see them lie without a coverlet. That it is likely Eve studied astronomie, which makes the posterity of her sex ever since to lie on their backes. That the circumference of the bed is nothing so wide as the convex of the heavens, yet it containes a whole world. That the five senses are the greatest sleepers. That a slothfull man is but a reasonable dormouse. That the soule ever awakes to watch the body. That a jealous man sleepes dog-sleepe. That sleepe makes no difference betweene a wise man and a foole. That for all times sleepe is the best bedfellow. That the devill and mischiefe ever awake. That love is a dreame. That the preposterous hopes of ambitious men are like pleasing dreames, farthest off when awake. That the bed payes Venus more custome then all the world beside. That if dreames and wishes had beene all true, there had not beene since poperie, one maide to make a nun of. That the secure man sleepes soundly, and is hardly to be awak't. That the charitable man dreames of building churches, but starts to thinke the ungodlier courtier will pull them downe againe. That sleepers were never dangerous in a state. That there is a naturall reason, why popish priests chuse the bed to confesse their women upon, for they hold it necessarie, that humiliation should follow shrift. That if the bed should speake all it knowes, it would put many to the blush. That it is fit the bed should know more then paper. R. S. Newes from Shipboord. HAT repentance without amendment, is like continuall pumping, without mend ing the leake. That hee that lives without religion, sayles without a compasse. That the wantonnesse of a peaceable common-wealth, is like the playing of the porpesse before a storme. That the foole is sea-sick in a calme, but the wise mans stomack endures all weathers. That passions in a foole, are ordinance broken loose in a storme, that alter their property of offending others, and ruine himselfe. That good fortunes are a soft quicksand, adversity a rock; both equally dangerous. That vertue is in poverty a ready riggd ship, that lies wind-bound. That good fashion in a man, is like the pilot in a ship, that doth most with least force. That a fooles tongue is like the buye of an anchor, you shall finde his heart by it wheresoever it lyes. Wisdome makes use of the crosses of this world, as a skilfull pilot of rocks for sea-markes to saile by. H. R. Newes from the Chimney-corner. HAT wit is brush-wood, judgement timber: the one gives the greatest flame, the other yeelds the durablest heat, and both meeting makes the best fire. That bawdes and atturneyes are andirons that uphold their clyents, till they burne each other to ashes: they receive warmth by these; these by them their destruction. That a wise rich man is like the backe or stocke of the chimney, and his wealth the fire; he receives it not for his owne need, but to reflect the heat to others good. That house-keeping in England is falne from a great fire in a hot summers day, to boughs in the chimney all winter long. That mans reason in matter of faith is fire, in the first degree of his ascent flame, next smoake, and then nothing. A young fellow falne in love with a whore, is said to be falne asleepe in the chimney corner. He that leaves his friend for his wench, forsakes his bed to set up and watch a coale. That the covetous rich man onely freezes before the fire. That choler is an ill guest, that pisses in the chimney for want of a chamberpot. That chaste beauty is like the bellowes, whose breath is cold, yet makes others burne. That he that expounds the Scriptures upon the warrant of his owne spirit only, layes the brands together with out tongs, and is sure (at least) to burne his owne fingers. That the lover keeps a great fire in's house all the yeare long. That devotion, like fire in frostie weather, burnes hottest in affliction. That such fryers as flye the world for the trouble of it, lye in bed all day in winter to spare fire-wood. That a covetous man is a dog in a wheele, that toiles to roast meat for other mens eating. That pagans worshipping the sunne, are said to hold their hands to the glo-worme in stead of a coale for heat. That a wise mans heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coales (his passions) from burning the house. That good deeds, in this life, are coales raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. |