse
,
Riches
,
Dignitie
,
Fréendes
,
an
honest
wyfe
,
and
a
heape
of
good
children
.
Q.
What
is
the
foundation
of
good
lawes
?
A.
Vertue
.
Q.
What
is
Rhetorike
?
A.
A
Sallet
of
sweete
wordes
seasoned
with
the
oyls
of
flatterie
.
Q.
What
is
humanity
?
A.
A
vertue
ioyned
with
good
affection
,
or
a
due
beneuolence
mingled
with
dexteritie
.
Q.
What
should
he
haue
in
him
that
ruleth
,
and
gouerneth
others
?
A.
Hee
ought
too
excéede
his
subiectes
in
bountie
and
knowledge
,
as
farre
as
he
surpasseth
them
in
degrée
and
honour
.
Q.
Why
is
gold
pale
?
A.
Because
eche
one
lookes
after
it
,
and
lies
in
wayte
for
it
.
Q.
What
are
the
vertues
that
bring
vs
to
Heauen
?
A.
Faith
,
hope
,
and
charitie
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
are
contrary
to
our
saluation
?
A.
Hate
,
misbeliefe
,
despayre
,
impietie
,
hypocrisie
,
and
ill
doing
.
Q.
Which
be
the
morall
vertues
?
A.
Prudence
,
Iustice
,
force
,
temperance
magnanimitie
,
magnificence
,
leberalitie
,
haughtines
of
heart
ioyned
with
humblenes
,
innocencie
,
grauitie
,
centinencie
,
loyaltie
and
shamefastnes
.
Q.
What
is
the
poyson
of
freendship
?
A.
Flatterie
.
Q.
Whence
springeth
noblenesse
?
A.
Of
vertue
.
Q.
Who
is
inuenter
of
all
artes
?
A.
Pouerty
.
Q.
Why
do
we
commonly
geue
young
damzels
flowers
and
nosegaies
?
A.
Because
that
after
flowers
,
followe
fruites
.
Q.
What
thinges
are
those
which
are
right
pleasant
to
a
man
,
and
which
he
is
loth
to
forgoe
?
A.
The
countrey
wherin
he
was
borne
,
the
goodes
which
hunselfe
hath
gotten
,
and
the
friend
that
he
hath
throughly
tried
.
Q.
How
should
one
vse
the
goods
of
fortune
?
A.
As
subiectes
vnto
him
,
and
not
hee
to
them
.
Q.
Why
did
Plato
hold
opinion
,
that
to
liue
happily
in
a
citie
,
one
must
chace
away
both
riches
and
pouerty
?
A.
Because
riches
maketh
a
man
fyrannous
&
proude
,
&
pouertie
induceth
him
to
do
wickedly
.
Q.
Which
are
the
best
riches
?
A.
Those
which
are
best
gotten
,
and
serue
as
to
the
best
vse
.
Q.
How
may
one
know
the
iust
from
the
vniust
.
A.
By
the
law
,
and
not
by
nature
.
Q.
What
is
carnall
lust
?
A.
A
kinde
of
weake
force
,
or
furie
.
Q.
What
is
the
secret
théefe
that
leades
his
maister
to
the
hospitall
.
A.
Banquetting
and
ryot
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
a
wiseman
according
to
Aristotle
?
A.
To
beare
rule
ouer
the
starres
,
to
know
and
gouerne
himselfe
,
not
to
chaunge
nor
vary
at
the
assaultes
of
fortune
,
to
bestows
his
time
well
,
and
not
to
be
affraide
of
death
.
Q.
What
is
the
first
duetie
of
a
conquerour
?
A.
To
pardon
the
conquered
.
Q.
How
commeth
it
to
passe
that
the
palme
representeth
constancie
?
A.
Because
the
more
it
is
laden
and
ouerpressed
,
the
more
it
groweth
&
encreaseth
.
Q.
What
is
the
office
of
olde
age
?
A.
To
be
modest
and
temperate
,
graue
in
consideration
in
woord
and
deede
,
&
to
giue
good
example
,
and
counsell
when
it
is
required
of
him
.
Q.
When
hath
one
most
licence
to
lye
?
A.
Then
when
he
may
saue
the
goodes
or
the
life
of
another
man
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
a
vayne
glorious
man
?
A.
To
beleeue
lightly
all
that
one
speaketh
in
prayse
of
him
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
touch
of
a
knane
?
A.
To
conceale
the
truth
for
feare
of
harm
.
Q.
Who
is
the
daughter
of
time
?
A.
Truth
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
is
vntameable
,
&
that
kings
them selues
cannot
withstand
?
A.
Necessitie
.
Q.
When
is
it
good
to
accompanie
with
a
woman
?
A.
Alwaies
when
one
will
make
feeble
his
bodie
.
Q.
Wherein
may
a
man
soonest
perceiue
his
owne
wit
?
A.
In
thinking
himselfe
a
foole
.
Q.
Why
did
the
wiseman
pray
that
God
should
keep
him
from
his
frend
,
&
not
from
his
enemie
?
A.
Because
men
keepe
themselues
eastly
from
their
enemies
whom
they
trust
not
:
but
of
their
freendes
whom
they
trust
,
they
are
soonest
deceiued
.
Q.
What
is
wine
disordinately
drunk
?
A.
The
bloode
of
the
earth
turned
into
poyson
.
Q.
Why
did
Democritus
pull
out
his
owne
eyes
?
A.
Not
for
to
see
his
freendes
liuing
in
prosperitie
without
iustice
or
vertue
.
Q.
Why
is
olde
age
with
Cicero
had
in
great
commendation
?
A.
Because
it
is
the
passage
neere
vnto
another
life
.
Q.
What
is
the
priueledge
of
a
valiant
minde
?
A.
Not
to
be
subiect
to
fortune
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
most
noble
amongest
all
other
worldly
thinges
?
A.
To
hate
folly
,
to
loue
vertue
,
and
to
haue
a
desire
to
learne
still
.
Q.
Why
was
Licurgus
most
esteemed
aboue
all
other
Lawmakers
?
A.
Because
he
obeyed
that
which
he
commaunded
himselfe
.
Q.
What
twoo
thinges
are
those
which
reioyce
a
man
much
?
A.
To
haue
wise
children
,
and
to
see
reuenge
ouer
his
enemies
.
Q.
For
what
cause
is
it
better
to
be
hated
then
loued
of
an
ignorant
and
noughtie
person
?
A.
Because
his
conuersation
is
alwayes
perillous
,
and
no
wise
profitable
.
Q.
From
whence
proceede
and
depende
all
debates
and
controuersies
in
the
world
?
A.
From
yea
and
no
,
mine
and
thine
.
Q.
What
is
folly
?
A.
A
great
and
mightie
let
from
felicitie
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
are
neuer
satisfied
?
A.
Fire
,
the
dry
ground
,
hell
,
the
loue
of
a
woman
and
a
couetous
mans
purse
.
Q.
When
is
it
that
silence
is
counted
a
byce
?
A.
When
for
the
profite
and
benefite
of
ones
neighbour
he
shoulde
speake
what
hee
knowes
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
Plutarche
compared
those
men
which
spake
loude
and
to
no
purpose
,
vnto
emptie
vessels
.
A.
Because
they
make
ordinarily
more
noyse
then
the
full
ones
that
are
profitable
.
Q.
How
commeth
it
to
passe
that
being
with
the
fayre
and
healthful
,
we
become
not
more
fayre
and
healthfull
;
but
frequenting
with
the
good
,
fust
,
&
moderate
,
we
become
better
and
increase
our
vertue
?
A.
Because
the
giftes
of
the
mynde
may
be
imitated
,
and
not
those
of
the
bodie
.
Q.
When
the
Gluttons
suppe
dayntily
and
soberly
?
A.
When
they
haue
dyned
grossely
and
disorderly
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
may
lawfully
make
himselfe
Lorde
of
another
mans
goodes
,
or
learne
his
cunning
?
A.
Hee
that
payes
well
for
it
.
Q.
What
is
the
parte
first
formed
in
a
man
,
and
last
dead
?
A.
The
heart
.
Q.
What
is
dauncing
?
A.
A
subtill
net
to
entrap
the
lasciuious
.
Q.
What
are
the
strongest
thinges
of
the
worlde
?
A.
Time
and
trueth
.
Q.
Why
is
it
better
to
haue
a
shrewish
wife
then
a
shéepish
?
A.
To
the
end
that
the
worlde
doe
not
with
her
as
it
listeth
.
Q.
Why
haue
some
men
allowed
slatterie
?
A.
Because
she
setteth
before
our
eyes
,
what
we
shoulde
be
.
Q.
In
what
countreyes
are
the
Gibets
most
flowred
with
Naughtipackes
?
A.
In
those
where
they
haue
least
fauour
and
more
iustice
.
Q.
What
were
the
thrée
paynes
ordayned
by
the
Lacedemoniens
,
from
the
which
(
were
it
not
by
death
)
none
could
escape
,
at
the
least
to
suffer
one
?
A.
Payne
to
him
which
was
not
married
,
payne
to
him
which
marryed
too
late
,
and
a
treble
payne
to
him
that
tooke
an
euill
wife
.
Q.
What
vertue
and
efficacie
hath
the
pen
of
a
good
writer
?
A.
To
eternizate
the
memory
of
noble
men
,
to
instruct
the
posteritie
,
and
to
make
his
owne
name
indure
for
euer
.
Q.
What
sort
of
men
tell
the
trueth
?
A.
They
that
are
carelesse
.
Q.
What
is
the
proper
ducty
of
a
good
father
towardes
his
childe
?
A.
To
nourish
him
soberly
,
to
kéepe
him
under
in
obedience
,
to
teach
him
good
manners
and
to
learne
him
an
art
how
to
liue
in
time
to
come
.
Q.
