depiction of the arts of wooing and complimenting, with personifications of love and eloquence 
THE Mysteries of LOVE and ELOQVENCE The Arts of Wooing and Complementing  


Theatre of Courtship.  
LOVE.  
ELOQVENCE.  
LOVES LIBRARY.      

THE BEAU's Academy, OR THE Modern and Genteel WAY OF Wooing and Complementing. After the most Courtly Manner:  
In which is drawn to the Life, the Deportment of most accomplished Lovers, the Mode of their Courtly Entertainments, the Charms of their Persuasive Language, in their Addresses or more Secret Dispatches.  
To which are added Poems, Songs, Letters of Love and others: Proverbs, Riddles, Jests, Posies, Devices, with variety of Pastimes and Diversions, as Cross-Purposes, the Lover's Alphabet, etc. Also a Dictionary for making Rhimes, Four Hundred and Fifty delightful Questions, with their several Answers.  
TOGETHER WITH A New Invented Art of Logic: So plain and easy, that the meanest Capacity may, in a short time, attain to a Perfection of Arguing and Disputing.  
London, Printed for O. B. and Sold by John Sprint, at the Bell in Little-Britain. 1699.   

The Preface  
To the Youthful Gentry.  
IT hath been such an hereditary practice for the Author, to declare to the Reader the depth of his design, that should I decline this custom, I should not free my Endeavours from the nice exceptions of the too curious Critics of these times. When Plays were at their height, Prologues were so in fashion at the Court, and so desired on the Stage, that without them the Audience could not be pleased; so that the best Poets were forced to satisfy the greedy expectations of the multitude, that gaped and yawned for such set and starched speeches to be gravely delivered to their Worships by the man in the long cloak with the coloured beard. It is reported of Mr. Fletcher, that though he writ with such a free and sparkling Genius, that future Ages shall scarce ever parallel, yet his importunate Commedians would often crowd upon him such impertinences, which to him seem needless and lame excuses, his Works being so good, his indignation rendered them as the only bad Lines his modest Thalia was ever humbled with. The truth is, when an Author hath set down well, and so descended to his Readers capacity, that his Muse is obvious and easy to be understood, what needs there a Clavis or a Thread where there is no Labyrinth; notwithstanding, we cannot but be sensible that some Prefaces have so abused the credulous Readers trust, that they cannot now be too slightly set by, as most of them may; and that not improperly, be fitly compared to rich capparrisoned Jades, to painted Inn-posts, to Wenches admirably tricked forth, but pull off their dress, and they look like flayed Cats. What the Countryman said of the Nightingale, Nox & praeterea nihil, A great cry and no wool, may be rightly applied to them. I acknowledge, Courteous Reader, that as I have already in my Epistle to the Coy Ladies, discoursed Jovially and Ironically of Love, as also in my other Advertisement, treated by way of Introduction, of the right management of Eloquence and Compliments, if I had not still enforced my Intellectuals to further serious and useful Instructions, for my Readers greater benefit, this Preface had been like those I have found fault with, superfluous; or at least to little purpose. And now it will be expected, nor can I do otherwise, then make an ingenious confession, why I set those subjects of Love and Compliments apart by themselves; I shall give my Reader sufficient reason, that I might not justle too much matter into this Preface, which I only intent for a Landscape to the Work, my whole design being included in these two particulars. First, why I have published this Volume. Secondly, what Profit and Delight an understanding Reader may expect to drive to himself from his diligent perusal of it.  
For the first, to deal plainly with my Countrymen, the several simple Pamphlets that have treated so surreptitiously of this subject, exacted this employment from me; as I could not but be highly incensed, to see them so cheated and baffled by such specious pretenders, but most wretched performers of what they undertook. I will not vex my Reader with the Names or Titles they are distinguished or dignified with, I hope by this time all Ingenious Persons have learned sufficiently to detest them. For my own part, in these my Studies I have not so much as taken any other notice of them, then to shun the infection of their papers; and though some may object that the Green is the same that we bowl on, such persons, if they make but the least inquisition, shall quickly find that my Bias is turned another way, my flight is higher, my engagements are different; for without any vain glory I may confidently attest to the world, that the contributions of several persons of Honour, as well by their particular prescriptions, as also by the assistance of their choicest Manuscripts, built up this Volume. It took its birth from them, to whom with a most sincere gratitude it doth again humbly dedicate itself.  
For my second Consideration, what benefit the Peruser of this Book is likely to acquire to himself, I shall express to him in few words; he hath, as I may rightly call it, a Magazine richly furnished, for his dispatch of any of those high Concernments, Cupid or Mercury shall at any time instate him in; all manner of Addresses, Entertainments, and Ceremonies, whether of Salutation, Love or Courtship, which are comprehended under those Heads of Wooing and Compliments; from whence as from two Springs, the other lesser streams do distil, whether of Prose or Verse, serious or Drolling Subjects in Letters, or otherwise; these contain in them, a grand part of the body of this Work; for the other Additions of Proverbs, Posies, Characters, Jests, Clinches, Similitudes, etc. as also the Miscelania, of Natural, Amorous, Moral, Experimental, Paradoxical, Enigmatical, and Jovial Questions with their Answers, I am confident they will no less enrich the Readers Mind, then admirably delight his Fancy. As for the several A-la-mode Games and Sports, I have inserted them with such plain demonstrations, that any person of a reasonable capacity, may quickly be expert in them; to which purpose I have invented a Rhyming Dictionary, consisting of Monasyllables, for the ending of Verses, applicable for those that are young Practioners in the pleasant Sport named Crambo: together with another particular Alphabet, entitled, The trial of Wits, which consists of Epithets, properly fitted for immediate use, on the sudden occasions of Writing or Discourse, which I have also appropriated to the other Recreation, so much in fashion, called Substantives and Adjectives. And that the Ingenious Reader may be assured of my care and industry, to render this Book worthy of his acceptance, I have also presented him with a complete Tract of the Art of Logic by way of Question and Answer, so clearly delineated, that the Judicious Student may in a short time attain to a competent knowledge of those most necessary ways of Arguing and Disputing, so much practised in the Universities.  
How advantageous this work will be to all intelligent Persons, will more easily be instanced, if we rightly consider the incongruity of men's parts, and look narrowly into their gifts; one speaks well, but writes improperly, another employs his pen in excellent sense, but wants good language; another hath a good invention but no method; so that whatsoever some of our Moderns pretend to their ex tempore inspirations, it cannot but be confessed by all men in their right minds, that Artificial set Forms may be aiding to them all, not as they are literally to be applied but as they are additional helps to quicken and enlighten the Genius. This my assertion will be clearly made good, if we do but consider the smooth effeminate silken tribe, how some of them demean themselves, who if they are put to it on sudden alarms or unexpected summons of their fancies by letters, or otherwise, how are they forced in such exigents, to have recourse to their Romances, Plays, Manuscripts, and such like Common place books, they turn down the page, transcribe, and for the present subsist on such slender notions. How without blushing can I express it, that I have known a wench of fourteen, with a few Dramatical Drayton and Sidney Quillets, put to the non plus a Gallant of thirty; I may safely dispose on it, that I have heard such a Lass defeat a Gentleman of some years standing at the Inns of Court.  
To those that scruple at Complimental Ceremonies and Tenders of Service, I positively affirm, that such nimble applications, if rightly directed, are most absolutely useful; and that those which have been adorned with such qualifications have had such tall advantages over others, as seldom or never to fall short of their ends; more especially when their good behaviours have been set off with Eloquence, which though it often carries with itself a false fire, yet if it be smoothly and discreetly managed, it works wonders, not only for the present, but future times to admire at. Not to detain the worthy Reader with any longer suspense of so unquestioned a truth, I shall only desire thee to take notice, that these my endeavours had a gentle rise, so they still carry with them a more than ordinary splendour; as they have shuned the common road of all former Writers, so that if with Phaeton my muse is sometimes placed in the Chariot of the Sun, that she soars at the highest and most generous Designs; she may apologise for herself, that it was not her ambition, but the commands of several noble Persons, whose importunity from her most serious Studies diverted her so far, as to make her participate of their recreations, whether they took the air in the Spring Garden, razed in Hide Park, or expaciated, as Portugals called it, in New Exchange, or otherwise reveled at their Balls; in all which Celebrations of pleasures with them, though my Muse was obleiged to observe some particulars, yet they are such as are civil and modest, such as need no veil, nor reflect upon any person whatsoever; and I hope so well of her, that as her Sphere is higher, she hath not been deficient in this her Deportment, so as to stoop to any more inferior Theme, then what might be worthy of her. Courteous Reader, of late there hath been a scarcity of Wit, it will therefore seem to be more discretion in us, for to husband it as well as we can; what thou hast here, as I have sufficiently intimated, hath been derived from the best hands, such sprightly quick wit, as I can assure thee no language in so small a page ever afforded better: In a word, thou mayest rest satisfied, that the ingenuity that is contained in this Book, is to much for one single brain to teem with, and therefore wonder not, if in such a Caskanet thou findest so much of invaluable treasure to enrich thy Fancy with; such, but that it seems too proud an expression from myself, others have been bold to affirm, that to complete this Volume, they could not imagine what more could be added or invented. For my own part, worthy Reader, I submit these my best endeavours to thy impartial and judicious censure, I esteem of thy well poised Genius, as the only Jacob's staff, with which the height of these conceptions can be rightly taken; and whatsoever the inconsiderate opinion of some ridiculous Critics may be, I am confident that as long as Wit, Love, or Courtship are in fashion, this Book shall live and flourish.  
Yours, ever to be commanded, E. P.   

To those Cruel Fair ones, that triumph over the distresses of their loyal Lovers, the Author wisheth more Clemency; and to their afflicted Servants, more magnanimity and Roman Fortitude.  
Bright Stars of Beauty,  
Encouraged by your former inexpressible favours, I am at this time emboldened to prostrate these my Devoirs at your feet: after your Ladyship's egress from the Spring Garden, I was invited by the pleasure of the season, into the solitary retiredness of an Arbour, where in my Tale-book I intended to insert some slender Observations of those harmless Transactions and civil Frolicks, that had passed betwixt you and your Servants, whose entertainments you had graced that evening with the serene influences of your propitious smiles. I had scarce for the recreation of my Genius, employed my pen to the draught of the first Character, when of a sudden from a shady Grove, I heard a mournful hollow sound, which at the first, I imagined to have been occasioned by some fresh gale of wind, that had only rustled among the trees, till ascertained otherwise by the iteration of a Heart-tearing groan: I was so far disturbed as to cast my eye of one side, where I soon discovered a woeful weight; who by his melancholy posture, and leaning of himself so discontentedly against a tree, as if he supported it; I could not but with probability of reason at the the first sight determine, to be some wretched Inamarato, some Lovesick person; such an one whom the blind God hath more fiercely wounded, than the twelve signs of the Anatomy. A dismal object he was, and so represented to my view, as if his misfortune had ruined him so at once, as that he could not be rendered more unfortunate; he looked as if one of your Ladyships had whispered into his ear that doleful tune of Adieu, or at least that desperate sentence, Miscreant, thou shalt lie alone with thy bed unwarmed a score of frosty Winters. It cannot be amiss, by your Ladyship's fair permissions, to draw the curtain from before this Love Martyr's picture, to describe him to you, vultu, gestu, & oculis, just as I then found him suffering his ten Persecutions; his Hat in one place, with papers of Verses in another, were so fantastically dispersed on the verdant Grass, that if he pleased, with his Feet he might spurn the wantonness of his own Muse: for I perceived by the baldness of his crown with scratching, that he had lately been delivered of Acrostics and Encomiums, in praise of some of your Beauties. After the writing of which, for fear of a non acceptance, he was most pestilently dogged, and as I then found him, in such a sullen station, yet were not his eyes so set in the hollownesses of his head, but that I discerned from them such diliberate and heavy motions, as caused me, had I not been convinced by the former symptoms of his disease, to have suspected, whether otherwise, according to his education, he were not some Clown, who having mistaken the Almanac, wept for fair weather. Certain I am that I saw a most pitiful object, one that I could not but conceive that his Mistress had frowned on, and he in requital thought for a foil, to show her a worse face than her own. I protest to your Ladyships, after I had entertained my most serious thoughts of him, I could not but take him for such an unthrift, as had spent the best stock of wits in adoration of his Lady's Looking-glass; I approached nearer to him; not Imagining but that he would at length have disimprisoned to his thoughts in some discourse; for indeed after a stricter survey of his presence, he seemed to me as if he endeavoured to hue and fashion out his conceptions to some purpose, though I am confident they proved as unprofitable to him, as an unfinished piece of Artifice; what weight he poised in his Perricranium, I cannot well guests, but thus much I observed, that sometimes his head hung down to his breast, like the monster boys brother; till of a sudden he assumed more confirmed imaginations of his Mistress' kindness, which in an instant placed it again, and fixed it right, as it was before, on its own Pedestal; his face was scorched with his Lady's eyes, as if he been a three years' voyage at the Indies, I am persuaded his very Soul was tanned, for beauty hath the same influence with the sun, it blacks within, as his brighter beams do burn without. Bless me from Cupid, O Mistress! thought I, give me a friend and good wine. But to proceed in my description, I vow to your Ladyships, he hath so strictly manacled himself, that his arms seemed pinioned, like rabits feet to a spit, crossed like the strings of a book; in such a posture he showed, as if he had been all contemplation, no action; like a woeful Jesuit, that had forsaken the world, so as never to rise from before his Crucifix; one might have taken him for a statue, had not his sighs breathed from his heaved-up heart, a kind of a living death, which together with sudden start caused a paleness sometimes to overcome the otherwise more dusky colour of his face, even so as that same time, to discover that in diebus illis, his cheeks had entertained some tell-tale blushes, and dimpled smiles. His afflictions were so merciful to him, that to my better apprehension his very tears were of a sovereign use, which as they then gushed forth, served to quench those flames his Mistress' eyes had kindled, which otherwise would have scorched him to ashes, and to this purpose I do believe they did distil all the seasons of the year. I could not but laugh at the  he wore, which were so far from A-la-mode, that I rather conceive he had mistaken one piece for another; as if he had put on his breeches for his doublet, the buttons whereof, were most of them off, for at every sigh that came from him, like Poppy-heads, half a dozen of them dropped at a time. At this strange disguise of his habit, together with the further waggery of the blind God, I could not but cry out, Fie, when I saw how his garters were tied in the wrong place; about his neck, as if he had received his Mittimus, and should want no accommodation for his journey to the Elysian fields, whither certainly his straggling thoughts had already transported him; for he appeared to me, as if he dreamt waking of some business that concerned another world. Alas cruel Fair Ones, deprived of your pity, without my more opportune address, he had been for too much loving, your most unhappy Victim. When I first begun to break the silence of that place, where all things were as still as night, he heard me with his eyes, his ears followed his mind, which I perceived was not then at leisure, as he was at that time all things but himself; but having now at length recollected so much strength as to breathe a few horse sighs, for as then he wanted other language to speak his misfortunes, so desperately had this idolatrous Lover fallen sick of his Goddess. At length after he had bestowed on me an angry nod, for the strangeness of my intrusion on the privacy of his thoughts, he started forth into an unusual kind of furious madness, unclasping his arms, which before I suppose could never have been untwined, he fell to beating and thumping of his breast. I could not choose at that time, but be merrily conceited, that this incensed rage of his, might arise from some displeasure he took, that his Invention could not presently teem with some Anagram, as fruitful as his Mistress' name. To be brief, I was amazed to think into how many strange shapes this Passion of Love transforms us, what Owls and Monkeys it makes of us; in truth, the variety of antic tricks he played, together with the vain apparitions, that questionless at that time peopled his brain, rendered him to my thinking, the most unfit person that ever I saw for any humane converse: I assure you, Ladies, so monstrous and fatal to the most eminent Heroes of the world in all Ages, have the cruelties of your implacable Sex proved. Not to detain your Ladyships any longer with the description, of this distracted Lovers Herculean passions, by degrrees after he had a while held his hands, with a little chafing of his temples, stopping of his ears, tweaking of his nose, he came again to himself, and then crossing his breast, after a few lamentable Ay me's he removed from the tree, into which, till then, I thought he had been engrafted. It was now night, whereof he was so sensible, as also of his late indisposition, that he requested my company with him out of the Garden. As we walked, I discoursed the strangeness of his distemper, for I durst not acknowledge his Love to be a disease, lest I should have occasioned his prejudice, so far, as for him to have esteemed it to have been incurable. We agreed to go to the Tavern, where, after we had lustily quaffed the Blood of the Grape, I presented him with this Book of the Mysteries of Love, which, together with clapping of warm trenchers to his Belly, so perfecty and speedily recovered him, that within a few days after I met him in Bloomesbury, with fresh Roses in his Cheeks, he looked as if his Soul were returned to its right home again, probatum est. Thus have I given your fair Ladyships a large, but no Empirical, relation of the cure of this mad Lover, without either casting of his Urine, or any other Charms on his Mistress, except they are such as are contained in this Book, the Witchcrafts of Eloquence, and the right Arts of Wooing; which as I hear, have since taken her Fort in, and that they are now happily married, I wish them all joy; only I thought fit in this my Epistle, to give your coy Ladyship's notice, what virtue this Volume hath, to triumph over your most Beautiful Disdains; to turn your Frowns into Smiles; your Angers into Kisses; to repreive those whom you have destined for most bloody Sacrafices; to metamorphose your Champion Cupid from a Boy to a Man, to give him his eyes again, peruse this Book, bright Ladies, and commend it to any of your modest Sex, that are troubled with the Green-sickness of Love, they cannot fail of a Remedy, 'tis Diana's own Receipt Book. To conclude; I do not desire that either of the Sexes should take any tyrannous advantages over one another's Affections, neither would I bar them of their Frolicks; but that after the Youths have played a while at Bopeep, looked Babies in one another's eyes, Hymen in his saffron robe, hath his torch light, may conduct them to their Marriage Beds: which is the hearty wish, and hath been the aim of these endeavours of your Ladyships  
Eternally obliged E. P.   

A short Advertisement to the Reader, by way of introduction, for his better understanding of the Mysteries of Eloquence and Complementing.  
HAving already in my Epistle to the Coy Madams treated or rather traversed, the passion of Love with a serious and light fancy, like Galen and Donquixot, mixed together, to please as well the Stoical Student, as the most airy and fantastical Gallant: I have since thought it no less my duty to discourse of these two other mysteries, of Eloquence and Complementing. This task I might have evaded, since none of the former scribblers of Books, in this kind, ever particularly undertook these Subjects, which I must either impute to their simplicity or laziness. Courteous Reader, Eloquence is so absolutely necessary, and pertinent to humane converse, that it cannot but be confessed by all intelligent persons that in the management and conveyance even of reason itself, it would be most expedient, that there should be so many Artifices and Masteries together, with most subtle Conducts; for without them a man cannot so well attain his ends. Hence it is that the Learned compare Eloquence to the Chemist's Elixir; it contains all qualities in it, yet it should not have one perceivable: it is not to be denied, but that this age is that which expects that men should learn the Rhetoric from their own Genius; or as some Naturalists writes of the Spider, that she weaves her web out of her own bowels, or like our Enthusiasts, that pretend to inspirations. It were to be wished Eloquence could be so attained, rather than that the Schools should so manacle and fetter it with their old Maxims; but if these so pregnant persons in their own imaginations did but rightly consider what Eloquence is in its definition; How that it is a way of speech prevailing over those we have designed to prevail over: and that it is so Etherial, or rather I cannot tell, how Divine, that it depends not alone on the single Embroidry of words, but there must be somewhat more in it; an excellent knowledge of men, deep and studied acquaintances with their passions: a man must not only know very perfectly the agitations of his own mind, but be seen and conversant in those of others; otherwise it wants that which animates and breathes a fire, which makes it both warm and shine. We say of Logic that it files and keels the reason of a man, which otherwise had been blunt in the wedge and tongue, which is the only distinction of a man from a bruit beast. The same may be said of a person without behaviour and good language, that he is but a mere motion, a most sad spectacle. Indeed this is our misery, that though Eloquence be so absolutely necessary, yet it is such a thing of itself, that though we make use of our quickest conceits, we can rather wish for it then describe it in its perfect Idea; the Grises of it having been so altered from time to time in all Speeches and public Harangues, in so much, that it cannot be amiss to consider how the ancient Orators that lead the people whither they pleased, were put to it, being forced to wrestle with the disadvantages of single nature, so as at the last to divide and throw it into several Subjects, by which they reigned over the minds of men, and did many strange things, the end of Oratory being to persuade.  
Thus having discoursed of Eloquence, I am now to descend to entertain some thoughts of her fair subservient Handmaid, Compliment. Civility is the most refined Compliment; for as Compliments themselves do but serve to complete the Gentry, so where they are thus tendered, they are always in Fashion; ever new, ever acceptable; and as they entertain a grace in the wearer, so they deserve an admiration from the beholder. And thus they have in all ages been received for no less formal, then real accomplishments; and are held as most absolute ornaments of Gentility. Compliments were first intended to distinguish betwixt the Civil and the Savage; Persons of Honour and Peasants, yea, to appropriate a title of Prehemincy to such, who exceed others in grounds of Precept of Morality; such as used not paintick Rhetoric, but expressed themselves complete without singularity, that could love without flattery, discourse without affection, that freed Courtly Ceremonies from dissimulation, and made Virtue their Mistress; that knew what it was to protest in jest, and entertain Suitors only for their Pastime. All wise people are sufficiently convinced, that Compliments consist not of Congees, Cringes, Salutes, Superficial Discourses, foolish Repetitions or frivolous Extravagances; these are but the shadows, which they that use forget the substance: whereas the attraction and desert of a Compliment consists very much in the gracefulness of the presence, beautified and set forth with a modest and native comeliness; nor do I question but these three Nations have many such noble and complete Ladies that prefer the inside before the outside, the kernel before the shell; that make honour the Loadstone, by which they daily draw near to perfection, their own proper Centre. Certain it is, that tho' our tongues, hands, and legs be the same, our Elocution, Action, Gesture, and Posture are not the same; though managed in the like manner by others, yet are they not always directed to the same ends, as there are vast differences to be made betwixt Virtue and Vice. I cannot want instances, the fantastical Amorist is one of those puppies that hath them in a continual practice; he forsooth will compliment your very glove, worship and sweeten every seam of it with the perfume of his discourse; he will take it for an extraordinary favour but to be the porter of a Lady's Fan, whilst she pin's on her Mask: these kind of complementings among great persons are like chantings among Beggars; only in use with the Mimics and Buffoons of our times, whose behaviours deserve more derision than applause. I will not here squirt any more ink at them, Courteous Reader, in my Preface to the youthful Gentry you shall find something to this purpose inserted, which I accounted too improper for this place. To draw to a Conclusion, the Court, and such emiminent places as Hid Park, the Spring Garden, and the New Exchange, and set Meetings at Balls, are esteemed the fittest Schools of Ceremony and Compliment; where the most select, as also the newest Fashions are always in request; where if discretion be not wanting in the Courtier, he will not fail to confirm himself to the mode and condition of the place that he is to exercise his Genius in. For Compliments do not suit with all places, nor with all sorts of men; it ill beseems a Mechanic to play the Orator; that urbanity which becomes a Citizen, would relish of too much curiosity in a Countryman; and that Compliment which gives proper grace to a Courtier, would cause derision if presented by a Merchant or a Factor. The Statesman requires a graceful and grave posture, whereas in ordinary affairs of Traffic, it were indiscretion to represent any such state. Thus I might instance from the Madam to the Chambermaid, but that I am resolved to trouble the Reader with no further Preadmonitions, the Series of the ensuing Work will fully inform him in whatsoever other concernments have been wanting in this Advertisement. Farewell.   

THE MYSTERIES OF Love and Eloquence; OR, The Arts of WOOING and COMPLEMENTING, etc.  

The Mode of Hide Park.  

MAdam, That free Interest which you have granted me in your Favour, honours me with a boldness to give you an invitation this fair afternoon, to take the Air in Hide Park.  
Your most humble servant, Sir, I'll assure you, had you not come as you did, you might perchance have found me there before you, for my Cousin here and I were taking up a resolution to be jogging that way.  
I'll assure you, Madam, your journey will not want its pleasure, beside that of the season, if the Town news hold true.  
I see you came, Sir, with a resolution not to be denied, having brought an argument so persuasive to Women, as that of Novelty; but pray what is it?  
Madam, they say, Sir Charles— hath put off his mourning-weeds, and appears this day in the Park with a new Coach and Livery: they report he looks with an amorous Countenance upon the young Lady— to whom he intends, as they say, to give to Treatment at the Spring Garden; so that if Businesses be well managed on her side, it may chance to be a match. But, pray give me leave, I heard lately that the old Countess— is dead.  
Very true, Madam, I was this morning at a Draper's shop in Paul's Churchyard, and there came in her Steward to provide Four hundred pounds worth of Mourning.  
Does it not bring a very great addition to my Lord's Estate?  
Doubtless Madam, a very considerable one; for she was always a near and parsimonious Woman, and indeed was considerable for nothing else, but the affection she bore him. I could tell you more, Madam, but I defer the rest for discourse in the Coach.   

In the Ring.  
Coachman, keep the outside of the Ring, I think, Madam, that way will not be so dusty. This is the voice of a Gentleman that would show a more than ordinary care of his Mistress.  
Much discourse cannot be expected from that restless motion of Wheels and Horses, it being only a preparative for treatment talk; neither indeed in that place of Observation, is more required, then only as occasion serves, to tell your Lady, That is my Lord such a ones Coach; That's my Lady such a one; That's Squire such a one. And then when opportunity offers itself, to say, Your humble Servant; my Lord; Your most humble Servant, Madam. For though it be not so great a sin, yet it is as great a Solecism, as to talk at Church; and they shall be counted as shallow persons, that can give no account of what they have seen here, as those that can remember nothing that they have heard spoken to a Text. This is not without reason, for it being an impossibility for Ladies to travel, it was thought fit that there should be a public Meeting of all sorts of Societies and Habits, both Foreign and Domestic, that so those young and tender Gallants might be spared the labour of going beyond Sea.  
In the spaces among the Coaches there walk up and down Objects of Charity, and Enticements to Liberality.  
Beggars, and Fruiterers, who are bold Wenches, and by their own, well knowing the disposition of other Women, with their Eyes fixed upon the Ladies, and their Ware held up to the Gentlemen, they cry so as they may easily be heard, 
My Lord, Will your Honour have any Civil Oranges!  
Madam, Will your Honour buy a Basket of Cherries!  The Gentleman finds himself surprised, but knows not which to give, Oranges or Cherries; yet at length remembering Oranges. how great whetters of the stomach they are, and deeply considering the price of Cheesecakes, he resolves upon Cherries.  
Then quoth he, How do you sell your Cherries, good Woman? A Crown a Basket, my Lord, quoth she; with which word being extremely pleased, he parts cheerfully with his money (for who would not purchase Honour at any Rate) and then presents his new bought treasure to his Lady in these words:  
Madam, I do here present you with these First-fruits of the Year, which would have been due from Romona herself, had she not forgot the duty that she owes your perfections.  
The Lady makes a short reply, well knowing the end of his kindness, which was to stop her mouth.  
Whether Cherries are diuretic or no, I will not here dispute; however, the Coachman presently after hath a command given him to wheel off, and the Lady finds in herself a disposition to walk on foot toward the Brakes: yet she is not so much tormented, but that she can talk; which is commonly much to this effect:  
Really, Sir, I have not seen so great an appearance of company in the Park all this Spring before.  
Madam, it was the lustre of your person drew 'em hither, and doubtless having now seen you, they will have no cause to repent their coming.  
Sir, you have a strong faith to speak so highly of one whom you have known no otherwise then in the formalities of a Visit? I wish I that know myself better, knew myself so well as to confirm your Encomiums.  
Madam, that lies not on your part to do, for wherefore hath Nature granted Man to excel in the invention of Language, but that she would not so far deprave the dignity of the Female, which is her own Sex, as to make them the vainglorious praisers of themselves; and it is retaliation sufficient in you, to favour us with the acceptance of our Labours. I confess I am fallen upon a subject that I could dwell upon; I could make a particular harange in the praise of every part that builds up the noble Frame of your Body, but I am put to silence by that little Bird which warbles tidings of more concernment to your ears. Do you not hear the Nightingale Madam?  
I do, Sir. And indeed it is the first time I have heard her this Spring. They say it is lucky to unmarried people to hear her before the Cuckoo.  
Doubtless then, Madam, the end that brought her hither, was to bring you that good fortune.  
Sir, It cannot be but that you must have a greater share in her happy Auguries, who better deserve them.  
I should then, Madam, deserve yourself, which is the happiest Augury I can expect. Pardon me, Madam, if you have opened my mouth to utter so great crime; for indeed I could say, I love you, but that I fear lest you should frown me into despair for such a high presumption.  
Believe it, Sir, my ambition never aspired to such thoughts, as you would fain put into me; but if you have idly scattered a little respect upon a person no way meriting, doubtless a few days and another Object wIll soon randezvouze your Passions another way.  
Madam, could any protestation avail to fix my Constancy in your belief, you should soon command me to seal my prostrate Vows upon the Ground on which you tread; yet since that cannot be, I only beg this on my knees, That you will still count me your Servant, whom it shall suffice to be honoured with that Liberty which you have hitherto given, till time shall discover my immutable Affection, and the profitable Testimonies of my Obedience.  
The Gentleman resolves now to strike while the Iron is hot, and to win her with kindness; for which end he carries her to the Lodge, and throws away forty or fifty shillings to please her appetite; and to show her that he was not so much covetous of his Money, as of her Good Will: He breaks up Cheesecakes, cuts up Tarts, and calls in for Wine and Sugar, as if his Mistress had a Legion in her belly; though his observance is such that he eats nothing himself, for fear she should have a desire to any particular plum in his morsel, In drinking, he sweetens her Affection with a great deal of Sugar with an humble obeisance, wishing it were Nectar for her sake. She cannot be so unmannerly as not to drink to him, there being no body else in the room, which he takes for a very great kindness, and wishes for the capacious throat of the great Giant, that he might swill up a whole pipe for joy. The Wine inspires him, and produces many extravagant Vows, and sundry Comments on her Hands, Lips, Eyes, and Forehead; which beget an host of Comparisons, putting such a scorn and contempt upon the Sun and Moon, as if they were but mere Candles of Ten in the pound, subject to be capt by every common Extinguisher. At length, emboldened by a surreptitious vapour, upon the merits of his Oblation, he craves a kiss, which being granted, with a high satisfaction he calls to pay. This is the meek spirited Lover. But that bold Mamaluck Yclept, a Hector, courts his Lady more daringly.  
Madam, cries he, By Heaven I love you, and then he falls down with a submissive reverence, and kisses the hem of her Petticoat; then arising up again, he proceeds, Madam there is no person living bears you a greater respect than I, or carries more affection for you in his bosom then myself; make trial of it, Madam, and though you bid me die, I'll do it willingly.  
He comes into the Park, like the son of Death, armed with the accoutrements of Mortality, Sword and Pistol? he stands not much upon the nicety of Habit so his Belt be not out of fashion. He is generally known in the Ring, and every one salutes him by the name of Tom or Jack such a one, whose kindness he requites with an Oath, and an Humble Servant: and so having done his Evening Exercise, he retires to the Lodge, where he spends his money with such a liberality, as if he bore malice to his fortunes.   

The next variety is that of the Horseraces, the general Terms of which Art, are expressed in these following Dialogues.  
1. Gent. 
In good faith, Sir, that Horse must have wings that beats me.  2. 
Sir, your confidence may deceive you, you will ride with a Jockey that hath Horsemanship.  1. 
Pish, that's but your opinion; I'll tell ye what I say to ye, were it in my power, I'd lay the World upon my Mare, that she should run with the Devil for a hundred pieces.   

The Gentlemen to the Jockey.  1. 
How now, what dost think Jockey?  2. 
The crack of the whole Field is against you.  Jockey. 
Let'm crack and be hanged till their lungs ache.   

Gentlemen.  1. 
What weight?  2. 
I think he has the Heels.  3. 
All that you are to do, Jockey, is to get the start.  Jockey. 
I'll warrant you, if I get within his quarters once, let me alone.   

After Starting.  1. 
Twenty pounds to fifteen.  2. 
'Tis done with you.  3. 
Forty pounds to thirty.  Lord. 
Done, done, I'll take the odds.  1. 
My Lord, I hold as much.  L. 
Not so, Sir.  1. 
Forty pounds to twenty.  L. 
Done, done.  2. 
You have lost all, my Lord, and 'twere a million.  L. 
In your imagination, well, who can help it.  2. 
Crop had the start, and keeps it.   

The Loser.  
Gentlemen, you have a fine time to triumph, 'tis not your Odds that makes you win.    

Upon the fatal disaster that befell the Gallants upon May-day last in Hyde-park.  
THe last sad May-day know ye not?  
It was a fatal day, God wots,  
Which gay new Clothes did all bespot  
With mire and dirt.  
Much might be said of other days first,  
For which that Year ought to be cursed,  
That such inhuman Traitors nursed  
To do men hurt.  
Sad to the Romans was that day  
When they from Hannibal ran away,  
Losing their gold Rings in the fray,  
He did so rout 'em.  
Was not dark Monday sad d'ye think,  
When Phoebus looked as black as ink,  
'Twas all one whether men did wink  
Or stare about 'em.  
That day had made your hearts to ache,  
If Fauxes plot had happed to take,  
Of which the Crumbs of Comfort make  
A large recital.  
And that sad day my heart doth nettle  
When Fire on London-bridge did settle,  
And Thames boiled under like a kettle:  
Men read at Whitehall.  
By the vast Flame: Though at this hour,  
I blame not fire, but a great shower,  
Which Heaven did on clean linen power,  
And Blades a horseback.  
For all that are but worth a groat,  
On May-day will in fine clothes show't,  
Some borrow a Belt, and some a lose coat,  
That money in purse lack.  
First the clear Sunshine did invite  
The Lord, the Lady, and the Knight,  
Who all in Satins richly dight,  
Did sit i'th' boot.  
The Race-nags followed more than ten,  
Upon their backs sat Gentlemen,  
They never were so washed as then  
From head to foot.  
In suits, from France, made a la mode,  
Upon their Barbaries they road;  
Oh had their money been bestowed  
In pious uses:  
'Twould ha' built an Hospital in the Strand,  
For Gentlemen that sell their Land,  
Or a Poet a week in Sack maintained,  
With all his Muses.  
To copy out these Fashions then,  
For Male and Female Citizen,  
The Tailor came, as fine as when  
He went to woe,  
Next came those pillars of the Nation,  
Those polishers of Education,  
Height men o'th' Kit, all in the fashion  
From top to toe.  
Phoebus' withdrew his beams to see  
Such a deal of bravery,  
And scorning thus outvied to be  
By low mortality:  
He put on's cap, cries bonas noches,  
Then pissed, and fling it all i'th' Coaches;  
Quoth he, I'll meet with these Cocaloches  
For all their great quality:  
The Barber, Taylor, and Gentleman eke,  
They rid each one a tree to seek;  
They were so sad they could not speak,  
But sighed at each other.  
They looked on the ground with great regret,  
They looked on the sky, and cried not yet!  
Then for being born, their stockings to wet,  
Each curses his mother.  
But when their hats began to drip,  
Then desperation made them weep,  
And so they put on with spur and whip  
To London:  
But, Oh the saddle of velvet blue,  
And stockings of most glorious hue,  
They now were not fit for the stall of a Jew:  
Some men were undone,  
Then came another in a sad case,  
With a handful of dirt dashed in his face,  
Which he wiped with his band of Flanders lace,  
Who could him blame,  
His Feather, that so gay of late  
Adorned his head, lay now so flat,  
You'd think it were crept into his hat  
For very shame.  
But as they passed quite through the street,  
The Alley-women glad to see't,  
From stalls and cellars did them greet  
With many a flout.  
Most patiently they passed along,  
They took no notice who did'm wrong:  
But I must make an end of my Song.  
The candle's out.    

The Mode of Balls.  

The Dancing Master.  
Come stir yourselves, Maidens, 'twill bring a fresh colour into your cheeks, rub hard, and let the Ladies see their faces in the boards, you may lose nothing by't, if you be ready to light them out of doors yourselves.  
And by the Mass that will I do, and make'um such fine dops and curtsies in my best Waistcoat, that they shall not choose but take notice of me; and Sarah shall dance a North country Jig before'um too; I warrant it will please the Ladies better than all your French whisks and frisks; I had rather see one freak of jolly Milkmaids, than all the story that will be here to night.  
That's your ignorance, Bess.  
Ignorance, I know not what you call ignorance, but I am sure there's one Dance I have been longing to dance this ten years, and I can get no body to dance it with me in the way of honesty.  
'Tis a thousand pities Bess, yet I'll search among my acquaintance, It may be my chance to do thee a kindness; what Trade dost thou love best?  
Any trade, any trade, Sir, I'll not confine you; beggars you know must never be their own choosers.  
Well, Bess, I'll do my endeavour, in the mean time fetch the perfumes and fume every corner, that there may be nothing wanting but our Noble company, to make the room a perfect paradise.   

At the entry of the Ladies, the Master of the Ball thus accosts them one by one.  

Madam, You have afforded me an honour not to be requited, in granting me the happiness of your company this day.   

To another.  
Madam, Y'are welcome to this poor habitation, though your presence hath so far transported me, that I find myself unfurnished with words to express my gratitude for this high favour   

To another.  
Madam, I kiss your fair hands, and beg pardon for the rudeness of the Invitation which I sent you this morning; But this I can say, you will not find yourself the only sufferer through my unmannerliness.   

To another.  
Madam, Your most humble servant, 'tis but just that I should give you a kind and hearty welcome, since your presence adds so much to my good fortune.   

To another.  
Madam, This civility hath eternally obliged me; I confess there is no recompense lies in my power, and therefore I shall recommend to you these noble Ladies, to receive from them the amends, which my unworthiness is uncapable to render you.   

To another.  
My best wishes come along with you, Madam; really, you have now done meakindness answerable to your own goodness in honouring me with your presence before this fair society.   

To another.  
Madam, I bless my Stars that have bestowed on me the happiness of your fair company; I assure you, had the Queen of Love herself descended to visit this my poor habitation, she could not have been more welcome.    


To the Music.  
Come, why is our Music silent all this while, hath it no voice to bid these fair Ladies welcome.   

To a Lady taking her forth to Dance.  
Madam, the ambition which I have to wait on you in a Country Dance, emboldens me to invite you from your seat.  
Sir, You have obliged me to obey you, for I am engaged to please this noble company, though I fear my performance will give them but small satisfaction.   

To a Gentleman, desiring him to take out his Lady.  
Sir, This Dance requires four, and therefore be pleased to engage a Lady to your assistance.   

The Applause at the end of the Dance.  
Lady, You needed not have made any Apology, for doubtless the Cyprian Bowers ne'er knew so much delight when the Graces themselves danced there.  
Sir, I dare not contest with your more fluent Language, and therefore must submit, though unwillingly, to your commendations.   

At their going to dance Country Dances.  
Ladies, will you be pleased to dance a Country Dance or two, for 'tis that which makes you truly sociable, and us truly happy; being like the Corns of a Song, where all the parts sing together.   

To his Lady, desiring her to name her Dance.  
Lady, will you please to call for your own Dance, or will you lay your commands on me to name it.   

An offer to give over.  
Ladies, when you please to give yourselves rest, command us to leave off; for you must pardon us, if the desire we have to continue our own happiness make us unmannerly.   

At giving over.  
Ladies we must confess that we have too much presumed upon your goodness, and therefore we shall rather choose to quit our own Felicity, then to make your Recreation tiresome   

Answer.  
Believe not, Sir, that we can be tired where the Content we find in the company gives new refreshment to our Spirits, so that we should be willing still to be a part of your delight, did not the late hour of the Night, or rather the early hour of the Morning put a period to our mirth.   

Return of Thanks.  
Ladies, You see I have brought you into a rude Chamber; I must beg your pardon, that I can give no entertainment answerable to the pains that you have taken to honour me, and grace this mean habitation of mine.   

Answer.  
Sir, There needs no such Apologies, for in earnest, you have so far engaged us, that I believe, that there is no Lady here but will think herself obliged to take from hence a happy occasion, to be the publibk relater of your Nobleness and Civility.    

There was now a general cessation of the Feet from labour, only that small member the Tongue was not a little put to it, to express such Compliments as the Brain continually hammered out for its delivery: Many high Strains are spoken, many pathetical Sentences are uttered, with all varieties of Congees, Bows, and Kissing of the Hand that may be. But now in come the Sweetmeats and  Wine, as the reward of their great pains, which they tipple with great alacrity, as being all very thirsty. After all this, to give a little more rest to the Ladies weary limbs, they all take their seats, and a motion is made to go to Questions and Commands, which is by all unanimously consented to.   

Questions and Commands.  



The Question was put,  
Whether Colatinus were not a cuckold for all that Lucretia stabbed herself?  
To which the Lady answered in the Affirmative.   

It was demanded,  
Whether of the two wrought the most excusable Love-cure upon themselves, Hero that drowned herself, or Phillis that hanged herself?  
It was answered,  
Phillis that hanged herself; because it may be the nature of some women to love hanging so well, that they had rather hang by the neck than not hang at all.   

It was asked,  
Whether it were more dangerous for Ladies to dance upon the Ropes, or to dance upon the Ground?  
The Reply was,  
To dance upon the Ground, because that sport hath been the occasion that several Ladies have caught many a shrewd fall.   

It was demanded,  
Why women are many times more quick witted than men?  
The Answer was.  
Because they eat so much salt.   

It was required,  
Why the Poets do so much extol Cupid for his shaft, being but a Boy;  
Answer was made,  
That Venus bid them do it upon her reputation, who knew better what belonged to a Page than they did.   

It was asked,  
Why Maidenheads was so much prized?  
It was replied,  
Because a man might then be sure there was no danger.   

It was asked,  
Who was the fittest man to marry a flat nosed woman?  
The Reply was made,  
One that had a Roman nose.   

The Question was put,  
Why women used to spit when they heard men speak bawdy?  
It was answered,  
Because their teeth water.   

It was demanded,  
What was the humour of those people that died for Love?  
The Answer was,  
That they loved to die.   

It was demanded of a Lady,  
Whether she had rather marry a Fool or a Wiseman?  
Answer was made,  
A Wise man, unless it were such a Fool as would let her do what she listed.   

The Question was,  
Why women are said to be in subjection to men,  
The Answer was,  
Because they lie undermost.   

The Question was put,  
Whether a wise, beautiful, or wealthy woman were to be chosen?  
The Reply was drawn from the comparison of a Walnut;  
For they said, Beauty was like the rind, presently peeled of; that a woman's Wit was quickly cracked; and that therefore Wealth, which was like the kernel, and brought substance along with it, was to be preferred as best of all.     

Their Commands consisted more of Vnluckiness then Wit.  

A Lady was commanded to put her busk in a Gentleman's codpiss.  
Another Lady was commanded to pull it out, which occasioned some sport, for she laying hold upon something else, after two or three pulls gave over, excusing her disobedience, by pretending that the busk was tacked to the Gentleman's belly.  
Another Lady was commanded to lead a Gentleman three times about the Room by the nose with her teeth, which being done,  
He was commanded to wipe off the wet with the lappet of her Smock.  
Another Lady is commanded to tell, how often she opened her back-gates to let forth the captivated wind of her belly since she came into the Room.  
Another Lady is commanded to tell, if she have not a wart, like that in her face, upon such or such secret part of her body.  
Another Lady was commanded to tell, whether she had her maidenhead or no.  
Another was commanded to tell, who she loved best in that Room.  
Another was commanded to tell, how many times her Husband had enjoyed her.   

The Gentlemen were commanded,  
One to untie a Lady's garter.  
Another, to kiss her bare knee.  
Another, to tell how many of Aretine's postures he had tried.  
Another, to tell who he lay with last.  
Another, to tell how many Mistresses he had, and which he loved best.  
Another was commanded to tell how many children he had that he durst not own.  
Another was commanded to tell how many times he could lie with a Woman in one night.     

By this time 'tis very late, and they resolve all to departed, which makes the Master of the Ball put on all his gravity, with which he thus accosts his departing guests.  

Ladies, Since the time of parting is now unhappily arrived, I am now to give you thanks for that great kindness which you have showed me; but seeing I want expressions to perform so great a work, I shall endeavour to supply my defect of words in deeds, beseeching you to command from me what testimonies you please of my duty and service upon all occasions.   

Reply.  
Sir, we cannot in modesty require any such debt from a person who hath so much engaged us by his favours; and so all happiness attend you till our next meeting.  
Pardon me Ladies, I shall wait on you to your Coaches, and then commit you to the protection of your own goodness, and of these Gentlemen who have the happy fortune to attend you home.    

An address to a Company of Ladies.  A. 
Ladies, I beseech you that my coming may be no interruption to your discourse; though it would be no small happiness to me, to partake of your pleasant entertainments.  B. 
Sir, our discourses are not of much importance; we meet often among ourselves, and therefore we do willingly quit them, to enjoy your better company.  A. 
Truly, Ladies, he that is in this company cannot want an Object to entertain himself; only it is my imperfection, that I have not language enough at command to express the zeal which I have to honour and serve your perfections,  B. 
Sir, we dare not acknowledge any such thing in us, and therefore, if you please, take some other subject on which to employ your Eloquence; you will otherwise make us believe that you go about to play upon us.  A. 
Give me leave to tell ye, Ladies, that if your modesty will not let you aver so real a truth, yet the respect which I bear to Ladies, commands me not only to acknowledge, but to be a witness thereof.  B. 
Sir, we beseech you not to take so difficult a task upon you, before question be made of what you affirm.  A. 
It is good to be modest, when we speak in our own commendations, or of the vices and imperfections of another; but when we speak in the praise of a friend, we ought not to conceal any thing of the truth.  B. 
Sir, you place among your commendations, things that we are not guilty of, rather fancying and imagining such virtues and perfections which may become your eloquence to exalt, then believing any such in us.  A. 
Ladies, you would force me to an injurious respect; but it is as impossible for me, to forget your deserts, as to forget my devotions towards you.  B. 
Sir, it is your aim to overcome us with the excess of your courtesy: yet believe it, Sir, that there is not any one of us, that does not think herself highly honoured, if she may bear the title of your most humble servant.  A. 
Ladies you would make me to despair, in seeking to beat down that honour which is your due. However, I shall not cease to admire your perfections; being sorry that I have not merit enough to render my obedience worthy your acceptance.   

To enter into Discourse with a Lady being in Company.  A. 
Lady, here is a very fine appearance of fair and honourable persons, and indeed I cannot but esteem myself extremely happy in meeting with them, to participate of the content that now dwells here; but more particularly in having the happiness to see and know you, as being a person in whom all perfections imaginable are so illustrious.  B. 
Sir, the character which you have given of this Company is very fine; you could not wish for persons more accomplished, nor find more honest content in any other converse. But your favour, Sir, is too excessive, to attribute such great praises to her that doth so little merit them, and which in comparison to others, hath no one virtue to render her considerable.  A. 
Madam, your modesty makes your speak to your own disadvantage, and it may be permitted to you; but if I should consent to what you say, it would be a great fault in me; or if I should dissemble a truth which is so apparent to the eyes of the whole world, I should render myself altogether unworthy to behold so fair an object, should I not know how to admire the wonders and graces of your beauty; the lustre whereof, your modest expressions are not able to reclipse. For my part, I cannot conceal how great a sway you bear over my affections, so that there is nothing in my power, that I do not freely dedicate to your service.  B. 
Sir, the more high you are in your expressions, the more am I subject to abate of the praises which you so liberally bestow upon me; in regard Heaven hath not been so bountiful of its graces towards me. And therefore not judging myself worthy the favours which you heap upon me, I humbly entreat you, Sir, to change your discourse.  A. 
Lady, though at present, you refuse me the honour of serving you, yet I shall not cease to seek all occasions to make the truth and sincerity of my words apparent.   

An Address, to make known an Affection for his Mistress.  A. 
Madam, among all the days of my life I must account this the happiest above all the rest, wherein I had the honour first to know you.  B. 
Sir, if I did know any thing in myself, worthy your merits, I should esteem myself obliged to employ it to your honour: But there being in me nothing but weakness, and imperfection, I do not imagine how the knowledge of me can any way contribute to your content, much less to your well being.  A. 
Madam, I see so many perfections; that I find myself obliged to honour them to the utmost of my power, and to offer you my most humble service.  B. 
Sir, this is your courtesy and favour, that seek to qualify my defects, only to show the excellent endowments that nature hath bestowed on you.  A. 
Pardon me, Madam, it is the enchanting force of your worth and virtues, which oblige me, not only to honour and serve you, but also to seek an interest in your graces.  B. 
Sir, all that a Daughter of Honour owes to a Person of Merit, you have already at your devotion; I respect your qualities, admire your virtues, and wish you a happiness answerable to the nobleness of your designs.  A. 
Believe it, Madam, that my desires are good, and that my affection, if your wishes flow from a sincere intention to oblige me, is the most happy that ever was in the world.  B. 
Pardon me, Sir, I have not so piercing an apprehension to understand the meaning of your intentions; that which I say is upon no other account, only to give you the honour which is due to you.  
It is true, Madam, I do you wrong, to go about, to make you believe, that which I have never made apparent by any certain proof; However, that shall not hinder me from telling you, that your perfections have so far incaptivated my senses and affection, that I have resolved neither to love nor serve any other, but yourself. I therefore only entreat you, to esteem my affection real, and to perfect your own wishes.  B. 
Certainly, Sir, I cannot believe that you would set your affection upon a person so inconsiderable. It suffices me to have the honour to know you, and I desire that your good fortune may guide you to some person more worthy your esteem.  A. 
Madam, I have not so far forgot myself, as to forget your merits and perfections. My resolution is unfeigned, to serve you to the utmost of my power, and your refusal diminisheth nothing of my affection; only take it for granted, that I desire to be your servant.  
Sir, I am not Mistress of myself, and for that reason cannot accept of your offer; but if you shall find, that the affection, which you say you bear me, is well liked of by my Parents, I shall esteem myself, very much honoured in your love, and shall, as far as honour will permit me, do any thing to assure you of my good will.  
Lady, you do infinitely oblige me, for which I return you many thanks; I shall seek all occasions to obtain the leave of your Parents, in the mean while honour me with your command, and suffer me to kiss your hand.  
Sir I am your very humble Servant.   

Addresses of Salutation.  

Save you fair Lady, all health and your own wishes be upon you.  
All the toys the God's delight in, wait on you, fairest.  
Ans. Sir, I should be ungrateful not to wish you a share in them.  
By your leave Lady, may my boldness prove pardonable.  
Good morrow to you Sir, to meet you was a happiness that I did not dream of. But tell me how it is with you?  
Well, Sir, at present, and I hope always shall be so, to do you service.  
Save you Sir, you are most fortunately met.  
Lady, The pleasure of this sweet morning attend you.   

On her Face.  
You are the beauty without parallel; in your Face all the Graces, and in your Mind all the Virtues are met: he that looks upon your mild Aspect, were it the most savage creature, would derive a new Nature from your Beauty.   

On her Eyes and Lips.  
That Eye was Juno's, those Lips were once the Queen of Loves, that Virgin Blush was Diana's: Thus, Madam, You have a Donative from every Deity.   

On her Beauty.  
Apollo hath given you his orient Brightness; Venus her curious Shape; Jupiter his high and stately Forehead; the God of Eloquence his flowing Speech: and all the Female Deities have showed their Bounties and Beauties on your Face.   

On her Hair.  
Her Hair is like the Beams that adorn Apollo's head.   

Her Locks  
Soft as new spun Silk, curling with such a natural wantonness, as if they strove to delight the Fancy of her that wears them.   

Her Forehead  
Made a stately prospect, and showed like a fair Castle commanding some goodly Country.   

Her Face  
So full of majesty, that Aurora blushes to see a countenance brighter than her own. Her Face is full of Sunshine.   

Her Looks  
Have more entertainment than all the vain pomp which the Persians ever taught the world.   

Her Eyes  
Dart Lightning through the Air. The Stars borrow new light from your more radiant Eyes. They are able to grace the Heavens, and beautify the Sky in the clearest night. They are Nature's richest Diamonds set in foils of polished Ivory.   

Her Smiles  
Are so graceful and full of comfort, that with them she is able to revive a dying Lover.   

Her Cheeks  
Show like Lawn spread upon Roses. Nature painted the colour thereof in the most glorious Tulips. They are slips of Paradise, not to be gathered but wondered at.   

Her Breath  
So sweet, that the Arabian Odours seem to borrow their excellency from thence. It expires more sweet Odours then issued from the palm-trees in Paradise.   

Her Lips  
Are like the full ripe Cherry, which when they open, discover a treasury greater than that of the Indian Ivory.   

Her Chin  
Shows Ilke a piece of pure and polished Crystal, which the God of Love delights to uphold with his soft hand.   

Her Tongue  
Is tipped with such a fire and powerful art, as might tame the most rebellious spirit.   

Her Brow  
Is Cupid's Bow, most sweetly bend, to shoot his Darts against every heart.   

Her Neck  
Of such a whiteness as exceeds the unsulled Snow.   

Her Words  
Invade the weakened senses, and overcome the heart.   

Her Voice  
So charming, that it hath power to do more than ever Spirits or Orpheus did; should the holy Churchmen use it, it would tie up the nightly, without the addition of more exorcism.   

Her Arms  
Are fit to embrace a King.   

Her Hands  
Soft and smooth, the violet Veins whereof run along like Mines of Turkoeses.   

Her Breasts  
Are two mountains of pure Snow, from the two Fountains whereof, Cupid himself sucks Nectar.   

Briefly, in the Abstract of herself.  
She comprehends whatsoever can be imagined, or wished for in the Idea of a Woman; She is so heavenly a piece, that when Nature had wrought her, she lost her needle, like one that never hoped to work again any so fair and lively a creature.    

An Address of Courtship to his Mistress.  
Lady, My vital breath runs coldly through my veins, I am sick for your Love, dearest Lady; neither is there any thing, but your own heart, can heal me: believe me also, fairest of Women, there is nothing beneath the Moon, but your frown, can grieve me.  
Sir, Methinks this is a strange fit.  
Lady, Count not my love light, because 'tis sudden; for By Cupid's Bow, I swear, I never knew true Love till now.  
Sir, I entreat you not to wrong yourself, and me; your love is violent, and soon will have a period; for that is the most perfect love, which loves for ever.  
Such love is mine, believe me, divinest Beauty, for although men use to lie, yet do I speak truth; and therefore, Madam, give me sentence either of life, or of a speedy death; can you affect so mean a person?  
Truly Sir, I should deny my thoughts, to give you an absolute denial, yet must I not turn disloyal to former Promises, and therefore let this suffice, I cannot wrong my friend.  
Then here my love must end, and in your presence thus for love I die.  
Nay, hold Sir, these are soul killing passions, I had rather wrong my friend, then that you should wrong yourself  
Love me dear soul, or else my death is but delayed; my Vow is fixed in Heaven, and no fear shall move me: for my life is a death, that tortures me, unless you love me.  
Give me then but a little respite, and I will resolve you.  
Alas, Madam, my heart denies it; my blood is violent, now or else never love me. Love me, and both Art and Nature at large shall strive to be profuse in ravishing thy sense. I will entice Dalliance from thee with my smiles, and I will steal away thy heart with my chaste kisses,  
Well, Sir, I am yours then from all the world; your wit and your person have entranced my soul.  
I kiss thee, Dearest, for that breath; and know that thou hast now joined thyself to one whose life rests only in thy sight.   

To discourse concerning the noise of a Match.  
Sir, I am very glad to meet with you, were it for no other reason, but to give you joy.  
Sir, Your company is always a thing most acceptable to me, and your wishes cannot be other then very fortunate; yet, if you please, pray let me understand why you wish me so much felicity, there being nothing new that I know of in my condition.  
Sir, You dissemble that which is well known to many, and which hath been told me some few days since.  
Pray Sir, do the favour to tell me what it is, for I can neither think nor imagine.  
Sir, They say that you intent to marry in this Town.  
Truly, Sir, 'tis the first news that I have heard of any such thing.  
I can assure you, Sir, those that told me, believe that they know very well; and they take upon them to report many particulars.  
Pray Sir, be pleased to tell me, to whom, and what are the good Conditions of this Marriage; perchance the person and the advantages may be such, that I may speedily advise with myself; and as speedily resolve.  
Why should you do so, Sir? Would you marry out of your Country, far from your friends, and distant from all conveniences; obliging yourself to quit the sweet presence of your kindred, or else to bring a strange Woman among them, which of what House or Quality soever she be, either will herself be despised, or bring envy upon you.  
Sir, You have not answered my question, but instead thereof have made a kind of sophistical digression.  
I shall therefore come now more close to the matter; the young Lady is the daughter of M.N. to whom her Mother left a very fair Estate, besides a very fair Portion which her father intends to bestow upon her.  
Sir, You have told me so much that you make my mouth water; I know her Father well, he is a Gentleman of worth and honour; the young Lady is Fair, Wise, and Rich, which are three good qualities: And truly I do not so much mislike her, but that if I thought I had so much interest in her Affections, as that I should be master of them for ask, I would run the hazard of sending one packet.  
Surely, Sir, you must know something, I am told that you do not speak the truth, dissemble the matter as well as you can.  
Believe it, Sir, nothing to any such purpose has been so much as mentioned by me. Those that report this, are persons that take all occasions to babble, and urge the least appearances of a thing for certainties: and certainly this rumour comes from my frequenting often the places thereabouts, or because that now and then I go to see her Father.  
Sir, That may be very likely; but 'tis very incredible but that there must be something in it: you know there is no smoke but there is some fire.  
Truly, Sir, I do not wonder at all at it; for we must give the world leave to talk.  
But do you believe you should do well to engage yourself in a business of such importance, on which, not only your fortune, but the content of your Parents depends.  
Be confident, Sir, that I was never counted a rash person, yet I have such an assurance in the paternal care and wisdom of my friends, that if any advantage did present itself in my behalf, they would not stick to quit some part of their content for my good.  
Sir, You have fully satisfied me, and if there be any thing begun already, I wish you all happiness and content.   

Several Addresses of perfect Courtship.  
Lady, Who are inspired with all the praises that the world can bestow upon your sex, I am come to offer you my service, which you may at present only call obedient, hoping that your better knowledge thereof will style it faithful.  
Truly, Sir, I think that fame is more favourable to me then truth, seeing that all that which is published concerning me proves so false; and therefore you have reason to present me your feigned service, in obedience to my feigned merits.  
Madam, You wrong your Beauty, which being so great, can work no other designs in men, but those of truly honouring you.  
Sir, This confirms my former opinion, for seeing myself without Beauty, of which you cannot be ignorant, I must necessarily be unprovided of all those Services that depend thereon.  
Madam, I fear I should sin against the truth, should I put myself to the trouble to make you see them; it is a thing so visible of itself, that by endeavouring to demonstrate it by words, I should presume to assist your judgement.  
Sir, I find that you are easily able to overcome my Rhetoric, but not my Belief.  
Madam, I am confident to gain this advantage by showing the proofs of my Obedience, that men will condemn your misbelief, to authorise my true say.  
Sir, Such kind of words as these, are usual in this age, which promise always a great deal of Service, but performs little but outward Compliment.  
Madam, 'tis very ordinary to swear the same words, but a thing very extraordinary to make them afterwards appear to be truth: But that which may assure you that I do not walk the common path, is, That I know your Beauty to be such, as is only to be served by knowledge, not by imtation; which makes my Design glorious, and my Enterprise noble, that waits on such an Object.  
Sir, I know not how you can call this an Enterprise, since your Design is more easy than courageous; and a noble Enterprise hath always difficulties that oppose it.  
Madam, My resolution to serve you is so magnanimous, that there can no ill fortune attend upon it; for if you do make the end happy, it will be always an honour to my courage, to have, and to pretend to your accomplished Graces.  
Sir, Since you do establish your content upon unhappiness, your hopes, cannot deceive you much; for if it do deceive you, it will be in making you happy.  
Madam, I can easily count it an honour to serve you, as being obliged by your merit, and my obedience.  
Sir, I shall never counsel a generous soul to stop at such Designs, since his resolution is so low, that infallibly both the Design must fail, and Repentance ensue.  
Madam, That which animates me more to do you service, is this, That I shall receive this honour from the Enteprize, that there is no small difficulty in performing it, with that perfection, as it requires.  
Sir, If you do give such proofs, as you offer, of service, you shall be acknowledged through the whole Empire of Love.  
Madam, Since I have the courage to pretend to the merit of your fair Graces, I shall have a care to keep myself constant; and certainly it behoves me, there being so strict a watch over me.   

The Departure.  
Adieu dear Beauty; it behoves me to be banished from you, that I may dispose my Soul to esteem you the more; one way, by the loss of your presence, another way, by recollecting the thoughts of past happiness.  
Truly Sir, you have very great reason to make use of your Fancy, when you would praise me; for Fancy and Thoughts will forge imagenary Merits, where your Eyes and Judgement will find the contrary.  
Madam, You do very well make use of a new custom, I believe you would persuade yourself to speak false, that you might have an advantage over one, that breath nothing but the truth; is it possible that such a vanity should make you offend that which I honour, and that which you possess. Truly Madam, you will gain nothing by it, but the pleasure of fine words.  
Sir, Call them rather true, and then you will speak truth yourself.  
You continue, Madam, acquiring new glories to your persuasions, by maintaining Paradoxes against your Beauty, which will be always perfect in itself, though not in your opinion.  
Sir, If I am perfect, I do know myself; perfection being the knowledge of ones self: since therefore I do know myself, I may be permitted to style myself very poor in Merits. But you would persuade the contrary, to exercise your parts, knowing that it is a greater honour to vanquish the Truth, then to sustain it.  
Madam, The design which I have to serve you, may give you testimony sufficient of that power which you have to dispose of me; In one moment I saw you enjoying a thousand wonders, and in a moment I was sensible of a thousand torments of Love; and being capable of nothing but Admiration, methought that this Beauty was in the world for no other end, but deserve, and for me to be obedient to. I see no reason, Fairest, that the belief which I have taken with the clearest judgement that I have of your Beauty, should be swallowed up by your misbelieving opinions.  
Sir, They say, that contrariety doth animate persons the more; and therefore I shall be silent, that I may hinder these unjust Praises; perhaps you will have pity on my feeble resistance, and will be weary of conquering so easily.  
Madam, 'Tis rather myself that ought to keep silent, being so lately in an astonishment; but as for you; Madam, it would be a sin against your fair lips, whose words are Oracles.  
Then pray, Sir, why do you not believe that which I say, for all Oracles are truth?  
But why will you, Madam, by persuasion hinder the belief which I have taken with sight and judgement. For I will believe your Beauty against all your unbelief and undervaluings: and also continue the Service which I have sworn you, against any thing that shall hinder it. My Attempt also hath promised my Design, that future Ages shall admire your Merit and my Servitude; and record us as the most faithful Lovers in Cupid's Dominions.  
I fear, Sir, that time will alter this opinion.  
Madam, Time can do nothing against that which Love hath ordained; he is the master of Fortune, and an enemy to change. But wherefore this superfluity of speech? It is better to believe by the force of Words, then by the force of Persuasion; and therefore at this time, it is more necessary for me, to demand of you Remedies for this remove, the apprehension whereof makes me endure this present pain.  
Sir, It behoves you to forget your Design, and you will avoid the Pain that will follow, and also the Repentance.  
No, Madam, I will keep the memory of my Design eternally, and shall always see painted before me the glory of my Enterprise. Adieu great Beauty, you shall never cast your eyes downward, but you shall perceive, lying at your feet, him that admires you; nor ever elevate your Thoughts to your deserts, but you shall remember your conquest. Adieu Fairest, for now I leave the Sun, and go to seek out Night and Sorrows cell.   

The Return.  
I come, Madam, to receive as much content from your cheerful Countenance, as the loss of it hath yielded me sorrow. I know the Good will now be as great as the Evil, since they proceed both from the same cause.  
Sir, I do believe that you do receive the one, as well as you have suffered the other: but I beseech you, Sir, to tell me from whence that pain proceeds, which you say you do endure; for as to myself, I do believe, that the pleasure of Thinking, is greater than that of Seeing.  
Madam, It is permitted me to think, but experiment forbids me believe that opinion; for I receive from my Imaginations only a good imagination; on the contrary the sight cannot err.  
But it is said, Sir, that the presence only contents the Eyes, which are Mortal; but that absence exercises the Soul, which is Divine; and therefore if that did any way afflict you, you might easily avoid it.  
It was some good Genius, Madam, that took me yesterday from your eyes, that I might the better value the happiness of their lustre, and avoid the extremity of that pain which the loss of them made me endure; causing in me such an impatience to return to you, that every hour I stayed from you seemed an age.  
Sir, That which is foreseen is easily avoided. Now you perceive whence the evil that you speak of proceeds, yet the little occasion that you had to fear it, makes you find it out willingly; therefore blame your own desires, which have procured you this evil, and do not complain on Destiny, which is always just.  
Madam, My Will is not the cause; for than I should fly myself, and come back to you: but Love, to abuse me the more, gave me the Desire, and hindered the Effect. Though I believe it to be one of his Destinies, for it behoves a true passion to overcome the violence of all opposition by a diligent constancy.   

Demand of Assurance.  
Fairest, It is now time that I should require from you some Assurances of your friendship, because I cannot grant you that authority which you have over my Affections, but by the service which I am willing to render to your power: The proof whereof depends upon opportunity, and the opportunity occasion upon your commands: swear to me therefore, by your fair Eyes, that you love that which they have subdued, that I may boast my ruin to be a mark as well of my glory, as of your puissance.  
Do you think, Sir, that that which is ruined by the Eyes, can be beloved by the Heart?  
Dear Lady, why should you not affect that love which you yourself have created? Would you cause it to be born and die at the same instant? that would be the action of an inconstant soul.  
It is you, Sir, that run the hazard of being called by that name; for if love proceed from merit, you will soon find some one more worthy your Affection then myself.  
Madam, I shall never seek the means to find any more signal worth then that which you possess; it is permitted to those who are less worthy to have such jealousies, but not to you whose Beauty hath such a supereminence above all others in the world. No Madam, take counsel of your own worth, and it will show the fair Election which I have made, how impossible it is to be changed; the design coming from the judgement of our Soul, which being Divine, cannot err.  
But, Sir, they say that love is very subject to knowledge, of which you being so well provided, 'tis to be feared, that you may make use of those agreeable diversities, that Love doth every day present to unfaithful Lovers.  
Madam, May he banish me from his Empire, if I have any other Will, than what is agreeable to his. He sees that I am yours, so his Power and my Will are agreed; my Designs concur with his Commands.  
Sir, I believe that Love himself could not know how to force you to love.  
He scared, Madam, lest he should be made himself a slave; He hath no force able to resist your puissance, unless it be your own: therefore since you have this Glory entire to yourself, to have vanquished all the world, there remains nothing now, but that you should vanquish yourself.  
Sir, I cannot do any thing else but vanquish, having neither Will nor Thought, which doth not render obedience to that duty, which I have taken to be the perfect guide of my life.  
Madam, You oppose your Designs to my Prayers, to the end, this refusal may redouble my passion, and cause me to persist more eagerly in the pursuit of your tempting Graces: yet it suffices that the pain and difficulties of the acquest, will remain the glory of my conquest.  
If it be your Difficulties, Sir, that can create your Glory, why do you complain?  
Madam, I do not repine at the pain, but at your unkindness that will not acknowledge it; but if that be not so, I do conjure your fair Lips to produce some assurance of your friendship.  
Will Sir, than I do promise your servitude, to acknowledge it for the price of your constancy; and believe this, that as my true passion doth only oblige me, so there is no adjuration shall have power over me.  
Madam, I wish that I could transform my whole will into words, to render you sufficient thanks for this favourable promise; but since I am not born capable of such a happiness, I will only say this, That he to whom your Favours are so liberally extended, shall pass the rest of his days in your Service.   

The Trial.  
Madam, If the opportunities of serving you were as ordinary, as those of speaking to you, I had rendered you as many Services, as I have spoken Words. I dare not confirm them always with the same testimonies; and since I am so little capable of persuasion, I fear I shall discover my Ignorance and not my Servitude.  
Sir, I am of opinion that the custom of Persuasion is only used there, where Truth is wanting: and therefore seeing you have always protested the Truth, you ought not to make use of it, else you will make your Oaths and my Credit as indifferent, as your Words and Assurance would be.  
The cunning of a Discourse shall never do me such an ill office, as to make me believe an untruth; for I am ignorant of the custom and invention thereof, which shall cause me not to seek out such an Enterprise, to the end, that being warranted from the disturbance which I find between the resolution and the event, I should not give you for an assurance, that the whole world, seeing so noble a Design as mine, will judge that I own an eternal perseverance to it.  
Be advised, Sir, to conform your mind to your words, for time will give us always opportunities to distinguish between those that are feigned, and those that are true. Truly I must make this promise in answer to your promises, that if I do not find them true, you will repent to have so vainly lost them; for I shall always reserve to myself this power, either to reject or accept of what you tender me,  
Why should your belief take any ill impression of your servant? I do call love and your beauty to witness, that I should always preserve myself the same.  
Well Sir, I shall content myself at present with your drift, notwithstanding I shall expect better assurances.  
Madam, Be confident that you shall draw as much fidelity from your conquest, as I expect glory and happiness from my subjection.  
But I desire to know if your Promises shall be as faithfully performed, as your Oaths.  
Much more, Madam, for I can give you but weak words, which my ignorance furnishes me withal: whereby you work effects worthy a glorious death.  
Will you then die for me, Sir?  
No, Madam, for that which would be a death to others, would be a life to me, provided it came from your hand.  
Live then, Sir, and take heed that your repentance do not kill you.  
'Tis well, Madam, I shall live your Servant, and live long through the worth of my preserver.   

Full Satisfaction.  
Madam,  
The day wherein I had the happiness to present my Soul and my Affections to you, and then you made an entire conquest of all that was within me, I had also a thousand jealousies of misfortune: for the fairest conquests are always crossed, and my small merit did not permit me the honour of your friendship. But since that you and my good fortune have deceived my apprehension, therefore by how much the more extraordinary the Affection is which you have testified to me, so much the more carefully shall I keep the Obligation which I have to serve you.  
Not me, Sir, I never could in the least pretend to your Favour, that is a happiness which, I swear to you, my Desire doth rather enjoy then my Hope; and there is reason for it, seeing you the possessor of so many rich Qualities.  
I see, Madam, that I shall possess nothing hereafter, since I must take all from myself to bestow it upon her, for whom I could willingly suffer myself to be robbed of all.  
Sir, When I shall enjoy that happiness, the gift will be much greater than all I can yet call my own.  
Teach me, Madam, how I may swear, and you shall see what use I will make of it, to assure you, that I am wholly yours; and that that which Love gives you now, can never be taken from you but by death.  
Sir, Be confident that I shall diligently seek all opportunities to deserve you; and receive these words for the most infallible, that ever Faith itself swore.  
Madam, I shall live always at your devotion.  
And I, Sir, living to you, shall live to myself.  
Then, Lady, let us tie our souls together with this kiss. And now this enterprise having given me so much joy as to think of it, I will go sacrifice my silence to your judgement.   

An Amorous Compliment.  
Lady, Wounded by your beauty, I will acknowledge it a mercy if you kill me not; yet rather murder me then vulnerate still your creature, unless you mean to heal what you have hurt; giving me a remedy from the same instrument wherewith you pierced me; your Eye having shot lightning into my breast, hath power with a smile to fetch out the consuming fire, and yet leave my heart inflamed.  
Sir, Although, where I am not guilty of offence, I might justly deny to descend to a satisfaction; yet rather than I would be counted a murderer, I would study to preserve so sweet a Model as yourself; and since you desire that my Eye which hath inflamed you, should by the virtue of a gracious Smile make you happy in your fire: It shall shine as you would have it, disclaim that Beam that displays itself upon another Object.   

The Discourse of a Gentleman bringing his Friend into Company.  

Gentlemen, Knowing that you were here, I am come to have the honour to see you, and to kiss your hands; and moreover on the confidence of your favour, I have taken the boldness to bring this Gentleman along with me, being a person that deserves much respect.   

The Company.  
Sir, It is a singular contentment to us to see you; you and your friend shall be always welcome; our devotion is dedicated wholly to your service: But as for these Ladies we cannot so dispose of them, it lies on your part and his to insinuate yourselves into their favour.   

The Stranger Replies.  
Gentlemen, I durst not have so far presumed thus to thrust myself into your company, being altogether unknown to you, if this Gentleman, who is my friend, had not put me under the shelter of his favour; the honour which you show me for his sake obliges me infinitely: and as for these Ladies, their excellent beauty and affability seem to promise me this happiness, that at least my presence shall not displease them; and that if they will permit me the favour to see them, perhaps hereafter by my services, I shall gain some other interest in their Affection.   

The Ladies.  
Sir, We should show ourselves as much unprovided of Judgement, as we esteem ourselves to be of Beauty, if we should not regard your worth, of which your friend and ours gives so good a testimony, and which your behaviour and language discovers sufficiently of itself. You need not doubt, Sir, but that you are looked upon with a good Eye by every one of us, and that we altogether desire to give you that honour which is due to you.   

To them the Stranger.  
Ladies, You oblige me with so much civility and respect, that I shall bear you an eternal gratitude; this is my unhappiness, that I have not an opportunity to render you that service which may equal your deserts: yet shall I not cease to offer it to you, beseeching you to receive it with as good a will, as I offer it unfeignedly to you.   

The Ladies.  
Sir, You exceed in your courtesy, we are satisfied enough with the honour of your presence, and with the contentment which we receive from your acceptable company.   

The Stranger.  
Perhaps, Ladies, you do not esteem my service worthy your deserts; yet for all that, I shall not omit any opportunity to testify how much I honour and esteem you.   

Another Gentleman.  
Sir, We are going to play, will you please to make one, or do you like it better to entertain the Ladies?   

The Stranger.  
Sir, I am very well here, and though I have to do with the stronger party, yet I shall try my fortune among the Ladies.   

The Ladies.  
Sir, You will have a hard task to be a gainer here.   

The Stranger.  
Ladies, I care not for any loss, so I may gain a part in your good affections.   

A Lady.  
Sir, I believe you will have small content in our slender entertainment.   

The Stranger.  
Ladies, Had I no other happiness but that of seeing you, there is enough to ravish all my senses, so much do I see there of Beauties and Graces; neither do I believe that Paris ever saw more perfection in the three Goddesses.   

To him one of the company answers.  
Sir, If you had an apple of Gold to bribe them withal, you would persuade them sooner to your opinion.   

The Stranger.  
But besides this, Ladies, I doubt not but that the excellency of your minds is correspondent to the beauty of your Faces; and that there are not more Charms in your Words, than there are Wonders in your Thoughts, which makes me prefer the happiness of being in your company, before any other.   

The Ladies.  
Sir, If we did not know ourselves very well, you would make us presume very high of ourselves; but we only believe that you put your Eloquence into a full career to pass away the time.   

The Stranger.  
Ladies, Your modesty shall not make me to forget my duty, which is to admire and publish your perfections, and to honour them with all my power; yet if my unhappiness shall be such, that you shall not think me a person worthy such a task, it will be my comfort that I have met with such pleasing enemies.    

To offer Service and to begin a Friendship  
G. Sir, The reputation of your virtue and courtesy hath made me desire the honour of your knowledge and familiarity, so that not finding any other opportunity to insinuate myself, I have taken the boldness to come and find you, to offer you my humble service, and assure you of the sincerity of my affection.  
Sir, I thank you most kindly for the pains that you have taken to come and see me, though I know nothing in me that can merit the honour which you have done me. Yet if there be any thing which may make me worthy your friendship and affection, assure yourself that I do offer it you with a very good will. Beseeching you that for a trial thereof, you would honour me with your commands, and my obedience shall testify my affection.  
Sir, You ought not to debase those good qualities which are in you, the worth thereof is too well known, and I do not esteem the obligation less for the honour which you do me, in receiving me so courteously in the number of your friends, only I fear that I shall not have means enough to acknowledge them according to their true esteem.  
Sir, I shall receive full satisfaction from your good will, with the which I find myself highly honoured; and therefore I shall study to preserve it by my humble service, and shall honour myself in coming to see you.  
Sir, There shall be no man more welcome to me, I shall earnestly attend your coming, in the confidence whereof I kiss your hands.  
Sir, I remain your most humble servant.   

To make an Acquaintance  
Sir, I count it a singular happiness to have met with this acceptable company, since it hath been a means to bring me into your acquaintance.  
Sir, If the good fortune that brought us together into this place did put also into my hands the means to make my acquaintance profitable, since your favour esteems it acceptable, I should think myself happy in a double manner; but I beseech you, Sir, let not my good will suffer for want of opportunity.  
Sir, Your worth obliges me to make a great esteem of your acquaintance, and to desire your friendship; and indeed it was my intention to offer you my most humble service; but, Sir, you have doubly obliged me, preventing me by the offer of your good affection, for which I give you my most cordial thanks, and beseech you to accept reciprocally of mine.  
Sir, I accept the offer which you are pleased to make me, but on condition that I may merit them by all means possible.  
Sir, You would oblige me further than my power is able to acknowledge; it shall be sufficient for me to have the honour of your good will, and the liberty of coming sometimes to receive your commands.  
Sir, I say nothing how far my duty doth oblige me, I beseech you to believe that the affection which I have to put in practice, is sincere, and shall appear upon the first occasion. Notwithstanding, there is nothing which I shall more desire, than the honour of waiting on you at your own House.  
Sir, You shall ever be most welcome.   

