"So did the men of Gotam tye their rentes in a purse about an hare's necke and bad her to carrie it to their landlord." "He that bestowes rewards to insinuate himself into friendship is like Bath-kepers asse that brought his master fewell home to make fires and he himself liued with smell of the smoake." "Such a pearle in a blackamoores eare woulde make him whytt." "Clitipho began a tale of lack a naile, which I am afraid you will not tarry till you haue heard. It was an halt king, and a blind queene, and they got a lame sonne, and he would go to the nine endes of the world to seeke his fortune, & whe he was there, he was there: he met with a pilgrim, God geue you good euen, which is the way to Poclinton; a pokeful of plummes; he clamb vp into a thistle tree and cut downe an hasyll twigge, and broke his heade till it was whole: and when he came home he was as wise as a woodcocke." "I haue read that Attyla king of Pamoria slew eleuen thousand virgines at the siege of Colonia: but a man might induce mee, without a sermon pareneticall for exhortation, that hee might seeke bethe where they were and were not, as Skoggin did the hare, and presse an army royall of arrand honest women, to scale the fortresse of modestie with friday faced scoulds, ere he coulde triump for halfe such a victory in twise so much space." "Poore vnbegotten wether beaten Qualto, an hob hansom man god wot, and a bow wow to his lady & mistresse seruing a Lady in Italy as a Tom drudge of the pudding house." "War knaue, quoth Tomkins to his shadow: for he seing his shadowe in the nighte, tooke it for one that came to spoile him, to whom, knauing it, and slauing it, hee gaue many a good bang." "Farewell fortie pence too deare of three shillings." "I haue red that in an old smokie authour, which the I thought worthie noting, and here I meane to insert, and this it is in our vulgar tongue: I haue seldome sene a long man wise, or a lowe man lowlie." "Nick Noddie hath the lucke when Welladay Wit liues in lacke." "If you will kepe frends, you must put in practise this old delectorie. Giue, take, seeke; all things, few things, nothing." "Gentlemen, in our daies, will bee cozins to all of any port or great report in the whole shire though their gransires dog scarse leapt ouer their grandames hatch; but if a poore man be in the second degree, he is not in the catalogue of their genealogic." "It is a prouerbe in England that the men of Tiuidal, borderers on ye. English midle marches, haue likers, lemmo^s, and lyerbies." Two or three short poems are inserted, of which the following is the most favourable specimen : "Might mournfull wailing end my daies, His will is still as erst it was, no froward chaunce can chaunge his choise, In lieu whereof fame sound his praise with most triumphant ioyfull voice." J. H. ¶Here be gathered counsailes of Saincte Isidorie, to informe man, howe he shulde flee vices and folowe vertues. Londini in ædibus Thoma Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno M.D. XLIIII. Ŏct. 16 leaves. Without introduction; these gathered counsails are divided under several heads, as "Honest conuersacion. Fle thou simulacion, feine not holinesse in darke clothynge. Such as thou woldest ben hold, suche be thou in dede. Shewe thy profession in liuynge and not not in tokens. In clothyng, and in goynge, haue with the simplenesse: in thy gate and in thy mouynge cleannes, in thy bearing sadnesse, in thy walkyng honestie, nothing of vilany, nothynge of vncleannesse, nothyng of wildenesse. Beware in thy gouernance, that there appere nothyng of beastlynesse. Giue not to other cause for to scorne the, gyue thou not to any man cause to backbite the." "A vowe made. Do the good that thou haste behote. Be not light in word and harde in dede. Thou shalt be much giltie to god, that fulfyll not their vowes. I say not vowes that ben euyl but good. For if thou through thy foly hast made a fonde vowe, through the dome of a discrete man be it wysely tourned into good." * The Problemes of Aristotle, with other Philosophers and Phisitions. Wherein are contained diuers questions, with their answers, touching the estate of mans bodie. [Device of Thomas Orwin with motto By wisdome peace, by peace plenty.] At London printed by the Widdow Orwin. 1595. Duod. A short address to the reader, followed by the problems of Aristotle, of "Marcvs Antonivs Zimaras Sanctipetrinas Problemes," in number ninety seven and 142 of "Alexander Aphrodisevs Problemes." The general import of the work is sufficiently known, and may well excuse a specimen. At the close of the volume before nie occurs an unusual bibliographical addition, sufficient to make the work appear issuing from either English or Scotch press, to suit the vendor's convenience. The last two leaves of the concluding sheet are a fly leaf lettered "A j." then the following title, which, though only slightly varying from the above, might, prefixed to another copy, ground an opinion of two distinct editions. The Problemes of Aristotle, with other Philosophers and Phisitions. VVherein are contayned diuers questions, with their answers, touching the estate of mans bodie [a fancy metal ornament] At Edenborough, Printed by Robert Waldgraue, 1595. T. Bensley, Printer, J. H. |