What
thinges
are
ordinarily
geuen
to
a
childe
?
A.
The
Nurse
giues
him
two
yeeres
of
milke
,
the
mother
two
yéeres
of
excuses
,
and
the
father
twentie
yéeres
of
chastisement
.
Q.
What
hath
moued
the
auncient
Poets
to
vse
so
many
fictions
and
inuentions
?
A.
The
zeale
that
they
had
to
solace
and
delight
men
,
and
the
ardent
desire
to
conuert
them
from
rudenesse
to
vertue
.
Q.
What
euilles
doeth
idlenesse
ingender
?
A.
It
slaundereth
the
world
,
peruerteth
the
weale
publike
,
vndoeth
his
mayster
,
endomageth
the
good
,
&
destroyeth
the
euill
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
is
drowned
twice
?
A.
He
that
drownes
himselfe
in
couetousnesse
,
and
then
putteth
himselfe
in
hazarde
of
the
Sea
,
and
there
is
drowned
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
are
right
necessary
and
requisite
to
a
Captayne
of
the
warres
or
Coronel
?
A.
A
competent
number
of
good
Souldiers
,
victualles
good
store
,
and
plenty
to
spend
and
still
to
be
certified
what
and
where
the
enemies
are
.
Q.
What
is
the
way
for
to
get
a
good
name
?
A.
To
speake
little
,
and
doe
well
,
and
too
labour
?
Q.
What
signifieth
the
sadnes
of
an
enuious
person
?
A.
Eyther
that
some
euill
is
happened
,
to
him
,
or
some
good
to
another
man
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
thing
that
a
man
can
doe
?
A.
To
liue
well
.
Q.
Who
is
the
most
liberall
man
of
the
worlde
?
A.
It
is
(
according
to
Galen
)
he
that
thinketh
those
good
turns
great
that
he
receiueth
and
those
little
,
that
he
doeth
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
rule
for
him
that
will
liue
well
?
A.
To
bridle
his
affections
by
good
discipline
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
worst
sicknesses
in
a
Citie
?
A.
Idlenes
,
Ignorance
and
Folly
.
Q.
What
is
Rhetorique
?
A.
A
Science
to
lye
and
flatter
well
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
winne
the
grace
and
fauour
of
all
the
worlde
?
A.
In
being
merrie
,
curteous
,
liberall
,
gallant
,
tractable
,
and
mercifull
.
Q.
From
whence
come
lies
?
A.
From
a
seruile
minde
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
wherein
a
man
cannot
be
satisfied
?
A.
In
getting
of
riches
,
or
dignities
,
cunning
and
honour
,
and
in
hearing
of
good
newes
.
Q.
What
is
the
principall
stay
of
vice
?
A.
Abstinence
.
Q.
What
is
the
care
that
euery
one
shoulde
haue
?
A.
Too
shewe
himselfe
curteous
,
too
heare
paciently
,
and
answeare
wisely
.
Q.
What
is
that
common
weale
which
is
like
to
continue
long
and
not
decay
?
A.
That
where
the
Prince
findeth
obedience
,
and
the
people
loue
:
for
as
of
the
loue
of
the
Prince
springeth
the
obedience
of
the
people
:
so
of
the
obedience
of
the
subiect
springeth
the
loue
of
the
Prince
:
and
as
Pythagoras
sayth
,
loue
is
payde
with
loue
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Gréekes
in
olde
time
wéepe
at
the
birth
of
their
children
,
and
sing
at
the
death
of
their
old
men
?
A.
Because
the
children
came
to
die
,
and
the
olde
men
went
to
liue
.
Q.
What
is
the
cause
that
many
ill
condicioned
children
desire
so
ardently
to
sée
the
death
of
their
Fathers
?
A.
Because
if
the
Children
bee
riche
,
they
woulde
haue
their
libertie
;
and
if
the
fathers
be
rich
,
they
woulde
haue
their
goodes
.
Q.
What
is
old
age
?
A.
The
gulph
of
maladies
.
Q.
What
are
good
wordes
in
a
Iesser
or
fooles
mouth
?
A.
Like
to
corne
in
a
wet
vessel
,
which
sodeinly
sprouteth
and
then
perisheth
.
Q.
Howe
commeth
it
to
passe
that
our
Predecessours
haue
liued
longer
then
those
of
our
time
?
A.
Because
they
were
more
sober
,
and
of
a
better
complection
,
and
that
thinges
béeing
saltned
by
the
flood
,
haue
caused
a
greate
default
in
nature
.
Q.
How
may
a
souldier
winne
honour
in
the
warres
?
A.
In
loosing
feare
and
all
fayntnesse
of
heart
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
things
in
men
altogether
vnlike
one
to
another
,
and
yet
of
great
admiration
?
A.
The
fauour
of
the
body
,
spéeche
and
writing
.
Q.
Who
are
they
that
haue
fayre
eyes
and
sée
nothing
?
A.
The
vnlearned
and
the
amorous
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
vertue
morall
?
A.
Force
.
Q.
What
was
the
cause
that
Scipio
refused
the
tytle
of
greate
,
which
the
Spaniardes
had
geuen
him
?
A.
Because
as
he
sayd
,
to
change
name
and
tytle
,
is
a
signe
of
lightnesse
and
vnconstancie
.
Q.
What
is
the
duety
of
a
good
housholder
?
A.
To
geue
effectually
good
example
,
to
be
diligent
,
to
entertayne
peace
amongst
his
family
,
to
sée
all
thinges
neate
,
and
to
kéepe
one
order
and
measure
.
Q.
What
are
those
three
thinges
that
the
wiseman
lamenteth
,
and
repenteth
that
he
hath
done
?
A.
The
first
is
,
too
haue
reuealed
his
secrete
;
the
second
to
haue
gone
by
Sea
,
when
he
might
haue
gone
by
land
;
and
the
third
is
,
to
haue
passed
one
day
without
doing
some
vertuous
thing
.
Q.
What
is
the
way
for
a
Prince
too
raygne
surely
?
A.
To
do
to
his
subiects
as
a
father
doth
to
his
children
.
Q.
Who
are
the
merriest
marchantes
and
most
at
their
ease
?
A.
They
that
are
most
lightest
,
I
meane
Marchers
,
and
not
merchantes
,
for
that
is
quite
contrary
.
Q.
What
thrée
estates
are
the
richest
of
the
worlde
?
A.
The
wise
,
the
healthfull
,
and
the
contented
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
requisite
for
a
gouernour
of
a
citie
?
A.
To
vse
equity
to
make
due
prouision
for
victual
,
to
eschewe
tumult
and
contention
,
and
to
get
himselfe
the
loue
of
his
Citizens
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
pay
his
debts
,
that
hath
nothing
?
A.
In
dying
.
Q.
To
what
may
one
compare
,
a
goodly
personage
and
of
no
courage
?
A.
Too
a
leaden
Dagger
in
a
paynted
sheath
.
Q.
What
is
a
sure
sawce
for
all
kinde
of
meates
?
A.
Hunger
and
appetite
.
Q.
Why
haue
the
Philosophers
compared
loue
to
the
Crocodile
?
A.
Because
the
Crocodile
flyeth
them
that
followe
her
,
and
followeth
them
that
flye
her
,
and
so
doth
loue
.
Q.
What
deserueth
hee
that
loueth
himselfe
too
much
?
A.
To
be
hated
of
all
others
.
Q.
From
what
women
should
a
man
kéepe
himselfe
?
A.
From
the
quicke
and
the
dead
.
Q.
What
is
mans
life
?
A.
A
shippe
tossed
amongest
waues
,
windes
,
tempestes
,
sharpe
showers
,
and
continuall
perils
.
Q.
What
is
one
quicke
fire
,
carrying
another
?
A.
It
is
a
woman
carrying
fyre
:
for
the
whotter
(
saith
Aristotle
)
carrieth
the
colder
.
Q.
When
is
it
that
one
euill
ioynes
with
another
?
A.
It
is
when
a
woman
is
sicke
.
Q.
Who
is
it
,
that
multiplieth
euil
vppon
euill
?
A.
A
young
Damzell
learning
too
write
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
cannot
be
alwaies
without
a
wife
?
A.
He
that
is
accurst
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
make
realmes
,
townes
,
and
cities
to
be
loste
?
A.
Negligence
to
people
them
well
,
idlenesse
,
discorde
and
to
trust
too
muche
to
fortune
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
things
amongst
many
that
greatly
displeased
Plato
?
A.
To
sée
a
riche
man
become
poore
,
an
honorable
man
despised
,
&
a
wise
man
flowted
of
fooles
.
Q.
What
is
the
very
poyson
of
the
earth
?
A.
Golde
and
siluer
.
Q.
How
ought
the
Prince
,
and
the
people
to
liue
togeather
?
A.
As
the
soule
and
the
body
.
Q.
What
was
the
cause
that
a
Philosopher
speaking
pleasantly
,
held
opinion
,
that
the
poore
were
of
a
better
house
then
the
rich
?
A.
Because
they
are
all
for
the
most
part
of
the
house
of
God
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
the
Hospitall
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
sortes
of
men
that
are
to
be
pitied
most
?
A.
One
should
haue
pitie
on
him
which
is
subiect
too
an
euill
man
;
on
him
which
is
subiect
to
a
foole
;
and
on
him
which
is
liberal
,
and
yet
is
in
bandes
to
a
Niggarde
.
Q.
Wherein
differeth
a
man
from
a
Beast
?
A.
In
soule
and
reason
.
Q.
Which
is
the
most
perilous
member
of
the
body
?
A.
The
eye
beeing
messenger
of
the
heart
.
Q.
What
are
the
bitterest
rootes
of
all
others
,
and
yet
beare
the
swéetest
fruites
and
best
?
A.