A Visit.  
Sir,  
Ever since I have had the honour to be acquainted with you, you have obliged me with so many favours, that I know not how to enter into any worthy acknowledgement. I have taken the boldness to give you a Visit, that I might give you more ample thanks, and assure you of the continuance of my devotion to your service.  
Sir, I do not believe it in my power to give you respect enough for so much worth; but assure yourself that it shall be no fault of my good will. You infinitely oblige me, in giving me the honour of this visit. Sir, you are more than welcome.  
Sir, You oblige me with courtesy, and every day bestow new favours on me; I fear that in the end you will oblige me to become ungrateful, not being able to requite the honour which you do me. But now tell me, Sir, how have you done since I had last the honour to see you.  
Very well, Sir, at your service; pray how have you done?  
I have not been very well, but this shall not hinder me from serving those that do me the honour to have any kindness for me.   

To request a Courtesy.  
Sir, The good affection which you have always testified towards me, hath made me take the boldness to request a Courtesy of you, That you would be pleased to give me your advice, and lend me your assistance in an affair of moment; it would add to your former obligations, and I shall be always obliged particularly to acknowledge it.  
Sir, The affection which I bear you is sincere, and as for that little proof which you have seen thereof, it is but a small pattern of that which I desire to perform on your behalf. Assure yourself that in this which you demand, and upon all other occasions, you shall find me always disposed to serve you.  
Sir, You double the obligations which you have laid upon me by your readiness and freeness; it will never be in the power either of my words or actions to make a full acknowledgement: Yet if you please, honour me with some of your commands, that I may be enterprizing some action of duty and gratitude.   

To give thanks for a Courtesy received.  
Sir, That good affection which you have made appear toward me, commands me to give you thanks for the honour and favour which you were pleased to do me, you have obliged me more than any man in the world.  
Sir, I do cordially love my friends, and do not willingly refuse them any thing which is in my power; take what I do in good part, and believe that I would do more for you.  
Sir, I have not merited this favour; it behoves me to seek all opportunities to make you a full acknowledgement.  
Sir, Your thanks have surpassed the service which I have done you; I would not put you to purchase so dearly the favour of your friends: I can assure you, Sir, there is nothing in my power which is not at your commands.  
Sir, I cannot doubt of your affection, and be confident that I shall ever acknowledge it. I am, Sir, your as much obliged as affectionate Servant.   

To invite a Friend to Dinner.  
Sir, Since you are so well met, I beseech you Sir, to go home and dine with me.  
Sir, I give you many thanks; it suffices me to have had the honour to see you, and to understand your good health.  
Sir, I entreat you that I may have the honour to entertain you a little longer, which may be conveniently done for a dining while, if you please to have the patience to stay.  
Sir, If in so doing I could do you any service, or that my Presence were capable of giving you any content, I should not be difficultly entreated; but I am afraid of giving you so much trouble.  
Pardon me, Sir, your company is very acceptable, and obliges me very much.  
Sir, I have some business which I must dispatch, and there fore I beseech you to excuse me.  
Sir, I would not be a hindrance to you, but I am sorry not to have the happiness to enjoy you a longer time.  
Sir, I am as much troubled that I cannot accept of the honour which you would bestow upon me, yet I must confess myself to have a very great obligation.  
Sir, I hope another time will be more convenient.  
Sir, I shall be always ready to obey you   

Another form of Invitation.  
Sir, Since I have the good fortune to meet you, oblige me so far as to take a small Dinner with me.  
Sir, Were it in my power to do you service, I would willingly accompany you, but my presence will be both inconvenient and troublesome.  
I bseech you, Sir, use not these excuses, your company cannot but be very acceptable; but perhaps you suspect your being ill treated.  
Pardon me, Sir, I know there is all good entertainment in your house, and that you may not think that I have any such apprehension, I shall do whatsoever you please to command me.  
Sir, You shall be very welcome, and you oblige me exceedingly.   

Before Dinner.  
Sir, Be pleased to seat yourself there, that is the place which is appointed for you.  
Sir, I shall be obedient, 'tis better to be uncivil, then troublesome.   

After Dinner.  
Sir, You will excuse your bad entertainment, otherwise we must oblige ourselves to make you a better.  
Sir, Your entertainment hath been very good, there hath been no fault, there is no need of excuses.  
At least you may assure yourself to have been looked upon with a respect, and to have been cordially received. I wish I could testify my affection to you in a thing that were more worthy of you.  
Sir, I have had so many testimonies of your favour that I am ashamed that I have not been able to give you better acknowledgements, which I shall be ready to do, when you are pleased to honour me with your commands. At present I humbly thank you for my entertainment and kiss your hands.  
Sir, I recommend myself to your good thoughts.   

To take leave of his Friend's Wife.  
Madam, The favour which I have received from your husband, obliges me to you both; I cannot at present give you sufficient thanks, but I beseech you to believe that my apprehension of them is such, that I shall give myself no repose, till I have found an occasion to revenge myself. Your most humble servant, Madam.   

To take leave of a Lady with whom you are familiar.  
Madam, among the favours that I have received in this town I esteem the honour of your acquaintance the chiefest; But as much as I esteemed myself happy in the content which I received in your sweet company and conversation, so much do I now find myself unfortunate by reason of the necessity of my departure. If I thought myself worthy of your memory, I would beseech you to bear me always in your thoughts. For I do assure you, that nothing shall take from my mind th'Idea of your perfections, to which I have vowed so much service and respect, and which I shall always cherish in my memory. Neither will there be any greater glory which I can boast of, then to style myself your most obedient Servant; under which notion I give you this farewell, recommending myself to your fair virtues and affections.   

A Private Intercourse between the Trunk-breeched Page and the waiting Gentlewoman in her Lady's Chamber.  
Come Mrs. Katherine, now my Master and my Lady are gone forth, you and I in their absence had best stay and exercise one another.  
How mean you Page?  
Why I'll teach you, if you will vouchsafe to learn.  
How prithee now?  
Let me beg your Lip.  
I cannot spare it by any means.  
I warrant you scorn me now, because I want hair upon my upper-lip; yet I can tell you, I have kissed Ladies ere now, and have been sent for to their Chambers.  
That's a good one, you sent for!  
Yes, and have been trusted with their secrets too; such pretty little things as we are, can play at hoop all hid under a Farthingale; prithee how long hast thou been a Waiting-woman?  
Not above a month yet.  
I thought so, you are so ignorant: I warrant you have your maidenhead still.  
I do hope so.  
Oh fie upon't, away with it for shame, chaffer it with the Coachman for the credit of your profession; 'tis finable among Lasses of your rank.  
Good Mr. Page, how long have you been skilled in these affairs.  
 since I was in Breeches; I vow you'll find your honesty very troublesome.  
How can that be?  
Why, when you have trucked away your maidenhead, you have a lawful excuse to put off Gamesters, by telling them you have not what they look for: besides the benefit of being impudent as occasion serves; 'tis a thing very necessary for a Waiting-creature, and we Pages can instruct you in it, if you will be tractable.  
Sure thou art wild.  
So wild, that if you will lead me the chase I'll follow you.     

Mock-Complements, or Drolling-Complements.  

A Compliment between a Gentleman and a Gentlewoman before a Riband-Shop in the Exchange.  
MAdam, ye are welcome to this Paradise of Toys: be pleased to choose what you like, and I shall sacrifice to your beauty upon the Altar of this Stall, what gold you shall think fit to command from my pockets.  
Sir, You every me with your gifts; I'll assure you Sir; I do as freely accept of your kindness, as you do liberally bestow them: for we Ladies of this Town, seldom have any mercy upon a Country-gentlemans' pocket, when we meet with an opportunity to empty it.  
Madam, Your nimble eye wherewith you do espy the faults of garb and habit, emboldens me to crave your judgement concerning the cut of my Breeches, the choice of my Fancies, and the fling of my Legs.  
Sir, For your clothes, were not your Breeches a little too long, they were Jeer-proof against all the Ladies either in Hyde-park or Spring-Garden. You walk with such a Barbary prance and stately step, that your feet are like loadstones, drawing the eyes of all persons on you.  
Madam, I wish the Gods would transform me into this Fan, that I am now about to give you, that I might be always puffing into your mouth the breath of my affections; or this piece of Ribbon, that I might always hang about you in two tassels, the one at your breast, the other at your breech.  
Sir, I never fancied flesh-colour knots, nor am I about to build Cities, that you should proffer me your hide to measure the compass of the walls; If I were your favours, Sir, merit, that I should like Dido, use something else for that work; rather choosing you for my Aeneas, to help me to people it.   

A Horse Courser courting a Parson's Widow.  
Lady, The great affections that I bear you, and the great desire I have to be lucky in Horseflesh, spur me on to accost you with an humble request, that I may be your Servant.  
Sir, Your proper person and eloquent language would accuse me of ingratitude, should my obstinacy to your reasonable demands be any hindrance to your fortunate Markets.   

An Apprentice and a young Lady at a Boarding-School.  
Lady, Seeing the painted cloth of your Virtues hang out at the window, and Fame standing at the door with a trumpet in her hand, I could not choose, out of a natural inclination which I have to Sights and Puppet-plays, but step in to behold the monstrousness of our Beauties; and now, Madam, having seen you, I admire you more than the Hairy-Gentlewoman.  
Sir, Your kindness proceeds more from your goodness then my desert; but you must give me leave to think you compliment, since you have compared me to a person whose incomparable qualities are as much above mine, as Paul's is above St. Gregory's.  
Lady, If you'll be pleased to take a Cheesecake, and a bottle of Beer, as the earnest of my affection, I shall think myself honoured with waiting on you to the next Alehouse.  
Sir, I shall not refuse the proffer of your kindness, for the short Commons our Mistress allows us, makes us very willing to embrace such invitations.   

At the Cake-house.  
Madam, Let me beg a kiss from you, that I may drink to you in that liquor which I most love, the Nectar of your lips.  
Your servant, Sir, now give me leave to pledge you in that liquor which I most love, which is a cup of bottle Ale, for I am very dry.  
Madam, These Cheesecakes were made to eat, I would you could feed on them with that eagerness, that I could feed on the perfections of your face; there is in them sweetness, tenderness, and pleasantness, the emblems of your qualifications.  
Sir, I know not how to recompense these favours, so that I am troubled that I must be now more in your debt, before I have gratified your first kindnesses; for I must desire you to give me leave to go forth to make water.   

At Parting.  
Empress of my soul, God give you good night, many thanks to you for your sweet company.  
I must return the same acknowledgements to you again, Sir, who have this night both filled my heart with your Love, and my belly with good Cheesecakes.   

A Passado Compliment between a Gentleman and a Lady, meeting in two several Coaches in the Highway going to Hyde-park.  
Your most humble servant, Madam, I bless the opportunity that now gives me leave to tell you how much I honour you, since you are the only Lady that ride triumphant in the Coach-box of my heart.  
Sir, I do not know how I have merited so great a favour, I wish it were a sufficient recompense to let you understand, that you are the only person that hold the Reins of my affection.  
Madam, Be pleased to honour me with your commands, and I shall diet myself like a Race-horse, that I may be swift to obey them.  
Sir, My commands are only, that you would accept of my love, which I bestow upon you with the same freeness that you ever gave your Mistress bottle Wine and Tarts.  
Oh Dear, Madam your most humble servant, drive on Coachman.   

Between a Gentleman and a Sempstress.  

Lady, The neat cut of your Bands which I do now and then send for by my Footboy, hath brought me to visit the maker of those comely ornaments of my neck.  
Sir, Were it not for speaing against my Trade and Profit, I would say that your good face needs no band.   

Then the Gentleman lolling over the Counter thus proceds.  
Truly Mistress, I do not wonder that your pretty fingers do stitch up so many neat ornaments, seeing that you are that very picture of ornament itself, and doubtless your Trade must be very innocent for you deal all in white.  
Sir, Your good opinion doth much oblige me; yet I entreat the favour of you to believe, that there is as much deceit in our Trade, as in any occupation about London.  
Lady, You may perceive by my behaviour and my garb, that I am a person wholly made up of compliments, so that the greatest compliment that I can give you, is myself. And as a testimony of this I should be glad to give you a treatment at the Sebastian over against Southampton-house, not daring to doubt, but that you are, as fame speaketh most of your calling, of a courteous and yielding nature.  
Sir, Your great estate would argue me of folly, should I deny you any thing that may obtain your custom.    

Between a Journeyman-Haberdasher of small Wares, and a Lady's Chambermaid.  
Fair Creature,  
For whose sake Cupid became a Weaver; that he might twist into thee all his mother's graces, grant me the favour to accost thy coral lip, that I may show thee how my Master kisses my Mistress.  
Sir, Though our Butler hath been teaching me something of this nature already, yet I shall be glad to take better example from your more exquisite accomplishments.  
Lady, I have here brought you four pair of blue Shoestrings to signify the knots wherewith you have tied my heart; as also a Love-hood, to remember you of the love I bear you; and a pair of trimmed Gloves, that when your fingers are imprisoned in them, you may think upon the captivity into which you have brought my soul. 'Tis true, I rather chose to steal then buy them, partly having the advantage of my Master's Shop, and partly knowing how much young people do delight in stolen contents.  
Sir, Though I that am a Chambermaid, an exact Trimmer of Gloves, have deserved these, and greater favours than these; yet if you will bring me when you come hither next Sunday a set of Lemon colour and silver Knots, I shall the● think it my part to study the satisfaction of your desires; but it must be upon good conditions.  
Lady of my constant affections, impose what conditions you please, the strictest of them will not be too heavy for him that desires to bear the burden of your love.  
Briefly thus Sir, You must let me have young Pease by latter end of March, ripe Cherries by May-day; in clothes none of my quality must go finer than I 'Twill be your gain, for I shall sit in the Shop and invite custom.  
Mistress Prudentia, You may think I lie now, but let me never stir more if I do; in reality I love you; and as for these conditions, if I do not follow them, then cut my throat, and throw me into the House of office; what can a man say more?  
Well Sir, go to, I'll tell you more next Sunday; but be sure you remember my Knots.   

Between a Gentleman Usher, and a Waiting Gentlewoman.  
Bright pearl in Nature's eye, I have made a journey from my looking-glass hither, that I may present you my exiguous devoires.  
Sir, Your exquisite knowledge in the service of Ladies emboldens me to desire a favour of your hands, that you would be pleased, the maids being all busy in washing, to help me to comb my head.  
Lady, The softness of your Hair betrays the softness of your disposition, and indeed how should it be otherwise, it having been so long sleeked with the smoothing-iron of a mild and gentle education.  
Sir, As one shoulder of mutton drives down another, so the readiness wherewith you have done me one courtesy makes me to request another from you, that when my Lady is engaged abroad in company, you would be pleased to carry a Compliment from me to a Sweetheart of mine, a Barber in Fleetstreet; I can assure you, that for my sake, he will give you a cast of his Office for nothing at any time.  
Lady, You have ripped up an old sore in my heart, which hath been wounded long ago by your Beauty; for it was now my intention to have engrafted myself into your affection.  
Oh, Sir, I dare not presume upon a man that goes before my Lady; beside, that your Periwig and the smallness of the Calf of your Leg, would cause the Hickup in my Fancy should you urge your request any further, and therefore I implore you to desist.   

Between a Lawyer's Clerk and his Master's Daughter.  
Most celestial beam of Beauty, I have received you into my heart, which like a burning-glass contracting the heat of your rays, is now all on fire, not to be quenched but by the moistening julip of your affection.  
Kind Robin, I have long thought thee to be what now I find thee, a Phoenix among men, which thou provest, by going about to die in thy flames: but heaven forbidden, I will first make water in a basin, and give it thee wherein to bathe thy burning breast, before I will be deprived of thy service.  
How willingly Mrs. Mary, should I receive such a stream into my bosom. But, Oh your Father; he's the shoe that wrings us both by the foot; methinks I hear him saying already, Out ye poor conditioned slut; what, marry your Father's Clerk?  
Come Robin, Clerk me no Clerks, I love thee; and if my father do compel me to marry another, yet Robin, thou knowest there are private corners in London.  
Mrs. Marry, I bow with all reverence to your manifold favours. But what do you think of a little horseplay in the time.  
Robin, I acknowledge thy civility, and shall not refuse any occasion to gratify thy reasonable request; for I love tumbling dearly.   

Between the Country Bumkin and his Mistress going to a Fair.  

Well overtaken my dear Katie, I no sooner heard that thou wert gone to the Fair, but I came a swinging pace after thee; for in troth Katie I love thee above all things, as a man may say, in the versal world. Alas, Katie, thy love hath gored me to the very heart, so that I shall be always as sick as a Horse till thou hast cured me with the plaster of thy love.  
Nay Richard, As bad as I love thee, I do not love thee so Ill, but that I'll kiss my lips into a consumption to save thy life.  
Ita, sayest thou me so Kate, God a mercy for that girl, by the mass, and that word shall cost me the best fairing in the Pedlar's pack. Come hold by my skirts, and let's make all the haste we can Kate.  
O Dear, Richard, how you sweat! here take my hand kercher to wipe your face. But Richard, must not I wear a gold Ring like my Dame, when I am married  
I Kate, and a posy in it too, which shall be this, Richard and Kate shall live without hate. 'Twas my own invention, and judge you now Kate, if I be not a brave blade to lead a Hen to water.  
Truly Richard did I not take you for a very pretty fellow, you should not be so much in my books as you are; I know more than one or two that would kiss my back side to have half those favours from me that you have received. Heaven bless us, how the Fair's crowded already.   

In the Fair.  
Come Kate, follow close, unhook my doublet, take fast hold on my Wasteband, shoulders make room for your Mistress. Thom, dost do, Thom Kate where are ye, what do ye like at that Stall.  
Oh Richard, I'll tell thee what thou shalt give me; A silver Bodkin to scratch my head at Church withal, and a silver Thimble to make thy Wedding Shirt.  
What thou wilt Kate, my fob buttons and unbuttons at thy command. ud's boars Kate, why dost think I won't please my Sweetheart, Yes faith, and I'll give thee a Bottle of white Wine and Sugar too at the George, before we go home.   

At the Inn.  
Come Kate, give me thy Sugar-candy first. Here's to thee with heart and good will. And now caper Dick for joy; Katies thine, Katie's thine, boy. I have purchased her with a silver Bodkin, and a Thimble, and she's now my Tenant in Tail: come Girl, give me thy hand once more, and strike me good luck.  
Here Richard, here's to thee. I'll warrant thee a merry grigg how ere the world go.  
Come say away Girl;  
hay down a down a derry down,  
hay down a down a derry do?  
My Love she is as brown as a Nut,  
My Love's a very pretty little Slut;  
She hath a dimple in her chin,  
And I am he that did her win.  
Nay 'tis true Kate, and I'll lay our piebald Mare against any Horse in the Town, that thou hast as pretty a smelling brow as any Lass in the Country.  
Ay, but Richard will you think so hereafter? Will you not when you have me throw stools at my head; and cry, Would my eyes had been beat out of my head with a cricket-ball, the day before I saw thee.  
Kate, My Infections are greater toward thee yn so. But if I should chance to call louder than ordinary, why, 'tis but saying hold your tongue Dick, here's piece of bag-budding for you: I and my mouth is stopped presently.  
Richard, thou dost well to tell me some of thy humours; But art thou not terrible mad when thou'rt drunk, and quarrelsome withal?  
No Kate, as quiet as any Lambkin: All that I shall do is only this, that when I come home, I may snore an hour or two perhaps with my head in thy lap; then I start up and cry, Hoh Kate, what's a clock? and so go to bed.  
Well Richard, my left eye itches, which puts me in mind of going home, for I'm afraid my Dame will thrash my bones for staying so long.    

Between the Coachman and the Kitchenmaid.  
Fair Goddess of the pottage pot, how done you do tzip morning?  
In truth George, I find myself very hot.  
Oh, I am glad that you begin to feel the heat which you make me suffer.  
Why, what hurt have I done you? have I scratched you, or pricked you with any of my lose pins, or have I trod upon your corns? Truly Bess, you are in the right on't, for the nails of your allurements have scratched my mind, the pins of your features have pricked me; and the foot of your disdain hath trod upon the toes of my perseverance; and besides all this, you have struck me to the heart.  
With what good George.  
With the miracles of your beauty.  
Alas that cannot be, for I am blacker than the Crock in the Chimney.  
Truly Bess, if thou art a Chimney Crock, thou oughtest not to be used in any place, but in the Chimneys of the Gods, where there is no fire made but that of Love. Oh that I were some Celestial Kettle that I might hang always over thee, that I might be never separated from thee!  
George, You will never leave your jeers, but 'tis no matter, I have a back broad enough to bear'em. Truly Bess, I speak nothing but the truth; measure me according to the greatness of my affections, not by the smallness of my deserts; and though I am but a poor Coachman, scorn me not, for I can tell you of Goddesses themselves, that have affected mortal men, perhaps meaner than myself.   

The Picture of the Poet's Mistress.  
Gentleman, step in and see the beginning; here is a Lady worth your seeing, She was born like Minerva, for she hath been breeding like mites in old cheese, in the heads of several Poets for this thousand years. Who have at length produced her to out-miracle the Hairy Gentlewoman; being quite contrary to her, for hair she hath none, her head being covered with an Aurora coloured silk, which hangs dissheveled about her shoulders; instead of curls it is tied in nooses, such as they catch Jacks withal, with which she recreates herself in fishing for Gudgeons. Her forehead is a Tower planted all about with Cupid's artillery; The whole structure of her head resembles a stately Palace; Her nose is the Throne where Jupiter himself sits under the Arches of her brows, which are not brows but two rainbows, to signify the watery temper of their eyes; Instead of her eyes she hath two burning Torches in each hole, and here by the way, the Poets tell a story, how that Cupid about a hundred years ago singed his wings in the flames thereof, and falling into one of the corners, was almost drowned in the Rheum; Her lips are two Altars of red Coral, continually reeking with the incense that comes from her mouth; Her teeth are not made of bone like those of other Women, but of the tears of true lovers congealed into pearl; Her Neck is nothing but a cloud, out of which you may see a Sun break forth to enlighten the two Orbs of her breast; though indeed they are not so properly to be termed Orbs, as Mountains, resembling the two hillocks that are upon Mount Parnassus; these overlook her belly, which is not a belly, but rather a plain, large and smooth, like that near Salisbury. Further I might go, but the Painter being not willing to draw more, makes me as abruptly to break off with my Pen, as he did with his Pencil.   


Many Books have been written of sundry, and several Arts and Sciences, so that even the scabby invention of Shorthand hath not wanted Printed Instructions for the attaining thereof. Yet strange it is to tell, that there never was yet any Book published concerning the Art of Ushering Ladies; doubtless it would have sold well, and might aptly have been called, The Gentleman Usher in Print. Therefore that this generation of Men may no longer live like Jews, depending wholly upon Tradition; it was thought requisite to set them down some few Precepts, not doubting but that some or other of them, in their lazy hours, may build greater works upon this small Foundation.   

The Choice of a Gentleman Usher.  
He ought to be indifferently tall, that is, being measured with a Carpenter's Rule, seven foot, three inches, and a quarter. He ought to have haunted Dancing Scools with more zeal than the old Women have that go to St. Antlin; He ought diligently to have studied over Melchior Swashbucklerus, de holdendo hattum in hando, and Cuffius Candus of the Ornaments of Nations; he ought to be a diligent Observer of Fashions, and an espyer of faults in the garb and house-keeping of other Ladies, that he may be able to furnish his own Lady now and then with discourse. Lastly, he must have a good head of hair, and handsome feet without corns.   

How he must be fitted for Service.  
Having been bespoken, and received earnest, he must desire a weeks time to fit himself for her Ladyship's service. The first two days he must walk in iron Boots, and an iron Breast and Back-piece, such as children wear that have the rickets, to bring his body into an upright and perfect posture. After that he must drink Scurvygrass-Ale to reform his complexion. He must then furnish himself with all the Books of Complementing, and be sure to get enough to enable him to show his wit the first night before the Waiting Gentlewoman at the Steward's Table. His motion must be with such a Clockwork formality, as if he were only made to strike the Quarter-Bell upon Bow-Steeple. This must be practised every morning in his Looking-glass, and he must not suffer himself to eat until he find he hath profited something.   

His Behaviour in the House.  
He must be affable to his fellow-servants, especially the Waiting-Gentlewoman and the Cook; to the one for his breakfast, to the other for a kiss or two now and then, and that she may speak well of him to her Lady; when he goes before his Lady he must walk as circumspectly as a Milkmaid with a pail upon her head, crying ever and anon, by your leave Gentlemen. He ought in company to value himself according to the degree of his Lady, wherein he must have a care not to lose the least atom of her dignity. His pockets must not be greasy, because he may have occasion to carry his Lady's Hoods and Scarves in them. He ought not to cast any affection upon his Master's daughter, for the Butler having more wit than himself, made sure of her before he could make his approaches.   

His Dress.  
He must not be long in dressing himself, because of walking the Rounds of his morning Visits. The heels of his Shoes ought to be long and very slender, that he may tread with the more grace, and make the less noise. His clothes ought to be put on with so much accurateness, as if he were to dress himself every day for his life, or if the world would perish, were there a wrinkle in his Band; white Gloves he must not want, for they like white staves in other employments, are the badges of his preferment. In his Hair he must be as nice as the ancient Greeks, and good reason that he should make much of it while he hath it, it being uncertain how long a man in his place may keep it.   

The Diseases incident to Gentlemen Ushers, and their Cures.  
The first is, when his hair doth utterly abandon his head, leaving his ears open to all reproaches, finding the wages of their nourishment as small as the recompense of his service.  
The Cure of this, is by way of humble Petition to the Gentlewoman, to afford him her Combing, and some few spare Locks, to hid the nakedness which she laid bare.  
The other is the dwindling away of the calves of his legs; This happens from his being overtoyled; for being to divide himself between the Lady and her Woman, they never leave sucking him, till they have made him so transparent that you may see his very thoughts. For the cure of this disease, he must go to the Hosier instead of the Apothecary. If the Gentlewoman will take the pains to nurse him, his body may perhaps return again to his soul, otherwise he dies like a Silkworm, having spun out himself to pleasure others.     


To his Mistress.  
O Thou the dear inflamer of my eyes,  
Life of my soul, and hearts eternal prize!  
How delectable is thy love, how pure,  
How apt to vanish, able to allure  
A frozen soul; and with thy sacred fires,  
To affect dull spirits with extreme desires.  
How do thy joys, though in their greatest dearth,  
Transcend the proudest pleasures of the earth?  
Thou art a perfect Symmetry, a rare Connexion  
Of many perfects, to make one perfection  
Of Heavenly Music; where all parts do meet,  
In one sweet strain to make one perfect sweet:  
Glorious Extraction, where each several feature  
Divine comprised, to so Divine a Creature;  
Give me thy heart, and for that gift of thine,  
Lest thou shouldst rend a heart, I'll give thee mine.   

Song.  

MIstake me not,  
I am as cold as hot;  
For though mine eyes betrays thy heart o'er night,  
Ere morn, ere morn, ere morning all is right.   

Sometimes I burn,  
And then do I return;  
There's nothing so unconstant as my mind:  
I change, I change, I change even as the wind.   

Perhaps in jest  
I said, I loved thee best;  
But 'twas no more, than what was long before  
I vowed, I vowed, I vowed to twenty more.   

Then prithee see,  
I give no heart to thee,  
For when I ne'er could keep my own one day,  
What hope, what hope, what hope hadst thou to stay.    

Plurality in Love.  

HE whose active thoughts disdain  
to be captive to one foe,  
And would break his single chain,  
or else more would undergo;  
Let him learn the art of me  
By new bondage to be free.   

What tyrannic Mistress dare,  
to one Beauty, Love confine?  
Who unbounded as the air,  
all may court, but none decline;  
Why should we the Heart deny  
As many Objects as the Eye?   

Wheresoever I turn or move,  
a new Passion doth detain me;  
Those kind Beauties that do love,  
or those proud ones that disdain me:  
This frown melts, and that frown burns me,  
This to tears, that to ashes turns me.   

Soft fresh Virgins not full blown,  
with their youthful sweetness take me;  
Sober Matrons that have known  
long since what these prove, awake me:  
Here stayed Coldness I admire,  
There the lively active Fire.   

She that doth by skill dispense  
every favour she bestows,  
Or the harmless innocence,  
which nor Court nor City knows;  
Both alike my Soul inflame,  
That wild Beauty and this tame.   

She that wisely can adorn  
nature, with the wealth of arts;  
Or whose rural sweets do scorn  
borrowed helps to take a heart:  
The vain care of that's my pleasure,  
Poverty of this my treasure.   

Both the Wanton and the Coy,  
me with equal pleasures move;  
She whom I by force enjoy,  
Or who forceth me to love:  
This because she'll not confess,  
That not hid her happiness.   

She whose loosely flowing hair,  
scattered like the beams o'th' morn;  
Playing with the sportive air,  
hides the sweets it doth adorn:  
Captive in that net restrains me,  
In those golden-fetters chains me.   

Nor doth she with powers less bright,  
my divided heart invade;  
Whose soft tresses spread like night,  
o'er her shoulders a black shade:  
For the starlight of her eyes,  
Brighter shines through those dark skies.   

Black, or fair, or tall, or low,  
I alike with all can sport;  
The bold sprightly Thais woe,  
or the frozen Vestal Court:  
Every Beauty takes my mind,  
Tied to all, to none confined.    

A description of his Mistress.  

SO looks the Virgin Rose,  
which cherished by the genial truth;  
Her crimson Beauties doth disclose,  
as doth the ruby portals of her mouth.   

Which when she doth unfold,  
Two bright transparent rows  
Of pearl ye may behold;  
From between which a breath of Amber flows.   

A more than Tyrean purple doth o'erspread  
Her lips, which softer are  
Then the Swans down, and smother far:  
The costly juice that dwells  
In Oriental shells,  
To them looks pale, they are so purely red.   

Fair Cheeks that look like blushing roses placed  
In purest Ivory,  
Or Coral, within snow enchased;  
The Glories of the Spring  
Grow pale, and languishing  
For envy, so outshined by them to be.   

Sweetly triumphing Eyes,  
That in two Crystal prisons do contain,  
Death in affrown's disguise,  
How gladly would I die to be by those eyes slain.   

Delightful cruelty  
Of those all charming Eyes,  
That have on one designed to try  
With what a pleasing empire they can tyrannize.    

The Melancholy Lover.  

HIther I come delightful groves  
To spend my sighs, and make my moan,  
To whose still shades it best behoves  
To make my plaints and sorrows known,  
And these gentle trees invite,  
To pity my disconsolate plight.   

'Tis rigorous love that doth torment  
This disturbed heart of mine;  
But of a Creature so Divine,  
That I ought not to repent  
To have loved, though unloved again,  
The sole author of my pain.   

Is bright Sylvia gentle bowers,  
To your gloomy walks unknown?  
Who loves to spend the harmless hours  
Among silent groves alone;  
Hnd can with her presence bright  
To the darkest shades give light.   

Sylvia hath about her charms  
Nations able to subdue;  
And can conquer with those arms  
More than mightiest Kings can do:  
But I that am her chiefest aim.  
Am destined to the greatest flame.   

I die Sylvia, when I behold  
Those eyes that set on fire my heart;  
Yet I (for love is uncontrolled)  
Greedy, and fond of my own smart:  
And captive to my misery,  
Love to behold those Stars, and die.    

To his Mistress falsely accusing him.  

WRong me no more  
In thy complaint,  
Blamed for inconstancy:  
I vowed to adore  
The fairest Saint,  
Not changed while thou were't she;  
But if another thee outshine  
Th' inconstancy is only thine.   

To be by such  
Blind Fools admired,  
Gives thee but small esteem;  
By whom as much  
Thou'dst be desired;  
Didst thou less beauteous seem;  
Sure why they love they know not well,  
Who why they should not, cannot tell.   

Women are by  
themselves betrayed,  
And to their short joys cruel?  
Who foolishly  
themselves persuade,  
Flames can outlast their fuel.  
None (though Platonic their pretence)  
With reason love unless by sense.   

And he by whose  
command to thee,  
I did my heart resign;  
now bids me choose  
a Deity  
Diviner far than thine,  
No power from love can beauty sever,  
I'm still loves subject, thine was never.   

The fairest she  
whom none surpass,  
To love hath only right:  
and such to me  
thy beauty was  
till one I found more bright:  
But were as impious to adore  
thee now, as not t'have done't before.   

Nor is it just  
by Rules of Love,  
Thou shouldst deny to quit  
a heart that must  
another's prove  
even in thy right to it;  
Must not thy subject's captives be  
To her who triumphs over thee?   

Cease then in vain  
to blot my name  
With forged Apostasy;  
thine is that stain,  
who darest to claim  
what others ask of thee:  
Of Lovers they are only true  
Who pay their hearts where they are due.    

To his false Mistress.  

CElio remains disconsolate,  
forsaken of his cruel Lover;  
Who not ashamed to violate  
Her faith, doth for her false heart discover.   

Oft do I her hard heart bemoan,  
Inveigh on her unconstant mind,  
Oft blame myself for doting on  
a thing more sickle than the wind.   

Sometimes unhappy men he deemed,  
her absence might have quenched his flame.  
But now more and fair then e'er she seemed,  
his flames increase through her disdain;   

Now nought is left me but despair,  
My adverse fate brought me to see  
Things distant most admired are,  
enjoyment breeds satiety.   

I go to see the fair unkind,  
whom her new Lovers arms immure;  
Me she vouchsas'd not once to mind  
in her inconstancy secure.   

Was't not enough, Phillis said I,  
that thy deceitful charming wiles  
Should cheat my fond credulity,  
that thou seek'st others to beguile.   

If amidst these thy new delights  
Thou hapst no time to think on me,  
Think how awakened conscience frights;  
Think Phillis on thy perjury.   

Longer to grieve I see 'tis vain,  
Longer my troubled thoughts to vex;  
Phillis triumph in her disdain,  
Phillis the falsest of her sex.    

Resolution to Love.  

I Wonder what the Grave and Wise  
Think of all us that love;  
Whether our pretty fooleries  
Their mirth or anger move:  
They understand not breathe that words do want,  
Our sights to them are unsignificant.   

One of them saw me t'other day  
Touch thy dear hand, which I admire;  
My soul was melting strait away,  
And dropped before the fire:  
This silly Wiseman, who pretends to know,  
Asked why I looked so pale and trembled to.   

Another from my Mistress door  
Saw me with watery eyes to come;  
Nor could the hidden cause explore,  
But thought some smoke was in the room:  
Such ignorance from unwounded learning came,  
He knew tears made by smoke, but not by flame.   

If learned in other things you be,  
And have in Love no skill;  
For God sake keep your arts from me  
For I'll be ignorant still:  
Study or actions others may embrace,  
My Love's my business, and my Book's her face.   

These are but trifles I confess,  
Which me weak mortal move;  
Nor is your busy seriousness  
Less trifling than my love:  
The wisest King, who from his sacred breast  
Pronounced all vanity, chose it for the best.    

Tyranny in Love.  

BLind Cupid lay thy Bow aside,  
Thou dost know its use;  
For Love thy Tyranny doth show,  
Thy kindness is abuse.   

Thou who were't called a Pretty Boy,  
Art thought a Skeleton:  
For thou like death dost still destroy,  
When thou dost strike at one.   

Each vulgar hand can do as much;  
Then Heavenly skill we see  
When we behold two Arrows touch  
Two marks that distant be.   

Love always looks for joy again,  
If e'er thou woundst man's heart,  
Pierce by the way his Rib; and then  
He'll kiss, not curse thy dart.    

Against Love.  

NOw fie on love it ill befits,  
Or Man or Woman know it;  
Love was not meant for people in their wits,  
And they that fond show it  
Betray their too much feathered brains,  
And shall have Bedlam only for their pains.   

To Love is to distract my sleep.  
And waking, to wear fetters;  
To Love is but to go to School to weep:  
I'll leave it for my betters:  
If single love be such a curse,  
To marry is to make it ten times worse.    

The Maidenhead.  

THou worst estate even of the sex that's worst,  
Therefore by nature made at first  
T'attend the weakness of our birth;  
'Slight outward Curtain to the nuptial Bed,  
Thou cause to buildings not yet finished:  
Who like the Centre of the Earth  
Dost heaviest things attract to thee,  
Though thou a point imaginary be.   

A thing God thought for mankind so unfit,  
That his first blessing mind it;  
Cold frozen nurse of fiercest fires,  
Who like the parched plains of Africa sand,  
(A sterel and a wild unlovely Land)  
Art always scorched with hot desires,  
Yet barren quite didst thou not bring  
Monsters and Serpents forth thyself to sting.   

Thou that bewitchest men, while thou dost dwell  
Like a close Conjurer in his Cell;  
And fearest the days discovering eye  
No wonder 'tis at all that thou shouldst be  
Such tedious and unpleasant company,  
Who liv'st so melancholily;  
Thou thing of subtle slippery kind,  
Which Women lose and yet no man can find.   

Although I think thou never found wilt be,  
Yet I'm resolved to search for thee,  
To search itself rewards the pains;  
So though the Chemic his great secret miss;  
(For neither it in art nor nature is)  
yet things well worth his toil he gans,  
and doth his charge and labour pay,  
With good unsought experiments by the way.   

Say what thou wilt, chastity is no more  
to thee, than a Porter to the door;  
in vain to honour they pretend,  
Who guard themselves with Ramparts and with Walls;  
Them only fame the truly valiant calls,  
who can an open breach defend:  
of thy quick loss can be no doubt,  
Within so hated, and so loved without.    

A Fond Design.  

IN vain fair Cloris you design  
To be cruel, to be kind;  
For we know with all yours arts,  
You never hold but willing hearts:  
Men are too wise grown to expire,  
With broken staves and painted fire.   

2.  
And if among a thousand Swains.  
Some one of Love or Fate complains;  
And all the Stars in Heaven defy,  
With Clora's lips, or Celia's eye:  
'Tis not their Love, the youth would choose  
But the glory to refuse.   

3.  
Then wisely make your price of those,  
Want wit or courage to oppose;  
But tempt not me that can discover  
What will redeem the fondest Lover:  
And fly the least, lest it appear,  
Your power is measured by our fear.   

4.  
So the rude wave securely shocks  
The yielding Bark, but the stiff Rocks  
If it attempt, how soon in vain,  
Broke and dissolved it fills the main;  
It foams and roars, but we deride,  
Alike its weakness and its pride.    

On his Mistress Singing.  

I Have been in Heaven I think,  
For I heard an Angel sing  
Notes, my thirsty ears did drink;  
Never any earthly thing  
Sung so true, so sweet, so clear,  
I was then in Heaven not here.   

2.  
But the blessed feel no change,  
So I may mislike the place,  
But mine eyes would think it strange  
Should it be no Angels face;  
Powers above it seems design  
Me still mortal, her Divine.   

3.  
Till I tread the Milky way,  
And I lose my senses quite;  
All I wish is that I may  
Hear that voice, and see that sight:  
Then in types and outward show,  
I shall have a Heaven below.    

Parting.  

But that I knew before we met,  
the hour would come that we must part;  
and so had fortified my heart,  
I hardly could escape the net,  
My passions for my reason set.   

But why should reason hope to win  
a victory, that's so unkind,  
and so unwelcome to my mind?  
To yield is neither shame nor sin,  
Besieged without, betrayed within.   

And though that night be ne'er so long,  
in it they either sleep or wake;  
and either way enjoyments take  
In dreams or visions, which belong,  
Those to the old, these to the young.   

But friends ne'er part to speak aright.  
for whose but going is not gone;  
Friends like the Sun must still move on,  
And when they seem most out of sight,  
Their absence makes at most but night.   

I'm old when going, go 'tis night,  
my parting then shall be a dream,  
and last tell the auspicious beam  
Of our next meeting gives new light;  
And the best vision that's your sight.    

Not to be Altered.  

CAn so much beauty over a mind;  
o'erswayed by Tyranny,  
As new afflicting ways to find  
a doubtless faith to try;  
And all examples to outdo,  
To scorn, and make me jealous too.  
Alas, she knows my fires are too too great!  
and though she be  
stone-ice to me,  
Her thaw to others cannot quench my heat.   

2.  
That Law that with such force o'er ran  
the armies of my heart;  
When not one thought I could out-man,  
that durst once take my part:  
For by assault she did invade,  
No composition to be made;  
Then since that all must yield as well as I,  
to stand in awe  
of Victor's Law,  
There's no prescribing in captivity.   

3.  
That love, which loves for common ends,  
is but self loving love;  
But nobler conversation tends  
soul mysteries to prove:  
And since love is a passive thing,  
It multiplies by suffering,  
Then though she throw life to the waning Moon  
On him her shine  
The dark part mine,  
Yet I must love her still when all is done.    

Love's Martyr.  

HOw long shall I a Martyr be,  
To love and Woman's cruelty?  
Or why doth sullen fate confine  
My heart to thee, that is not mine?  
Had I e'er loved as others do,  
But only for an hour or two;  
Then there had store of reason been,  
Why I should suffer for my sin.   

But Love thou knowst with what a flame,  
I have adored my Mistress name;  
How I ne'er offered other fires,  
But such as risen from chaste desires,  
Nor have I e'er prosaned thy shine  
With an inconstant fickle mind;  
Yet you combining with my fate  
Hast forced my Love, and her to hate.   

O Love, if her supremacy,  
Have not a greater power than thee;  
For pities sake then once be kind,  
And throw a Dart to change her mind:  
Thy Deity we shall suspect,  
If our reward must be neglect:  
Then make her love, or let me be  
Inspired with scorn, and well as she.    

Protestation of Love.  
DEar soul, who hath encaptived so my heart;  
Vouchsafe to bear these lines which I impart;  
I dare not bless myself to call thee mine,  
Yet I, if I am any thing, am thine.  
The Poles shall move to teach me e'er I start,  
And when I change my Love, I'll change my heart;  
Nay, if I wax but cold in my desire,  
Think Heaven hath motion left, and heat the fire,  
Much more I could, but many words have made,  
That oft suspected, which men would persuade;  
Take therefore all in this, I love so true,  
That I will never love none else but you.   

The Golden Age.  

WHen from each Thought a seed did spring,  
And every Look a plant did bring,  
And every Breath a flower;  
The Earth unploughed did yield her crop,  
And honey from the Oak did drop,  
The Fountains did run milk:  
The Thistle did the Lily bear,  
And every Bramble Roses wear,  
And every Worm made Silk.  
The very Shrub did Balsom sweat,  
And Nectar melt the Rock with heat,  
And Earth did drink her fill:  
Then she no hurtful weed did know,  
Nor barren Fern, nor Mandrake low,  
Nor Mineral to kill.  
The Male and Female used to join,  
And into all delight did coin,  
That pure simplicity:  
Then Feature did to Form advance,  
And Youth called Beauty forth to dance,  
And every Grace was by.  
It was a time of no distrust,  
So much of Love had nought of Lust,  
None feared a jealous eye.  
The Language melted in the ear,  
Yet all without a blush might hear;  
They lived with open vow.  
Each touch and kiss was so well placed,  
They were as sweet as they were chaste.   


FRom the fair Lavanion shore,  
I your Markets come to store;  
Muse not at me that so far dwell,  
And hither bring my Wares to sell.  
Such is the sacred hunger of gold,  
Then come to my pack where I cry,  
What do you lack, what do you buy?  
For here it is to be sold.   

You, whose birth and breeding base,  
Are ranked into a noble race;  
And whose Parents heretofore,  
Neither Arms nor Scutchons bore:  
Such is the sacred hunger of gold,  
Then come to my pack, where I cry,  
What do you lack, what do you buy?  
For here is Honours to be sold.   

Madam, for your wrinkled face,  
Here's complexion it to grace;  
Which, if your earnest be but small,  
It takes away the virtue all:  
But if your palms be well anointed with gold,  
Then shall you seem like a Queen of fifteen,  
Though you be threescore years old.     

On the perfections of his Mistress.  
HER locks are streams of liquid amber,  
Curtains fit for beauty's chamber;  
Of which slender golden sleeve,  
Love his wanton nets did wove.  
Her forehead, that is beauty's sphere.  
A thousand graces moving there.  
Venus triumpheth on her brow,  
That comely arch of silver snow.  
The Savages that worship the Sun-rise,  
Would hate their god, if they beheld her eyes;  
All heavenly beauties join themselves in one,  
To show their glory in her eye alone:  
Which when it turneth its celestial ball,  
A thousand sweet Stars rise, a thousand fall.  
Her nose is beauty's splendid port,  
Where Zephyrus delights to sport.  
Her breath is such, whose native smell  
All Indian odours doth excel;  
If all the pleasures were distilled  
Of every Flower in every Field,  
And all that Hybla's hives do yield,  
Were into one broad mazer filled  
If thereto added all the Gums  
And Spice that from Panchaia comes;  
The Odours that Hydaspes lends,  
And Phoenix proves before she ends;  
If all the Air that Flora drew,  
Or Spirit that Zephyrus ever blue  
Were put therein, and all the Dew  
That ever rosy morning knew;  
Yet all diffused could not compare  
With her breath, delicious air.  
The melting rubies on her lip,  
Are of such power to hold, as on one day  
Cupid flew thirsty by, and stooped to sip,  
And fasten there, could never get away.  
Have you seen Carnation grow,  
Fresh blushing through new flakes of snow?  
Have you seen with more delight,  
A red Rose growing through a white?  
Have you seen the pretty gleam  
That the Strawberry leaves in cream?  
Or morning blushes when day breaks?  
Such is the tincture of her cheeks.  
Her silver neck is whiter far  
Than Towers of polished Ivory are,  
And now behold her double breast,  
Of Venus' Babe the wanton nest,  
Like Pommels round of marble clear,  
Where azure veins well mixed appear;  
With dearest top of porphyry,  
Betwixt which two a way doth lie;  
A way more worthy beauty's fame  
Then that which bears the Milky name;  
That leads unto the joyous field,  
Which doth unspotted Lilies yield;  
But Lilies such, whose native smell,  
All Indian Odours doth excel.  
Her hands would make a Tiger meek,  
So soft, so delicate, and sleek;  
That we from hence might justly prove,  
Nature wore Lilies for a Glove.  
Where whiteness doth for ever sit,  
Nature herself enamelled it,  
Wherewith a strange compact doth lie,  
Warm snow, moist pearl, soft ivory.  
There fall those Saphir coloured brooks,  
Which conduit-like with curious crooks,  
Sweet Lands make in that sweet Land;  
As for the fingers of that hand,  
(The bloody shafts of Cupid's war)  
With Amethyst they headed are.   

Her Chastity.  
HEr cool thoughts feel no hot desires,  
Serving not Venus flames, but Vesta's fires:  
In wanton dalliance such, as until death,  
Never smelled any but her Husband's breath.  
Jupiter would court her, did he know a shape  
Would tempt her chastity, unto a Rape;  
Who when her lawful sports she doth begin,  
Still blushing, thinketh her own kisses sin.   

On her Beauty.  
WHen that my Mistress looks my sight doth grace,  
She seems to sway an Empire in her face;  
Nature herself, did her own self admire,  
As oft as she were pleased to attire  
Her in her native lustre, and confess,  
Her dressing was her chiefest comeliness:  
Where every limb takes like a face,  
Built with that comely and majestic grace;  
One accent, from whose lips the blood more warms  
Then all Medea's exorcisms and charms.  
He that since Nature her great work began,  
She made to be the mirror of a man:  
That when she meant to form some matchless limb,  
Still for a pattern took some part from him;  
And jealous of her coming, broke the mould.  
In his proportion, done the best she could,  
If she discourse, her lip such accents breaks,  
As love turned air, breathes from him as he speaks.  
She maketh Jove invent a new disguise,  
Inspite of Juno's watchful jealousy:  
Whose every part doth also reinvite  
The coldest most decayed appetite:  
And shall be Nurse, as mighty Juno swears,  
To the next bright haired Cupid that she bears.   

On a fair and richly attired Lady at a Mask.  
IN one Heaven many Stars, but never yet  
In one Star many heavens, till now, were met;  
Her Orient cheeks and lips exceeded his,  
That leapt into the water for a kiss  
Of his own shadow; and despising many,  
Died ere he could enjoy the love of any.  
Had wild Hippolytus this beauty seen,  
Pierced with his Darts, he had enamoured been.  
The wealth she wore about her, seemed to hid  
Not to adorn her native beauty's pride.  
Though there bright pearls from Erythraean Shore,  
With silver Ganges, and Hydaspes store;  
And cheerful Emeralds, gathered from the green  
Arabian Rocks, were in full splendour seen;  
Pale Onyx, jasper's of a various dye,  
And Diamonds darkened by her brighter eye;  
The Saphires blue, by her more azure veins,  
Hung not to boast, but to confess their stains;  
The blushing Rubies seemed to lose their dye,  
When her more ruby lips were moving by;  
It seemed so well became her all she wore,  
She had not robbed at all the creatures store:  
But had been Nature's self there to have showed  
What she on creatures could or had bestowed.  
And Jupiter would revel in her bower,  
Were he to spend another golden shower.   

Song.  

CElia, thy sweet Angel's face  
May be called a heavenly place;  
The whiteness of the starry way,  
Nature did on thy forehead lay?  
But thine eyes have brightness won,  
Not from the Stars but from the Sun.   

The blushing of the morn,  
In thy Rosy cheeks is worn;  
The Music of the Heavenly Spheres,  
In thy soul winning voice appears:  
Happy were I, had I like Atlas, grace  
So fair a Heaven with mine arms to embrace.    

The Queen of Fairies.  

COme follow, follow me,  
You Fairy Elves that be;  
Which Circle on the Green,  
Come follow me your Queen:  
Hand in hand, let's dance a round,  
For this place is Fairy ground.   

When Mortals are at rest,  
And snorting in their nest;  
Unheard and unespyed  
Through Keyholes we do glide:  
Over Tables, Stools and Shelves,  
We trip it with our Fairy Elves.   

And if the House be foul,  
Or Platter, Dish, or Bowl;  
Up stairs we nimbly creep,  
And find the sluts asleep:  
There we pinch their arms and thighs  
None escapes nor none espies.   

But if the house be swept,  
And from uncleanness kept;  
We praise the Houshold-maid:  
And surely she is paid:  
For we do use before we go,  
To drop a Tester in her Shoe.   

Upon a Mushrom's head,  
Our table we do spread;  
A Corn of Rye, or Wheat,  
Is Manchet which we eat:  
Pearly drops of dew we drink,  
In Acorn Cups filled to the brink.   

The brains of Nightingales,  
The unctuous dew of Snails,  
Between two Nutshells stewed,  
Is meat that's easily chewed;  
And the beards of little Mice  
Do make a feast of wondrous price.   

On tops of dewy grass,  
So nimbly do we pass,  
The young and tender stalk,  
ne'er bends when we do walk:  
Yet in the morning may be seen,  
Where we the night before have been.   

The Grasshopper and Fly,  
Serve for our minstrelsy;  
Grace said, we dance a while,  
And so the time beguile:  
And when the Moon doth hid her head,  
The Gloe-worm lights us home to bed.    

Cupid Contemned.  

CVpid thou art a sluggish Boy,  
and dost neglect thy calling;  
Thy Bow and Arrows are a toy  
thy monarchy is falling.   

Unless thou dost recall thyself,  
and take thy tools about thee;  
Thou wilt be scorned by every Elf,  
and all the world will flout thee.   

Rouse up thy spirit like a God,  
and play the Archer finely;  
Let none escape thy Shaft or Rod,  
'gainst thee have spoke unkindly.   

So may'st thou chance to plague that heart,  
That cruelly hath made me smart.    

Bootless Complaint.  

THough bootless I must needs complain,  
my faults are so extreme:  
I loved and was beloved again,  
yet all was but a dream,   

For as that love was quickly got,  
so was it quickly gone;  
I'll love no more a flame so hot,  
I'll rather leted alone.    

The Departure.  
WE must not love as others do,  
With sighs and tears as we were two;  
Though with this outward form we part,  
We find each other in our heart.  
What search hath found a being, where  
I am not, if that thou be there?  
True love hath wings, and will assoon,  
Survey the World, as Sun or Moon;  
And every where our triumph keep:  
Our absence which makes others weep,  
Shows it thereby a power is given  
To love on Earth, as they in Heaven.   

To a Laedy in Prison.  
LOok out bright eyes, and clear the air,  
even in shadows you are fair;  
Caged beauty is like fire,  
that breaks out clearer still, and higher:  
Though the body be confined,  
and soft Love a prisoner bound;  
Yet the beauty of your mind,  
neither check nor chain hath found.  
Look out nobly then, and dare  
Even the fetters that you wear.   

To Sorrow.  

Sorrow why dost thou seek to tempt  
my quiet soul, to misery and woe;  
My constant thoughts from thine assaults exempt  
Inur'd to fortunes crosses long ago:  
Go seek out some who doth affect thy pain,  
If none thou findest, return to me again.   

When elder years witness my race as run,  
and hoary locks my hollow temples fill;  
When I shall sit and say, the world is done;  
sorrow return, and satisfy thy will:  
Till then, go seek out some who affects thy pain,  
If none thou findest, return to me again.    

Constancy resolved.  
COme constant hearts that so prevail,  
That every passion puts in hail;  
My innocence shall dare as far,  
To bid the Tyrant open war:  
If warmed with pride he kindle fires,  
We'll drown them in our chaste desires,  
If he assail with Dart and Bow,  
We'll hid them in the hills of snow:  
So shall his heart plagued, mourn, and die,  
While we smile at his memory;  
And keep our hearts, our eyes, and ears,  
Free from vain sighs, sad groans, and tears.   

Lose no time.  
LOse no time, nor youth, but be  
Kind to men, as they to thee;  
The fair Lilies that now grow  
In thy cheeks, and purely show:  
The Cherry and the Rose that blow,  
If too long they hang and waste,  
Winter comes that all will blast:  
Thou art ripe, full ripe for Men,  
In thy sweets be gathered then.   

Song.  
NOt Roses couched within a lily bed,  
are those commixtures that depaint thy face;  
Nor yet the white that silver Hiems head,  
mixed with the dewy morning's purple grace:  
but thou, whose face  
my senses captive led,  
Whom I erst fond deemed of heavenly race;  
Hast from my guiltless blood which thou hast shed,  
And envious paleness, got thy white and red.   

Song.  
REad in the Roses the sad story,  
Of my hard fate, and your own glory;  
In the white you may discover  
The paleness of a fainting Lover:  
In the red, the flames still feeding  
On my heart, with fresh wounds bleeding.  
The white will tell you how I languish,  
And the red express my anguish;  
The frown that on your brows resided,  
Have the Roses thus divided:  
O let your smiles but clear the weather,  
And then they both shall grow together.   

Dying to Live.  

YOung Thirsis laid in Phillis lap,  
and gazing on her eye;  
Tyought life too mean for such good hap,  
and fain the Lad would die.   

When Phillis who the force did prove  
of Love, as well as he,  
Cried to him, Stay a while my Love,  
and I will die with thee.   

So did these happy Lovers die,  
but with so little pain,  
That both to life immediately  
returned, to die again.    

Who his Mistress is.  

WIll you know my Mistress face?  
'tis a Garden full of Roses  
When the Spring in every place:  
white and blushing red discloses;  
'Tis a Paradise, where all  
That attempt the fruit, must fall.   

2.  
Will you know her forehead fair,  
'tis heavenly living Sphere;  
Under which the veins like air,  
all Celestial blew appear:  
But those burning Suns, her Eyes,  
He that dares live under, dies.   

3.  
Will you know her body now,  
'tis a tall ship under sail;  
From the rudder to the prow,  
nothing but Imperial:  
But that foolish man that stears,  
Fills his Compass by his fears.   

4.  
Shall I now her mind declare,  
'tis a body armed for war;  
Marching in proportion fair:  
till the Lover hopes too far:  
Then her eyes give fire, and all  
Within level, helpless fall,    

In praise of Fools.  

Fool's they are the only nation,  
Worth men's envy, or admiration  
Free from love and sorrow taking,  
Themselves and others merry making.  
O, who would not be!  
He, He, Herald   

All they speak or do, is sterling,  
your Fool he is your great man's darling;  
And your Lady's sport and pleasure,  
tongue and babble are his treasure.   

Even his face begetth laughter,  
and he speaks truth free from slaughter;  
He's the grace of every feast,  
And sometimes is the chiefest guest;  
Hath his Trencher and his Stool;  
When Wit waits upon the Fool.  
O! who would not be?  
He, He, He.    

The Impolitic Beauty.  
CLoris I wish, that envy were  
As just, as pity doth appear  
Unto thy state; whereby I might  
Rob others, to give thee more delight:  
But your too free, though lovely charms,  
In others glory breeds your harms.  
But since you so admit,  
So many rivals to your wit;  
Unthriftily you throw away  
The pleasures of your beauty's sway.  
Which loosely scattered so on many,  
Securely fastens not on any.  
And then your beauty doth discover,  
Many that gaze, but ne'er a Lover;  
And your so greedy hands destroy,  
What you would yourself enjoy.  
So Princes by Ambition thirsty grown,  
In chase of many Kingdoms, lose their own.   

YOU must suppose it to be Easter holidays: for now Sisly and Dol, Kate and Peggy, Moll and Nan are marching to Westminster, with a Lease of Apprentices before them; who go rowing themselves along with their right Arms to make more haste, and now and then with a greasy Muckender wipe away the dripping that bastes their foreheads. At the door they meet a crowd of Wapping Seamen, Southwark Broom-men, the Inhabitants of the Bankside, and a Butcher or two pricked in among them; there a while they stand gaping for the Master of the Show, staring upon the Suburbs of their delight, just as they view the painted Cloth before they go in to the Puppet-play: by and by they hear the Keys, which rejoices their hearts like the sound of the Pancake-bell; for now the Man of comfort peeps over the spikes, and beholding such a learned auditory, opens the Gates of Paradise, and by that time they are half got into the first Chapel (for time is then very precious) he lifts up his voice among the Tombs, and gins his lurry in manner and form following:  

HEre lies Will. de Valence,  
a right good Earl of Pembroke;  
And this is his monument which you see,  
I'll swear upon a Book:  
He was High Marshal of England,  
when Harry the Third did reign:  
But this you may take upon my word,  
that he'll ne'er be so again.   

Here the Lord Edward Talbot lies,  
the Town of Shrewsbury's Earl,  
together with his Countess fair,  
that was a delicate Girl.   

The next to him there lieth one  
Sir Richard Perk shall, height;  
Of whom we always first do say,  
he was a Hampshire Knight.  
And now to tell the more of him,  
there lies under this stone  
His two Wives, and his Daughters four,  
of whom I knew not one.   

Sir Bernard Brockhurst there doth lie,  
Lord Chamberlain to Queen Ann:  
Queen Ann was Richard the Second Queen,  
and he was King of England.   

Sir Francis Hollis, the Lady Frances,  
the same was Suffolk's Duchess,  
Two children of Edward the Third  
lie here in Death's cold clutches.   

This is King Edward the Third's brother,  
of whom our Records tell  
Nothing of note, nor say they whether,  
he be in Heaven or Hell.   

This same was John of Eldeston;  
he was no Costermonger,  
But Cornwall's Earl. And here's one died  
'cause she could live no longer.   

The Lady Mohum Duchess of York,  
and Duke of York's Wife also;  
But Death resolving to cuckold the Duke,  
made her lie with him here below.   

The Lady Ann Ross, but note thee well  
that she in childbed died.  
The Lady Marquis of Winchester  
lies buried by her side.   

Now think your penny well spent good folks,  
and that ye are not beguiled;  
Within this Cup doth lie the heart  
of a French Ambassadors Child:  
Nor can I tell how came to pass,  
on purpose or by chance;  
The bowels they lie underneath,  
the body is in France.   

There's Oxford's Countess, and there also  
the Lady Burley, her Mother;  
And there her Daughter, a Countess too,  
lie close one by another.   

These once were bonny Dames, and though  
there were no Coaches then,  
Yet could they jog their tails themselves,  
or had them jogged by men.  
But woe is me, these Highborn sinners,  
that strutted once so stoutly;  
Are now laid low, and cause they can't;  
Their statues pray devoutly.   

This is the Duchess of Somerset,  
by name the Lady Ann;  
Edward the Sixth her Lord protected,  
and he carried himself like a man.   

In this fair Monument which you see,  
adorned with so many Pillars,  
Doth lie the Countess of Buckingham,  
and her Husband, Sir George Villars.   

This old Sir George was Grandfather,  
the Countess she was Granny  
To the great Duke of Buckingham,  
who often foxed King Jammy.   

Sir Robert Eatam a Scotch Knight,  
this man was Secretary,  
And scribbled Compliments for two Queens;  
Queen Ann, and eke Queen Mary.   

This was the Countess of Lenox,  
I cleped the Lady Margot  
King Jame's Grandmother, but yet  
'gainst death she had no Target.   

This was Queen Mary, Queen of Scots,  
whom Buchanan doth bespatter,  
She lost her head at Fothringham,  
whatever was the matter.   

The Mother of our Seventh Henry,  
this is, that lieth hard by;  
She was the Countess wots ye well,  
of Richmond and of Derby.   

Harry the Seventh himself lies here,  
with his fair Queen beside him;  
He was the Founder of this Chapel,  
Oh! may not ill betid him?   

Therefore his Monument's in brass,  
you'll say that very much is.  
The Duke of Richmond and Lenox  
there lieth with his Duchess;  
And here they stand upright in a Press,  
with bodies made of wax;  
With a Globe and a Wand in either hand,  
and their Robes upon their backs.   

Here lies the Duke of Buckingham,  
and the Duchess his Wife:  
Whom Felton stabbed at Portsmouth Town,  
and so he lost his life.   

Two Children of King James these are,  
which Death keeps very chary;  
Sophia in the Cradle lies,  
and this is the Lady Mary.   

And this is Queen Elizabeth,  
How the Spaniards did infest her?  
Here she lies buried with Queen Mary,  
and now she agrees with her Sister.   

To another Chapel now come we,  
the people follow and chat;  
This is the Lady Cottington,  
and the people cry, Who's that?   

This is the Lady Frances Sidney,  
The Countess of Sussex is she.  
And this the Lord Dudley Carleton is,  
and then they look up and see.   

Sir Thomas Bromley lieth here,  
Death would not him reprieve;  
With his four Sons, and Daughters four,  
yet I heard no body grieve.   

The next is Sir John Tullerton,  
and this is his Lady I trow,  
And this is Sir John Duckering  
with his fine Bed-fellow.   

That's Earl of Bridgewater in the middle,  
who makes no use of his bladder;  
Although his Countess lies so near him,  
and so we go up a ladder.   

King Edward the First, that gallant blade,  
lies underneath this stone;  
And this is the Chair which he did bring,  
a good while ago from Scone.   

In this same Chair till now of late,  
our Kings and Queens were crowned;  
Under this Chair, another stone  
doth lie upon the ground.   

On that same stone did Jacob sleep,  
instead of a down Pillow;  
And after that, 'twas hither brought  
by some good honest Fellow.   

Richard the Second he lies here,  
and his first Queen, Queen Ann.  
Edward the Third lies here hard by,  
I, there was a gallant man:  
For this was his two-handed Sword,  
a Blade both true and trusty;  
The French men's blood was ne'er wiped off,  
which makes it look so rusty.   

He lies here again with his Queen Philip,  
A Dutch Woman by Record;  
But that's all one, for now alas!  
his Blade's not so long as his Sword.   

King Edward the Confessor lies  
within this Monument fine;  
I'm sure, quoth one, a worse Tomb  
must serve both me and mine.   

Harry the Fifth lies there. And there  
doth lie Queen Elenore;  
To our first Edward she was Wife,  
which is more than ye knew before.   

Henry the Third lies there entombed,  
he was Herb John in Pottage;  
Little he did, but still reigned on,  
although his Sons were at age.  
Fifty six years he reigned King,  
ere he the Crown would lay by;  
Only we praise him, 'cause he was  
last Builder of this Abbey.   

Here Thomas Cecil lies: Who's that?  
why, 'tis the Earl of Exeter.  
And this his Countess is to die  
how it perplexed her. 
Life's sweet.    

Here Henry Cary, Lord Hunsdon rests,  
what a noise a makes with his name?  
He was Lord Chamberlain unto  
Queen Elizabeth of great fame.   

And here one William Colchester  
lies of a certainty,  
An Abbot he was of Westminster,  
and he that says no, doth lie. 
Plain deal's a Jewel.    

This is the Bishop of Durham,  
by Death here laid in Fetters;  
Henry the Seventh loved him well,  
and made him write his Letters.   

Sir Thomas Ruthat, what of him?  
poor Gentleman not a word;  
Only they buried him here. But now  
behold that man with a Sword.   

Humphrey de Boliun, who though he were  
not born with me in the same Town;  
Yet I can tell, he was Earl of Essex,  
of Hereford, and Northampton;   

He was High Constable of England,  
as History well expresses.  
But now pretty Maids be of good cheer,  
we are going up to the Presses.   

And now the Presses open stand,  
and ye see them all a-row:  
But more is never said of these,  
than what is said below.   

Henry the Seventh and his fair Queen,  
Edward the First and his Queen;  
Henry the Fifth here stands upright,  
and his fair Queen, was this Queen.   

The noble Prince, Prince Henry,  
King James' eldest Son; 
He does not run a-tilt.   
King James, Queen Ann, Queen Elizabeth,  
and so this Chappel's done.   

Now down the stairs come we again,  
the man goes first with a staff;  
Perchance one tumbles down two steps,  
and then the people laugh,   

This is the great Sir Francis Vere,  
That so the Spaniards curried;  
Four Colonels support his Arms,  
and here his Body's buried.   

That statue against the wall with one eye,  
is Major General Norrice; 
He had two eyes, if he could have kept them.   
He beat the Spaniards cruelly,  
as is affirmed in Stories.   

His six Sons there hard by him stand,  
each one was a Commander;  
To show he could his Lady serve  
as well as the Hollander.   

And there doth Sir John Hollis rest,  
who was the Major General  
To Sir John Norrice, that brave blade,  
and so they go to Dinner all.   

For now the Show is at an end,  
all things are done and said;  
The Citizen pays for his Wife,  
The Apprentice for the Maid.    

The Hector's Farewell.  


GOod people all, I pray give ear,  
my words concern ye much,  
I will relate a Hector's life,  
pray God ye be not such.   

There was a Gallant in the Town,  
a brave and jolly Sporter,  
There was no Lady in the Land,  
but he knew how to court her.   

His person comely was, and tall,  
more comely have been few men;  
Which made him well beloved of men;  
but more beloved of women.   

Besides all this I can you tell,  
that he was well endowed  
With many graces of the mind,  
Which Heaven on him bestowed.   

He was as liberal as the Sun,  
his Gold he freely spent;  
Whether it were his own Estate,  
or that it were him lent.   

For valour, he a Lion was,  
I say a Lion bold;  
For he did fear no living man  
that Sword in hand did hold.   

And when that he with glittering blade  
did  assail his foes;  
Full well I trow they did not miss  
their belly full of blows.   

A Frenchman once assaulted him,  
and told him that he lied.;  
For which with Quartpot he him flew,  
And so the French man died.   

Three Danes, six Germans, and five Swedes  
met him in Lane of Drury;  
Who cause they took of him the Wall,  
did kill them in his fury.   

Upon his body I have heard,  
full many a scar he bore,  
His skin did look like Satin pinked,  
with gashes many a score,   

Oh had he lost that noble blood  
For Country's liberty!  
Where could all England then have found  
so brave a man as he?   

But woe is me these virtues great,  
were all eclipsed with vice;  
Just so the Sun that now shines bright,  
Is darkened in a trice.   

For he did swagger, drink, and game,  
indeed, what would he not?  
His Psalter, and his Catechise  
he utterly forgot.   

But he is gone, and we will let  
no more of him be said;  
They say 'tis nought to reveal  
The vices of the dead.   

Beside we have some cause to think,  
that he may scape tormenting;  
For the old Nurse that wached with him,  
did say he died repenting.    

The Second Part.  

FArewell three Kings, where I have spent  
full many an idle hour;  
Where oft I won, but ne'er did lose  
if it were within my power.   

Where the raw Gallants I did choose,  
like any Ragamuffin:  
But now I'm sick and cannot play,  
who'll trust me for a Coffin.   

Farewell my dearest Piccadilly,  
Notorious for great Dinners;  
Oh, what a Tennis Court was there!  
alas! too good for sinners.   

Farewell Spring-garden, where I used  
to piss before the Ladies;  
Poor Souls! who'll be their Hector now  
to get 'em pretty Babies?   

Farewell the glory of Hyde-park,  
which was to me so dear;  
Now since I can't enjoy it more,  
would I were buried there.   

Farewell tormenting Creditors,  
whose scores did so perplex me;  
Well! Death I see for something's good,  
for now you'll cease to vex me.   

Farewell true brethren of the Sword,  
all Martial men and stout;  
Farewell dear Drawer at the Fleece,  
I cannot leave thee out.   

My time draws on, I now must go  
from this beloved light;  
Remember me to pretty Sue,  
and so dear friends good night.   

With that, on Pillow low he laid  
his pale and drooping head:  
And strait e'er▪ Cat could lick her ear,  
poor Hector he was dead.   

Now God bless all that will be blest,  
God bless the Inns of Courts;  
And God bless Davenants Opera,  
which is the sport of sports.     

On the Death of Jo. W.  

WHen rich men die, whose purses swell  
with silver and with gold;  
They strait shall have a Monument,  
their memories to uphold.   

Yet all that men can say of them,  
they lived so unknown;  
Is but to write upon their Tombs,  
here lieth such a one.   

When Joseph, who died poor,  
(though Simon was his Porter)  
Shall die as if he ne'er had been,  
and want his worth's reporter.   

Full many a Can he often drank,  
In Fleetstreet in the Cellar;  
Yet he must unremembered die,  
like some base Fortune-teller.   

He made the Ballad of the Turk,  
and sung it in the street;  
And shall he die, and no man heed it?  
no friends, it is not meet.   

He lived in Garret high,  
as high as any Steeple;  
And shall he die? alas poor Jo!  
unknown unto the People.   

He had no Curtains to his Bed,  
yet still paid for his quart,  
While Coin did last; and shall he die?  
And no man lay't to heart.   

He loved his Dog, Icleped Trou,  
his Dog he loved Pie;  
Shall Tobit live for his Dog's sake?  
and Jo neglected, die.   

He hated all the Female sex,  
who knows his private gradge;  
And must he therefore die forgot?  
I leave the World to judge.   

Each Term he asked his Father Blessing,  
most gravely and demurely,  
Who then did give him Shillings Ten;  
and must he die obscurely?   

No Jo, I'll bid peace to thy bones,  
Though they were sick and crazy,  
And must be quite made new again,  
Before that Heaven can raise thee.   

And since thou'rt gone, and there is none,  
who knoweth where to find thee;  
I'll fix this truth upon thy name,  
Thou didst leave Wit behind thee.   

Wit that shall make thy name to last,  
when Tarlton's Jests are rotten;  
And George a Green, and Mother Bunch,  
shall all be quite forgotten.   

Now if you ask where Jo is gone,  
you think I cannot tell;  
Oh he is blest! for he was poor,  
and could not go to Hell.   

But for his Father rich in Bags,  
the Devil ought to have him;  
That took no care of such a Son,  
till 'twas too late to save him.    

The Song of the Caps.  

THe Wit hath long beholding been  
Unto the Cap, to keep it in;  
Let now the Wit fly out amain  
With Praise, to quit the Cap again;  
The Cap that owes the highest part,  
Obtained that place by due desert.  
For any Cap what e'er it be,  
Is still the sign of some Degree.   

The Cap doth stand, each man doth show,  
Above a Crown; but Kings below.  
The Cap is nearer Heaven than we,  
A greater sign of Majesty;  
When off the Cap we chance to take,  
Both Head and Feet obeisance make.  
For any Cap, etc.   

The Monmouth Cap, the Sailor's Thrum,  
And that wherein the Sailors come.  
The Physic, Law, the Cap Divine,  
The same that crowns the Muses nine.  
The Cap that Fools do countenance,  
The goodly Cap of Maintenance.  
And any Cap, etc.   

The sickly Cap, both plain and wrought,  
The Fuddling Cap, however brought.  
The Quilted, Furred, the Velvet, Satin,  
For which so many Pates learn Latin.  
The Crewel Cap, the Fustean Pate,  
The Periwig, a Cap of late.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The Soldiers that the Monmouth wear,  
On Castle tops their Ensigns rear.  
The Sailors with their Thrum do stand  
On higher place than all the Land.  
The Tradesman Cap. aloft is born,  
By vantage of (some say) his horn.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The Physics Cap to dust may bring,  
Without control the greatest King.  
The Lawyer's Cap hath heavenly might,  
To make a crooked Cause stand right:  
Which being round and endless, knows  
To make as endless any Cause.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

Both East and West, and North, and South,  
Where e'er the Gospel finds a mouth,  
The Cap divine doth thither look;  
The Square-like Scholars and their Book:  
The rest are round, but this is square;  
To show that they more stable are.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The Motley man a Cap doth wear,  
That makes him fellow for a Peer;  
And it's no slender part of wit,  
To act the fool where great men sit:  
But Oh the Cap of London town!  
I wis 'tis like the Giant's crown.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The sick man's Cap not wrought with silk,  
Is like repentance white as milk.  
When Hats in Church drop off in haste.  
This Cap ne'er leaves the head uncaste.  
The sick man's Cap if wrought, can tell,  
Though he be ill, his state is well.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The Fuddling Cap, God Bacchus might,  
Turns night to day and day to night;  
Yet spendors it prefers to more,  
By seeing double all their store.  
The Fur'd and Quilted Cap of age,  
Can make a mouldy Proverb sage.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

Though Fustean Caps be slender wear,  
The head is of no better gear.  
The Crowel Cap is knit like Hose,  
For them whose zeal takes cold in the nose  
Whose purity doth judge it meet,  
To cloth alike both head and feet.  
This Cap would fain, but cannot be,  
The only Cap of no degree.   

The Satin and the Velvet hive,  
Unto a Bishopric doth drive;  
Nay when a file of Caps y'are seen in,  
The Square Cap this, and then a Linen.  
This treble may raise some hope,  
If fortune smile to be a Pope.  
Thus any Cap, etc.   

The Periwing, Oh that declares!  
The rise of flesh the loss of hairs,  
And none but Graduates can proceed  
In sin so far, till this they need.  
Before the Prince none covered are,  
But those that to themselves go bare.  
This Cap of all the Caps that be,  
Is now the sign of high degree.    

The Jolly Ale-Drinker.  

I Cannot eat but little meat,  
my stomach is not good;  
But sure I think, that I can drink  
with him that wears a hood:  
Though I go bare, take ye no care,  
I nothing am a cold,  
I stuff my skin, so full within,  
with jolly good Ale and old.  
Back and sides go bare, go bare,  
both foot and hand go cold;  
But Belly, God send thee good Ale enough,  
whether it be new or old.   

I love no Roast, but a nut-brown Tost,  
and a Crab laid in the fire;  
A little bread, shall serve my stead,  
for much I not desire.  
No frost or snow, no wind I trow,  
can hurt me if I would;  
I am so wrapped, and throughly leapt  
with jolly good Ale and old.  
Back and sides, etc.   

And Tib my Wife, that as her life  
loveth good Ale to seek;  
Full oft drinks she, till you may see  
the tears run down her cheek.  
Then doth she trowel to me the Bowl,  
even as a Malt-worm should;  
And saith, Sweetheart, I took my part  
of this jolly good Ale, and old.  
Back and sides etc.   

Now let them drink, till they nod and wink,  
even as good Fellows should do;  
They shall not miss, to have the bliss,  
good Ale doth bring men to.  
And all poor Souls, that have scoured Bowls,  
or have them luftily trowled;  
God save the lives of them and their Wives,  
whether they be young or old.  
Back and sides go bare, etc.    

The Shepherd's Song in praise of his God Pan, who prefers him before the Sun.  

THou that art called the bright Hyperion,  
Wert thou more strong than Spanish Geryon,  
That had three heads upon one man;  
Compare not with our great God Pan.   

They call thee Son of bright Latona,  
But gird thee in thy torrid Zona;  
Sweat, baste, and broil, as best thou can,  
Thou art not like our Dripping Pan,   

What cares he for the great God Neptune;  
With all the broth that he is kept in;  
Vulcan or Jove he scorns to bow to,  
To Hermes, or th'Infernal Pluto.   

Then thou that art the Heaven's bright Eye,  
Or burn, or scorch, or boil, or fry:  
Be thou a God, or be thou Man,  
Thou art not like our Frying Pan.   

