strength; but being pluckt out one by one, serve only for springes and snares. That both want and abundance, equally advance a rectified man from the world, as cotton and stones are both good casting for an hawke. That I am sure there is none of the forbidden fruit left, because we doe not all eat therof. That our best three-pilde mischiefe comes from beyond the sea, and rides post through the countrey, but his errand is to court. That next to no wife and children, your owne are the best pastime, anothers wife and your children worse, your wife and anothers children worst. That states-men hunt their fortunes, and are often at default. Favorites course her, and are ever in view. That intemperance is not so unwholsome here; for none ever saw sparrow sicke of the pox. That here is no trechery nor fidelity, but it is because here are no secrets. That court-motions are up and downe, ours circular, theirs like squibs cannot stay at the highest, nor returne to the place which they rose from, but vanish and weare out in the way: ours like milwheeles, busie without changing place; they have peremptory fortunes, we vicissitudes.

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Answere to the very Countrey Newes.

T is a thought, that man is the cooke of time, and made dresser of his owne fatting.

That the five senses are cinque-ports for

temptation, the traffique sinne, the lieutenant Sathan, the custome-tribute, soules. That the citizens of the high court, grow rich by

simplicity; but those

of London, by simple craft. That life, death, and time, doe with short cudgels dance the matachine. That those which dwell under the zona torrida, are troubled with more damps, than those of frigida. That policie and superstition hath of late her masque rent from her face, and shee is found with a wrie mouth and a stinking breath, and those that courted her hotly, hate her now in the same degree or beyond. That Nature too much loving her own, becomes unnaturall and foolish. That the soule in some is like an egge, hatched by a young pullet, who often rigging from her nest, makes hot and cold beget rottennesse, which her wanton youth will not beleeve, till the faire shell being broken, the stinke appeareth to profit others, but cannot her. That those are the wise ones, that hold the superficies of vertue, to support her contrary, all-sufficient. That clemency within and without is the nurse of rebellion. That thought of the future is retired into

That

the countrey, and time present dwels at court. I living neere the church-yard, where many are buried of the pest, yet my infection commeth from Spaine, and it is feared it will disperse further into the kingdome.

Newes to the Universitie.

A. S.

MEERE scholler is but a live book. Actions doth expresse knowledge better then words; so much of the soule is lost as the body cannot utter. To teach, should rather be an effect, then the purpose of learning. Age decayes nature, perfects art: therefore the glory of youth, is strength; of the gray head, wisdome; yet most condemne the follies of their owne infancie, runne after those of the worlds, and in reverence of antiquity will beare an old error against a new truth. Logicke is the heraldrie of arts, the array of judgement, none it selfe, nor any science without it: where it and learning meete not, must be either a skilfull ignorance, or a wilde knowledge. Understanding cannot conclude out of moode and figure. Discretion containes rhetoricke; the next way to learne good words, is to learne sense; the newest philosophie is soundest, the eldest divinitie: astronomie begins in nature, ends in magick. There is no honesty

of the body without health, which no man hath had since Adam. Intemperance that was the first mother of sicknesse, is now the daughter. Nothing dies but qualities. No kind in the world can perish without ruine of the whole. All parts helpe one another (like states) for particular interest: so in arts which are but translations of nature, there is no sound position in any one, which, imagine false, there may not from it bee drawne strong conclusions, to disprove all the rest. Where one truth is granted, it may bee by direct meanes brought to confirme any other controverted. The soule and body of the first man, were made fit to bee immortall together: we cannot live to the one, but wee must die to the other. A man and a Christian are two creatures. Our perfection in this world is vertue, in the next, knowledge; when we shall read the glory of God in his owne face.

Newes from Sea.

HAT the best pleasure is to have no object of pleasure, and uniformity is a

better prospect then variety. That put

ting to sea is change of life, but not of condition, where risings and fals, calmes, and crosse-gales are yours, in order and turne; fore-winds but by chance. That it is the worst wind, to have no wind, and that

your smooth-fac'd courtier, deading your course by a calme, gives greater impediment, then an open enemies crosse-gale. That levity is a vertue, for many are held up by it. That it's nothing so intricate and infinite to rigge a ship, as a woman, and the more either is fraught, the apter to leake. That to pumpe the one, and shreeve the other, is alike noysome. That small faults habituated, are as dangerous as little leakes unfound; and that to punish and not prevent, is to labour in the pumpe, and leave the leake open. That it is best striking saile before a storme, and necessariest in it. That a little time in our life is best, as the shortest cut to our haven is the happiest voyage. That to him that hath no haven, no wind is friendly; and yet it is better to have no haven, then some kind of one. That expedition is every where to bee bribed but at sea. That gaine workes this miracle, to make men walke upon the water; and that the sound of commodity drowns the noise of a storme, especially of an absent

one.

That I have once in my life out-gone night at sea, but never darknesse; and that I shall never wonder to see a hard world, because I have lived to see the sunne a bankrupt, being ready to starve for cold in his perpetuall presence. That a mans companions are (like ships) to bee kept in distance, for falling foule one of another; onely with my friend I will close. That the fairest field for a running head is