The
rootes
of
pacience
,
for
they
are
necessary
too
the
young
,
delectable
too
the
olde
,
profitable
to
the
poore
,
ornamentes
to
the
rich
,
glory
to
the
happy
,
solace
to
the
vnhappie
,
beautifying
the
noble
,
and
exalting
the
vnnoble
.
Q.
What
caused
the
Philosopher
to
affirme
that
it
was
better
too
haue
an
euill
Prince
,
then
one
simple
and
ignorant
?
A.
Because
being
euill
,
he
is
euill
but
to
himselfe
:
but
being
simple
,
he
infecteth
al
the
people
.
Q.
What
was
the
cause
that
Alexander
the
great
louer
of
iustice
,
woulde
neuer
permitte
,
that
offices
,
appertayning
too
iustice
,
should
be
solde
?
A.
Because
hee
affirmed
that
hee
that
buyes
by
great
,
will
at
leastwise
sell
by
retayle
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
foundation
of
a
Christian
man
?
A.
Fayth
,
hope
,
and
charity
.
Q.
Howe
may
a
man
be
a
maister
hauing
no
science
?
A.
In
subduing
his
owne
vice
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
are
most
néere
one
to
another
,
and
yet
enemies
?
A.
Life
and
death
,
prosperity
and
aduersity
.
Q.
Why
doe
olde
folkes
so
delight
in
wood
.
A.
For
feare
of
falling
,
&
to
rest
themselues
on
,
I
meane
staues
and
stooles
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
beastes
,
that
susteine
the
crownes
of
kinges
?
A.
The
hare
representing
feare
,
and
the
dogge
resembling
loue
.
Q.
What
is
the
life
of
man
properly
?
A.
-
A
true
Caue
of
fantasies
.
-
A
true
Shoppe
of
deceites
.
-
A
true
Double
maladie
.
-
A
true
Ioye
soone
sicke
.
-
A
true
Olde
age
staffeles
.
-
A
true
Peace
without
fayth
.
-
A
true
Blindnes
without
a
guyde
.
-
A
true
Stable
of
lyes
.
-
A
true
Vale
of
miserie
.
-
A
true
Fountaine
of
thoughtes
.
-
A
true
Ship
without
gouernour
.
-
A
true
Arke
of
sorrows
.
-
A
true
Sad
consolation
.
-
A
true
Freedome
of
vyces
.
-
A
true
Suretie
perillous
.
-
A
true
Turning
wheele
.
-
A
true
Vaine
imagination
.
-
A
true
Sloath
set
a
woork
.
-
A
true
Ignorance
yet
skilfull
.
-
A
true
Pouertie
abounding
.
-
A
true
Rotten
prison
.
-
A
true
Fugitiue
beautie
.
-
A
true
Foolishe
wisedome
.
-
A
true
Bitter
sweetnes
.
-
A
true
Languishing
ioye
.
-
A
true
Fayre
deformitie
.
-
A
true
Miserable
felicitie
.
-
A
true
Forrest
of
Thistles
.
-
A
true
Slippery
yee
.
-
A
true
Continuall
warre
.
-
A
true
Kingdome
of
Satan
.
-
A
true
Kinde
of
base
haughtines
.
A
Bel
without
a
clapper
,
and
a
light
still
ouerwhelmed
with
darkenes
.
Q.
Why
is
the
world
compared
to
a
great
table
couered
with
a
little
tablecloth
?
A.
Because
the
more
eche
one
draweth
it
to
himselfe
,
the
more
he
discouereth
his
fellowes
side
an
place
.
Q.
Who
doeth
open
wrong
vnto
himself
?
A.
He
that
humbleth
himself
to
one
whom
he
should
not
.
Q.
What
is
a
manifest
folly
,
and
signe
of
vaine
glory
?
A.
To
boast
of
thy
owne
good
déedes
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
gratious
thing
in
this
worlde
and
of
least
continuance
?
A.
As
Domitian
the
Enperour
sayth
,
it
is
corporall
beautie
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
charge
,
or
burthen
vpon
the
earth
A.
An
ignorant
foole
.
Q.
What
would
the
Cynike
Philosopher
inferre
by
his
prouerbe
?
He
that
marrieth
late
,
marrieth
euill
.
A.
That
they
which
are
to
learne
the
art
of
patience
,
are
to
beginne
in
their
yong
and
tender
age
,
as
is
approoued
by
vnreasonable
beastes
,
as
coltes
,
Bullockes
.
&c.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
cannot
be
cleane
and
vndefiled
?
A.
The
wheele
of
a
chariot
or
waggon
,
the
potter
,
the
Marriner
waying
and
mending
his
cables
,
and
he
that
is
accompanied
still
with
naughtie
persons
.
Q.
How
may
a
iealous
man
know
if
his
wife
make
him
Cuckolde
?
A.
Let
him
gelde
himselfe
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
change
the
nature
and
condition
of
a
man
?
A.
Estate
or
dignitie
,
a
wyfe
,
and
wine
.
Q.
What
is
corporall
beautie
?
A.
A
richesse
fugitiue
,
a
baite
of
wantonnesse
,
a
delectatable
detriment
,
a
secret
engyne
and
a
librarie
of
recommendations
.
Q.
What
is
warre
?
A.
A
bannishment
of
peace
,
a
buriall
of
Charitie
,
a
natiuitie
of
pouertie
&
a
nurse
of
malice
.
Q.
Which
are
the
best
wayes
to
become
rich
:
A.
To
be
heedie
,
wise
,
aduenterous
,
and
to
vse
greate
diligence
and
small
dispence
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
an
honest
man
?
A.
To
think
,
doe
,
or
say
nothing
but
that
which
is
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
profite
of
his
neighbour
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
humanitie
?
A.
In
helping
his
neighbour
or
his
fréend
at
his
need
,
in
curteous
saluting
him
,
and
often
inuiting
him
to
a
moderate
banquet
or
feast
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
counsell
that
a
man
can
vse
in
all
busines
?
A.
That
(
sayth
Aristotle
)
which
a
man
taketh
for
himselfe
being
in
daunger
of
shipwracke
or
drowning
.
Q.
What
is
vertue
?
A.
The
queene
of
all
thinges
iust
and
honest
,
and
the
Princesse
of
soueraigne
happinesse
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
decent
maner
,
that
a
Lorde
or
great
man
can
vse
in
his
house
,
or
territories
?
A.
To
intertayne
the
little
sort
,
as
infantes
,
the
middle
sort
as
brethren
,
the
antient
sort
as
fathers
,
and
strangers
as
his
fellowes
.
Q.
Which
is
the
way
to
liue
in
peace
and
rest
?
A.
To
flée
couetousnes
and
anger
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
hath
nothing
neither
can
looseth
any
thing
?
A.
The
faythles
depriued
of
shame
,
truth
,
and
honestie
.
Q.
What
causeth
a
man
to
fayle
so
often
in
choosing
a
good
wife
?
A.
Because
the
number
of
them
is
so
smal
.
Q.
What
shoulde
a
man
doe
when
hee
would
get
the
friendship
of
another
man
?
A.
Speake
well
of
him
,
for
as
enmitie
&
hate
comes
by
euill
speaking
,
so
doth
amitie
and
loue
come
by
well
speaking
.
Q.
Why
is
the
world
compared
by
Socrates
to
fire
?
A.
Because
a
little
is
good
to
warme
a
man
and
reuiue
his
spirits
,
but
too
much
burneth
him
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
greatest
troubles
and
gréefes
of
this
world
?
A.
A
wife
and
ignorance
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
cannot
spend
his
mony
?
A.
The
Couetous
man
onely
:
for
the
mony
that
he
hath
,
is
not
his
own
,
but
he
is
seruant
to
it
.
Q.
What
sort
of
people
are
displeasant
both
to
God
and
to
the
world
?
A.
The
poore
man
proude
,
the
olde
man
a
lecher
,
the
rich
man
couetous
and
a
lyar
;
the
yongman
slouthfull
,
inobedient
,
and
vnreuerent
.
Q.
Which
is
the
Mother
that
beareth
most
children
?
A.
The
earth
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
vnprofitable
,
and
nought
in
a
houshold
?
A.
The
man
seruant
disloyall
,
the
maide
seruant
with
child
,
the
wife
a
harlot
,
the
childe
obstinate
,
and
woorst
of
al
,
the
purse
emptie
.
Q.
What
may
strife
and
going
to
law
be
tearmed
?
A.
A
mere
perdition
of
time
,
of
money
,
and
of
freendes
.
Q.
Who
is
mother
of
all
thinges
?
A.
Experience
.
Q.
What
is
the
key
of
pouertie
?
A.
Sloth
and
ydlenes
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
way
to
haue
speedie
audience
of
an
aduocate
or
atturney
in
the
Law
?
A.
To
bring
vnder
his
gowne
a
couple
of
Capons
or
a
young
hogge
,
and
in
entring
the
house
to
wring
the
hogge
by
the
eare
,
which
when
he
begins
to
cry
,
my
Lord
wil
begin
to
laugh
and
say
,
benè
veniatis
,
pecora
campi
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
yet
neuer
agreed
together
?
A.
The
wolues
,
and
the
sheepe
,
the
fire
and
the
water
,
the
dogges
and
the
hares
,
the
foxe
and
the
pullaine
,
the
flouthfull
and
the
vertuous
,
the
storke
and
frogges
.
Q.
What
are
the
beastes
,
that
are
most
profitable
and
necessarie
to
man
?
A.
The
Oxe
,
the
Sheepe
,
the
Bee
,
the
Swyne
,
and
the
Horse
.
Q.
Which
is
the
best
member
and
the
woorst
of
al
the
body
?
A.
The
tongue
.
Q.
Which
is
the
noblest
kind
of
reuenge
that
a
prince
can
vse
towards
his
subiectes
?
A.