They call thee Phoebus, God of Day,  
Years, Months, Weeks, Hours, of March and May:  
Bring up thy Army in the Van,  
We'll meet thee with our Pudding Pan.   

Thyself in thy bright Chariot settle,  
With Skillet armed, brass Pot, or Kettle;  
With Jug, black Pot, with Glass or Can,  
No talking to our Warming Pan.   

Thou hast thy beams thy brows to deck,  
Thou hast thy Daphne at thy beck:  
Pan hath his horns, Syrinx and Phillis;  
And I his Swain, my Amarillis.    

Song on Women.  

TRust not a Woman when she cries,  
For she'll pump water from her eyes  
With a were finger; and in faster showers,  
Then April when he reins down Flowers.   

As out of Wormwood Bees suck honey;  
As from poor Clients Lawyers firk money;  
As Parseley from a roasted Coney:  
So though the day be ne'er to sunny.   

If Wives will have it rain down, than it drives;  
The calmest Husbands make the most stormy Wives.    

On an Excellent Race-Horse.  

COme Muses all that dwell nigh the Fountain,  
made by the winged Horses heel;  
Which firked with his Rider over each Mountain,  
let me your galloping raptures feel.  
I do not sing of Fleas, nor Frogs,  
Nor of the well-mouthed Hunting-dogs;  
Let me be just, all praises must  
Be given to well-breathed Jilian Thrust.   

2.  
Young Constable and Kil-deer's famous,  
the Cap, the Mouse, the Noddy grey,  
With nimble Pegabrigg, you cannot shame us,  
With Spaniard nor with Spinola;  
Hill climbing white Rose praised doth not lack,  
Handsome Dunbar, and yellow Jack:  
But if I be just, all praises must  
Be given to well-breath Jilian Thrust.   

3.  
Sure spurred Sloven, true running Robin  
of young Shaver, I do not say less;  
Strawberry, Soam, and let Spider pop in,  
fine Brackley, and brave running Bess,  
Victorious too was Herring Shotten,  
And Spin in's arse is not forgotten.  
But if I be just, all honour must  
Be given unto Jilian Thrust.   

4.  
Now Gentleman all I pray you hark yet,  
to winning Makarel, fine mouthed Freak;  
Bay Tarral that won the Cup at New-market;  
thundering Tempest, Black-dragon eke;  
Precious Sweet-lips, I do not lose,  
Nor Toby with his golden Shoes:  
But if I be just, all honour must  
Be given to well-breath Jilian Thrust.    

The Clown's Description of his Mistress.  

Happy am I in Mop's love,  
that ever I bespoke her;  
Whose hair's as fine as any hemp,  
and coloured like red ochre.  
Whose hammer-head and beetle-brows▪  
will never me deceive;  
If I have any Nail to drive,  
or any Block to cleave.   

Those eye-holes, if thy eyes were out,  
would serve as well for Saucers;  
But thy plump cheeks puffed up do hang  
like to a pair of Dossers.  
And from this Limbeck the rare Juice,  
continually that flows:  
Left thou should lose one drop of it,  
thou hast a Bottlenose.   

Thy chaps do water, I protest,  
as they were greased with tallow;  
Thy scattering teeth enamelled are,  
with blue, and black, and yellow:  
When thou dost talk, I do admire,  
thy stumbling and thy trips;  
Thou art no great blab of thy tongue,  
but a little of thy lips.   

The rubies, and the carbuncles,  
on thy face shine most Starlike;  
But oh! thy spicy fragrant breath,  
smells like a bed of Garlic.  
Thy comely breasts to me appear  
like Molehills newly raised;  
Which for their mountainous extent,  
are highly to be praised.   

Her sides be long, her belly lank;  
of her legs what should I say?  
But that she feels well in the flank,  
her feet themselves display.    

The Watchman's Song.  

SIng and rejoice, the day is gone,  
and the wholesome night appears,  
In which the Constable on throne  
of trusty Bench, doth with his peers  
The comely Watchmen, sound of health,  
sleep for the good o'th' Commonwealth.   

'Tis his office to do so,  
being bound to keep the peace,  
And in quiet sleep you know,  
mortal jars and lewd brawls cease.  
A Constable may then for's health,  
Sleep for the good o'th' Commonwealth.   

Unless with nobler thoughts inspired,  
to the Tavern he resort;  
Wherewith sack his senses fired,  
he reigns as Fairy King in Court:  
Drinking many a lusty health,  
Then sleep for the good o'th' Commonwealth.   

With a comely Girl, whom late  
he had taken in his watch;  
Oft he steals out of the Gate,  
her at the old sport to match:  
Though it may impair his health,  
He sleeps for the good o'th' Commonwealth.   

Who then can Constables deny,  
to be persons brave and witty;  
Snce they only are the eye,  
the glory, the delight o'th' City:  
That with Staff and Lantern light:  
A like-black Pluto Princes of the night.    

The Jovial Companion.  

COme let's drink, the time invites,  
Winter and cold weather;  
For to pass away long nights,  
and to keep our wits together:  
Better far thna Cards or Dice,  
Or Jack's balls, that acquaint delights,  
Made up with fan and feather.   

Of great actions on the Seas,  
we will ne'er be jealous;  
Give us liquor that will please,  
and 'twill make us braver fellows,  
Then the flout Venetian Fleet,  
When the Turk and they do meet,  
Within their Dardanello's.   

Mahomet was not Divine,  
but a simple Widgeon;  
To forbid the use of Wine,  
unto those of his Religion;  
Falling sickness was his shame,  
And his Tomb shall have the same,  
For all is whispering Pigeon.   

Therefore water we'll desclaim;  
mankind's adversary;  
Once it caused the world's whole fame  
in the deluge to miscarry.  
Nay this enemy of joy,  
Seeks with envy to destroy,  
And murder good Canary.   

Valentien that famous Town,  
stood the French men's wonder;  
Water it employed to drown,  
so to force their Troops asunder:  
Turain cast a helpless look,  
Whilst the crafty Spaniard took  
La Ferto, and his plunder,   

See thee Squibs, and hear the Bells  
the fifth day of November;  
The Preacher a sad Story tells,  
and with horror doth remember,  
How some Dry-brained Traitor wrought  
Arts, that might have ruin brought.  
To King, and every member.   

He that drinks hath no such thoughts,  
black and void of reason;  
We take care to fill our vaults  
with Wine for every season:  
And with many a cheerful cup  
We blow one another up,  
And that's our only treason.    

A New Ballad of St. George for England, and the Dragon.  

WHY should we boast of Arthur and his Knights,  
Knowing how many men have performed fights  
Or why should we speak of Sir Lancelor du Lake,  
Or Sir Tristram du Leon, that fought for Lady's sake:  
Read old Stories, and there you shall see,  
How St. George, St. George did make the Dragon flee;  
St. George he was for England, St. Denis was for France,  
Sing Hony soit qui maly pense.   

To speak of the Monarches, it were too long to tell;  
And likewise of the Romans, how far they did excel;  
Hannibal and Scipio they many a field did fight;  
Orlando Furioso he was a valiant Knight;  
Romulus and Rhemus were those that Rome did build,  
But St. George, St. George the Dragon he hath killed.  
St. George, etc.   

Jephtha and Gideon they led their men to fight,  
The Gibeonites and Ammonites they put them all to flight;  
Herculeses labour was in the Vale of Bass,  
And Samson slew a thousand with the Jaw bone of an Ass;  
And when that he was blind, pulled the temple to the ground;  
But St. George, St. George the Dragon did confound.  
St. George, etc.   

Valentine and Orson they came of Pippin's blood;  
Alphred and Aldrecus they were brave Knights and good;  
The four Sons of Ammon that fought with Charlemagne,  
Sir Hugh de Bordeaux, and Godfrey de Bolaigne;  
These were all French Knights, the Pagans did convert;  
But St. George, St. George pulled forth the Dragon's heart.  
St. George, etc.   

Henry the Fifth he conquered all France;  
He quarttered their Arms his honour to advance;  
He razed their walls, and pulled their Cities down;  
And garnished his head with a double triple Crown;  
He thumped the French, and after home he came;  
But St. George, St. George he made the Dragon tame.  
St George, etc.   

St. David you know, Jove's Leeks and toasted Cheese;  
And Jason was the man brought home the Golden Fleece;  
St. Patrick you know he was St. George's Boy,  
Seven years he kept his Horse, and then stole him away;  
For which knavish act, a Slave he doth remain;  
But St. George, St. George the Dragon he hath slain.  
St. George, etc.   

Tamburlaine the Emperor in Iron Cage did crown,  
With his bloody Flags displayed before the Town;  
Scanderbag magnanimous Mahomet's Bashaw did dread;  
Whose Victorious bones were worn when he was dead;  
His Bedlerbegs, his Corn-like drags, George Castriote was he called  
But St. George, St. George the Dragon he hath mauled.  
St. George, etc.   

Ottoman the Tarter, I'm of Persia's race,  
The great Mogul, with chests so full of all his Cloves and Mace;  
The Grecian youth, Bucephalus he manly did bestride;  
But those with all their Worthies nine, S. George did them deride;  
Gustavus Adolphus was Sweedlands warlike King;  
But St. George, St. George pulled forth the Dragon's sting.  
St. George, etc.   

Poldraggon and Cadwallader of British blood do boast;  
Though John of Gaunt, his foes did daunt, St. George shall rule the roast,  
Agamemnon, and Cleomedon, and Macedon did feats,  
But compared to our Champion, they were but merely cheats;  
Brave Malta Knights, in Turkish fights their brandish Swords  
out drew,  
But St. George met the Dragon, & ran him through & through.  
St. George, etc.   

Bidia the Amazon Potius overthrew;  
As fierce as either Vandal, Goth, Saracen, or Jew;  
The potent Holophernes, as he lay in his bed, down thunder,  
In came wise Judith, and subtly stole his head;  
Brave Cyclops stout, with Jove he fought, although he showered  
But St. George killed the Dragon, was not that a wonder;  
St. George, etc.   

Mark Anthony, I'll warrant you, played feats with Egypt's Queen;  
Sir Eglamone that valiant Knight, the like was never seen;  
Grim Gorgon's might, was known in fight;  
Old Bevis most men frighted;  
The Myrmidons and Prester John, why were not those men knighted?  
Brave Spinola took in Breda, Nassau did it recover:  
But St. George St. George he turned the Dragon over & over.  
St. George he was for England, St. Denis was for France,  
Sing Hony soit qui mal y pense.    

New Song.  
In Defiance of Drinking-sack  

WHat a Devil all our Poets all,  
For drink, for drink thus always to call?  
And nothing goes down but drink,  
Friends, whether are your stomaches flown?  
That you the noble food disown,  
That better deserves your ink.   

Food! I there is a substantial word,  
And it beget a substantial turd,  
That breeds grass for Cows and Sheep:  
The Countrey-bumpkin he comes for it,  
And at night it rideth in a Chariot,  
When all men are asleep.   

Alas! for drink, 'tis not worth your meeter,  
Drink maketh Piss, and piss makes Saltpetre,  
That kills and blows up the people.  
You may drink Claret, and have the gout,  
I'll eat, and drink little, and go without,  
And laugh at the drunken Cripple.   

Let Lady's the Exchanges range,  
The Shambles shall be my Exchange,  
Which I count a noble place:  
What do I care for pins or points,  
Let me behold the solid joints,  
That keep up humane race.   

The noble Sirloins there doth lie,  
A Joint well known to satisfy,  
Though you feed ne'er so fiercely:  
And there you may see the glorious Buttocks  
Of many a Cow, and many a fat Ox;  
Oh how they taste with Parseley;   

The Brisket must not be forgot,  
‛ Its meat for a Prince, while it is hot,  
If Cabbage do attend it;  
Though if the Turnips be of Hackney,  
I will not covet any Sack nigh,  
To inspire me to commend it.   

Nor must we pass the Leg of Mutton,  
'tis a noble Dish for any Glutton,  
Although he ruled an Empire:  
Whether a Sea of Anchovies sauce,  
Like Delos Isle, do it embrace,  
or served with Capers and Sampire.   

Your Venison Pastry, if well soaked,  
If not, I wish the Cook were choked,  
What say you to such meat?  
Capons refused, to let it go down,  
It wisdom gives to the man o'th' Gown,  
Who will feed on't till he sweat.   

Who will not commend the high-soaring Larks,  
Or a Pidgeon-pye, worth three or four Marks,  
With Rabbits all buttered about?  
The Woodcock, Partridge, and the Teal,  
The Pheasant and Turkey, which the Commonweal  
could never be without.   

There be your Hashes, and Fricasses  
Which are contemned by none but Asses,  
And mushrooms no meat for Carters;  
With a thousand more so long to recount,  
'Twould make my Song for to surmount  
The three great Books of Martyrs   

Nor would I now advise any man,  
For to extol the glass or can,  
Lest he receive the foil;  
Should we compare them with pot or kettle,  
Or ●…dle, or skimmer of as good mettle,  
Or grid-iron fit to broil;   

Or with the spit much used at court,  
Which Vulcan found out, heaven bless him for't,  
As sing the learned Atticks:  
And for the Jack, there is no watch,  
Was ever able for to match  
The Turn-spit Mathematics.   

Nor let the men that drink Paris Wine,  
Or Sack, which I take to be more Divine,  
Plead wit, or inspirations;  
Meat has a more large prerogative,  
For by it all Professions live,  
And it multiplies the Nations.   

The man that drinketh all his life,  
What can he do unto his wife?  
Poor soul she lives in quiet?  
But such a restless quiet 'tis,  
That never ends, till she doth kiss  
The man that eats good diet.   

The crafty Politician,  
Who with his acts doth all he can,  
The Cellar doors to shut;  
Must have his boiled, his baked, his roast,  
Nor will he spare for any cost,  
To cram his lawless gut.   

The serious Lawyer, who doth firk  
Out of his pate full many a quirk,  
Refuses all strong liquor;  
Yet cause his commons are but short,  
A Client's feast does him no hurt,  
It will make them talk the quicker.   

Peace therefore, Broom, for liquor so fierce,  
The Cooks are angry at thy verse,  
And ha'sworn the Fiddlers to cripple;  
If against next Term they ha' ne'er a new song,  
Which may to the praise of Meat belong,  
As well as to that of Tipple.    

The OLD GILL.  

IF you will be still,  
Then tell you I will,  
Of a lovely old Gill,  
Dwelled under a hill:  
Her Locks are like sage,  
That's well worn with Age,  
And her visage would suage  
A stout man's Courage.   

Teeth yellow as Box,  
Clean out with the Pox;  
Her Breath smells like Lox,  
Or unwiped Nocks:  
She hath a devilish grin,  
Long hairs on her chin,  
To the soul footed Fien,  
She is nearly a Kin.   

She hath a beetle brow,  
Deep Furrows enough,  
She's eyed like a Sow,  
Flat nosed like a Cow:  
Lips swarthy and dun,  
A mouth like a Gun,  
And her tattle doth run,  
As swift as the Sun.   

On her back stands a Hill,  
You may place a Windmill,  
And the Farts of her gill,  
Will make the sails trill:  
Her neck is much like,  
The foul swine in the Dike,  
Against Crab-lice and Tike,  
A blue pin in her pike.   

Within this Anno,  
There dwells an Hurricane,  
And the rise of her Plano,  
Vomits smoke like Vulcano:  
But a pox of her twist,  
It is always bepissed,  
And the Devil's in his list,  
That to her Mill brings grist.   

‛ Ware the dint of her dirt,  
She will give you a flirt,  
She has always the squirt,  
She is lose and ungirt:  
Want of wind makes her pant,  
Till she fizzle and rant,  
And the hole in her gaunt,  
Is as deep as Levant.   

Yea deep as any well,  
A Furnace or Kell,  
A bottomless cell,  
Some think it is Hell:  
But I have spoken my fill,  
Of my Lovely old Gill,  
And 'tis taken so ill,  
I'll throw by my Quill.    

The PUDDING.  

FRom twelve years old, I oft have been told  
A Pudding it was a delicate bit,  
I can remember my Mother has said  
what a delight she had to be fed  
With a Pudding.   

Thirteen being past, I longed for to taste  
What Nature or Art could make so sweet,  
For many gay Lasses about my age  
Perpetually speak on't, that puts me in a rage  
For a Pudding.   

Now at Fifteen I often have seen  
Most Maids to admire it so,  
That their humour and pride is to say  
O what a delight they have for to play  
With a Pudding.   

When I am among some Wives that are young,  
Who think they shall never give it due praise,  
It is sweet, It is good, It is pleasant still  
They cry, they think they shall ne'er have their fill  
Of a Pudding.   

The greater sort of the Town and the Court,  
When met, their tongues being tiped with Wine,  
How merry and Jocund their Tattles do run  
To tell how they ended and how they begun  
With a Pudding.   

Some ancient Wives, who most of their lives  
Have daily tasted of the like food,  
Now for want of supplies do swear and grumble,  
That still they're able enough, to mumble  
A Pudding.   

Now, now I find, cat will to kind  
Since all my heart and blood is on fire,  
I am resolved whatever comes on't  
My Fancy no longer shall suffer the want  
Of a Pudding.   

For I'll to John who says he has one  
That's crammed as close as Cracker or Squib,  
Who ever is telling me when we do meet  
Of the wishing desires and sweetness they get  
In a Pudding.   

I thought at first, It never would burst,  
It was as hard as griselda or bone,  
But by the rolling and trolling about  
How kindly and sweetly the Marrow flew out  
Of his Pudding.   

Well, since I ne'er, was fed with such gear,  
Until my John did prove so kind,  
I made a request to prepare again  
That I might continue in Love with the strain  
Of his Pudding.   

Then strait he brought, what I little thought  
Can ever have been in its former plight,  
He rumbled and jumbled me over and over  
Till I found he had almost wasted the store  
Of his Pudding.   

Then the other mess, I begged him to dress,  
Which by my Assistance was brought to pass.  
But by his dulness and moving so slow  
I quickly perceived the stuffing grew low  
In his Pudding.   

Though he grew cold, my Stomach did hold  
With vigour to relish the other bit,  
But for all he could do, could not furnish again,  
For he swore he had left little more than the skin  
Of his Pudding.    

A Parley, between two WEST-COUNTRIMEN on sight of a WEDDING.  

I Tell thee Dick where I have been,  
Where I the rarest things have seen;  
O things beyond compare!  
Such sights again cannot be found  
In any place on English ground,  
Be it at Wake or Fair.   

At Charing Cross, hard by the way  
Where we (thou knowst) do sell our hay,  
There is a House with stairs;  
And there did I see coming down,  
Such Volk as are not in our town,  
Forty at least in pairs,   

Amongst the rest one pestilent fine,  
(His beard no bigger though than thine)  
Walked on before the rest:  
Our Landlord looks like nothing to him  
The King (God bless him) 'twould undo him  
Should he go still so dressed.   

At Course-a-Park without all doubt,  
He should have first been taken out  
By all the maids i'th' Town;  
Though lusty Roger there had been,  
Or little George upon the green,  
Or Vincent of the Crown.   

But wots you what; the youth was going  
To make an end of his wooing,  
The Parson for him stayed,  
Yet by his leave (for all his haste)  
He did not so much wish all past  
(Perchance) as did the Maid.   

The Maid (and thereby hangs a tale)  
For such a Maid no Whitson-Ale  
Can ever yet produce:  
No grape that's kindly ripe, could be  
So round, so plump, so soft as she,  
Nor half so full of juice   

Her finger was so small, the Ring  
Would not stay on which he did bring,  
It was too wide a peck:  
And to say truth (for out it must)  
It looked like the great Collar (just)  
About our young Colt's neck.   

Her feet beneath her petticoat,  
Like little mice stole in and out,  
As if they feared the light:  
But Dick she dances such a way,  
No Sun upon an Easter day  
Is half so fine a fight.   

He would have kissed her once or twice,  
But she would not she was so nice,  
She woudl not do't in sight;  
And then she looked as who would say,  
I will do what I list to day;  
And you shall do't at night.   

Her cheeks so rare a white was on,  
No Dazy makes comparison  
(Who sees them is undone:)  
For streaks of red were mingled there;  
Such as are on a Katherine Pear,  
The side that's next the Sun.   

Her lips were red, and one was thin  
Compared to that was next her Chin  
(Some Bee had stung it newly:)  
But (Dick) her Eyes so guard her Face  
I durst no more upon them gaze,  
Than on the Sun in July.   

Her mouth so small when she does speak,  
Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break,  
That they might passage get;  
But she so handled still the matter,  
They came as good as ours, or better,  
And are not spent a whit.   

If wishing should be any sin  
The Parson himself had guilty been.  
(She looked that day so purely)  
And did the youth so oft the feat  
At night, as some did in conceit,  
It would have spoiled him surely.  
Passion, Oh me! how I run on!   

there's that that would be thought upon  
(I trow) besides the Bride,  
The business of the kitchen's great,  
For it is fit that men should eat;  
Nor was it there denied.   

Just in the nick the Cook knocked thrice,  
And all the Waiters in a trice  
His summons did obey,  
Each Serving man with dish in hand  
Marched boldly up like our Train-band,  
Presented and away.   

When all the meat was on the Table,  
What man of knife or teeth was able  
To stay to be entreated?  
And this the very reason was  
Bofore the Parson could say grace,  
The company was seated.   

Now hats fly off, and youths carouse;  
Healths first go round and then the House;  
The Brides came thick and thick;  
And when 'twas named another's health,  
Perhaps he made it hers by stealth;  
(And who could help it, Dick?)   

O'th' sudden up they rise and dance;  
Then sit again, and sigh, and glance;  
Then dance again and kiss:  
Thus several ways the time did pass,  
Whilst every woman wished her place,  
And every man wished his.   

By this time all were stolen aside,  
To council and undress the Bride;  
But that he must not know:  
But 'twas thought he guessed her mind,  
And did not mean to stay behind  
Above an hour or so.   

When in he came (Dick) there she lay  
Like new-fallen snow melting away,  
('Twas time I trow to part)  
Kisses were now the only stay,  
Which soon she gave, as who should say  
God B'w'y '! with all my heart.   

But just as Heavens would have to cross it  
In came the Bridemaids with the Posset,  
The Bridegroom eat in spite;  
For had he left the woman to't;  
It would have cost two hours to do't,  
Which were too much that night.   

At length the Candle's out and now,  
All that they had not done they do;  
What that is, you can tell;  
But I believe it was no more,  
Than thou and I have done before  
With Bridget and with Nell.    

The OLD and NEW COURTIER.  

WIth an Old Song made by an Old Ancient pate,  
Of an old worshipful Gentleman who had a great Estate:  
Who kept an Old house at a bountiful rate,  
And an Old Porter to relieve the Poor at his Gate,  
Like an old Courtier of the Queens.   

With an Old Lady whose anger good words assuages,  
Who every quarter pays her old Servants their wages,  
Who never knew what belongs to Coachmen, Footmen & Pages;  
But kept twenty or thirty old Fellows with blue-coats and badges:  
Like an Old Courtier, etc.   

With an old Study filled full of Learned books,  
With an Old Reverend Parson, you may judge him by his looks,  
With an old Buttery hatch worn quite off the old hooks,  
And an old Kitchen which maintains half a dozen old cooks;  
Like an Old, etc.   

With an old Hall hung round about with Guns, Pikes and Bows,  
With old swords and bucklers, which hath born many shrewd blows.  
And an old Frysadoe coat to cover his worship's trunk hose,  
And a Cup of old Sherry to comfort his [Copper Nose;]  
Like an Old, etc.   

With an old Fashion when Christmas is come  
To call in his Neighbours with Bagpipe and Drum,  
And good cheer enough to furnish every old Room,  
And old Liquor able to make a cat speak, & a wise man dumb;  
Like an Old, etc.   

With an old Huntsman, a Falkonner and a Kennel of Hounds  
Which never Hunted, nor Hawked, but in his own Grounds:  
Who like an old Wiseman kept himself within his own bounds  
And when he died gave every Child a thousand old pounds;  
Like an Old, etc.   

But to his eldest Son, his house and land he assigned,  
Charging him in his Will to keep the same bountiful mind,  
To be good to his Servants, and to his Neighbour's kind,  
But in the ensuing Ditty, you shall hear how he was inclined;  
Like a young Courtier of the Kings.   

Like a young Gallant newly come to his Land,  
That keeps a Brace of Creatures at's own command,  
And takes up a thousand pounds upon's own Bond,  
And lieth drunk in a new Tavern, till he can neither go nor stand;  
Like a young Courtier, etc.   

With a neat Lady that is fresh and fair,  
Who never knew what belonged to good house keeping or care,  
But buys several Fans to play with the wanton air,  
And seventeen or eighteen dress of other women's hair;  
Like a young, etc.   

With a new Hall built where the old one stood,  
Wherein is burned neither coal, nor wood,  
And a new Shuffle-bord-table where never meat stood,  
Hung round with pictures which doth the poor little good.  
Like a young, etc.   

With a new Study stuffed full of Pamphlets and Plays,  
With a new Chaplin, that swears faster than he prays,  
With a new Buttery Hatch that opens once in four or five days,  
With a new French-Cook to make Kickshaws and Toys;  
Like a young, etc.   

With a new fashion when Christmas is come,  
With a journey up to London we must be gone,  
And leave no body at home but our new Porter John,  
Who relieves the poor with a thump on the back with a stone.  
Like a young, etc.   

With a Gentleman-Usher whose carriage is complete,  
With a Footman, a Coachman, a Page to carry meat,  
With a waiting Gentlewoman, whose dressing is very neat,  
Who when the Master has dined gives the servants little meat;  
Like a young, etc.   

With a new honour bought with his Father's old Gold,  
That many of his Father's Old Manors hath sold,  
And this is the occasion that most men do hold,  
That good House-keeping is now a days grown so cold;  
Like a young Courtier of the Kings.    

The FRIAR and the MAID.  

AS I lay musing all alone  
A merry Tale I thought upon;  
Now listen a while and I will you tell  
Of a Friar that loved a Bonny Lass well.  
He came to her when she was going to bed  
Desiring to have her Maidenhead;  
But she denied his desire,  
And said that she did fear Hell-fire.   

Tush, tush, quoth the Friar, thou need's not doubt.  
If thou were't in Hell, I could sing thee out:  
Why then, quoth the Maid, thou shalt have thy request;  
The Friar was as glad as a Fox in his nest.   

But one thing more I must request.  
More than to sing me out of Hell-fire,  
That is for doing of the thing  
An Angel of Money you must me bring.   

Tush, tush, quoth the Friar, we two shall agree,  
No Money shall part thee and me;  
Before thy company I will lack  
I'll pawn the Gray-gown off my back.   

The maid bethought her on a Wile  
How she might this Friar beguile;  
When he was gone, the truth to tell,  
She hung a Cloth before a Well:   

The Friar came, as his bargain was,  
With Money unto his bonny Lass;  
Good morrow, Fair Maid, good morrow, quoth she;  
Here is the Money I promised thee.   

She thanked him, and she took the Money;  
Now let's go to●t, my own sweet Honey:  
Nay, stay a while, some respite make,  
If my Master should come, he would us take.   

Alas; quoth the Maid, my Master doth come;  
Alas! quoth the Friar, where shall I run;  
Behind you Cloth run thou quoth she,  
For there my Master cannot see.   

Behind the Cloth the Friar went,  
And was in the Well incontinent:  
Alas: quoth he I'm in the Well;  
No matter quoth she if thou were't in hell.   

Thou saidst thou couldst sing me out of Hell,  
I prithee sing thyself out of the Well;  
Sing out, quoth she, with all thy might,  
Or else thou'rt like to sing there all night.   

The Friar sang out with a pitiful sound,  
Oh! help me out or I shall be Drowned:  
She heard him make such a pitiful moan,  
She hope him out, and bid him go home.   

Quoth the Friar I never was served so before;  
A way, quoth the Wench, come here no more:  
The Friar he walked a long the street  
As if he had been a new washed Sheep,  
Sing hay down a derry; and let's be merry,  
And from such sin ever to keep.    

TOM a BEDLAM.  

FOrth from my sad and darksome Cell,  
From the deep abyss of Hell,  
Mad Tom is come to view the world again,  
To see if he can ease his distempered brain.   

Fear and Despair possess my Soul;  
Hark how the angry Furies howl!  
Pluto laughs, and Proserpina is glad  
To see poor naked Tom of bedlam mad.   

Through the World I wander Night and Day  
To find my troubled Senses,  
At last I found old Tine  
With his Pentateuch of Tenses.   

When he me spies, away he flies,  
For Time will stay for no man;  
In vain with cries I rend the Skies,  
For pity is not common.   

Cold and comfortless I lie,  
Oh help, O help or else I die!  
Hark I hear Apollo's Team,  
The Carman'gins to whistle;  
 Diana bends her bow,  
And the Boar gins to bristle.   

Come Vulcan with tools and with tackles.  
And knock off my troublesome Shackles;  
Bid Charles ●…ake ready his Wain  
To fetch my five Senses again.   

Last night I heard the Dog-Stark bark,  
Mars met Venus in the dark;  
Limping Vulcan heat and Iron bar,  
And furiously run at the god of War.   

Mars with his weapon laid about,  
Limping Vulcan had the gout,  
For his broad Horns hung so in his light  
That he could not see to aim aright.   

Mercury the nimble Post of heaven  
Stayed to see the Quarrel,  
Gorrel belly Bacchus giantly bestrid  
A Strong-beer barrel:   

To me he drank, I did him thank,  
But I could drink no Cider;  
He drank whole Butts till he burst his guts,  
But mine were ne'er the wider.   

Poor Tom is very dry,  
A little drink for Charity:  
Hark! I hear Acteon's hounds,  
The Hunt's man hoops and Hallows;  
Ringwood, Rockwood, Jowler, Bowman,  
All the Chase doth follow.   

The man in the Moon drinks Claret,  
Eats powdered Beef, Turnip and Carrot;  
But a Cup of old Maligo Sack  
Will fire the Bush at his Back.    

Alas poor Scholar, Whither wilt thou go? OR Strange Alterations which at this time be, There's many did think they never should see.  

IN a Melancholy Study,  
None but myself,  
Methought my Muse grew muddy;  
After seven years Reading,  
And costly breeding,  
I felt, but could find no pelf;  
Into Learned Rags  
I've rend my Plush and Satin,  
And now am fit to beg  
In Hebrew, Greek and Latin;  
Instead of Aristotle,  
Would I had got a Patten.  
Alas poor Scholar, whither wilt thou go?   

Cambridge now I must leave thee,  
And follow Fate,  
College hopes do deceive me!  
I oft expected  
To have been elected,  
But Desert is reprobate.  
Masters of Colleges  
Have no Common Graces,  
And they that have Fellowships  
Have but common Places,  
And those that Scholars are  
They must have handsome faces:  
Alas poor Scholar, whither wilt thou go?   

I have bowed, I have bended,  
And all in hope  
One day to be befriended.  
I have preached I have printed  
What e'er, I hinted,  
To please our English Pope:  
I worshipped towards the East,  
But the Sun doth not forsake me:  
I find that I am falling,  
The Northern winds do shake me:  
Would I had been upright,  
For Bowing now will break me:  
At great preferment I aimed,  
I looked lately  
To live most stately,  
And have a Dairy of Bell-ropes milk;  
But now alas,  
Myself I must not flatter,  
Bigamy of Steeples  
Is a laughing matter;  
Each man must have but one;  
And Curates will grow fatter.  
Alas poor Scholar, whither wilt thou go?   

Into some Country Village  
Now I must go,  
Where neither Tithe nor Tillage  
The greedy Patron  
And parched Matron  
Swear to the Church they own:  
Yet if I can preach,  
And Pray too on a sudden,  
And confute the Pope  
At adventure, without studying,  
Then ten pounds a year,  
Besides a Sunday Pudding.  
All the Arts I have skill in,  
Divine and Humane,  
Yet all's not worth a Shilling.  
When the Women hear me,  
They do but jeer me,  
And say, I am profane:  
Once, I remmember,  
I preached with a Weaver,  
I quoted Austin.  
He quoted Dod and Clever;  
I nothing got,  
He got a Cloak and Beaver:  
Alas poor Scholar, whither wilt thou go?   

Ships, Ships, Ships, I discover,  
Crossing the Main;  
Shall I in, and go over,  
Turn Jew or Atheist,  
Turk, or Papist,  
To Geneva, or Amsterdam?  
Bishoprics are void  
In Scotland; shall I thither?  
Or follow Windebank  
And Finch, to see if either  
Do want a Priest to shrive them?  
O no, 'tis blust'ring weather.  
Alas poor Scholar, whither wilt thou go?   

Ho, ho, ho, I have hit it,  
Peace goodman Fool?  
Thou hast a Trade will fit it;  
Draw thy Indenture,  
Be bound at adventure  
An Apprentice to a Free-School,  
There thou mayst command  
By William▪ Lilies Charter;  
There thou mayst whip, strip,  
And hang, and draw, and quarter,  
And commit to the Red Rod  
Both Will and Tom, and Arthur,  
I, I, 'tis thither, thither will I go.     


Superscriptions for Letters.  


To a Duke.  
A Duke first was made by the French Kings, when they had chased the Romans out of Gallia; bestowing the name of Dux, a little altered to the French Idiom, upon those to whom they gave the Principal Government over those Provinces which they had recovered: in process of time they usurped the Inheritance of their Governments; and made their Feifes which before were revocable at the Prince's pleasure, to be hereditary. So that at length their Titles came to be so much esteemed as to be thought the next in order to that of a King.  
The Title which is most usually applied to a Duke, is that of Grace; and we address ourselves to him by word of mouth, thus May it please your Grace.  
If he be the King's Son, or of the Royal blood, we writ to him thus. To the most Illustrious Prince Henry, etc. To the most excellent Prince. Or else, To the most High and Noble.   

EArls at the same time, and upon the same account, were created by the French King, only here seemed the difference to be between them; for the Dukes seemed to have the Military Power, and the Earls were only made to exercise the Civil Jurisdiction in the Towns where they were placed. They are now the next in order to Marquis; by word of mouth we make our Addresses thus, May it please your Honour. And writ to him thus, To the Right Honourable.   

A Marquis formerly was the Governor of a Fronteer Town, and inferior to the Earl of a Province; but superior to the Earl of an Inland Town. In speaking we thus address ourselves to them, May it please your Honour. We writ to them thus, To the Right Honourable.   

A Viscount was formerly the Lieutenant to an Earl, so that their Dignity hath continued next to that of an Earl ever since; and indeed between a Viscount and a Baron or Lord, there is no difference used in making addresses to them. We speak to them thus, May it please your Honour my Lord. We writ thus, To the Honourable.   

A Knight is the next Degree of honour being more peoperly a Military Dignity; but of late very much confused. They bear the Title of Right Worshipful. We make our dress thus, May it please your Worship. We writ thus, To the Right Worshipful.   

ESquire was formerly but he that bore the Shield and Lance of a Knight before him. It is now the next Degree of Honour to the Knight; and now so much used by Gentlemen, that he who styles not himself Esquire, is hardly a Gentleman. He bears the Title of Worshipful. And we writ to him thus, To the Worshipful J. D. Esquire.   

Note here, that the same Titles are appliable to the Wives as to the Husbands; and though the Daughter of an Earl marry an inferior person, yet she doth not lose her Title, which is, Right Honourable.    

In the writing of familiar Epistles, there are sundry varieties, which ingenuity will easily apply to his occasion.  

For example, at the beginning of a Letter these Expressions do very often offer themselves.  

Honoured Sir.  
Dear Sir.  
Dear Friend.  
Learned Sir.  
Madam.  
Dear Lady.  
Dearest.  
Joy of my Life.  
My Heart.  
Fairest.  
Delight of my Heart.    

These Subscriptions also are usual.  
To great Persons, 



Your Graces  
Your Honour's   most faithful and most obedient Servant.  
Your Excellencies most humbly devoted Servant  
Your Worship's most faithful Servant.    
In familiar Letters thus The admirer of your Virtues. Madam, 



The Honourer  
Adorer  
Worshipper   

Of your Perfection.  
Of your Virtues.    
Your most affectionate Friend and Servant.  
Your assure Friend.  
Your most obedient Servant.  
Your most obliged Friend and Servant.  
Your eternally engaged Servant.  
Your Creature.  
Your faithful Servant.  
Yours for ever.  
Yours to command eternally.  
Yours while I have life.  
Yours while I have a being.  
Your faithful, though contemned Servant.     

For Superscription; these Forms may be used. 

To my much respected Friend.  
To my much Honoured Friend.  
For my much Valued Friend.  
For my much esteemed Friend.  
For my approved  
To the truly Noble  
To the truly Virtuous  
To the most incomparable Lady.  
To the fair Hands of  
To the most accomplished  
To the mirror of Perfection  
To the most lovely ornament of Nature.     

There is something more to be observed concerning the Dignity of places.  

For a Knight being made General of an Army, obtains the title of Your Excellency, though but a Lord, Knight, or meaner man by birth.  
A Lieutenant-General, is Right Honourable,  
A Major-General, Right Honourable.  
A Colonel is Honourable, and we give him the title of Your Honor.  
A Captain is Right worshipful.    

From a Son to Father, Your most dutiful, and obedient Son.  
From a Daughter, Your loving and obedient Daughter.  
From a Husband, Your most affectionate Husband till death.  
From a Wife, Your faithful and loving Wife till death.  
From a Servant, Your most obedient and faithful Servant.     

Forms for the concluding of Letters.  

BUt whatsoever happen, I shall be no other than, etc.  
I shall endeavour with the best of my care and industry, whenever you desire the proofs of the obedience of, etc.  
If it could be persuaded that my absence gave you any disquiet, or that my presence could afford you any service, you should soon perceive by my speedy return how much I am, etc.  
If I am able to do you service, there wants nothing but that you should command me the employment; there being nothing which I more desire than to witness myself continually, etc.  
There being no man who hath a firmer resolution to render you all the testimonies of a willing service, in the quality of, etc.  
Let this for the present satisfy you, till I shall meet with some better opportunity, to show how much I am, etc.  
The only happiness that I expect is, that I may be able to change my words into effects, that I might show you how much I am really, etc.  
I shall now free your patience from reading any more, give me leave only to make this conclusion, that I am and shall be, etc.  
For every time I reflect upon your great obligations, I am impatient of an opportunity to show myself; I cannot pass away the unquiet of my mind by any other way, than by seeking occasions to testify how much I am, etc.  
Be pleased to take this for a real truth from him who hath made an Oath to live and die, etc.  
This is the advice and friendly Counsel of, etc.  
And I hope there is nothing shall debar me from continuing for the time to come, what hitherto I have been, etc.  
Neither is there any thing that I would omit whereby I might give you an assurance of fidelity to your Commands, as protesting to live and die, etc.  
But I desire to testify to you rather by words than by discourse, how much I am, etc.  
Sir, I beg you to accept this testimony of my gratitude, and my earnest desires to be, etc.  
I never reckon up the Catalogue of my friends, but I presently call to mind how much I am obliged to give you this Subscription, etc.  
My gratitude is as necessary as my being, and I can sooner not be, than not be most truly, etc.  
For I never think of your favours but it renews the remembrance of my engagements to be, etc.  
Though I have a very great press and urgency of business at present upon me, yet shall my occasions never be so violent, but that I will have leisure both to be and to tell you, that I am, etc.  
I shall be contented to be counted ungrateful when I am less, etc.  
Sir, if you doubt the truth of my service, I beseech you to make use of that absolute power which you have acquired over me, to oblige my endeavours to all manner of proofs, that I am, etc.  
Be pleased as yet to take my bare word till I can give you further testimonies how much I am, etc.  
Though I am debarred your sight, yet I hope I am not envied the happiness of giving you notice, how passionately I am, etc.  
I will lose my life, rather than my resolution to die, etc.  
If you knew with what impatience I expect a reply, charity would oblige you to set at rest the disquiet mind of, etc.  
My resolution is to possess myself always, etc.  
There is none more interested in your concernments, nor more participates in any satisfaction of yours, than he that is by reason as well as inclination, etc.  
Can my endeavours take effect, or my vows accomplishment, you should not long reckon me in the number of your unprofitable servants, for I am most assuredly, etc.  
Sir, I know your high merits, and the nobleness of your condition hath much increased the number of your servants; yet I will say this, that though you join them altogether, yet they are not so much as I am, etc.  
You may easily know, without being a Prophet, the dear esteem I have for you, and may believe without any further assurance, that I am, etc.  
It remains in you to allay the discontent of my mind, by giving me some employment in your service, which may witness the passion that I have to maintain the quality of, etc.  
Which obliges me in the midst of mine ill fortune to have recourse to prayers, that you would honour me with your commands, that by my obedience to them you may be forced to believe, etc.  
Desiring to make you see rather by effects than words, how much I am without compliment, etc.  
I shall give you new proofs thereof by the continuance of my respects, and the title which I desire to bear of, etc.  
For though you may have a more powerful, yet you never can have a more constant and faithful servant, etc.  
I shall expect the favour that I may not bear the unprofitable title of, etc.  
Neither shall I be contented till I have given you full testimonies thereof, as being, etc.  
Desiring nothing more than to live and die, etc.  
Though I shall not regard that while it is for your interest, as being one that makes it his public profession to appear in all places, etc.  
Only be confident of this, that I am more than any man in the World, etc.  
For I shall never be capable of apprehending any thing else, but how to testify my devotion to be, etc.  
In which list I am bold to write myself, etc.  
Among all my felicities I count it not the meanest, the liberty which you are pleased to give me of styling myself, what I most truly am, etc.  
And find occasions more and more to testify what I am, and shall ever be, etc.  
Sir, if you will permit me to employ my soul thus, you may still enjoy him, who is, etc.  
I am preparing to forsake all the affairs of the world to entertain you, and testify how much I am, etc.  
You know very well that I am but a rude Courtier, but my words carry truth with them, while I affirm, that I am from my soul, etc.    


To his Mistress recovered from an Ague.  
Madam,  
YOu may very well admire to receive a Letter from one whom long before this time you might have imagined to have been dead: a Patient which the Doctors gave over, and who himself acknowledges no Physic could have cured, but that of your fair presence; which carried such a sovereignty with it, that my Ague presently left me, and nature in spite of my disease, took strength to herself and raised me up in my bed, to make this clear acknowledgement of cure to your Beauty. Madam, I now find myself rid of that distemper, and am persuaded I shall sooner for the future, suffer under the violence of a Fever, than of a shivering Cold. I could not but express my fears to you, with my thanks, hoping that you will take care to preserve what you have again created. Be pleased to interest your affection for my safety, and to defend a thing, whom your goodness hath made so dear to you, as to be ever,  
Madam, etc.   

To his retired Mistress.  
Lady,  
YOu carry your eyes like one of those that wear a Veil: not a look of yours but preaches chastity; and you are so confirmed in a general contempt of mankind, that if Fortune herself should come to present you with a Husband, you would scarce go out of your Closet to meet him in your Chamber. You speak of nothing but Religion and Cloisters, and all your entertainment, is discourse of mortification. Lady, not to dissemble my thoughts to you, I much fear, that a beginning like yours, so full of restraint, will afterwards be followed with a progress of too much liberty; and instead of the precise demureness that you pretend, some Servant or other will read a new Heresy in your face. I shall not at this time send you studied Oaths or Protestations. I know some Moons must go about before you will acknowledge the error wherein you live. For the present I shall only desire you to take care of your health, if not for your own, yet for the common good of those that love you; of which number he desires to be the first, who presumes to honour himself with the Title of,  
Madam, etc.   

To his Mistress, being disobliged by her.  
LAdy, I did always expect this favour from your ordinary goodness, that I might promise myself that you would have a little kindness for me; 'tis true that I was pre-informed of your humour, but I could hardly believe it; or that you would disoblige those that shall do you service and friendship. I would not now complain of you, but that I should give you advantage by my silence that I had not discovered the subtleties of your deceit; which is so malicious, that I have at once stripped me both of love and hatred: and I am now impatient, till I have acquainted those that yet profess their service to you, how that of all the Ladies I ever knew, you are the most unworthy of affection. In the mean space I beseech you to believe, that those endeavours which you have employed to disoblige me, have absolutely taken away my will and desire to be,  
Lady etc.   

To his Mistress, acknowledging the kindness of her Letters.  
LAdy, I am no less obliged to you for your Letters then for your entertainments, & though I have not judgement enough to censure their goodness, I am not so unfortunate, as not to taste of their sweetness; I must entreat you to believe me, and not to forbear to make me happy with them: You know not but that I may be-come a Ciceronian, being instructed by your eloquent Copies; which if I cannot reach to myself, I will at least show them to those, that shall render them excellent by their imitation. For certainly, without flattery, all nature had need put herself into action, to find out your equal. Lady I I do with all seriousness acknowledge, that it is too great an ambition for me, either to style myself your Scholar, or your Servant.   

To excuse to his Mistress his too easy believing of false Reports,  
LAdy, I am impatient till I see you, that I may between your hands abjure all false opinions. Only be pleased so to dispose yourself, that you may accept of my recantation. By my last letters, you might perceive that I had let in some false reports had almost poisoned the fair soul of my belief: but as soon as I received the characters of your hand, and perused the simplicity of that naked truth, wherewith you may put my suspicion to flight, I soon came to myself. I was ever confident, whatever false rumour divulged, that a person of your noble deportment, knew how to preserve yourself in the greatest contagion: and that ye could run no other peril in those adventures, but that of being importuned. You express in your Letter some weak conjectures concerning me: I perceive we were both tainted with the same imperfection. Lady, such jealousies, though they are dangerous if dispersed, yet are the greatest confirmations of future love. It was no great matter which of us changed our opinion; It was no great matter which of us changed our opinions first. The thick breath is now gone off from the clear Crystal of our then blemished affections. I assure you now, that I have suffered myself to be persuaded by your Reasons; as for your Objections, they were not worth the confuting. Lady, you see, how easily I am cured of this ●ickness, being wholly disposed to believe and obey you; and be to the uttermost of my power,  
Lady, etc.   

To his Mistress thanking her for the acceptance of his Service.  
LAdy, I am now at last in part persuaded, that I have now two the best fortunes that the earth can afford me; the possession of our virtue, and of your favour. You may say, this language is very fair, and that my friendship speaks like love. I have no other answer to return you, but that as you gain hearts, you have found a way to enter into them, and see what affections they produce. Let me therefore entreat you to behold the violence of devotion; and since I do entitle you my Goddess, be pleased to express yourself by the effect of so fair a name, in accepting the heart more than the hand, and prising the character of my sincerity above the value of my oblation. Certainly I should be the most unfortunate among the living, should you be a severe censurer of my works or words; in both which there is neither power nor eloquence: but had I the one or the other in a perfect degree, I should never be able to show you, as I would, the desire that inflames me to serve you, and to be  
Lady your, etc.   

To his Mistress, desiring her Picture.  
Madam,  
I Hope that you will not take amiss the Request that I do now make to you; that you will please to give me your Picture, knowing that I esteem the original more than any thing in the world. That fair Body enlivened with so much sweetness and perfection, I hold in so great a veneration, that I pant after the shadow thereof. Be pleased therefore to ease my impatience by the grant of this favour, assuring yourself that I shall place it among the greatest happinesses that could ever befall,  
Madam, Your most humble Servant.   

The Reply.  
Sir,  
THe request that you make to me, to give me your Picture, is so obliging, that I am constrained to give my consent; not at all wondering that you have before your eyes the Image of a person that admires you so much; Be pleased to believe this for a truth, in recompense of that favour, which I bestow on you, as also that I shall ever continue to be,  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

To his Mistress, desiring a Lock of Hair from her.  
Madam,  
YOu need not wonder at that servitude, to which you have reduced me; 'tis so pleasing to me, that I do now request from you new chains, by the gift of a Bracelet of your Hair, to tell you how much I shall esteem this favour, your merit or my love are only capable. And as you have the knowledge of my request, so I shall leave you to think of answering my desires, and also of the passion which I have to serve you, being more than ever,  
Madam, Your most humble and obedient Servant,   

The Reply.  
Sir,  
YOur deserts have wrought so strong a persuasion in me to consent to the favour which you request of me, that I send it you in this Letter; I shall not impose on you the silence which you ought to keep in this matter, knowing that your discretion hath prevented my commands. It suffices me to put you in mind, that as these are no common favours, they require secrecy from those that receive them. I suppose that you will not forget yourself in this particular, while you remember that I am,  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

To his Mistress, an Acknowledgement for being beloved by her.  
SHall I pass over in silence, Fairest, so excessive a happiness? or shall I publish it, to render it more great? I know my silence will honour it most, but by making it known, I shall render it more glorious; for in telling it abroad, I shall eternize the memory thereof. Therefore shall my mouth be always open in the extolling of your favour, my mind wholly taken up with thoughts of you, and my soul always admiring its most perfect object, blessing the day of my birth, for being happy in yours. Your Death shall be my Tomb, desiring no other honour or glory while I live, but the title of,  
Madam, Your most faithful Servant   

A Lady to her Servant accusing him of Inconstancy.  
Sir,  
THey do always tax our sex for being inconstant, but I must now apply that fault to you, I say to you, whose Oaths did give so great a testimony of your fidelity, that I durst not doubt them for fear of injuring myself; though the wind was always the bearer of your love, and not your love, for that you never had; so that if I blame myself for having believed you, I shall praise myself hereafter for imitating you though with some trouble, that I was not your example; for it was most reasonable, that I should have preceded you, as being your Mistress, though now  
Your Servant.   

To request a Favour from his Mistress.  
Madam,  
YOu bestow your favours with so much bounty, that though I am averse to beg them, yet the freeness of your courtesy leaves me no other shame, then that which proceeds from my inability of return. I do not use to value the services which I perform to my friends, but you are pleased to put such a rate upon them, that I have no other way left, but to vow thus with all respect, to solicit you as long as I live. Believe me, Madam, you have entertained my service so nobly, that I stand in fear of a propension to make motions to you, and to remain still an importunate Beggar, till I have tired you into a necessity of yielding to my Request, Though I confess, could I but gain the advantage of being esteemed, and beloved by you, it is the highest flight that my ambition covets.   

To his long absented Mistress.  
Madam,  
I Cannot but deplore my misfortune, that Cameleon like, I live only on the Idea; all the support of my frail life having been for this twelve months only from imagination. I protest Lady, those four Letters which I received quarter after quarter have with much ado kept me alive; the last you directed to me, being so short, as if you had confined me to the extremity of so thin a diet, that your most despised Lovers might in my pitiful Picture, read to themselves Lectures of consolation. Lady, I know at the best, that absent persons cannot entertain themselves but by Letters, yet by as woeful experience I find, that there is but small pleasure to hear thus so far off from one another, as we do. For my part, I cannot but complain, and I think I have more cause than any man living; you know the reality of this my expression: believe me, you have exposed me to such extremities, that I am now resolved to approach you, and to write no more, but act what I have been accustomed to protest, how perfectly I can be,  
Madam, etc.   

To his Mistress upon the death of her Brother.  
LAdy, The continuance of your melancholy having touched me so far, as to make me partake of your grief, wonder not if you receive these undeserved lines from me, which I hope will wipe away your tears, if you consider him that entreats you to be pitiful to himself; if not, to his youth. Believe me, Dearest, my sorrows for yourself carry more reason with them, than yours for your deceased Brother, which can have no other pretence than custom, and your good nature. Pardon me if I tell you freely, that if you do not decline your grief, I shall abate of the belief I had of your spirit. I know well that the loss of Friends must needs touch us, nor would I remove the sense of mourning, but the error; not the tribute of tears, but the superfluity of them. For though we must give something to nature, let us not take away all from reason; neither doth Nature so much as Opinion prevail over in these extremes of sorrow. Believe me, Fair one, sorrow hath placed you too near the grave, that should you look in your glass, you would already conceive yourself there: for never did tears deal more cruelly with any than yourself; seeing they have mind at once two of the fairest things in the world, the clearness of your disposition and beauty. Judge therefore, whether I have not as much cause to lament with you, as to write to you. At least I hope you will of your subtle thoughts, to consider a little of him, who with tears entreats you to consider of yourself, as being  
Madam, etc.   

To her Servant accepting his Service.  
SIR, Since you can so well express your affection to one that needs it, I could not but let you understand how you have prospered; with Justice enough you name yourself a Friend, yet in my opinion you might invent some more significant word, though it were to style yourself a Lover; for you have already given me such real testimonies of your affection, that I dare entertain you in such a quality. I only wait for a favourable occasion, which may for my excuse, witness the dear and glorious marks which you gave me of your love and account of me, and how much I am already,  
Sir, etc.   

The Answer.  
LAdy, I am no longer able to keep my words from letting my heart fall upon this paper: your Letter having won me to you in such a sort, that I have no power over myself but what you leave me; the joy I have entertained from your lines, having not yet restored me to my reason; this may seem strange to you, but I assure you, I find no other reason to be contented to live, but as you are still in the world; and I am therefore only bound to preserve myself, because you are unwilling to lose me. Your lines sweetly invite me to give you a visit. Fairest, if you will have me to endure your presence, take some more humane form, and appear not in that fullness of splendour, lest I forget what you are, and never cease to do you continual acts of reverence; and when I should speak to you, should overflow with prayers and thanks; conceiving that I may have fortune from others, but glory from none but you. Let me entreat you therefore, when I approach your favours, that you would give them out by tale, and distribute them by measure, that he may not be too far transported beyond himself, who is,  
Lady, etc.   

From a Lady consenting to her Servants Requests.  
SIR, I must not wish you good without endeavouring to do it, as far as my weak endeavours will permit me. I have so many affections that I remain unmoveable, so that you may be assured, if you can love yourself, that you need not to doubt of my endearments to you. Sir, though I cannot be regular in observing compliments, I shall never be negligent in necessary duties; and so often think of you, that you need not to solicit my thoughts. True friendship is always attended with remembrance, and they that can forget were never truly in love. When we fix upon a worthy object, we should resemble the Covetous, who have no less care to conserve, then to heap up treasure. All that for the present I shall request you is, that you would be more bold to employ me, and think if I want a memory to accomplish your desires, that I am then on my deathbed. This is the assurance you may expect from her, who is  
Your, etc.   

To her Servant, resolving not to Marry.  
SIR, I am not yet in the mind to change the blessedness of my Liberty for the Purgatory of Marriage: you tell me a Wife is the wealth of the mind; you must except all, all jealousies and dislikes that may happen: Then that she is the welfare of the heart; 'tis so when her youth with beauty, her wit with virtue, have that happy agreement between themselves, so as to command the affections. But Sir, you are not to learn, they have left most of our sex: It were a sin to pry further into their imperfections; the terms you writ on being so extremely opposite. But if I am not deceived in my reading, the learned express, that they weaken the strength, confound the business of our life, empty the purse, with a thousand other feat qualities, which when I meet you next, you shall be sure to hear of. Till when, wishing you the continuance of that quiet, wherein you boast yourself to live, I decline this theme of your wiving Letter till our next visit. I bid you farewell, and rest  
Your, etc.   

To his Mistress, Sick.  
Madam,  
THough the most fair envy your beauties, and the most perfect your merits, yet are they silenced by your charms; nay, sickness itself is rendered captive by the puissence of your allurements; though if it wound you now, it is but with the wounds that you have made; and doubtless it hath seized on you, hoping that by possession of your fair body, it may both change its name and nature; so that it is pardonable, both for its love, and for its subtlety. Neither do I believe that it is you, but your rigour that it aims to destroy, be you less cruel, and the disease will assuage; otherwise you will be in danger of your life. Though doubtless the consideration of destroying so many marvels, will stop his designs. Death ofttimes make use of love against us; so that he will have a care of your life, as of his keenest weapon wherewith he brings us men under his command, making us willing to yield to his stroke, as the refuge of that misery into which your cruelty ofttimes throws us. This I know by experience, as being your Slave.   

To his Mistress, despairing of her Favour, though unjustly offended against her.  
Madam,  
WHat avails it you to make me feel your Thorns when I have gathered your Flower. Why do you blame in words, him whom you have honoured in effects and blame him without cause, who cannot praise you but unjustly; Moderate your severity, seeing that it offends you more than it hurts me. I have protested a thousand times that I never was faulty, as you thought me; though it was to no purpose, you believing otherwise. It suffices for my satisfaction, that I know the truth, and that I have essayed, all the ways in the world to make you understand it, though in vain. Adieu most fair but yet too cruel, if you leave me triumphing over the most worthy subject in the world, I leave you vanquished by a more faithful Lover.   

A Letter of Consolation to a Mistress, upon the death of her Servant.  
Madam,  
I Believe that if you have been the last who have understood the death of your Servant, that you will be one of the first, and indeed the only person, who will in your soul celebrate the sad remembrance of him, a much longer time than any of his Friends: not that his merit doth oblige you, for I well know that all merit loses its esteem in your presence, being so perfect as you are; nor your Piety, though it be a thing natural to you with your other virtues; but only his love, and constancy, as being both equally incomparable. Neither do I believe, that either of these do oblige you at all, for though his love were very great, that could not be otherwise, seeing you were his object, no more than his constancy whatever it were; so that to say the truth, I know not what can urge you to bewail his loss, unless it be the goodness of your inclinations, being as mild and sweet as you are, fair, and consequently full of Piety. I should weep myself, for having the least thought to condemn your tears, yet give me leave to believe, that when you remember that the fires proceeding from your eyes did help to consume his life, it would make them weep for sorrow. Now what punishment will you impose upon your Beauty, if there be nothing in you that hath partaken of the millions of pains which he hath endured for your sake: Certainly you ought to suffer Shipwreck in the Sea of your tears, unless the God of Love have need of you for one of his Altars. Since you are the only Idol, to whom all mortals will present the sacrifices of their Servitude. And as for myself, who have undertaken to succeed to the merits and constancy of your deceased Servant, I will not give assurances in words, for deeds themselves shall always be my sureties. Dry up your tears, stop your sighs. I summon you to this duty, in the behalf of Reason itself, knowing that his Commands are to be obeyed. Madam, when I first put Pen to Paper, I had a design to comfort you, but knowing the greatness of your resolution against all sorts of accidents, I changed my intention, to assure you of the love and servitude that I have vowed to you, under the title of,  
Madam, Your most humble Servant.   

Letters.  
SIR,  
I Know 'tis to no purpose to dispute of Civilities with you, who live in the light of the world, and are so well stored with the best words to express them. I know too well that the excellency that dwells in you, begets at the same time desires to preserve, as well as to acquire your favour. I have but one grief, that I have not Soul enough to judge of those perfections that dwell in you, which though I can never attain rightly to conceive, yet I am confident, no man can honour them more, so that should you call me your Idolater, you could not strain a word that could so rightly, as that, express my respects toward you. Sir, Compliments are very rare with me, and therefore I request you to believe me, when I say, that they must be very strong cords and dangerous commandments that shall remove me from your service; I know I can never deserve such violent proofs of my obedience: it shall suffice me that I doubt not of your love, as being,  
Sir, Your most devoted Servant.   

To his Absent Friend.  
SIR,  
IF I thought Fortune could be so much our Friend, I should request her to make us inseparable, that I might be no more obliged thus to write; since the entertainments that distant friends do give and take by Letters, is but a picture of those between persons presents: for to say the truth, a Letter is but a Copy of that, which makes us more curious of the original; a Glass that shadows to us stronger desires to enjoy the person that is absent. The very lines I receive from you, carrying with them the effects of joy to hear from you, and of a passion to be more near you that I might not still be forced to write that to you, which I would willingly protest; and find occasions more and more to testify what I am, and ever shall be.   

To his Friend complaining of Neglect.  
SIR,  
THE Friendship which you have promised me, and the service which you have protested to me, force me now to demand the reason of your silence. I question not but that you will want no excuse to plead for yourself: But I entreat you to believe, that unless they be very lawful, I shall not cease to complain of you. You do well to lay the fault sometimes upon your urgent occasions, sometimes upon the indisposition of your body: but all this is no satisfaction to me. Confess but your fault, crave pardon, and you shall have it presently granted. This is the way to preserve eternally the friendship of  
Your most humble Servant.   

The Answer.  
SIR,  
YOu do me so great a favour in complaining of me, that I am constrained to give you thanks, instead of taking the least offence at you. This is not because I want excuses to authorise my silence, but the interest that you have in me, which makes me to condemn myself, resolving hence forward, that you shall rather complain of my importunity then of my sloathfulness. Which is the protestation of  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

Return of Thanks.  
SIR,  
I Protest that you have obliged me with a Favour, and that so perfectly, that I must be your Debtor all the days of my life. I wish that an opportunity would offer itself for you, to employ me in your service, that I might testify to you, that since your favours are so extremely high, there is no extremity which I would not undergo to requite them. This is no complimental discourse, my heart dictates to my Pen all that which I writ to you, assuring you once more, that I will long bear in vain the title of  
Your most humble Servant.   

The Answer.  
SIR,  
I must complain of the excess of your civilities and courtesies, since our interest consists in a reciprocal friendship. You thank me for courtesies received from me, as if I were not obliged to do them, accustom not yourself to such kind of Phrase, and believe that the Language of Compliments is unknown to friends. I am in the number of them, and moreover,  
Your most humble Servant.   

To desire a Courtesy.  
SIR, The fame of your generosity, hath given me the boldness to require a favour from you, to disentangle me from a business, the success whereof depends much upon your authority. 'Tis true, that I never had the honour to be acquainted with you. But though this be my particular unhappiness, I hope that you will not make any excuse to refuse me the Courtesy which I desire from you, not doubting but that in some other matter I may have the honour to make myself known to you, rather by my services then by my name, since your descent obliges me to remain,  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

The Answer.  
SIR,  
I have done all what you required of me, with a great deal of satisfaction, and little trouble. Prepare yourself to impose commands upon me, that you may not let the passion which I have to serve you lie idle, and you shall discern by my obedience, that I take delight in nothing more, then in making myself appear in all places.  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

On the same Subject.  
SIR,  
ALthough I am the most unprofitable of all your Friends, yet am I none of the least willing to serve you, and from thence I take the liberty to desire you; to give me a meeting. All that I can say for the first acknowledgement of this favour, is, that I shall eternally remember this favour; and that if I cannot meet with any opportunity to requite so great a kindness, I shall bear my sorrow for it to my grave, together with the title of,  
Your most loyal Servant.   

The Answer.  
SIR,  
WHen you desire any service from me, I entreat you to consider whether it be in my power to perform it: that I may be more bold to encounter the blame which my unhappiness obliges you to lay upon me. You shall command, when you please other proofs of my willingness to serve you, desiring nothing more than the title of,  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

To congratulate the good Fortune of his Friend.  
SIR,  
IF you know how acceptable the news of your good fortune is to me, you would not doubt, but that the joy which surprises me for the same, is equal to yours. Truly I cannot add any thing to it: since it proceeds from the friendship which I have vowed to you, which is not common since your merit is the object. I would tell you more, if the excess of my joy would give me liberty. It fuffices me to assure you, that my content cannot equal the passion which I have to serve you, as being,  
Sir, Your most humble Servant.   

The Answer.  
SIR,  
I Did always believe that you were of so generous a spirit, that you participate in my concernments; But I persuade myself at the same instant of time, that you doubt not of my willingness to serve you, that I may in some measure merit the effects of your noble disposition. This I am urged to, not being able further to requite the continual proofs, which you give me of your good will towards me. I entreat you to esteem this for an undeniable truth, as being from my heart and soul.  
Sir, Your most faithful Servant.   

To his Accomplished Friend.  
SIR, If I have hope to be known to after ages, it must be by the honour of your acquaintance; Your reputation at this time, being so just and so general, that 'tis become a verity wherein the Wise agree with the Vulgar. Pardon me Sir, if I presume thus to prevent your command, by this early showing you my ready inclination to obey them: But I am content that you should give it what name you please, provided you judge well of the effects of my duty, and do me the honour to believe that I am,  
Your, etc.   

To his Learned Friend.  
SIR, All the riches both of Nature and Art dwell in you, and are of such force, that I acknowledge my inclinations to serve you, carry with them immortal reason; your discourse being so grave, and soiled that they cannot be sufficiently listened to, for the edification of men that have seen four ages. And for your Letters, in what stile soever you writ them, They are always pleasing, if not, most admirably profitable; as if your Spirit had been employed from your youth, in persuading of Princes, or instructing of Ambassadors. When your Lines are serious, they strain not; when familiar, they are without neglect: like beauties that appear in all fashions, yet allure, whether neatly dressed, or carelessly plain. Pardon me Sir, if I lay open my naked soul before you in this simplicity of my acknowledegments, you having so absolutely purchased both my thoughts and affections, that I must need ingenuously confess, that I have nothing left, but to assure you Sir how much I am,  
Your &c.   

To his Friend at Court.  
SIR,  
YOU seem to have so perfumed yourself with the sweetness of the Court, that you cannot admit of the profaneness of a Village. Such a rudeness is the errand this Letter carries with it; but be pleased to accept of it, as you know the height of my ambition is bounded in such rural presents; neither should I dare to presume thus, were I not persuaded that you allow me this liberty, which otherwise I should never take. But I am confident you delight to gratify me, and to do me the same good that I wish to you. If you desire to know the cause of such extraordinary boldness in me, I beseech you to believe there is no other, than the great affection I have to serve you, and to be,  
Sir, etc.   

To his Friend, upon the renewing of their Correspondence.  
SIR, To be separated from a man so dear to me as yourself I do believe I could not live in the fortunate Islands, and having till I embrace you no other way of traffic but by Letters, I am extremely angry with myself, that you have prevented me in returning our old correspondence. Though I must acknowledge there is some justice in it, for since you were the first that broke it, 'twas fit you should be the first to re-establish it: I writ thus of the honour of your favour; assuring you notwithstanding that I could no way deserve it. Therefore Sir, give me leave to beg your pardon for my neglect, if I were guilty, which I shall never be in any thing that concerns you: and to make it more clear to you, I never ceased to honour you; but only not to express it, was like a secret fire not quenched but covered, which became the more violent when it had less liberty to appear; Wherefore Sir, be confident, that I shall make you see upon all occasions, for what is just that I will never be less than I am  
Your, etc.   

A Familiar Return of Thanks.  
SIR,  
THis negligence of my stile be pleased to esteem one of the marks of friendship between us. Gratitude is one of a poor man's virtues. This is the best Rhetoric you could expect in so few Lines; and so I would renounce the world, and all its promises, if a mortal could do so, to express myself but truly thankful to you for your exquisite favours. The expedition of this messenger would permit me no further at this time, but only to set my hand to this protestation, that I love you exceedingly, that I honour you, and am as much as any man can be in the world,  
Your, etc.   

To his Friend, inviting him into the Country.  
SIR, I will not send you studied compliments, I know you are born in a Country of good words; I am here among Thorns and Thistles, among people that are naturally affected with dulness, and dream in the best company, such as can give no other reason for their silence, but that they are entreated not to speak; in so much, that you may walk our Village, and hear nothing but whistling; and which is a miracle, our Coridon's are here arrived to such a height of wilful ignorance, as if they held their Lands by no other Tenure, but that of never speaking to the purpose. I should be quite out of heart, if I had not your promise to rely on, that you will suddenly give me a visit, to witness what I am like to suffer this long vacation, except I enjoy your company; I wait for you as for a blessing, and if you come not hither next week, I proclaim to you, that I am no longer,  
Your, etc.   

To his sick Friend.  
SIR, The news of your sickness hath so altered my health, that I may count myself a sharer in your misfortunes. Really it hath so much grieved me, that the sorrow which I sustain, is more than the fever which you endure. Do you therefore take courage, if you will that I should be in good health. You know how much I am interested in your concernments. In a word, I assure you, that if you do not quit your bed, I shall be forced to betake myself to mine. These are the absolute protests of,  
Sir, Your, etc.   

A Letter of Resolution.  
WHY thus in Cynthia's sports do you delight,  
And take from Loves all their due and right;  
Yield brightest, and his sweetest pleasures try,  
Whose fires in funeral flames can only die.  
May I not live, if all things plead not sin;  
I wonder what strange fear doth keep thee in.  
Though with Diana thou dost seem to vie,  
Trust me, thy face doth give thy words the lie;  
More fit for Venus thou than her wilt prove,  
There's no Religion, sweet, but that of Love.  
Were the God's kind, and to my love agreed,  
With eyes unwilling thou these Lines should read.  
When shall I thee embrace entranced, and lie  
Languishing wrapped in Love's sweet ecstasy.  
If Arts will not avail, than Arms I'll move,  
And so my longing bosom force thy love,  
Yet us Loves warfare better will become  
Soft breathe best please love, not the fierce Drum;  
If that thou wilt I can more gentle be,  
Lay shame aside, and yield thyself to me:  
Either thyself into my arms resign,  
Or I must fall, for I have vowed thee mine.   

To his Mistress, desiring Enjoyment.  

TEll me cruel fair one, why,  
When I ask you still deny;  
You thereby unkind do prove,  
Both to Nature and to Love;  
Nature when she gave that eye,  
That hand, that lip, that majesty:  
Surely then she did not mean,  
Here riches should be only seen,  
And not enjoyed; were not each sense  
A Sharer of your excellence?  
she'd wrong herself, and so destroy  
Mankind by making you so coy.  
Oh then yield, and let me find  
That y'are thankful if not kind;  
Cupid in your bosom's snow,  
Losing his Shaft, unbent his Bow;  
And wooed his Mother, since he shot  
So long and wounded not.  
Your eyes henceforth might be his Darts,  
With which he slew so many hearts,  
She did; but with all gave you skill  
To heal again, as well as kill;  
She gave your eyes power to inflame  
A breath with all to cool the same;  
You are just to use that breath,  
To be a Sentencer of death;  
Nay, you are impious, if you are  
Less merciful than you are fair:  
And by denying needs must grant,  
That you are proud or ignorant.  
Where Women truly know their price,  
'Tis pride not virtue makes them nice.  
Let us Lucinda henceforth twine  
With close embraces. Let us join  
Lip unto lip, and reap the pleasure  
Of true Lovers without measure;  
Till our Loves are by wonder grown  
From two bodies into one.  
Yield Lucinda thy consent,  
That from our true and just content;  
Others may a perfect rule obtain  
How they should love, how be beloved again.   

Thus she striveth to indite,  
That can love but cannot write.   

In every Line, here may'st thou understand,  
That Love hath signed and sealed with his hand.  
These cannot blush although thou dost refuse them;  
Nor will reply, however you shall use them.  
O modesty! didst thou not me restrain?  
How would I chide thee in this angry vain?  
Pardon me dear if I offend in this,  
With such delays my love impatient is.  
I needs must write till time my faith approve,  
And then I'll cease but never cease to love.  
Tears, thou knowst well my heart cannot abide;  
How I am angry when I least do chide:  
Too well thou knowst what my creation made me;  
And nature too well taught thee to invade me.  
Thou knowst too well, how, what and when, and where,  
To write, to speak, to sue, and to forbear;  
By signs, by sighs, by motions, and by tears,  
When vows should serve, when oaths, when smiles, when prayers.  
If any natural blemish blot my face,  
Thou dost protest it gives my beauty grace;  
And that attire I'm used most to wear,  
That's the most excellent of all you swear.  
Or if I wake, or sleep, or stand, or lie,  
I must resemble some one Deity.  
But Sweet Diana what strange fears have I,  
That am confirmed how men can swear and lie?  
As with an ague I do shiver still,  
Since to this paper first I set my quill.  
What blots so  thou seest, my tears did make;  
And yet these tears do weight of words partake.  
If I do err, you know our sex is weak,  
Fear proves a fault when Maids are forced to speak.  
Can I my soul into thy breast convey,  
It might like purity to thine display.  
I should not then come short of any trick,  
Which makes thee prettily appear love sick;  
But all my thoughts are innocent and meek,  
As the chaste blushes on my Virgin cheek:  
For till this blush, I never did espy  
The nakedness of an immodesty.  
Disguise not love, but give thyself to me,  
I cannot write, but I could die for thee,    

A Letter from a Lady with Child.  
WHen thou dost see my Letter, dost thou know  
Whether 'tis my right hands Character or no?  
Why should I write, I feel a present fear,  
That I must write more than a Maid should dare.  
Oh! should I make it to my mother known,  
Needs must it make m'ashamed what thou hast done.  
No outward symptom shows my grief, yet I,  
Wretched, past help of any medicine lie.  
Think but how weak I am, when I scarce these  
Can write, or turn me in my bed with ease;  
How I do fear lest that my Nurse should spy  
One Letter interchangeing coloque.  
Then hastily I leave my words half framed,  
My Letter strait is in my bosom crammed;  
The name of Marriage with shame abashed,  
My pale wan cheeks with glowing blushes quashed.  
Fond man what glory hast thou won,  
Or praise, a Virgin thus to have undone?  
As once an Apple did Atlanta seize,  
thou'rt now become a new Hippomanes.  
O be not angry quiver-bearing Maid,  
That I'm loves patiently by youth betrayed;  
'Tis now too late, let thy rage be exiled,  
And spare the Mother of, but for the Child.  
He had a face and years too fit for play,  
A treacherous face that stole my heart away.  
Who whilst I sung for Love is all things mind,  
Upon my amorous lips did kisses bind  
Both them, and each part else did please him well;  
But chief when to loves choice sports, he fell;  
But whither hath my Pen transported me,  
Thus to discourse to th'Queen of chastity.  
Sweet Sir. You swore by these same breasts of mine  
To me, and by thrice three Maids Divine,  
You'd celebrate the Himeneal rites,  
And in my arms spend all your youthful nights.  
This was a Language you were used to say  
When we were acting our delicious play;  
And when of me your last leave you had took,  
You swore an oath upon my lips, your book,  
That you would back return with winged speed  
To save my name from scandal of the deed;  
With patience Sir your coming I attend,  
Until you come receive these Lines I send.   

A Persuasive Letter to his Mistress.  
SWeetest, but read what silent Love hath writ  
With thy fair eyes, taste but of Love's fine wit,  
Be not self willed; for thou art much too fair,  
For death to triumph o'er without an heir;  
Thy unused beauty, must be tombed with thee,  
Which used, lives thy Executor to be;  
The Flowers distilled, though they with Winter meet  
Lose but their show, their substance still is sweet.  
Nature made thee her seal, she meant thereby:  
Thou shouldst Print more, not let the Copy die;  
What, hast thou vowed an aged Maid to die?  
Be not a fool; Lovers may swear and lie.  
Forswear thyself, thou wilt be far more wise  
To break an oath then lose a Paradise.  
For in the midst of all Loves pure protesting,  
All Faith, all Oaths, all Vows should be but jesting:  
What is so fair that hath no little spot;  
Come, come thou mayest be false yet knowst it not.  
I wish to you, what hath been wished by others,  
For some fair Maids by me would have been Mothers;  
Pardon me not, for I confess no error;  
Cast not upon these Lines a look of terror,  
Nor vainly Lady think your beauty sought  
For these instructions are by Love's self wrought;  
Venus herself my Pen to this theme led,  
And gives thee freely to my longing bed.  
I saw thee in my thoughts fair beauteous Dame  
When I beheld the eyes of fame  
I loved thee, ere I saw thee long ago,  
Before my eyes did view that glorious Show.  
Imagine not your face doth now delight me,  
Since seen, that unseen did invite me.  
Believe me, for I speak but what's most true,  
Too sparingly the world hath spoke of you;  
Fame that hath undertaken your worth to blaze,  
Played but the envious Huswife in your praise;  
'Tis I will raise thy name, and set thee forth,  
Enjoy thy riches, glorify thy worth;  
Nor with vain scribbling longer vex my head  
To fancy love, but leap into thy bed.   

Best Wishes from a Lady.  
Most worthy SIR,  
Unto your Noble blood  
'TIS no addition to think you good,  
For your demeanour bears that equal part  
YE have won the love, not envy of the Court;  
Having observed the forms and laws of state;  
Gaining men's emulation not their hate.  
With such a noble temper you divide  
The difference 'twixt formality and pride;  
Thus your indifferent actions are as far  
From being too common, as too singular.  
Whilst in your nature those two Suns arise,  
The attributes of beautiful and wise.  
Give me now leave, to wish that you may be  
As clear from others envy, as y'are free  
From the desert. But here I must not cease,  
May no rude chance invade your blessed peace  
To your chaste thoughts, I wish as chaste a mate  
Blest in her dower, in beauty fortunate.  
May all the happiness Heaven can confer,  
Be acted on your lives fair Theatre.  
And may I live to see you thus possessed  
Of these good wishes, that flow from the best  
Of your most entire Servant.   