Onely
clemencie
,
well
agreeing
to
that
sentence
of
Petrarche
which
sayth
,
Nobilissimum
vindictae
genus
est
,
parcere
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
find
rest
in
going
?
A.
In
being
accompanied
on
the
way
with
a
wiseman
.
Q.
What
is
the
common
property
of
one
in
debt
?
A.
To
flie
&
hate
his
creditour
as
much
as
he
can
,
when
he
hath
not
wherewithal
to
pay
him
.
Q.
And
what
is
the
property
of
the
Creditour
?
A.
To
desire
the
health
and
welfare
of
his
debter
,
hoping
that
he
wil
be
able
one
day
to
pay
him
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
the
accomplishing
of
mans
felicity
?
A.
In
getting
of
friendes
,
and
doyng
good
to
others
.
Q.
Howe
much
difference
is
betwéen
the
truth
and
a
lye
?
A.
As
much
as
there
is
distance
betwéen
the
mouth
and
the
eare
.
Q.
What
is
folly
?
A.
A
Barre
from
felicity
.
Q.
What
is
the
crowne
and
honour
of
a
young
Damzell
?
A.
Vrginity
.
Q.
What
ought
a
good
prince
to
doe
by
might
?
A.
He
ought
,
according
to
the
resolution
of
the
demaund
made
by
Alexander
the
great
to
Plato
,
to
thinke
on
the
gouernment
of
his
people
,
and
the
next
day
to
put
it
in
execution
.
Q.
What
are
the
téeth
of
time
?
A.
Day
and
night
,
life
and
death
.
Q.
What
are
the
first
vertues
and
lessons
that
a
good
Maister
ought
to
teache
his
schollers
?
A.
To
feare
and
honor
God
,
to
reuerence
father
and
mother
,
and
their
elders
,
to
induce
them
to
kéepe
silence
,
and
to
haue
humilitie
,
diligence
,
concorde
and
peace
.
Q.
What
is
it
to
be
clothed
in
soft
raiment
?
A.
A
standarde
of
pride
,
a
nest
of
luxuriousnes
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
may
rightly
be
called
a
couetous
wretch
and
a
nigard
?
A.
He
that
hath
néede
of
the
which
he
hath
.
Q.
Wherein
do
women
surpasse
men
?
A.
In
doing
euill
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
most
difficill
to
kéepe
?
A.
It
is
(
besides
secretes
)
that
which
is
of
many
men
desired
.
Q.
Who
are
they
that
be
déemed
euill
liuers
?
A.
They
that
thinke
neuer
to
die
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
most
refraineth
hunger
?
A.
Sléepe
.
Q.
What
difference
is
there
betwixt
one
woman
,
and
an
other
?
A.
Take
away
light
,
that
is
to
saye
shame
,
they
are
all
one
.
Q.
What
is
to
be
considered
in
giuing
a
gift
?
A.
Whether
it
bee
great
or
small
it
forceth
not
,
so
that
it
come
in
time
and
place
.
Q.
What
ought
a
good
christian
aboue
al
thinges
to
consider
?
A.
Where
hée
is
,
from
whence
he
came
,
who
and
what
he
is
,
what
he
hath
done
,
and
whether
he
goeth
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
things
(
according
to
Plutarch
)
that
are
requisit
and
necessary
in
a
childe
?
A.
Nature
,
doctrine
,
and
exercise
:
of
the
which
thrée
,
if
any
bee
wanting
,
he
cannot
bee
perfect
.
Q.
What
are
they
,
that
cannot
tell
how
to
speake
?
A.
They
that
cannot
tell
howe
to
holde
their
peace
.
Q.
How
contes
it
to
passe
that
children
loue
not
their
fathers
so
well
as
fathers
doe
their
children
?
A.
Because
Loue
discendes
still
,
and
neuer
ascendes
:
besides
,
the
Sonne
hath
much
of
the
father
,
but
the
father
hath
nothing
of
the
Sonne
.
Q.
Why
did
the
men
of
auntient
time
plainely
quarrell
with
them
that
came
too
borrowe
any
thing
?
A.
Because
in
quarelling
with
them
,
they
thought
they
should
not
be
so
much
out
of
their
fauour
,
as
if
they
shoulde
aske
their
owne
agayne
,
if
they
lent
it
.
Q.
Which
is
the
best
Doctor
in
the
worlde
?
A.
Discretion
.
Q.
Which
is
the
healthfullest
thing
in
the
worlde
?
A.
Fire
,
for
it
is
neuer
sicke
.
Q.
What
shall
a
man
doe
,
not
too
haue
néede
of
others
?
A.
If
he
be
riche
,
let
him
liue
soberly
;
if
he
be
poore
,
let
him
labour
diligently
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
is
more
strong
then
nature
?
A.
Custome
.
Q.
Who
is
he
in
this
world
that
is
maister
of
his
worde
?
A.
Any
man
is
maister
of
his
owne
word
before
it
be
spoken
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
behaue
himselfe
in
his
workes
?
A.
He
ought
to
haue
his
owne
before
his
eies
and
other
mens
behynde
his
backe
.
Q.
What
is
it
that
deceaueth
all
them
which
put
their
trust
in
it
?
A.
The
worlde
.
Q.
Who
is
sister
to
death
?
A.
Sléepe
.
Q.
Why
shoulde
one
dissemble
good
fortune
?
A.
Because
she
ingendereth
enuy
.
Q.
How
ought
a
man
to
loue
and
hate
?
A.
To
loue
,
as
though
hee
woulde
one
day
hate
;
and
hate
,
as
though
he
would
loue
agayne
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
most
weareth
away
griefe
and
dolour
?
A.
Time
.
Q.
Why
is
the
common
sorte
of
people
déemed
vnconstant
?
A.
Because
at
one
instant
they
both
loue
and
hate
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Philosopher
thinke
it
a
rare
thing
to
finde
a
good
Lorde
?
A.
Because
,
to
be
good
,
and
a
Lord
,
are
two
things
,
not
according
well
:
for
how
can
hee
be
good
that
depriueth
vs
of
our
libertie
,
and
will
?
Q.
What
sicknes
is
most
perillous
and
mortall
?
A.
That
which
commeth
last
,
and
goeth
away
last
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
signe
of
a
gentle
Prince
?
A.
It
is
when
in
knéeling
to
him
wee
finde
mercie
at
his
féete
.
Q.
What
is
the
beginning
of
all
good
,
and
the
ende
of
all
euill
?
A.
Death
.
Q.
What
is
a
singular
remedie
of
all
iniuries
?
A.
Forgetfulnes
.
Q.
What
is
the
mother
of
felicitie
?
A.
Obedience
.
Q.
Who
is
the
Iudge
that
condemneth
himselfe
?
A.
He
that
absolueth
the
culpable
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
tryeth
our
courage
?
A.
Office
or
rulership
.
Q.
What
is
the
true
rest
of
our
Soule
?
A.
Sapience
.
Q.
What
is
the
onely
thing
that
hath
no
néede
of
mercie
?
A.
Innocencie
.
Q.
What
order
shall
a
man
holde
being
with
great
Lordes
,
or
his
superiours
?
A.
Let
him
hold
his
peace
,
or
speake
modestly
,
and
do
like
him
that
would
warme
himselfe
,
but
not
burne
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
a
discrete
person
.
A.
To
choose
the
good
,
and
flye
the
euill
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
shoulde
gouerne
the
world
?
A.
The
people
in
good
order
,
the
riche
man
loyall
,
the
young
man
obedient
,
the
olde
man
sage
,
and
the
poore
man
humble
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
are
got
without
buying
?
A.
Maladie
,
ignoraunce
,
disprayse
,
and
dishonour
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
are
alwaies
good
cheape
?
A.
The
earth
,
woordes
,
will
,
and
lyes
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
to
man
most
hard
and
miserable
?
A.
Pouertie
in
old
age
,
sicknes
in
prison
,
infamy
after
honour
,
and
to
be
banished
from
his
natiue
country
.
Q.
What
three
things
are
those
that
are
most
strong
?
A.
The
trueth
,
wine
,
and
a
woman
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
Empire
of
all
others
?
A.
It
is
the
Empire
of
fooles
.
Q.
Why
is
Fortune
painted
blinde
,
foolish
,
and
deformed
?
A.
Shee
is
painted
blinde
,
because
shee
sees
not
on
whom
nor
how
she
bestowes
her
benifites
;
foolish
,
because
shee
is
vnconstant
;
and
deformed
,
because
she
is
meruellous
dishonest
.
Q.
What
bée
the
conditions
of
a
good
seruant
?
A.
He
ought
to
be
diligent
,
true
,
faythful
,
and
patient
.
Q.
What
is
the
first
token
of
a
good
wit
in
a
yong
man
?
A.
Memorie
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
a
man
will
beleeue
soonest
?
A.
That
which
he
heareth
willingest
.
Q.
What
is
one
of
the
greatest
sorrowes
that
can
betide
a
man
?
A.
That
which
commeth
by
mirth
.
Q.
What
are
the
griefes
which
will
not
be
cured
?
A.
Those
which
come
by
the
disease
of
loue
.
Q.
What
are
the
best
rules
for
a
man
to
keepe
,
that
will
gouerne
himselfe
vprightly
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
?
A.
To
thinke
on
the
time
past
,
to
order
and
dispose
the
time
present
,
to
prouide
for
the
time
to
come
,
and
to
make
inquirie
of
things
vnknowne
and
doubtfull
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
we
see
passe
before
our
eyes
,
and
yet
cannot
folow
them
?
A.
Smoke
,
a
birde
,
a
ship
,
and
an
arrowe
in
the
ayre
.
Q.
What
is
that
which
a
woman
most
desireth
?
A.
Rich
apparel
,
credit
,
beautie
,
&
libertie
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
a
Gentleman
should
wholly
abhorre
?
A.
To
he
a
coward
,
a
nigard
,
a
lyar
,
or
a
Tyrant
.
Q.
Who
should
haue
the
best
office
in
a
citie
?
A.
The
best
man
,
and
least
vicious
.
Q.
What
are
the
two
things
which
neither
time
nor
fortune
can
destroy
in
this
worlde
?
A.
A
good
name
and
veritie
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
reproche
the
agouernour
or
ruler
can
by
any
meanes
receiue
?
A.
To
commaund
(
saieth
Aristotle
)
ouer
many
,
and
to
obay
one
lesse
or
worse
then
any
,
he
meaneth
vice
,
and
to
bee
surpassed
in
honestie
,
curtesie
,
vertue
,
science
,
and
humanitie
,
by
them
which
are
,
by
séeming
,
his
inferiors
.
Q.
What
is
the
soule
of
a
common
weale
?
A.
Iustice
,
for
without
it
neither
peace
nor
warre
can
be
,
otherwise
the
filthy
smell
&
corruption
that
a
body
without
a
soule
hath
,
the
same
hath
a
weale
publike
without
Iustcie
?
Q.
What
are
the
true
prickes
of
lust
and
wantonnesse
?
A.
Excesse
in
wine
,
&
banqueting
,
lasciuious
words
,
&
the
conuersation
of
women
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
driue
away
all
carnall
lustes
and
desires
of
the
flesh
?
A.
By
hunger
,
sobrietie
,
trauaile
,
labour
and
occupation
.
Q.
What
is
the
dutie
of
a
good
Phisition
?
A.
To
know
the
disease
,
and
to
order
his
medicine
according
to
it
,
and
often
to
visite
his
pacient
,
and
comfort
him
.
Q.
What
is
requisite
in
a
sicke
man
?
A.
Obedience
to
his
Surgion
,
a
large
hand
,
and
good
courage
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
know
him
that
is
like
to
himself
,
&
of
his
own
constellation
&
qualitie
?
A.
Let
him
regard
(
saith
Plato
)
whom
he
doth
loue
and
fansie
without
occasion
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Philosopher
counsell
vs
to
giue
nothing
neither
to
the
young
,
nor
to
the
olde
?
A.
Because
the
young
forget
it
afore
they
be
able
to
recompence
it
,
and
the
olde
do
dye
afore
they
can
haue
time
to
requite
it
.
Q.
From
whence
procéedes
idlenes
&
sloth
?
A.
From
a
base
mind
&
courage
,
from
dark
and
obscure
places
,
from
great
rest
,
and
solytarines
,
and
from
Melancholie
.
Q.
How
ought
a
man
to
maintain
his
body
in
health
:
A.
He
shoulde
neuer
submit
him selfe
to
the
rule
of
phisicke
:
he
should
goe
to
the
fields
or
country
and
there
liue
in
sweete
ayre
,
and
healthsome
places
:
he
shoulde
walke
oft
,
and
vse
sober
exercises
,
he
should
refuse
no
meat
neither
sweet
nor
sowre
,
vsing
no
choler
,
nor
excesse
,
and
remember
to
keepe
himselfe
neat
and
cleane
in
his
apparell
.
Q.
Of
what
thinges
ought
a
man
most
to
reioyce
?
A.
He
shoulde
reioyce
and
thanke
God
,
that
he
is
borne
a
man
and
not
a
woman
,
a
Christian
and
not
a
Turke
,
and
to
haue
lyued
in
the
time
of
the
Gospel
,
and
dyed
in
a
good
vnderstanding
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
answere
that
a
wiseman
can
giue
a
foole
?
A.
To
say
nothing
.
Q.
What
are
the
best
counsellours
:
the
most
sage
,
faythfull
and
of
least
cost
that
a
prince
can
haue
?
A.
Bookes
(
sayth
Alfonsus
king
of
Aragon
)
for
they
without
feare
,
flatterie
,
or
hope
of
gayne
,
doe
counsell
and
guide
kings
,
princes
and
other
men
what
they
ought
to
doe
,
and
what
they
should
not
,
and
they
are
not
importunate
nor
greedie
of
reputation
,
neither
are
they
giuen
to
rauine
and
pillage
,
as
most
part
of
counsellours
nowe
a
dayes
are
,
and
besides
that
,
if
we
will
they
speake
,
if
not
,
they
wil
holde
their
peace
at
our
commaundement
.
Q.
Why
did
Diogenes
merily
affirme
,
that
olde
chéese
and
hard
,
was
better
and
of
greater
vertue
than
the
newe
?
A.
Because
in
making
him
to
cough
that
eateth
of
it
at
supper
,
it
frayeth
so
the
théeues
at
nightes
,
that
they
dare
not
breake
his
house
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
corrupt
Iustice
?
A.
Partialitie
,
loue
,
hate
,
prayer
,
feare
,
and
reward
.
Q.
What
is
the
office
of
a
husband
towardes
his
wife
.
A.
To
guard
,
and
kéepe
her
honour
,
too
féede
,
and
cloath
her
,
and
to
giue
her
good
instructions
.
Q.
What
is
the
duetie
of
the
wife
towardes
her
husband
.
A.
To
loue
him
sincerely
,
to
haue
a
care
ouer
his
person
,
to
render
him
obedience
,
and
to
study
to
appease
his
choler
if
he
be
angry
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
amongst
all
others
right
tedious
to
endure
?
A.
Long
raine
,
long
spéech
,
the
wind
,
prison
,
and
maladie
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
a
man
cannot
liue
without
?
A.
Water
,
ayre
,
bread
,
fire
.
and
salt
.
Q.
What
is
the
cause
,
and
Source
of
the
infelicitie
of
man
?
A.
His
owne
proper
malice
and
iniquitie
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
sins
that
require
bengeaunce
before
God
?
A.
The
euill
or
wrong
done
to
an
Innocent
,
the
sinne
of
Sodome
,
the
retaining
of
his
wages
from
a
poore
seruaunt
,
and
the
inflaming
of
euill
tongues
.
Q.
What
disease
is
that
,
which
the
elder
a
man
waxeth
,
the
younger
and
fresher
it
waxeth
?
A.
Couetousnes
.
Q.
Why
did
a
certaine
Philosopher
say
to
the
Emperour
Galba
,
that
his
wit
was
ill
lodged
?
A.
Because
the
saide
Emperour
was
crooke
shouldered
.
Q.
What
were
the
two
tokens
by
the
which
Licurgus
the
Lacedemonian
,
iudged
a
ruler
,
do
all
thinges
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
profit
of
the
common
weale
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
a
man
ought
to
iudge
best
aboue
all
other
thinges
?
A.
Vertue
,
without
the
which
nothing
can
be
called
good
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
hath
all
he
will
,
and
the
fruition
of
his
whole
heartes
desire
?
A.
He
that
is
content
with
that
he
hath
,
and
requireth
no
more
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
nobilitie
especially
?
A.
More
in
beautie
of
manners
,
then
of
blood
.
Q.
With
what
armour
should
he
arme
himselfe
,
that
will
fight
against
aduersitie
?
A.
With
Patience
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
maketh
a
man
most
timerous
and
fearefull
?
A.
An
euill
conscience
.
Q.
What
difference
is
there
betwéene
the
Lord
and
the
seruant
?
A.
None
concerning
the
man
,
much
concerning
seruitude
.
Q.
How
might
a
man
do
to
be
alwaies
without
feare
?
A.
Let
him
speake
little
,
and
doe
well
.
Q.
What
are
the
three
things
enemies
and
contrary
to
good
counsell
?
A.
Hast
,
anger
,
and
conetousnes
.
Q.
Where
ought
one
to
write
wisedome
,
and
science
?
A.
Not
in
bookes
,
but
in
the
hearts
of
men
,
sayth
Socrates
.
Q.
What
giueth
the
good
and
the
euill
?
A.
Wisedoine
sayth
Alexander
(
not
fortune
)
giueth
the
good
and
folly
the
euill
.
Q.
For
what
cause
was
night
made
?
A.
To
thinke
on
that
in
rest
,
that
we
may
doe
the
day
following
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
can
neuer
bee
without
feare
and
gréefe
?
A.
The
enuious
hypocrite
.
Q.
What
is
loue
?
A.
A
hidden
fire
,
a
sweete
venime
,
a
delectable
euil
,
a
pleasant
punishment
,
and
a
flattering
death
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
gift
that
fortune
can
giue
?
A.
Experience
,
which
is
a
founder
of
wisdome
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
make
a
man
willing
to
serue
?
A.
The
people
in
good
order
,
the
wise
man
with
his
workes
,
the
rich
man
iust
and
liberall
,
the
poore
man
humble
,
the
young
man
obedient
,
the
olde
man
a
gever
of
good
counsel
,
and
the
woman
shamefast
,
&
honest
.
Q.
What
are
they
that
most
delight
in
thinges
transitory
and
fugitiue
?
A.
Hunters
and
hawkers
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
fortifieth
without
,
&
hath
his
en
emies
within
?
A.
A
man
that
cloathes
himselfe
from
cold
,
and
doth
not
purge
himselfe
from
vice
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
medicine
for
misery
?
A.
Death
.
Q.
What
is
a
great
dowry
?
A.
A
bed
ful
of
strife
.
Q.
What
is
the
easiest
thing
,
and
of
least
cost
,
and
yet
the
best
that
one
can
geue
to
his
friend
:
A.
Good
counsell
.
Q.
What
is
money
?
A.
A
Lampe
or
soule
amongest
dead
and
blynde
men
:
and
he
that
hath
it
not
,
is
nowadayes
dead
amongst
the
quicke
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
armour
and
safegard
of
the
heart
,
repulsing
and
banishing
all
wicked
thoughtes
,
&
kéeping
it
frée
from
euill
cogitations
?
A.
A
labouring
hande
.
Q.