A Letter of Acceptance from his Mistress.  
I am not angry, woe can angry be  
With him that loves a Mistress? Love is free;  
But you have further aim, and seek to do,  
What Jove defend, I should consent unto.  
I know that too much trust hath damaged such  
As have believed me in their love too much.  
Leda when she ne'er dreamt of God nor Man,  
Jove did surprise her, shaped like a Swan.  
But you're a Wag, I'm certain by the signs  
You make at Table in the meats and wines;  
How you can wanton, when your eye advances  
Its brightness against mine, darting sweet glances;  
How you can sigh, yet by and by can grace  
With an angelic smile, your cunning face?  
You are too manifest a Lover. Tush,  
At such known sleights I could not choose but blush.  
Yet am I not incensed, couldst thou but be  
As loyal, as thou'rt amorous to me  
In the loves just ways; for if thou seek'st to climb,  
My wished for bed, at the appointed time;  
When Saffron Hymen hath concluded quite  
Such covenants as belong to th'nuptial rite;  
I shall inter pret kindly every sign,  
And moralise them in my being thine,   

Taffy to his Mistress.  
MOdest Shentle, when her but see  
The great laugh her made on me,  
And fine wink that her send  
To her, came to see her friend;  
Her could not shuse py Cot apove,  
But he was entangle in her love;  
A hundred ofttimes her was about,  
To speak to her, and have her out:  
But her peeing a Welsh man born,  
And therefore was thank her would her scorn;  
Was fear, put think nothing better,  
Then put her love into a Letter;  
Hoping her will not ceptions take  
Upon her love, for Country sake.  
For say her be Wilsh man, what ten  
By Cot they all be Shentlemen;  
Was descend from Shoves none Line,  
Par humane, and par divine;  
And from Venus that fair Cod,  
And twenty other shentle Poddies.  
Hector stout, and comely Paris,  
Arthur, Prute, and King of Fairies,  
Was her none Cousin, all a kin,  
We have the powel's issue in.  
And for aught that her can see,  
As could men as other men pee;  
But what of that, Love is a knave,  
Was make her do what her would have;  
Was compel her to write the rhyme,  
That ne'er was write before this time;  
And if she will not pity her pain,  
As Cot shudge her soul shall ne'er write again.  
For Love is like an ague fit,  
Was bring poor Welsh-men out of her wit,  
Till by her answer her do know,  
Whether her do love or no.  
Her has not pin in England long,  
And con not speak the English tongue,  
Put her is her friend and so her will prove;  
Pray send her word if her can love.     


Superscription for the Drolling-Letters.  

TO the most gracious Queen of my Soul.  
To the most illustrious Princess of my Heart.  
To the Countess Dowager of my Affections.  
To the Lady of my Conceptions.  
To the Baroness of My Words and Actions.  
To the Spring-Garden of all pleasure and delight.  
To the Peerless Paragon of Exquisite Formosity.  
To the chief of my Heart and Affections.  
To the Empress of my thoughts.  
To the Lady, and Mistress of my thoughts and service.  
To the Lilly-white-hands of my Angelical Mistress, These present.  
To the Complete Mirror of Beauty and Perfection.  
To the ninth Wonder of the World.  
To the most Accomplished Work of Nature, and the Astonishment of all Eyes.  
To the Fair Murderess of my Soul  
To the Rose of pure Delight.  
To the Choice Nutmeg of Sweetest Consolation.  
To the most Flourishing Bud of Honour.  
To His Most Sacred Angel, Mistress etc.  
To Her who is Day without Night, a Sun full of Shade, a Shade full of Light, Mistress, etc.  
To the Atlas of her best Thoughts and Affections, Her Dear beloved M. L. Broom-man in SOUTHWARK, These.    

Subscriptions.  

MAdam, Your Galley, Gally, Galleyslave,  
Madam, Your Always burning Salamander.  
Madam, Your Continual Martyr.  
Madam, Your poor Worm, that must of necessity die, if trod upon by the foot of your disdain.  
Madam▪ Your Captive, willingly fettered in the Chains of your beauty.  
Madam, The Vassal of your Severest Frowns.  
Madam, The Most Loyal Subject to Your Imperial Power.    

MOCK LETTERS And Drolling Letters.  

A Soldier to his Mistress.  
Madam,  
I Have now left the bloody Banners of Mars to follow Cupid's Ensigns. Though I must now confess, the latter to be the severer service: for under the one we only get broken Pates, under the other wounded Hearts. There we have pay and plunder, here we have neither. But from whence arises all my trouble? 'tis from you Madam, who like Joan of Arquez are risen up to terrify me in the midst of all my conquests. For alas! the assaults of your eyes have so alarmed my breast, that it is in vain for me to think of reposing by day, or sleeping by night: Oh! that you would make an end of the War, and come and take me in my own Quarters. Otherwise I must be compelled to bring my scaling ladders to force that Lathemhouse of Beauty, which is your fair body, to free myself from the hourly incursions, that your perfections make upon my soul. But why do I rage's? Deliver it by fair means. By the Nails of Jupiter of you will not delay to do it, I swear there is no man shall venture his life further to defend you from the Batteries of lying fame or injurious slander. And more than that, you shall find me the most faithful Knight that ever smote terrible Giant for fair Lady's sake,   

A Pedagogue to his Mistress.  
Most Dear Star,  
KNow you not that you are already mounted above the Horizon of Accomplished. Nihil verius est. There is nothing more true. And being thus the Miracle of your Perfections, and the perfection of your Miracles, with a soft violence ye have wounded my bleeding soul. Foemineo teneri tribuuntur. The Feminine gender is very troublesome; But O Damsel! as fair as you are cruel, and as cruel as you are fair, do not resemble that treacherous Emperor Nero, who took pleasure to see the City of Rome on fire. O! do not from the turret of your merits, with delight, behold not only the Suburbs, but even the City of my Heart to burn, with all the Churches in it, that I have dedicated to your honour. For I can assure you more fair than Venus, than Venus of Cyprus, as the Grammar hath it, Creta, Brittannia, Cyprus, Great Britain and Cyprus; that whatever Oration or Sillogism, poor, miserable, and passive, I can make by way of special demonstration is only to show and acknowledge how much I am your superlative servant, per omnes casus, in all cases.   

A Cockney to his Mistress  
My Dear Peggy,  
I Have here sent thee these Lines writ with my tears, and a little blacking that our Maid rubs my Father's Shoes with, that I may unload a whole Cartload of grief into the Warehouse of thy bosom. Truly Peggy, I think I shall die, for I can neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor wake. Nothing that my Mother can buy, either in Cheapside or Newgate-Market will go down with me; yet, you know my motheris as pretty a Huswife as any in the Town. She seeing me look as pale as th●… Linen in moorfield's, and moping in the Chimney corner, 〈◊〉 the Maid fetch me a Cap, and asked me if I would ha●… 〈…〉 Sugar sops. But I cried no, I'd have Peggy, wi●… 〈…〉 she jeered me, saying, What are you lovesick Tom? 〈…〉 I cried, and made a noise like a Cat upon the Tiles. But let all the world say what they will, I will pout and be sick, and my Father and Mother shall lose their eldest Son, but I'll have Peggy, that I will. I beseech thee not to omit any occasion of writing to me, that since I cannot kiss thy hand, I may kiss the Letters that thy hand did write. The Bearer hereof is our Cookmaid, one that pities my condition, and is very trusty: I have therefore engaged her to call and see thee every time she goes to Market. My Mother's Rings are all close locked up, else I would steal one to send it thee: however, I entreat thee to accept of the good will for the deed, and to take in good part the endeavours of thy most faithful Servant.  
 
Postscript  
As I was going to seal, my Father came in, taken suddenly and desperately ill. The Physicians were sent for, and by their whispering, assure me that he cannot live; assoon as he is dead I shall not fail to visit thee, and make sure work between us.   

A Seaman to his delight in Wapping.  
Kind if not unkind Susan.  
HAving read in a Ballad, how that a Woman is compared to a Ship, it made me to conceive no small reason, for a Sea-mutual love between us. Since it is most certain that a Seaman cannot be without a Ship, nor a Ship without a Seaman, do not therefore shipwreck my good intentions in their first Voyage to thee. Alas! for thou hast no reason to despise me, because my  are besmeared with Pitch and Tar, knowing that I shall stick the faster to thee. I must confess I have cast Anchor in the Harbour of thy Love, do not cut the Cable of my Affections, lest I am adrift into a Sea of misery; and where the Waves of despair increased by the Northwind of thy disdain, shall dash out my brains against the Rocks of Misfortune. ●…lownce, I am in already, neither is it in my power to help ●…lf. O Susan, Susan, Susan! receive my floating soul into 〈…〉 boat of thy heart, that thy poor Richard may not die, 〈…〉 recompense thee the Preserver of his life.   

A Hector to his Mistress.  
Most Illustrious Queen of Beauty,  
BY the heard of Achilles my affections groan for you; Your perfections have trapand me: For when I had the honour to smell your odoriferous breath, me thought it pleased me better than the sent of the best Spanish Tobacco. And when I kissed your vermilion lips, I sucked Canary from them. Now Lady, your Sack and Tobacco are the two strings to the bow of a man's life; Oh, thou that art the third string to the bow of my life! bind thyself about my waste, that I may be thy Oak, and thou my Ivy; or else that I may bear thee up and down the Town like the Fellow that carries his Brother in his belly. Destroy not him that both can and will destroy millions for thy sake. But be my Aqua Coelestis, my Castle of strong water, to defend from the Batteries of misfortune, the drooping spirits of thy dejected Slave.   

A Lawyer to his Young Mistress.  
Madam,  
THis Indenture made the thirteenth day of April, in the year, One thousand six hundred fifty six, Witnesseth, that I John a Styles of Long Acre in the County of Bedford, Gent. am a person of credit and reputation. Hoping therefore that you are in good health, as I am at the writing hereof. These are to certify you that I am sick at the very heart for love of you. The Judge thinks me mad, for when I should plead, I fall a courting of him, telling him he is the Star of my affections, and that unless he will marry me, I shall be undone. My Clients also leave me, for while I peruse their papers, they hearing me sigh so cruelly, begin to despair of their Cause, and go away in discontent, without giving their fees. But all this, my pretty Darling, may be helped by thee. Deign therefore to bargain, sell, and to farm let, that fair Tenement of Beauty, which is thyself, unto him, that cares not what he gives for the purchase; together with the hands, legs, arms, fingers, toes, hair, turns head, thighs, belly, water courses, easements, commodities, and appurtenances whatsoever, to the foresaid Tenement belonging, That I may have, hold, occupy, and enjoy them for the term of years wherein thou shalt live; at the expiring thereof fully to be complete and ended. And I on the other part do promise and grant, to, and with thee my foresaid pretty Darling, to be thy old Fool, thy doting Fool, and to give thee all that I have for a Jointure. And further, that thou shalt live in the Country, and cuckold me all the Termtime, and come up every year after Easter to buy thee Pins, Gloves and Ribbons, and a new Gown. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written.   

A Passionate Love Letter.  
LOve having taken your Beauties for Arms, had long since laid siege to my Liberty, which was retreated within the Fort of my Reason, when without putting himself to the trouble of a Scalado, he is fled into my Eyes, and is by that way entered into my Heart, as a Robber breaks into a house through the windows. The sufferings I am in through his means are very violent, but being at length appeased, he hath sworn to me that the remedy lay in your power; and that all I had to do, was to write to you of it: But seeing me a Secretary very ill furnished with the necessaries of my profession, he took a Quill out of his own wing, and made me a pen with the point of his dart; he hath given me paper made of his old Headbands by a celestial paper-maker; he took the coals of my heart which was half burnt, and having beaten them to powder, he mingled them with my tears, and thereof hath furnished me with ink, with which I have written to you; and for to dry the writing, he cast the ashes of those coals upon it. He gave me waxout of his torch to seal it, and cut off a little piece of the string of his bow for me to bind withal. And now ●air Lady consider, if having assisted me thus far so favourably, he may not with as little difficulty, furnish me with all his arrows for to wound you, and make you sick of the same disease, as he is, who terms himself,  
Your Slave.   

The Mountebank's Letter to the Surgeons.  
Gentlemen,  
HAving had continual and daily experience in several parts for many years together, in the cure of the French Disease, with as good success as mine own heart could wish; and now at length desiring to show myself a profitable member of this Commonwealth and City wherein I abide, I could not choose but write to you, by way of advice, seeing so many errors among you, tending all to the destruction of the Patient. In the first place, I counsel thee O man or woman, who ere thou art, that dost profess the cure of Venereal Distempers, to avoid that common fault among all the Professors thereof, which is Covetousness. For if a young man or a young woman hath by chance got a Clap, and is willing to give all he hath, rather than to endure the disease long, wilt thou be so base and sordid, to make his or her earnest desire to be the cause of thy exaction. Assure thyself that money got by such exaction, will be a worm to consume that part of thy Estate which thou hast honestly got. In the next place, be not too inquisitive of any Patient who he is, and where he dwells; for if he have not a mind to tell thee, what hast thou to do to inquire any thing concerning him? Thirdly, judge not rashly of him, as who should say, you have been lying with a Wench; for you cannot but know that there are many ways of getting Claps beside that one; as by drinking with the party, lying in a hot bed with him, sitting upon a close-stool after him; as also by lifting, riding, or any other manner of straining. Then let every Patient receive his cure with all privacy. And lastly, do not flatter me daily with any patient whatsoever. This is the part which ye have to act upon the Theatre of this world, which, if thou dost not justly perform, consider, I say, consider, that you must make your exits into Stoves and Sweating-tubs, much hotter than those with which you ever afflicted your patients withal, being on earth. Heaven direct your course, that you may be neither Cheaters, Impostors, nor Cozeners, as most are who profess the cure of Venereal Distempers; but that ye may be in this, as well as in all your other actions, faithful and honest; which is the daily wish of  
Your Friend and Servant.   

A Broom-man in Kent-street, to a young Lay of quality, whom he fell in Love withal, beholding her in a Belcony.  
Madam,  
AND by that word you may know I am no zuch Clown as you may take me for, in good sooth law now, your fair face hath wounded me to the very hart, so that I would give all the old Shoes in my Sack to enjoy the happiness of your sweet company. I know that Lady's love variety, so that I am bold to think it would be no small recreation to you, when you have been glutted with the company of your silk and satin Gallants, to converse two or three hours with a tattered Broom-man. I have heard in some Ballads, how the Gods did condescend to come upon the earth, and dine with poor people; much less therefore should you being but a mortal Lady, disdain to eat a piece of bread and cheese, now and then, with a sorry Broom-man. There is a Proverb that tells the Gentlemen, that Joan is as good as my Lady in the dark: and why should there not be another Proverb to tell the Gentlewomen, That Tom is as good as my Lord in the dark. I do not want examples to tell you, how that the Queen of Fairies married a Tinker, and of several Ladies that have married their Gentlemen Ushers, others their Father's Grooms, and others their Butlers. Now I believe myself not inferior to any of those. As for what you, as a Woman, can expect from a man, I know myself sufficiently able, of which I have sent you a Certificate, signed with the Marks of most of the pretty Lasses in this street; neither do I doubt of the continuance thereof, unless your hard heart do consume my marrow with grief and anguish of mind; do not therefore kill me, who though I am but a Broom-man. dare swear myself as faithful a Servant to you, as any man in England, Scotland, France or Ireland. Pray send me word by this Bearer, for I stay within in great perplexity, and cannot stir abroad with my Ware till I hear your Answer.   

The Ladies Answer  
Gentle Broom-man,  
I Understand the great affection which thou hast signified to me in thy Letter. For which I give thee ten millions of thanks. Truly thy eloquent expression, and pat examples have begot so great an affection toward thee, that the smoke of all the Shoes thou hast in thy Warehouse, were they on fire, is not able to smother the flames which thou hast kindled in my heart. I shall not come to thee in my Coach, lest it should draw out all the Wenches in the street to stare upon our private affections. But if thou wilt make haste home from crying thy Ware about the streets, I shall not fail to meet thee at the Woolsack in Kent-street, by six a clock to morrow night, w●…re I doubt not but that I shall be able to give thee sufficient testimonies of my humility, and affable nature. In the mean time, I have sent thee a Flanders-lace Band, and a Diamond Ring, to wear for my sake. Wash thy feet, and put some sweet powder in thy hair, and be confident in so doing, thou wilt render thyself most acceptable to thy  
Endeared Friend and Servant.   

A Country Parson to a rich Farmer's Daughter in the same Village.  
Kind Mistress Dorothy,  
THE Parson of this Parish doth send thee greeting in these Lines. For verily last Sunday as I was preaching, thou didst dart from thy eyes the love of thy amiable features into my breast. So that even as a Woman with Child longeth for the corner of an Apple-tart, or a piece of raw Mutton, so do I thirst after thee; and even as a Virgin that eateth Chalk, and drinketh Vinegar, looks pale, & loseth her stomach, so do I look pale with languishing for thee, and my belly is shrunk up for want of food; for I have not eaten above half a surloin of Beef, forty tithe Eggs, thirty black Puddings, and five great brown Apple-pies, since Sunday last, that your Father took me home to dinner, which is now almost a week. I shall put it to thy choice, whether thou wilt be courted in public or in private; for I have made five delicate Sermons upon the most amorous place in all the Canticles, wherewithal to allure thee into my embraces. If thou dost consent, then will I go to thy mother, and as the child desireth the maid to spread him some bread and butter for his afternoons Luncheon, so will I desire her to give thee unto me that I may spread my myself upon thee. If she replieth, Yea, Then will I speak to her in the words of Saint Bernard, saying, I thank you hearty good Mother. But if she say unto me, Nay, then as Saint Cyprian hath it very well: I shall be ready to hang myself. Be thou therefore my preserver, and my intercessor, that neither thou mayest want a Husband, nor the Parish a Minister, nor thy Mother a Man to devour her bag puddings.   

A Letter of Smiles from a young conceited Scrivener to his beloved Mistress, Mistress D. C. Spinster.  
Madam,  
I No sooner saw you, but the tinder of my affection began to take fire. For your beauty was to me like the herb Larix, cool in the water, but hot in my stomach. So that as Pharaoh did long to know his dream, so did I long to know what would become of me, as to your good liking of me. Be not therefore a beauty without compassion, which is like a Mandrake apple, comely in show; but poisonful in taste. But woe is me, for I find that my words have wrought no more impression on your heart then an arrow on a rock of Adamant. So that I may say of you, that as in the greenest Grass is the greatest Serpent, in the clearest Water the ugliest Toad; so is your fair Body lined with a cruel Soul. Alas, you have no mercy on my captivity, so that I am like the Spaniel that gnaws his chain, but sooner spoils his teeth then procures liberty. But as a Bladder is to a learning Swimmer, so is Hope to me; which makes me apt to believe, that as there is no Iron but will be softened with the fire, so there is no Heart how hard so ever, that will not be softby continual prayers. I confess my expression is but like a picture drawn with a coal, wanting these lively colours, which a more skilful Pen might give it. However consider, that the Sun disdains not to shine upon the smallest Worm. Reconcile yourself to the humblest of your Vassals, and do not through your Marble-hearted-cruelty utterly overwhelm him with Sence-distracting grief, like a Current that breaks the Dams, and with a vigorous impetuousness drowns the Fields.   

A Country Bumpkin to his Mistress.  
Sweet honey Joan,  
I Have here sent thee a thing, such a one as the Gentlefolks call a Love Letter: 'twas indicted by myself after I had drank two or three good draughts of Ale, but 'twas writ in a Roman joyning-hand by the Schoolmaster and Clerk of our Parish, to whom I gave six pence for his pains. Truly Joan, my parents never brought me up to speak finely as my Landlord's Son doth, but this I can say in downright terms, I love thee. Marry Joan, many time and oft have I fetched home thy Cows, when no body knew who did it. Marry Joan, thou knowst I always played a thy side at stool ball, and when thou didst win the Garland in the Whitson-holidayes, marry Joan, I was sure to be drunk that night for joy. Marry Joan, cry I still, but when wilt thou marry, Joan? I know thou dost love Will. the Tailor, who, 'tis true, is a very quiver man, and feet it most fetuously; but I can tell thee Joan, I think I shall be a better man than he shortly, for I am learning of a Fiddler to play o'the Kit; so that if thou wilt not yield the sooner, I will ravish thee ere long with my music. 'Tis true I never yet gave thee a Token, but I have here sent thee a piece of silver Ribbon; I bought it in the Exchange, where all the folks houted at me, but thought I, hout and be hanged and you will, for I will buy a Knot for my love. I assure thee Joan, 'twill make a better show than a Gilt bayleaf, and for this year be the finest sight in all our Church. But what wilt thou give me for this Joan? alas, I ask nothing but thyself; come Joan thou shalt give me thyself, come prithee Joan give me thyself. What a happy day would that be, that to see us with our best  on at Church, and the Parson saying, I Tom, take thee Joan, and by the mass I would take thee, and hug thee, and lug thee too, and hay then away to the Alehouse, and hey for the Musicianers, and the Canaries, and the Sillabubs, and the Shoulder a Mutton and gravy, with a hay down derry and a diddle diddle dee. Thus having no more to say, I rest in assurance of thy good will, thine  
honestly, truly and blewly,    
FINIS.   

Posies for RINGS.  


THou wert not handsome, wise, but rich,  
'Twas that which did my eyes bewitch.   

What God hath joined, let no man put asunder.   

Divinely knit by God are we,  
Late one, now two, the pledge you see,   

We strangely met, and so do many;  
But now as true as ever any.   

As we began, so let's continue.   

My Beloved is mine, and I am his.   

True blue will never slain.   

No money shall buy my—.   

No horns good Wife.   

Against thou goest, I will provide another.   

Let him never take a Wife,  
That will not love her as his life.   

In loving thee, I love myself.   

A heart content  
Cannot repent.   

I do not repent,  
That I gave my consent.   

No gift can show,  
The love I ow.   

What the eye saw, the heart hath chosen.   

More faithful than fortunate.   

I'll ring thy thumb,  
Then clap thy bum.   

Hab nab; yet happy be lucky.   

Love me little, but love me long.   

'Tis a good Mare, that ne'er trips   

Love him that gave thee this Ring of gold;  
'Tis he must kiss thee when th' art old.   

Now I know more  
Than I knew before.   

I longed to lose, and now have lost;  
I am contented, farewel frost.   

This Circle, though but small about,  
The Devil, jealousy, shall keep out.   

If I think my Wife is fair,  
What need other people care.   

Now do I find,  
Why men are kind.   

'Tis in vain for to resist,  
Women will do what they list.   

This Ring as a token I give to thee,  
That thou no tokens do change for me.   

One begs enough, ne'er fear,  
To a small closet door my Dear.   

Sarah, I do love thee so,  
'Cause thou didst not say me No.   

My dearest Betty,  
Is good and pretty.   

I did then commit no folly,  
When I married my sweet Molly.   

Dorothy this Ring is thine,  
And now thy bouncing body's mine.   

'Tis fit men should not be alone,  
Which made Tom to marry Joan.   

Peg, if thou art a Peg for me,  
Than I will have a Peg for thee.   

So is bonny, blithe, and brown,  
This Ring hath made her now my own.   

Katie, I chose with hair so red,  
For the fine tricks she plays a-bed.   

Nan with her curled locks I spied,  
And would never be denied.   

Prances is a name that's common  
But H. W. made me a woman.   

Tabitha's a name that sounds not ill,  
She was bid rise, but I bid mine lie still.   

Ursula her name sounds rough,  
I warrant she'll give thee enough.   

Dorcas she made coats for Children.  
But we'll make Children to wear coats.   

Like Phyllis there is none,  
She truly loves her Choridon.   

Leonorâs' fair, well bred;  
Yet I had her Maidenhead.   

Ellen, all men commend thy eyes;  
Only I commend thy thighs.   

I have a John as true as steel,  
I do believe, because I feel.   

Robert, thou art a man of mettle,  
Thy string is sweet, yet doth it nettle.   

My Henry is a rousing blade,  
I lay not long by him a maid.   

My William with his wisp,  
He loves me well, although I lisp.   

I love James for Scotland's sake,  
Where so many bellies ache.   

I love the name that conquered France,  
Which made me yield to Edward's Lance.   

Thomas is fit a Cuckold to be,  
For he will not believe unless he see.   

I love Abraham above any,  
Because he was the father of many.     

PROVERBS.  


The Text.  
HE that hath a Woman by the waste, hath a wet Eel by the tail.  
Comment.  
For Women hate delays as much as they abominate debility.   

women's actions are like their wombs, not to be fathomed.  
And therefore he that deals with them aught to be a man of a deep reach.   

Love though he be blind can smell.  
This is the reason, that a man that runs passionately after a woman, is said to have his nose in her tail, and is called a smell-smock.   

Nothing venture, nothing have.  
Yet he that ventures too far loses all.  
Now the question will be in these two Proverbs, Whether it be better for a man to lose nothing, though he get nothing, and so to keep his pate whole, or to lose that which he hath gotten, and to have nothing left him but a skin full of holes.   

The gentle Ewe is sucked by many Lambs.  
And so is a kind woman butted at by many Rams.   

Love and Knowledge live not together.  
That is to say, they live asunder.   

They love too much who die for love.  
For as Aristotle says, Every excess destroys; and therefore he is a fool what will do so, seeing a man hath so little thanks for his labour.   

A fat Wife never loved a faint Husband.  
And there's good reason for it, the Devil ought to have his due.   

Love me and love my dog.  
To this Proverb are the Ladies beholding for all the verses made upon their Beagles.   

He that loves another better than himself, starves in a Cook's shop.  
And aught to be buried under the Gallows.   

Every one is not merry that dances.  
Neither does every one dance that is merry.   

'Tis a trouble to ride, and death to go on foot.  
What a devilish lazy fellow was he that invented this Proverb.   

He incurs no danger, that comes not where it is.  
That's very certain.   

He that goes far, gains much.  
That's a lie, witness Thom. Coriat.   

When a man is dead, his Friends forsake him.  
That's because he forsakes his Friends.   

Blows makes love decay.  
And therefore he that beats his Wife, is sure to be a Cuckold.   

Rome was not built in a day.  
That every body knows, but can any man tell us how many days 'twas a building.   

Love makes men marry, money makes them angry.  
That's when they cannot get their wives portions.   

He that cannot pay let him pray.  
With all my heart, if he can meet with those that will say, Amen to his requests.   

Nothing but money is money worth.  
Very true, for here's knavery in all Trades.   

Claw an Ass by the breech and he'll bewray your fingers.  
One good turn requires another.   

He that believes a woman, and leads an Ass, will never be in quiet.  
Then he that believes this Proverb, is an Ass that will do either.   

He hath enough that's pleased.  
But can any body tell when he hath enough to please him.   

A man may well call till his heart ache, if no body will hear him.  
Right Roger, your Sow's good Mutton.   

One Barber trims another.  
'Tis very kindly done of them   

He that means to pay gives good security.  
Because he intends his security shall pay.   

A man may lead his Horse to water, but he cannot make him drink unless he list.  
Otherwise he would infringe the liberty of the Subject.   

He must needs go whom the Devil drives.  
For the devil's a notable whipster.   

Fast bind, fast find.  
This Proverb caused the invention of the Italian Padlocks.   

There's many a one sings that is full sorry.  
This Proverb is verified by those that sing upon the Gallows.   

He's sure of a Cat that hath her skin.  
Would I were as sure of an hundred pound.   

A man may easily find a stick to beat a Dog.  
Gentlemen, I hope you know the meaning of this Proverb without expounding it, if you do not, you shall ne'er understand it for me.   

A Dog will endure no companion in the Kitchin.  
For Dogs are like Usurers, they love to eat by themselves.   

A fat Kitchen makes a lean Testament.  
Very likely, for a man cannot eat his Cake, and have his Cake.   

The Lady kisses her man for his master's sake.  
Neither do I see how his master can be angry, 'tis one part of his duty to man his Mistress.   

He that spends beyond his ability,  
May hang himself with great agility.  
For he is lighter than he was by many a pound.   

Every truth is not to be told.  
And therefore Scogan 's wife, when her husband asked her whether he where a Cuckold or no, denied to tell him.   

He that gins a matter untowardly, ends it illfavouredly.  
This Proverb concerns Courters of Mistresses and getters of Maidenheads.   

The Devil is known by his Claws.  
How can that be, when some Authors affirm he hath no Claws.   

An ill wife that grows not worse, is not the worst of wives.  
A bad excuse is better than none at all.   

Women weep and sicken when they list.  
But let the Cock crow, and you shall presently perceive change of weather. On my word 'tis time to stand to your tackle friends when the ship leaks.   

The Wife that bites her lips and treads askew,  
Is to her Husband, or herself, untrue.  
Gentlemen, forewarned forearmed. These are signs easy enough to be seen, take notice of them   

A Woman and a melon are both alike.  
For till they are broke up, no body knows what is in them.   

'Tis no great matter though a woman drown herself.  
For there are fleshpots enough in Egypt.   

A gadding hen and a gadding wife will be soon lost.  
But here's the mischief on't, that the gadding wife knows the way home, and the hen does not.   

He that loses his wife and six pence loses by the money.  
Let him that can find the six pence take the wife for his pains.   

A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.  
Nay, here I'll be sworn, the Proverb-monger was out. For a whole Seraglio of such Concubines would do a man no harm.   

Fall back, fall edge.  
Some thing I would say to this Proverb, but I cannot tell what, and therefore I care not what becomes on't.   

Farewell frost.  
So said the Maid, and then she sighed.   

Every day is not Sunday.  
No, for then people would be weary of going to Church.   

Every woman hath her wanton fit.  
I, and will have it in spite of the Devil.   

A gazing, gadding maid seldom proves a good huswise.  
'Tis much they should not prosper when they look so well about them.   

He is a fool that loses flesh for bones.  
That is to say, he is a fool that refuses a fine plump Girl for a lean one.   

Let him that fears the wagging of feathers fear to go among wild fowl.  
But now a days a man may walk among the wild fowl, and ever fear their feathers,   

Such as the tree, such is the fruit.  
That's not always so, for there's many proper women have hobgoblins to their Children.   

Many a little makes a much, Light gains makes heavy purses.  
Ha! well said, old true Penny.   

Fine feathers make fine birds,  
As you may see in Hide Park.   

He reputes too late that reputes at the gallows.  
Therefore he had as good let it alone.   

He's an ill cook that licks not his own fingers.  
Doubtless the light of Nature hath taught every man this Proverb.   

A sack full of holes can hold no corn.  
Even so there be some women that cannot hold their water.   

A little rain allays a very great wind.  
So said a mad fellow when he bepissed his wives farting hole.   

The longest days have evenings.  
Who can help it, Ladies!   

A low man can fallen a tall oak.  
If a tall oak, much more a tall woman; therefore maidens despise not little men.   

Too much scartching hurts the skin.  
But say the women there's a difference between scratching and rubbing.   

Of idleness comes no goodness.  
For that's the reason so many maids have the green sickness.   

Good at meat, good at work.  
Therefore 'tis the best way always to eat stoutly in the company of wonen.   

Grass grows not in hot ovens.  
He that made this Proverb, was bound sure to speak truth for a wager.   

Ill weeds grow apace.  
That's always the answer of an old woman, when you tell her she has a proper maid to her daughter.   

Good clothes hid much deformity.  
What rare men Tailors are.   

Men may meet, but not mountains.  
Therefore you see when Mahomet bid the Hill come to him it would not stir, 'twas so lazy.   

He that wants shame shall never win credit.  
How is that great virtue impudence here abused?   

He that is ashamed to eat, is ashamed to live.  
If a man could live as long as he could eat, I make no question but that he might easily be persuaded to lose his shame, and put in sureties for the eternity of his stomach.   

As shamefaced as a sow that slaps up a syllabub,  
Those are your Whitson-Holiday sows, that swill up whole milk-pails in the field, till you may follow them home by the leakage of their tap-holes.   

He never goes out of his way that goes to a good house.  
This was a maxim observed by Taylor the Water-Poet in his long vacation voyages.   

He that cannot fight let him run.  
'Tis a notable piece of Matchavilian policy.   

A fools bolt is soon shot.  
That made the Gentlewoman shit in the Exchange.   

A gentle shepherd makes the wolf shit wool.  
'Tis a very fine way to be eased of the trouble of sheep-shearing   

Good words cost nothing.  
Unless it be Dedications and Love Verses, for some men do pay for them.   

Better may a man's foot slip then his tongue trip.  
Commonly the tripping of the tongue and the slipping of the foot happen both together. Now if a man be late abroad, 'tis better that his tongue should trip then his foot slip, for he may chance to fall in the street, and have a coach go over him.   

Some men may better steal a horse than others look on.  
For 'tis fit that he that took least pains should have least profit.   

When thiefs fall out true men come by their own.  
For as Philip the great King of Macedon well said, Concord upholdeth all societies: Therefore 'tis high time for thiefs to be hanged, when they cannot agree among themselves.   

A liquorish huswife seldom makes thick pottage.  
For she puts all her Oatmeal in Caudles.   

Hungry dogs love dirty puddings.  
There's many a man hath lost his Nose by verifying this Proverb.   

He'll make you believe a Hare lays eggs.  
See brown's vulgar Errors.   

'Tis an ill wind blows no body good.  
After meat comes mustard.  
For their teeth watered so much after the meat, that it was impossible their eyes should water after the mustard.   

He that holds a frying-pan by the tail may turn it which way he lists.  
See more of this in Alexius his secrets, or in Aristotle's book of the diet of the Phisolophers, cap. 6. of the manner of making pancakes.   

Better not pies, than pies made with scabby hands.  
Wink and all's well, for what the eye sees not, the heart never rues.   

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.  
Well far him that is born to be hanged say I, for he goes to heaven in a string, when he that is drowned goes to hell in a ferry-boat.   

A wary father has a prodigal son.  
He is to be commended for not letting his father's estate lie fallow; for if he will not sow again after his great harvest, his son must.   

A man cannot make a cheverel purse of a sow's ear.  
Ye cannot tell what a man may do, there are very notable projectors living now adays.   

Like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier.  
Gentlemen, ye need not wonder how the Collier and the Devil came to be familiar, for he is fain to keep in with that trade, that he may buy his provision at the best hand, against he goes to to set up his Pie corner calling.     

MISCELANIA.  
Fancy awakened: Natural, Amorous, Moral, Experimental, Paradoxical, Enigmatical Jesting, and Jovial Questions, with their several Answers and Solutions.  Davus es huc venias mox eris Oedipus alter. 


Q. Why did Apelles paint Cupid with these words, Springtime and Winter?  
A. By those two seasons, he represented the prosperities and adversities that wait on Lovers.   

Q, Why do lovers blush on the bridal night?  
A. Out of natural shamefacedness of what they are about to do.   

Q. What is the difference betwixt an honest and dishonest woman?  
A. A word.   

Q. Why do whores paint?  
A. That they may have some colour for there Venery.   

Q. What differences a woman from a man?  
A. Meum & tuum.   

Q. Why do they use to paint Cupid bareheaded?  
A. To signify, that betwixt true lovers, there should be nothing covered or concealed   

Q. What is the greatest wonder in a little circuit?  
A. The face of a man.   

Q. What said the Squire when he found his man Harry in bed with his own Courtesan?  
A. Well done Harry, after me is manners.   

Q. What if there had not been been an Act against building?  
A. That they would have built from the So Ho to Branford.   

Q. What did the old Booksellers Dedication Horse cost him that he use to ride on up and down the country?  
A. Go look.   

Q. What are the attendants on love?  
A. Pleasure, travel, sweet, bitter, war, peace, life, and death.   

Q. What are the joys of love?  
A. Plays, sweet sleeps, soft beds, ravishing music, rich perfumes, delicious wines, costly banquets, wanton refreshing, and such other soft and ravishing contentments.   

Q. Why do the Poets bestow arrows on Cupid?  
A. To Signify how desperately love wounds.   

Q. Why are the lips movable?  
A. For the forming of the voice and words   

Q. How many veins are there in the body of a man!  
A. As many as there are days in a year.   

Q. Why do some stammer and some lisp?  
A. By reason of the shrinking of the sinews which are corrupted by phlegm.   

Q. Why are we colder after dinner then before?  
A. Because that the natural heat retireth to the stomach to further digesture.   

Q. What Lady was that, which danced best at the Ball in Lincolns-inn-fields?  
A. She, whose foot slipping fell on her back.   

Q. What reply was made to him that said, He did not use to give the wall to every Coxcomb?  
A. But I do Sir, and so gave him the wall.   

Q. What is an ordinary Fencer?  
A. For flesh and blood he is like other men, but sure nature meant him for a Stock fish.   

Q. Where is reputation measured by the acre?  
A. In the country.   

Q. What are the outward signs of the body, to judge of the inward disposition of the mind?  
A. A head sharp, and high crowned imports an ill affected mind, tallness of stature, dullness of wit, little eyes, a large conscience, great ears, kin to Midas an ass, spacious breasted, long lined, smooth brows without sorrow, liberality; a beautiful face denotes the best complexion, soft flesh to be the most apt and wise to conceive, and so etc.   

Q. Who was famous for his memory?  
A. Seneca, who writes of himself, that he was able to recite two thousand names after they had been once read to him.   

Q. What will never be out of fashion?  
A. The getting of Bastards.   

Q. When is a Cuckold's Almanac out of date?  
A, It's perpetual.   

Q. Why do some men love wenches better than their wives?  
A. Because stolen pleasures seem sweetest:   

Q. Why are women smother than men?  
A- Because they have the help of nature to expel those superfluities that remain in men.   

Q. What's that which is too hard for one to keep, enough for two, and too much for three to keep?  
Sol. A Secret.   

Q. What people are those that have but one day and one night all the year.  
Sol. Those that live under the Pole Arctic, for to them the sun never riseth in the Horizon 24 degrees, nor comes under; so they have six signs above, and six signs beneath it.   

Q. What is that which goeth the swiftest of all moving things, and is the most apprehensive of all living things, yet we cannot perceive his instant moving.  
Sol. The Sun, which according to the astrological conjecture, runs two hundred seven and twenty thousand miles in one hour.   

Q. How is kissing used?  
A. Only as a Prologue to the play.   

Q. How doth a man look after the recreations of a bridal night?  
A. Like the picture of ill luck.   

Q. Who invented the first lie of the great Giant?  
A. Charles Brandon Stone-cutter in Phoenix Alley, near Long-acre, into whom his next neighbour John Tayler the Water-Poet breathed his fictitious spirit.   

Q. Why is Cupid pictured flying?  
A. Because when he is sufficiently routed, he can stand no longer to it.   

Q. Why are Tobacco-shops and Bawdy-houses co-incidents?  
A. Because smoke is not without fire.   

Q. What is a Pirate?  
A. He is called a Traitor, because he fortifies a castle against the King.   

Q. What answer did the Lawyer return to him that asked him, whether his long discourse was not troublesome to him?  
A. No indeed Sir, said he, my mind was on another matter.   

Q. How might nailers female be rightly named Mary Magdalene?  
A. As she was a grievous sin.   

Q. To whom may a man best commit a secret?  
A. To a common liar, for he shall not be believed though he tells truth.   

Q. What is that which of running, becomes stayed; of soft, becomes hard; of weak; becomes strong; of that which is infinite, becomes but one.  
Sol. Ice.   

Qu. Wherefore is it that Bastard children are often more ingenious than the Legitimate.  
A. Because, as they are got secretly, and by stealth, so the act is performed with a more forced affection.   

Q. Why are those that have their hair of one colour, and their beards of another, for the most part, accounted dangerous persons?  
A. because it denotes in them an inequality of their humours and complexions, which makes them naturally variable.   

Q. Why is every creature sad after copulation?  
A. In consideration of the unhandsomness of the act.   

Q. Whether do the Gallants go to Hid Park to hear the Cuckoo or the Nightingale?  
A. Both.   

Q. Why did Adam take the apple from Eve?  
A. Because she bitten it first, and said it was good.   

Q. Why do Exchange-men so seldom speak truth?  
A. Because it is not A la mode.   

Q. What said the Horse-courser to the Justice, when he said, If he were not hanged, he would be hanged for him?  
A. He desired his Worship when the time came, that he would not be out of the way.   

Q. What said the fellow to the Chandler that had a whole groze of Candles stolen from him.   

Q. Take not your loss so to heart friend; there is no question but that they will be brought to light   

Q. Why are they called Quakers?  
A. Because they tremble at their own opinions.   

Q. What is a precise Sister?  
A. She is one that will not let her child read the Hornbook, if a Christ-cross row be in it.   

Q. What are Chambermaids like unto?  
A. Lotteries, you may draw twenty, before you shall have one good one.   

Q. What is the mystery of greatness?  
A. To keep inferiors ignorant.   

Q. What was that which little Jeffry's the Queen's dwarves mother's health was drunk out of?  
A. Queen Mab's thimble, an akorn.   

Q. What city is that which is founded in the water, compassed with water, and hath no other walls but the seas?  
A. Venice, which hath continued uninterrupted since the first building 1152. years.   

Q. What little fish is that in the sea, which is the greatest wonder for its strength?  
Sol. A Remora, which is a fish that is not above a foot long, yet by fastening on a ship, will stay it under sail against wind and tide.   

Q. Why do some men's hair curl?  
A. It is caused by the hot and dry temperatures of the persons.   

Q. Why do gelded animals grow more fat than others?  
A. Because they do not lose their better humours in following the females.   

Q. Why are little men more prompt, subtle, and Choleric then great?  
A. Because their virtue, and natural vigour, together with the forces of the spirits are more united in them, then in the great.   

Q. What are those swell and pimples that are usually in the face?  
A. They are no other than an enunciation of crude, indigested humours, which proceed from the moisture of the head.   

Q. What reply made the young wife to him, that because she had married an old man, said, that sometimes an old horse would travel as long a journey as a young one?  
A. I, said she, and withal fetching a great sigh, and stroking down her Belly; but not in this road, Sir.   

Q. Why should a man choose a little wife?  
A. Because too much of one thing is good for nothing.   

Q. Why is sweet mistress so usual a compliment?  
A. Because shitten comes shites is the beginning of love.   

Q. What answer did the wench return to him (being barefoot) that asked her, whether or no she wore her ever days stockings?  
A. Yes Sir, said she, and I have a pair of breeches to them of the same, which hath a hole in't, into which you may if you please thrust your nose.   

Q. What shift did he make for to pay for his pint of Sack that he called for at the Kings-head in Fleetstreet?  
A. He thrust his stuff cloak into his codpiss, and running by the Bar cried, stop thief, one had stolen his cloak out of the room.   

Q. What said the Lady to the Gentleman that often used that protestation, That he would pawn his soul on it?  
A. She desired him to bring another pawn, for she greatly feared that was forfeit already.   

Q. What is a whoremaster?  
A. He is one whose ordinary sport is , which he uses himself so long too, that at last he grows better acquainted with Cornelius then Tacitus.   

Q. What did one compare tall men unto?  
A. To garrets, which have nothing but lumber in them.   

Q. What creatures of all others live the longest?  
A. Man, a hart, the phoenix; when as other creatures lives, compared with theirs, are but short: the hare lives but ten years, the cat as many, the goat eight, the ass thirty, the sheep ten, the dog twenty, the bull fifteen, the ox because he is gelded, twenty, the sow and peacock twenty, the horse thirty, the dove eight, the partridge five and twenty.   

Q. First my mother brought me forth, than I the daughter bring forth my mother again?  
Sol. 'Tis water, which is first ice, and then melts again and brings forth water.   

Q. Who are those that see many things afar off, but little near at hand.  
Sol.. Old folks, who are blind in the present tense, but quick sighted in the preterperfect tense.   

Q. Why is Cupid painted a Child?  
A. To signify the youthfulness that should attend a lover, as also, that for the toy and knack of his light affections, he will lose the accomplishment of his weightiest fortunes.   

Q. Why do lovers look so pale and lean?  
A. As the passions of their minds inwardly consume them.   

Q. Why do lovers delight in amorous histories?  
A. In respect of the conformity of their passion to the subject   

Q. Why doth one gape when another gapes?  
A. There is no other reason to be given but a sympathy of imagination when another man gapes.   

Q. How is it that women go so unwillingly to bed, and rise the next day so lusty?  
A. From the perfection they receive from the man, in that they then know they are women indeed.   

Q. what made the Water-Poet believe he was a cuckold?  
A. As 'tis reported he looked through the window.   

Q. when may a lover fall out with his Mistress?  
A. When he hath learned the trick to fall in with her again.   

Q. when will Plays be in request?  
A. When Tom Randall Muses Look-glass may be acted.   

Q. what may be said of a common whore?  
A. Non redolet sed olet.   

Q. what's an excellent receipt to keep a woman honest?  
A. For her to be always cross legged.   

Q. What is the latter part of the word jealousy?  
A. Lousy.   

Q. What said a Gentleman to the Ladies, amongst whom, one of them let a fart?  
A. Ladies, I know it is for your ease, I beseech you let it go round, and when it shall come to my turn, I will use my best endeavour to try what I can do.   

Q. How did the late King serve one that was importunate to be knighted?  
A. After he had kneeled, he bid him rise, and tell himself what he would be, and so he dismissed him.   

Q. what said she to her husband, that named all the cuckolds in the town?  
A. Truly husband you are such another man.   

Q. What may be said of a young fellow that is in love with a whore?  
A. That he is fallen asleep in the chimney corner, and is very likely to nod into the fire.   

Q. What are the three first members form in the womb?  
A. The heart, the brain, and the liver, which are the three first members of life.   

Q. Why have women thicker bloods than men?  
A. By reason of the coldness of their nature which doth thicken and congeal their blood.   

Q. What creature is that which bites with his tongue?  
A. The Flatterer:   

Q. What do the ancients hold for one of the greatest wonders of the world?  
A. The Pyramids of Egypt.   

Q. When I lived I fed the living, now I am dead I hear the living, and with swift speed walk over the living?  
Sol. A Ship made of an Oak, which growing, feeds Hogs, now bears men, and swims over fishes.   

Q. Why do we see our breaths in the winter, but not in the summer?  
A. Because in the summer the exterior air is more subtle and hot, and our breaths spread with such an attenuation, that they cannot be perceived; whereas in the winter, the air being more thick, and gross, and cold; it keeps itself more close, and unites itself in its issuing, to resist the coldness of the air, which is its contrary.   

Q. Why is a whore's trade opposite to all others?  
A. Because she sets up without credit, and too much custom breaks her.   

Q. What is a mere scholar?  
A. An intelligible ass.   

Q. What is the reason that Luke turned Preacher.  
A. Because he was not suffered to write news any longer.   

Q. Why is the language of a scold most moving?  
A. Because no man in his wits will tarry to hear her.   

Q. What subject is the least worthy of a man's thoughts?  
A. The constancy of a woman.   

Qu. What is the suddenest and most successful way of address to a widow?  
A. To tell her that you come to plough her up, that she must lie fallow no longer.   

Q. When doth the voice change in men?  
A. At fourteen, when they begin to feel their concupiscence.   

Q. Why is the heart placed in the midst of the body?  
A. To impart life to the other parts.   

A. How are Hermaphrodites begotten?  
A. By reason of the diversity of cells in the womb.   

A. Why are curled haired men sooner grey than others?  
A. Because their heat consumes the moist humours, which in Eunuches and others, is the cause of grey hairs.   

Q. Whose cock whose dog, whose servant may be kept at the Cheapest rate?  
A. The Miller's cock, the Butcher's dog, and the Innkeepers servant.   

Q. what is that, which having taken we have lost, and having not taken we have kept still?  
Sol. A louse   

Q. When a man dies, which is the last part of him that dies, and which of a woman?  
A. To answer merrily, the heart is the last part of a man, and the tongue of a woman.   

Q. what is a flatterer?  
A. He is the shadow of a fool.   

Q. What said the Barber's wife to her husband, when he would have went out of the bed to have fetched an instrument, which he told her he would use for to put her to less pain in the losing of her Maidenhead?  
A. Sweet Husband said she, Lie down again, there is no such need, my father's man hath taken such an order with me three months since, that you may spare that labour.   

Q. What said the Usurer to the impudent fellow, that coming into his room where he was in Pie-corner, without any ceremony, drunk up his single pot of beer? Sir, said he, you are, as like the fellow that was taken the other day in Smithfield, and committed to Newgate for stealing of a horse, as ever I saw man.  
A. The fellow replied, Say you so Master Usurer, I knew him very well, he made no more of stealing a horse than I do of eating this black pudding; and so he snatched the Usurer's dinner and left him.   

Q. What Almanac maker writes truest this year?  
A. He that tells fewest lies.   

Q. What game do men love best?  
A. My Ladies-hole.   

Q. What sport doth women like best?  
A. Push pin.   

Q. If a man calls his wife Whore, what follows by consequence?  
A. That he is a Cuckold.   

Q. Why are women most jealous?  
A. Because they love with less discretion than men.   

Q. Why do some lady's breasts leap, and as it were dance when they talk with their lovers?  
A. From the neighbourhood of the heart, from whence all the vital spirits proceed, which on such joyful occasions retire to the breasts.   

Q. Why do lovers so kiss the eyes of their mistresses?  
A. Because they would if they could, through those windows discern what is in the heart, or else in gratitude, as the eyes were the first beginners of their love.   

Q. What said the Tiler to his man when he fell through the rafters of the house?  
A. He liked a fellow that went through with his work.   

Q. What said the captain when his leg was shot off, and they cried for a Chirurgeon?  
A. No Chirurgeon says he, a Carpenter, a Carpenter.   

Q. What said one that perceived a fellow in Bedlam more distracted than the rest, Sir were you ever married?  
A. Married quoth he, looking stedfasty upon him, I was never yet so mad.   

Q. Why is a prisoner the best fencer?  
A. Because he always lies at a close ward.   

Q. Why doth marriage free a man from all cares?  
A. Because the woman takes all upon her.   

Q. Why did Nailor stand in the Pillory?  
A. For being Antichrist.   

Q. How is an Hypocrite defined;  
A. He is one that for the most part is full of oral subtilty and mental impiety.   

Q. What is that which produceth tears without sorrow, takes his journey to heaven, but dies by the way, is begot by another, yet that other is not begot without it?  
Sol. Smoak.   

Q. What two dissillables are those that divide the world?  
A. Meum et tuum.   

Q. What is the wisest of all other things?  
A. Time, which findeth out, and altereth all other things   

Q. Why is Ben. Jonson's Chair at Robert wilson's Tippling-house in the Strand?  
A. To signify that Poets in these hard times, though they should invoke the nine Muses, may still want nine pence to purchase a pint of Canary.   

Q. what is the profitablest sign, that one that hath a handsome wife, can hang at his door?  
A. A pair of Horns, for than he shall be sure never to want custom.   

Q. Why are there so few of the sect of the Adamites?  
A. Because people are ashamed to show all.   

Q. What replied the Vintner to the Gentleman after he had drawn him good wine, and he said it had a whiff with it?  
A. So had his—   

Q. what is an Host?  
A. He is one that is none of his own, for he neither eats, drinks nor thinks, but at other men's charges.   

Q. What is a Tinker?  
A. He is a movable, for he hath no certain abiding.   

Q. Whither doth S. A. go when he dies?  
A. Alas, he doth not know himself.   

Q. What said the fellow that had lost one of his ears for his former fact, and was for another crime condemned to lose the other?  
A. What a pox, said he, am I bound to find ears for every Sessions.   

Q. What answer did the Tailor's boy give to him, that when he presented him with his master's Bill, said, that he was not running away?  
A. That though he were not running away, his master was.   

Q. What part is last form in the womb?  
A. The eye, the interpretation of the mind, which as it is last form, so it is the first which loseth its motion in death.   

Q. Why do men become bald?  
A. Because with their declining with age, their natural humidity consumes in them, although they may otherwise abound with corrupt excrements.   

Q. Why have gelded men shrill voices?  
A. The abundance of their humidity fills up the artery and makes it straight, so that the breath proceeding from a narrow passage, causeth the voice to be sharp.   

Q. Why do the Anabaptists hate churches?  
A. Because they are used to preach in tubs.   

Q. What said Pope Urban the eighth to an English Gentleman that kissed his toe?  
A. Sir, I hope you have not traveled thus far, to report when you return to your own country, that you have seen Antichrist; alas Sir, I must deal plainly with you, I am no other than what you see me, a frail old man, ready to drop into my grave.   

Q. What if the bed should speak what it knows?  
A. It would put some persons strangely to the blush.   

Qu. why may an Hypocritical Puritan be said to be a bastard?  
A. Because he will not allow of Our Father.   

Q. what is the nickname of Mistress M. T?  
A. Mistress Moll Cutpurse.   

Q. What become of the Turk that danced on the ropes, and stood on his head with his heels upright on an exceeding high pole?  
A. He was so near to Paradise that Mahomet only put out his hand, took hold of his great toe, and pulled him in,   

Q. What kind of thing is a New England brother?  
A. He is one that fled thither for conscience sake, and left his wife and children behind him for the Parish to keep.   

Q. When policy trips up a man's heels, what is it called?  
A. Dexterity.   

Q. Why is it probable that Eve studied Astronomy?  
A. Because her sex have ever since been used to lie on their backs.   

Q. what may an importunate Dun be compared unto?  
A. A man's shadow.   

Q. What answer was given to him, that dissuaded one from marrying of a wife, because she was no wiser?  
A. I desire said he, my wife should have no more wit; then to be able to distinguish my bed from another man's.   

Q. What trick did a scholar that was a lewd rogue, use after he had often sent to his father, and could get no money from him?  
A. He sent a letter to his father, to certify him that he was dead, and desired him to send him up money, to defray the charges of his funeral.   

Q. Why do not whores conceive?  
A. They have been ploughed so much, that they can of necessity yield no crop,   

Q. Why do we sleep better on the right side then on the left?  
A. Because the lungs do then lie more remote, and cover the heart, which is on that side under the pap.   

qu. Which is the seat of the memory?  
A. The hindermost part of the brain.   

qu. Why are women said to be the weaker vessels?  
A. Because there are so many of them cracked.   

qu. Why do Lawyers wear such short gowns?  
A. Because the vacations are so long.   

qu. what was that in the Exchange that the Milliner sent the Lady word that she had left behind her, and she sent him word back, that he might take it for his trouble of sending after her?  
A. A—   

qu. Wherefore is it that the Echo reports more clearly to our hearing, the last syllable than the first?  
A. Because the first are broken by the last, or that we are too near, or that we speak the last in measure longer than the Echo giveth us the first, and so we cannot so well understand them.   

qu. What is that which knoweth not itself to speak, understandeth not a word, yet conceals not, but repeats the voice of him that speaks?  
A. The Echo.   

qu. How long did the learned guess that the world would last?  
A. Six thousand years: two thousand years before the Law, two thousand years under the Law, and two thousand years under the Gospel.   

qu. From whence proceed tears?  
A. Out of the brains most thin and liquid excrements.   

qu. Of all fishes in the sea, which is the swiftest?  
A. A Dolphin.   

qu. what thing is that which is neither fire, nor moon, nor star, yet it shines only in the night?  
Sol. A Gloeworm.   

qu. Why are so many whores gone beyond sea?  
A. To find out those Hectors that they miss in England.   

qu. What's, the news from the Paris-garden?  
A. That there is no inferior Officer left to carry guts to the Bears.   

qu. What may be said of the furred Giant in the last Lord Mayor show?  
A. That when he stood on his tiptoes, he was higher than the Pageants by the head and shoulders.   

Q. What said the gentleman to the thief, when he was waked by chance, and heard him breaking in?  
A. My friend it is your best course to tarry till an hour or two hence for I am now awake.   

Q. What said the Farrier to the Empiric, when he would have given him money for a drench for his horse?  
A. Sir, we of one profession should not take money of one another.   

Q. what answer did the poor scholar give to the beggar, that said that he had a licence to beg?  
A. That louse he might have, but sense he had none, to beg of a poor scholar.   

Q. what said the gentleman to his wife, when she desired him to give her a flap of the coney?  
A. How wife, before all this company.   

B. what is a creditor?  
A. A fellow that torments a man for his good conditions, he is one of Deucalion's sons, begotten of a stone.   

Q. what is a Bawd like?  
A. A Medlar, for she is never ripe till she is rotten.   

Q. what is the reason that the outlandish woman is so hairy?  
A. Because she is so seldom trimmed.   

Q. why should not a married won be called ass in his wife's presence?  
A. Because ox is more proper.   

Q. At what season doth the patiented husband love the scold his wife best?  
A. When she is speechless.   

Q. why are there so many whores and so few bawds?  
A. Because they want stock, though they have impudence enough to set up for themselves.   

Q. why are short and dim sighted people more given to love then others?  
A. Because they discern not the unhandsome features and imperfectness of women so well as those that can see.   

Q. what is the meaning of the word Marriage?  
A. Marry at age.   

Q. what saying pleases a foolish Solicitor best?  
A. Currat lex, ignoramus.   

Q. why did the ancients paint on the borders of Cupid's robe, Life and Death?  
A. Because true love lasts not only for life, but after death also.   

Q. why have some stinking breaths?  
A. From the evil fumes that arise from the stomach.   

Q. why is the heart first engendered and dead last.  
A. Because it is the original of life, and without it other parts cannot live.   

Q wherefore is it that we are most ticklish under the soles of the feet, and under the armpits?  
A. Because the skins of those parts are more stretched and more delicate.   

A. what is the swiftest thing in the world?  
A. One would imagine the sun, because in a day he compasseth the whole circuit of the earth, but a thought is swifter than the sun, for that it traveleth the whole world in a moment.   

Q. where is the centre or middlemost part of the earth?  
A. Some Geographers writ at Delphos.   

Qu. Why do husbands for the most part seek wives, and not wives husbands?  
A. Because the man is still seeking of his rib, which he lost, when it was taken out of his side to form woman.   

Q. What is an hyporcritical Puritan?  
A. A diseased piece of Apocrypha, which bound to the Bible, corrupts the whole text.   

Q What is a man's reason compared unto?  
A. In matters of faith, to fire; in the first degree of his assent, flame; next smoke, and then nothing.   

Q. Why is it dangerous to marry a widow?  
A. Because she hath cast her rider.   

Q. Now Marriot is dead, who is the greatest eater?  
A. One that is living.   

Q. What said the boy to the Cuckold, when he asked him why he stared him so in the face?  
A. Truly Gaffer quoth the boy, for no hurt, but because every body said that you had horns on your forehead, I looked, and indeed Gaffer I could see none.   

Q. What said the wench to the gentleman, that hit her a clap on the breech, and cried, I marry, here is a plump one indeed?  
A. Truly, said she, if you should blow as much wind in there, as I have blown out, you would say it were plump to some purpose.   

Q. What was said to the dwarf?  
A. That he should still carry some sweet thing in his hand to smell to, whose nose is levelled to every man's tale that he followeth.   

Q. What is said to be the beautifullest thing in the world?  
A. The Sun, but to a blind man that cannot discern his glory, we may conclude virtue.   

Q. What creature of all others sheds tears at his death?  
A. The Hart.   

Q. How many miles is the earth in circuit?  
A. It is uncertain to define it, yet the learned and Astrologians are of opinion, that it is four times 5400. miles, howsoever in respect of the heavens, they conclude it to be but a point, and that every star in the eighth Sphere is esteemed bigger than the whole circumference thereof; where if the body of the earth should be placed in the like splendour, it would hardly appear.   

Q. Why doth the stomach digest?  
A. Because of the heat of the parts adjoining to the liver and the heart.   

Q. Why doth nature produce moistures?  
A. Through the evil disposition of the matter, and the influence of some ill constellation, not being able to bring forth what she intended, she bringeth forth that which she can.   

Q. When doth the voice change in women?  
A. At twelve years of age, when their breasts begin to grow.   

Q. What is the dolefullest Latin that a lover can speak?  
A. Hei mihi quod nullis amor est medicabile herbis.   

Q. What was old Chaucer's Saw?  
A. Lord be merciful unto us, Fools or Knaves will else undo us.   

Q. What place is the worst to learn French in?  
A. The Low Countries.   

Q. what's the best Rhetoric a man can use?  
A. To speak to the purpose.   

Q. what Rhetoric is most graceful in a woman?  
A. A beautiful face.   

Q. what companion should a man be most private withal?  
A. A handsome Wench.   

Q. Why did Phil. Porter die?  
A. Because he could live no longer.   

Q. How do the English love the Spaniards?  
A. Not so well as they do their silver mines.   

Q. When should the longest grace be said?  
A. When their is cold meat on the table   

Q. When will Saint James' Fair up again?  
A. When the Sutler's wives are not so subject to lie down.   

Q. Why do ladies always eat the kernels but leave the stones.  
A. Because to their best apprehensions they are to be kept for another's use.   

Q. Why is love compared to a maze?  
A. Because when a man is once got in, he can never get out.   

Q. Why are women more silent in love then men?  
A. Because they are ashamed to talk of an unhansom business that is already past.   

Q. What is the benefit of sneezing?  
A. To purge the expulsive power and virtue of the sight.   

Q. Why are all the senses in the head?  
A. Because the brain is there, on which all the senses do depend.   

Q. How should a man behave himself to a coy Lady?  
A. As if he were in the field, to charge her home.   

Q. Why is wit compared to brush-wood, and judgement to tinder?  
A. Because one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the durablest heat; but both meeting together make the best fire   

Q. Why is a soldier so good an antiquary?  
A. Because he hath kept the old fashion, when the first bed was the ground.   

Q. Why may Aretin be accounted an expert artillery man?  
A. Because he gave directions for the postures.   

Q. When does the world end with an old man?  
A. When he gins to dote on a young wench.   

Q. what replied the fellow when one bid him hold his horse?  
A. He said, it was but one man's work, he might do it himself.   

Q. What is reported of the Executioner?  
A. That if he do not mend his Manners, he is likely to trust his life to the mercy of one of his own trade.   

Q. What said one to a Lady that had so many patches on?  
A. That she could not well laugh for fear of showing of two faces.   

Q. What is a bawd?  
A. She is a charcoal that hath been burnt herself, and therefore is able to kindle a whole copper.   

Q. How did Master Not of the Inns of Court love a citizen's wife?  
A. Like any thing.   

Q. what is the most lascivious part of a woman?  
A. Her rolling eye.   

Q. what said the Vintner of Southwark, when the Parson killed his wife in the Portcullis?  
A. By and by, anon, anon Sir, I come, I come Sir, by and by,   

Q. Why is love painted with flowers in one hand, and a fish in another?  
A. To show that without any contestation he governs both by sea and land;   

Q. why is marriage compared to a sea voyage?  
Qu. Because if people have not the greater, and the better fortune, They are very likely to be cast away.   

Q. which is most jealous, the man or the woman?  
A. The woman, though men have most cause, you know why.   

Q. Why are some left handed?  
A. Because in some persons the heart sendeth not heat to that side?   

Q. Why can women endure thin clothing in the winter better than men?  
A. Because being naturally cold they feel cold the less   

Q. what creature is that which bringeth forth at eace, nourisheth her young, and goes with young again?  
Sol. A hare.   

Q. what is that which being first water assumes the form of a stone, and still retains it?  
A. Crystal congealed by frost.   

Q. which is the quickest of the senses?  
A. The eye.   

Q. why is it better to marry a widow then a maid?  
A. Causa patet   

Q. What may be said of a covetous rich man?  
A. That he freezes before the fire.   

Q. What reply did one of the Tilers make to the other, when he said, You do your work too slightly.  
A. Brother, said he, we must work at one time as we intent to have work at another.   

Q. what was the reply to one that gave him this compliment, Sir, I wish that every hair of my head were a groom to do you service?  
A. He replied, Sir, I wish that every blast from my back side were a cannon bullet ready charged to batter down your enemies.   

Q. A cowardly Captain asked a Soldier whether he knew him or no?  
A. The Soldier replied, I should have known you if you had shown me your back, for that I have seen often; but I never saw your face before.   

Q. When will the Vintner at Aldersgate pull off the Mourning from his sign?  
A. When Wine is at the old price.   

Q. A fearful bashful Country-fellow was asked, whether he would go to bed to his bride?  
A. No quoth he, I'll go to Bed to my mother, that I will.   

Q. Whence is it that those people that wash in the winter in warm water feel more cold than those that wash in cold water?  
A. Because that the warm water opens the pores, and gives an entrance to the cold; whereas cold water on the contrary, shuts the pores, for cold is restringent.   

Q. wherefore is it that the Hycup, especially if it be not very violent, ceaseth in holding the breath; or else if we are suddenly frighted, or afflicted with some opinionate unhappiness, or else with the taking of vinegar?  
A. Because the Hycup proceeds of a sudden difficulty in breathing, and that in holding our breath, it must be of necessity, that we shall a little after respire by course; also we being made attentive to that we are fearful of, makes us hold our breath, and sometimes with a profound sigh fetched from the stomach, it hinders the cause of the Hycup.   

Q. Can you in few words give an illustration or description of the body?  
A. Yes, the body is the dwelling of the soul, the eyes are the windows of the soul, the brows the portals of the mind, the ears the interpreters of sounds, the lips the leaves of the mouth, the hands the workmen of the body, the heart thereceptacle of life, the lungs the bellows of the air, the stomac the orderer of meat, the bones the strengtheners, and the legs the columns of the body   

Q. What seed is that which joineth all the countries of the world together?  
A. Hempseed, of which is made sails for ships that transmit them far and near.   

Q. What art is that which makes use of the wildest things in the world?  
A. Physic.   

Q. What was the Welsh-mans' meaning, when he said, He had the law in her own hand?  
A. He was burnt in the hand.   

Q. One said painters were cunning fellows, the other asked why?  
A. Because said he, they are sure to find a colour for whatsoever they do.   

Q. One said to a sturdy beggar, friend, it is a custom amongst those of your trade, if a man doth not give you, to rail at him?  
A. The beggar answered, thinking to get something of him, Ah master, I am none of those. Say you so, says the gentleman, I will try you for once; and so away he went, but never unbuttoned his fob.   

Q. One boasted himself to be a wit, saying, That the world spoke him to be all wit?  
A. One that stood by, and knew him very well, Is it possible that you are taken to be a wit, or to be all wit, I only took you to be a wittol   

Qu. What is a mere common Lawyer?  
A. He is a foil to make a discreet one look the fairer.   

Q. what is a Bragadocia welshman?  
A. He is one that hath the abilities of his mind in potentia, but not in actu.   

Q. why do some of our Lay Preachers hold forth so long?  
A. Because their ware being course, they can afford the larger measure.   

Q. what is cast beauty like?  
A. A pair of bellows, whose breath is cold, yet makes others bourn.   

Q. Who hath more pleasure on the bridal night, the man or the woman?  
A. The woman, who though she rises like blushing Aurora, yet such a tel-tail lightsomness, cheerfulness and mirth appears in her face, as discovers the chaste and pleasant content she received from her bridegroom.   

Q. What is the highest respect, an honest wife can tender her husband?  
A. To expose herself to his embraces, to make him lord of her body, and commander of her thoughts.   

Q. Why doth a drunkard think that all things turn round about him?  
A. Because the spirits that serve the sight are mingled with the vapours of the drink; which with too much heat, cause the eye to be continually moving.   

Q. Why do gentlemen so powder their Periwigs?  
A. Because all their own hair comes off.   

Q. How did the gentleman requite his blind bears courtesy?  
A. She burned him, and the fire shovel burned her.   

Q. Why do Apprentices wear no cuffs?  
A. Because they cannot abide to were those that are of their masters giving.   

Q. Why cannot the Spaniards so properly now as formerly, for their keeping of forts, be compared to crab-lice?  
A. Because the English have of late so put them to the shrug, that they are always upon remove.   

Q. Why doth Cupid, of a blind archer, shoot so well?  
A. Because for the most part he hits the mark.   

Q. Why is wealth better than wit?  
A. Because few Poets have had the fortune to be chosen Aldermen.   

Q. What said the fellow to the sleeping watchman, when he stole away his lantern?  
A. Good night.   

Q. What is the worst argument a Vintner can use against the late act for the prizes of wine?  
A. To draw bad wine.   

Qu. What said the Welshman, that by his reading saved his life, when after they had burnt him in the hand, they bid him cry, God save the King?  
A. Nay, quoth he, rather God bless my father and mother, for if they had not brought me up to reading, I might have been hanged for all the King.   

Q. To one that excepted that another had saluted his Mistress?  
A. This answer was given, that as he had kissed her before, he might if he pleased kiss her behind.   

Q. what is the greatest traveller next to a man?  
A. A louse, because he always bears him company.   

Q. what is a fellow of a house?  
A, He is one that speaks swords, and fights ergoes.   

Q. What is that which makes no difference betwixt a wise man and a fool?  
A. Sleep.   

Q. wherefore are the morning studies best?  
A. Because the spirits are more free after their repose, and the brain and organs of the body are discharged of the fumes and vapour that arise from the nourishment, the digestion being finished.   

Q. wherefore in winter do we smell perfumes less than in summer?  
A. Because that the cold thickens the air.   

Q. what stone is that which neither yields to the fire, nor the hammer?  
A. The Adamant, which is only dissolved by Goat's blood.   

Q. How is the taste best discerned?  
A. By the veins which spread though the tongue and , to distinguish of every relish.   

Q. A gentleman hawked in a farmer's ground, for which the farmer being much incensed, gave him base words, which provoked the gentleman so highly that he spit in his face; at which the farmer being amazed, asked him, what was his reason for the affront.  
A. The gentleman answered, what would you be at, I could do no more than give you warning, I hawked before I spit.   

Q. To one that said that lead was the basest metal of all metal?  
A. One replied, Sir it is so, but yet it is the stoutest, for the Glazier will tell you that it keeps more quarrels asunder, than any other metal in the world,   

Q what answer was made to him by the Judge who fearing the cause would go against him, desired a longer day of hearing?  
A. The Judge answered, that he should have one, it should be on Saint Barnabies day next.   

Q. what reply was made to her that had never a Child, yet she thanked God that she had a husband of very good parts?  
A. It is true, replied one of the neighbours, I acknowledge him to be a man of good parts, but yet he cannot multiply.   

Q. Why do women take those for asses that are too importunate?  
A. As they are sensible of their own imperfections, they admire men should descend so below their understandings to be so simply sensual.   

Q. What things are Chief in opposition to true love?  
A. Shame and fear.   

Q. Why is love painted naked?  
A. To show that all the acts and deeds of love ought to be open, such as are free from treachery or dissimulation.   

Q. wherefore is it that by the rubbing of our eyes, we cease to sneeze?  
A. Because that this rubbing excites heat in the eyes, near which we make the sneezing, and that being a stranger heat, nevertheless a more strong, extincts the other heat which caused the sneezing.   

Q. Wherefore is it that in summer we drink more, and in winter we eat more?  
A. Because as the summer dries our bodies, so we are forced to moisten them, and in the winter, the cold predominating on the exterior and natural heat, enforces itself, and gathered all into the interior, whereby we eat & digest our meat the better.   

Q. what creatures of all others, as Naturalists writ, are the worst that the earth nourisheth?  
A. Of beasts, tigers: of men, adulterers and flatterers.   

Q. from whence proceeds jealousy?  
A. From envy and love. Envy to see him whom a Mistress loves, to love another; out of love, as she is fearful to lose him who is her best beloved.   

Q. why is a Drunkard a good Philosopher?  
A. Because that he thinks the world goes round.   

Q. what said Sir Benjamin Ruddiard of Master P?  
A. That he was too high for this world, and too low for the world to come.   

Q. what is the least part of the body, yet darkens the whole body?  
A. The eyelid, the hair whereof, neither waxeth more nor groweth longer.   

qu. why are the Italians said to be so jealous?  
A. Because they keep all under lock and key.   

qu. what is the name of that fish, which of all others, pleases women best?  
A. Please.   

qu. why are Tailors of such esteem?  
A. Because they are men of great reckoning.   

qu. How did a gentleman of late requite him that gave him the horns?  
A. He bitten off a convenient piece of his nose, as they were together in a coach, over against the Halfmoon Tavern in the Strand.   

qu. what death would a Dutch man soon choose?  
A. To be drowned in a barrel of English beer.   

qu. what said the gentleman to him that wrangled with him at cards and called him knave?  
A. Sir, said he, you are a court card, that is neither king nor queen.   

qu. What reply made the Lock-Smiths wife to her husband, when he would ntver let her be quiet, but according to his jealous custom, preached to her a sermon out of his trade, of what bars bolts, and locks belonged to the chastity of an honest wife?  
A. What a coil is here, quoth she, with your bars, your bolts and your locks; you are a little too conceited of your trade, when there is never a Tapster nor Ostler that I know, but hath as good a key to open it as any Lock-Smith of you all.   

qu. what is good manners in a Chambermaid?  
A. To exercise her patience behind the hang, whilst her Mistress is busy with a gentleman in the same room.   

qu. what said the French madam to her husband, when she went to bed to her Lodger in the next room?  
A. Husband, I went only to the Chamber-pot.   

qu. what if dreams and wishes had been all true?  
A. There had not been since Popery, one Nun to make a maid of.   

qu. How do you define a Sergeant  
A. He is for the most part the spawn of a decayed Shopkeeper, a hangman and he are twins, only a hangman is his eldest brother.   

qu. what is an Almanac maker?  
A. He is a tenant by custom to the Planets, of whom he holds the twelve signs by lease parol, to which he pays yearly rend.   

qu. which at all times is the best bedfellow?  
A. Sleep.   

qu. why are women at all seasons more prone to love then other creatures?  
A. Because they are naturally more soft and ticklish,   

qu. whether is the man or woman more constant in love?  
A. The man, as he is of a more firm body and spirit.   

qu. Why did Paris see the Goddess naked, when he was appointed to give his judgement about the ball?  
A. Because many have handsome faces, that if they were stripped of their , have such nasty deformity on their bodies, that a Beadle of the wand would sooner lose his place then approach them with a clean whip.   

qu. why did the admired Painter Xerxes' figure Cupid in a green robe?  
A. Not only to express the youthfulness of love, but also to moralise what the colour green signifies, which is Hope.   

qu. How may carnal copulation be civilly defined?  
A. It is a mutual action of male and female with convenient instruments, ordained and deputed for generation, to maintain and multiply the species and kind of every creature.   

qu. why is that saying, That the falling out of lovers is the beginning of love?  
A. Because love is like a flame that increaseth with every blast.   

cue, what kind of people are those, that being as beasts themselves, set upon beasts, carry beasts in their hands, have beasts running about them, and all to pursue and kill beasts?  
Sol. Unlearned Huntsmen.   

qu. wherefore is the world round?  
A. To signify that it, nor all in it can fill the heart of man, which is triangular.   

qu. what are the benefits of good scents and perfumes?  
A. To purify the brain, refine the wit, and awaken the fancy.   

qu. Is lying of any ancient standing?  
A. Yes, but not as the atheistical writer antedates, and before Adam.   

Q. why is immoderate venery hurtful?  
A. Because it destroys the sight, spends the spirits, dries up the radical moisture, which is instanced by the naturalists in the Sparrows, which by reason of their often coupling, live but three years.   

Q. Whence comes it that those that are born deaf are also dumb?  
A. There is a certain tie or conjunction of the nerves which stretch to the ears, and from the tongue, the which being indisposed from the birth, it must of necessity be, that those two faculties should be equally affected; only it is confessed, that certain sicknesses may make one deaf, without being dumb; and on the contrary, one may be made dumb without being deaf, because it may so fall out, that one branch of the nerve may be offended without hurting the other.   

Q. Why do lovers sit up with one another whole nights?  
A. Because they cannot go to bed together.   

Q. May a lover die with too much loving?  
A. Yes, as 'tis in the Song, for the space of half an hour, but no longer.   

Q. Why is Cupid pictured blind?  
A. Because he uses in the dark to play at blind-man-buff.   

Q. why do the Dutch eat so much butter?  
A, Because they have there fish so cheap.   

Q. what said the Gardener to his wife when she came to see him hanged?  
A. Get you to work you whore, weed, weed for bread for your children, is this a time for you to see shows.   

Q. What think you of the wife, that said the Tailor her husband, was not fit for her?  
A. She had a mind to measure with a yard of her own choosing.   

Q. What said one of a marriage that was made betwixt a widow of a vast fortune, and a Gentleman of a great house that had no estate  
A. That the marriage was like a black pudding, one brought blood, and the other brought suet and oatmeal.   

Q. What may a porter of the city gates becompared unto?  
A. Cerberus, that would not let the wand'ring ghosts pass without a sop.   

Q. Why should a fair woman's neck be awry?  
A. Then it stands as if she looked for a kiss.   

Q. what is a Mountebank?  
A. He is one that if he can but come by the names of diseases, to stuff his Bill with, he hath a sufficient stock to set up withal.   

Q. what Officer keeps his Oath most strictly to the City?  
A. A Sergeant, for he swears to be a true Varlet to the city, and he continues so to his dying day.   

Q. what trick will the Vintner's use after walnuts are out of season, to keep up their price of sack?  
A. Cunning knaves need no Brokers.   

Q. whether is the water or the earth bigger?  
A. The water is bigger than the earth, the air is bigger than the water, and the fire bigger than the air.   

Q. How many bones are there in the body of a man?  
A. In the Head 49. in the Breast 67. in the Hands 61. in the Feet 60. the vulgar opinion is, that there is in all 284.   

Q. How may one distinguish of the height of things?  
A. The Sea is higher than the Earth, the Air is higher than the Sea, the Fire then the Air, and the Poles above them.   

Q. why doth a chaste woman love him exceedingly that had her virginity?  
A. Because of her shamefacedness, as also out of an esteem of him to whom she entrusted her credit.   

Q. what herb of all others most present the form of a man;  
A. A mandrake.   

Q. what birds of all others are the most perfect heralds of the Spring?  
A. The Swallow and the Cuckoo.   

Q. At what time do women's breasts begin first to increase?  
A. At fourteen.   

Q. what is conjectured of him that made the song of the Bull's feather!  
A. That there is one about the the town, that can pretend more reason to sing it, better than himself.   