Why
haue
men
diuers
enemies
?
A.
It
may
be
peraduenture
because
they
loue
themselues
too
much
.
Q.
What
is
an
euil
thing
,
and
yet
hath
a
good
name
?
A.
An
euill
brother
.
Q.
Why
did
Plato
thinke
that
hangemen
were
more
curteous
then
Tyrantes
?
A.
Because
hangemen
kill
the
culpable
and
guiltie
,
but
tyrantes
often
murder
the
innocent
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
vertues
excellent
in
a
Captaine
?
A.
Audacitie
against
his
enemies
,
beneuolence
towardes
his
souldiers
,
&
good
counsell
in
matters
of
weight
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Egyptians
and
Lacedemoniens
compare
great
Lords
to
flaming
fire
?
A.
Because
the
néerer
a
man
is
to
them
,
the
sooner
he
shal
burne
and
be
harmed
:
Q.
How
is
fame
obtained
:
A.
By
liuing
vertuously
,
and
dying
for
ones
countrie
.
Q.
What
doe
women
desire
aboue
all
thinges
?
A.
To
mary
themselues
to
a
lusty
yong
youth
,
to
take
pleasure
in
children
,
to
be
well
apparelled
,
&
aboue
all
things
to
be
mistresse
of
the
house
.
Q.
Ouer
what
people
is
it
that
death
hath
no
iurisdiction
?
A.
Ouer
the
vertuous
.
Q.
Why
lyeth
the
hearte
of
the
vertuous
man
lower
then
of
others
?
A.
Because
in
him
lye
drowned
all
the
iniuries
that
fortune
can
doe
.
Q.
How
may
a
man
make
himself
praised
?
A.
In
dispraising
himself
with
reason
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
aduersitie
that
a
man
can
haue
:
A.
That
which
deterreth
him
from
euill
words
and
euill
déedes
.
Q.
What
is
the
reason
that
money
is
more
rife
with
the
euill
,
then
with
the
good
?
A.
Because
the
good
cannot
lye
,
sweare
,
vse
vsurie
,
and
deceiue
their
neighbours
.
Q.
What
is
the
ordinary
profit
of
a
schoolematster
?
A.
To
bee
inheritour
of
all
the
errors
of
his
Schollers
,
and
to
confesse
that
all
the
profit
that
they
gaine
,
is
by
their
owne
dexteritie
of
wit
.
Q.
What
is
the
right
propertie
of
a
vertuous
man
?
A.
To
beare
in
memorie
the
benefites
receiued
,
to
forget
all
iniuries
done
,
to
thinke
the
litle
that
he
hath
a
great
deale
,
not
to
regard
the
great
deale
of
another
man
,
to
fauour
the
good
,
to
flatter
with
the
euel
,
to
bee
greate
with
the
great
,
and
fréendly
with
inferiours
,
and
to
be
fréend
to
few
,
and
enemie
to
none
.
Q.
What
is
the
lightest
thing
of
all
others
?
A.
The
heart
or
thought
of
man
:
because
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
,
it
will
compasse
all
the
world
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
can
scarcelie
knowe
his
fréendes
,
or
whether
he
haue
any
or
no
?
A.
He
that
is
rich
and
fortunate
.
Q.
What
is
an
olde
father
?
A.
A
fugitiue
consolation
.
Q.
Of
moral
vertues
,
which
is
the
greatest
?
A.
Force
,
for
shée
bringes
to
passe
,
that
man
feareth
not
death
.
Q.
What
kinde
of
men
haue
their
eares
at
their
knees
?
A.
They
which
will
not
heare
a
man
,
vnlesse
he
bow
himselfe
downe
,
and
speake
too
their
knees
.
Q.
What
is
the
onely
thing
that
man
can
not
ouercome
?
A.
Hunger
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Lacedemoniens
and
The
banes
paynt
the
images
of
iudges
blinde
and
without
handes
?
A.
To
shewe
that
iustice
shoulde
bee
no
way
corrupted
.
Q.
What
is
pouertie
?
A.
The
mother
and
mistres
of
good
manners
,
who
only
feareth
no
change
of
estates
nor
the
fraudulent
force
of
théeues
.
Q.
Who
is
hee
that
cannot
dye
sodainly
?
A.
He
that
liueth
sixtie
or
seuentie
yeres
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
hath
alwayes
a
good
Cooke
?
A.
He
that
eateth
alwaies
when
hunger
oppresseth
him
.
Q.
What
are
the
bad
thinges
that
driue
a
man
out
of
his
house
?
A.
A
bad
wyfe
,
smoke
,
raine
,
and
want
of
victuales
.
Q.
Why
doe
women
cloath
and
couer
themselues
so
sumptuously
?
A.
Because
fowle
thinges
séeke
to
couer
themselues
still
sooner
then
faire
things
.
Q.
What
are
the
richest
&
fairest
Iewels
that
a
woman
can
haue
?
A.
A
vertuous
husbande
,
and
vertuous
children
.
Q.
What
is
a
faire
childe
?
A.
A
glory
to
the
wife
,
and
a
suspition
to
the
husband
.
Q.
What
is
aduersitie
?
A.
The
mother
of
Temperaunce
,
the
Nourse
of
Glory
,
and
a
spurre
of
vertue
.
Q.
Why
did
the
auntient
learned
men
,
and
sages
,
disdaine
to
be
called
doctors
?
A.
Because
they
saide
and
affirmed
that
vertue
had
néed
of
no
other
title
than
her
own
.
Q.
To
what
may
one
compare
a
vertuous
man
,
speaking
dishonestly
?
A.
To
an
vnclean
vessell
ful
of
pure
wine
.
Q.
What
was
the
cause
that
Socrates
often
exhorted
and
permitted
his
schollers
and
youthes
,
to
looke
themselues
in
glasses
?
A.
Because
in
beholding
their
owne
beautie
,
and
elegancie
of
their
bodies
,
they
might
studie
to
make
their
mindes
conformable
to
the
same
by
good
disciplines
,
and
if
in
the
glasse
they
appeared
fowle
,
and
deformed
,
they
might
studie
how
to
amend
that
deformitie
by
vertue
.
Q.
Why
did
Licurgus
forbid
the
Lacedemoniens
to
banket
?
A.
Because
in
banqueting
men
loose
their
iudgment
by
drinking
,
their
grauitie
by
speaking
,
and
their
health
by
eating
too
much
.
Q.
What
was
the
order
and
obseruance
at
Mariages
of
the
Lacedemoniens
?
A.
To
haue
onely
nine
persons
in
company
,
&
to
giue
wine
to
him
the
held
his
peace
.
Q.
Where
should
a
man
séeke
his
goods
?
A.
Where
his
friendes
are
.
Q.
What
is
the
most
dangerous
ignorance
that
may
be
?
A.
Neither
to
know
God
nor
himselfe
.
Q.
Wherein
lyeth
the
force
of
an
army
?
A.
In
counsell
,
in
the
happe
of
the
Captaines
,
in
the
heartes
of
the
Souldiers
,
in
the
situation
of
the
fielde
,
and
chiefly
in
the
will
of
God
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
best
for
him
that
wil
make
good
chéere
?
A.
A
mery
hostesse
,
laughing
breade
,
leaping
wine
,
trembling
fleshe
,
and
weeping
cheese
and
weightie
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
maketh
Alquimiftes
,
fooles
,
poore
,
and
insensed
?
A.
Mercury
.
Q.
How
commeth
it
to
passe
that
flatterers
haue
commonly
so
great
credite
with
Princes
?
A.
Because
they
are
so
amorous
of
them selues
,
they
loue
to
heare
themselues
praised
:
and
in
this
they
resemble
the
Dwle
,
that
hath
her
eye
sight
dimmed
at
midde
day
.
Q.
How
should
a
man
proceede
in
correcting
or
reprehending
another
man
?
A.
As
the
Phisition
doeth
in
healing
his
patient
,
that
is
,
to
shewe
him selfe
sweete
and
pleasant
and
not
a
reuenger
:
for
the
phisition
that
killeth
his
patient
,
is
not
a
phisition
,
but
a
hangman
or
executioner
.
Q.
Who
is
the
father
,
that
when
the
sonne
offendeth
,
inuiteth
him
too
offende
againe
?
A.
He
which
winketh
at
his
fault
and
pardoneth
him
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
glasse
a
man
can
vse
?
A.
His
owne
thought
,
for
therin
he
may
sée
both
his
fayrenes
and
his
foulnes
.
Q.
What
is
the
life
without
learning
?
A.
A
tree
without
fruite
,
a
day
without
sunne
,
a
night
without
moone
and
starres
,
a
house
without
a
man
,
and
a
body
without
a
heade
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
may
easily
vanquishe
his
enemie
?
A.
He
that
demaundeth
nothing
but
reason
.
Q.
When
is
the
season
,
that
a
woman
thinketh
woorst
?
A.
Then
specially
when
she
is
alone
and
ydle
.
Q.
What
are
those
commonweales
or
kingdomes
that
easily
fall
to
decay
?
A.
Those
where
tyranny
raineth
,
and
policie
is
of
no
power
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
diminish
pride
?
A.
Sicknes
,
and
pouertie
.
Q.
What
is
the
way
to
leade
a
happy
life
?
A.
To
put
a
bridle
to
the
tongue
,
the
hands
the
belly
,
and
carnall
lustes
.
Q.
Who
is
the
seruant
that
may
say
to
his
maister
,
I
force
thee
not
,
thou
art
seruant
to
my
seruant
.
A.
A
poore
man
seruing
a
couetous
carle
,
so
said
Diogenes
to
Alexander
the
great
.
Q.
What
is
the
beast
that
beareth
a
man
both
aliue
and
dead
?
A.
The
horse
,
for
he
caryeth
a
man
on
his
backe
;
and
being
dead
,
they
make
shooes
of
his
skinne
.
Q.
What
ought
Princes
to
entertaine
,
to
the
end
to
haue
continuall
peace
?
A.
Equalitie
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
a
man
ought
warily
to
take
héede
of
?
A.
Of
wine
,
of
fire
,
of
water
,
and
of
a
woman
.
Q.
Of
what
effect
is
seruice
?
A.
It
obtaineth
friendes
.
Q.
What
are
the
fruites
of
flouth
?
A.
A
Melancholy
life
,
miserie
,
pouertie
,
and
dispaire
of
himselfe
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
makes
a
man
most
wise
?
A.
Dayly
experience
.
Q.
What
is
the
recreation
of
the
Soule
?
A.
Sapience
.
Q.
What
ought
a
good
Pilgrim
to
haue
?
A.
An
eloquent
tongue
,
a
true
hand
,
and
a
cleane
mouth
.
Q.
For
what
cause
shoulde
one
neither
praise
nor
dispraise
the
world
?
A.
Because
he
that
praseth
it
too
much
,
may
easily
lye
,
and
he
that
dispraiseth
it
,
is
in
daunger
of
punishment
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
that
depriue
a
man
of
his
temporall
faculties
?
A.
Fortune
,
sicknes
,
and
his
foes
.
Q.
How
ought
we
to
vse
our selues
towardes
our
friendes
?
A.
To
praise
them
openly
,
and
reprehend
them
secretely
.
Q.
Wherewith
onely
is
prosperitie
accompanied
?
A.
With
folly
,
with
aroganeie
,
and
with
enuie
.
Q.
Why
do
we
sée
Philosophers
at
princes
gates
,
sooner
then
Princes
at
Philosophers
gates
?
A.
Because
Princes
knowe
not
what
they
haue
néede
of
.
Q.
Why
did
the
wise
man
say
that
it
were
better
to
be
a
begger
then
a
foole
?
A.
Because
a
begger
hath
néede
of
nothing
but
of
money
,
but
a
foole
hath
néede
of
humanitie
and
vnderstanding
.
Q.
What
are
the
déedes
of
charitie
?
A.
To
honor
God
,
to
loue
his
neighbour
,
to
helpe
the
oppressed
,
and
chastize
the
wicked
.
Q.
What
is
death
?
A.
It
is
a
plaie
of
craft
,
and
not
of
force
,
wherein
if
the
player
be
skilfull
,
he
gayneth
a
great
deale
for
a
little
.
Q.
What
is
a
shippe
properly
?
A.
A
wandering
house
without
foundation
.
Q.
What
is
a
remedie
against
enuy
?
A.
To
banish
prosperitie
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
meane
and
way
for
a
prince
to
become
rich
?
A.
To
make
first
his
treasure
of
wise
men
,
and
then
he
shall
become
riche
:
for
as
the
wicked
and
malitious
destroy
and
impouerish
a
prince
,
so
the
wise
enrich
him
with
kingdomes
and
Empires
.
Q.
Why
ought
a
prince
to
knowe
well
his
subiectes
and
vassalls
?
A.
To
the
end
he
may
chastice
the
euill
,
and
rewarde
and
fauour
the
good
.
Q.
Why
ought
we
to
haue
death
still
before
our
eyes
?
A.
To
the
end
we
forget
not
our
saluation
.
Q.
What
are
the
three
things
(
amongst
many
)
that
men
loue
and
haue
in
great
reputation
?
A.
Health
of
the
body
,
abundance
of
riches
,
and
conseruation
of
their
good
name
and
honour
.
Q.
What
is
the
beautie
of
a
woman
?
A.
A
very
mourning
dewe
.
Q.
What
is
the
cause
motiffe
which
most
encourageth
a
valiant
man
to
hazzard
his
life
?
A.
The
safegarde
of
his
rencome
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
which
shews
the
condition
of
the
persen
?
A.
His
speech
,
drinking
,
and
eating
,
the
apparel
of
his
body
,
his
conuersation
,
and
the
experience
of
his
doings
.
Q.
What
are
the
twoo
things
most
necessarie
for
the
sure
guarde
of
ones
life
?
A.
Good
fréendes
,
or
els
great
enemies
.
Q.
Who
is
he
that
leades
a
merry
life
?
A.
He
that
liues
a
veriuous
life
.
Q.
What
is
a
man
?
A.
He
is
(
sayth
Aristotle
)
a
stranger
on
earth
,
a
Pilgrime
,
exemple
of
malady
,
a
pray
of
time
,
a
play
of
fortune
,
an
Image
of
ruine
a
ballance
of
enuie
and
calamitie
,
and
all
the
rest
fleugme
and
choler
.
Q.
Who
are
the
best
craftsmen
amongst
all
others
?
A.
The
good
,
for
they
without
sin
,
fault
,
or
offence
,
do
al
things
well
and
perfectly
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
most
mainteineth
artes
?
A.
Honour
.
Q.
How
may
men
obtaine
iust
things
at
the
handes
of
their
betters
?
A.
In
asking
vniust
thinges
.
Q.
What
is
prosperitie
?
A.
A
vaine
pastime
of
fortune
.
Q.
What
is
the
last
solace
in
aduersi
t
is
?
A.
Hope
.
Q.
Wherewith
should
riches
be
sustained
and
accompanied
?
A.
With
Prudence
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
let
that
a
man
can
haue
to
become
happy
?
A.
Folly
.
Q.
Which
is
the
best
beautie
?
A.
That
which
is
without
arte
,
or
payting
.
Q.
What
arte
learneth
he
the
is
stil
sick
?
A.
To
die
.
Q.
What
is
the
office
of
a
good
Prince
?
A.
To
be
valiaunt
,
iust
,
seuere
,
&
haughtie
to
chastice
the
euill
,
and
reward
the
good
,
to
roote
out
vices
,
and
plant
vertues
,
and
to
to
be
a
Tyrant
;
and
a
Iudge
,
potentate
,
or
officer
to
be
a
théefe
?
A.
To
spend
much
,
and
haue
little
.
Q.
What
are
the
thrée
things
(
amongst
others
)
that
a
good
housholder
shoulde
take
heede
of
?
A.
Of
new
wine
,
gréene
wood
,
and
whot
bread
.
Q.
What
is
the
onely
thing
that
lettes
vs
to
know
a
friende
from
a
dissembler
?
A.
Pouertie
.
Q.
What
is
the
difference
betwéene
a
wise
man
and
a
foole
?
A.
The
same
(
saieth
Plato
)
that
is
betwéene
a
sicke
man
and
a
Phisition
:
and
as
much
(
saieth
Aristotle
)
as
is
betwéen
a
quick
man
and
a
dead
.
Q.
Why
are
women
(
by
Marcus
Aurelius
)
compared
to
shippes
?
A.
Because
to
kéepe
them
wel
and
in
order
,
there
is
alwaies
somthing
wanting
,
although
it
be
but
a
naile
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
conuenient
for
one
to
speake
well
?
A.
Courage
,
skill
,
vse
and
pleasantnes
.
Q.
Why
did
Propertius
thinke
gold
to
be
the
strongest
thing
of
this
world
?
A.
Because
it
breaketh
,
cities
,
walles
,
heartes
of
men
,
sayth
,
lawes
,
and
all
orders
,
and
to
say
trueth
we
liue
in
this
golden
age
,
wherein
it
rayneth
so
.
Q.
At
what
houre
is
it
best
to
dine
?
A.
The
rich
man
,
when
he
wil
;
the
poore
man
,
when
he
may
.
Q.
When
is
man
woorse
than
a
beast
?
A.
When
he
rageth
beyond
reason
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
most
anger
a
man
and
make
him
most
vnpatient
?
A.
To
serue
an
vnthankfull
maister
,
to
aske
and
not
obteyne
,
to
giue
and
haue
no
thankes
,
and
to
loose
his
time
in
a
long
and
booteles
sute
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
members
of
a
mans
body
,
that
are
neuer
full
to
the
toppe
.
A.
The
eares
of
hearing
,
the
hands
of
heaping
,
the
tongue
of
speaking
,
and
the
heart
of
destring
.
Q.
What
are
a
mans
most
enemies
?
A.
His
familiars
or
them
of
his
familie
:
it
may
also
be
vnderstoode
of
his
vices
,
as
his
folly
,
or
euel
gouernment
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
are
onely
requisite
,
wherewith
to
gouerne
the
worlde
well
,
and
orderly
?
A.
Gain
,
loue
,
&
to
sée
his
seruice
is
acceptabe
Q.
What
is
requisite
in
an
honest
man
?
A.
To
heare
patiently
,
to
answere
discretely
,
to
offend
no
man
,
and
to
serue
euery
one
.
Q.
When
was
loue
and
charitie
lost
in
the
world
?
A.
When
money
came
in
reputation
.
Q.
What
is
the
propertie
of
a
good
seruant
?
A.
To
obey
patiently
,
to
serue
diligently
,
to
speake
ioyfully
,
and
to
be
loyall
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
fault
,
with
Cicero
,
that
can
be
in
a
good
man
?
A.
To
approue
and
praise
the
euill
for
the
good
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
euery
one
most
coueteth
,
and
least
exerciseth
,
by
the
which
al
debates
,
questions
,
and
processe
are
decided
?
A.
Reason
.
Q.
Who
are
they
that
may
be
called
twise
miserable
?
A.
They
that
couet
to
knowe
of
the
Astrologians
that
which
cannot
be
eschewed
.
Q.
What
is
Science
?
A.
It
is
like
the
roote
of
a
trée
,
and
the
operations
are
the
branches
?
Q.
How
learneth
one
to
do
euill
?
A.
In
doing
nothing
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
tokens
to
knowe
a
wise
man
by
?
A.