Q. why did a Pulpit cuffer about London, cry out so for bows and arrows, bows and arrows?  
A. Because, according to the Proverb, a fools bolt is soon shot.   

Q. why do some women blush so?  
A. Because that little modesty they have, is contracted in their faces.   

Q. Why do young whores turn old bawds?  
A. It is with them as it is with other trades, after they have served out their times, they set up for themselves.   

Q. What is a whore?  
A. She is one that pricks betimes, for her stock is a white thorn, which cut and grafted on, she becomes a medlar.   

Q. One asked Ben. Johnson what reparation he would tender to his honour for spitting in his face?  
A. He answered, if he pleased, he would tread it out again.   

Q. What said the wench that was brought before the Judge about a rape, when he asked her, whether the fellow offered any violence, or the like?  
A. Yes, said she, and please your worship, he bond my hands, and would have tied my legs together, but I thank my own industry, I kept them asunder.   

Q. A country Painter painting of a small Parish Church, and writing false Orthography, one asked him, that overlookt his work, why he spelt so false?  
A. Alas Sir, says the Painter, you must understand that this is a poor Village, and they will be loath to go to the charges of true English.   

Q. What were those two stars that the seaman cried out for in the storm, as only desirous to see, before he was cast away?  
A. The star in Cheapside, and the star in Coleman-street.   

Q. What said he that saw a fellow in a very cold morning on the gallows in his shirt?  
A. That he was afraid he would catch his death.   

Q. What may a covetous Lawyer be compared unto?  
A. He's one whose fingers have itched for a bribe, ever since his first practising of Court-hand.   

Q. What is a mere Pettifogger?  
A. He is one of Sampsons' Foxes, he sets men more shamefully together by the ears than pillories.   

Q. Why do lovers shed their hair so fast?  
A. Because with them it is for the most part the fall of the leaf.   

Q. Is it lawful for a lover to make use of any other Lady then his own?  
A. The law of Nations permits no such custom, nor will it serve his turn, though she be never so like, to say, that he mistook her for his own Mistress.   

Q. What is love?  
A. 'Tis a passion without reason, order, or stability, 'tis the whirlpool of man's liberty, a disease that will make one as sleepy as a cat.   

Q. What is the female sex without the male?  
A. Imperfect.   

Q. when will A. B. make another song in praise of Sack?  
A. Ask the Fiddlers.   

Q. What said the Soldier when his Captain demanded of him, why he bought his Colours at his shop, and why he fancied them still above any other.  
A. Oh Sir, said he, I have all the reason of the world to fancy them; for these your Colours saved my life, I followed them when you run away from Basing-house.   

Q. What said the Carrier to the Thiefs when he saw they would rob him.  
A. Friends, make a conscience, let me share, I desire to drive the same trade with you, to have something of my own.   

Q. Why did Mrs. H. make her Husband a Waistcoat of her Willow coloured Stuff-petticoat?  
A. As she might otherwise have parted with her smock; and you know what the Proverb sings, Near is my Petticoat, but nigher is my smock.   

Q. One asked another what Shakespears Works were worth bound up together; the other replied, not worth a farthing; not worth a farthing, said he that was to buy them, why so?  
A. The other answered, that his Plays were worth money, but he never heard that his Works were worth any thing.   

Q. Why is a Puritan a Nonresident.  
A. Because he never keeps near his Text.   

Q. What is the best way of dealing with a seemingly zealous Lay brother?  
A. Not to trust him, for than he can never deceive you.   

Q. Why cannot the Devil take tobacco through the nose?  
A. Because Saint Dunstan seared it with a pair of tongs.   

Q. What may the Law be most fitly compared unto?  
A. To a thicket of Brambles, into which by tempest the poor sheep being driven from the Plains for refuge, are there fleeced.   

Q. Why may not Machivel be reputed as honest as some modern Politicians?  
A. Because he made no use of the hypocritical veil of a religious profession, to rough-cast his knavery withal.   

qu. What kind of people are those, that sleep not with their own faces?  
A. Women that paint.   

qu. What is that, which being contained in itself, yet from it thousands do daily grow and issue?  
Sol. An egg, from whence are produced fowls, fishes, birds, and serpents.   

qu. What breaks the shell at the coming forth of the chicken?  
A. The defect of nourishment, which at the end of the time is wasted in the shell, which the chicken wanting, exposeth itself, and so breaketh it.   

qu. What is that which is milk in his dam, or fire, of a mingled seed, brought forth by others, and produceth not his like?  
Sol. A mule begotten betwixt a horse and an ass.   

qu. Why have those that lie on their backs so many dreams and visions?  
A. Because the humours are disturbed, and upwards where the fantasy is.   

qu. Why is it unwholesome to lie on ones back?  
A. Because it disposeth a man to the Incubus, or night mare, which is a passage of the heart, when a man thinketh himself to be strangled in his bed, and somewhat lies heavy on his stomach which he would throw off, it also causeth with the over heating and oppression of the reins, an efusion in the night, which weakens the back.   

qu. what pays Venus more custom than all the world besides?  
A. The bed.   

qu. what is a Sexton?  
A. He is one, that of all Proverbs cannot abide to hear that of, We live by the quick, and not by the dead.   

qu. why are boats compared to females.  
A. because every one enters into them.   

qu. what said she to him that found her at it behind the door in a Tavern?  
A. At this time, Sir, I cannot pleasure you, keep this secret from my husband, and I will disclose as great a one to you, when it lies in my power.   

qu. what said the Cuckold to him that he found a bed with his wife?  
A. Sirrah, for this once I forgive you, but look to it, the next time, I catch you in the corn, I will put you into the pound, to the tune of, Come no more there boys.   

Q. With what words did one challenge another that had abused him, but was not his equal?  
A. J. N. do confess myself to be as base a villain as thou art, and therefore let me see thee to morrow by such an hour in Hide Park?   

Q. what said the Sailor when the ship was set on fire in the coast of Peru?  
A. He cast himself into the sea, and cried, some roasted and some sod.   

Q. what answer did one return him that desired to borrow his cloak?  
A. Sir, seeing it reins not, what need you borrow a cloak; and if it should rain, how can I myself be without it.   

Q. what said the Lady to her son that was a great gamester, when she was likely to be drowned?  
A. Son said she, for your part you can swim, but if I am drowned to day, pray thee play not away my clothes till I am buried.   

Q. who are those that are near the Suns rising, and see the first day, yet themselves are of the colour of the night?  
A. The Ethiopians.   

Q. why are children oftener like their fathers then their mothers?  
A. To give a modest reason, it proceeds from the imagination of the mothers, that at such a time, thinks of the disposition of the father.   

Q. what do the eyes chief betray?  
A. Those things which a man would keep most secret, Love and Drunkenness.   

Q. From whence is derived the power of feeling?  
A. It spreads itself through every part by Sinews, which descend from the hand to the foot, and like a net spreads over the whole body.   

Q. what thing is that which being blind itself, leads the blind, and bears him that bears it?  
A. A staff.   

Q. why is the flesh of the lungs white?  
A. Because they are in continual motion.   

Q. what is an idle magistrate like?  
A. The picture of Saint George on a signpost, with his sword drawn to no purpose.   

Q. what may be said of him that speaks great Gunpowder words?  
A. That he hath a timpany in his mouth.   

Q. what are lovers oaths like?  
A. Mariners prayers, that last no longer than the storm.   

Q. what may a Musician be compared unto?  
A. To a Chameleon that lives by the air.   

Q. why doth a Knight take place of a Gentleman?  
A. Because some are Knights before they are Gentlemen.   

Q. what is a domineering fellow to be compared unto?  
A. A gingling spur, that keeps a noise but never pricks.   

Q. what is the reason that captain Bulmur could not make his boat leap out of the water, and fly over London Bridge?  
A. Because the people could not believe.   

Q. what did the fellow near Doctor's Commons do that sent his wife for salt?  
A. He eat up the quarter of lamb before she came, for which he is called lamb without salt.   

Q. what was Jeffry's the Queen's little dwarf's usual hiding place?  
A, In Parsons the King's great porters fob.   

Q. why are Tailors like woodcocks?  
A. Because they live by their long bills.   

Q. why is it dangerous to abuse a Physician?  
A. Because if he once have to do with a man, he will make him stink.   

Q. why are Players like to poor Philosophers?  
A. Because they are as well contented with their rags, as when they are in their richest robes.   

Q. why are great eaters the most valiant men?  
A. Because they never fight but with a good stomach.   

Q. what are Horse-keepers and Oastlers, though the times are never so mutual?  
A. Stable-men.   

Q. why are Fiddlers so unfortunate?  
A. For that they never do any thing, but it is against the hair.   

Q. why are Scriveners hard hearted fellows?  
A. Because they rejoice when they get other men into bonds.   

Q. why is a miller the fittest husband for a scold?  
A. Because when the mill goes, her tongue cannot be heard.   

Q. what may be said of one that speaketh hard words?  
A. That he hath swallowed a Doctor of Physic's bill.   

Q. why are Glasiers good Arbitrators?  
A. Because they spend their whole time in composing of quarrels.   

Q. Why is it unlikely that Sailors should be rich men?  
A. Because they are never so well pleased, as when they go down the wind.   

Qu. Of all knaves, why is there greatest hope of a Cobbler?  
A. Though he be never so idle a fellow, he is still mending.   

Q. Why is a Hangman a person of a contemplative profession?  
A. Because he never goes to work, but he is put in mind of his own end.   

Q. Why is a Tooth-drawer a kind of an unconscionable trade?  
A. Because he takes away those things, by which every man gets his living.   

Q. Why is it not proper to call a Tapster a Drawer?  
A. Because beer only makes men piss, but it is wine that makes them draw.   

Q. Why is a Barber said to be such an active fellow?  
A. Because when he uses his comb, he doth so box one about the ears.   

Q. Why are there so many Pickpockets in every corner, though there be, for the most part, a watch in every Street?  
A. It is all one for that, for a Pickpocket had as live meet with a watch, as any thing else.   

Q. Why are Tobacco-Shops of all other places most dangerous?  
A. Because there is none ever frequented them, but he smoked for it.   

Q. Why is a Midwife's trade of all others most commendable?  
A. Because they lived not by the hurt of others, as Chirurgeons do, nor by the falling out of Friends as Lawyers do, but by the agreement betwixt party and party.   

Q. Why do Lawyers Clerks writ such wide hands?  
A. To keep the peace, for if the Plaintiff should be in one leaf, and the Defendant in another, the lines being too near, they might perhaps fall together by the ears.   

Q. why must an Apothecary's shop needs be healthful?  
A. Because the windows, boxes, benches, and all things in the shop take Physic.   

Q. what may an Antiquary be compared unto?  
A. To a Dutch man, that loves cheese for being wormeaten and mouldy.   

Q. One drinking of a cup of  Claret, said that he was not able to let it down, another asked him why?  
A. He answered, because it was red hot.   

Q. One seeing a man and his wife fight, asked another why he did not part them?  
A. He answered, he was better bred then to part man and wife.   

Q. why is it necessary for women to learn a Roman hand?  
A. Because they are seldom very good Secretaries.   

Q. One saying that it was a fine quality for one to speak extempore.  
A. Another answered, it was no such fine quality, for every inconsiderate Sectarist did it.   

Q. Why is one squinteyed most circumspect of all others?  
A. Because he can look nine ways at once.   

Q. why is corn a quarrelsome creature?  
A. Because it rises by the blade, and falls by the ears with those that cut it.   

Q. what may a Middlesex- man be called?  
A. An Hermaphrodite, because he is of both sexes.   

Q. why have Hosts red noses?  
A. To show the world an experiment of the virtue of what they sold.   

Q. A Gentlewoman that was always jealous of Latin, hearing one say bona mulier?  
A. That for bona, she knew that was good, but I will pawn myself on it, the other word says she, means that which is stark nought.   

Q. The people wondering at the Eclipse of the Sun?  
A. One that stood by told them that it only burnt dim, and that Phoebus was snuffing of it.   

Q. What did the fellow to his wife, that said she was neither sick nor well?  
A. He turned her out of doors, for said he, Hussie I am only bound to keep you in sickness or in health.   

Q. One told a gentleman that went by water, that his cloak burnt?  
A. I knew that, said the gentleman, and therefore I put it into the water.   

Q. A Wit meeting of a Usurer, desired him to lend him some money, Sir, said the Usurer, I do not know you?  
A. Therefore I ask you, says he, for they that know me will not lend me a farthing.   

Q. One saying that he was sorrowful, that such a Venison Pastry was eaten?  
A. His friend replied, if he pleased, he would write an Epitaph on it.   

Q. One asked in which part of the house a gentlewoman did use to lie?  
A. Answer was made that she lay backwards, and did let out her fore rooms,   

Q. One asked a pretty wench that came out of the country in her linsie woolsie petticoats, very mean in habit, when he saw her not long after in the Strand mighty brave, how she purchased such ?  
A. Faith, said she, only for the taking up.   

Q. One ask another what Superscription he had best write to his Mistress on his letter, was told, Venus' Lass of his affections?  
A. No by troth, not I said he, she shall be styled as I think she, is, Venice glass of my affections.   

Qu. One asked what was the first commodity a young shop keeper would put off.  
A. Another answered his honesty.   

Q. One asked why men should think there was a world in the moon?  
A. Answer was made, because they are Lunatic.   

Q. what reply did he make to the Physician, that said that his liver was nought?  
A. Qualis vita, fuit ita,   

Q. why are women like a piece of Grogram?  
A. Because they are always fretting.   

Q. One being asked what country man a Plough man was?  
A. Was answered an Hungarian.   

Q. One ask a Poet where his wits were?  
A. Another that stood by, answered, they were a woolgathering, for said he, no people have more need of it.   

Q. One said he was so tender hearted, that he could not abide to kill a louse?  
A. Another replied, because he was too cowardly to see his own blood.   

Q. One persuaded another, because she was rich, to marry a whore, saying, it was not too late for her to turn?  
A. A Pox on her, says the other, she hath been so much worn, it is to no purpose, she is past turning.   

Q. What said the Gentleman to the Citizen that with his hat in his hand began a health to all the cuckolds in the world?  
A. Sir, says he, be covered, what do you mean, pray be pleased to remember yourself.   

Q. How did Phil. Porter rid himself and his company of the Fiddlers?  
A. He caused one of his Comrades to snip off a piece of his ear, and drinking off a beer-glass to the music, swore every one of them should follow his example.     

Wit and Language.  
Set Forms of Expression inserted for imitation.  

A Kiss is but a minute's joy.  
Your words are Delphian oracles.  
Your wit hath too much edge.  
I am a castaway in love.  
You are a flame of beauty.  
Sweet and delicious as the feast of love.  
Sweet as the breath of lutes, or loves deliciousness.  
I, like a child, will go by your directions.  
You are the rising sun which I adore.  
It is a confidence that well becomes you.  
I see your wit is as nimble as your tongue.  
Your favours I did taste in great abundance.  
Let me but touch the white pillows of your naked breasts.  
Your words like music please me.  
I prise your love above all the gold in wealthy Indies arms.  
I'll play at kisses with you.  
Give me a naked Lady in a net of gold.  
Your fingers are made to quaver on a lute, your arms to hang about a lady's neck.  
Your tongue is oiled with courtly flatteries.  
You gild my praises far above my deserts.  
My boldness wants excuse.  
Reward stays for you.  
I'll pay the tribute of my love to you.  
Welcome, as light to day, as health to sick men.  
Let me share your thoughts.  
Let men that hope to be beloved be bold.  
You have a face where all good seems to dwell.  
My duty binds me to obey you ever.  
I sacrifice to you the incense of my thanks.  
You wear a snowy livery.  
I will repay your love with usury.  
Virtue go with you.  
You are the star I reach at.  
I am engaged to business craves some speed.  
You speak the courtier's dialect.  
Inherit your desires.  
You are my counsels consistory.  
Your title far exceeds my worth.  
I'll bathe my lips in rosy dews of kisses.  
I wear you in my heart.  
You are the miracle of friendship.  
You are the usurer of fame.  
My genius and yours are friends.  
I will unrip my very bosom to you.  
My tongue speaks the freedom of my heart.  
Give me leave to waken your memory.  
Of late you are turned a parasite.  
With your Ambrosiac kisses bathe my lips.  
Sure winter dwells upon your lip, the snow is not more cold.  
Mine eyes have feasted on your beauteous face.  
Your favours have fallen like the dew upon me.  
Oh! I shall rob you of too much sweetness.  
You have the power to sway me as you please.  
Your goodness wants a precedent.  
Your acceptance shall be my recompense.  
The Sun never met the Summer with more joy.  
You wrap me up in wonder.  
You temporize with sorrow▪ mine's sincere.  
You have made me sick with passion.  
Oh! suit your pity with your infinite beauty.  
There is no treasure on earth like her.  
Your breath casts sweet perfumes.  
Goodness and virtue are your near acquaintance.  
You understand not the language of my intent.  
My entertainment hath confirmed my welcome.  
Your words have charmed my soul.  
Make me companion of your cares.  
I want no part of welcome but your wished presence.  
It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips.  
I am proud to please you.  
By you, like your shade, I'll ever dwell.  
The unblown rose, the crystal, nor the diamond, are not more pure than she,  
I'll chronicle your virtues.  
As white as innocence itself.  
As constant as the needle to the adamant.  
You are the only anchor of my hopes.  
I am as mute as night.  
Women are angels clad in flesh.  
My arms shall be your sanctuary.  
You, like a comet, do attract all eyes.  
As kind as the Sun to the new born Spring,  
As glorious as the noon-tide Sun.  
Your eyes are orbs of stars.  
You make my faith to stagger.  
You are too much an adamant.  
As you have virtue speak it.  
You are a noble giver.  
Let me seal my vowed faith on your lips.  
It is a paradise enjoying you.  
You are a white enchantress, Lady, you can enchain me with a smile.  
I have no faculty which is not yours.  
You are full of fair desert.  
Your purse is my Exchequer.  
Your example steers me.  
Her name, like some celestial fire quickens my spirit.  
You cannot tempt me Siren.  
Let me perish in your presence.  
Your love outstrips my merit.  
Your compliments call your faith in question.  
My wish requites you.  
Midnight would blush at this.  
There's music in her smiles.  
The ocean's not more boundless than your favours.  
I'll lodge you in my bosom, and wear you in my heart.  
It is the blessing of my fate.  
Fire quickens my spirits.  
Your presence is restorative.  
Your language is more dubious than an Oracle.  
Your heart's like pebble, smooth but stony.  
Passion, like midnight, sits upon your thoughts.  
Her swanlike breasts more white then new fallen snow.  
Confirm me in your favour with a smile.  
Welcome as Manna to my hungry soul.  
She is the glory of her sex, she bears the palm of beauty from them all.  
Others to her seem like the glimmering stars compared to the full moon.  
I'll pay the last tribute of my lips to your fair hands.  
The music of the spheres is not so ravishing as her voice.  
Report could never have got a sweeter air to fly in, than your breast.  
You have the power to steer me as you please  
'Tis my duty to obey your fair commands.  
You are the only person I have ambition to honour.  
Pray point me out some service to express my gratitude.  
I know you are all courtship.  
You are liberal in language.  
Her breath perfumes the air.  
You embrace the occasion to departed.  
You are the partner of my hopes.  
You are all worth, all bounty.  
She is a mine of beauty.  
I'll like your shade pursue you.  
You have discoursed me into admiration.  
You have a soul is full of gratitude.  
This kiss seals my repentance.  
Your fight gives me a lease of longer life.  
Let me now circle in my arms all happiness.  
Let me be bold to claim your noble promise, my blood heaves in my veins to be in action.  
'Tis happiness enough that you have mentioned it.  
She hath an easy melting lip, and a speaking eye.  
I must enrol you in the catalogue of my dearest friends.  
Trust not the unruly appetite of youth that pines in more than wishes.  
You walk in artificial clouds, and bathe your silken limbs in wanton dalliance.  
Farewell fair regent of my soul, you still oblige my gratitude.  
The sight of loves on both sides, they send amorous glances from one another's eyes.  
The blessings of your Mistress fall upon you.  
Would I were secretary to your thoughts.  
My best abilities of power are at your service.  
A maiden head is a creature got in the eye, conceived in a kiss,  
I have no shift of faces, no cloven tongue.  
I am not Oedipus enough to understand you, I am wrapped with wonder.  
I have a strong assurance of your virtue.  
Trouble me not with thanks, left I endeavour not to merit any.  
I'll rather doubt an Oracle, than question what you deliver.  
You may teach Hermes eloquence.  
My want of power to satisfy so great a debt, makes me accuse my fortunes.  
Your bounty, like a new Spring, hath renewed the Autumn of my years.  
I will not war with Eloquence.  
You are Fortune's minion, you sleep in her bosom.  
Such endearments will too much impoverish my gratitude.  
Take me into your bosom, and hid me there.  
Not the mountain ice congealed to crystal is more chaste than she.  
I'll celebrate my Mistress health to you.  
I ever held you my best example.  
I'll like the perfumed wind sport with your hair.  
You may challenge all my powers on your behalf.  
All valour is confined in within your breast, I emulate your daring spirit.  
You overcharge me with so great a favour, as your descending thus to visit me.  
I should do wrong to merit not to honour you.  
As loved as the air I breathe.  
You are the friend of Fortune.  
All the days good attend you.  
You cast your eyes too much upon the flame moves your destruction.  
I'll be as just to you as heaven to truth,  
You'll set the aspiring Catiline to school.  
You are as amorous as youthful May.  
I yield myself to your direction, manage me at your pleasure.  
I listened for that string, and your discourse hath touched it.  
You have sucked the milk of the court.  
I will out-wait a Sergeant to attend you.  
You set too high a price on my poor deservings.  
The virtues of your mind would force a Stoic to be your Servant.  
You have fired me with the heat of your deservings.  
You are the star by whom my fate is led.  
Her eyes are diamonds set in purest gold.  
The very air is ravished with her touch.  
I cannot speak your praise.  
You are the soul of goodness.  
You may as you please determine of me.  
You are the star that rules my faculties  
Her breath is like the smoke of spices.  
She whispers like the amorous lute.  
My desires equal your wishes.  
You have outstripped me in the race of Honor.  
No service more than reciprocal.  
I cannot pass you without an Ave.  
Your noble deeds transcends all precedents.  
It is an honour and so I do receive it.    

Select Sentences.  

WHosoever writes a modern History, and follows truth too near the heels, may chance have his teeth struck out.  
The dignity of truth is lost in much protesting.  
No Hell so low, which lust and women cannot lead unto.  
The world is a theatre of theft, great rivers, small brooks, and they the ocean.  
True love is a servant, brutish lust a tyrant.  
Duty must not assume the name of merit.  
Unequal marriage is not love but lust.  
Revenge is lost, if men profess they hate.  
Mischief doth ever end where it gins.  
Where distaste gins, there friendship ends.  
When a woman hath lost her chastity, she hath no more to lose.  
Too much indulgence is not love but hate.  
Reason is the mistress of experience.  
Nothing is hard to them that dare to die.  
He is next in right that hath the strongest power.  
Blind is the censure of uncertainties.  
Time wears out what art and nature cannot bring about.  
Great sorrow is always dumb.  
Women are like to Venice-glasses, one crack spoils them.  
Discretion is the better part of valour.  
The man that would have sold the lion's skin whilst the beast lived, was killed with hunting of him.  
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks.  
Hope is a bate, it covers any hook.  
Libels are stifled with taking no notice of them.  
Good wits are greatest in extremity.  
Mischiefs feed like beasts till they be fat, and then they bleed.  
The worst deeds are made good with good success.  
Invocation is more dangerous than error.  
A Politician must, like lightning, melt the marrow but not pierce the skin.  
An old husband is good to make a screen of, to stand next the fire, whilst his young wife sits behind him, and keeps a Friend's lips warm.  
Virgin's resolves are weak.  
Envy stands on tiptoe to pull down innocence.  
When lust is up, all women are alike.  
Love is the sovereign virtue of the soul.  
The dawn of midnight is the drunkard's noon.  
Suspicion always hath a ready tongue.  
The sun that sets, doth rise again.  
All faults are still bore that from greatness grows.  
The feast of marriage is not lust but love.  
Love is a slave to hope.    

A DICTIONARY FOR The more expeditious finding out of any Rhyme, being useful for that pleasing Pass-time called CRAMBO.  
Ab. 


STab  
Scab  
drab  
slab  
crab  
mab  
blab  
dab    Ace. Ascanio 


uncase  
case  
dace  
lace  
place  
mace  
face  
trace  
base  
brace  
grace  
bebase  
chase  
race  
embrace  
beface  
surface  
enchase  
pace  
apace  
space    Aze. Eyes. Ays. 


allays.  
bays  
bewrays  
blaze  
day's  
delays  
decays  
frays  
glaze  
gaze  
graze  
jays  
keys  
maze  
amaze  
obeys  
plays  
pays  
prays  
praise  
rays  
raze  
lays  
to laze  
raise  
slays  
stays  
assays  
essays  
sprays  
splays  
sways  
brays  
strays  
trays  
betrays  
ways    Ack. 


almanac  
black  
back  
tract  
jack  
knack  
brack  
clack  
crack  
lack  
hack  
pack  
quack  
rack  
attack  
sack  
smack  
stack  
slack  
thwack  
tack  
tract  
wrack    Act. 


act  
fact  
compact  
bact  
tract  
pact  
quact  
jact  
cracked  
racked  
sacked  
thwacked    Ad. 


add  
mad  
glad  
dad  
bade  
clad  
dad  
gad  
pad  
had  
lad  
sad  
swad    Ade. Aid. 


aid  
afraid  
blade  
brayed  
dismayed  
fade  
jade  
laid  
allayed  
delayed  
made  
maid  
played  
paid  
prayed  
arrayed  
stayed  
stayed  
shade  
bewrayed  
unstaid  
spade  
splayed  
strayed  
persuade  
dissuade  
trade  
weighed  
wade  
obeyed  
decayed    Of 


chaff  
draff  
laugh  
quaff  
staff  
epitaph    Afe 


safe  
Ralph  
chafe  
half  
calf    Aft 


aft  
chafed  
craft  
daft  
haft  
graft  
laughed  
quaffed  
shaft  
waft    Agg 


brag  
bag  
cagg  
crag  
clagg  
drag  
flag  
shagg  
fag  
hag  
jagg  
lag  
magg  
nag  
rag  
quagg  
stag  
wag  
to wag    Ague 


plague  
prague    Age 


age  
engage  
gage  
cage  
stage  
parentage  
pilgrimage  
pupilage  
page  
rage  
assuage  
sage  
wage    Adge 


badge  
fadge  
madge    Ai. Ay. 


aye  
bay  
obey  
defray  
delay  
decay  
bewray  
clay  
array  
dismay  
allay  
trey  
gay  
grey  
hay  
jay  
lay  
may  
nay  
play  
pray  
dray  
ray  
slay  
say  
stay  
splay  
spray  
stray  
sway  
trey  
way  
whey    Ake. 


ache  
bake  
brake  
cake  
drake  
slake  
jake  
make  
mistake  
quake  
rake  
sake  
shake  
slake  
spoke  
stake  
awake  
betake  
undertake    Ale. Ail 


avail  
ail  
ale  
bale  
bewail  
dale  
engrail  
exhale  
flail  
entail  
fail  
frail  
gale  
goal  
nail  
all hail  
male  
mail  
nail  
pale  
prevail  
pail  
quail  
rail  
stolen  
sale  
scale  
shall  
retail  
trail  
rail  
tail  
vale  
vail  
wail  
whale    All. Aule. 


all  
appall  
awl  
ball  
brawl  
call  
call  
crawl  
fall  
gall  
hall  
mawl  
Paul  
palls  
small  
shall  
stall  
sprawl  
spawl  
tall  
thrall  
wail  
yawl    Ald 


balld  
embrawld  
called  
crawled  
enthralld  
galld  
mauled  
scauld  
sprawld  
besprawld  
scalded  
walled  
yawld    Ailed. 


bailed  
bewailed  
failed  
engraild  
retailed  
hailed  
hauled  
exhaled  
nailed  
empaild  
prevailed  
ralld  
sailed  
scald  
retayld  
trayld  
veiled    Alk. 


balk  
chalk  
calk  
stalk  
talk  
walk    Alm. 


alm  
balm  
calm  
palm  
psalm  
qualm  
shalm    Als. 


alice  
malice    Alt. 


inalt  
exalt  
halt  
malt  
pelt  
salt  
shalt  
fault  
revolt    Am. 


am  
clam  
cram  
cham  
dam  
dram  
flame  
flim-flam  
lamb  
ram  
ram  
mam  
slam  
whimwham    Ame. 


ame  
blame  
came  
claim  
dame  
frame  
flame  
fame  
game  
lame  
mame  
name  
same  
shame  
tame    An. 


Ann  
began  
ban  
bran  
can  
clan  
can  
dan  
randan  
fan  
man  
unman  
nan  
pan  
paun  
raun  
span  
scan  
swan  
tan  
van  
wan  
won    Ance. 


advance  
chance  
countenance  
dance  
deliance  
deliverance  
trance  
glance  
enhance  
ignorance  
lance  
prance  
maintenance  
perchance  
balance  
governance    And. 


and  
band  
brand  
over-cand  
tanned  
grand  
command  
hand  
land  
manned  
stand  
withstand  
understand  
scanned  
strand  
stand  
spanned  
tanned  
wand    Ain 


abstain  
again  
bain  
brain  
blain  
Cain  
cane  
crain  
contain  
drain  
ordain  
constrain  
disdain  
dane  
complain  
counterpan  
entertain  
fain  
fane  
distrain  
profane  
grain  
gain  
Jane  
lane  
main  
maintain  
plain  
pain  
obtain  
regain  
reign  
slain  
sustain  
retain  
rain  
slain  
Spain  
sprain  
stain  
swain  
restrain  
train  
vain  
vain  
vein  
wain    Amp. 


cramp  
camp  
champ  
damp  
lamp  
stamp  
ramp  
vamp    Anch. 


planch  
branch  
crunch  
haunch  
launch  
staunch    Ang. 


bang  
fang  
gang  
hang  
pang  
sang  
rang  
sprung  
stang  
tang  
twang  
brang    Ange. 


change  
exchange  
grange  
mange  
strange  
range  
estrange    Ank. 


Mountebank  
bank  
blank  
crank  
drank  
dank  
flank  
frank  
frank  
lank  
rank  
stank  
prank  
plank  
shrank  
shank  
slank  
thank    Ant. 


antony's  
aunt  
daunt  
flaunt  
gaunt  
grant  
haunt  
want  
pant  
scant  
tant  
vaunt  
want  
recant  
enchant    Aint. 


acquaint  
faint  
complaint  
pain  
Saint    Ap. 


cap  
clap  
chap  
flap  
gap  
hap  
lap  
map  
xap  
pap  
vap  
stap  
snap  
swap  
scrap  
strap  
thunderclap  
trap  
tap  
entrap  
wrapped    Ape. 


ape  
gape  
grape  
jape  
cape  
nape  
rape  
shape  
scrape  
scape  
escape  
tape    Aps 


caps  
claps, etc.  
relapse    Apt 


apt  
chapped  
clapped  
flapt  
gaped  
leapt  
rapt  
wrapped  
escaped  
scraped  
shaped  
swapped  
entrapped  
snapped  
slapt  
strapt    Ar. 


are  
bar  
car  
sar  
tar  
mar  
scar  
spar  
star  
far  
war    Are. 


air  
bare  
care  
chair  
dare  
fair  
glair  
hair  
mair  
impair  
despair  
repair  
prepare  
scare  
pair  
prayer  
rare  
share  
stare  
spare  
square  
swear  
ensnare  
ware  
ware    Arb. 


barb  
garb  
herb  
orb    Arch. 


arch  
march  
starch  
parch  
torch  
search    Ard. 


award  
bard  
debarred  
card  
discard  
dared  
outdard  
hard  
guard  
heard  
marred  
nard  
pard  
ensnared  
despaired  
scared  
shared  
spared  
squared  
stared  
starrd  
reward  
yard    Arf. 


dwarf  
scarf  
wharf    Arge 


barge  
charge  
discharge  
enlarge  
large  
serge  
verge    Ark 


ark  
bark  
embark  
cark  
dark  
clerk  
hark  
jeark  
lark  
mark  
park  
querk  
spark  
sark  
chark  
stark    Arle. 


earl  
churl  
marl  
snarl    Arm 


arm  
disarm  
barm  
charm  
farm  
to farm  
harm  
alarm  
sparm  
swarm  
term  
warm    Arn. 


barn  
fern  
learn  
stern  
warn  
forwarn  
yarn    Arp. 


carp  
chirp  
harp  
querp  
sharp  
warp    Arrs. 


bars  
cars  
dares  
fares    Ars. 


ars  
farce  
scarce  
Mars    Arsh. 


harsh  
marsh    As. 


ass  
brass  
ass  
class  
glass  
grass  
lass  
mass  
pass  
was  
repass  
alas    Art. 


art  
cart  
dart  
fart  
heart  
hart  
mart  
part  
impart  
departed  
puart  
start  
smart  
tart  
thwart  
wart    Arth. 


swarth  
earth  
girth  
hearth  
dearth    Ash. 


ash  
cash  
clash  
crash  
dash  
flash  
gash  
gnash  
mash  
plash  
quash  
rash  
slash  
swash  
stash  
trash  
thrash  
wash    Ask 


ask  
bask  
cask  
flask  
mask  
mask  
pask  
task    To these belong 


masquer  
masker  
mask her  
tasker  
ask her    Asp 


asp  
clasp  
gasp  
grasp  
hasp  
rasp  
wasp  
unhasp    Ast. 


blast  
baste  
cast  
chaste  
enchased  
fast  
too fast  
aghast  
haste  
hast  
last  
mast  
past  
paced  
taste  
was't  
waste    At. 


at  
bat  
cat  
chat  
fat  
hat  
gnat  
bagat  
flat  
mat  
pat  
sat  
rat  
squat  
that  
what    Ate. 


abate  
bate  
debate  
delicate  
elevate  
date  
to date  
fate  
gate  
grate  
to grate  
ingrate  
hate  
Kate  
late  
relate  
elate  
mate  
inmate  
plate  
pate  
conservate  
consecrate  
contaminate  
slate  
state  
to state  
straight  
wait    Atch. 


batch  
catch  
cratch  
hatch  
dispatch  
latch  
match  
to match  
patch  
scratch  
smatch  
snatch  
thatch  
watch    Ath 


bath  
faith  
hath  
lath  
path  
rath  
swath  
saith  
wrath    Ave. 


brave  
cave  
crave  
drove  
gave  
grave  
have  
knave  
lave  
nave  
pave  
save  
rave  
shave  
slave  
stave  
thrave  
wave    Aw. 


awe  
claw  
daw  
draw  
withdraw  
flaw  
jaw  
law  
gnaw  
maw  
paw  
raw  
saw  
foresaw  
spa  
straw  
thaw    Awed. 


bawd  
clawed  
dawd  
fraud  
defraud  
laud  
applaud  
thawd  
gnawed  
abroad  
broad    Awn. 


brawn  
dawn  
drawn  
withdrawn  
fawn  
spawn  
gnawn  
lawn  
spawn  
prawn  
pawn  
yawn    Ax. 


axe  
flax  
lax  
tax  
wax    Ea. 


flea  
key  
plea  
sea  
yea    Ease. 


seize  
decease  
decrease  
increase  
flease  
grease  
lease  
peace  
pease  
please  
seas  
seize  
disleize  
tease  
these    Each. 


each  
beach  
bleach  
breach  
leech  
impeach  
preach  
reach  
teach    Ead. 


bed  
bread  
flayed  
glead  
knead  
lead  
mead  
plead  
read  
shed    Eaf. 


deaf  
leaf  
sheaf    Eak. 


beak  
bleak  
break  
creak  
freak  
leak  
peak  
sneak  
squeak  
streak  
weak  
reek    Eal. 


peal  
heal  
congeal  
meal  
peal  
steal  
squeal  
sweal  
reveal  
teal  
weal  
Commonweal  
wheal  
zeal    Eam. 


beam  
bream  
cream  
dream  
fleam  
ream  
gleam  
seam  
scream  
stream  
theme  
team  
extreme    Ean. 


bean  
clean  
dean  
glean  
lean  
mean  
quean  
skean  
wean  
yean    Eap. 


cheap  
heap  
leap  
reap    Ear. 


appear  
ear  
bear  
blear  
besmear  
cheer  
fear  
flear  
lear  
rear  
sphere  
spear  
swear  
were  
wear  
where    East. 


beast  
breast  
deceased  
east  
feast  
least  
nest    Eat. 


beat  
bleat  
deceit  
conceit  
cheat  
feat  
defeat  
great  
heat  
jet  
meat  
neat  
pleat  
seat  
sweat  
theat  
teat  
retreat  
entreat  
repeat  
wheat    Eath. 


breath  
death  
heath  
sheath  
wreath    Eve. 


eve  
cleave  
deceive  
receive  
heave  
leave  
bereave  
sleeve  
wove    Eb. 


neb  
web  
ebb    Eck. 


beck  
check  
deck  
neck  
peck  
spick  
to deck    Ect. 


checked  
reflect  
reject  
respect  
decked  
correct  
erect  
eject  
sect  
neglect  
pect  
circumspect  
protect  
detect  
recollect  
deject  
infect  
architect  
dialect  
infect    Ed. 


bed  
bled  
bread  
bred  
dead  
dread  
fed  
fled  
flayed  
led  
ned  
red  
overspread  
shed  
sped  
stead  
shred  
thread  
tread  
wed  
enamoured  
enameled  
polished    Edge. 


allege  
edge  
hedge  
pledge  
ledge  
wedge  
privilege    Ee 


be  
decree  
dee  
ce  
fee  
glee  
agree  
degree  
free  
flee  
gee  
he  
knee  
lee  
me  
pee  
ree  
see  
she  
thee  
three  
tree  
we  
ye  
immortality  
deity  
divinity  
everlastingly  
lovingly  
enmity  
vanity, etc.    Eece. 


geese  
Greece  
fleece  
piece    Eeze. 


cheese  
degrees  
decrees  
frees  
bees  
freeze  
knees  
lees  
sees  
squeeze  
trees  
wheeze    Eke. 


breach  
breech  
leech  
speech  
beseech    Eed. 


bleed  
breed  
decreed  
deed  
freed  
feed  
feed  
agreed  
heed  
meed  
need  
seed  
speed  
weed  
read  
reed    Eef. 


beef  
brief  
chief  
grief  
relief  
thief    Eck 


cheek  
creek  
eke  
gleek  
greek  
leek  
meek  
seek  
shriek  
sleek  
squeak  
week    Eel. 


eel  
feel  
heel  
keel  
kneel  
peel  
reel  
we'll    Eem. 


deem  
seem  
esteem  
redeem  
beseem  
teem    E'en. 


seen  
green  
keen  
queen  
seen  
screen  
spleen  
ween  
over ween    Eep 


creep  
deep  
keep  
peep  
sheep  
sleep  
steep  
sweep  
weep    Eeed 


beet  
be't  
fleet  
crete  
feet  
greet  
meet  
Leet  
sheet  
see't  
street  
sweet    Eeths 


seethe  
teeth    Eev 


beeve  
achieve  
cleave  
grieve  
deceive  
conceive  
relieve  
believe  
reprieve  
shrieve    Eft 


cleft  
deft  
left  
bereft    Eglantine 


beg  
dreg  
leg  
meg  
peg    El 


bell  
rebel  
cell  
dwell  
fell  
ell  
Hell  
knell  
nel  
repel  
expel  
refel  
compel  
quell  
sell  
tell  
shell  
smell  
spell  
swell  
well  
yell  
citadel  
Nathaniel  
spaniel  
Daniel    Elder 


field  
geld  
held  
quelled  
rebelld  
expelld  
spelled  
swelled  
commpelld  
repelld  
seld    Eild. 


field  
shield  
yield  
wield  
guild  
build    Elch. 


belch  
squelch  
welsh  
filch    Elf. 


delf  
pelf  
elf  
self  
shelf    Elm 


elm  
whelm  
overwhelm  
film  
helm  
realm    Elt, 


belt  
dealt  
dwelled  
felt  
smelled  
gelt  
melt  
pelt  
spelt  
welt    Ealth. 


health  
stealth  
wealth    Elve 


delve  
shelve    Em. 


condemn  
gem  
hem  
comb  
stem    En. 


Ben  
den  
fen  
ken  
hen  
when  
men  
pen  
ten  
then  
wren  
when    Ence. 


intense  
incense  
insense  
innocence  
conscience  
hence  
defence  
influence  
diligence  
negligence  
indigence  
offence  
sense  
excellence  
commence  
immense  
recompense  
expense  
eloquence  
circumference  
quintessence  
tense  
pretence  
whence  
thence    Ench. 


bench  
wench  
clench  
french  
quench  
drench  
trench  
stench  
wrench    End. 


amend  
bend  
blend  
comprehend  
condescend  
defend  
intent  
offend  
befriend  
apprehend  
reprehend  
lend  
commend  
extend  
expend  
rend  
spend  
dispend  
penned  
attend  
contend    Ength. 


strength.  
length    Ent. 


bend  
innocent  
ascent  
descent  
negligent  
indent  
repent  
indigent  
diligent  
Kent  
spent  
lent  
commandment  
argument  
meant  
shent  
sprent  
constraint  
restraint  
tent  
intent  
represent  
sent  
absent  
present  
consent  
descent  
resent  
merriment  
content  
extent  
attended  
Trent  
vent  
event  
invent  
circumvent  
underwent.    Ep. 


crep  
step  
leap    Ept. 


crept  
kept  
slept  
stepped  
swept    Er. 


her  
defer  
refer  
confer  
deter  
prefer  
inter  
foreiner  
loiterer  
poulterer  
pewterer, etc.    Erb. 


herb.  
verb    Erse. 


fierce  
hearse  
amerce  
pierce  
serce  
terse  
converse  
reverse  
verse  
scarce.    Erch. 


birch  
perch  
surch  
search    Eared. 


beard  
bird  
cheered  
endear  
feared  
fleerd  
herd  
heard  
unheard  
overheard  
jeered  
appeared  
sheard  
stirred  
besmeared    Erge. 


verge  
dirge    Erk. 


clerk  
firk  
jerk  
hark  
church  
perk  
querk  
smerk  
yerk    Earl. 


earl  
girl  
pearl  
twirl  
whirl    Erm. 


sperm  
term  
firm  
confirm  
affirm    Ern. 


concern  
discern  
earn  
darn  
fern  
stern  
girn  
yearn  
earn    Erp. 


chirp  
querp    Ears. Ers. 


bears  
cheers  
endears  
fears  
fleers  
jeers  
hers  
peers  
pears  
shears  
sears,  
spheres  
spear  
besmears  
fears  
besmears  
tears  
swears  
converse  
reverse  
adverse  
wears  
years  
refers  
defers  
differs  
confers  
prefers  
errs    Et. 


heart  
malapert  
pert  
skirt  
squirt  
shirt  
dert  
convert  
pervert  
assert  
desert  
insert  
invert  
divert    Erth. 


birth  
dearth  
mirth  
earth  
perth    Erve. 


carve  
preserve  
conserve  
deserve  
reserve  
swerve  
serve  
nerve    Ess 


bess  
bless  
excess  
confess  
chess  
address  
redress  
express  
guess  
jess  
less  
mess  
oppress  
repress  
digress  
ingress  
profess  
distress  
impress  
suppress  
yes.    Esh. 


flesh  
fresh    Est. 


best  
blest  
breast  
incest  
addressed  
redressed  
oppressed  
professed  
confessed  
expressed  
divest  
hest  
jest  
inest  
well guest  
ill guest  
lest  
nest  
depressed  
suppressed  
at least  
rest  
interest  
quest  
pressed  
distressed  
dressed  
best  
contest  
invest  
detest  
protest  
west  
assessest  
wrest    Et. 


bet  
counterfeit  
debt  
fret  
tet  
get  
let  
pet  
regret  
cabinet  
coverlet  
set  
wet  
whet  
yet  
spit    Etch. 


fetch  
stretch  
retch  
wretch  
bitch  
fetch    Ewe. 


adieu  
blue  
chew  
crew  
dew  
slew  
hue  
few  
knew  
true  
few  
show  
slew  
view  
yew    Ex. 


sex  
vex  
rex  
perplex    Ay 


key  
weigh  
whey    I 


I  
by  
buy  
bribery  
bitterly  
bodily  
cry  
curiosity  
calamity  
die  
deity  
dubiously  
dry  
divinity  
fie  
furiously  
fatally  
fatality  
fie  
fly  
fry  
guy  
high  
high  
lie  
lie    With all words ending in , as 


mutually  
heavenly, etc.  
my  
nigh  
pie  
comply  
reply  
imply  
prie  
rye  
sky  
sty    And many words ending sie and cy, as 


ecstasy  
omnipotency  
sty  
tie  
thigh  
thy  
try  
vie  
whey  
awrey    Ib 


bibb  
cribb  
gibb  
glib  
nib  
lib  
rib  
fibb  
snibb  
squibb  
tibb    Ibe 


bribe  
gibe  
prescribe  
proscribe  
describe  
scrib  
inscribe  
subscribe  
prescribe  
transcribe  
ascribe  
kibe  
tribe    Ice, Ice 


deities  
vanities  
monstrosities  
circumcise  
precise  
obscurities  
fallacities  
paradise  
advise  
edifice  
sacrifice  
demise  
eyes  
tries  
sties  
lies  
dies  
tries  
wise  
flies  
eternize  
immortallize  
fraternities  
disguise  
prize  
price  
comprise  
disguise  
tries  
tyrannize  
hies  
lice  
mice  
pies  
precipice  
plies  
thighs  
rice  
rise  
seize  
since  
devise  
villainies  
spice  
entice  
thrice  
twice  
dice  
vice  
advice  
wise  
simplicities  
ties, etc.    Ich 


itch  
rich  
which  
bitch  
dich    Ick 


brick  
obick  
dick  
quick  
prick  
flick  
rick  
sick  
pick  
stick  
tick  
strike  
trick  
bayliwick  
politic    Id 


bid  
child  
did  
hid  
kid  
amid  
stidd  
rid  
strid  
bestrid    I'd 


abide  
bride  
chide  
cried  
did  
dried  
crucified  
fryd  
glid  
decide  
hid  
replied  
relyd  
denied  
applied  
replied  
complyd  
implyd  
pride  
pied  
ride  
deride  
descried  
slide  
stride  
tied  
tied  
tried  
vied  
wide  
guide  
dignifyd  
aside  
allied  
espied  
provide    Idge 


abridge  
ridge  
flidge    Ife 


fife  
knife  
life  
rife  
strife  
wife    if 


cliff  
if  
stiff  
whiff    if'ft 


drift  
fift  
gift  
lift  
whift  
sift  
shift  
rift  
swift  
thrift    Ig 


big  
dig  
pig  
rig  
gigg  
fig  
lig  
trigg  
twig  
wigg  
perywigg    Ike 


dike  
pike  
like  
spike  
strike  
dislike    I'll 


bile  
reconcile  
crocodile  
defile  
i'll  
beguile  
mile  
nile  
compile  
revile  
smile  
stile  
file  
vile  
wile  
while    Ill 


bill  
i'll  
dill  
drill  
fill  
gill  
till  
spill  
mill  
nill  
pill  
kill  
quill  
rill  
shrill  
skill  
fulfil  
still  
swill  
till  
thill  
will    Ild. 


build  
filled  
fulfilld  
killed  
milld  
piled  
gild  
skilled  
distilled  
stilled  
swilled  
tilld  
untilld  
trilld  
willed  
self-willed    Ilde 


child  
defiled  
mild  
smiled  
reconciled  
compiled  
beguiled  
styled  
tiled  
wild    Ilk 


milk  
silk  
whilk    Ilt 


built  
milt  
guilt  
gilt  
quilt  
spilt  
tilt  
wilt    In 


brim  
dim  
gim  
him  
limb  
trimb  
rim  
skim  
swim    I'm 


chime  
crime  
grime  
lime  
prime  
time  
slime  
rhyme  
time    Imp 


imp  
limp  
pimp  
shrimp    In 


been  
been  
chin  
din  
fin  
inn  
in  
begin  
gin  
grin  
kin  
lin  
min  
pin  
shin  
spin  
thin  
tin  
twin  
win  
sin    Ine 


columbine  
combine  
concubine  
brine  
incline  
decline  
chine  
dine  
fine  
kine  
line  
mine  
design  
repine  
resign  
shine  
shrine  
swine  
vine  
wine  
valentine  
thine  
tine  
twine  
divine  
trine  
whine    Ince. 


prince  
mince  
since  
quince  
rinse  
convince  
wince    Inch 


finch  
inch  
binch  
winch    Ind 


friend  
grind  
pinned  
skinned  
spind    Ind 


blind  
bind  
inclined  
declined  
dined  
find,  
mind  
grind  
behind  
lined  
kind  
pined  
rind  
designed  
resigned  
twined  
wind  
whinde  
unkind  
combined  
enshrinde    Ing. 


bring  
cling  
ding  
fling  
hang  
king  
ling  
ring  
spring  
sting  
string  
swing  
thing  
wing  
flourishing  
nourishing  
easterling    Inge. 


cringe  
fringe  
hinge  
finge  
swinge  
revenge    Ink. 


blink  
brink  
cinque  
chink  
ink  
wink  
sink  
shrink  
slink  
link  
stink  
bethink  
twink    Int. 


dint  
flint  
hint  
lint  
mint  
splint  
squint  
stint  
imprint    Ip. 


chip  
clip  
dip  
hip  
lip  
nip  
pip  
quip  
rip  
ship  
skip  
slip  
strip  
tip  
trip  
whip    Ipe. 


gripe  
wipe  
pipe  
ripe  
snipe  
type  
tripe  
wipe    Ipt. 


chipped  
clipped  
dipped  
hipt  
quipt  
ripped  
sipped  
shipped  
skipped  
slipped  
snipt  
stripped  
tripped  
whipped    Ir. 


fir  
myrrh  
sir  
stir  
bestir    Ire. 


brier  
buyer  
crier  
dire  
dryer  
fire  
flire  
friar  
implyer  
ire  
higher  
add mire  
liar  
nigher  
choir  
desire  
expire  
aspire  
conspire  
Esquire  
retire  
attire  
friar  
wire    Irt. 


dirt  
gird  
shirt  
skirt  
squirt    Is. 


is  
bliss  
cis  
dis  
his  
kiss  
miss  
abiss  
piss  
swiss  
this  
wis    Ish. 


dish  
fish  
pish  
wish  
rush    Isk. 


brik  
frisk  
fisk  
whisk    Isp. 


crisp  
lisp  
whisp    Is't. 


desist  
exorcist  
fist  
grist  
kissed  
list  
missed  
twist  
insist  
assist  
resist  
consist  
persist    It. 


bitten  
chit  
hit  
it  
knit  
kit  
acquit  
sit  
spit  
shit  
slit  
split  
commit  
remit  
immit  
submit  
emit  
remit  
fit  
twit  
writ    Ite. 


by't  
bright  
dight  
light  
night  
sight  
knight  
fight  
delight  
mite  
might  
benight  
affright  
pight  
plight  
requite  
requisite  
upright  
opposite  
oversight  
shit  
smite  
spite  
excite  
spirit  
wight  
write  
white  
excite  
incite  
recite    Itch. 


bitch  
ditch  
breech  
fitch  
flitch  
rich  
switch  
twitch  
witch  
which    Ith. 


blithe  
lithe  
belith  
fith  
tith  
writh    Ive. 


dive  
drive  
five  
give  
hive  
live  
alive  
contrive  
connive  
deprive  
reprieve  
rive  
shrive  
slive  
strive  
thrive  
wive    Oe 


do  
dough  
toe  
forgo  
fro  
go  
lo  
moe  
no  
poe  
roe  
row  
so  
shoe  
show  
throw  
to  
though  
woe  
woo  
who    Obe 


globe  
Job  
robe    Oach 


bloach  
broach  
coach  
encroach  
reproach  
loach  
poach  
approach  
roche    Oad 


abode  
abode  
abroad  
goad  
load  
road  
toad  
trod  
yode    Oak 


oak  
broke  
choke  
cloak  
croak  
poke  
soak  
smoke  
spoke  
stroke  
invoke  
provoke  
revoke  
awoke  
yoke    Oale 


bowl  
coal  
dole  
toll  
goal  
hole  
mole  
pole  
sole  
soul  
shoal  
stole  
whole    Oam 


foam  
home  
comb  
roam  
tomb  
womb    Oan 


one  
bone  
cone  
drone  
flown  
gone  
groan  
hone  
Joan  
loan  
stone  
alone  
moan  
none  
rone  
shown  
tone  
throne  
own     


  
cope  
cope  
grope  
hope  
Pope  
rope  
scope  
soap  
slope  
trope    Oar 


oar  
o'er  
boar  
bore  
core  
door  
floor  
before  
adore  
glore  
gore  
store  
more  
hoar  
lore  
moor  
deplore  
implore  
poor  
poor  
roar  
sore  
soar  
score  
shore  
snore  
restore  
swore  
tore  
wore  
whore  
yore  
These rhyme all in their plural numbers.    Orse 


course  
horse  
hoarse  
source  
remorse  
gurse  
morse    Oard 


bored  
board  
accord  
afford  
record  
abhorred  
gored  
gored  
hoared  
hoard  
implored  
deplord  
poured  
roared  
soared  
snord  
sword  
whored  
word  
lord    Ob 


bob  
cob  
fob  
rob  
sob  
throb  
stob    Ock 


block  
brock  
cock  
clock  
dock  
flock  
frock  
knock  
lock  
smock  
mock  
pock  
rock  
stock  
shock  
sock  
hillock    Ockt. 


blocked  
cokt  
dockt  
flocked  
locked  
knocked  
mocked  
rocked  
stocked    Odd 


cod  
clod  
pod  
nod  
god  
rod  
odd  
sod  
tod  
trod    Odge 


dodge  
lodge    Off 


cough  
doff  
goff  
rough  
scoff  
trough  
enough    Oft 


coughed  
croft  
doffed  
oft  
soft  
loft  
aloft  
scoffed    Og 


brog  
clog  
dog  
frog  
cog  
pettifog  
gog  
hog  
log  
vog    Oll 


college  
Doll  
Moll  
goll  
loll  
pole  
roll  
scroll  
control  
toll    Old 


bold  
cold  
old  
fold  
controlled  
hold  
mould  
rolld  
sold  
scolld  
enrolld  
mould  
told  
controlled  
should    Olk. 


folk  
yolk  
stalk    Olt. 


bolt  
colt  
dolt  
revolt    Olve. 


involve  
wolve  
revolve    Om. 


come  
comb  
from  
some  
plum  
Tom  
womb  
whom    Omp. 


pomp  
romp    On. 


con  
don  
John  
upon  
none  
won    Once. 


sconce  
once    Ond. 


bond  
con  
donned  
pond  
strand  
enthrond  
bemond  
groaned    Ong. 


among  
long  
song  
string  
strong  
throng  
thong  
wrong  
young    Ont. 


wont  
font  
hellespont    Op. 


crop  
pop  
dop  
sop  
chop  
lop  
hop  
knop  
fop  
prop  
shop  
slop  
top  
stop    Opt. 


chopped  
lopped  
cropped  
hoped  
'dopt  
propped  
stopped  
topped    Or. 


dor  
for  
nor  
or    Ors. 


discourse  
concourse  
purse  
force  
horse  
source  
gorse  
remorse  
nurse    Erch, 


perch  
starch  
scorch  
torch    Orge, 


disgorge  
forge  
George  
scourge    Ork. 


cork  
fork  
pork  
stork  
work  
York    Orld. 


world  
hurled  
curled    Orm. 


form  
storm  
worm    Orn. 


born  
forborn  
corn  
horn  
ligorn  
forlorn  
morn  
mourn  
scorn  
shorn  
thorn  
sworn  
torn  
worn  
adorn    Ornd. 


scorned  
adorned  
mourned  
horned    Ort. 


court  
report  
for't  
sport  
resort  
dort  
alamort  
exhort  
dehort  
transport  
pourport  
sort  
short  
retort  
extort  
wort    Orth. 


worth  
forth    Os. 


imboss  
loss  
cross  
does  
gross  
gloss  
goss  
engross  
moss  
soss  
toss    Ose. 


chose  
closely  
enclose  
disclose  
propose  
gloze  
hose  
lose  
nose  
pose  
rose  
grows  
compose  
repose  
depose  
expose  
impose  
transpose  
those  
whose  
shoes  
shows  
glows    Oast. 


boast  
engrossed  
imboast  
cost  
crossed  
frost  
host  
lost  
most  
impost  
tossed    Ot. 


blot  
clot  
got  
grot  
Castriot  
hot  
jot  
philamot  
knot  
lot  
not  
pot  
plot  
mariot  
rot  
sot  
scot  
shot  
not  
snot  
spot  
trot  
wots    Oat. 


boat  
moat  
bloat  
coat  
float  
goat  
groat  
note  
denote  
oat  
quote  
stoat  
rote  
smoat  
throat  
wrote  
vote    Otch. 


botch  
scrotch  
notch    Oth. 


both  
broth  
cloth  
doth  
oath  
froth  
loath  
moth  
quoth  
sloth  
troth  
wroth    Ow. 


bough  
bow  
allow  
blow  
brow  
cow  
crow  
dow  
flow  
glow  
grow  
know  
how  
low  
mow  
now  
blow  
prow  
row  
sow  
bestow  
strew  
tow  
thou  
throw  
trow  
vow  
you    Own. 


blown  
known  
brown  
clown  
crown  
down  
drown  
flown  
frown  
gown  
known  
grown  
renown  
mown  
shown  
town  
thrown  
unknown    Ox. 


box  
fox  
pox  
ox    Oy. 


boy  
coy  
enjoy  
cloy  
destroy  
annoy  
joy  
employ  
toy    Oyd. 


avoid  
employed  
enjoyed  
destroyed  
annoyed  
cloyed  
void    Oil. 


boil  
broil  
recoil  
oil  
foil  
moil  
quoil  
soil  
spoil  
toil    Oin. 


foin  
groin  
enjoin  
conjoin  
rejoin  
purloin  
coin    Oint. 


oint  
appoint  
anoint  
disappoint  
unjoint    Oice. 


choice  
rejoice  
voice  
hoice  
poise    Oist. 


rejoiced  
voiced  
hoist  
foist  
coist    Ood. 


could  
food  
brood  
mood  
withstood  
stood  
good  
wood  
wooed  
hood  
blood  
rood  
could  
should    Oof. 


hoof  
aloof  
reproof  
roof  
scroof  
woof  
proof    Ook. 


brook  
book  
overtook  
mistake  
undertaken  
cook  
hook  
look  
shaken  
rook  
took    Ool. 


cool  
fool  
pool  
tool  
school  
stool    Oom. 


bloom  
broom  
coom  
doom  
groom  
loom  
Rome  
room  
tomb  
womb    Oon. 


boon  
moon  
noon  
spoon    Oop. 


droop  
hoop  
loop  
poop  
troop  
stoop  
whoop  
coop    Oose, 


lose  
noose  
goose    Oot. 


boot  
foot  
root  
shoot  
soot    Oath. 


sooth  
tooth  
truth  
youth    Ouch. 


couch  
pouch  
disavouch  
crouch  
slouch  
touch    Owd. 


bowed  
cloud  
crowd  
flowed  
glowd  
proud  
loud  
mowd  
shroud  
vowed  
endowd  
embowd    Owl. 


bowl  
cowl  
fowl  
towl  
howl  
jowl  
paul  
roll  
soul  
scroll  
control    Old. 


could  
should  
controlled  
would    Ound. 


abound  
redound  
confound  
rebound  
crowned  
drowned  
found  
frowned  
hound  
pound  
round  
sound  
stound  
wound  
renowned    Ounce. 


bounce  
flounce  
renounce  
plounce  
trounce    Ount. 


account  
recount  
surmount  
mount  
fount  
count    Our. 


bower  
flower  
four  
hour  
parumour  
lowr  
power  
conqueror  
power  
sower  
cowre  
tower  
tour  
devour  
impowre  
your    Ouse 


blouse  
house  
louse  
mouse  
rouse  
souse    Out. 


about  
out  
without  
throughout  
bought  
brought  
doubt  
lout  
clout  
drought  
flout  
fought  
gout  
naught  
pout  
rout  
snout  
sprought  
stout  
trout  
thought  
devout  
wrought  
taught  
thought    Outh. 


growth  
mouth  
south  
youth    Ove 


above  
clove  
love  
dove  
drove  
grove  
move  
approve  
reprove  
rove  
shove  
shrove  
stove  
strove    Vb. 


cub  
chub  
dub  
grub  
rub  
scrub  
stub  
shrub  
syllabub  
snub  
tub    Use 


abuse  
accuse  
excuse  
refuse  
choose  
recluse  
secluse  
cruse  
deuce  
diffuse  
confuse  
transfuse  
juice  
Jews  
luce  
muse  
news  
screws  
sluice  
spruce  
stews  
sues  
truce  
use    Uck 


buck  
chuck  
duck  
luck  
muck  
pluck  
suck  
stuck    ud 


bud  
blood  
cud  
flood  
hood  
good  
mud  
sud  
spud  
stood  
understood  
wood    Vde 


brewed  
conclude  
imbrued  
eschewd  
seclude  
exclude  
include  
crude  
feud  
glued  
dewed  
lewd  
mewed  
renewed  
rude  
scrude  
showed  
spud  
stewed  
strewed  
intrude  
detrude  
obtruded  
viewed    Judge 


budge  
Judge  
grudge  
drudge  
adjudge  
snudge  
trudge    Uff 


buff  
cuff  
ruff  
stuff  
puff  
huff  
muff  
tough  
enough  
chuff    We 


blue  
brew  
imbrue  
eschew  
drew  
dew  
due  
accrue  
few  
slew  
glue  
hue  
hue  
Hugh  
jew  
knew  
fore-knew  
lieu  
move  
renew  
screw  
show  
ensue  
sue  
slew  
show  
spew  
strew  
threw  
true  
view  
you    Vg 


bugg  
drug  
dug  
rug  
hug  
jugg  
lug  
tug  
shrug  
trugg  
pugg    Vl 


bull  
cull  
dull  
sorrowful  
pitiful  
merciful  
full  
gull  
hull  
lull  
mull  
annul  
disannul  
pull  
trull  
wool    Vle 


mule  
pule  
rule  
thule    Vld 


bulld  
gulled  
dulled  
annulld  
disannulld  
lulled  
mulled  
pulled    Vlfe 


engulf  
wolf  
gulf    Vlk 


bulk  
hulk  
sculk    Vlse 


pulse  
repulse    Umh 


bum  
come  
dumb  
overcome  
drum  
some  
dumb  
gum  
hum  
mum  
numb  
plumb  
some  
scum  
sum  
swum  
thumb  
thrum  
stum  
womb  
whom    Vmp 


bump  
jump  
crump  
trump  
lump  
pump  
stump  
rump  
thump  
trump    Vme 


sum  
presume  
perfume  
plum  
rheum  
assume    Vn 


dun  
done  
gun  
run  
bun  
sun  
some  
eat  
stun  
spun  
tun  
won    Vne 


prune  
tune    Ounce. 


dunce  
ounce  
nunce    Vnch. 


bunch  
clunch  
munch  
punch  
hunch    Underwit. 


stunned  
sund  
shunned  
tuned    Vng 


bung  
clung  
dung  
hung  
among  
fling  
rung  
sprung  
sung  
stung  
swung  
tongue  
young    Vnge 


plunge  
sponge    Vnk. 


drunk  
monk  
punk  
shrunk  
sunk  
shrounk  
slunk  
stunk  
trunk    Vnt. 


amount  
surmount  
blunt  
hunt  
fount  
runt  
wont    Up 


up  
cup  
tup  
sup    Vr 


burr  
blur  
cur  
demur  
fur  
slur  
spur  
sir    Vre. 


demure  
inure  
cure  
endure  
sure  
allure  
ensure  
obscure  
assure  
pure  
skuer    urb 


disturb  
curb    Vrse. 


disburse  
curse  
purse  
worse  
nurse  
burse    Vrch. 


burch  
church  
lurch    Vrd. 


bird  
blurred  
furred  
stirred  
absurd  
curd  
slurd  
spurred  
sword  
turd  
word    Vrf. 


scurf  
turf    Urge, vide Orge. 


purge  
surge  
scourge    Vrk. 


lurk  
turk  
work    Vrle. 


curl  
hurl  
churl  
pearl  
whirl    Vrld. 


curled  
whirled  
world  
hurled  
purld    Urn. 


urn  
burn  
churn  
turn  
torn  
spurn  
mourn    Vrt. 


blurt  
spurt  
curt  
dirt  
hurt  
wurt  
flirt    Vss. 


buss  
us  
truss  
thus  
puss    Usher. 


bush  
blush  
brush  
crush  
flush  
hush  
push  
gush  
plush  
rush  
tush  
thrush    Vsk. 


busk  
husk  
musk  
tusk    Vst. 


bust  
crust  
entrust  
dust  
gust  
just  
lust  
must  
rust  
trust  
thrust    . 


but  
cut  
gut  
glut  
nut  
put  
foot  
rut  
scut  
slut  
strut  
shut  
but    Vte. 


flute  
recrute  
dispute  
impute  
repute  
compute  
depute  
lute  
suit  
mute    Vtch. 


clutch  
hutch  
much  
grudge  
crutch  
such  
smutch  
touch  
crouch    Vth. 


truth  
Ruth  
youth  
pursueth    Vrst. 


disbursed  
cursed  
accursed  
durst  
burst  
pursed  
worst  
first  
nursed    Vcks. 


bucks  
ducks  
plucks  
tucks  
dux  
sucks      

THE ART of REASON IN THE ART of LOGIC.  
Rendered so plain and easy by Questions and Answers, that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to the perfect ways of Arguing or Disputing.  

The first Book of the Art of Logic.  

CAP. 1. What Logic is.  


Q. WHat is Logic?  
A. Logic is the Art of disputing well, and in that sense is called Logic.     

CAP. 2. The parts of Logic, and kinds of Arguments.  


Q. How many parts hath Logic?  
A. Logic hath two parts, Invention and Judgement.   

Q. What is Invention?  
A. Invention is a part of Logic of inventing Arguments.   

Q. What is an Argument?  
A. An Argument is that which is affected to argue any thing: such as are all Reasons considered apart, and by themselves.   

Q. What be the Kinds?  
A. Artificial and Inartificial.   

Q. What is an Artificial Argument?  
A. That which argueth of itself.   

Q. What be the Kinds.  
A. First, or derived from the First.   

Q. What is First?  
A. First is that which is of its own original.   

Q. What be the Kinds?  
A. Simple or Comparative.   

Q. What is Simple?  
A. Simple is that which is considered simply and absolutely.   

Q. What be the Kinds?  
A. Agreeing or disagreeing.   

Q. What is Agreeing?  
A. That which agreeth with the thing which it argueth.   

Q. What be the Kinds?  
A. Agreeing absolutely or after a certain manner.   

Q. What is agreeing absolutely?  
A. The Cause and Effect.     

CAP. 3. The Efficient, Procreant, and Conservant Cause.  


Q. what is the Cause?  
A. The Cause is that by whose force the thing is.   

Q. What is the profit of it?  
A. This first place of Invention is the fountain of all Knowledge: and he is believed to know, of whom the cause is held.  
As the Poet saith worthily:  
The man sure happy is, who cause of things doth know.   

Q. How is the Cause divided?  
A. Into two Kinds, Efficient and Matter, or Form and End.   

Q. what is the Efficient Cause?  
A. The Efficient Cause is that which the thing is.   

Q. How many Kinds hath it.  
A. There appeareth to us no true Kinds, yet the great plenty of it is distinguished by certain means.   

Q. What is that which effecteth by the first means?  
A. That which procreateth or defendeth.   

Q. Give me an example out of some Poet!  
A. Ovid first, remedio amoris.  

Therefore when thou shalt look in this our medsonal Art,  
My admonition do, set idleness apart.  
This causeth thee to love, this doth defend it still,  
This is the cause of Joy, as meat sometimes breeds ill.  
Take lastly sloth away, God Cupid's bow is lost,  
His torches lose their light, contemned, away they're tossed.    

Q. Give me a more familiar example?  
A. The Father and Mother procreate, the Nurse defendeth.   

Q. Give an example of this out of some Poet?  
A. 4. Aeneid. 
thou'rt not God's child, ne Dardanus his son;  
Thou rather from the steep hard rocks didst come  
Of Caucasus, it seemeth of that breed,  
Hyrcanian Tigars thee with breasts did feed.  Aeglog. 8. 
Now what this whoreson love is I well wots.  
It is a little busy boy begot,  
Not of man's seed, ne sib to one of us,  
But farthest Garamants, and Ismarus.  
Or rocky Rhodope as it should seem,  
In their rough ragged hills engendered him.    

Q. Do not bvilders and governor's of Cities come under this Head.  
A. Yes, Romulus the builder of the City of Rome, also all other Kings, Consuls, and Emperors are defenders and keepers.     

CAP. 4. The Efficient alone and with others  


Q. What is that which effecteth by the second means?  
A. That which effecteth alone or with others.   

Q. What are those others?  
A. Some oftent imes are Principal, others are helping and Ministers.   

Q. Give an example of the Cause that effecteth by itself?  
A. Aeneid. 6. Nisus called back both the blame and the punishment of the slaughter from Euryalus upon himself: because he was the only author. 
Lo here I am who only did this deed,  
Nations, against me turn your swords with speed.  
T' was my deceit: He could it never do,  
Ne would his courage serve him thereunto.    

Q. Give an example of the solitary Cause with Principals and Fellows, out of some Orator?  
A. The Solitary Cause, with many, both Principals and Fellows, is diversely set forth pro Marcello. For the warlike praises (saith the Orator) they are wont to extenuate truly by words, and to detract them from their Leaders, to communicate them with many, lest they should be proper to their Commanders: and certainly in War, the strength of the Soldiers, opportunity of places, help of fellows, ranks, provision do much avail. But Fortune (as it were) by her own right, challengeth the chiefest part to herself; and whatsoever is prosperously carried, that altogether she leadeth. But yet of this glory (O Caesar) which a little before thou didst obtain, thou hast no companion: all that, how much soever it is, (which truly is the chiefest) all (I say) is thine. The Penturion, Precedent, Ranks and Companies, have taken from thee none of this praise: Yea, even the Lady of Humane Affairs, Fortune offereth not herself into the society of this glory; to thee she giveth place, and confesseth it all and wholly to be thine.   

Quest. Are not Instruments numbered among helping Causes?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give an example of it?  
A. By this Argument the impious Epicure disputeth that the World was never made. Primo de Nat. For by what Eyes of the Mind (saith he) could your Plato behold the frame of so great a Work, whereby he maketh it constructed and builded of God? what labour? what iron hinges? what lever? what devices? what ministers were there of so great a work?     

CAP. 5. The Efficient by itself or an Accident.  


Q. What is that that which effecteth by the third means?  
A. That which effecteth by itself or an Accident.   

Q. How effecteth it by itself?  
A. When it effecteth by its own faculty.   

Q. How effecteth it by its own faculty?  
A. When it effecteth by nature or counsel.   

Q. Give an example of that which effecteth by Nature?  
A. The efficient of the winds is natural.  
Aeneid. 1. 
The East and South winds on the Sea do blow,  
They rush through deep, till on the top they show  
The Africa oft with these his blasts conjoins,  
And so the floods are cast up by the winds.    

Q. Give some example of that which effecteth by counsel?  
A. That confession of Cicero touching himself, is an example of Counsel. The War taken in hand (O Caesar) waged also for the most part, not constrained by any of my judgement and will; I came forth to those Wars which were undertaken against thee.   

Q. How doth the Efficient Cause effect by an Accident?  
A. When it effecteth by an external faculty.   

Q. How doth it effect by an external faculty?  
A. When it is done by Necessity-or Fortune.   

Q. How by Necessity?  
A. When as the Efficient is constrained to the Effect.   

Q. Give an example of this?  
A. There is one in the excuse of the Pompenians. But to me truly (saith the Orator) if there may be sought out a proper and true name of our evil, it doth seem that we are fallen into a certain fatal calamity, that hath occupied the unprovident minds of men; that none should wonder how humane Counsel is overcome by Divine Necessity.   

Q. How by Fortune?  
A. When somewhat happeneth beyond the scope of the Efficient.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. So the case chanced (saith Tullius tertio de Nat. deo.) That Pherius the enemy was profitable to Jason, who opened his imposthume with his sword; which the Physicians could by no means heal.   

Q. May not Impudence be numbered amongst these kind of Causes?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Ovid. de Trist. 2. 
Why hurtful light, or aught else did I see?  
The fault was mine and not unknown to me,  
Wise Actaeon Diana naked saw,  
And food became to's dogs devouring maw.  
Blind Fortune 'mongst the Gods is surely blamed,  
Ne pardon gets, the Gods she hath so harmed.    

Q. Do not Deprecations than proceed from hence?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Pro P L. Pardon O Father: he hath erred: he is slipped: he thought not: if ever hereafter. And a little after I have erred: I have done rashly: it repenteth me: I fly to thy clemency: I ask pardon for mine offence: I entreat thee that thou wilt pardon me.   

Q. What first caused the name of Fortune?  
A. The ignorance of the Causes have feigned this name: for when as something happened beyond counsel and hope, it was called by the common people Fortune.   

Q. What is juvenal's Opinion of it?  
A. 
Wise if we were, no God should want but Fortune:  
We place thee high, and often thee importune.      

CAP. 6. The Matter.  


Q. What is the Matter?  
A. The Matter is the cause of which the thing is.   

Q. Give an example out of some Poet?  
A. By this feigned Argument the house of the Sun is compounded of Gold, Carbuncles, Ivory and Silver. Ovid. 2. Metamorf. 
The Sun's high place was built with Pillars tall,  
The Gold did shire Carbuncles flames let fall:  
The top thereof was laid with Ivory neat,  
And silver doors in portal shined feet.  Aeglog. 3. 
A merry Musor framed of Beech in tree,  
Carved work, by hand of divine Alcimeden,  
'Tis round impaled with a scattering trail  
Of tender Vine, and over all between,  
A pale green Ivy, wherewith as a vale,  
The thick diffused cluster shaded been.    

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?  
Q. Caesar. 1. Bel. Civil. Caesar commanded his Soldiers to make ships of that kind, which in former years the use of the Britain's had taught him: first they made the keil and pins of light matter, the rest of the body of the ship being knit together with Osiers, was covered over with Leather.     

CAP. 7. The Form.  


Q. The first kind of the Cause, in the Efficient and Matter being expounded; the second followeth, in the Form and the End; what therefore is the Form?  
A. The Form is the Cause by which the thing is that which it is.   

Q. What is the benefit of it?  
A. From hence the thing is distinguished from all other things, and the Form is ingenerated together with the thing itself.   

Q. Give some example of it?  
A. A reasonable soul is the form of a man, because by it a man is a man, and is distinguished from all other creatures thereby. The form of Geometrical Figures is in Triangles and Quadrangles. Heaven, Earth, Trees, Fishes, are the form of Physical things. From whence the chief explication of things, as it is by nature, so (if it may be found out) it shall be, as in artificial things it is more easily met withal.   

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?  
A. Caesar. lib. 7. But all the French walls are almost of this form, the beams long and plain, with equal distance between them about two foot, are placed upon the foundation. These are bound within, and fastened very strongly: for those spaces (of which we spoke) are filled up to the top with great stones. These placed and knit together, another row is also added, that the same might keep the spaces: neither do the beams touch one another, but being distant by equal spaces, all of them are strongly fastened, great stones being placed between them. And even so is the whole work knit together until the just height of the wall be fulfilled. This work therefore is not deformed, as well for the comeliness and variety, beams and stones being by courses, which keep their rows in right loins, as, because it hath the chief strength for profit and defence of cities; because it doth defend both from the mischief of stones, and the material Ram, which with its forty feet, being oft bound to the long beams inward, can neither be broken or drawn back again.   

Q. Give an example out of some Poet?  
A. Aeneid. 1. Virgil describeth the form of his port. 
Between two Seas two Islands there doth lie,  
Sideways they're made, the water runs fast by.  
Huge double rocks that do reach up to heaven,  
Under the which the seas lie still and calm:  
And by that place green woods there are growing,  
Forth from the same comes great black darkness flowing.  
Under which rock a den's made very fleet,  
Wherein's rich living stones, and waters sweet:  
Houses for Nymphs, and chains for ships there laid,  
Which would not by the anchor or the chains be stayed.      

CAP. 8. The End.  


Q. What is the end?  
A. The end is the cause for whose sake the thing is.   

Q. Give example?  
A. To Physical things the proposed End is man to man, God. There is some chief good and last end of all Arts: as to speak well, of Grammar: to plead well, of Rhetoric: to dispute well, of Logic.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Aeneid. 1. Juno assumeth the end of Marriage, when as she promiseth Deipopeia to Aeolus, to wit, for solace and children's sake. 
Nymph's full fourteen I have of bodies rare  
But who so is most beautiful and fair,  
Even Deiopeia I to thee do give  
Her year in marriage state with thee to live?  
Thee to reward for thy love unto me,  
And cause thine offspring beautiful to be.    