To
endure
,
is
the
first
poynte
:
the
seconde
is
,
if
he
exalte
not
himselfe
when
he
is
praysed
:
and
the
third
is
,
to
kéepe
hissecrete
to
himselfe
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
necessary
and
requisite
for
a
good
Iudge
?
A.
To
heare
with
patience
,
to
aunswere
with
prudence
,
to
giue
sentence
with
iustice
,
and
to
execute
with
mercie
:
for
being
vnpacient
in
hearing
,
vaine
in
answering
,
partial
in
iudging
,
and
cruell
in
executing
,
he
is
better
worthy
to
be
iudged
,
then
iudge
.
Q.
Why
did
wise
men
forbid
vs
to
call
mundans
goods
our
own
?
A.
Because
the
which
we
may
be
depriued
of
by
reason
,
is
not
our
owne
,
but
fortunes
:
But
onely
vertue
which
we
get
our selues
,
is
our
owne
.
Q.
What
effectes
haue
the
foure
Elements
in
mankinde
?
A.
The
earth
engendreth
the
fleshe
,
the
water
humors
,
the
ayre
wind
or
breath
,
and
the
fire
naturall
heate
.
Q.
What
difference
is
there
betwéene
citie
dogs
,
and
dogs
of
the
country
?
A.
The
Citie
dogs
bark
at
them
that
go
euill
apparelled
;
and
the
countrey
dogges
at
them
that
go
gay
.
Q.
Whereon
dependeth
a
mans
good
name
?
A.
On
the
tongues
of
other
men
.
Q.
What
profiteth
it
early
rysing
?
A.
Early
rising
is
good
for
the
health
,
and
early
rising
is
good
for
the
wealth
.
Q.
What
are
the
foure
good
mothers
,
that
bring
forth
foure
euill
daughters
?
A.
Trueth
getteth
hatred
,
familiaritie
contempt
,
vertue
ignorance
&
riches
enuie
.
Q.
What
is
it
to
be
praised
of
fooles
,
wicked
and
euill
persons
?
A.
It
is
better
to
be
dyspraised
of
wise
,
skilful
,
and
honest
persons
.
Q.
What
are
the
riches
of
mariage
?
A.
Faith
,
concord
,
and
progenie
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
most
difficulte
to
measure
?
A.
It
is
time
:
because
it
ought
so
iustly
to
be
measured
,
that
there
be
not
too
little
to
do
good
,
nor
too
much
to
do
euil
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Thebans
kil
and
strangle
their
male
Children
that
were
too
sayre
,
and
their
daughters
that
were
too
foule
?
A.
Because
they
thought
that
men
excessiue
faire
were
vnperfect
women
,
and
women
too
foule
were
beastes
.
Q.
What
two
instructers
should
a
man
haue
to
get
vertue
?
A.
One
dumb
that
is
to
say
,
bookes
;
and
another
speaking
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
maister
.
Q.
What
thing
is
most
capable
?
A.
Place
,
for
it
comprehendeth
al
things
.
Q.
What
is
the
thing
that
meriteth
the
palme
of
all
beautie
?
A.
The
world
.
Q.
Who
is
the
strongest
amongst
men
?
A.
He
,
saieth
Plato
,
that
can
vanquish
his
anger
,
and
kéepe
his
owne
secret
.
Q.
How
might
a
man
do
to
liue
iustly
?
A.
Let
him
take
that
counsel
for
him self
that
he
giueth
to
others
.
Q.
How
may
one
knowe
a
maister
from
a
seruaunt
?
A.
In
marking
how
he
can
rule
his
appetite
.
Q.
What
is
the
Smell
of
smelles
?
A.
Bread
.
Q.
What
is
the
sauour
of
sauours
?
A.
Salt
.
Q.
What
is
the
greatest
loue
of
al
loues
?
A.
That
which
a
Father
beareth
to
his
children
.
Q.
What
is
the
best
and
most
notable
inchauntement
that
women
can
vse
to
obtaine
the
loue
of
their
husbandes
?
A.
To
be
silent
,
peaceable
,
pacient
,
solitarie
and
honest
,
of
the
which
fiue
hearbes
they
may
make
a
medicine
,
the
which
séene
,
&
not
tasted
of
their
husbandes
,
they
shall
not
onely
be
loued
,
but
also
worshipped
.
Q.
What
fruite
should
one
thinke
best
and
worst
?
A.
The
treasure
of
the
Indians
is
not
to
be
compared
to
that
fruite
which
a
woman
beareth
in
her
womb
,
if
it
be
honest
and
vertuous
.
Q.
What
are
the
strongest
thinges
amongst
all
other
,
and
without
comparison
?
A.
God
,
Trueth
,
and
Vertue
.
Q.
What
is
the
easiest
thing
to
get
and
obtaine
?
A.
That
which
one
desireth
most
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
amongst
all
others
,
common
to
man
?
A.
Life
,
Dishappe
,
Laughing
,
and
wéeping
.
Q.
What
signe
is
it
to
sée
many
rich
Phisitions
in
a
Citie
?
A.
A
signe
of
excessiue
aboundance
of
delightes
and
vices
:
for
the
man
by
excessiue
delights
,
becommeth
sicke
,
and
out
of
health
.
Q.
Why
is
a
good
woman
,
though
not
faire
,
compared
to
the
Phesant
;
and
an
euill
woman
,
though
faire
,
to
the
Sabie
,
Marter
,
or
foynes
?
A.
Because
that
although
the
fethers
of
the
Phesaunt
be
of
little
account
,
yet
is
the
flesh
good
and
wholsome
:
whereas
contrary
the
skinne
of
the
Marter
or
foynes
is
had
in
price
,
but
the
flesh
is
nothing
worth
.
Q.
How
comes
it
to
passe
that
many
haue
a
cardinall
or
red
nose
?
A.
Because
(
saieth
Diogenes
)
their
flesh
is
yet
raw
and
vnboyled
.
Q.
Whereof
procéed
so
many
discordes
and
controuersies
betwéen
princes
and
their
subiects
?
A.
The
subiectes
complaine
of
the
little
loue
of
their
Princes
,
and
the
Princes
complayne
of
the
disobedience
of
theyr
subiectes
.
Q.
Why
did
the
Philosopher
iudge
an
euill
woman
to
be
worse
then
hell
?
A.
Because
hell
tormenteth
the
euill
only
,
but
a
wicked
woman
tormenteth
both
the
good
and
the
had
.
Q.
How
comes
it
to
passe
that
many
now
adayes
will
goe
gay
clad
outwardly
,
and
not
studie
to
amende
their
viees
inwardely
?
A.
For
lacke
of
wisdome
and
superabundance
of
folly
.
Q.
Who
is
the
mother
most
pitifull
of
all
other
mothers
,
who
although
her
sonne
hath
dispised
her
,
and
often
troden
her
vnder
his
féete
:
yet
in
fine
receaueth
him
againe
into
her
entrales
?
A.
It
is
the
earth
,
general
mother
of
all
mankinde
.
Q.
Wherein
consisteth
true
wisdome
?
A.
In
iudging
truly
of
thinges
,
and
estéeming
euery
one
according
to
his
value
,
not
desiring
vile
things
as
precious
,
nor
reiecting
precious
thinges
as
vile
and
abiecte
.
Q.
Why
ought
one
equally
to
winne
the
loue
of
the
foole
,
as
well
as
of
the
wise
man
?
A.
Because
the
foole
shall
not
hate
him
,
and
dispraise
him
,
wheras
the
wiseman
doth
loue
him
,
and
praise
him
.
Q.
What
are
the
thinges
that
can
neither
be
bought
nor
solde
for
price
,
nor
esteemed
at
any
value
?
A.
Vertue
Libertie
,
Health
,
Knowledge
an
Renowme
.
Q.
What
is
the
beast
that
most
byteth
,
and
doeth
least
hurt
?
A.
It
is
he
(
saieth
Diogenes
)
that
reprehendeth
his
friendes
without
flatterie
;
for
as
dogges
and
flatterers
bite
,
the
one
for
to
wound
,
the
other
to
dispoile
:
so
true
friends
correct
the
faultes
of
their
neighbours
,
and
bite
them
to
amend
,
and
lay
folly
aside
.
Q.
What
sortes
of
people
amongst
all
others
are
most
worthy
of
blame
?
A.
They
that
vse
reproch
.
Q.
What
are
the
things
by
reason
estéemed
most
loyall
in
the
world
?
A.
Fire
,
Earth
,
Water
,
Ayre
,
Sléepe
,
Hunger
,
Thirst
and
Death
,
for
they
serue
the
poore
as
well
as
the
rich
.
Q.
What
are
the
true
conseruers
of
heith
?
A.
Sobrietie
,
Moderate
labour
,
to
hold
the
séede
of
Nature
,
to
be
mery
,
and
liue
in
a
healthfull
place
.
Q.
Who
are
those
that
yéeld
themselues
to
voluntary
captiuitie
?
A.
They
that
become
subiect
to
women
or
wine
.
Q.
What
is
charitie
?
A.
To
loue
God
for
him selfe
,
and
his
neighbour
for
the
loue
of
God
.
Q.
What
is
the
worst
warre
that
is
?
A.
The
warre
viscerale
,
that
is
,
when
a
man
is
enemie
to
him selfe
.
Q.
Why
did
the
auncient
fathers
iudge
husbandrie
to
bee
the
onely
exercise
that
a
man
should
vse
?
A.
Because
that
with
pleasure
it
also
bringes
profit
.
Q.
How
comes
it
to
passe
that
some
children
disperse
and
scatter
their
fathers
goodes
being
dead
so
soone
?
A.
Because
none
knoweth
how
to
kéepe
a
thing
,
but
he
that
hath
gotten
it
with
labour
.
Q.
What
is
goodwill
?
A.
The
foundation
of
good
workes
,
and
good
workes
are
the
messengers
of
another
world
.
FINIS
.