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?  
A. Cicero pro Lig. urgeth Tubero his accuser, when as he presseth the end of the Wars taken up against Cesar. And truly (saith he) he is come forth armed against Caesar himself. But what did this Tubero his sword do in the Pharsalian Army? whose sides did the sharp point aim at? who was to feel the force of thy weapon: where was thy mind, eyes, hands, courage? what didst thou desire? what didst thou wish?     

CAP. 9 The Effects.  


Q. What is the Effect?  
A. The Effect is that which ariseth from the causes, whether begotten or corrupted, or whether any thing be moved by any means. Here the motion, and the thing done by motion, is called the Effect. Of this place are praises and dispraises, of which sacred and profane books are full.   

Q. Give example of this out of some Poet?  
A. Aeneid. 6. The facts of divers people are compared to the praises of the Romans. 
Some finely carve upon the boiling brass,  
They'll on the marble grave a living face,  
They wish the causes better, they'll descry  
Heavens shining parts, and tell the stars i'th' sky:  
Remember thou Rome's people brave to rule,  
These things shall be thine art, peace to impose,  
To spare thy subjects, and subdue proud foes.    

Q. What else cometh under this Head?  
A. Hitherto are speeches and writings referred.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Pericles and Hortentius did celebrate the praise of pleading well: and by the same argument also, Demosthenes and Cicero of writing well.   

Q. What further?  
A. To this place are referred Counsels and Deliberations, although not brought to their end.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Parmenio and Phylotus were beaten to death, because they were suspected to be of the conspiracy against Alexander, as Curtius and Arianus have remembered touching Lentulus, Cethegus, and others the complices of Catiline; they suffered punishment by judgement of the Senate.   

Q. Have not Virtues and Vices their effects also?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Horace after this manner describeth the Effects of Drunkenness. 
Secrets it shows, and Hope it doth command;  
Unto the Wars it drives, although unarmed:  
It takes the burden from the careful man,  
It teacheth art to all that will or can.  
Whoev'r was drunk that wanted Eloquence?  
Was any poor that used this defence.      

CAP. 10. The Subject.  


Q. The argument agreeing after a certain manner succeedeth, what is that then;  
A. The subject and Adjunct.   

Q. What is the Subject?  
A. The subject is that to which any thing is adjoined.   

Q. Make this plainer by examples?  
A. The mind is the Subject of science, ignorance, virtue, vice, because these happen beside the being. The body, of health, sickness, strength, weakness, beauty, deformity. Man is the Subject of riches, poverty, honour, infamy, apparel, company. The place is the Subject of the thing placed.   

Q. How prove you this last by testimony and example?  
A. The Philosopher's attribute a place to Divine beings although wanting part and greatness. So the place of Geometry, and the difference of places is in Geometrical things. So of Physic, it is more diligently considered in Physical things. In the world, in simple Elements, in Compound things.   

Q. Give an example out of some Poet?  
A. So Virgil in his Georgics admonisheth, that the place be diligently sought out for things proposed: as corn, trees, plants, pastures. 
Before we pass into a Sea unknown,  
Know we the wind and various manner of heaven;  
Our native soil, and every habitation,  
What will refuse or grow in any nation:  
Some beareth corn, th'other with grapes doth pass,  
Some with tall trees, the rest with unsown grass.    

Q. Proceed further in explicating the Subject?  
A. The subject of senses are called sensibles; of virtues or vices, things proposed to virtues or vices.   

Q. Give an example of the former?  
A. Colour is the subject of the sight, sound of the hearing; because these senses are occupied and exercised in the sensibles   

Q. Give an example of the latter  
A. Virtues and Vices are set forth in moral Philosophy by this Argument, Temperance and Intemperance, by Pleasure: Magnanimity and Sloth, by Danger: Liberality and Covetousness, by Riches.   

Q. Explicate the Subject further?  
A. So things numerable of Arithmetic: measurable (as I may say) are the subjects of Geometry.   

Q. Give example of the Subject out of some Orator?  
A. By the same Subject Cicero (second Agra) disputeth, that there was no contention amongst the people of Campania, because there was no honour. They are not carried (saith he) with the desire of glory, because where there is no public honour, there the desire of glory cannot be. There is no discord, neither by contention nor ambition; for there is nothing for which they should strive, nothing for which they should war, nothing for which they should contend.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Propertius useth this Argument. 
Of winds the Sailor's talk, the Husbandmen of bulls,  
The Soldiers of their wounds, and Shepherds of their wools.      

CAP. 11 The Adjunct.  


Q. What is the Adjunct.  
A. The Adjunct is that to which any thing is subjected: which Argument though it be lighter than the Subject, yet more copious and frequent: therefore of its signs Ovid speaketh, Second Rom. Anno. 
Some man (for such there be) may count this small,  
Yet that helps some which doth not profit all.    

Q. Make this plainer?  
A. Those things which are called good and evil of the mind, Body, and the whole man, are the Adjuncts of the mind, body, man: also whatsoever happeneth without the Subject is the adjunct.   

Q. May not time also be reduced unto this Head?  
A Yes, as place was in the Subject, so is time in the Adjunct, viz. the enduring of things past, present, to come.   

Q. What further is comprised under this head?  
A. All those qualities beside the causes, adjoined to the subject, whether they be proper or common.   

Q. What is Proper?  
A. That which agreeth only and wholly with the subject, as laughing with a man; neighing with a horse, barking with a dog.   

Q. what is Common?  
A. That which is not proper after this manner.   

Q. Give example of the Adjunct out of some Orator?  
A. By this kind of argument, Cicero in the defence of Roscius the Comedian, cavilleth with Fanius Chercus. Doth not his head and eyebrows altogether bald, seem to favour of malice, and cry out of deceit? doth he not seem to be compounded from the foot to the head, (if a man may conjecture by his shape) of frauds, fallacies, lies? Who therefore is altogether bald on the head and eyebrows, lest he should be said to have one hair of a good man.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. So Martial lib. 2. mocketh Zoylus. 
Red hair, black mouth, short feet, and ilk squint eyes,  
'Tis marvel Zoylus if goodness in thee lies.    

Q. What further may be reduced under this head?  
A. Garments and company are Adjuncts.   

Q. Give example?  
A. By this kind of circumstance, Dido going a hunting is magnificently set forth, Aeneid. 4. 
The morn appeared, Dido forsook the sea,  
The day stir up, to th' heaven youth guides the way:  
Both nets and gins, with pike-staves, all were ready,  
Messalian horse, with hunting dogs so greedy.  
Princes did wait, the slow queen did expect,  
With fair clad horse, her way for to direct.  
Forth cometh she at length with mighty train,  
In her long robe, with many a long seam?  
Her horse down trap, with gold her hair was trest,  
Her robes with golden hooks, together did she wrest.    

Q. What is the benefit of Adjuncts?  
A. There is great use of Adjuncts to the subject by which they are occupied.   

Q. Give example.  
A. By this argument Planto foretold those cities to be miserable, where the multitude of Physicans and Judges were wanting: because, of necessity, there was conversant in those cities, both Intemperance and Injustice.    
And thus much for the place of agreings, from whence every agreeing argument may be said to be one or the same: and all manner of Unity and (as I may say) Identity are referred hither, as the first and simple fountains.   

CAP. 12. Diverses.  


Q. You have expounded the first agreeing argument: the disagreeing followeth, what then is disagreeing?  
A. That which disagreeth from the thing.   

Q. How are disagreings manifested?  
A. disagreings are equally manifested amongst themselves and equally argued one of another, although they do more clearly shine in their disagreings.   

Q. What are the kinds of disagreings?  
A. Two: Divers and Opposite.   

Q. What are Diverses?  
A. Diverses are disagreeeings, which disagree only in reason.   

Q. What are the most frequent notes of speech for this Argument?  
A. These. Not this, but that; although, yet.   

Q. Give some example from some Orator?  
A. Pro Pompeio. He carried not the victory, but the ensigns of the victory.   

Q. Give some other examples.  
A. Ovid secund. Art. Amand. 
Ulysses was not fair but Eloquent.  Aeneid. 2. 
This Priamus though held in dust of death,  
Yet ceased not.   
Also this of the like matter, Pro Lig. callest thou that wicked, (O Tubero) why, he hath not hitherto deserved this name. For some called error, some fear, that which more hardly, hope, desire, hatred, pertinacy, the most grave temerity, none wicked besides thyself.     

CAP. 13. Disparates.  


Q. What are Opposites?  
A. Opposites are disagreings, which disagree in reason and thing; therefore cannot be attributed to the same according to the same, and at the same time.   

Q. Make this plain by example?  
A. So Socrates cannot be black and white of one and the same part; father and son of the same man; whole and sick at the same time: but he may be white on the one part, black on another; father of this, son of that man; sound to day, sick to morrow.   

Q. It should seem by this, that the one being affirmed, the other is denied?  
A. So it is.   

Q. What are the kinds of Opposites?  
A. Disparates, or Contraries.   

Q. What are Disparates?  
A. Disparates are opposites whereof one is opposed equally to many.   

A. Give example?  
A. Green, Ash-colour, Red, are means between White and Black, which are Disparates, both with the extremes and among themselves. So liberality and covetousness are Disparates among themselves. So, a man, a tree, a stone, and infinite of this kind are Disparates; neither can one thing be, a man, a tree, a stone.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Virgil. Aeneid. 1. disputeth by this argument. 
O virgin, how shall I remember thee!  
Whose countenance not mortal seems to be:  
Thy voice is sure above the humane reach,  
Both which thee Goddeses proves, and so do teach.      

CAP. 14. Relates.  


What are Contraries?  
A. Contraries are opposites, whereof one is opposed to one only.   

Q. What are the kinds of it?  
A. They are either affirming or denying.   

Q. What is affirming?  
A. Affirming is that of which both of them affirm.   

Q. How many Kinds hath it?  
A. Two, Relate and Adverses.   

Q. What are Relates?  
A. Relates are Contraries affirming, of which one consisteth of the mutual affection of the other: and from hence they are named Relates.   

Q. Make this plain by example?  
A. The Father who hath a Son, and the Son, who hath a Father are Relates.   

Q. They may seem by this to be together by nature?  
A. So they are, so that he which perfectly knoweth the one, knoweth all the rest.   

Q. Give some examples of Relates?  
A. Pro Mare. By which thou truly understandest how much praise there is for the benefit given, when as for the receiving is so much glory. Marc. against Sosib. 
Sosibian, thou yield'st, thou wast born thrall,  
When flattering thou thy Father Lord dost call.   
So Quint. Lib. 5. Cap. 10. If it be honest to place himself at Rhodes, and to lodge at Hirmaereon. After which manner Tullius, in the perfect oration. It is therefore dangerous (saith he) lest any should think it dishonesty, to teach that in the great and glorious Art to others, which it was honesty for him to learn.   

Q. Doth not earnest affection sometimes flow from these Relates?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example out of some Orator?  
A. Cicero in his Oration hath brought forth a certain earnest affection from these Relates. Now these are grave (saith he) Wife of the Son in law, Stepmother of the Son, anp Bawd of the Daughter.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. All this Ovid hath effected maniefestly in his description of the Iron Age, Met. 1. 
Ne doth the guest safe in his Inn remain,  
His Host him troubles who doth him retain:  
Sisters even from their Brethren are not free,  
The Husband longs the death of's Wife to see;  
She hateth him, and 'gainst him doth conspire;  
The cursed Stepdame's always in an Ire,  
The Son before his time doth's Fathers years inquire.    

Q. But the Argument of such Relations hath nothing contrary: yea, it rather argueth mutual causes: as, thou art my Father, I therefore am thy Son, how then appeareth the Contraries?  
A. When I say I am Father, I am not therefore thy Son, then are the Contraries true.     

CAP. 15. Adverses.  


Q. What are adverses.  
A. Adverses are Contraries affirming, which are perpetually adverse among themselves.   

Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Aeneid 11. 
No health in war, we all desire Peace.    

Q. Give further example?  
A. White and black, hot and cold, virtue and vice are opposed.   

Q. Give example out of some Orator?  
A. Parad. 1. Cont. Epe. Yet they do hold strongly and defend accurately, that pleasure is the chief good: which to me truly doth seem to be the voice of Beasts, not of Men; when as whether God, or Nature (as I may say) the mother of all things hath given thee a soul, than which nothing is more excellent, nothing more divine; dost thou so cast and throw down thyself, as that thou thinkest there is no difference betwixt thee and the fourfooted Beasts.   

Q. Wherein consists the force of this example?  
A. Cicero hath opposed beasts and men, Adverses: pleasure is the good of beasts, and therefore of men.   

Q. Give another example out of some Poet?  
A. So Liberty and Servitude in Tib. Lib. 2. 
So Servitude I see prepared for me,  
Yet Parents Freedom would far better be.    

Q. Give example out of an Orator?  
A. Pro Marcel. For Temerity is never joined with Wisdom, neither is Chance admitted to Counsel.     

CAP. 16. Contradicents'.  


Q. Having spoken of contraries affirming, we are come to contraries denying, what are they then?  
A. Contraries denying are such, of which one saith, the other denieth the same.   

Q. What are the kinds?  
A. They are Contradicents' or Privants.   

Q. What are Contradicents'?  
A. Contradicents' are Contraries denying, of which one denieth every where.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Just, not just; a creature, not a creature; it is, it is not: These are Contradicents'.   

Q. Give example out of some Orator?  
A. Pro Murena. The sentence of Cato and Cicero are contraries; this of the Stoics, that man of the Academics. The Dialogue is in these words. Thou hast known nothing, yea something, but not all things. Thou hast done nothing merely for thanks, yet refuse not thanks when as thine office and trust requireth it. Be not moved with mercy in condemning. But yet there is some praise of humanity. Stand in thine own opinion, except a better should overcome.   

Q. Give example from some Poet?  
A. Mart. lib. 2. 
thou'rt fair Fabulla, rich, and all's a maid,  
Can you deny, 'tis truth that I have said?  
But if thou boastest of thyself too much,  
thou'rt neither fair, a virgin, nor yet rich.    

Q. Give another example out of some Orator?  
A. Cicero primo Tusc. Forceth Atticus the Epicure by this argument to confess, that the Dead were not miserable, if they were not at all, as the Epicures believe; I had rather (saith he) thou shouldest fear Cerberus, then speak so inconsiderately. Atticus, why? Marcus, that which thou deniest, that thou sayest. Where is thy wit? For when as thou sayest he is miserable, thou than sayest, he is, which is not. Then after long disputation Atticus said, go to now I grant that those which are dead are not miserable; because thou hast forced me to confess, that they be not at all, lest they should be miserable.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Terrence in Eu. Phedria frameth his speech to Dorus, when as he had affirmed that which he denied afterwards. After a manner (saith he) he saith, after a manner he denieth.     

CAP. 17. Privants.  


Q. What are Privants?  
A. Privants are contraries denying, of which one denieth in the same Subject only, in which the Affirmative (of its own nature) is.   

Q. What is the Affirmative called?  
A. The Habit.   

Q. And what the Negative?  
A. Privation.   

Q. Make this plainer?  
A. Motion and Rest, Drunkenness and Sobriety, are comprised under this Head.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Mart. Lib. 3. 
thou'rt drunken sure, sober thou wouldst not do't.    

Q. What may further be under this Head?  
A. To be blind, and to see.   

Give example?  
A. Pro Celio. There is therefore one of this family, and he truly is greatly blind: for he shall take no grief who shall not see her.   

Q. What may further be under this Head?  
A. Poverty and Riches are thus opposed.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Mart. Lib. 5. 
Poor shalt thou be Emilian, if poor;  
Wealth's never given but to the rich before.    

Q. What further?  
A. Death and Life.   

A. Give example?  
A. Cont. Mil. Sir ye still, O revengers of this man's death, whose life if you thought you could restore, would you?   

Q. What further?  
A. Silence and Speech.   

Give example?  
A. Primo Cat. What expectest thou the authority of the Speakers, whose silence thou beholdest to be their pleasures?   

Q. What more?  
A. Mortality and Immortality.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Pro Marc. I grieve when as the Common Wealth ought to be immortal, that it consisteth of one mortal life.    
And this sufficeth to be spoken of disagreeing, from whence every thing may differ from another by certain means.   

CAP. 18. Equals.  


Q. Simple Arguments were agreings and disagreings; we are now come unto Comparatives; what are Comparatives therefore.  
A. Comparatives are those which are compared amongst themselves.   

Q. How are they manifested?  
A. Although they be equally known by the nature of Comparison, yet one to another is more known and illustrated then another: and oftentimes are judged by shorter notes, sometimes distinguished by fuller parts.   

Q. What may these parts be called?  
A. They are named the Proposition and Redition.   

Q. May not Comparatives also argue Fictions?  
A. Yes, Comparatives to argue feigned things, and do cause trust.   

Q. What be the kinds of Comparisons?  
A. Comparison, is in Quantity or Quality.   

Q. What is Quantity?  
A. Quanity is that whereby is showed how much the thing compared is.   

Q. What be the kinds of Quantity?  
A. Equals or Unequals.   

Q. What are Equals?  
A. Equals are those of which there is one Quantity.   

Q. What is an equal Argument then?  
A. An equal Argument is, when an equal is explicated by an equal.   

Q. What are the Notes of it?  
A. Even, equal, like, the same, that, so much the more, how much the more, by so much, by how much, so much, how much, not more, not less.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Aeneid 2. Equal with light winds.  
Aeneid 3. 
And nowed should grow in equal age with thee.   
Aeneid 6. 
Behold this thing, Great Rome with earth is even,  
The spirit of man shall also equal heaven.    

Q. What further is necessary to these equals?  
A. A Proposition or Reddition doth distinguish them.   

Q. Give example out of some Orator?  
A. Quart. Cat. Whose things done, and the virtue to the same, by which things only the course is contained in its regions and bounds.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Aeneid 4. 
As well a bruiter of things false that be,  
As messenger of truth and verity.   
Cat. 
By how much I am worst of Poets all,  
By so much the men best of patrons call.   
Ovid de Trist. 4. 
As many shells on shore, as roses sweet;  
As many sleep, as men, by poppy seeds do get;  
As many hests in woods, fish in the sea do lie;  
As many birds as in the airy heavens do fly:  
So many griefs me pass, their number should I tell,  
Icarian waters I must surely number well.    

Q. Proceed to further examples?  
A. Phil. 9 Neither had he more skill of the law then of justice: therefore those things which the laws had brought forth, chief the civil, he always referred to ease and equity: neither had he rather approve actions of strife, then take away controversies.  
Ovid de Art. Amand. 
'tis no less virtue for to keep then get.   
Pro Mur. I acknowledge this to be equal for Lucius Murena: and so equal, that neither he shall be overcome by dignity, neither by dignity shall overcome thee.  
Phil. 2. Whose burden being common, why not a common pray of them.  
Ter. in Adelph. When as I care not for thine, care not thou for mine.   

Q. What may further be comprised under this head?  
A. Of this place are those that follow derived truly from contraries, but treated of in the place of Equals; as this of Mart. 
Sosibian thou yield'st, thou wast born thrall,  
When flattering thou thy father lord dost call.   
Ovid. 1. Fast. 
There's price in price, the Censors honours give;  
He giveth friendship, poor alone doth live.    

Q. But are they not more frequent from adverses?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Cicero Syl. Neither do I understand myself to have been angry. But if I defend him whom thou accusest, why should I not be angry with thee, who accusest him whom I defend? he saith, I accuse mine own enemy; and I said, I defend my friend. So primo Tusc. But when as they confess that there is force enough in vices to cause a miserable life, why should it not be granted that there is force enough in virtues to effect a blessed life.   

Q. It should seem by this, that contraries are sequences of contraries?  
A. So they are.   

Q. What may further be comprised under this head?  
A. Sometimes there is put forth like for like.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Such is the contention of the shepherds in Virgil.  
Aeglog. 3. Damaetas first of all putting forth this riddle. 
Tell in what place, and I will herry thee,  
For great Apollo's self, the welkin large  
Just three els broad, and no more, seems to be.  
And Menalcas answering in this other riddle.  
Tell in what place the flowers have their marge,  
With King's names in their leaves inscribed plain;  
And to thyself take Phillis for thy pain.    

Q. Give example of feigned equals?  
A. Feigned equals are such as is in Aeschinus Sacraticus, wherein Socrates showeth Aspasia, speaking to Zenophons' wife and Zenophon himself. Tell me, I pray thee, thou wife of Zenophon, if thy neighbour should have better gold than thou, whether hadst thou rather have hers or thine? hers, said she. And if she have a gown, and other women's garments of a greater price than thou, whether hadst thou rather have hers or thine? hers, said she. Go to then, if she have a better husband than thou, hadst thou rather have hers? here the woman blushed. But Aspasia spoke to Zenophon himself, I pray thee (said she) if thy neighbour have a better horse than thou, hadst thou rather have his or thine? his, said he. But if he have better ground than thou, whether hadst thou rather have? his, said he, viz. the best. But if he have a better wife than thou hast, whether hadst thou rather have his or thine? And here Zenophon also himself held his peace.     

CAP. 18. Greater's.  


Q. What are unequals?  
A. Unequals are those of which the quantity is not one.   

Q. What be the kinds of unequals?  
A. Unequal is greater or lesser.   

Q. What is greater?  
A. Greater is that which quantity exceedeth.   

Q. What be the proper notes of it?  
A. Not only, but also; I had rather this, then that; more also by Grammatical comparison.   

Q. Give example.  
A. Bicero pro Mur. There is taken from amongst us not only that verbal counterfeit of Prudence, but also that Lady of things, Wisdom itself. The thing is carried by force, not only the hateful Orator in pleading, or the prattler, but also the truly good is despised. A horrid soldier is loved.   

Q. Is not a certain Logical gradation, sometimes joined with a Rethorical climax taken from hence?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Show example?  
A. Pro mil. Neither did he so handle himself to the people only, but also to the Senate; neither to the Senate only but to the Public, Precedent, and Soldiers: neither to these alone, but also to the power of those, to whom the care of Senate, Soldiers, and the whole Commonwealth of Italy was committed.   

Qu. Give a Poetical example?  
A. Ju. Sat. 8. Against a proud Noble man. 
Rather had I Thirses thy fire should be,  
Whilst that Aeacides is like to thee:  
And that thou shouldst with Vulcan armour make,  
Then for Achilles' son men should thee take;  
Or that thy feature should like Thirses be.    

Q. Proceed to further example?  
A. Pro. Marc. Having more admiration than glory.  
Aeneid. 1. 
O fellows we these evils knew before!  
God will them end, we greater far have boar.   
Cic. pro Mur. Be not so unjust, that when as thy fountains are opened by thine enemies, our rivers should be stopped up even by our friends.   

Q. Give an example of a gradation, without a rethorical climax?  
A. Ter. Thr. But doth Thais give me many thanks for it? Gn. Many. Thr. sayest thou so? is she glad? Gn. Not so much for the gift itself, as that it was given by thee; for that she triumpheth in good earnest.   

Q. Are not also greater's feigned?  
A. Yes, and of great force.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Ter. Hort. A Noble man if he be made a lover can never undergo the charges, much less thou then. Aeneid. 5. 
O great Aeneas, although Jove should not  
Promise to help or aid me now one jot!  
I hope that Italy shall reach to heaven,  
The winds once charged their forces cross have driven:  
Arising from black night i'th' city cast,  
Our power is weak, our greatest strength but waste.      

CAP. 20. Lessers  


Q. What is Lesser?  
A. Lesser is that whose quantity is exceeded.   

Q. How is a Lesser judged?  
A. Oftentimes by proper notes.   

Q. What be these notes?  
A. Not only, but not at all: rather this than that, when as, as also.   

Q. How else?  
A. By Grammatical comparison,   

Q. How lastly?  
A. By the denying of parts.   

Q. Give example of the notes out of some Orator?  
A. Cic. secund. Cat. No man not only of Rome, but in no corner of all Italy, was ever oppressed with so great a tax, as that he once knew of so incredible a Caesar. Cat. 1. Thou canst rather as an Exul tempt, then as a Consul vex the Commonwealth. Ag. 2. Which when to all it is very hard, and an evil reason, then truly to me above the rest.   

Q. Give Poetical examples.  
A. Ovid. Trist. 1. 
More fierce than Busiros, more fierce than he,  
Who in slow fire his Ox burned furiously.   
Ovid. pri. de. Rem. Amor. 
Thy body to redeem bear sword and fire,  
Ne drink to cool thy thirsty hot desire:  
To save thy soul wilt thou not all forbear,  
This part exceeds the other price by far.    

Q. Give example of those which are done by denying of parts?  
A. Phil. 9 All in all ages who have had the understanding of the Law in this City, if they might be brought together into one place, are not to be equalled with Servius Sulpitius. Cat. 2. Although those which say that Catilina is gone to Messilia, do not so much complain of it, as fear it.   

Q. Is it not sometimes without notes?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Pro Mur. Thou art so much wanting from the perfection of great works, as the foundation, which thou thinkest thou hast not yet laid. Pro Arch. The stones and deserts oftentimes answer to the voice; wild beasts are tamed and subdued by singing; shall not then the instructions of the Poets in the best thing move us?   

Q. Is there not also a gradation from lessers?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Ver 7. Is it a great act to over throw the city Rome, to beat a Knave, to kill a Parricide, what shall I say? to hang him upon the gallows.   

Q. Are not lessers also sometimes feigned?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Virg. Aeglog. 1. 
The light-heeld hinds in th'air shall feed therefore,  
And in the Ocean all the fishes die,  
For want of water, on the naked shore.  
The wand'ring Parthian first shall drinken dry  
Huge Araxis; and gusling Germany,  
Suck down their thirsty throats swift Tigris tide,  
Ere his dear lovely face shall from my bosom slide.    

Q. Give another exmple?  
A. Phil. 2. O filthy thing, not only in the sight, but also to hear of! if it had happened to thee amongst thine inhuman Pots, who would not accounted it filthy? But in the assembly of the Romans about public affairs, the master of the horse, to whom it is not comely to belch, he vomiting a crust of bread and wine, filled his lap and all the Tribunal with stink.     

CAP. 21. Likes  


Q. You have expounded Comparison in Quantity, Comparison in Quality followeth; what therefore is Quality?  
A. Quality is that whereby the things compared are said to be such.   

Q. What are the kinds of quality?  
A. Like or Dislike.   

Q. Whatare Likes?  
A. Likes are those of which there is the same quality.   

Q. What are likes called?  
A. Likes, is called proportion, as the likes are proportionable.   

Q. What are the notes of likeness, whereby it is concluded in one word?  
A. Likes, Effigies, in that manner, as also denials of dislikeness.   

Q. What be they?  
A. Such as this, not otherwise.   

Q. Give example of the first sort?  
A. Aeneid. 1. His mouth and shoulders being like to God. Phil. 9 Although Servius Suspicius could leave no clearer monument than his son, the effigies of his manners, virtues, constancy, piety, wit.   

Q. Give example out of some Poet?  
A. Ovid Trist. 1. 
For he or none, even he that made the wound,  
Only Achilles 'tis can make me sound.    

Q. Proceed to farther examples?  
A. In Phis. There was one day which was to me the likeness of immortality, wherein I returned to my country. Ver 1. But presently from the same likeness of a man, as it were by some Circean pot, he is made a Bear. Pro Pomp. Therefore all in this place do behold Cons. Pompeius not as one sent from the city, but fallen from heaven. Aeneid. 3. They do not that which I have commanded. Ter. I am not, neither have been otherwise then he.   

Q. What is the partition of likeness  
A. Disjoined or continued.   

Q. What is a disjoined similitude?  
A. A disjoined similitude is when as four terms are distinguished to the thing.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Aeglog. 5. 
So me thy song, as sleep on grass doth quench  
The traveller, his weary limbs to drench.    

Q. What is the force of this example?  
A. The songs to the hearers, as sleep to the weary, are four distinct terms.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Ad fratrem. As the best Governous cannot overcome the force of the tempest, so the wisest men oftentimes cannot overcome the violence of fortune.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. Here are four terms, as the governor to the ship, so wise men to fortune.   

Q. Proceed to farther example?  
A. Trist. 1. 
Even as the yellow gold in flaming fire is seen,  
So men may trust, behold, in time that's sharp and keen.   
Cic. Phil. 2. But even as those who in a great sickness do not taste the sweetness of meat, so the lustful, covetous, wicked, have not the taste of true praise. Virg. made these verses. 
All night it reigned, next day the signs are seen,  
Th' Empires parted Caesar and Jove between.   
Battillus arrogated them to himself and obtained a great reward; therefore Virgil in these Verses mocketh Batillus. 
I made these Rhymes, another had the Land,  
So Birds, you nests not for yourselves have made;  
So you, O Bees, make honey not for you;  
So you, O Sheep, bear wool but not for you;  
So you, O Oxen plough, but not for you.    

Q. Are not the notes sometimes omitted?  
A. Yes, sometimes there is no note at all   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Virg. Aeglog. 2. 
Ah my fair Boy! trust not thy hue too much,  
Hurtless though black, by every handsome hand  
Are plucked while Daisies none vouchsafe to touch,  
All be they white, yet shed they as they stand.    

Q. What is continual likeness?  
A. A continual likeness is when as the first term is to the second, so the second to the third.   

Give an example?  
A. De. Leg. 3. See you not that this is the Migistrates power, that he should rule and prescribe right, profitable, and agreeing things with the Laws: for as the Laws do govern the Magistrates, so the Magistrates do rule the people.   

Q. What is the force of this example?  
A. Here are three terms, Laws, Magistrates, People.   

Q. Have not feigned likenesses equal force with these above?  
Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. It appeareth chief in this explicated similitude of Aesop his Apology taken out of Horace. Epist. 1. 
But if Rome's people ask me happily,  
Why not 'mongst Judges on the Bench sit I;  
And do that which they love, fly that they hate?  
I answer as the crafty Fox of late.  
When tooth-sick Lion he this message sent,  
Fain would I come, to that thing was I bend;  
But that I saw the steps of many feet,  
That way to go, none back again to get.      

CAP. 22. Dislikes.  


Q. What are dislikes?  
A. Dislikes are comparatives, whose quality is divers.   

Q. What are the proper notes of dislikes?  
A. Dislike, different, another,   

Q. Give example?  
A. Pro Plan. Although the paying of money and thanks be unlike. Aeneid. 1. O ancient house! O how unlike for that Lord to govern. Caes. Pri. Bel. Gal. All these differed in their tongues, instructions, laws. Agra 2. One is known by his countenance, another by his voice, another by his gate. De Nat. Deo 2. Because I have begun to do otherwise then I had said in the beginning.   

Q. Are not dislikes also known by denying the likes?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. De Orat. 2. Philosophy is not like the other arts. Aeneid. 2. But he was not of that seed wherein thou rememberest Achilles, such was Priamus his enemy. Lor. Epist. 1. There is not the same age, the same mind, Ad frat. 1. So thy ring is not as a certain vessel, but as thyself. Phil. 3. This certain day he is wont to expect not so much of sacrifice as counsel.   

Qu. Give some Poetical examples.  
A. By this argument the shepherd confesseth his error. Aeglog. 1. 
Ah fond friend Melibe, I whilom dempt.  
That famous city which I now and then,  
In common chat amongst our countrymen;  
Have heard, yea cliped by the name of Rome,  
Certes for all the world cib to our homely home:  
and by and by,  
— so did I dare.  
Kids liken to their Goats, whelps to their dams,  
And molehills wont to mountains to compare.    

Qu. Show the force of this example?  
A. As neither the whelps to the dogs, nor kids to their dams, so neither is Mantua like to Rome.   

Q. Be not notes of dislikes sometimes wanting?  
A. Yes, oftentimes, and the dislikeness is more clearly explicated.   

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?  
A. Quint. L. 1. C. 11. Brutus slew the Children of the Traitors: Muntius did punish by death the virtue of his Son.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Cut. The Sun sets and riseth again: but when our little light setteth, there is a perpetual night.     

CAP. 23. Conjugates.  


Q. Hitherto you have expounded the first arguments, those derived from the first follow, what are they then?  
A. Those derived from the first are these, which are even to that which they argue, as the first from whence they are derived.   

Q. What be the kinds of these arguments?  
A. A Conjugate, a Notation, a Distribution, and a Definition.   

Q. What are Conjugates?  
A. Conjugates are names drawn diversely from the same principal.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Justice, Just, Justly.   

Q. Is there not a Symbol in Conjugates of agreeing arguments?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Propert. Lib. 2. 
Because in love there is no liberty,  
Whoever loves that man, can ne'er be free.    

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. Here liberty is the cause why we should be free.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Cic. Nat. Deo. 2. Where he speaketh of Dionysius the tyrant. He commanded that the tables of silver, in which were the Images of the Gods, should be taken away; in which after the manner of the Grecians should be engraven, The goods of the Gods, saying, that he was willing to use of their goodness.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. The Gods are good, therefore their goodness is to be used: here from the effects it is directed to the causes.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Ter. I am a man, no humane thing is strange to me.   

A. Is it not sometimes from the Subject to the Adjunct?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Phil. 2. I will not handle thee as a Consul, lest thou handle me as one standing for the Consulship. In Pis. When as all the cause was of the Consuls and Senate, both the Consuls and Senate had need of my help.     

CAP. 24. Notations.  


Q. What is notation?  
A. Notation is the interpretation of a name.   

Q. what are names?  
A. Names truly are notes of things.   

Q. May there not be rendered a reason of the names?  
A. Yes, either from the derivation or composition, if they be made by true notation, from some first argument.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Homo ab humo. Ovid. Fast. 6. 
Stat vi terrasua, vi stando vesta vocatur.    

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. This is a notation from the cause.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. At focus a flammis & quod fovit omnia dictus.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. This is a notation from the effects.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Vir. 4. O Verrea praeclara! quid enim accessisti, quo non attuleris tecum istum diem? & enim quam tu domum, quam urbem adiisti, quod fanum denique, quod non eversum atque extersum reliqueris? quare appellentur sane ista Verrea quae non ex nomine, sed ex moribus, naturaque tua constituta esse videantur.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. This is also a notation from the effects.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. Ovid. Fast. 1. 
Prima dies tibi carna datur, dea cardinis haec est,  
Nomine clausa aperit, claudit aperta sua.    

Q. Wherein is the force of this example?  
A. This is a notation from the subjects in the inward, about which the Deity of this Goddess is exercised.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. From the adjuncts, there is a notation from Bambalion. Phil. 2. Quia balbus & stupidus: hinc igitur cavilatio in Antonium generum. Tuae conjugis, bonae faeminae, locupletatis quidem certe, Bambalio quidem pater, homo nullo numero, nihil illo contemptius, qui propter haesitantiam linguae stuporemque cordis cognomen ex contumelia traxer it.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. This is a notation from adjuncts.   

Q. Are there not notations also from disagreings?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 6 Lucus, quia umbra apacus, parum luceat. & ludus, quia sit longissime a lusu, & dies quia minime dives.   

Q. May not notation be also from comparatives?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example:  
A. Pyropus, quod ignis flammam imitetur.   

Q. But is there not, as to the notation to his name, so an affection of the name to the notation.  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Animi plenus ergo animosus.   

Q. Show the contrary?  
A. Animosus, ergo animi plenus.     

CAP. 25. Distribution.  


Q. What are the other derived arguments?  
A. Distribution and Definition.   

Q. Is there not a reciprocal affection in both these?  
A. Yes.   

Q. What is the affection in the distribution?  
A. Of all parts with the whole.   

Q. What is the affection in the definition?  
A. Of the definition with the things designed.   

Q. What is a distribution?  
A. A distribution is, when the whole is distributed into parts.   

Q. What is the whole  
A. The whole is that which containeth parts.   

Q. What are parts?  
A. Parts are those which are contained of the whole.   

Q. It should seem then that the distinction of the whole into parts is distribution?  
A. So I said.   

Q. What is then the collection of the parts to the making up of the whole?  
A. It is called induction.   

Q. Whence is distribution taken?  
A. Distribution is taken from arguments altogether agreeing, but disagreeing amongst themselves: therefore it shall be by so much more accurate, by how much the agreings of the parts shall be with the whole, and the disagreings among themselves.     

CAP. 26. The distribution from the Cause.  


Q. Whence is the first distribution?  
A. The first distribution is from absolute agreings.   

Q. What are these absolute agreings?  
A. The causes and effects.   

Q. What is distribution from the causes?  
A. Distribution from the causes, is when the parts are causes of the whole. Here the distribution of perfect into its members is greatly praised.   

Q. What is perfect?  
A. Perfect is the whole, to which the parts are essential.   

Q. What is a member?  
A. A member is a part of the whole.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Grammar is divided into Etymology and Syntaxis; Rhetoric, into Elocution and Action; Logic, into Invention and Judgement: for those Arts constituted of those parts.   

Q. What is the principal distribution?  
A. When the explication of a longer thing is received.   

Q. Give examples?  
A. Georg. 1. 
What makes glad corn, and how to till the ground,  
How to plant elms that be so strong and sound;  
How to guide oxen,  how to tend,  
And how the little pretty be defend,  
I will declare.—    

Q. Give another example?  
A. Cic. pro Mur. I understand, O you Judges, that the whole accusation hath three parts, one of which is in reprehension of life, another in contention of dignity, the third touching the fault.   

Q. How is the second kind of handling this kind of argument?  
A. Either from the parts to the whole; or from the whole to the parts.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Cat. 
Quintia is fair to many, so to me,  
I will not therefore this same thing deny;  
But wholly fair I will not say she's not,  
True beauty in her there is not a jot.  
Lesbius' fair, in every part most fine;  
Venus adorned her, clear did make her shine.      

CAP. 27. The distribution from the effects, also the genus and species.  


Q. What is the distribution from the effects?  
A. The distribution from the effects, is when the parts are effects.   

Q. Give example?  
A. In a ship the seamen, some scale the masts, some run in at the doors, some draw water, the governor holdeth the rudder in the ship   

Q. May not distribution of genus into species be comprised under this head?  
A. Yes, distribution of genus into species doth here excel.   

Q. What is genus?  
A. Genus is the whole essential in parts.   

Q. What is species?  
A. Species is the parts of genus.   

Q. Give example?  
A. We say a living creature is the genus of a man, and a beast; for a living creature is the whole of that effect: viz. a corporal living substance, which commonly pertaineth to the beasts and men. We say the species of a man and a beast is living, because they are parts of a living subject, which living essence they have common. We say a man, the genus of every man; and a lion, the genus of every lion; but contrary, every man, the species of a man; every lion, of a lion.   

Q. What is the kinds of the genus?  
A. The genus is most general or subalternate.   

Q. What are the kinds of the species?  
A. The species is subalternate or most special.   

Q. What is the most general genus?  
A. The most general genus is that of which there is no kinds.   

Q. Give example?  
A. In Logical invention, an argument is the most general genus of artificials and inartificials.   

Q. What is the subalternate genus, and the subalternate species?  
A. The subalternate genus, as also the subalternate species, is that which is the species of this, but the genus of that.   

Q. Give example?  
A. The cause is the species of an absolute arguing argument, but the genus of the matter and form.   

Q. But what is the most special species?  
A. The most special species is that which is individable into other species.   

Q. Give example?  
A. The matter and form singly.   

Q. What are the genus and species notes of?  
A. Of the causes and effects.   

Q. Give example?  
A. In a living thing there is a corporeal essence, which in the matter is belonging commonly to the species; as also the faculty of life and sense, which in the form pertaineth commonly to the species.   

Q. It should seem that the genus containeth the causes, which do attain to the species of it; and therefore contrarily, the species contains the effects of their genus?  
A. So it is.   

Q. From whence then is that universal famousness and excellency?  
A. From hence, because it declareth the causes,   

Q. Show some example now of the distributions of the genus into species?  
A. Distribution of genus into species is very excellent truly, but hard and seldom found, yet we will bring what illustrations and examples we can. Ovid. Met. 1. Divideth living creatures into five species? stars, birds, beasts fish, men: he giveth life to the stars, as the Philosophers do.  
No region is without some living thing,  
Stars in the sky, the forms of Gods being:  
Birds in the air in abundance be,  
Beasts on the earth, and fishes in the sea.  
But yet 'mongst these a creature more divine,  
Who may them rule and govern all in fine;  
There wanted much until that man was born.  
So Cic. Offic. 1. Divideth virtue into four species, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance; but all that is honest springeth out of one of these four parts, for either it is conversant in the knowledge and skill of the truth, or in the defending the society of men, and giving every one his own; also in trust of things bargained, or in a high mind and admirable greatness or courage, or lastly in all things which are made and called order and means, in which is modesty and temperance.   

Q. What is distribution of the genus into the forms of the species?  
A. Distribution of the genus into the forms of the Species is the same; because the form with the genus, constitute their species.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Of living creatures, one is speaking, another dumb.   

Q. May not genus and species be handled a part and severally.  
A. Yes, genus and species are not only handled after this simple form of division, but also apart one from another.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Pro Arc. But lest any should wonder that we say so that there is a certain faculty of wit, and this reason or discipline of speaking, neither that we have truly given ourselves all together to this study; for all arts which pertain to humanity, have a certain common band, and are contained (as it were) in a certain knowledge amongst themselves.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. Art is the genus; poesy, and eloquence the species.   

Q. Is not the genus handled by the species?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Ovid de Trist. 4. 
Fill thy sad matter with thy virtue's grave,  
Hot glory doth decay, it none can save:  
Who had known Hector if Troy well had been?  
Through public vices, way to virtue's seen.  
Thine art (O Typhis) lies, if in the sea  
There be no floods; if men be well truly,  
Then Phoebus' art decayeth instantly.  
That which they hide, and is not known for good,  
Appears at last, and shows where evil stood.    

Q. But are there no special examples fitted to this kind?  
A. Yes, such as this. Attic. 7. Wilt thou leave the city? What if the French men come? The Commonwealth, he saith, is not in walls, but altars and Religion. Theomisticles did the same, and a whole host of Barbarians were not able to take one city. But Pericles did not so, who in the year almost before fifty, when he kept nothing but a wall; our city before being taken, they kept the tower notwithstanding.     

CAP. 28. Distribution from the Subject.  


Q. what is the other distribution?  
A. The other distribution is of agreeings' afrer a certain manner.   

Q. what are agreings after a certain manner?  
A. The subjects and adjuncts.   

Q. what is the distribution from subjects?  
A. The distribution from subjects is, when the parts are subjects.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Cat. 
Thy maiden-head's not wholly thine I ween,  
One part thy Father gave, the part between,  
Thou of thy mother hadst; so that to thee,  
None but the third remaineth for to be.  
Therefore resist not two, cast not away,  
The thing thy parents gave to thee I say.    

Q. Give example out of some Orator?  
A. Cic. Tusc. 1. There are therefore three kinds of good, as I understand from the Stoics, to whose use oftener than I am wont we give place. There are therefore those kinds of good, whilst that the external things of the body are cast upon the ground, and because they are to be undertaken, they are called good. There are other divine things which do more nearly concern us, and are heavenly; so that those who have attained them, why may I not call them after a manner blessed, yea most happy.     

CAP. 29. Distribution from Adjuncts  


Q. What is Distribution from Adjuncts?  
A. Distribution from Adjunct is, when the parts are Adjuncts.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Of men, some are sound, some sick, some rich, some poor.   

Q. Give a poetical example?  
A. Virg. Georg. 1. Divideth the World into five parts, the middle scorching hot, the other two extreme cold, the two last temperate. 
Five Zones the heavens do hold, the middle hot:  
The Sun there burns, cold in it there is not;  
But on the right and left hand there is seen,  
Rain, frost, and cold, that's bitter, sharp and keen.  
The two last temperate, yet in them is,  
Mortality, and many sicknesses.    

Q. Give an Orator's example?  
A. Caes. Bel. Gal. 1. All France is divided into three parts; of which, one the Belgians inhabit, the other the Aequitans, the third, those who in their tongue are called Cetts, in our Language the Gauls.     

CAP. 30. Definition.  


Q. What is definition?  
A. Definition is when it is explicated what the thing is, and that interchangeably may be argued with the thing defined.   

Q. What are the kinds of definition?  
A. A definition is perfect or imperfect.   

Q. What is the perfect definition called?  
A. This is properly called a definition.   

Q. What is the imperfect called?  
A. A description.   

Q. What is a perfect definition?  
A. A perfect definition is a definition consisting of the only causes which constitute the essence: such as the causes comprehended by the genus and form.   

Q. Give example?  
A. After this manner is a man defined, viz. by the genus (a living creature) we understand (as it is said) a corporeal essence full of life and sense, which is the matter, and a part of the form of a man; to which (if thou addest reasonable) thou comprehendest the whole form of a man, by the whole faculty of this life, sense, reason.   

Q. It should seem then that the perfect definition is nothing else then an universal symbol of the causes, constituting the essence and nature of things?  
A. So it is.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. The Arts have such definitions, Grammar, of well speaking; Rhetoric, of pleading well; Logic, of disputing well; Arithmetic, of numbering well; Geometry of measuring well.     

CAP. 31. Description.  


Q. What is description?  
A. Description is a definition defining the thing from other arguments also.   

Q. Give example?  
A. This is the description of a man, a man is a living creature, mortal, capable of discipline,   

Q. Are not proper circumstances also mingled with common causes sometimes?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Then it seemeth that succint brevity is not always in this kind?  
A. No, oftentimes it desireth a clearer and greater explication.   

Q. Give an example out of some Orator?  
A. In Mil. Glory is described. But yet of all rewards of virtue, (if there be a reason of rewards) the greatest is glory; this one comforteth us, touching the shortness of our life, causeth that we are present with the absent, dead, maketh us live; to conclude, by these steps we do seem to ascend unto Heaven.   

Q. Give a poetical example?  
A. Aeneid. 4. Fame is described. 
From Libeans temple cometh forth great fame,  
Nought swifter than ill news which bears this name;  
Moving she goes; by going, strength she gets:  
She fears at first, at last with winds she fleets;  
Walks on the earth, her head she lifts toth' sky:  
Earth brought her forth, the Gods were angry.  
In Caeus and Encelladus his land,  
She was at last as I do understand;  
Her feet were swift, here wings most hurtful were,  
A horrid monster, wicked, full of fear:  
As many feathers as upon her are;  
So many eyes attend her every where.  
So many tongues: so many mouths do sound,  
So many years do lessen her around.  
In night she flies through heaven, and in the shade,  
About the earth she goes, no noise is made:  
She sitteth by the light on houses high,  
And causeth towns to quiver fearfully.  
As well a bruiter of things false that be,  
As messengers of truth and verity.    

Q. Proceed to further example?  
A. Such are the descriptions of plants and living creatures ●n physic: also of rivers, mountains, cities, in Geography and History.     

CAP. 32. Divine Testimony,  


Q. You have expounded the artificial arguments, the inartificial followeth; tell me then what an inartificial argument is?  
A. An inartificial argument is that which argueth not by its own nature, but taken force from some artificial argument.   

Q. It seemeth by this, when a hidden truth of things is more subtly searched for, that this argument hath small force of proof?  
A. So it is, but in civil and humane things, oftentimes this argument effecteth the greatest trust from the moving arguments, if wisdom, virtue, and good will be present.   

Q. What is it called?  
A. In one name is called testimony.   

Q. What are the kinds of testimony?  
A. Divine or humane.   

Q. What may be comprised under the Head of divine testimony?  
A. Not only the miracles of the Gods, but also the answers of Prophets and Fortune-tellers are counted amongst divine testimonies.   

Q. Give example?  
A. All these are brought forth Cat. 3. For that I may omit (saith the Orator) the fires seen in the night from the West, and the burning of heaven, as also lightning, as earthquakes, with other many things done to us Consuls, as those which are now done to seem to proclaim the God's immortality. And a little after, at which time when the Araspatians' were come together out of all Herturia, they said that slaughter, burning, perishing of the laws, civil and domestical war, and the fall of the whole city and empire approached; unless the immortal Gods pleased by all reason, by their power should change those destinies. At length when he said that they mocked at the answer of the Arispatians', and that they did more regard the sign of Jove, turning to the East, he then said, But is not he so present, that it should seem to be done at the beck of the mighty Jove; that when this morning before my door, by my command and conjuration, the Judges being then in the house of Concordia, at the same time there appeared a sign, which being turned toward you and the Senate, both you and the Senate saw manifestly laid open, who they were that were against the health of all men.   

Q. Give another example?  
A. That of Tibullus is more short. 
But if that Oracles true things do tell,  
Then this in our name see thou do declare?  
That he doth promise Delius to give,  
To be thy spouse, with whom thou'lt happy live.      

CAP. 33. Testimony from humane Law and Sentences.  


Q. What be the kinds of humane testimony?  
A. Humane testimony is common or proper.   

Q. What is common?  
A. Law, and a famous sentence.   

Q. What is a legal testimony?  
A. Legal testimony is both unwritten and written.   

Q. Bring forth authority for this?  
A. Pro Mil. for there is (O ye Judges) a law not written, but born with us; which we have not received, learned, read; but taken, drawn, expressed from nature: as if our life should be in some hazard, force, danger, either of thiefs or enemies, all honest reason were to be sought of safety; but if the twelve tables will have the night thief, yea, the day thief too, if he defend himself after any manner, killed without punishment; who is there that will think him that is slain to be punished, when as there is a sword reached to us, to kill that man, by the laws themselves.   

Q. What are famous Sentences?  
A. Proverbs.   

Q. Give example?  
A. They be such as these: Pares cum paribus facilime congregantur. Spartam nactus es, hance ex orna.   

Q. What may farther be under this head?  
A. Sayings of Wisdom also.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Nosce teipsum. Nequid nimis. Sponde praesto ad detrimentum.   

Q. What is proper testimony?  
A. Such as this of Plato 1. ad Quint. frat. And then truly Plato the prince of Wisdom and Learning thought those Commonwealths blessed, if either learned and wise men governed, or those that did govern, placed all their study in wisdom and learning.   

Q. Proceed to further example?  
A. Such were in the Poets, Aeneid. 4. Learn justice and admonitions, and contenm not the rich. So in Homer. 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Ajax led out of Salaminus twelve ships.  
The Magatenses were overcome by the Athenians.    

Q. What are the testimonies of the living?  
A. Testimonies of the living, are not only when it is inquired of ground, felling of wood, and such like business, but also there are testimonies of obligation, confessing oath.   

Q. Give an example of obligation?  
A. Phil. 5. For I dare bind my faith (P. C.) to you and the people of Rome, that truly when no force constrained me, I durst do; and I feared an opinion of timerity, in a thing greatly hurtful: I promise and swear (P. C.) to become always such a citizen to Caesar as he himself is, and as we ought chief to wish or desire.   

Q. Have we not an obligation set forth sometimes with a pledge?  
A. Yes. Virg. Aeglog. 3. 
Wilt then by turns, we hand to hand do try,  
What either can, and prove each by our deed;  
I'll pawn this heifer, (which lest thou deny)  
She twice hath come already to the pail,  
And two twins suckles: at this time now say,  
What pawn thou'lt gauge with her to countervail.    

Q. What are the kinds of confession?  
A. Confession is free or extorted by torments.   

Q. What is this latter properly called?  
A. A question.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Such an argument there is against Milon whom Cicero derided. Go to then, what, or how is the question? How? Where was Roscius? Where was Casca? Doth Clodius lay snares for Milon? He hath done, surely the gallows. He hath done nothing.   

Q. What further may be reduced hitherto?  
A. Hitherto may be referred the argument which we used when we bring fourth our approbation, and experience of our affirmative.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Ver. 4. Even Volcatio if he had come freely, would he have given a little book? he shall come, he shall be tried; no man truly receiveth it. Ter. Spend thy time in letters, in the woods, in music; it is meet for youth to know these liberal things, I will give diligence.   

Q. Give a Poetical example?  
A. Ovid. Trist. 3. 
The which that thou mayest better credit me,  
Try thou my pains, believe it then to be.    

Q. Give an example also of the testimony of an oath.  
A. Aeneid. 6. 
I swear by th' gods, and all in earth unseen,  
I have departed from thy shore, O queen.    

Q. This reciprocation seemeth to be more obscure, as because the testimony is true, the witness is also true?  
A. So it is. And thus much sufficeth to have spoken of Invention, the first part of the Science Logic.      

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE Art of Logic.  

CAP. 1. What Judgement is.  


Q. Hitherto the first part of Logic in Invention hath been expounded, the other part followeth in Judgement; what then is Judgement?  
A. Judgement is the second part of Logic, of disposing arguments to be judged well.   

Q. How are they judged?  
A. Every thing is judged by a certain rule of disposition.   

Q, It may be thought then that this part of Logic is called both Judgement and Disposition from hence?  
A. So it is.     

CAP. 2. An affirmative or negative axioma.  


Q. What are the kinds of Judgement?  
A. Judgement is axiomatical, or dianoctical.   

Q. What is an axioma?  
A. An axioma is the disposition of an argument, with an argument, wherein somewhat is judged to be, or not to be.   

Q. What is it called, and whence receiveth it the name?  
A. In the Latin of Enuntiatum, it is called Enuntiation? of Pronuntiatum, Pronunciation.   

Q. What are the affections of an axioma?  
A. An axioma is affirmative or negative.   

Q. What is affirmative?  
A. Affirmative is when the force of it is affirmed.   

Q. And what negative?  
A. When it is denied, From hence springeth the contradiction of axiomas when the same argument is affirmed or denied.     

CAP. 3. True and false.  


Q. What may be a second kind of the effections of an Axioma?  
A. An Axioma secondly is true or false.   

Q. How true?  
A. When it pronounceth as the thing is.   

Q. How false?  
A. Contrary.   

Q. What are the affections of a true Axioma?  
A. A true Axioma is contingent or necessary.   

Q. How contingent?  
A. When it is so true that it may sometimes be false.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Fortune helpeth the bold; for it may be, that which is true to day, to morrow may be false: and therefore the judgement of this contingent verity, is called opinion: those things of the time past or present, may be certain to a man, but of time to come, they cannot by nature, although with God all things are present. Therefore Martial doth worthily mock Priscus. 
Priscus, thou often asks what I shall be,  
If now most rich, hereafter what truly;  
Things for to come, canst thou not tell them me,  
If thou a Lion art, what wilt thou be?    

Q. How necessary?  
A. When it is always true, neither can be false.   

Q. What is this affirmative called?  
A. This affirmative is called Katapantos' of every thing.   

Q. How impossible?  
A. Contrarily, where it can be true of nothing.   

Q. What belongeth to an Axioma of the arts?  
A. An Axioma of the arts ought to be Kantapantos', as also Homogene and Catholic.   

Q. What is an Homogene Axioma?  
A. An Homogene Axioma is when the parts are essential among themselves: as the form to the thing form, the subject to its proper adjunct.   

Q. What is this called?  
A. This Genus of the Species is called ath' auto ' by itself.   

Q. What is a Catholic Axioma?  
A. A Catholic Axioma is when the consequent is always true of the anticedent; not only in every thing and by itself, but also reciprocally.   

Q. Give example?  
A. A man is a living creature, reasonable, number is equal or unequal.   

Q. What is this called?  
A. This is called Katholou proton universally first.   

Q. What then are the laws of the proper documents of the arts?  
A. These three, the first Ketapantos', the law of verity; the second Katherine ' anto, the law of justice; the third Katholous proton called the law of wisdom; and such is the judgement of Catholic Axiomas, the most true and chief knowledge.     

CAP. 4. The Simple Axioma.  


Q. You have expounded the common affection of Axiomas, the kinds follow, what are then the kinds of an Axioma?  
A. An Axioma is simple or compound.   

Q. What is simple?  
A. Simple is that which is contained in the force of one word; and therefore by an affirmative or negative word it affirmeth or denieth.   

Q. Give examples?  
A. Fire burneth, fire is hot, fire is not water.   

Q. Show the force of these examples?  
A. Here fire is the anticedent, burneth the consequent: and this is the first disposition of invented things; of the cause with the effect, as in the first example; the subject with the adjunct, as in the second; the disagreeing with the disagreeing, in the third: after a certan manner any argument may be enuntiated, (except those full of comparison and distribution) agreings truly by affirming, disagreeing by denying.   

Q. What are the kinds of a simple Axioma?  
A. A simple Axioma is general or special.   

Q. What is general?  
A. General is when the common consequent is attributed generally to the common antecedent. And this contradiction doth not always divide the true and false, but both parts of the contingent, as also not of contingents may be false.   

Q. Give example of the first?  
A. Each place delighted is with Baiis pleasant rooms. No place delighted is with Baiis pleasant rooms.   

Q. Give example of the second?  
A. Every creature is reasonable, no creature is reasonable.   

Q. What is a special Axioma?  
A. A special Axioma is when the consequent is not attributed to every antecedent, and here the contradiction ever divideth the true from the false.   

Q. What are the kinds of special?  
A. Special is particular or proper.   

Q. What is particular?  
A. Particular is when the common consequent is attributed particularly to the antecedent: But to this Axioma it is generally contradicted.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Somewhat is to be pardoned. Nothing is to be pardoned. Some clemency is not to be praised. All clemency is to be praised.   

Q. What is a proper Axioma?  
A. A proper Axioma is when the consequent is attributted to a proper anticedent.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Fabulla is fair, whose negative and contradiction is, Fabulla is not fair.     

CAP. 5. The copulative Axioma.  


Q. What is the compound axioma?  
A. The compound axioma is that which is contained in the force of a conjunction. Therefore from an affirmative or negative conjunction it is affirmed or denied. And a part of the contradiction is true, a part false.   

Q. What are the kinds?  
A. A compound enunciate is for his conjunction congregative or segregative.   

Q. What is congregative?  
A. Congregative is that which enunciateth all agreings by affirmings, and disagreings by denying.   

Q. What are the kinds?  
A. Copulative or connexed.   

Q. What is Copulative?  
A. Copulative is that whose conjunction is copulative.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Aeneid. 1. 
The East and South winds on the seas do blow,  
They rush through deep, till on the top they show.  
The Africa oft with these his blasts conjoins.  
This therefore shall be the negative and contradiction.  
The East and South winds not on seas do blow,  
They rush not through the deep, ne on top show.  
The Africa doth not oft his blasts conjoin.    

Q. But whereupon dependeth the judgement of the copulative enunciate?  
A. The judgement of the copulative enunciate being true, dependeth of the truth of all parts: false, at the least one part false.   

Q. What may further be comprised under this Head?  
A. The enunciate of a relate quality is of this kind, whose conjunction is the relation itself,   

Q. Give example?  
A. Aeglog. 3. 
So me thy song as sleep on grass doth queme,  
The traveller his weary limbs to drench.    

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. Here the copulative judgement is, as if he should say, sleep is grateful to the weary; and so thy song is pleasing to me.   

Q. What is the negative hereof? 
Not me thy song as sleep on grass doth queme,  
The traveller his weary limbs to drench.      

CAP. 6. The Connexed Axioma.  


Q. What is a connexed Axioma?  
A. A connexed axioma is congregative, whose conjunction is connexive.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Aeneid. 2. If fortune doth feign Simon miserable, it dishonestly feigneth him to be vain and a liar; whose negative is, if fortune doth not feign Simon miserable, it dishonestly feigneth him to be vain and a liar.   

Q. Is not this conjunction also denied more manifestly by denying the consequent?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example  
A. Pro Mer. I am not a murderer though in their company. De fato: Neither if every enunciation be true or false, doth it follow therefore that the causes are immutable; for affirmation signifieth, if the antecedent be, that the consequent is also. Negation therefore and contradiction determineth, if the antecedent be, that therefore the consequent is not. Wherefore when thou shalt judge the connexive to be absolute true, thou shalt judge it also necessary, and thou shalt understand this necessity to spring from the necessary connexion of parts, the which may also be even in false parts.   

Q. Give example of this?  
A. If a man be a Lion, he is also a fourfooted, this is a necessary connexion.   

Q. But if the connexion be contingent, and only put for probability, how shall it be judged then?  
A. Its judgement than shall be only opinion,   

Q. Give example?  
A. Ter. and Pamphilus, if thou dost this, this day is the last thou shalt see me.   

Q. What may be further under this head?  
A. This relation connexive of consequence, is like to the connexed Axioma, as when Tullius is said to be an Orator, he hath also skill in pleading well. And thus much of the congregative Axioma.     

CAP. 7. The Discreet Axioma  


Q. What is a Segregative Axioma?  
A. A Segregative Axioma is that whose conjunction is Segregative, and therefore enunciateth disagreeing arguments.   

Q. What are the kinds?  
A. A Segregative enunciation is discreet or disjunct.   

Q. What is discreet?  
A. Discreet is that whose conjunction is discretive, and therefore of disagreings it chief enunciateth diverses.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Tusc. 5. Although they may be judged by the force o● the body, yet they are referred to the mind: whose negative and contradiction is, although they may not be juged by th● sense of the body, yet they are referred to the mind; or, although they may be judged by the sense of the body, yet they are not referred to the mind. For yet is here a chief conjunction.   

Q. How is the discreet Enunciat judged to be true?  
A. The discreet enunciation is judged to be true and lawful, if the parts be not only true, but may be also discreet.   

Q. How is the false or ridiculous judged?  
A. Contrarily.     

CAP. 8. The disjunct Axioma.  


Q. What is a disjunct axioma?  
A. A disjunct axioma is a segregative axioma, whose conjunction is disjunct:   

Q. Give example?  
A. Georg. 1. 
There, as they say, is either silent night,  
Always most dark and void of any light;  
Or else the morning from us here doth go,  
And brings the day unto them there also.    

Q. Show another example?  
A. De fate, ever enunciation is true or false,   

Q. Here it seemeth is signified from the disjunst, that one only is true?  
A. So it is.   

Q. What shall the negative and contradiction be?  
A. Not every enunciation is true or false.   

Q. And what doth the contradiction signify?  
A. That one of them is not true by necessity, for if the disjunction be absolutely true, it is also necessary: and the parts of the disjunct are opposite without any means.   

Q. But although the disjunction be absolutely true, and also necessary, may there not be a necessity that the parts should be separately necessary?  
A. No.   

Q. Give example?  
A. A man is good or not good, here the disjunction is necessary; and yet a man is good, is not a necessary enunciation; also a man is not good, is not a necessary enunciation.   

Q. Whereupon then dependeth the necessity of the disjunction?  
A. The necessity of the disjunction dependeth on the necessary opposition, and disjunction of the parts, not as their necessary verity.   

Q. But is not the disjunction oftentimes from condition?  
A. Yes.   

Q. Give example.  
A. As if it be thought whether Cleon will come, or Socrates, because it was so agreed that one of them only should come.   

Q. It seemeth by this that if the disjunction be contingent, it is not absolutely true, but is only opinionable?  
A. So it is, and that more frequently in the use of man.   

Qu. Give example?  
A. Ovid. Epist. Lean. 
Either good hap shall now unto me fall,  
Or else fierce death, the end of loving thrall.      

CAP. 9 The Syllogism and its parts.  


Q. You have manifested in its self the axiomatical judgement by axiomas; the dianoetical followeth: what therefore is dianoia?  
A. Dianoia is when one axioma is derived from another.   

Q. What are the kinds of dianoia?  
A. A Syllogism or Method.   

Q. What is a Syllogism?  
A. A syllogism is a dianoia whereby the question is so disposed with the argument, as the antecedent put, it is necessarily concluded.   

Q. Make this plainer?  
A. When the axioma is doubtful the question is effected, and there is need of a third argument to be placed with the question, for its trust.   

Q. How many parts hath the antecedent?  
A. The antecedent of a syllogism hath two parts, a proposition and an assumption.   

Q. What is a proposition?  
A. A proposition is the first part of the antecedent, whereby the consequent of the question, is at least disposed with the argument.   

Q. What is the assumption?  
A. The assumption is the second part of the antecedent, which is affirmed from the proposition.   

Q. But what is the consequent part of the syllogism?  
A. The consequent part of the syllogism, is that which embraceth the part of the question, and concludeth it.   

Q. What is it called?  
A. It is called from the nature of it, complexion and conclusion.   

Q. If any part of the syllogism want, what is it said to be?  
A. It is called Enthymema.   

Q. But what if any part happen to be besides its parts?  
A. Then it is called a Porsyllogism.   

Q. Is not the order of the parts oftentimes confounded?  
A. Yes.   

Q. What then if any doubt shall arise from it?  
A. Then that shall be filled up which wanteth, those cut off which abound: and every part digested into his place.     

CAP. 10. The simple contracted syllogism.  


Q. What are the kinds of a syllogism?  
A. A syllogism is simple or compound.   

Q What is simple?  
A. Simple is where the consequent part of the question is placed in the proposition, the antecedent part in the assumption.   

Q. What are the affections of it?  
A. It is affirmed, denied, general, special, and proper.   

Q. How is it affirmed?  
A. From all the affirmative parts.   

Q. How is it denied?  
A. From one negative of the antecedent parts, with complexion.   

Q. How is it general?  
A. From the general proposition and assumption,   

Q. How is it special?  
A. From one of the generals only.   

Q. And how is it proper?  
A. From both propers.   

Q. What are the kinds of the simple syllogism?  
A. The simple syllogism is contracted by parts, or explicated.   

Q. What is contract?  
A. Contract is when the argument for the example is so subjected to a particular question, that the antecedent may be understood to affirm each part, and in the assumption.   

Q. Give an example?  
A. Certain confidence is virtue, as constancy; certain confidence is not virtue, as boldness.   

Q. Show the force of this example?  
A. This argument is understood to go before each part of the question, as if it were expressed, constancy is a virtue, and confidence; and therefore certain confidence is a virtue: also boldness is not a virtue, and yet it is confidence; and therefore some confidence is not a virtue. So in the use of disputing, the master of the Syllogism draweth the judgement, neither is it set forth otherwise. And this exposition the beginning of the Syllogism is expounded by Aristotle, so that the Syllogism in its full judgement is more clear and manifest.     

CAP. 11. The first kind of the simple explicated Syllogism.  


Q. What is the explicated Syllogism?  
A. The explicated syllogism whose parts are explicated.   

Q. What are the proprieties in this explicated Syllogism?  
Q. Two, first the proposition is general or proper, secondly the conclusion is like to the antecedent or the weaker part.   

Q. What are the kinds of it?  
A. The kinds are twofold.   

Q. What is the first?  
A. The first is where the argument always follow the negative in the other part.   

Qu. Show some syllogism of this kind?  
A 

GEN. 1.  Cesare. 


A troubled me useth not his reason well:  
But a wise man useth his reason well.  
A wise man is not therefore troubled.      
Q Produce the example of some Orator for this syllogism?  
A. This Judgement is so brought forth of Cicero, Tusc. 3. And when (saith he) the eye is troubled, it is not honestly affected to the fulfilling of its duty, and the rest of the parts; as also the whole body, when it is moved from its state, wanteth its office and function. So a troubled mind is not honestly affected to fulfil his duty. But the duty of the mind is to use reason; and a wise man is always so affected, that he useth reason most excellently; he is therefore never troubled.   

Q. Give example of another general syllogism?  
A. 

GEN. 2.  Camestres 


A mortal thing is compound.  
A Soul is not compound.  
A Soul therefore is not mortal.      
Q. Produce the authority of some ancient avouching this syllogism?  
A. Cicero judged the soul to be immortal by this syllogism. Tusc. 1. For we cannot doubt (saith he) in our minds, unless we be perchance ignorant in physical things, but that there is nothing knit to souls, nothing connexed, nothing copulate, nothing joined, nothing double; which when it is so can surely never be parted, nor divided, nor severed, nor drawn asunder, neither perish therefore: for perishing is as it were, a departure and separation, or breach of those parts, which before the perishing were joined together.   

Q. Give an example of a special syllogism?  
A. 

SPEC. 1.  Festino 


A pale man is not courageous.  
Maximus is courageous.  
Maximus therefore is not pale.      
Qu. Produce authority for this syllogism?  
A. By this judgement Ovid concludeth the Pont. 3. El. 3. 
Paleness and sloth are not in the high mind,  
Rather with Vipers them on ground we find.  
In highest things thy mind excels we see;  
No name I find t'express the wit of thee.  
Some miseries do taste, hurt and outworn,  
Are made to feel sharp pricking of the thorn:  
Yet thou art wont to help complaining men,  
Amongst which number pray let me be then.    

Q. Show another example of the special syllogism?  
A. 

SPEC. 2.  Baroco. 


A Dancer is Lecherous.  
Murena is not Lecherous.  
Murena therefore is no dancer.       

Q. Produce some Orator for this syllogism?  
A. Cic. pro Mur. For no man almost being sober danceth, unless perchance he be mad, neither alone, nor at a moderate and honest banquet; for dancing is the companion of untimely banquets, pleasant places, and many delights: thou snatchest that from me, that it is necessary that vices should be; thou leavest that whereby this removed, this vice ought not to be at all: no filthy banquet, no love, no gluttony is showed; and when we find not all these things which have the name of pleasure, and are vices, there thou canst not find lechery, nay, thinkest thou to find a shadow of lust in such.   

Q. Avouch some other authority after the like manner?  
A. After this manner judgement, Ovid de Trist. 1. concludeth triply, whilst he sets forth the excuse of his verses. 
They that make verses should not merry be,  
Our time is clouded with adversity.  
They that writ verses should enjoy their ease,  
The seas, the winds, with winter fierce me press.  
Good Poets should not fear, but I fear death,  
I dread lest swords do take away my breath:  
Then what is here, a right judge will admire,  
If reading them they satisfie's desire.    

Q. Give example of proper syllogisms?  
A. 

PRO. 1.  
Agesilaus is not painted by Apelles.  
Alexander is painted by Apelles.  
Alexander therefore is not Agesilaus.     

Q. Give another example of a proper syllogism?  
A. 

PRO. 2.  
Caesar oppressed his country.  
Tullius' oppressed not his country.  
Tullius therefore is not Caesar.       

CAP. 12. The second kind of the simple explicate syllogism.  


Q. What is the second kind of the simple explicate syllogism?  
A. The second kind of the explicate syllogism is, when the argument goeth before in the proposition, the affirmative followeth in the assumption.   

Q. Give an example of an affirmative general after this kind.  
A. 

AFF. Gen.  Barbara. 


Every just thing is profitable.  
Every honest thing is just.  
Every honest thing therefore is profitable.       

Q. Produce some Orator avouching this syllogism?  
A. Thus Cicero concludeth, offic. 2. The Philosophers truly with great authority, severely, sound and honestly, do distinguish these three confused kinds by cogitation. For whatsoever is just, that also they think to be profitable: also, whatsoever is honest, that is just; from whence ariseth that whatsoever is honest, that is also profitable.   

Q. Give an example of a negative general syllogism?  
A. 

NEG. Gen.  Celarent. 


A fearful man is not free.  
A covetous man is fearful.  
A covetous man therefore is not free.       

Q. Prove this by some Poet?  
A. It is thus concluded and judged by Horace, Epist. 1. 
Who freer is he, that as a servant dwelleth?  
Or he that in his money's love excelleth?  
I do not see, he that desires doth fear,  
And he that fears his freedom doth not bear.    

Q. Give another example of this kind of syllogism?  
A. Ter in Eu. concludeth and judgeth this, 

That which is void of counsel, cannot be governed by counsel.  
Love is void of Counsel.  
It cannot therefore be governed by counsel     

Q. Produce the words of Terence.  
A. the former syllogism followeth in these words: Master that thing which hath in it neither counsel nor means, that thou canst not govern by counsel. In love are all these vices, injuries, suspicions, enmities, flatteries, war, peace again: these uncertain things if thou shouldest guide by certain reason, thou dost no more than if thou shouldest labour to be mad with reason.   

Q. Give an example of the affirmative special syllogism?  
A. 

AFF. SPE.  Darii. 


Consuls made by virtue ought studiously to defend the Commonwealth.  
Cicero is made Consul by virtue.  
Cicero therefore ought studiously to defend the Commonwealth.      
Q. Produce Tully's words avouching this syllogism?  
A. The Orator doth both conclude and judge his own diligence Agr. 2. For the great care and diligence as well of all the Consuls, aught to be placed in defending the Commonwealth, as of those who not in the cradle, but in the camp were made Consuls. None of our ancients promised to the people of Rome for me that I ought to be trusted: to ask of me that I ought: even when I did ask, none of our ancestors commended me to you: therefore if I neglect any thing, there is none who shall entreat me for you. Yet while my life last, (I being he who am able to defend it from their wickedness) I promise this to you, O Quirites, that you have committed the Commonwealth to the providence of a good trust: to a watchful man, and not a coward; to a diligent man, not a sluggard.   

Q Show another syllogism of this kind?  
A. That which comes wished for is grateful. 
Lesbian comes wished for to Catullus.  
She is therefore grateful.    

Q. Set forth Catullus his words wherein he thus concludeth?  
A. 
That which we long for with desires great,  
Is acceptable to us when we heat:  
Wherefore this grateful is more dear than gold,  
That Lesby is come, our friend of old.  
Thou dost our wishes grant, our hope restore:  
O light most clear! who is there that is more  
Happy than I, who have what I desire;  
Even what I wish, there's nought I can require.    

Q. Give an example of a negative special?  
A. 

NEG. SPE.  Ferio. 


The deceiver of a loving maid is not to be praised.  
Demophoon is the deceiver of a loving maid, to wit. Phyllis.  
Demophoon therefore is not to be praised.      
Q. Set forth the words of Phillis in Ovid so judging?  
A. 
It is no glory Virgins to deceive,  
Who love a man, and wish him for to have;  
Simplicity should rather favour again,  
But I that love and all's a woman am;  
Deceived am by thee with flattering stile,  
The Gods thy praises make it all the while.    

Q. Give example of an affirmative proper?  
A. 

AFF. PRO.  
Octavius is Caesar's heir.  
I am Octavius  
I am therefore Caesar's heir.     

Q. Give example of a negative proper?  
A. 

NEG. PRO.  
Anthony is not Caesar's son.  
Thou art Anthony.  
Thou art not therefore Caesar's son.       

CAP. 13. The first connexed Syllogism.  


Q. You have expounded hitherto the simple syllogism, what now is the compound syllogism?  
A. The compound syllogism is a syllogism where the whole question is another part of the affirmed and compound proposition, the argument is another part.   

Q, But what if any thing were taken away in the compound syllogism?  
A. That were to put a special contradiction.   

Q. What are the kinds of a compound syllogism?  
A. A compound syllogism is a connexed or disjunct.   

Q. What is a connexed syllogism?  
A. A connexed syllogism is a compound syllogism of a connexed proposition.   

Q. How many are the manners of distinction?  
A. It is of two manners.   

Q. What is the first?  
A. The first manner of the connexed syllogism is that which assumeth the antecedent, and the consequent concludeth.   

Q. Give an example of this?  
A. After this manner Cicero concludeth. Lib. 2. de Divinatione. 

If they be Gods it is divination.  
But they are Gods.  
It is divination therefore.     

Q. Give another example?  
A. Offic. 3. And if also nature prescribeth this, that a man to a man, whatsoever he be for that same cause that he is a man, will use consultation; it is necessary according to the same nature, that the profit of all should be common: which if it be so, all of us are contained in one, and the same law of nature; and this if it be so indeed, we are certainly forbidden by the law of nature to violate one another: but the first is true, the last therefore is also true.   

Q Give another example?  
A. Aeneid 4. Dido judgeth Aeneas to remain with her. 
Dost thou me fly, by these tears I thee pray,  
By thy right hand I thee beseech to stay:  
Else thou wilt leave me wretched here alone,  
By our dear marriage, our dear love like none.  
If I do aught deserve, if thou hast been  
Sweet unto me, have pity on me then:  
Look on thy slippery house, and now I pray;  
If any place for prayers be, I say.  
For Libyans sake, for Nomades his kings,  
Who hated me, and for all other things  
Which I for thee did bear; my credit's lost,  
I am alone, for thee thus am I crossed.  
Besides all this, my fame is quite decayed;  
Rather I had my flesh in dust were laid.    

Q. Doth it always assume the same?  
A. Oftentimes not the same but a greater.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Cat. 1. If thy parents feared and hated thee, neither couldst thou please them by any reason; in my opinion thou wert to abstain a little from their sight. Now the country (which is our common parent) hateth and feareth thee, and of a long time judgeth nothing of thee, except it be touching thy death; canst thou neither avoid its authority, neither follow its judgement, neither fearest thou its force.   

Q. What may further be under his Head?  
A. This manner of concluding is the very same when the proposition is a relate of time.   

Q. Give example?  
A. After this kind the nymth OEnon in Ovid concludeth the error of her foolishness. 
When Paris OEnon hoped to forsake,  
It would to Xanthus with all speed betake.  
Xanthus' make haste, return thou back again,  
That so this Paris OEnon may sustain.      

CAP. 14. The second Connexive Syllogism.  


Q. What is the second manner of the connexed syllogism?  
A. The second manner of the connexed syllogism taketh away the consequent, that it may take away the antecedent.   

Q. Give example?  
A. 

If a wise man assent to any thing, sometimes also he shall be opinionated.  
But he shall never be opinionated.  
Therefore shall he assent to nothing.     

Qu. Give another example?  
A. By the like syllogism Ovid. Trist. 12. judgeth his foolishness. 
If I where wise those sisters I should hate;  
Deities hurtful to whom on them wait.  
But now so great my foolishness is seen:  
I build them altars whom my hurt have been.   
These two kinds of the Syllogism are most usual of all.     

CAP. 15. The first disjunct Syllogism  


Q. What is the disjunct syllogism?  
A. The disjunct syllogism is the syllogism composed of a disjunct proposition.   

Q. What are the manners of distinction?  
A. Two.   

Q. What is the first?  
A. The first taketh away one and concludeth the rest.   

Q. Give example?  
A. 

Either it is day, or it is night.  
But it is not day.  
It is therefore night.     

Q. Give another example?  
A. The judgement of Cicero in defence of Cluventias' is such: but when as this condition was proposed to him, that either he should accuse justly and piously, or die sharply or unworthily: he would rather accuse after that manner, the die after this.   

Q. Make the disjunction appear clearer?  
A. 

Either he must accuse or die.  
He must not die.  
He must accuse therefore.     

Qu. Give another example?  
A. There is the like reasoning, Phil. 2. Dost thou not understand it is determined, that either those who have done this thing are homicides or revengers of liberty? But attend a little and take the thoughts of a sober man for a little time, and I who am of them, as myself doth confess, will familiarly argue with thee as a fellow: I deny that there is any mean: I grant that they are, except they be deliverers and conservers of the Roman Commonwealth more than villainy, more than homicides, more parricides: if truly it be cruelty, rather to be a father to the country, than a murderer of ones self. Thou art a wise and considerate man what sayest thou? if they be parricides, why were they honoured of thee, and called to this order by the Roman people? why was Marcus Brutus by thy means freed from the law, if he were absent more than ten days from the city? why did Apolinares receive Marcus Brutus with incredible honour? why was the provinces given to Cassius and Brutus, why were their questors added? why were the number of Legates increased, and this done by thee? they are not therefore homicides. It followeth then that by thine own judgement they are deliverers, when as truly there can be no third admitted.   

Q. If the parts of the disjunct proposition shall be more than two, how shall they be judged then?  
A. The art of judging them and concluding them shall be the same.   

Q. Give example?  
A. So Cicero judged Rabitious to be among the Consuls. And we see (saith he) these three to be in the nature of things, to wit, that either he should be with Saturninus, or with the good, or that he should lie hid. But to lie hid is proper to the dead and rotten: to be with Saturninus of fury and wickedness: virtue, and honesty, and shamefacedness constrained him to be with the Consuls.     

CAP. 16. The second disjunct syllogism.  


Q. What is the second disjunct?  
A. The second disjunct, from the proposition the affirmative assumeth one, and taketh away the rest.   

Q. Give example?  
A. 

It is day or it is night.  
But it is day,  
It is not therefore night.     

Q. Give another example after this manner?  
A. Thus Juno concludeth with Jove touching Turnus, Aeneid. 10. 
What if thou sayest the thing thou dost not mean,  
end should to Turnus give his life again?  
Now I remain in misery and woe,  
And hope for that which will not happen so:  
But rather than this ill should come to pass,  
I'll mock myself, and hope past hope alas.    

Q. Show another syllogism of this kind?  
A. There is the like syllogism effected from a proposition copulative negative, which is called negative complexion, and which obtaineth the force of an affirmative disjunction.   

Q. Give example?  
A. 

It is not both day and night,  
But it is day,  
It is not therefore night.       

CAP. 17. The only method according to Aristotle.  


Q. What is method?  
A. Method is a dianoia of divers homogene axioma, preposed for the clearness of their nature, from whence the agreeing amongst themselves of them are judged and comprehended in memory.   

Q. What is to be considered in method?  
A. As verity and falsity is beheld in the axioma, consequence and inconsequence in the syllogism; so in method it is to be considered that by it the more clear may precede, the more obscure may follow, and that altogether order and confusion be judged.   

Q. Make this plainer?  
A. After this manner is disposed from homogene axiomas in the first place, by an absolute notion, the first; in the second place the second, in the third place the third, and so forwards   

Q. It seemeth by this that method doth continually pass from universals to singulars?  
A. So it is, for by this sole and only way it proceedeth from antecedents altogether, and absolute notions, to the declaring of unknown consequences: and this is the only method that Aristotle taught.     

CAP. 18. The first illustration of methods by illustration of arts.  


Q. But do not examples set forth this head more clearly?  
A. Yes, the examples of doctrines and arts do chief demonstrate and set forth the unity of method, in the which, although all the rules are general and universal, yet the degrees of them are distinguished: and by how much every thing shall be more general, by so much it shall more precede.   

Q. Why shall the first be in the most general place and order?  
A. Because in light and knowledge it is first.   

Q. Why shall the subalternates follow?  
A. Because in their clearness they are next.   

Q. It seemeth by this that those things which by nature are more known shall precede, those which are less known are substitute, and at length the most special follow?  
A. So it is.   

Q. What then shall precede pand be first?  
A. The most general definition must be first.   

Q. What shall follow?  
A. The distribution.   

Q. But how if there be many?  
A. Then the partition in perfect parts shall precede.   

Q. What shall follow?  
A. The division into kinds.   

Q. What then?  
A. The parts themselves and the kinds are in the same order to be handled and defined again in which they were distributed.   

Q. What further is required?  
A. If there shall be a long explication of them, they are to be chained together by the chains of transcition.   

Q. What benefit redoundeth from hence?  
A. It refresheth and recreateth the auditor.   

Q. But may not example be under this head?  
A. Yes, as a more familiar thing is taken, so a more familiar example must be used.   

Q. Give example of what you have here shown out of the art of Grammar?  
A. All definitions, distributions, are found in the rules of Grammar, and every one of them severally judged; and all these documents inscribed in divers tables, are confounded and mingled together as it were in a certain pot.   

Q. What part of Logic teacheth us to compose these confused Rules and digest them into order: first there is no need of the places of invention, when as they are all found: neither in the first judgement of axiomas, when as every axioma is proved and valued: neither of the second judgement of the syllogism, when as all of them are disputed and concluded controversies of several things by these only syllogisms; it seemeth therefore to be only method, is it not?  
A. Yes it is only method,   

Qu. How is it done?  
A. The Logician by this light of artificial method selected out of this pot the definition of Grammar; (for that is most general) and placeth it in the first place: Grammar is the doctrine of speaking well. Then he taketh out of the same Oven the partit on of Grammar, and placeth it in the second place. The part 1 of Grammar are two; Etymology and Syntaxis. Then outs of the same vessel he separateth the definition of Etymology of words, and joineth it in the third place to those that go before: then he seeketh out parts of words in letters and syllables, and the kinds in words of number, and without number; and placeth them with their transcitions in their several places. And so the definitions of all the parts of Etimolog, together with their distributions, colligations, and most special examples he placeth in their several places, and so likewise in the Syntax. This way all the arts have proposed to themselves.     

CAP. 19 The second example of Method by example of Poets, Orators, Historiographers.  


Q. But is method only set forth in matter of the arts and doctrine?  
A. No, it is also declared in all things which we would teach easily and plainly. Therefore Poets, Orators, and all manner of writers, as often as they propose any thing to teach to their auditors, do follow this way; although they do not enter and insist upon it all alike.   

Q. Give an example out of some Poet?  
Virgil in his Georgics distributeth, as I said before, the proposed matter into four parts; and in the first book followeth common things: as Astrology, Meteorology, and of Corn and Tillage; this was the first part of his work. Then the transcition is adhibited in the beginning of the second book. 
Thus far of tillage and of stars were we;  
Now of the Bacchus we'll sing presently.   
Then he writeth generally of trees, as also specially of plants; the second transcition is adhibited to the third part, but more imperfect and without an Epilogue. In the beginning of the third book of Oxen, Horses, Sheep, Goats, Dogs. 
We'll sing of Goddess Pales, all's of him,  
Who by Amphryso kept his sheep most trim.   
At length in the beginning of the fourth book, there is the third transcition of the fourth part; but also imperfect from the only preposition of their Bees. 
Now of their eyre honey Bee I'll speak.   
So therefore the Poet studieth to place the most general first, the subalternate middle, the most special in the last place.   

Q. Give another poetical example?  
A. Ovid. in Fast. Useth this kind of disposition, proposing in the beginning the sum of his work. 
I'll sing of times that pass throughout the year,  
Fall of the stars, and rising I'll declare.   
By and by having made imploration, he determineth the partition of the year made first by Romulus into ten months, which he reprehendeth. 
When as Rome's builder did the year divide,  
In it he made five months, and five beside.   
And a little after he adjoineth Numa his more full devisor. 
But Numa neither Janus did omit,  
Nor yet the ancient shadows out did put:  
But to th'old months too more appointed be.   
Here the Poet having interpreted the common differences of Holidays, Working-days, Banquet-days, Kalends, Nones, Ideses; at the last he followeth every month in his place, and with a preface after this order he passeth from generals to the study of specials. 
I th' what I have you shown what things be,  
It now remains, we part them presently.   
At length after the exposition of every part, the transcition is joined as in the end of the first, and beginning of the second book. 
The first part of my task is ended now,  
The month is done my little book also:  
Janus is done, another month beginneth?  
Another book now with that month reneweth;   
And in every one of his books after the transcitions are adhibited, but less accurately.   

Q. How do the Orators follow this method?  
A. The Orators in Poems, Narrations, Confirmations, Perorations do follow this order, as the nature both of the art, and the order of the thing do require, and sometimes more studiously too.   

Q. Give example?  
A. Cicero in an accusation first by propounding, then by parting, followeth this order. Questor Cu. paxeris, saith he, thou hast been Consul unto this time fourteen years, and from that day unto this day in which thou hast made me, I call thee unto judgement; there was no void hour found in robbery, wickedness, cruelty, iniquity. This is the proposition and definition of the chief matter, as in this judgement most generral. The partition followeth: These are the years consumed in the questorship, and a Sciatican embassage, and the Urban praetorship, and in the Sicilian praetorship: wherefore this shall be the fourfold disposition of my accusation; which four parts with their particular partitions he hath also handled in their several order and place, and coupled them with transcitions; the three first in the third book. Wherefore (saith he) his questorship being showed, and his first magistracy, together with his theft and wickedness looked unto, let us attend to the rest. Then having expounded the faults of his embassadorship, the transcition to his praetorship, followeth. But let us now come to that famous praetorship, and those faults which were more known to those which were present, then to us who come meditated and prepared to pleading. This transcition is more imperfect without an epilogue: at length in the beginning of the fourth oration, there is the like transcition to the fourth part of the Sicilian praetorship. Many necessary things, O Judges, I must pretermit, that I may in some manner speak of those things which are committed to my trust, for I have received the cause of Sicilia, that province hath drawn me unto this business.   

Q. Give an example ott of some Historiographer?  
A. Livy doth so embrace the sum of seventy years in the beginning, then divideth them by ten.     

CAP. 20. The Secrets of Method.  


Q. It seemeth that in the divers axiomatical homogenes, as also in the judgement of the syllogism, the notes of method shall be as often as any thing is taught clearly: but is there no other kind of method?  
A. Yes, when as the auditor shall be deceived in a certain part with delectation, and a greater motion then certain homogenes are rejected, as the lights of definition, partition, and transcition: and certain heterogenes are assumed; as digressions from the matter, and commemorations upon the thing; but chief the order of things in the beginnings is turned over, and certain antecedents are put after consequents. Therefore to that rule of perfect method, this may seem somewhat more imperfect; the form is not only lame things being detracted; or abounding, things being added; but also the order of it being inverted by certain degrees, is preposterous.   

Q. Give an example of it?  
A. The like the Poet maketh with a certain greater kind of artificialness, while he propoundeth to himself to lead the people. Viz. the beast like heads of the multitude, and therefore he deceived divers ways, he beginneth in the middle, and there oftentimes he comprehendeth the first; to conclude the last he placeth in an uncertain and an unthought of chance. So as (Horace saith) Homer disposeth his Iliads. 
Ne doth this man Troy's Wars divide so well,  
He always maketh haste the vent to tell:  
Even in the midst his reader he doth catch;  
Leaves off his tract, with haste from it doth snatch.  
And thus he lies, thus mingles false with true;  
So that ne first nor midst in it I view.    

Q. Proceed to further example?  
A. So Virgil taketh Aeneas from Sicilia, and makes a narration of him in the banquet of Carthage; and at last bringeth in his divers troubles. So the Commedian Poets, although with great judgement they have distinguished their Comedies by Acts and Scenes, yet do so effect, that all things seem to be done by chance. The Orators attribute all to victory. Therefore this seemeth to be placed chief by them, not so much to teach as to persuade; when as also those things which do equally excel, are kept even unto the last, and the means are conferred into the middle, according to Homer's disposition.      
FINIS.   

GENEROSI LUDENTES  
A Description of those Jovial al-a-mode sports and games, that are most celebrated by Persons of Honor.  

A brief Description of the sport of Cross Purposes.  
EVery one round the Company are to whisper their Questions about, which are to be concealed, till every Question is gone round, and afterwards every man is to tell aloud what question he was asked, and what answer was given him to his question; it may be in more, but I will only for brevity give you a plain example in three Persons; The first was asked in secret of all complexions, which he liked best, the answer was whispered a black Woman; the second was asked in secret; how many women he had lain withal in his life, to which he whispered, as many as he had fingers and toes; the third was secretly asked, what kind of pleasure he found in lying with a woman, to which he whispered this answer, pretty pleasant encounters; Now for the publishing of this sport, it must be thus managed, the first was asked what complexion he liked best in a woman, the cross answer to his purpose was, as many as he had fingers and toes, the second was asked, how many women he had lain with, the cross answer was pretty pleasant encounters; the third was asked, what kind of pleasure he found in lying with a woman, the cross answer was a black woman, and so it goes circling round according to the number of the Persons.   

The Description of the sport called the Lover's Alphabet.  


FIrst it mst be said, what good quality a Mistress is to be loved for.  
Secondly, what bad qualities she is to be hated for.  
Thirdly, her name.  
Fourthly, what part about her you love best.  
Fifthly, what sign you invited her to.  
Sixthly, what dish of meat you treated her with.   This may be do successively by all 〈◊〉 the Company throughout the Alphahet, I will only instance a plain example in the letter A. 

First, I love my Love with an A, because she is Amiable.  
Secondly, I hate her with an A, because she is Apish.  
Thirdly, her name is Alcinda.  
Fourthly, the best part about her is her Arme.  
Fifthly, I invited her to the sign of the Artichoak.  
Sixthly, I gave here a dish of Asparagus.     

The sport of Questions and Commands is inserted at the beginning of the Book, Page 13, as also the sport of Crambo is contained in a Dictionary, Page 223.   

The Description of the sport of the Bird in a Tree.  


FIrst the name of the Tree.  
Secondly, the name of the Bird.  
Thirdly, what the Bird said;    
all which must begin with the same letter; as for example, though it may be done throughout the whole Alphabet, I will only give an instance in P.  
Going through an Orchard, I spied a Peacock which sat upon a Plum-Tree, and cried Peter, Plucked, Placket.   

The Description of the sport of Gliphing.  
IT chief consists in the quick pronouncing of a sentence, hard to be uttered without a wanton or some other unlucky kind of merry mistake, it runs on chief with one letter of the Alphabet; as for example, the Cock sat at the barn door picking, Poppy Cock, Pick Poppy, etc. the several gamesters posting through the Letters of the Alphabet, by turns, as fast as they can speak, that the mistakes may the sooner provoke laughter.   

A Description of a sport, called the Cra●, or a thing done, and who did it.  
FOR the better understanding of this recreation, the places are to be distributed, and sundry names to be invented, as they shall follow in the sport; for example Phantaste she gins, I imagine saith she a thing done: Heidon thinks, who did it; Moria, with what was it done; Anaides where it was done; Argureon, when it was done; Amophus, for what cause was it done; Philantia, what followed upon the doing of it; Asotus who would have done it better; One asks what is it conceived about, they all answer yes, yes. Then speak you sir, says Phantaste; who would have done it better, says Asotus, how does it begin at me, Phantaste, gives him a reason, and says yes sir, this play is called the Crab, it gins backwards; Asotus says may I not name myself, Phantaste answers yes sir if you Please to abide the venture of it, Asotus then says I would have done it better whatsoever it is, Phil. no doubt on't sir, a good confidence▪ what followed upon the act, Phil. a few heat drops, and a month's mirth, Pha. for what cause, Amo. for the delight o● Ladies, Phag, when, Arg. last progress, Pha. where. Ana▪ why in a pair of painted slops, Pha. with what, Mor, with a Glister, Pha. who, Headsman by a Traveller, Phantaste then reveals the subject, till then concealed, says she, the thing done was, an Oration was made, afterwards they all of them in order rehearse an Oration was made, Headsman by a Traveller, Mor. with a Glister, Ana. in a pair of painted slops, Au g. the last progress, Amo. for the delight of Ladies, Phi. a few heat drops and a month's mirth, followed, Pha, and this silent Gentleman Mr. Asotus would have done it better.   

A Description of the witty sport of Substantives and Adjectives.  
FOR the more easy apprehension of this recreation, I will make use of the former names used in the game at Crab. Phantaste says I have thought, speak your Adjectives sirs. Phi. but do not you change then, Pha. not I, who says Mor. Odoriferous, Phi. Popular, Arg. Humble, Ana. white-livered, Headsman Barbarous, Amo. Pythagorical, Headsman yours signior, Asotus says, what must I do sir, Amo. bids him give forth his Adjectives with the rest as prosperous, good, fair, sweet, well— Head, tells him he may speak any thing that hath not been spoken. Aso. answers why then we●… spoken shall be his, Pha. says what have you all done, they all cry yes. Phantaste then tells them that the Substantive i● breeches, and then she says to moria, why are they Odoriferous. Mor. Answers that which contains most variety of savours and smells, we say is most odoriferous, now breeches are presumed to be incident to that variety, and therefore odoriferous breeches: Pha. answers well, we must take i● what's next Philantia. why popular breeches. Phil. marr● that is says she when they are not content to be generally noted in Court, but will press forth on Stages and Broke●… stalls, to the common view of the world. Pha. good, wh●… humble breeches Argurion. Arg. he answers humble, becaus●… they use to be sat upon, besides if you tie them not up, the●… property is to fall about your heels. Pha. but why white ●…verd Anaides. Ana. answer, why are not their linings whi●… besides when they come in Company, and will pocket 〈◊〉 any injury or abuse, may they not properly be said to b●… white liver'd. Pharaoh, yes we must not deny it, but w●… barbarous Hedon. Hedon. answers, because commonly when you have worn your breeches sufficiently, you give them to your Barber. Pha. that's good, but Amorphus why Pythagolical breeches. Amo. oh most kindly of all, it is a conceit of that fortune I am bold to hug my brain for. Pha. how is it exquisite, Amorphus. Amo. oh I am rapt with it, it is so fit, so proper, so happy— Pha. you trifle and prolong time for to study, come you shall no longer rack our expectations. Amo: I never truly relished myself till now, give me your ears, breeches pythagorical, by reason of their transmigration into several shapes. Pha. Most rare, but now Mr. Asotus for your well spoken breeches. Aso. well spoken, I marry well spoken— because whatsoever they speak is well taken, and whatsoever is well taken, is well spoken. Mor. oh most excellent believe me! Aso. not so Ladies neither. Pha. but now why breeches. Asot. most fortunately etymologized, breeches quasi bear riches, when a gallant bears all his riches, in his breeches.    

The Trial of wits, a new invented Alphabet of Epithets, properly applied to their several subjects, that they may be rendered no less useful on the sudden occasions of discourse, or writing; then delightfully pleasant in the witty sport commonly named Substantives and Adjectives.  
Aspect. 
SMiling, favourable, sad, Tragical, stern, grim, gracious, generous, winning.  Allurements. 
Sweet, false, flattering, lovely, deceitful, attractive, wooing, Sirenian-inveigling, Cozening, Treacherous.  Affections. 
Passionate, transporting, vehement, ardent, hearty, burning, intranceing, amorous, inordinate, disordered, melting, blind, doting, tyrannical, wanton, thoughtful.  Aire. 
Moist, fleeting, pliant, free, whispering, spicy, guilded▪ diffused, yielding, moving, unwounded, dewy, sounding▪ empty, dispersed, nimble, breathing, melting, sharp, soft▪ wandering, liquid, enlightened, transparent, subtie.  Absence. 
Tedious, prolonged, constrained, unwelcome, forgetful▪ envious.  Apparel. 
Magnificent, costly, gaudy, fashionable, neat, sumptuous▪ gorgeous, spruce, decent, rich, trim.  Accomplishment. 
Absolute, perfect, blessed, admirable, desired, wished.  Adeiu. 
Sad, last, tedious, linger, sighed, grieved, loathed.  Bawd. 
Shameless, impudent, alluring, training, old, drunken loathsome, fat, painted, goatish, lustful, rampant, beastly, obscene, pocky, lascivious, brotheld, withered, lying, cheating, pocketpicking.  Breath. 
Ambrosian, sweet perfumed, spicy, nectared, musky, rosied, stinking, poisoned, strong, blasting,  Body. 
Straight, crooked, slender, voluptuous, sensual, healthful, diseaseful, rotten,  Breasts. 
Soft, snowy, milk-white, alabaster, tender, pressed, veined, spicy, delicious, flowing, luxuriant, warm, azure, melting, pregnant, amorous, maiden, inticeing alluring, flowery, delightful, inveigling, enamouring.  Beauty. 
Fresh, smiling, entranceing, spotless, triumphant, admirable, incomparable, glorious, inexpresseable, wyring, enamouring, persuasive, counting, resistless, cometed, desired, wished, celestial, divine, rosye, angelical, supreme, ravishing, heavenly, spotless, unsullied, bright, shining, sparkling, flaming, immortal, lascivious, wanton, radant, civil, modest, attractive, intrancing, enchanting, charming, chaste, dazzling, assailing, murdering, imperious, commanding, inticeing, alluring, murdering, kill, blazening, heart-winning, soul-invading, commanding, conquering, wounding, captivating, enslaveing, bewitching, inaccessible, perceiving, exquisite, transparent, spruce, neat, comely, pleasing, delightful, magnetic.  Coyness. 
Peevish, pettish, slighting, dissembling, squeamish, froward, scorning, contemning, disdainful, untoward, angry, tempting.  Courtier. 
Complimental, glittering, lascivious, wanton, costly, expensive, sportive, smooth, royal, proud, glorious, gaudy Oily, supple, neat, polished, spruce, silken, smoothfaced, fairspoken, well-tounged: silkworm, perfidious, fantastic, running, sprightly, talking, glittering, flaunting, starched, deceitful, accomplished.  Cruelty. 
Murdering, destroying, raging, barbarous, scythian, marblehearted, flinty, savage, wolvish, inhuman, tigress, odious abhorred, detested, remorseless, dogged, incensed, bloody, grim, stern, haughty, dreadful, devouring, frowning, awful, tyrannical.  Charms. 
Powerful, enchanting, perplexing, potent, binding, imperious, commanding, forceing, ceremonious, mysterious.  Cheeks. 
Bashful, rosy, smiling, lovely, silken, delicious, blushing, tempting, ambrosian, gentle, swelling, plump, smooth, soft, beautiful.  Complaint. 
Mournful, whining, puling, piteous, sighing, sad, doleful, soft, womanish, amorous, passionate, bitter, male-contented, groaning, just, inward, weeping, wailing.  Compliment. 
Generous, ceremonious, courtly, refined, curious, eloquent, needless, trustless, fantastical, apish, improper.  Chin. 
Dimpled, bonny, hairy, well-tacht, bushy, slaverd, stubled, smooth, dainty, delicate, lovely.  Comedy. 
Jovial, Hymeneal, fresh, gay, clapping, amorous, Nuptial, plauditizing.  Cherries. 
Plump, soft, tender, blushing, delicious, pleasant, luscious.  Countenance. 
Graceful, modest, comely, handsome, beautiful, amorous, lovely, generous, sweet, lively sprightly, disdainful, joyful, smiling, pleasing, winning, wooing, sparkling, attractive, admirable, ugly, stern, audacious impudent, grim, grave, severe frowning, lowering, disguised, affected, distracted pouting, mournful, dreadful, lightsome, cheerful, supercilious, blushing, sad, sour, dissembling.  Curls. 
Shining, crispy, neat, graceful, waveing, beauteous, frizzled, uncomposed, twisted, pleated, braded, rusled, dispersed, dangled, scattered, silken, flowing,  Destiny. 
Remorseless, unrelenting, surprising, truthless, inevitable, blind, unmoved, severe, deaf, inflexible, inexorable, cruel, unbribed, imperious, commanding, unchanged, triumphant, mysterious, adamantine, fixed, unconquered, compelling, , eternal, fatal, uncontrolled, impartial, tyrannising, overruling, exacting, importuning, arresting, blind, unavoided, inevitable.  Delay. 
Freezing, dull, lingering, tedious, comfortless, weary, sad, pensive, slow, snaile-paced, lazy, tardy, cold, fruitless, vain.  Dove. 
Trembling, courteous, gentle, wanton, simple, sprightly, panting, timorous, billing, amorous, fearful, airy, piercing, harmless, melancholy, silly, venerous, mourning, clipping, gentle, whispering, swift, weak, wheeling, turtle, fleet-winged, tender, Idalian.  Desires. 
Melting, effeminate, wanton, soft, sensual, enamoring, dallying, intrancing, pleasant, luxurious, wished, tickling, lose, tempting, riotous, superfluous, courtly, princely, royal, voluptuous, carnal.  Danceing. 
Swimming, lascivious, graceful, courtly, flowing, nimble, tripping, measured, inamouring, sportive, wanton, attractive, wellordered, moving, modest, wel-timed, pleasing, winning, allureing.  Delights. 
Melting, effeminate, wanton, soft, sensual, inamouring, dallying, intrancing, pleasant, luxurious, desired, tickling, lose, tempting, rioutous, superfluous, courtly, princely, royal.  Disdain. 
Coy, scornful, arrogant, proud, envious, unkind, chaste, wry-mouthed, sore-eyed, pettish, insolent, haughty, peevish, swelling, squinteyed.  Despair. 
Hopeless, dark, grim, ugly, pensive, heavy, dull, sorrowful, comfortless, cold, faithless, damned, ugly, dark, gloomy, meager, stern, sighing, groaning, weeping, sullen, dull, drowsy, doleful.  Dreams. 
Vain, deluding, fantastic, pale, disastrous, distracting, doubtful, flattering, busy, senseless, flying, careful, lying, wand'ring, ominous, pleasing, sensual, bewitching, auspicious, black, slippery, carnal.  Eloquence. 
Persuasive, nectar, drooping, captivating, bewitching, charming, enchanting, intrancing, commanding, winning, wooing, delicious, smooth, oily, ravishing, soft, rich, acquaint, courtly, insinuating, victorious, triumphant, glorious, tickling, insulting, invading, subtle, conquering, tempting, painted, insinuating, glozeing, inveigling, deceitful, polished, sweet-tongued, grave, ciceronian, happy, attractive, circumventing, fancy, tickling, overcoming, successful.  Ecstasy. 
Soule-rapt, amazed, ravished, removed out of the right mind, astonished, lost in admiration.  Ears. 
Listening, attentive, glowing, whispering, enquiring, winding, judging,  Elegy. 
Waleing, lamenting, whining, mourning, puling, weeping, amorous, bawdy, wanton.  Eunuch. 
Smoothfaced, delicate, effeminate, soft, unmanly, womanish, smooth-chinned.  Entertainment 
Glorious, costly, gracious, courteous, welcome, loving, friendly, pompous, fair, kind, rich, profuse, liberal, hearty, sumptuous, magnificent.  Eyes 
Sparkling, flaming, dazzling, burning, twinkling, passionate, weeping, lascivious, lively, lovely, wounding, melting, inveigling, charming, traitorous, wanton, persuasive, rolling, inflaming, pleatling, greedy, scorching, smiling, beauteous, glistering, starry, discursive, betraying, beamy, attractive, wandering, inflaming, commanding, inamouring, transparent, cheerful, soul-wounding, modest, assailing, bashful, lustful, intentive, courting, tempting, triumphant, conquering, notorious.  Embraces. 
Wanton, warm, strict, joyful, greely, mutual, delicious, dear, sweet, pleasant, amorous, ardent, fervent, inseparable, growing together, soft, close, circling, grasping, twisting, twining, loving, fruitful.  Farewell. 
Sad, grievous, loathed, tedious, lingering, last, pensive.  Feet 
Delicate, tender, soft, beauteous, swift, flying, tripping, wanton, nimble, swift, paced, active, ivory, snowy, silver, stalking, trampling,  Fancy. 
Quick, working, pregnant, nimble, contriving, active, stirring, roaming, vagrant, roving, industrious, plotting, studious, plodding, wand'ring, projecting, ranging, forging, working, teeming, busy, coining, spinning, enriched, wealthy, industrious, travelling.  Forehead 
Smooth, sleek, stately, beauteous, delicious, majestic, comely, polisht-ivory.  Fairies. 
Dairy, hunting, green, clothed, nimble, right-walking, dancing, tripping, sprightly, nipping, pinching, sporting, silent, soft-footed, light.  Fortune. 
Inconstant, fickle, blind, hoodwinked, disastrous, slippery perfidious, froward, malicious, wanton, flattering, deluding, injurious, wayward, unlucky, malignant, imperious, domineering, tyrannising, treacherous, commanding, insolent, envious, stepdame, dreadful, peevish, uncertain, wheeling, giglot, deluding.  Fountain. 
Silver, glideing, purling, pearly, crystal, gushing, prattling, twatly, weeping, rolling, sweet, sparkling, flowing, glideing, bubbling, chideing, running, sacred, grass, fringed, moss, margend, trickling, delicate, straggling, wand'ring, dancing, whispering, fluent, clear.  Frenzy. 
Hot, roveing, chafeing, choleric, furious, untamed.  Flower. 
Perfumed, sweet, smiling, verdant, spicy, enamelled, gaudy, chequered, fragrant, pregnant, pied, painted, blushing, vernal, freckled, glittering, delicious, musky, short-lived, tufted, unspotted, lovely, swelling, odorous, vermilion, purple, silver, diapered, fadeing.  Face. 
Beautiful, bewitching, inamouring, smiling, lovely, roseate, enchanting, inamouring, entrancing, attractive, heart-wounding, charming, sweet, admirable, captivating, unparaleld, wanton, pensive, lowering, frowning, winning, soul-conquering.  Fate. 
Irresistible, inexorable, cruel, restless, rugged, flinty, remorseless, unmoved, unchanged, uncontrolled, surly.  Fingers. 
Slender, soft, delicate, nimble, quavering, sleek, long, small, active, pliant, industrious, ivory, wanton, trembling, alabaster.  Fruit. 
Sweet, well-tasted, delicious, dangling, sweet-smelling, lean, enwrapped, mellow, green, yellow, golden, blushing, lean, enwrapped, hanging, painted, delightful, autumnal, expected, desired, nectared, ambrosial.  Frown. 
Disdainful, proud, angry, coy, surly, lowering, scowling, kill, murdering, discontented, cloudy browed, tempestuous, imperious, domineering, supercilious, tyrannising, lawful.  Glory. 
Shining, painted, ambitious, costly, swelling, amazing, pompous, dazzling, radiant, triumphant, victorious, immortal, windy, fleeting, fading, insolent, desired, inflaming.  Grass. 
Pleasant, green, plusht, rich, verdant, springing, flowery, tufted, dasied, tender, deary, hereby, pleasant, moist, chequered, enameled, crisped, fadeing, withered.  Grape. 
Soft, plump, nectareous, pleasant, cluttered, blushing, swelling, purple, youthful, viny, dangling, delicious, generous, juicy, wanton, cheering, lusty, bleeding.  Grove. 
Solitary, unfrequented, silent, shady, close, levy, melancholy, lovely, solitary, forsaken, sullen, dark, unknown, remote, gloomy, mossy, echoing, delightful, tufted, quiet, obscure, dusky, cloudy, secret.  Honor. 
Popular, enthroned, glorious, shining, prodigious, bright, blazing, gaudy, pompous, swelling, magnificent, glittering radiant, triumphant, inflamed, waxen-winged, timpanized '  Heart. 
Bleeding, wounded, melting, marble, tender, obstinate, relenting, adamantine, flinty, cruel, passionate, pitiful, thoughtful, obdurate.  Hair. 
Spreading, witty, golden, dangling, glittering, radiant, curling, tresses, careless, braided, silken, scattered, shining, pleated, ruffled, fluent, artless, snarled, disheveled, discomposed, dispersed, ambrosial, fragrant, graceful, waveing, beauteous, fragrant, crisped, spangled, delightful, lovely, pleasant, fettering, bushy, frizzled, rosiate, shady.  Hands. 
Ivory, snowy, marble, lily, alabaster, well proportioned ' beauteous, ambrosial, veinie, nervious, delicate, velvet, trembling, white, active, slender.  Happiness. 
Desired, unexpressible, unfathomed, endless, enamoring, soft, ravishing, undisturbed, uninterrupted.  Harmony. 
Enchanting, ravishing, seraphic, celestial, according, agreeing, numerous, sweet, pleasant, melodious, joyous, gladsome, soule-raping, intranceing, charming, measured, invading.  Head. 
Towering, majestical, lofty, stately.  Hate 
Heart, gnawing, cankered, festered, fretting, mortal, inveterate, deadly, irreconcilable, rancourd, feud, revengeful, heart-gnawing, rooted.  Jealousy. 
Hellish, trembling, enraged, suspicious, heart burning, selfe-wounding, soul mar●yring, plae, groundless, raging, wakeful, wary, timorous, fearful, causeless, furious, peevish, cautelous, hateful, revengeful, brutish, ●ottish, q●icksighted, yellow, ghostly, raving, suggesting, rival, waking, outrageous, searching, impatient, unhappy, blind, boiling, tormenting, frantic, distempered, stern, insaged, lean-chop, wrathful, surmizing, transporting.  Flattery. 
Smooth, Oily, Courtly, base, slavish, servile, subtle, crouching, clawing, tempting, collogueing, honey-mouthed, sweet-tongued, glozing, insinuating, lisping, obsequious, dissembling, gilt-tongue, melting, officious, windy, cogging, pick-thankt, sugared, pliant, fawning, treacherous, circamventing, deluding, wily, crafty, sly, glasse-faced, fairspoken, smooth-tongued, daubing winning, deluding.  Fields. 
Gawdy, painted, flowery, tufted, chequered, grassy, sportive, spacious, wide, green, pleasant, delightful, open, inamel'd, dasied, smiling, verdant, hereby, fragrant, diapered, fruitful, pregnant, embroidered.  Flames. 
Aspiring, mounting, towering, raging, licentious, insultive, catching, devouring, wirling, sparkling, embracing, subtle, amorous, courting, greedy, lurking, nimble, searching, glowing, ruddy, radiant, flashing, furious, embosomed, piercing, scorching, glittering, climbing, impetuous, violent, untamed, bright, self-consuming, cheerful, lightsome, proud, ambitious, destroying, pursuing.  Flea. 
Bloodthirsty, nipping, biteing, disturbing, peevish, sipping sucking, twitching.  Forrest. 
Leafy, woody, shady, hoary, verdant, savage, gloomy, mossy, shaggy, beast-hunted, bushy, silent, shrubby, echoing, spacious, mast-bearing, dreadful, grassy, wild, desert, rough, rocky, wide, devious, melancholy, uncouth, pathless, unfrequented.  Fear. 
Pale, trembling, startling, wary, palsied, presageing, faint, chilling, jealous, sallow, reverential, ominous, superstitious, heartless, ●old, guilty ●overing, sullen, suspicious, anxious, bloodless, distracted, unresolved, doubtful, ignominious, restless, creame-faced, pale-hearted, ghostly, projecting, icy, suggesting, degenerate, puling, unresolved.  Gentleman. 
Courtly, gallant, generous, noble, valiant, honoured, brave, free-hearte, high-spirited, ingenuous, famous, illustrious.  Garden. 
Painted, flowery, gaudy, embroidered, bordered, squared, knotted, enclosed, diapered, leveled, sweet, lovely, verdant, fragrant, well-dressed, delicious, smiling, hereby, pleasant, fruitful, enamelled, chequered, painted, delightful.  Gesture. 
Stately, courteous, speaking, flowing, gentle, seemly, comely, graceful, winning, unaffected, gracious, composed▪ free, handsome, lovely, ingratiating, pleasing, haughty.  Grief. 
Whining, puling, complaining, heart-tearing, contracting, rending, kill, embosomed, heart-confounding, drooping, melancholy, eye-wringing, unbounded, gnawing torturing, impatient, inexpressible, heart-breaking, pinching, pettish, peevish, dreary, doleful, oppressing, fretting, froward, sullen, gloomy, whimpering, melting, froward, wayward, gnawing.  Gloves. 
Fringed, embroidered, perfumed, fragrant, white, furred, musky, trimmed, fashionable, gentle, handsome, spruce, neat.  Ingratitude. 
Odious, shameful, fowl, base, loathsome, nasty, filthy, stinking.  Instrument. 
Well tuned, melodious, harmonious, consorting, according, laborious, sounding.  Jewels. 
Sparkling, glittering, rich, costly, pendant, radiant, flaming, precious, airy, enlightening, unvaluable.  Insolence. 
Haughty, arrogant, disdainful, triumphant, swelling, stately, proud, puffed, souring, tyrannising, brow-beating, scornful, imperious, strutting, ambitious, presumptuous, rash, disrespective, audacious, ruffling, rustling, supercilious, surly, bold, respectless, fantastic, lofty, towering, mounting, insulting.  Innocence. 
Dovelike, soft, quiet, peaceful, spotless, unsullied, unstained, harmless, untainted, snowy, pure, clear, bright, simple, chaste, lillied, calm, unimpeached, guiltless, blanched, meek, blameless, religious, pious, sacred.  Importunity. 
Undeniable, unmannerly, unhandsome, uncivil, uncomely, impatient, unanswered, courtly, urging, odious, forcing.  Inconstancy. 
Wavering, wheeling, turning, changing, light, vaineairy, mutable, moving, floating.  Influence. 
Heavenly, celestial, virtuous, gracious, propitious, favourable, generous, vigorous, powerful, masculine, unresisting, smiling, happy, frowning, malignant, disastrous.  Impudence. 
Brazen, scared, steeled, unblushing, shamless, audacious. bold, brasse-browed, boldfaced, insolent, proud, arrogant, undaunted, fancy, fearless, unawed, shallow, headstrong, immodest, shame-confounding.  Joy. 
Transporting, heart-chearing, active, lightsome, diffusive, nuptial, fresh, enchanting, soft, imparadising, balmy, deluding, deceitful, pleasing, fleeting, trembling, transitory, attractive, frisking, danceing, leaping, melting, enlarging, smiling, intranceing, ravishing, bursting, delicious, luxurious, tickling.  Knee. 
Ceremonious, supple, complemental, humble, obsequious, adoring, bended, cringing, crouching, honouring, sinewy, willing, obedient, suppliant, bowing.  Kisses. 
Tempting, wooing, delicious, spicy, balmy, impressive, zealous, uniting, soul-transfusing, ravishing, enchanting charming, heart-stealing, melting, nectared, sugared, lingering moistening, fond, ceremonious, wanton, lecherous, amorous, bawdy-breathing, roseate, fragrant, treacherous, arresting, smiling court, straggling, bashful, modest, virgin, maiden, chaste, favourable, delightful, voluptuous, joyous, lascivious, dewy, repeated, love-darting, printing, sealing, dinting, love-dropping, smacking, wounding, intranceing, forced, untoward, wrested, musky, warm, cheering, sweet, billing, Ambrosian, yielding, welcome.  Lute. 
Lesbian, many-string, warbling, quavering, harmonious, melodious, trembling, pleasant, delightful, charming, delicious, ivory, golden, melancholy, amorous, sweet, sounding.  Looking-glass. 
Representing, smooth, crystal, shining, sleek, shape-reflecting, portraying, unflattering, silver, glittering, resembling, impartial.  Lust. 
Wild, burning, scorching, brutish, untamed, itchy, flaming, goatish, stallion, disordered, greedy, hot, secret, dark, impure, poisoning, provoking, obscene, inconsiderate, licentious, infamous, uncouth, unbridled, rammish, loathsome, unruly, lawless, beastly, unrestrained, filthy, damned, odious, contagious, furious, portentous, impetuous, voluptuous, sensual, bestial, lascivious, whorish, insatiate, bawdy, brotheld, liver, scalding, raging, luxurious, tempting.  Logic. 
Arguing, disputing, contentious, wrangling.  Labyrinth. 
Winding, amazing, turning, intangling, confounding, curious, mazy, doubling, intricate, snaky, subtle, ingenuous, pathless, crooked, meandring,  Language. 
Smooth, oily, insinuating, fluent, sweet, flowing, strewed▪ with flowers, stately, winning, persuasive, taking, nectarean▪ delicious, intranceing, enchanting, charming, soul-ravishing▪ overcoming.  Lustre. 
Resplendent, bright, dazzling, victorious, pompous, varnished, triumphant, radiant, beamy, darting, transparent, reflecting, glorious, graceful, flowing, shining, adorning▪ beauteous, flaming, fiery, sparkling, glitering, eye-conquering, starry, cheerful, twinkling,  Lullaby. 
Pensive, careful, charming, soft, drowsy, sleepy.  Lilly. 
Unsullied, unspotted, bright, tall, untainted, pale-faced▪ silver, smiling, painted, fruifull, royal, maiden.  Loadstone. 
Attractive, embracing, tenacious, subtle, drawing, wanton▪ uxorious.  Longing. 
Amorous, desirous, unsatisfyed, insatiate, passionate▪ greedy, ardent, burning.  Laughter. 
Loud, side, holding, lose, shrill, wanton, saucy, disordered, fawning, silly, ignorant, unseasoned, unruly, fleering, sneering, noiseful, disturbing.  Lethargy. 
Dull, forgetful, drowsy, lither, sluggish, unactive, doting, dreaming, sleepy, cold, moist, heavy, lumpish, sottish.  Love. 
Blind, inflaming, ardent, fervent, zealous, officious, obsequious, resolved, doting, passiionate, tedious, unexpressible, unmeasured, silent, transported, impatient, gamesome, unfathomed, secret, mistrustful, jealous, careful, ambitious, audacious, ticklish, sugared, wanton, lascivious, honeyed joyous, slippery, untainrted, flattering, fawning, thoughtful, fearful, solicitous, idolatrous, captivated, winged, superstitious, conquering, deceitful, heart-stealing, thievish, enchanting, bewitching, imperious, adventurous, uncontrolled, commanding, affectionate, sporting, marrow-boyling, melting, trowel, remorseless, venerous, fond.  Lover vide love. 
Fantastic, gorgeous, perfumed, complemental, pale, fainting, eve-ravisht, thoughtful, grieved, secret, near, spruce, flattering, trim, brisk, languishing, frizzled, crispe●, impatient, sportive, inconstant, submissive, fresh, sleek, joyous, glancing, melancholy, obsequious, watchful, captivated, jealous, boasting, youthful, blind, uxorious, pensive, modest, mute, bashful, pleasant, frolic, whispering, courteous, distracted, sad.  Looks. 
Smiling, cheerful, modest, disdainful, speaking, whispering, discursive, mournful, attractive, supercilious, winning, wooing, stern.  Locks. 
Frizzled, braided, wiry, golden, glittering, sparkling, bright, sleek, spreading, flowing, snary, dangling, nets to catch a lover in, curled, scattere, pleated, amber, floating, flatted, disheveled, bushy, discomposed, artless, careless, dispersed, fluent.  Lips. 
Balmy, tempting, melting, carnation, vermilion, ruby, scarlet, amorous, rosy, cherry, blushing, coral, delicious, charming, enchanting, intrancing, smiling, wanton, life, breathing, infusing, honey, flowing, trembling, swelling, love, dropping, juicy, nectarean, gentle, purple, warm, soft.  Limbs. 
Graceful, well-shapt, lovely, snowy, beauteous, handsome, harmonious, comely, ivory, well-proportioned.  Marigold. 
Sun, enamoured, yellow, shining, flaming, blazing, Sun-courted, dew, drowned, opening, shutting.  Marble. 
Corinthian, Parian, sleek, enduring, obdurate, curled, smooth, breathless, unrelenting, hard, cold, stiff, senseless, glittering, phrygian, weeping, azure, speckled, coloured, unmidian, solid, polished, spotted, rocky, lasting,  Magic 
Secret, hidden, enchanting, charming, dreadful, execrable, mumbling, cursed, hellish, murmuring, commanding, ceremonious, superstitious, powerful, deceitful, juggling, presaging, mysterious, enforcing, victorious, efficacious.  Magazia. 
Well-stored, wealthy, thronged, furnished, crowded, spacious, copious, large.  Metaphors. 
Acquaint, far-fetched, strained, forced, translated, painted, flowery.  Melancholy. 
Solitary, pensive, sad, dreary, black, subtle, froward, lovely, dampish, heart-breaking, unsociable, drooping, dejected, whining, puling, pouting, cross, armed, sullen, downcast, lumpish, swarthy, fearful, dull, reposed, recluse, retired, discontented, dark, gloomy, weeping, discontent, dusky, heart-contracting, distracted, despairing, fickle, untoward, heartrending, killing, embosomed, complainfull, whimpering, macerating, heart-eating, oppressing, fretting, smarting, torturing, hellish, eye-squeesing, gnawing, unexpressible, heart-afflicting, soule-wounding, heart-confounding.  Melody. 
Sweet, pleasant, gladsome, harmonious, according, soul-invading, ravishing, intrancing, delicious, charming, Seraphic.  Martyr. 
Constant, joyful, faithful, willing, patiented, valiant, courageous, languishing, burning, pitied, unmoved, glorious, honoured, persecuted, tormented, wretched.  Marmoset. 
Grinning, antic, toying, foolish.  Mind. 
Active, thoughtful, roveing, discursive, pregnant, teeming, wealthy, studious, industrious, minting, coining, hewing, ranging, poisoning, floating, wand'ring, forgeing, working, busy, quick, moving, stirring, possing, inventive, careful, winged, subtle, deceitful, contriving.  Marriage. 
Solemn, ceremonious, engrafting, uniting, shackling, settering, coupling, sacred, cementing, fruitful, joyful, chaining, riveting, captivating, genial, feastful, fruitful, happy, successful, lawful, stolen, manacling.  Mirth. 
Jovial, frolic, joyful, pleasant, tickling, jolly, gamesome, sportive, delightful, sprightly, giddy, heart-easing, defusive, melting, frisking, soft, melting-heart, enlarging, enchanting, lovely, lose toyish, giggling, sprightful, graceful, frantic, heart-chearing, dancing, lightsome, gladsome, youthful.  Madness. 
Furious, wild, savage, distempered, frantic, giddy, disordered, headstrong, untamed, unruly, flaming-eyes, ghostly, enraged, tempestuous, stormy, boiling, impetuous, transporting, hare-brained, distracted.  Mystery. 
Concealed, hidden, secret, high, admired, amazing, stupendious, unconceived, uncomprehended, solemn, ceremonious, sacred, divine, unvulgar, unexpressible, deep, unknown, profound.  Moon. 
Horned, waning, increasing, decreasing, waxing, dewy, pale-eyed, pale-faced, silver, inconstant, wand'ring, radiant, silent, bright, tinseled, glistering, Diana, aged, newborn, growing, decreasing, woman-governing.  Moor. 
Black, Negro, swarthy, tawny, cruel, subtle, jealous, barbarous, sallow, curled, lustful, broiled, flat-nosed, black-eyed, ox-eyed, unshaved, cruel, speedy, swiftfooted, nimble, fierce.  Modesty. 
Virgin, maiden, sober, pure, blushing, silent, vestal, grave, chaste, bashful, trembling, civil, straitlaced, well-tempered, respective, sweet, cold, graceful, winning, shamefaced.  Monkey. 
Chattering, toyish, gamesome,, unlucky, lustful, counterfeiting, meddling, sprightful, wily, imitating.  Myrtle. 
Pap hian, tender, Venus, tree, drowsy, sleepy, fading, short-lived, cold, trembling, narrow-leaved, frost-fearing, quivering, odorous, fragrant.  Music. 
Heart-ravishing, charming, enchanting, intrancing, celestial, heavenly, crocheting, melodious, harmonious, soule-invading, well-turned, according, consorting, well-measure, sweet, pleasant, delightful, cheerful, seraphic, sense, bereaveing, fancy, tickling, wanton, descanting, well-proportioned, quavering, diapasoned, delicious, warbling, eare-commanding angelical.  Multitude. 
Wild, credulous, hair-brained, mad, furious, tumultuous, ignorant, stiffnecked, stubborn, heady, rebellious, humorous, selfwilled, many headed, misled, giddy, frantic, shallowpated, unlearned, promiscuous, inconstant, unsettled, weak-brained, crowding, hronging, thick-shouldred, thick-sculled, clustered, lawless, seditious, factious, implacable, storming, wild, credulous, soon-perswade, soft-pated, the rascal herd, misjudging, unlettered, unconceiveing, barking, buffle-head, impertinent, mangy, stinking, admiring, news-affecting, prattling, innovating, clownish, outrageous, railing, silly, deluded, malignant, saucy, foolish, wayward, whirligig-pated.  Nimph. 
Fair-haired, bright, lovely, sleek-haired, nimble-footed, painted, shining, spangle-glittering, tripping, sportive, chaste, gamesome, fair, wanton, spring, haunting, dancing, merry, frolic, gleesome, neat-drest, amorous, skipping, Diana, following, wood-haunting, quiver-bearing, soft, haired.  Navel. 
Round, tying, knotty, nursing.  Nuptialt vide marriage. 
Amorous, wanton, solemn, ceremonious, joyful, hymeneal, gorgeous, pompous, sacred, divine, fruitful, feastful, fettering, shackling, managing, uniting, happy, unhappy, successful, ominous, lawful, genial, sheets.  Night. 
Aethiopian, Negro, gloomy, shady, dark, drowsy.  Nox. 
Still, black-eyed, sullen, shady, swarthy, starry, silent, black-browed, gloomy, sable, dreaming.  Nightingale. 
Sweet, harmonious, warbling, quivering, ravishing, chanting, amorous, pleasant, wailing.  Nature. 
Pregrant, solicitous, officious, vigorous, teeming, provident, courteous, industrious, fruitful.  Nose. 
Stately, majestic, Roman, snotty, snivelling, snuffling, sagacious, crooked, smelling.  Obsequies. 
Sad, ceremonious, religious, pompous, mournful, honoured, solemn.  Orange. 
Yellow, golden, delicious, odorous, thirst, allayinging, face-washing, juicy, squeezed.  Orator vide Eloquence. 
Sweet-lipt, insinuating, persuasive, sweet-tongued, subtle, learned, flowing, smooth, melifluous, bewitching, enchanting, intrancing, double-tongued, glozing, commanding, victorious, eare-tickling, charming, soul-ravishing, Ciceronian, smooth, oiled, courtly, flowing, captivating, sententious, grave.  Odours or Smells. 
A romatick, luxurious, voluptuous, spicy, subtle, rich, costly, precious, perfumed, ambrosial, jovial, pleasant, wanton, delicious, assyrian, chafed, musky, Arabian, Panonian, Indian, Sabean, melifluous, ingrateful, malevolent, loathsome, noisome, stifling, infectious, fulsome, suming sence-stifling, sulphurous, overcomeing.  Oath. 
Strict, religious, awful, sacred, binding, enforcing, obliging, ceremonious, truth-confirming, faithful, inviolable.  Ornament. 
Beauteous, gorgeous, stately, graceful, glorious, gallant, pompous, magnificent, curious, embolisht, shining, dazzling, glittering, costly, sumptuous, ambitious, curious.  Ode. 
Lyric, wanton, amorous, charming, pleasing.  Obleigment. 
Binding, tying, deep, strong, great, forcing, slavish.  Obsequiousness. 
Active, humble, nimble, pliant, servile, slavish, yielding, officious, obedient, crouching, fawning, flattering, oily, clawing, soft, smooth, melting, soothing, ready, winning.  Oblivion. 
Dark, dusky, solitary, gloomy, obscure, unkind, forgetful, buried.  Opinion. 
Giddy, vain, doubtful, floating, inconstant, wavering, reeling, groping, staggering. distracted, discornposed, tottering, suspicious, common, received, false, vulgar, erroneous, jealous, heartless, faint, fading, hover.  Opportunity. 
Favourable, propitious, smiling, inviting, crowning, wooing, seasonable, smooth, convenient, sudden, unexpected, offered, occasioned, fair, courting, mature, commodious, fit, pleasing, desired, wished, well-suiting, proper.  Paradise. 
Celestial, immortal, glorious, beauteous, happy, deathless, delicious, eternal, triumphant, flowery, joyful, enamouring, ever-springing, intrancing, soul-ravishing, soule-invading, transporting.  Pace. 
Grave, measured, quick, nimble swift, soft-footed, thievish, slow, speedy-winged, breathed, tardy, slowfooted, stealing, gliding, swimming, silent.  Palace. 
Aspiring, magnificent, gorgeous, sumptuous, royal, majestical, stately, beautiful, lofty, cloud, kissing, exalted, glorious, ambitious, glittering, gilded, towered.  Purple. 
Tyrian, Persian, royal, princely, stately, blushing, shining, pompous, glittering, vermilion, bloody, ruddy, rich, sumptuous, glorious, magnificent.  Fantasies. 
Empty, insubstantial, vain, ravishing, imaginary, airy, flying, uncertain, dreadful, pale, greasy, affrighting, ghostly.  Pity. 
Affectionate, yielding, bleeding, melting, calm, soft, charitable, feeling, affectionate, weeping, compassionate, tenderhearted.  Poison. 
Raging, sleepy, drowsy, cold, hot, secret, sly, working, treacherous, lurking, deceitful, baneful, pale, raging, deadly, tainted, eating, black, swelling, spreading, destroying, viperous, benumbing, stupifying, burning, inflaming.  Poetry, Poesy, Poet. 
Immortal, deathless, sacred, enamouring, soule-bereaving, sprightly, lively, almighty, well, composed, couchedlabord, powerful, embalming, fluent, nimble, learned, numerous, sinewy, sweet, flowing, smooth, swelling, flattering, enthusiastic, lascivious, stately, lofty, wanton, pleasant, brisk, amorous, sacred, numbers, measures, heaven, bred, muse, inspired, harmonious, melodious, honoured, biting, lashing, satiric, lyric, heroic, Jambick, prohetick, winding, artful, knowing, well-tuned, tickling, nectareous, Ambrosian, sugared, divine, facetious, lose, fabulous, fictious, lascivious, witty, well-dressed, laureate, soul-ravishing, charming, enchanting, intrancing, musical, soul-invading, imparadising, grave, immortalising.  Pomander. 
Perfumed, delicious, sweet, well-sented, pleasing, odoriferous, well-smelled, fragrant.  pomegranate 
Many, kernele, juicy, pelicious, vemilion, blushing.  Park. 
Pleasant, delightful, hereby, woody, grassy, enclosed, fruitful, verdant, flowery, impaled, green, plusht, spacious.  Page. 
Quick, diligent, speedy, officious, observant, ready, careful, serviceable, obsequious, brisk, dutiful, attending, nimble, waiting.  Paradox. 
Improbable, stoical, unvulgar, unbelived, incredible, false-seeming.  Paleness. 
Trembling, i'll, cooled, bleak, fainting, meager, affrighted, ghastly, difigured, discolored, fearful.  Palate. 
Delicious, nice, curious, luxrious, judicious, insatiate, greedy, gluttonous, well-tasted.  Prejudice. 
Partial, corrupting, blinding, injurious, disadvantageous, indammaging.  Praise. 
Lasting, immortal, neverdying, monumental, deserved, windy, lavish, admired, glozing, inflaming, triumphant, swelling, attractive, magnetic, bigbellied, deathless, unmeasured, unsounded, timpanized, lasting, enduring, blazing.  Pride. 
Stately, high, swollen, daring, unconfined, swelling, boundless, triumphant, envied, fantastic, insulting, imperious, hateful, lofty, shameless, unblushing, vaunting, flaunting, tyrannising, sky-towring, boasting, purple, ambitious, heady, portly, mounting, respectless, haughty, insolent, squinteyed, audacious, stern, scornful, disdainful, presumptuous, overweening, strutting, rebellious, lucifernal, impetuous, flaming, glittering, brow-beating, frantic, supercilious.  Presumption. 
Adventurous, bold, arrogant, insolent, daring, rash, audacious, savage, proud, swelling, puffed, unmannerly.  Pretence. 
False, lying, juggling, glozing, cogging, likely, colourable.  Proportion. 
Beauteous, lovely, sweet, uniform, measured, squared, handsome, equal, comely, graceful.  Picture. 
Lively, speaking, rich, painted, fair, dumb, artificial, deluding, eye-deceiving, water-coloured, oily, toyey, life, dead, varnished, skilful, counterfeiting, eye-deluding, representing, resembling, inimitable, beautiful, lascivious, unparallelled, coppying, imitating, stout, stern, majestical, soul-conquering, enchanting, charming, commanding, incomparable.  Pardon. 
Gracious, , merciful, free, indulgent, smiling, remissive, willing, courteous.  Plays, Sports, Games, Pastimes. 
Pleasant, frolic, delightful, soft, mirthful, sportful, wanton, care-killing, facetious, idle, unthrifty, time-stealing, harmless, voluptuous, sensual, lose, dissolute, lascivious, vain, empty, delicious, beguiling, refreshing, honest, sweet.  Passion. 
Distempered, distracted, headstrong, frantic, untamed, unruly, uncollected, disordered, wild, furious, raging, mad, light-winged, usurping, unbridled, ireful, stormy, tyrannous, wilful, disquiet, transporting, roving, affectionate, turbulent, vehement, violent, ardent, fervent, surprising, impetuous, monstrous, importuning, impatient, blind, imperious, inconstant, irresistible, inexpressible, unlimited, unadvised.  Pastorals. 
Pleasant, jolly, rustic, rural, innocent, plain, youthful, harmless, low-stiled, humble.  Plains. 
Flowry, fragrant, verdant, spacious, enamelled, delightful, humble, smiling, fruitful, grassy, pleasant, green, tufted, frolic, stream-haunted, lovely, dasied, enameled, flowery, spangled, odorious, sweet, delicious, embroidered, diapered, levelled, green, plusht, fair, clothed, sprightly, jovial.  Parasite. 
Dissembling, officious, fawning, obsequious, pliant, sugared, pickthank, glass-faced, treacherous, smoothing, lisping, golden-tongued, acquaint, oily, courtly, filed-tongue, smooth-tongued, flattering, serving, cogging, insinuating, slavish, lying, greedy, smell-feast, idle, collogueing, cheering, juggling, circumventing, knee-crouching, crafty, wily, deluding, clawing, dowbing, tempting, fairspoken, smooth-worded, glozing, tickling.  Parrot. 
Prattling, babbling, green, painted, fair, plumed, chattering, tackling, tattling, gaudy.  Pandarus. 
Sly, crafty, importunate, beastly, brutish, obscene, wary, perfidious, soothing, cunning, cheating, tempting, deceitful, lascivious, fawning, villainous, youth-corrupting, immodest, filthy, shameless, brazenfaced, enticing, alluring, training, impudent.  Pyramid. 
Star, pointing, monumental, aspiring, tall, towering, cloud, bearing, prodigious, lasting, heaven-peirceing, proud, ambitious, sky-bearing, sky-threatning, heaven-pierceing, mounting, exalted, lofty, souring.  Pomp. 
Stately, sumptuous, costly, magnificent, gorgeous, glorious, golden, glittering, superfluous, smiling, courtly, ambitious, expensive, excessive, needless, vain, glorious, wasteful, ceremonious, dazzling, triumphant, solemn, proud, royal, fantastic, blazing, profuse, lavish, unthrifty, gallant, shining, flaming.  Persuasion 
Moving, courting, soft, insinuating, subtle, ssie, winning, victorious.  Periwig. 
False, counterfeit, hairy, curled, frizzled.  Perfume. 
Sweet, spicy, fregrant, Ambrosian, compounded, choice, rich, odorous, costly, sacred, ravishing, lascivious.  Pen. 
Learned, acquaint, polite, studious, laborious, eloquent, artful, industrious, nimble, quick, clerkly.  Pelican. 
Solitary, lovely, melancholy, Egyptian, indulgent, sharp-beakt, mourning, officious, loving, breast-peirceing, bloodfeeding, afflicted, distressed.  Pearl. 
Precious, Indian, costly, enchasing, flaming, blazing, aire-gilding, enlightening, orient, rich, beauteous, eastern, curious, delicious, sparkling, reflecting, oriental, radiant, beaming, dangling, bright.  Pleasure. 
Soft, delicious, melting, wanton, alluring, enticing, easy, idle, itching, lulling, desired, inveigling, transitory, inamouring, empty, charming, fancy, tickling, glozing, pernicious, treacherous, intemperate, gliding, blind, fulsome, toyish, disordered, revelling, care-killing, unbridled, effeminate, honey-flowing, depraved, unmeasured, delightful, fresh, choice, intrancing, imparadising, balmy, beckoning, magnetic, attractive, sportive, cheering, heart-inlarging, luxurious, voluptuous, lascivious. fadeing, vain, nectareous, Ambrosian, spicy, active, lightsome, beguiling, ravishing tempting, captivating, transporting, bewitching, syrenian, flashy, soul-invading, smiling.  Patron. 
Propitious, benevolent, , protecting, liberal, beneficious, bountiful, smiling, defending, securing.  Perjury. 
Impious, cursed, damned, hellish, black, hollow.  Perfection. 
Divine, rare, absolute, admired, complete, exact, accomplished, unexampled, unequalled, unparaleld, unmatched, singular, beauteous, desired, unpatterned, unparagoned.  Qualm. 
Sudden, oppressing, unexpected, surprising, overcoming.  Quiver. 
Painted, sounding, arrow-bearing, dangling, hanging, gilded.  Quince. 
Strong-sented, yellow, downy, soft-skinned, woolly.  Queen. 
Stately, majestic, imperious, awful, scepter-bearing, sacred, glorious, virtuous, glittering, commanding.  Question. 
Doubtful, perplexing, puzzling, obscure, debated, auxious, argued, discussed, brawling, jangling, controverted, discursive, contentious, wrangiling, disputed.  Quicksilver. 
Nimble, squeomish, stirring, active, coy, skipping.  Renegado. 
Perfidious, false, apostate, faithless, dammed, infamous, branded, revolting, perjured.  Rusticity. 
Glownish, lubberly, untaught, barb arous, ignorant, unmannerly, blundering, plain, simple, saucy, rude, slovenly, absurd, boisterous, blustering.  Rose. 
Fragrant, sweet, blushing, odorous, early, delicious, painted, dew, empearled, thorny, prickly-bearded, smiling, vermilion, carnation, perfumed, maiden, virgin, untainted, unspotted, lovely, dew-dropping, fading, blowing, senceravishing, languishing, weeping.  Race. 
Speedy, sinewey, nervy, swift, nimble, quick, lightfooted, puffing, breathless, sweeting, contentious, posting, active, shortwinded.  Rock. 
Hanging, lofty, craggy, mossy, aged, hollow, vaulted, sea-surveying, high-browed, uncouth, forsaken, sky-braving, sky-invading, obdurate, flinty, hard, impregnable, melancholy, dashing, splitting, sea-confronting, sea-over-hanging, wave-breaking, sea-daring, overlooking, repelling, churlish, surly, aspiring, sleepy, barren, unfrequented, impregnable, shipwrecking, unfruitful, ambitious, dreadful, portentous, exalted, wave-spurning, guttered, crannied, slippery, inaccessible.  Rape. 
Deflowering, enforcing, violent, ravishing, impetuous, unwilling, inexorable, resistless.  Rainbow. 
Chequered, embroidered, purple, Iris, painted, arched, various, Juno's handmaid, moist, presaging, gaudy, crooked, sun-opposing, streaked, eye-pleasing, sun-confronting, many-coloured.  Recreation. 
Sportful, gamesorne, toyish, harmless, civil, moderate, temperate, sweet, lovely, lavish, unthrifty, fruitless, heart-chearing, so lacing, reviving, pleasing, time-beguiling, delightful.  Repulse. 
Sharp, coy, scornful, churlish, sour, stern, dogged, cruel, angry, courageous, impetuous, manly, obstinate, resolved, valiant, sturdy, brave, glorious, victorious.  Request. 
Solicitous, importunate, seasonable, suppliant, earnest, humble, submissive, urging, pressing, unreasonable, fair, pertinent, impertinent, unseasonable, seasonable, honest, civil, fawning, crouching, bold, audacious, easy, undeniable.  Rapture. 
Poetic, raving, high-rapture, flown, enthusiastic, refining, lofty, intranching, enchanting, flaming, sparkling, soul-moving, bewitching, melting, ravishing, transporting, glorious, pleasing, elevating, mounting, towering, inspired.  Reproof. 
Angry, sour, stern, grim, courageous, magnanimous, stout, furious, just, unjust; deserved, undeserved, merited, sharp, harsh, smart, satirical, biting, surly, dogged, choleric  Ruby. 
Precious, wealthy, blushing, orient, glittering, beauty, shining, Indian, radiant, invaluable, inestimable.  River. 
Silver-breasted, crystal, swelling, winding, amorous, wheeling, wriggling, sliding, smooth, floating, swan-embrodred, hasty, swift, whispering, gulphy, uxorious, bank-courting, bank-saluting, glassy, vaulting, dancing, wand'ring straggling, whirling, le aping, snaky, gliding, parling, hurrying, incensed, rolling, tumbling, clear.  Revenge. 
Bloody, insatiate, black, dismal, boiling, raging, furious, passionate, sparkling, self-willed, impatient, impetuous, swelling, burning, stormy, barbarous, fiery, hot, flaming, thirsty, cruel, hellish, just, stinging, rash, implacable, sad unappeased, snake-haired, desperate, flame-eyed, grim, stern, frowning, wrathful, threatening, menacing, regefull.  Rites. 
Mysterious, sacred, solemn, venerable, ancient, received, pious, religious,  Rival. 
Suspicious, jealous, envious, ambitious, fearful, cautious, circumspect, amorous, wary, heart-wounded, eye-observing, calumnious, malicious, revengeful.  Rigour. 
Flinty, cruel, marble-breasted, furious, imperious, stern, savage, obstinate, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, bitter, angry, tyrannous, merciless.  Riddle. 
Subtle, profound, knotty, dark, perplexed, puzzling, hard, posing, ambiguous, secret, doubtful, scrupulous, concealed, mysterious.  Reverence. 
Ceremonious, pious, solemn, submissive, auspicious, obsequious, fearful, awful, knee-bowing, prostrating, adoring, silent, dreadful.  Rhetoric, vide Eloquence. 
Charming, enchanting, Nectareous, Ambrosian, acquaint, terse, fancy, tickling-eare, captivating, soule-moving, heart-stealing, persuasive, soul-ravishing, sweet-lipt, soul-invading, bewitching, tempting, overcoming, courtly, varnished, smooth glozing, insinuating, victorious, painted.  Repose. 
Soft, quiet, secure, easy, silken, happy, peaceful, desired, warm, lazy, calm.  Sympathy. 
Mutual, agreeing, uniting, according, loving, natural, inbred, amorous, secret, silent admired, affectionate, innate.  Symmetry. 
Attractive, harmonious, comely, graceful, beauteous, perfect, complete, accomplished, eye-pleasing, proportioned, becoming, handsome, lovely, harmonious, equal, measured.  Suspicion. 
Groundless, squinteyed, jealous, dark, wary, frantic, causeless, secret, pale, fearful, trembling, probable, prying, wakeful.  Summer. 
Flowry, green, plusht, verdant, pleasant, friutfull, sultry, tanning, scalding, scorching, hot, boiling, parching, sweltering, beamy, pestilential sweaty, thirsty, yawning, fiery, peirceing, embroidered, enameled, diapered, chequerd, fair, temperate, cheerful, harvest-bringing, barn-filling, corn-hoarding, infectious, diseased, yellow-eared, glorious, quickening, reviving, impartial, gladsome, dusty, joyful, refreshing, plentiful, fruitbearing, laborious, requiting, crowne-rejoycing, youthful, levy, fragrant.  Strawberry. 
Creeping, spreading, crawling, blushing, cooling, mountainous, creamy, soft, delicious, pleasant.  Strains. 
Warbling, harmonious, melodious, high-tuned, inspired, sprightful, sence-bereaving, charming, bewitching, entranceing, pleasant, delightful, lofty, celestial, heavenly, angelical, soul-ravishing, sence-captivating, stately, homely, rural, rustic, humble, pastoral, martial, warlike, tuneful.  Style. 
Elegant, eloquent, terse, delicate, soft, smooth, natural, facituous, unforced, easy, fluent, learned, polite, accurate, grave, humble, grovelling, stately, satirical, well-coucht, curious, lofty, far-fetched.  Stoic. 
Rigid, obdurate, dull, sullen, unmoving, senseless.  Sacrifice. 
Humble, appeasing, solemn, bloody, religious, sacred, victim, pious, burning.  Saint. 
Honoured, exalted, blessed, glorious, divine, immortal, celestial, enthroned, exalted, triumphant, canonised, enshrined.  Silkworm. 
Industrious, laborious, pompious, wealthy, working, nimble, active, teeming.  Silence. 
Peaceful, slumbering, reposed, dull, concealing, monastic, awful, blind, selfe-deceiving, shady, still, listening, appeased, attentive, secret, calm, forced, willing, yielding, night-enamoured, phlegmatic, trusty, faithful, nightcourting, timorous, fearful.  Sighs. 
Bloodsucking, thirsty, consuming, scalding, burning, airy, scorching, blasting, fiery, deep-fetched, heartrending, wounding, breaking, burning, whispering, amorous, dissembled, concealed, secret, interrupted, sweet, trembling, enclosed, breathing, weeping, repeating, heart-breaking, languishing, fainting, penitent, bewailing, lamenting, remorsfull, zealous, religious, pious, amorous, heart-fretting, mournful, sad, pensive, melancholy, penitential, melting, fervent winged, stormy, restless, hearty, affectionate, groaning, compassionate.  Strumpet. 
Shameless, impudent, notorious, bawdy, lascivious, rampant, salacious, dissolute, uncivil, wanton, lustful, immodest, intangling, ensnaring, enticing, alluring, rammish, goatish, rotten, loathsome, painted, cankered, itchy, dallying, infamous, nightwalking, captivating, inthralling, mercenary, perfidious, dissembling, perjured, pocky.  Streams. 
Silver, crystal, purling, foaming, winding, curled, writhing, wriggling, uxorious, courting, hasty, embroidered, swift-paced, tumbling, frothy, bank-courting, bustling, murmuring, rumbling, surgy, chiding, impetuous, resistless, snaky, hurrying, silent, sweeping, chiding, azure, wany, rustling, amorous, careering, angry, boiling fruitful, fishy, flowing, running, gliding, slippery, raging, incensed, vaulting, dancing, soft, whispering, wand'ring, straggling, gushing, drenching, whirling, rushing, glassy, pearly, silver-breasted, yelling, swelling, wheeling, spreading, glancing, gently-sliding.  Servant. 
Active, willing, nimble, ready, officious, industrious, quick, stirring, obedient, pliant, diligent, laborious, toilsome, obsequious, careful, painful, watchful, faithful, honest, assiduous, idle, negligent, insolent, proud, disobedient, regardless, repining, fancy, uncivil, droanish, lither, lazy, drowsy, sleepy, rebellious, grumbling, murmuring.  Service, Servitude. 
Rigorous, hard, honourable, happy, drudging, easy, cruel, slavish, wretched, constrained, dejecting, vexing, detested, unsupportable, intolerable, burdenous, toilsome, shameful, tyrannous, ignominious.  Sense. 
Active, nimble, voluptuous, erroneous, seducing, sportive, gamesome.  Secret. 
Hidden, mysterious, private, concealed, sequestered, undivulged, private, reserved, covered, enclosed embosomed, imprisoned, committed, deep, profound, silent, treasured, pensive, lurking.  Sea. 
Angry, raging, swelling, boiling, working, floating, surrounding, stirring, winding, sail-bearing, ingorging, encircling, ingulphing, girdling, unconfined, boundless, devouring, roaring, bellowing, insatiate, shelfy, soundless, rocky, billowy, frothy, wealthy, tossing, swelling, swallowing, awful, dreadful, shipwrecking, insulting, licentious, toiling, floody, pathless, surgy, ireful, stormy, ebbing, flowing,, tumbling, glassy, ploughed, unbottomed, unfathomed, unmeasured, impetuous, blew-waved, Neptune, Thetis, brackish, tumultuous, yielding, aged, hoary, rugged, ruffled, vaulting, fretting, belching, untamed, foamy, high-waved, troubled.  Sparrow. 
Salacious, lustful, fruitful, engendering, procreative, increasing.  Spaniel. 
Questing, ranging, fawning, shaggy, loving.  Squirrel. 
Active, lightsome, nimble, nut-cracking, vaulting, leaping, skipping, stirring, bush-tailed.  Scold or Shrew. 
Angry, cursed, frowning, peevish, wayward, sower-lookt, brow-beating, sullen, furious, brawling, clashing, wrangling, storming, fretting, railing, tippet, upright.  Sycophant, vi de Parasite. 
Smooth-tongued, oily, pick-thanked, calumnious, juggling, decietfull, slanderous, detracting, defaming, cogging, glozing, collogueing, cheating.  Soul. 
Divine, immortal, deathless, lively, subtle, active, sprightly, sparkling, unfathomed, apprehensive, unbodied, dislodged, undiscerned, celestial, nimble-winged.  Slye. 
Lofty, stirring, crystal, glittering, glorious, azure, enameled, embroidered, marble, transparent, spangled, beamy, empty, dusky, transparent, vaulty, starry.  Slave. 
Servile, infamous, oppressed, branded, drudging, dejected, abused, ignominious.  Sleep. 
Soft, peaceful, reposed, leaden-fingred, silent, arresting, gentle, downy, calm, silken, forgetful, golden, drowsy, surprising, yawning, healthful, all-subduing, refreshing, delicious, senseless, counterfeiting, death-imitating, benumbing, heavy, pale, deceitful, curtained, balmy, charming, heavy.  Smell. 
Sweet-breathing, delicious, pleasant, perfumed, odoriferous, fragrant, Arabian, Indian, Aromatic, spicy, sence-affecting, delightful, balmy, genial, musky, aire-perfuming, unwhole some, loathsome, fullsome, noisome, infectious, contagious, sence-overcoming, stinking.  Snow. 
Soft, white, fleecy, driven, flaky, wooly, untrodden, Alpian, Thracian, Scythian, plumy, fearhered, melting, itchy, freezing, hoary, scattered, showering, drizzling, mountainous, curled, blandched, ragged, shivering.  Sorrow. 
Weeping, wailing, whining, sighing, groaning, lamenting, pining, inward, inexpressible, lumpish, wrinkling, griping, drooping, eye-wringing, brinish, killing, heart-contracting, wounding, heartrending, tearing, gnawing, fretting, unquiet, impatient, gawling, eating, devouring, heart-breaking, pensive, melting, pinching, discontented, sable, mournful.  Speech. 
Witty, winning, popular, rational, taking, well-coucht, learned, captivating, tedious, ingenuous, terse, pleasing, tart, polite, fawning, rhetorical, eloquent, sharp-eare, enticing, bewitching, pleasing, charming.  Spheres. 
Spangled, whirling, rapid, harmonious, beauteous, glorious, wheeling, embroidered, inamel'd, crystal, lofty, moving, turning, musical, azure, chimeing, tuneful, rolling.  Solemnity. 
Lofty, ceremonious, thronged, exact, sacred, superstitious, famous, honourable, royal, religious, venerable.  Song. 
Enchanting, intrancing, harmonious, delicious, lulling, sprightful, enamouring, ravishing, bewitching, sweet, flowing, warbling, sence-bereaving, melodious, quavering, pleasant, rural, pastoral, mournful, jovial, sence-chearing, heart-reviving, life-infusing, voice.  Shade, shadow. 
Gloomy, darksome, Sylvan, lightsome, whispering, scowling, sullen, cooling, refreshing, dewy, befriending, courteous, kind, sad, melancholy, genial, hospitable, verdant, deceitful, drowsy, flying, glancing, fading, vain, sun-dispersing, empty, griefly, ghastly, unfrequented, silent, glimpsing, flitting, stirring, dusky, brown, pale, feeble, dogging, pursuing, sable, meager, gliding, wand'ring.  Shame. 
Bashful, blushing, infamous, disgraceful, opprobrious, pale, concealing, ignominious, fearful, trembling, reproachful, modest, ingenuous, dishonest, ugly, lasting,  Shepherd, swain. 
Piping, gleesome, mirthful, jolly, frolic, silly, gamesome, rural, rustic, active, loving, careful, harmless, contented, secure, buxom, jocund, brisk, trim, neat, buskined, spruce, honest, unenvied, blithe, Phillis-enamoured, lovesick, despairing, careless, whistling, , parched, dusky, tawny, lovely, sportive,  Snare. 
Subtle, deceitful, sly, treacherous, intangling, catching, surprising, inthralling, sence-beguiling, captivating, imprisoning.  Sun. 
Glorious, lofty, bright, golden, Apollo, Titan, beamy, glittering, radiant, scorching, broiling, parching, roasting, cheerful, vapour-attracting, heaven-surrounding, crested, enlightening, peirceing, infusing, burning, thirsty, drying, life-infusing, flamy, fiery, golden-haired, careering, wheeling, galloping, mitred, faire-tressed, flame-haired, dazzling, quickening, reviving, discerning, illustrating, allseeing, garish, gladsome, unweared, rolling, glowing, restless, galloping, sparkling, speedy, posting.  Sport. 
Delightsome, pleasant, gamesome, toyish, wanton, delightful, choicest, joyous, mirthful, active, time-beguiling.  Springs. 
Bubbling, murmuring, purling, silver, crystal, clear, sacred, fruitful, flowing, rolling, rising, Nymphs, prattling, tattling, sparkling, whispering, chiding, weeping, pearly, gliding, delicious, dancing, grasse-fringed, streaming, mossy, margind, gushing, soft, rustling, trickling, dropping, distilling, running.  Stallion. 
Lustful, rampant, engendering, breeding, covering.  Star. 
Lofty, bright, sparkling, floating, swimming, spangling, heaven-embrodering, enamelling, lucky, unlucky, auspicious, malignant, smiling, frowning, radiant, silver-tressed, burning, gliding, shining, wand'ring, twinkling, blazing, glorious, successful, ill-bideing.  Stranger. 
Unacquainted, unfriended, disregarded, wand'ring, unknown, travelling, journeying, housless.  Springtime. 
Pregnant, fragrant, youthful, flowery, verdant, smiling, wealthy, teeming, embroidered, enamelled, genial, pearly, showry, jovial, earth-awaking, amorous, refreshing, reviving, lusty, gladsome, gaudy, levy, painted, beauteous, lovely, infant, inamouring, bridal, dawning, lively, blithe, buxom, joyous, mirthful, joccund, blooming, budding, quickening.  Skin. 
Alabaster, Ivory, white, delicious, soft, sleek, smooth, azure, veined, beauteous, lovely.  Smile. 
Cheerful, sweet, pleasing, lovely, delightful, peaceful, bewitching, enchanting, charming, soul-ravishing, intrancing, dimpled, simpering, gladsome, alluring, intrancing, shining, deceitful, becoming, graceful, traitorous.  Tragedy. 
Buskined, socked, sad, bloody, woeful, doleful, ruthful, lofty, stately, sententious, high, severe, grave, elaborate, heroic, pensive, weeping, swelling, great, mournful, subtle, worded.  Treachery. 
Secret, alluring, enticing, intrapping, deceitful, concealed, surprising, dissembled, smooth, glozing, training, inveigling, gilded.  Theatre. 
Public, spacious, thronged, gorgeous, pompous, applausive, populous, open, crowded, mirthful, joyous, clamorous, wellfilled, crammed.  Temptation. 
Enticing, alluring, secret, soliciting, sly, subtle, crafty, sedncing, treacherous, wooing, pernicious, gilded, smiling, courting.  Temper. 
Mild, willing, loving, ingratiating, quiet, peaceful, pleasing, sweet, winning, stormy, chase, angry, sullen, surly.  Taste. 
Pleasing, delicious, accurate, judicious, quick, sharp, nice, offensive, curious, exquisite, savoury, unpleasant, insipid.  Thoughts. 
Swift-winged, roving, discursive, nimble, teeming, plodding, projecting, contriving, musing, studious, contemplative, working, devising, ranging, scattered, wand'ring, running, rolling, tumbling, confused, flitting, vain, silent.  Touch. 
Smooth, yielding, soft, gentle, harmless, rough.  Tongue. 
Seraphic, Nectarious, sweet, harmonious, heavenly, celestial, melodious, victorious, persuasive, enamouring, enchanting, intrancing, charming, bewitching, soul-ravishing, conquering, captivating, satirical, rolling, bitter, invective, lashing, filled, gilded, oily, venomous, glozing, collogueing, lying, deceitful, envivos, treacherous, unbridled, ensnaring enticing, delicious, detracting, malicious, calumning, reproachful, babbling, delicate, lavish, smooth, flattering, soothing. froward, clamorous, scolding, brawling, stammering, lascivious, luxurious, wanton, pleasant, tattling, noiseful, full-mouthed, shrill, alaruming, judicious, eloquent, rhetorical, mellifluous, fluent.  Teeth. 
Pearly, white-Ivory, even-ranged, smooth-tongue, enclosing, alabaster, sinewy, grinding, tongue-lodging, guarding, sharpset, burnished.  Tears. 
Melting, trickling, numerous, transparent, pearly, crystal, persuasive, victorious, moving, dissembling, falling, pitied, wailing, weeping, rolling, solemn, swelling, dreary, doleful, constrained, careful, silver-shedding, relenting, tender, fluent, obsequious, tributary, sable, complaining, instructed, bursting, coming, pleading, springing, brinish, forced, gushing, penitential, pensive, sad, dewy, passionate, scalding, drowning, troubled, obsequious, tributary, dumb, speaking, salt, soft, captivating, commanding.  Thighs. 
Plump, sinewy, smooth, Ivory, Alabaster, marble, stately, majestical, portly, supporting, moving, delicate, graceful, well-proportioned, twin-born, fleshy, muscely, solid.  Turtle. 
Pensive, mournful, murmuring, whispering, sighing, billing, amorous, silver, wanton, chaste, meek, gentle, plaining, constant, loving, faithful, fleeting, venerous, sullen, querelous, hoarse, courteous.  Tyrant. 
Insulting, insolent, imperious, stern, lawless, cruel, bloody, wrathful, flint-hearted, rigorous, marblehearted, remorseless, unrelenting, inexorable, passionate, oppressing, awless, savage, surly odious, haughty, fearless, selfwilled, bloodsucking, unlimited, proud, ambitious, aspiring, usurping,  Trihumps, Trophies. 
Magnificent, gorgeous, pompous, solemn, joyful, majestical, stately, laureate, honoured, swelling, crowned, proud, peaceful, sceptred, sacred, joyful, mirthful, glorious, feastful, victorious, insulting, lasting, memorable, neverdying, immortal, famous lofty, deathless.  Tresses. 
Crisped, curled, frizzled, ruffled, scattered, disheveled, golden, dispersed, lovely, beautiful, nets, snares, wavering, lascivious, wanton, dangling, twisted, shining, glistering, radiant, amber.  Trees. 
Pregnant, spreading, budding, green, fruitful, flourishing, blooming, branching, levy, verdant, shady, sturdy, shrubby, sky-kissing, reaching, wavering, towering, lofty, high-topt, knotty, vegetive, deep-rooted, engrafted, inoculated, planted, bushy, fullgrown, curled, gloomy, arched, bending, fragrant, ambitious, flourishing, fading, withering, sappy, shaggy, well-grown.  Tune. 
Enchanting, delicious, ear-ravishing, melodious, pleasing, bewitching, alluring, enticing, charming, sence-bereaving, heart-intrancing, warbling, quavering, harmonious, celestial, according, musical, heavenly, consorting, lightsome merry, mournful, sad, pensive sprightly, melancholy, heavy.  Tobacco. 
Cavaleering, smoking, spitting, spauling; smoky, flaming, swaggering, huffing, puffing, generous, whiffing.  Teats. 
Milky, coral, cherry, vermilion, nipled, gushing, nursing, milk-spinning.  Tennis 
Racking, bandying, active, sportive, gamesome, time-spending.  Thanks. 
Hearty, lusting, obliged, duteous, officious, obsequious, engaged, unmeasured, unumbred, bounden, serviceable, obedient, humble, immortal.  Tiger. 
Libyan, Hercanian, Midian, fierce, cruel, savage, bloody, African, Indian, Armenian, speckled, furious, impetuous, merciless, bloodthirsty, streaked, swiftfooted, greedy.  Time. 
Speedy-winged, consuming, all-ripening, injurious, domineering, greyheaded, aged, crazy, wasteful, restless, gliding, posting, stealing, flying, creeping, feathered, wheeling, succeeding, encroaching, invading, light-heeled, running, opportune, seasonable, convenient, all-gnawing, rusty, irrevocable, present, future.  Twilight. 
Dapled, grey, gloomy, ambiguous, neutral, doubtful, darksome, dewy, grizy, dusky.  Virago. 
Manly, masculine, heroic, valiant, courageous, sturdy, stout, audacious, bold, adventurous, fearless undaunted.  Vesture vide Garment. 
Sumptuous, magnificent, costly, gentile, stately, rich, glorious, shining, glittering, pompous, gorgeous, spruce, neat, handsome, decent, fashionable, a-la-mode, curious, becoming, gaudy, gay, trim.  Verdure. 
Pleasant, youthful, smiling, flowery, joyful, springing, blooming, levy.  Violet. 
Aznre, creeping, soft, pale, nodding, purple-streakt, beautiful, odorous, glowing, sweet-smelling.  Verse. 
Lofty, exalted, immortal, high, smooth, swelling, harmonious, well-laboured, well-dressed, deathless, powerful, intrancing, enchanting, nectar-dropping, charming, fancy, tickling, sacred, measured, sprightly, sententious, sinewy, buskined, nerved, facetious, eare-inamouring, muse-inspired, prophetic, embalming, numerous, well-composed, fluent, learned, amorous, wanton, lascivious, delicious, sweet, flowing, ravishing.  Virtue. 
Fair, bright, untainted, cold, chaste, active, maiden-sacred, immortal, deathless, spotless, generous, glorious, divine, heroic, conspicuous, unregarded disrespected.  Vow. 
Pious, religious, solemn, sacred, ceremonious, binding, chaste, obleiging, strict, severe, irrecoverable, fervent, rash, inconsiderable, unadvised.  Urn. 
Peaceful, sacred, forgetful, quiet, mournful, sable, darksome, silent, shrouding, shady, cooled.  Voice. 
Celestial, heavenly, harmonious, sweet, delicious, enchanting, intrancing, bewitching, charming, pleasant, delicious, soul-conquering, heart-captivating, sence-bereaving, Siren, eare-taking, sprightful, mournful, puling, whining, alluring, enticing, victorious, triumphant.  Veins. 
Azure, violet, purple, swelling, flowing, winding, warm, fluent, dancing, trembling, seething, boiling, branched, meandring, interlacing.  Vales, Valleys. 
Fruitful, flowery, sportful, verdant, green, plusht, enameled, chequered, diapered, motley, fragrant, pleasant, sweet, delightful, smiling, embroidered, turfed, dasied, grassy, hereby, green-cloathed, gamesome, soft-coated, spangled, perfumed, echoing, green-breasted, strame, embroidered, gloomy, dark, humble, narrow, grovelling, crouching, low, dejected, solitary, shaded, gloomy, over-looked, bushy, tufted, levelled, green-mantled, flower-spangled, hollow, stooping, crooked, resounding, winding, melancholy.  Virgin. 
Bashful sober, untained, spotless, chaste, modest, civil, blushing, pure.  Vaile. 
Virgin, maiden, shadowing, dangling, beauty, concealing, masking, spreading, cloudy, faintly.  Vulgar vide Multitude. 
Rude, unconceiving, lawless, misjudging, illiterate, shallowpated, tumultuous, rebellious, saucy, confused, ignorant, surly, giddy, hare-brained, distracted, inconstant.  Unicorn. 
Long-horned, Virgin, loving, Indian, savage, Lion, hating, precious, rich, horned, furious.  Wife. 
Careful, loving, happy, solicitous, indulgent, cheering, embracing, loyal, sweet, dear, delicious, scolding, brawling, unquiet, disloyal, unhappy, jealous, litigious, contentious.  Widow. 
Pensive, melancholy, sad, desolate, comfortless, lovely, distressed, mournful, afflicted, oppressed, bouncing, lusty, jovial, frolic.  Whore. 
Incestuous, leprous, obscene, lustful, lascivious, wanton, rammish, brotheld, uncivil, strumpeting, bawdy, dallying, rampant, infamous, Leprous, fallacious, dissolute, rotten, impudent, shame less, mercenary, immodest, notorious, filthy, painted, unblushing, impudent, cankered, itchy, Goatish, loathsome, musty, nasty, pocky.  Women. 
Inconstant, crafty, deceitful, wanton, beauteous, soft, tender, passionate, weak, frail, pitiful, delicate, melting, prattling, inconsiderate, rash, smoothfaced, revengeful, whining, puling, scolding, brawling, unquiet, unchaste, lascivious, melting, weeping, impudent, jealous.  Whisper. 
Secret, close, hollow, silent, soft, guilty, fearful, magical, drowsy, pleasing.  Welcome. 
Cheerful, smiling, bounteous, hearty, loving, kind, free, liberal, gracious, courteous.  Will. 
Unforced, uncontrolled, free, active.  Wanton, wantonness. 
Sportive, toying, dallying, lascivious, rude, unruly, ungoverned, unattained, tempted, unbridled, luxurious, full-fed, revelling, fearless, insatiate.  Wish. 
Longing, greedy, desirous, ambitious, passionate, ardent, hearty, insatiate, solicitous.  Wrist. 
Ivory, sinewy, snowy, azure, streaked, veined.  Wonder. 
Attractive, amazing, intrancing, stupendious, prodigious, silent.  Womb. 
Teeming, pregnant, fruitful, swelling, painful, barren.  Wine. 
Generous, spruce, near, brisk, rich, odorous, sparkling, fragrant, sprightly, lusty, care-drowning, heart-chearing, delicious, green, pricked, hearing, inspiring, blood of the canubian, caudian, lesbian, chain, joyous, grape, inlivening, smiling, genious-exalting, nectareous, pleasant, forgetful, reason-depriving, furious, raging.  Wit. 
Sagacious, contriving, peirceing, pregnant, active, quick, plotting, stirring, rich, happy, nimble, humorous, mature, inventing, pregnant.  Youth. 
Vigorous, blooming, fresh, lose, wild, unbrideled, giddy, amorous, green, raw, unexperienced, untutored, active, smiling, wanton, downy, beardless, untrained, untemperate, dissolute, proud, ambitious, voluptuous, unreclaimed, indiscreet, riotous, tender, soft, lascivious impatient, smooth, jovial, inconsiderate, witty, inconstant.   
FINIS.   

A GARDEN of TULIPS OR, The Pleasant Prospect.  
An Alphabetical Collection, beautified with flourishing Similitudes and Comparisons, for the better imitation, admirably applied to their several Subjects.  

ANger is blood poured, and perplexed into a froth. Reason to rage is like bands to a sore, which often stroking makes the anguish more.  
Anger is like a deadly weapon, we hear his voice before it doth execution, and then we arm.  
So looks the chased Lion on the daring Huntsman that hath galled him, then makes him nothing.  
As a Savage Boar (that hunted long assailed and set upon) with his only eyes swimming in fire, keeps off his baying hounds, though sunk himself, yet holds his Anger up, and shows it forth in foam, makes firm his stand of battalious bristles, feeds his hate to die, and whets his tusks with wrathful majesty; So fares a furious Anger.  
Anger is like a full hot horse, who being allowed his way, his self metal tires him.  
Ambition's gilded spheres are like to painted hells, which please the eyes, even while they show the heart where horror lies.  
Ambition's thoughts, like woods, whilst they maintain the flame of high desires, grow ashes by the same.  
Ambition, like water floods, not channel-bound, neighbouring banks, doth overrun, and groweth nothing when its rage is down.  
So have I beheld an exhalation, that would be a star fall, when the Sun forsook it, in a sink.  
Ambitious men like furious cannons, are often burst with overcharging.  
Ambition like an ignis fatuus, misleads our fond mortality, hurries us about, then sets us down just where we first begun.  
Allegiance tempted too far, is like the trial of a good sword on an anvil, as that often flies in pieces without service to the owner; so trust enforced too far, proves treachery, and is too late repent.  
Affections injured, like tempest threatened, trees not firmly rooted, ne'er spring to timely growth.  
Our love like sparkles are, they brightest shine when they go out.  
The pleasures of Adulterers, are like to the sea, groundless and wide.  
Look how a wolf doth like a dog appear, so like a friend is an Adulterer.  
We see that trees bears no such pleasant fruit there where they first grew, as when they are new set, perfumes, the more they are chafed, the more they render their pleasant scents; & so Affliction expresseth virtue, whether true, or else adulterate.  
It is not the Apparel, the brisk pert Linnet in his russet feathers, flies as warm as the bird of Paradise with all his painted and his gilded train.  
A Broker is a City Pestilence, a moth that eats up gowns, doublets, and hose.  
What are our Bodies? A little curdled milk, fantastical puff-past, like paper prisons they use for to keep flies in.  
A Boasting Swaggerer is like a walking spur, he jingles much, but never pricks.  
A Swaggerer that fights, as the geese did that saved the Capitol, only with prating.  
Beauties are like to books, those that do study them do know them best: and to say truth, it is still much as it pleases the Common Reader.  
Beauty concealed, is like a Jewel in the dark.  
A Bawd is like a Broker, she takes fees on both sides.  
A Bawd is both Ware and Merchant, Flesh and Butcher.  
Chambermaid's are to show Mistresses, like porches, unto doors, you pass the one before you can have entrance to the other; or like mustard to a piece of brawn, if you will have one taste well, you must not scorn to be dipping in the other.  
Chambermaid's are like lotteries, one may choose twenty before they shall find one good one.  
To say a Waiting-woman is handsome, and yet chaste, is to affirm all pages gelt; or that the Knight keeps to his Lady in the high bed, and never truckles.  
A good Consceince is a well built castle, no battery nor invasion can take it.  
A Prince's Court is like a common fountain, whence should flow pure silver drops in general; but if it chance some curse example poison it near the head, death and diseases are spread through all the Land.  
Courtiers are fickle things to deal with, a kind of Marchpane men that will not last.  
Courtiers in Citizens houses are summer fires, that may be well spared, and being quite out are best; they do the house no good, but help to consume and burn the wood up, and overheat the rooms.  
Credit is like the chastity of a maid, which if once broke, is ever after lost.  
Credit not kept up is like a Palace, which for want of repair falls to ruin.  
Credulity is securities blind nurse, the dream of fools, the drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way, even when he thinks drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way, even when he thinks drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way, even when he thinks drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way, even when he thinks in his deluded sense to catch at safety, falls without defence.  
Great Elephants and Lions murder least; the ignoblest beast is the cruelest.  
To be a Cuckold is as natural as to be a married man, as to eat, sleep, or wear a nightcap.  
It is all one to trust one's arm in the throat of a Lion, ones purse with a Curtizen, ones neck to the chance of the dice, ones religion to a Synagogue of Jews, as one's wife with a friend.  
So tall a Cuckold, that he duck's at the penthouses, like an Ancient that dares not flourish for fear of the sign-posts.  
As hearty Seamen in desperate storms stem with a little rudder the tumbling ruins of the Ocean; so with their cause and swords good men meet Dangers.  
Our Desires are like our fates, our own stars, all our fortunes, which as we sway them, so abuse or bless us.  
Who riseth from a feast with that keen appetite that he set down; such are Desires obtained.  
Where is that horse that doth untread again his tedious measures with the unbated fire, that he did place them first; so our Desires fix on their objects with far more spirit than they do enjoy them.  
How like a younker, or a prodigal, the scared barque puts from her naaive bay, nugged and embraced by the strumpet wind, how like a prodigal doth she return with our withered ribs and ragged sails, lean, ren, and beggared by her blustering voyage; with such satisfaction our night Desires do the next morning leave us.  
Despair is a plummet in the heart, that weighs and pulls us living to the dust we came from.  

Disdain is like to water poured in fire,  
Quenches the flame a while, to raise it higher.   
Dissimulation is a canker, which for the most part, seizeth the choicest fruit with its infection, still ordained for to disease the natures of best complexions.  

Goodness is but an out side, we all set  
In rings of gold, stones that are counterfeit.   
A Dissembler is like a goodly apple, rotten at the core.  
women's tongues for their garulity are like to clocks, if they go too fast, they never go true  
Envy doth feed on entrails like a Kite, in which foul heap, if any ills lie hid, she strikes her beak into it, shakes it up, & hurls it so abroad that all may view it; corruption is her nutriment, but touch her with any precious ointments, and you kill her.  
Envy is like a fly that passeth all the bodies soundest parts, and dwells upon his sores, and if her squint-eye have power to find out none, she than forgeth some; she makes that crooked, ever which before was straight, calls valour giddiness, and justice tyranny.  
Extremes in our delights have violent ends, and in their triumphs die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume; the sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite.  
As the east and west upon the globe a Mathematical point only divides: thus happiness, and misery, and all extremes, are still contiguous.  
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: So, it is a happiness to be seated in the Mean, superfluity comes soon by white hairs; but competency lives longer.  
A false Dissembler is like the serpent that parted with its subtlety, and closed it in the fruit.  
'Tis with our souls as with our eyes, that after a long darkness, over dazzled with the approach of sudden light; when in the midst of fears we are surprised with unexpected happiness; the first degrees of joy are mere astonishments.  
Fidelity in secrets, though it be honest, bears its punishment with it; such a person is like to one, that in cold nights will needs have all the fire, and there is held by others, and embraced only to burn himself by their direction.  
Flattery is the bellows that blows up sin; we seldom see a flattering Knave turn Courtier, but many Courtiers have turned flattering Knaves.  
Fools are like obedient children brought up under a hard mother in law, and a cruel; who being not used to breakfasts and collations, when they have course bread offered them are thankful, and take it for a favour too.  
A man of Fortitude doth imitate the weather, that sings in tempests, and being clear is silent.  
Fear dwells with earthquakes, shipracks at sea, or prodigies in heaven; a valiant man, he cannot see so many fathom beneath the height of his own heart, as fear is.  
Valiant hearts Kings may dissolve, but not defeat; a man that is void of fear when he doth fall, he lies great in his ruins (like the sacred carcases of scattered temples) he still reverend lies, and the religious honour him no less, then if he stood in all his majesty.  
Without misfortune virtue hath no glory, valour is of no use, opposed trees make tempests, show their powers, as waves forced back by rocks, make Neptune's towers.  
It is not breath can fright a noble truth, nor is there Magic in the person of a king that plays the tyrant; if that there be a good sword can easily uncharm it, as the calm air stills tempests.  
Fortune hath hours of loss, and hours of gain; the brave man feels them both, who like the angry bull, never goes back for breath, but when he means to arm his fury double.  
Fortune is a slut, and being a whore herself, would have no Lady marry, and live honest  
Glory is like Alcides' shirt, if it stay on us, till pride hath mixed it with our blood; nor can we part with it at our pleasure, when we would uncase, it brings along with it both flesh and sinews, and leaves us living monsters.  
Gamesters have hearts more spacious than Kings: did they divide the Empire of the world, they would make one throw for all.  
To define a Gallant of the times right, a Mercer form him, a Tailor makes him, and a Player gives him spirit.  
The shrub securely grows, the tallest Cedar stands most in danger of the wind.  
Thus we distinguish the noble from the base, the noble find their lives and deaths still troublesome: but Humility doth sleep while the storm grows hoarse with scolding.  
The gates of Honour are arched so high, that Giants may let through, and keep their impious Turbands on, without good morrow to the sun.  
Why do we scorn inferior men, since to be lower than the worms, is to be higher than the greatest Monarches.  
Humility is young Ambition's ladder, whereon the climber upwards turns his face, but when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.  
When once the Spring, main Hope, is fallen into disorder no wonder if the lesser wheels (Desire and Joy) stand still: our thoughts, like Bees when they have lost their King, wander confusedly, and settle no where.  
The Powers, like to best Tutors, do inflict hard tasks upon great natures and of noblest Hopes, read trivial Lessons.  
Hope is in opposition with Despair, and like the zealous advocate in the cause of his afflicted client, labours still to overthrow the quirks and fallacies Despair is nimble in, whilst Fear with trembling expects trials issue.  
Honour in noble persons, as the pure oar refined, exceeds in value triple proportions of the courser dross.  
Men in themselves entirely Honest, may march safe with naked feet on coals of fire; so flames do reach at heaven ere they expire.  
An Honest soul is like a ship at sea, that sleeps at anchor when the ocean's calm, but when she rages, and the wind blows high, he cuts his way with skill and majesty.  
As the light serves not only to show, but renders us mutually profitable; so our lives spent in acts exemplary and Honest win ourselves good names, and do to others give matter for virtuous deeds by which they live.  
How subtly Hell doth flatter Vice, mounts it aloft, and makes it seem to fly; so the fowl the Tortoise mocked, who to the sky the ambitious shellfish raised: the end of all is, only that he may from thence dead fall.  
As men in scorn of a true flame that is near, run to light their tapers at a glow-worm, so pleasures are valued above heaven.  
Hatred, like clocks wound up to watch the sun, hasting a headlong, course on many wheels, hath never done, until all be undone.  
Hatred hatched at home is a tame tiger, may fawn and sport, but never leave its nature.  

Our Hair grows in our grave, and that alone  
Looks fresh, when all our other beauty's gone.   
There is no Joy on earth, never so rational, so pure, so holy, but is like a Jester, Parasite or Whore, in the most worthy parts with which they please, a drunkenness of soul & a disease.  
What unsubstantial bubbles are the beast of humane Joys?  

Things that we daily see the affections cloy,  
Hope long desired, doth bring the greatest Joy.   
Without Injuries the world would languish, and have enough to do; discord in part, makes harmony in the whole, and some must laugh whilst others do condole.  
Wrongs, like great whirlwinds, shake the highest battlements; few for Heaven would care, should they be ever happy; they are half Gods, who both in good days and good fortune's share.  
Ingratitude, is like a dog that flies at his master, which it is just with us to strangle, neither his kind nor use considered.  
Shame of Infamy doth extinguish lust as oil doth fire.  
Where shame and Infamy are too much enforced on a delinquent, they breed too often an audacious defence of sin, but no sincere repentance; so the rain slides to the root, and nourishes, where great storms make a noise, wet but the skin of the earth, and run away in a swift channel.  
Our Industry, is as our soul; which is not put into the body to be idle; it hath too many rare and curious pieces of Mathematical motions to stand still.  
Incontinency is a vice sooner condemned then banished, easily spoke against; but yet will fawn as smoothly on our flesh, as Circe on the Grecian travellers, when she detained them in the shapes of beasts.  
Lust and Incontinency, like the plummets hanging on clock lines, will never have done, till all our faculties are undone and ruined.  

Oh with what virtue should lust be withstood,  
Since 'tis fire seldom quenched without blood.   
Lustful Incontinency is like an overswoln river that breaks all bounds; it is a devil bred in blood, nursed in desire, that like the Salamander lives in fire.  
Lust is a gilded pill, which sinful nature doth prescribe, desire strokes the sense with pleasure; but at last, the shining outside leaves a bitter taste.  
Of such an Inconstancy, as boys gay bubbles, blown in the air and broken.  
The wind is more fixed than her Inconstancy, the beaten Mariner with his shrill whistle calms the loud murmurs of the troubled main, and sooner strikes it smooth again, than her soul to have peace in love with any.  
Our constitutions vary, herbs and trees admit their frosts and summer; and why then should our desires that are so nimble, and more subtle than the spirits of our blood, be such stayed things within us, and not share their mutual Inconstancy.  
He wears his Faith like the fashion of his hat, it changes with the next block.  
Jealousy's fits present a man (like so many bubbles in a basin of water) twenty several crabbed faces, many times makes his own shadow his cuckold maker.  
The Devil gives this Jealousy to man as nature doth a tail unto a lion; which thinks in heat to beat away the flies, when he doth only more enrage himself.  
A Jealous fellow is like a cowardly Captain in a Garrison Town, fears every assault, trembles at every battery, and doubts most lest the gates should be opened, and his enemy let him in at midnight.  
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves omision to do that is necessary, seals a commission to a blank of dangers; and danger like an Ague subtly taints, even then when we sit idly in the sun.  
King's lives are fortunes misery, like dainty sparks, which when men dead do know, to kindle for himself each man doth blow.  
The lives of Kings should like to Dial's move, whose regular example is so strong, they make the times by them go right or wrong.  
Princes, like lions, never will be tamed; a private man may yield and not care how, but greater hearts will break before they'll bow.  
If a King's Government be easy, the many headed monster, Multitudes, like Aesop's foolish Frogs, they trample on him as a senseless block; and if he prove a Stork, they croak and rail against him as a Tyrant.  
Knighthood is like Marriage nowadays, which though it honourable be with all men, yet it is beggarly with a great many.  
Law is as the world's great Light, a second Sun to this terrestrial Globe, by which all things have life and being; and without the which, destruction and disorder soon would seize the general state of men.  
Learning and Languages cannot set a nap upon a threadbare gown. Art is like common Fiddlers, draws down others meat with liquorish Tunes, whilst they the scraps do eat.  
Liberty and Public good, are like great Ollio's, must have the upper end still of our Tables, though they are but for show.  
Life is the frost of cold, Felicity and Death the thaw of all our vanity.  
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor Player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more  
Life is a tale told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  
Like to an Ass whose back with ingots bows, we bear our heavy riches but journey, and death unloads us.  
Life is but a dark and stormy night of senseless dreams, terrors, and broken sleep; a tyranny, devising pains to plague and make men long in dying.  

Love is a razor cleansing if well used,  
But fetcheth blood if that it be abused.  
Love, like to sin, inveterate is, and strong,  
He prevents danger that destroys it young.   
Love can no more be dissembled, then to bear hot burning coals in our bare palms or bosoms; and less concealed and hidden, than a flash of inflamed powder, whose whole light doth lay it open to all discovery even of those who have but half an eye, and less of nose.  
Love's service is much like our honoured Lord, where Minion's carry more than servitors; the bold and careless servants still obtains, the modest and respective nothing gains.  
Lovers are like Astronomers, that when the vulgar eye discovers, but a sky above, studied with some few stars find out besides strange fishes, birds and beasts.  
Lovers in favour are like Gamesters in good fortune, the more you set them, still the more they win.  

Love is but a card play, all is lost,  
Unless you cog, he that pricks best, wins most.   
At the games of Love we set all, but the best is, we cannot stake; and there is no loss of credit in the breaking.  
Love is like to wax, the more it is rubbed, it sticks the faster to: or like a bird in birdlime, or a pitfall, the more one labours, still he is the deeper in.  
Love is an idle fantasy, bred by desire, nursed by delight, an humour that gins his dominion in Leo, the Lion, the sign of the Heart; and ends in Aries, the Ram, the sign of the Head; his power is to stir the blood, prick up the flesh, and fill the body with libidinous heat.  
A young man's Love it is like Ivy, it must have something to cleave to, or it prospers not.  
Love is like fasting days, but the body is like flesh days; and it is our English Gallants fashion, to prefer a morsel of flesh, before all the fasting days in the year.  
This Love is a troublesome thing, Jupiter bless us out of his fingers; there is no estate can rest for him, he runs through all Countries, will travel through the Isle of Man in a minute, but never is quiet till he comes into Middlesex, and there keeps his Christmas; it is his habitation, his mansion, from which he will never out, until he be fired.  
A Platonic Love is no other, then to have men brought in Litters disguise, to cuckold us in virtue.  
Luxurious Riots are the shames of men, that have the seeds of virtue in them, springing to glory, that drowned their spirits in lees of sloth, and yield the glories of the day to wine, to lust, and banquets; that dress themselves up like to Pageants, with thousand antic and exotic shapes, that make and Idol of a Looking-glass, sprucing themselves two hours by it, with such gestures and postures, that a waiting wench would be ashamed of; and then come forth to adore their Mistress' fan, or tell their dream, ravish a kiss from her white glove, and then compare it with her hand, to praise her gown, her tire, and discourse of the fashion; discovery make, which Lady paints, which not, which Lord plays best at Gleek, which at Racket; these are fine Elements.  

A Lie is like a Lapwing, which still flies,  
Far from her sought nest, still here 'tis, she cries.   
Lies hid our sins like nets, like perspectives, they that draw offences nearer, make them greater.  
Truth though it trouble some minds, that are both dark and dangerous, yet it preserves itself, and comes off pure, innocent; and like the sun, though never so eclisped, it breaks in glory.  
Man is a tree, that hath no top in cares, nor root in comforts.  
It is the deepest art to study man, the world's divided into knaves and fools.  
Men are like politic states, or troubled seas, tossed up and down with several storms and tempests, change and variety, wrack and for tunes, till labouring in the Haven of our homes, we study for the calm that crowns our ends.  
Man is a ship that sails with adverse winds, and hath no Haven till he land at death, then when he thinks his hands fast grasp the bank, comes a rude billow betwixt him and safety, and beats him back into the deep again  
To Marry is to be long-lived, variety is like rare sauces, provoke too far, and draws on surfeits more than the other.  
The marriage rites are like to those that do deny a purgatory, they locally contain a heaven or hell, there is no third place.  
The joys of Marriage are a heaven on earth, life's paradise, there is no rest orative like to a constant woman; (but where is she) it would puzzle all the Gods to create such a new monster.  
Misfortune vexes us like to Quotidians, they intermit a little, and return  we have lost the memory of our first fit.  
If a Man be thrust into a well, no matter whose hand is to it, his own weight brings him to the bottom, Fortune makes this conclusion, All things shall help the unhappy man still to fall lower.  
Mischiefs are like to darts shot at repelling walls, in their return they light on them that did direct them.  
To think of crimes when they are done and passed, and to be punished doth but mischif breed, we are then like beasts, when they are fat they bleed.  
Mischief is like Cockatrice's eyes, sees first and kills; or is seen first and dies.  
Mischief overflows our thoughts, and like a sea devours the dew, the rain the snow, the springs, and all the sweetness of the loveliest things.  
Money is a chick of the white hen, old fortune he that hath it, whatsoever he treads upon shall be a rose.  
Murder is open eyed, and as the sea, whose covetous waves imprisoned by the land, bellow for grief, and roar upon the sands; so from the earth it cries, and like a child wronged by its careless nurse, will not be stilled.  
Nature's crescent doth not grow alone in shows and bulks, but as her temple waxes, the inward service of the mind and soul withal grows wider.  
What a fine book is heaven, which we may read best at night, than every star is a fair letter.  
How much they wrong thee (Night) which call thee guilty of rapes and murders; it is the day, that like a glorious whore engages men to act them; and taking thee, the darkness to obscure them, unjustly lay the shame upon thy brows, thou art so innocent thou never sawest them.  
Old men lustful, do show like young men angry, eager, violent, outbid alike their limited performances.  
Old men are discreet sinners, and offend with silence; but young men when the feat is done; do crow like pregnant cocks, boast to the world their strength of their most vicious follies.  
He that hath got the Elixir of Opinions, has got all, he is the man that turns his brass to gold.  

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan  
The outward habit by the inward man.   
He that weighs men's thoughts, hath his hands full of nothing; a man in the course of this world should be like a Surgeons instrument, work in others wounds, and feel nothing himself; the sharper and subtler, the better.  

All are not Bawds, I see now, that keep doors,  
Nor all good Wenches that are marked for Whores.   
Where Order is once shaked (which is the ladder to all high designs) the enterprise is sick.  
With what a compelled face a woman sits, whilst she is Drawing, I have noted divers, either to feign smiles, or suck in their lips, to have a little mouth, dimple their cheeks, and so disorder their face with affectation; at next sitting it hath not been the same. I have known others have lost the entire fashion of their face in half an hours sitting; in hot weather, the painting of their faces was so mellow, that they have left the poor man harder work by half to mend the Copy they wrought by. Indeed, if ever I would have mine drawn to the life, I would have the Painter steal it at such time, when I am devoutly kneeling at my prayers, there is then a heavenly beauty in it, the soul moves in the superficies.  
Paintings and Epitaphs are both alike, they flatter us, and say, we have been such. When Princes heads sleeps on their Counsels knees, a State's deep rooted must grow up high, when Providence, Zeal, Uprightness, and Integrity husband it.  
He that suffers Prosperity to swell him above a mean, like those impressions in the Air that rise from Dunghill Vapours, scattered by the wind, leaves nothing but an empty name behind.  
Prosperity is the Bawd of Love, whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together, affliction altars.  
It fares with some in their Prosperity, as with others I have known of rare parts, who from their success of fight of Duels, have been raised up to such a pride, and so transformed from what they were, that all that loved them truly wished they had fallen in them. 
Like dust before a wind those men do fly,  
That prostrate on the ground of Fortune lie;  
And being great (like trees that broadest sprout)  
Their own top-heavy state grubs up their root.   
Gentlemen, as soon as they come to their lands, get up to London, and like squibs that run upon lines, they keep a spitting of fire, and crackling till they have spent all, and when the fire is out, what says the Punk, Foh, how the Prodigal stinks.  
How blind is Pride, what eagles are we still in matters that belong to other men, what beetles in our own.  

Swelling spirits hid with humble looks,  
Are Kingdoms poisons hung on golden hooks.  
Valleys that let in rivers to confound  
The hills above them, though themselves do drowned.   
Of an excessive Pride, his marble Portals richly gilded over, his Assyrian Carpets, Chairs of Ivory, his Garments perfumed, his Jewels valued not for use, but needless Ornaments, a sumptuous Stable, a stupendious House, with all the baits of sense, that catch a vulgar eye.  
Poverty is like the rack, it draws a man to danger, to the Gallows, rather than endure it.  
Oh happiness of Poverty, that rest securely on a bed of living turf; while we with making cares, and restless thoughts, lie tumbling on our down, courting the blessing of a short minutes slumber which the Ploughman shakes from him, as a ransomed slave his fetters.  
Poverty puts a multiplying glass upon our faults, and makes them swell, and fill the eye; our crimes shows highest then, when we ourselves are lowest.  
Pleasure, farewell to thy enticing vanity, thou round gilt box that dost deceive man's eye; wise men knows when thou art broken open, the treasure thou includest, is dust and smoke; even so I do esteem thee.  

Books, music, wine, brave company, good cheer,  
Make Poets to soar high, and sing most clear.   
Poetry (though it be of a quite contrary nature) is as pretty a jewel as plain dealing, but they that use it, forget the Proverb.  

Verses, though freely born, like slaves are sold;  
I crown thy Lines with bays, thy Love with gold.   
Players were never more uncertain in their lives, they know not how to play for fearful fools, where to play, for puritan fools, nor what to play for critical fools.  
When I Achilles hear upon the stage, speak honour and the greatness of his soul, methinks I too could on a Phrygian spear run boldly, and make tales for after times; but when I come to act it in the deed, death mars my bravery, and the ugly fears of the other world, sits on my frighted brow.  
Physiognomy do you call it, there is no more credit to be given to it, then to a sick man's urine, which some call the Physician's Whore, because she cousins him.  
A witty person may with ease distinguish all men by their Noses, as thus; your nose Tuscan, is lovely, large, and broad, much like to a goose's beak; your valiant generous nose, crooked, smooth, and puffing; your scholars nose is very fresh and raw for want of fire in winter, that quickly smells his chop of mutton in his dish of pottage; your Puritan nose is very sharp and long, (much like your widows) and with ease can find an edifying Capon five streets off.  
I have skill in Faces, yet the world is so deceitful, that I can hardly distinguish a Bawd from a Midwife; or an hypocritical Puritan from a devout Christian.  
Physicians are for the most part, like beasts for sacrifice, there is nothing left in them but tongue and belly.  
A Physician is too often a lingering executioner to death, the greatest disease to nature; one that strives by art to make us long a dying; he practices on our bodies, as men pull roses, not for their own relish, but to kill the flower: so they maintain their lives by others deaths.  
Your Physician is like your hawk, the greater the fowl is that he kills, the greater is his reward.  
He that takes Physic trusts to one that hath art, and leave to kill.  
Your Physicians are as good as false doors behind hang, to Ladies necessary uses.  
Since the great master of Philosophy (Aristotle) died, that fooled the drunken Macedon out of a thousand Talents to buy books; what have the multitude of his learned successors done? only writ comments on his Works, scribbling to no but to make paper dear.  
Oh brave Philosophers, I will name you three of them: First the merry fop of Thrace, (Democritus) that always laughed, pretending it was at Vanity; alas, it was his disease, going to steal Mushrooms for his supper, the blue mouthed serpent skulked under a dock leaf, and bitten him by the thumb, from whence he took that languishing malady. And his Antagonist Heraclitus, that would ever seem to weep out of a pious cause, he was a fine dissembling fellow; no sorrow made him weep, there is a Manuscript now kept in the Vatican, that shows he had nine years a Fistula in his eye. As for Diogenes that fasted much, and took his habitation in a Tub, to make the world believe he loved a strict and severe life, he took the diet, Sir, and in that very Tub sweat for the French disease; and some unlearned Apothecary since, mistaking its name, called it Cornelius Tub.  
There was never yet Philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently; however they have writ the stile of Gods, and made a pish at chance and sufferance.  
The Vulgar sort of People in Rebellion, are like unknown Lands, those that first possess them have them.  
What can be expected from the Herd but contraries; he that trusts them, where he should find them Lions, finds them Hares; where Foxes, Geese.  
The Vulgar have, for the most part, sick men's apperites, they desire that most, which doth them most hurt.  
He that Reputes  he commits a fault, doth like a thrifty sinner store his soul with mercy, to absolve that sin himself, which he hereafter is so like to fall into.  
The Drunkard after his lavish cups, is dry, and then is sober: so at length when we are awaked from our lascivious dreams, repentance then will follow like the sting placed in the Adder's tail.  
Divinity which calls our anger sin, and courage pride, hath sent this silly Cherub on earth, Patience.  

(The Coward's sword) which only doth disarm  
Dull sleeps, that neither can nor will do harm.   
Patience it is the greatest enemy to law that can be, for it doth embrace all wrongs, and so chains up Lawyers and women's tongues; it is the perpetual Prisoners liberty, his Walks and Orchards; it is the bond-slave's freedom, that makes him seem proud of his iron chains; it is the Beggar's music, who thus sings, Although their bodies beg, their souls are Kings.  
He is more Patiented than a Brown Baker when he heats his Oven, and hath forty Scolds about him.  
The fears and joys, hopes and desire mixed with despairs and doubts do make the sport in love; they are the very dog with which we hunt the hare, but as the dogs would stop and straight give over were it not for the little thing before; so would our Passions, both alike must be fleshed in the chase.  

The grief that melts in tears, by itself is spent,  
Passion resisted grows more violent.   
Faults are in flesh as motes are in the sun, where light doth show each little thing amiss; Presumption and Despair live opposite, as times false glasses, wherein frailties see their faults too great, or else too little.  
A Rape is like to unripe fruits, they have proportion, colour, but no taste.  
Rebellion walks with claws bowed in, and a close mouth, which only she keeps for opportunity of prey.  
Tumults are not laid with half the easiness that they are raised; all may begin a War, but few can end it.  

Revenge will never slack till it hath spent its fuel,  
Intemperate Agues make Physicians cruel.   
Pluto, the God of Riches, when he is sent (by Jupiter) to any man, goes limping; to signify, that wealth that comes in God's name, comes slowly: but when it is sent on the Devil's errand, it rides post, comes in by scuttles full.  
Lovers Swearing and Forswearing, are like Mariners Prayers uttered in extremity; but when the tempest is over, and the Vessel leaves tumbling, they fall from protesting to drinking: and yet amongst young Gentlemen, protesting and drinking do go together, and agree as well as Shoemakers and Westphalia Bacon, they are both drawers on; for drink draws on protestations, and protestations and oaths draw on more drink.  
Success is a rare paint, it hides all ugliness.  
Success, like Lethe, to the souls in bliss, makes them forget things past, and crowns our sins with the name of valour: be we never so impious, a scelus foelix styles us virtuous.  
They are like to Thrive, whom fate in spite of storms doth keep alive.  
Never yet was any Nation read of, so besotted in reason, as to adore the setting Sun; many adored him rising.  
The Soul is a tree whence several branches spread; loving affections; suffering sorrows: these affections and sorrows, as they are branches, sometimes are lopped off, or of themselves do whither, in whose rooms, others spring forth.  
Like to a Lark in a cage, such is the Soul in the body; this world is like her little turf of grass, and heaven o'er our heads, like her looking-glass, which only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.  
How slow paced is Sorrow; grief is a Tortoise to the nimble senses, and chills their motions.  
Some cloud of rain (since my own eyes refuse to drown me) melt and overwhelm this miserable Island.  

There is no Rhetoric can express my woe,  
Small rivers murmur, deep streams silent flow.   
Soldiers that feed the victories of the conquerors, as witches do their serviceable spirit, with their prodigal blood, what do they get but (like the wealth of Captains) a poor handful, which in their palm they bear as men hold water, seeking to gripe it fast, the frail reward steals through their fingers.  
Sleep lies in smoking cribs, upon uneasy palates stretching her, where hushed with silent night, she courts her slumbers, rather than in the perfumed chambers of the great, under the canopies of costly state.  
Sleep that sealest up the sea boys eyes, and rockest his brains in the cradle of the rude imperious surges, and in the visitation of the winds; who takest the russian billows by the tops, curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them with deafening clamours in the slippery clouds, that with the hurly death itself awakes: Canst thou, Oh partial Sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and the silentest night (with all appliances and means to boot) deny it to a King. Uneasy lies the head that wears a Crown.  
Oh fie upon this Single life! we read how Daphne, for her peevish flight, was turned into a Bay-tree; Syrinx into a pale empty Reed, Anaxarete was frozen into Marble; whereas those which married, or proved kind unto their friends, were by a gracious influence transformed into the Olive, Pomegranate, Mulberry-trees, became Flowers, precious Stones, and eminent Stars.  

Sin, like a pregnant mother,  
From the success of one beget another.  
Fowl deeds will rise,  
Though all the world overwhelm them to men's eyes.   
There is no gamester like a politic Sinner, for who ever games, the box is sure to win.  
I want no worth (if I have not too much self-love) still to merit honour; 'tis honour that wants worth to me rit me. Fortune thou arbitress of humane things.  

Thy credit is at stake, if I but rise,  
The world's opinion will conceive thou hast eyes.   
The man that trusts a woman with a Secret, and hopes for silence, may as well expect it at the fall of a bridge; a Secret with them is like a Viper, it will make way, though it eat through their bowels; and when they have insinuated themselves into our counsels, and gained power over our lives, the fire is more merciful, which burns till it goes forth.  
Thunder speaks not till it hits, be not Secure; none sooner are oppressed then those whom confidence betrays. Security is the suburbs of Hell.  
We must with Temperance smooth our passions, if we intent to attain our wished ends, through things called good and bad; like the Air, that evenly interposed betwixt the Seas and the opposed Element of Fire, at either toucheth, but partakes of neither; is neither hot nor cold, but with a sleight and harmless temper mixed of both the extremes.  
Philosophy, Religion's Solitude, and Labour, wait on Temperance; in these, Desire is bounded, they instruct the mind and bodies actions.  
The greatest fault that some can find with Theft, is, that it cousin's the Scriveners; for it borrows money without giving any Obligation.  
Your greatest Theives are never hanged, for why, they are wise, and cheat within doors.  
The Sun is a Thief, that with his great attraction robs the vast sea: the Moon is an arrant Thief for her pale fire she snatches from the Sun, the Sea is a Thief, whose liquid surge dissolves the Moon into salt tears: the Earth is a Thief, that feeds and breeds by a composture stolen from the general excrement. Every thing is a Thief, only the Laws are curbs and whips; by their rough power all punishments are determined.  
It is a dull thing to Travel like a mill horse, still in the place we are born in, round and blinded; living at home is like it: pure strong spirits that covet like the fire, still to fly upwards, and to give fire as well as take it; cased up at home like lusty mettled horses only tied up in stables to please their masters, beat out their fiery lives in their own litters.  
There are many half Travellers, that went out men, and good men, that when they have returned, looked like poached eggs; their souls sucked out, empty and full of wind; all their relations baked like rye crust, to hold carriage from this good town to the other; & when they are opened, they are ill cooked & musty.  
Truth is not made of glass, that with a small touch it should fear to break.  
Truth is like your Coat of Arms, richest when plainest.  
Whom heaven is pleased to style Victorious, to such applause runs madding; like Bacchus' drunken Priests, who without reason in their Sacrifices, voiced their Leader on a Demi-god; when as indeed each common soldier's blood drops down as currant coin in that hard purchase, as his, whose much more delicate condition hath sucked the milk of ease; judgement commands, but resolution executes.  

He that fights well at the end of the Wars,  
His head wears Sun Beams, and his feet touch Stars.   
Virtue is a solid rock, whereat being aimed, the keenest darts of envy cannot hurt, 
Her Marble Hero's stand built on such Bases,  
That they recoil, and wound their shooters faces.   
The World is a Labyrinth, where unguided men walk up and down till they are weary.  
The World is a Foot ball, we run after it with whoop and hollow, he that is next to it is sure to catch a fall.  

The World's a City full of straying Streets;  
And Death's the Market place where each one meets.   
The World is like an Innkeepers Chamber-pot, it receives all waters, both good and bad, it hath need of much scouring.  
The World shoots up daily into more cunning, the very spider weaves her cawls with more art to entrap the wanton silly fly; so that we had need to keep our wits wound up to their stretched height.  
Where the Whore ends, the Bawd gins; and the corruption of a Bawd is the generation of a Witch. Pythagoras holds an opinion, that a Witch turns to a wild cat; as an old Oastler turns to an ambling Nag.  
As of the Lion and Eagle, it is said, that when they go they draw their sears and talons close up, to shun rebating of their fierceness; so our wit's sharpness which we should employ in noble knowledge, we should never waste on vile and gar admiration.  
They talk of Jupiter, and a golden shower; give me a Mercury with wit and tongue, and he shall charm more Ladies on their backs, than the whole bundle of the Gods besides.  
You have a pretty ambling Wit in summer, do you let it out, or keep it for your own riding; who holds your stirrup whilst you jump into a jest, to the endangering of your Quodlibets.  
Like Jupiter you want a Vulcan; but to cleave your head, and out peeps bright Minerva.  
The War is a school, where all the principles tending to Honour are taught, if truly followed; but for such as do repair thither, as to a place in which they do presume, they may with licence practise their Lust and Riots; such will never merit the noble Characters of Soldiers.  

All Wars are bad, yet sometimes they do good,  
And like to Surgeons let sick Kingdoms blood.   
Whores are sweet meats, which rot the eater, poisoned perfumes, cozening Alchemy, shipwrecks in calmest weather, Russian winters, which appear so barren, as if that nature had forgot the spring.  
Whores are the true material fires of Hell, worse than the tributes paid in the Low Countries; exactions upon meat, drink, garments, sheep, I, even one man's prediction, his sin.  
Whores are like those brittle Evidences of Law, that forfeit a man's wretched estate for leaving out a syllable.  
Whores are like those flattering bells, that ring one tune at Weddings and at Funerals.  
A Whore is like the guilty counterfeited coin, that whosoever first stamps it, brings in question, and troubles all that do receive it.  
A Whore is as modest as one can be, that hath left to blush at twelve: felt motions at eleven, and hath been hardened before three congregation, and done penance.  
A Wench that will make a Hermit run to Hell for a touch of her.  
For a Whore for to turn honest is one of Hercules' Labours; it was more easy for him in one night to make fifty Queans, then to turn one of them honest again in fifty years.  
A Whore is one of the devils vines, all sins like so many poles, are stuck upright out of hell to be her props, that she may spread upon them; and when she is ripe, every Knave hath a pull at her; till she be pressed, the young beautiful grape sets the teeth of lust on edge; she will be tasted though she be rank poison.  
Sives can hold no water, nor Harlots hoard up money; she hath too many sluices to let it out; yet she is the Gallipot that drones do fly to for the sweet sucket that they thinks within it.  
Your Widows are a politic generation, proved so by Similes, many voyages make an experienced Seaman; many offices a crafty Knave; so many marriages, a subtle cunning Widow.  

A Widow is a garment worn threadbare;  
Selling at second hand like Broker's ware.   
A good Wife she is a golden sentence, writ by our Maker, which the Angels know how to discourse of; only men know not how to make use of.  
A Woman was made of the rib of a man, and that rib was crooked: the Moral of which is, That a man from the beginning must be crooked to his wife, let him be an Orange to her, and she will be as sour as Vinegar to him.  
Women are the baggage of our lives, they are troublesome and hinder us in our great march; and yet we cannot be without them.  
Women are like to burrs, where their affections throw them, there they stick.  
Women carry springs within their eyes, and can out-weep the Crocodile, till too much pity betrays us men to their merciless devourings.  
A Woman is a Labyrinth, we can measure the height of any Star, point out all the dimensions of the Earth, examine the Seas great womb, and sound its subtle depth; but Art will never be able to find out the demonstration of a Woman's heart.   
FINIS.   

A general Table of the Contents of this Book.  
Courteous Reader, the Epithets and Similitudes being placed at the latter end of this Book, and beginning Folio 1. thou mayest easily find the Word there, having this addition in the Table, The Epithets, or, the Similitudes.  

A  
AN Abstract of all the perfections of one's Mistress together Page 22  
To make an Acquaintance 37  
An Address to a company of Ladies 16  
An Address to make known his affection to his mistress 18  
Address of salutation 19  
An Address of Courtship to his mistress 22  
Several Addresses of perfect Courtship 25  
Aspect the Epithets 6  
Allurements the Epithets 6  
Affections the Epithets 6  
Affections the Similitudes 50  
Air the Epithets 6  
Absence the Epithets 6  
Accomplishment the Epithets 6  
Adieu the Epithets 7  
Apparel the Similitudes 50  
Apparel the Epithets 6  
Anger the Simil 49  
Ambition and Ambitious men the Similitudes 49  
On her arms 22  
The Art of Reason or Logic 252  
Demand of assurance 29  
Allegiance the Simil. 50  
Affliction the Simil. 50  
Adulterers the Simil. 50   

B.  
The ballad of S. George 104  
Beauty the Epithets 7  
Beauty the Simil. 50  
On her Beauty 73  
Bootless complaint 76  
On her Breasts 22  
Breasts the Epith. 7  
On her Brow 22  
A Broom-man in Kent-street to a young Lady 166  
Bastard children why more ingenuous, for the most part, then Legitimate 184  
Bald why 191  
Bawd what she like 194, 198  
Bawd the Epithets 7  
Bawd the Similitudes 51  
Broker the Similitudes 50  
Body described 183  
Body's signs to know the mind by 182  
Body the Epith. 7  
Body the Simil. 50  
Boasting swaggerer Sim. 50  
On her Breath 21  
Breath stinking why 195  
Breath the Epith. 7   

C.  
CHaracters from 182 to 196  
Cheeks the Epith. 8  
On her Chastity 72  
Coyness the Epith. 7  
Charms the Epith. 8  
Complaints the Epith. 8  
The choice of a Gentleman Usher 53  
Chin the Epith. 8  
Comedy the Epith. 8  
Cherries the Epith. 8  
Cherry women and Orange women, their address among the Ladies in Hide Park 3  
The Clowns description of his mistress 100  
Commendations on the several parts of ones mistress' body 20, 21  
On her Chin and Cheeks 21  
A Cockney to his mistress 161  
Compliments between Ladies and Gentlemen going to Hid Park 12  
Compliments in the Park 34 between a Gentleman and a Lady before a Ribband-shop 43. Between a Apprentice and a young Lady at a Boarding-School 44. Between a Horse-courser and a Parson's Widow See. Mock Compliments the Epith. 8  
Compliments defined and discoursed of at large in the advertisement to the Reader.  
An amorous Compliment 33  
Compliments, Vide the advertisement to the Reader.  
Constancy resolved 78  
Curls the Epith. 9  
A Country Parson to a Farmer's Daughter 167  
A Country Bumpkin to his Mistress 169  
To request a Courtesy 39  
For Courtesies received to give thanks Ibid. The Sport called the Crab 3  
The Crambo Dictionary 223  
Children why liker their Fathers then their Mother's 179  
Creatures which live the longest 186  
Creditor defined 194  
Cupid contemned 76  
Cupid why paint with the words, Spring Time and Winter 181  
Cupid why painted bore headed 181  
Cupid why represented with Arrows 182  
Cupid why pictured flying 183  
Cupid why painted a Child 186  
Cupid why Life and Death painted in his Robe 195  
Cupid why represented with flowers in one hand and with a fish in the other 198  
Courtier Epith. 7  
Cruelty Epith. 8  
Countenance Epith. 8  
Chambermaids Simil. 51  
Conscience Simil. 51  
Court, Courtiers Simil. 51  
Credit Simil. 51  
Credulity Simil. 51  
Cuckold Simil. 51   

D.  
DEmand of assurance 29  
The Departure 27, 27  
A Description of Love 57  
Dialogues between the Gentleman and the Jockey in Hide Park 6  
To a friend before Dinner 41  
After Dinner ibid.  
To enter into discourse with a Lady being in Company 17  
To Discourse concerning the noise of a Match 23  
The discourse of a Gentleman bringing his friend into Company 35  
Diseases indintce to a Gentle man Usher 54  
The Dress of a Gentleman Usher. 54  
Against drinking of Sack 136  
Drolling Compliments 43 See Mock Compliments  
Drolling Letters 160, 161  
Duns what compared to 192  
Delay the Epithets. 9  
Dove the Epithets. 9  
Danceing the Epithets 9  
Dreams the Epit hets. 10  
Dying to Love 72  
Destiny the Epithets 9  
Desires the Epithets 9  
Desires the Simil. 52  
Dissimulation the Simil. 52  
Dissembler the Simil. 52  
Dangers the Simil. 51  
Delights the Epithets. 9  
Disdain the Epithets 10  
Disdain the Simil. 52  
Brawing a woman's face the Simil. 61  
Despair the Epithets. 10  
Despair the Simil. 52   

E.  
THe Efficient cause 254  
Epithets 6  
On his mistress Eyes 20  
Of Expressions several set forms, from 201 to 208  
Eunuches why shrill voiced 191  
Eunuches the Epithets 10  
New England brother defined 192  
Echo why she reports the last words 193  
Earth's Centre where 195  
Earth how many miles in compass 196  
Eloquence discoursed of, and defined in the davertisement to the Reader  
Eloquence the Epithets 10  
Ecstasy the Epithets 10  
Ears the Epithets 10  
Elegy the Epithets. 10  
Entertainment the Epithets 10  
Eyes the Similitudes 53  
Eyes the Epithets 11  
Embraces the Epithets 11  
Envy the Similitudes 52  
Extremes the Similitudes 52   

F.  
ON her Face 20, 21  
Fancy awakened 181  
The Fond design 65  
In praise of Fools 80  
On her Forehead 20  
Forms for the concluding of Letters 129  
Several Forms of Letters 132 133, 134  
To begin a Friendship 37  
Fools the Similitudes 53  
Fortitude the Similitudes 53  
Faith the Similitudes 55  
Full Satisfaction 32  
Fencer defined 182  
Feeling from whence derived 195  
Farewell Epithets 11  
Feet the Epithets 11  
Fancy the Epithets 11  
Forehead the Epithets. 11  
Fortune the Epithets 11  
Fortune the Simil. 53  
Fidelity the Simil. 53  
Fountain the Epithets 12  
Frenzy the Epithets 12  
Flowers the Epithets 12  
Face the Epith. 12  
Faces the Simil. 63  
Fate the Epith. 12  
Fingers the Epith. 12  
Fruit the Epith. 12  
Frowns the Epith. 12  
Flattery the Epith. 14  
Flattery the Sim. 53  
Fields the Epith. 14  
Flames the Epith. 14  
Flea the Epith. 15  
Forrest the Epith. 15  
Fear the Epith. 15  
Fear the Simil. 53   

G.  
GAmes used among Gallants to pass away the time 13  
See Sports  
A Garden of Tulips 49  
Glyphing 3  
The Golden Age 69  
The old Gill 109  
Glory the Epith. 13  
Glory the Simil. 54  
Gamesters the Simil. 54  
Grass the Epith. 13  
Grape the Epith. 13  
Grove the Epith. 13  
Gentleman the Epith. 15  
Gentleman the Simil. 68  
Garden the Epith. 11  
Gesture the Epith. 15  
Grief the Epith 15  
Gloves the Epith. 16  
Gallant the Simil. 54   

H.  
ON her hands 22  
Hands the Epith. 13  
The Hector's Farewell 89  
A Hector to his Mistress 147  
Hid Park Mode 163 etc.  
Horse-races, their Mode in Hide Park. 6  
On his Mistress' Hair 20  
Hair of the head why of one colour, and the beard of another 184  
Hair why it curls 185  
Hair curled why sooner grey 188  
Hair Epithets 13  
Hair Sim. 55  
Heart why in the midst of the body 188  
Heart Epith 13  
Hicup 199  
Hermophradites why begotten 188  
Host defined 191  
Honour Epith. 13  
Honour Simil 54  
Happiness Epith. 14  
Harmony Epith. 14  
Head Ep. 14  
Hatred Sim 55  
Hatred Ep. 14  
Humility Sim 54  
Hope Sim. 54  
Honesty Sim. 54  
Heaven Sim. 55  
Hell Sim. 55  
Heard Sim. 56  
Harlot Sim. 68, 69   

I.  
THe Impolitic Beauty 18  
A Private Intercourse between the Page, and the Waiting Gentlewoman 42  
Invitation of a Friend to Dinner 40  
On the death of Jo. W. 92, 93  
The Jolly Ale Drinker 97  
The Jovial Companion 102  
Jesting and Jovial Questionsfrom 181 to 200 Intermixed  
Jealousy Ep. 14  
Jealousy Sim. 56  
Injuries Sim. 55  
Ingratitude Ep. 16  
Ingratitude Sim. 55  
Infancy Sim. 55  
Instrument Ep. 16  
Jewels Ep. 16  
Insolence Ep. 16  
Joy Sim. 55  
Joy Ep. 17  
Innocence Ep. 16  
Industry Sim. 55  
Importunity Ep. 16  
Incontinency Sim. 56  
Inconstancy Ep. 16  
Inconstancy Sim. 56  
Influence Ep. 16  
Idleness Sim. 56  
Impudence Ep. 16   

K.  
KIssing how used 183  
Kisses Ep. 17  
Kings Sim. 57  
Knighthood Sim. 57   

L  
ON a fair Lady at a Mask 73  
To a Lady in Prison 77  
A Lady to her inconstant Servant 136  
A Lawyer to his Mistress 163  
On her Lips 20, 21  
Several Forms of Letters amorous 132, 133  
Familiar Letters to Friends 143, 144 etc.  
Letters in Verse 150, 151 etc.  
On her Locks 20  
What Logic is 252  
On her Looks 21  
Lose no time 78  
Lungs their flesh why white 195  
Law what compared to 193  
Against Love 63  
Love's Martyr 68  
Protestation of Love 69  
Lying on the back why we dream 191  
Lying on the back why unwholesome 191  
Logic Ep. 18  
Logic 252 The Definition ibid.  
The parts of Logic 252, 253 The Efficient Cause 253 The Matter 257 The Form 258 The end 259 The Effects 260 The Subjects 261 The Adjunct 262 The Diverses 264 Desparates 265 Relates 265 Adverses 267 Contradicents' 268 Privants 269 Equals 270 Greater's 273 Lessers 274 Likes 276 Dislikes 279 Conjugates 280 Notations 281 Distribution 282, 283, etc. Definition 289 Description 289 Testimony 291, 292 Judgement 295 Axioma 295, 296, etc. Syllogisms 301, 303  
Method 313  
Love defined 201  
Loves Attendants 182  
Love why compared to a Maze 197  
Lovers why they so use to blush 181  
Lovers why some of them look so pale 186  
Lovers breasts why they leap so 190  
Lovers Oaths what they are like 196  
Lovers why they kiss the eyes 190  
Love the Sim. 57, 58.  
Lovers Sim. 58  
Lous Ep. 19  
Lute Ep. 17  
Looking-glass Ep. 17  
Lust Ep. 17  
Lust Sim. 56  
Labyrinth Ep. 18  
Language Ep. 18  
Lullaby Ep. 18  
Lustre Ep. 18  
Lilly Ep. 18  
Loadstone Ep. 18  
Longing Ep. 18  
Laughter Ep. 19  
Lethargy Ep. 19  
Lovers Ep. 19  
Looks Ep. 19  
Locks Ep. 19  
Lips Ep. 20  
Limbs Ep. 20  
Law Sim. 57  
Learning Sim. 57  
Liberty Sim. 57  
Luxury Sim. 58  
Lie Sim. 59  
Life Sim. 57   

M.  
THe master of the Balls address to the company as they come in 9  
The Maidenhead 64  
The Melancholy lover 58  
Miscelania's 181  
To his Mistress, a copy of Verses, 55. To his Mistress falsely accusing him, 59 To his false Mistress, 61. On his Mistress singing, 66. On the perfections of his Mistress, 70, 71. Who his Mistress is, 80. To his Mistress desiring Enjoyment, 151. To his Mistress recovered of an Ague, 132. To his retired Mistress, ibid. See Letters.  
The Mode of Hide Park 139  
The Mode of Balls 9, 10, etc.  
Mock Compliments, 43. Between a Gentleman and a Lady before a Ribband-shop at the Exchange, 43 between a Horse-courser and a Parson's Widow, 44 between an Apprentice and a young Lady at a Boarding-school, ibid. between a Gentleman and a Sempstress, 46. between a journyman Haberdasher and a Lady's Chambermaid, ib. between a Gentleman Usher and a waiting Gentlewoman, 47. between a Lawyer's Clerk & his mistress daughter, 48. between a Country Bumpkin and his Mistress, 49. between a Coachman and the Kitchenmaid, 51. between a Gentleman and a Lady meating in several coaches going to Hid Park 45  
Mock letters 160, 161  
Marriage what compared 198  
The Mountebanks letter to the Surgeons 165  
Musician what like to 196  
Members first form 187  
Memory's seat 193  
Misfortune Sim. 59, 60  
Marigold Ep. 20  
Marble E. 20  
Mean Sim. 52, 53  
Magic Ep. 20  
Magazine Ep. 20  
Metaphors Ep. 20  
Melancholy Ep. 20  
Melody Ep. 21  
Martyr Ep. 21  
Marmoset Ep. 21  
Mind Ep. 21  
Marriage Ep. 21  
Marry Sim. 59  
Marriage Rites Sim. 59  
Mirth Ep. 21  
Madness Ep. 21  
Mystery Ep. 22  
Moon Ep. 22  
Modesty Ep. 22  
Monkey Ep. 22  
Myrtle Ep. 22  
Music Ep. 22  
Multitude Ep. 23  
Man or men Sim. 59  
Mischiefs Sim. 60  
Money Sim. 60  
Murder Sim. 60   

N.  
NOt to be altered 67  
Nature Ep. 24  
Nature Sim. 60  
Nature produceth monsters 196  
On her neck 22  
Nymph Ep. 23  
Navel Ep. 23  
Night Ep. 23  
Nuptials Ep. 23  
Nightingale Ep. 23  
Nose Ep. 24  
Noses Sim. 63   

O.  
ORator, See the Advertisement to the Reader.  
Orator Ep. 24  
Odours Ep. 24  
Oath Ep. 24  
Ornament Ep. 24  
Ode Ep. 25  
Obligement Ep. 25  
Opinion 25  
Opinion Sim. 60  
Opportunity Ep. 25  
Old men Sim. 60  
Order Sim. 61   

P.  
PArting 66  
Passages between Ladies and Gentlemen in the Ring in Hide Park 2, 3  
A Passionate love letter 166  
A Pedagogue to his Mistress 163  
The Picture of the Poet's mistress. 51  
Physiognomy Sim 63  
Plurality of Love 65  
Posies for Rings 170, 171  
The pleasant Prospect 49  
Page Ep. 27  
Paradox Ep. 27  
Protestation of love 69  
pomegranate Ep. 26  
Park Ep. 27  
Proverbs 174 to 180  
Puritan defined 193  
Poetry, Poet Ep. 26  
Poetry Poet Sim. 62  
Pomander Ep. 26  
Cross Purposes Ep. 1  
Prayers Sim. 62  
Players like Philosophers 196  
People dim sighted why given to venery 194  
Pirate defined 183  
Princes Sim. 57  
Paradise Ep. 25  
Place Ep. 25  
Palace Ep. 25  
Purple Ep. 26  
Fantasies Ep. 26  
Pity Ep. 26  
Poison Ep. 26  
Poverty Sim. 62  
Prosperity Sim. 61  
Paleness Ep. 27  
palate Ep. 27  
Prejudice Ep. 27  
Praise Ep. 27  
Pride Ep. 27  
Pride Sim. 62  
Presumption Ep. 28  
Presumption and Despair Sim. 65  
Pretence Ep. 28  
Proportion Ep. 28  
Picture Ep. 28  
Painting Sim. 58, 59, 61  
Pardon Ep. 28  
Physician and Physicans Sim. 63  
Plays, Sport, Games, and Pastimes Ep. 28  
Patience and Patient Sim. 64  
Passion Ep. 28  
Passions Sim. 64  
Passions Sim. 65  
Postorals Ep. 29  
Plains Ep. 29  
Parasite Ep. 29  
Prodigality Sim. 61  
Parrot Ep. 29  
Pyramid Ep. 29  
Pomp Ep. 29  
Persuasion Ep. 30  
Periwig Ep. 30  
Perfume Ep. 30.  
Pen Ep. 30.  
Pelican Ep. 30  
Pearl. Ep. 30  
Pleasure Ep. 30  
Pleasure Sim. 62  
Patron Ep. 31  
Perjury Ep. 31  
Perfection Ep. 31  
Philosophy and Philosophers Sim. 63, 64  
People vulgar Sim. 64   

Q.  
THe Queen of Fairies 74  
Questions and Commands 13, 14  
Several Questions, Enigmatical, Natural, Amorous, Moral, Paradoxical, Jovial, from 181 to 214  
Quakers why 184  
Qualm Ep. 31  
Quiver Ep. 31  
Quince Ep. 31  
Question Ep. 31  
Quicksilver Ep. 31   

R.  
ON a Race-Horse 99  
To request a Courtesy 39, 145  
Resolution in Love 62  
The Return 28  
Return of thanks 144, 149  
Riddles. See Enigmatical Questions from 183 to 196  
The Ring in Hide Park, what passages happen in it 2, 3  
Reason what compared to 195  
Riches Sim. 65  
Rose Ep. 32  
Race Ep. 32  
Rock Ep, 32  
Rape Ep. 32  
Rape Sim. 65  
Rainbow Ep. 32  
Recreation Ep. 32  
Repulse Ep. 33  
Request Ep. 33  
Rapture Ep. 34  
Reproof Ep. 33  
Ruby Ep. 33  
River Ep. 33  
Revenge Ep. 34  
Revenge Sim. 65  
Rites Ep. 34  
Rival Ep. 34  
Rigour Ep. 34  
Riddle Ep. 34  
Reverence Ep. 34  
Rhetoric Ep. 34  
Repose Ep. 34  
Rebellion Sim. 65  
Riches Sim. 57  
Repentance Sim. 64   

S  
Full Satisfaction 32  
A Seaman to his Mistress 162  
To offer Service and begin a Friendship 37  
A Letter of Smiles from a Scrivener to his mistress 168  
On her Smiles 22  
Select Sentences 221, 222  
The Shepherd's Song in praise of Pan. 98  
A Song made upon the fatal Disaster that befell the Gallants upon May Day last in Hide Park 7  
Songs mistake me not 55  
From the fair Lavenian shore 70  
Celia thy sweet Angel's face 74  
No roses couched, etc. 78 read in the roses the sad Story 79  
The Song of the Caps 94  
Song of the Puding 111  
Song on a Wedding 113  
Song on the Courtier 116  
Song on the friar 119  
Song of Tom of Bedlam 120  
Song on the Scholar 122  
Song the Ep. 40  
To Sorrow 77  
A Song of a Soldier to his Mistress 160  
The Strangers reply to the Company 35  
Similitudes and Comparisons. Superscriptions for Letters 125  
Superscriptions for drolling Letters 158  
Swearing and foreswearing Sim. 65  
Superscriptions for Letters 159  
Superscriptions for drolling Letters. 158  
Sports and Games 13 Questions and Commands 13 Cross Purposes 1. The Lover's Alphabet 2 The Bird in a tree 2 The Sport called the Crab 3 The Sport of Glyphing 3 Substantives and Adjectives 4  
Soldiers Sim. 66  
Sleep on the right side best 192  
Skin Ep. 42  
Smiles Ep. 42  
Stomach why it digests 196  
Sins Sim. 66  
Single life Sim. 66  
Sneezing 197  
Success Sim. 65  
Senses why in the head 197  
Star Ep. 41  
Stranger Ep. 41  
Spring time Ep. 41  
Sparrow Ep. 38  
Simplicity Ep. 34  
Symmetry Ep. 35  
Suspicion Ep. 35  
Summer Ep. 35  
Srawberry Ep. 35  
Srawberry Ep. 35  
Strains Ep. 35  
Style Ep. 35  
Stoic Ep. 35  
Sacrifice Ep. 36  
Saint Ep. 36  
Silkworm Ep. 36  
Silence Ep. 36  
Sighs Ep. 36  
Strumpet Ep. 36  
Streams Ep. 37  
Servant, Service Ep. 37  
Servitude Ep. 37  
Sense Ep. 37  
Secret Ep. 37  
Secret Sim. 67  
Sea Ep. 37  
Spaniel Ep. 38  
Squirrel Ep. 38  
Scold or Shrew Ep. 38  
Sycophant, Vide Parasite Ep. 38  
Soul Ep. 38  
Soul Sim. 65  
Sky Ep. 38  
Slave Ep. 38  
Sleep Ep. 39  
Sleep Sim. 66  
Smell Ep. 39  
Snow Ep. 39  
Sorrow Ep. 39  
Speech Ep. 39  
Spheres Ep. 39  
Solemnity Epith. 40  
Shade or shadow Epith. 40  
Shame Epith. 40  
Shepherd or Swain Epith. 40  
Snare Epith. 40  
Sun Epith. 41  
Sport Epith. 41  
Spring Epith. 41  
Stallion Epith. 41  
Secure Simil. 67   

T.  
TAking leave of his friend's Wife 41  
Taking leave of a Lady with whom you are familiar 2  
To give thanks for a Courtesy received 39  
Thrift or thrive Sim. 65  
Theft or thiefs Simil. 67  
Travel or travellers Sim. 67  
Temperance Sim. 67  
On the Tombs at Westminster 82  
On her tongue 22  
Tongue Epithets. 43  
Teeth Epithets. 43  
Tresses Epithets. 44  
Thighs Epith. 43  
The trial 31  
The trial of wits 6  
Tragedy Epithets 42  
Treachery Epithets 42  
Theatre Epithets. 42  
Temptation Epithets. 42  
Temper Epithets. 42  
Taste Epith. 42  
Thoughts Epithets. 42  
Touch Epith. 43  
Tyranny in Love 63  
Tyrant Epith. 44  
Tinker what 191  
Tears from whence they proceed 193  
Tears Epith. 44  
Truth Simil. 68  
Truth Epith. 43  
Turtle Epith. 43  
Triumphs Epith. 44  
Trophies Epith. 44  
Treet Epith. 44  
Tumults Simil 56  
Tobacco Epith. 44  
Tennis Epith. 44  
Thanks Epith. 45  
Tiger Ep. 45  
Time Ep. 45  
Twilight Epith. 45   

A  
A Visit 39  
On her Voice 22  
Voice Ep.  
Voice when changed in men 188  
urban the eight his expression 190  
Virago Ep. 45  
Vesture Epith. 45  
Verdure Ep. 45  
Violet Ep. 45  
Verse Epith. 45  
Virtue Ep. 45  
Virtue Sim. 68  
Vow Ep. 46  
Urn Ep. 46  
Veins Ep 46  
Vales, or Valleys Ep. 46  
Vulgar Ep. 46  
Unicorn Ep. 46  
Virgin Ep. 46  
Victorious Sim 68   

W.  
THe Watchman's song 101  
Wit Ep.  
Wit Sim 69  
Wit and Language from 215 to 222  
On her Words 22  
The Song of Women 99  
Women why smother than men 183  
Women how they look after the bridal night 187  
Women why they endure cold more than men 198  
Women why more silent in love then men 197  
Women Ep. 47  
Women Sim. 70  
Wife Ep. 46  
Widow Ep. 47  
Widow Sim 70  
Whoremaster definition 186  
Whores trade why opposite to all others 189  
Whores barren why 192  
Whores why so many, and so few Bawds 194  
Whores Ep. 46  
Whores Sim. 69  
Womb Ep. 47  
Welshman Bragadocia defined 200  
Wars Sim. 69  
World Sim. 68  
World how long the learned guess it will last 193  
Waiting Gentlewoman Simil. 51  
Wrongs Sim 55  
Wish Ep. 47  
Wrist Ep. 47  
Welcome Ep. 46  
Winter Ep. 47  
Winds Ep. 48  
Whisper Ep. 46  
Will Ep. 47  
Wine Ep. 48  
Wanton or wantonness Ep. 47   

Y.  
Youth Epith. 48   
FINIS.