The new help to discourse or wit mirth and jollity [ESTC R222284]

DMI number:

1725

Publication Date:

1680

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R222284

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Full Title:

THE | NEW HELP | TO | DISCOURSE | OR, | WIT, MIRTH, and JOLLITY. | intermix with more serious Matters, | Consisting of pleasant Astrological, | Astronomical, Philosophical, Gram- | matical, Physical, Chyrugical, Hi- | stoical, Moral, and Poetical Ques- | tins and Answers. | [i]AS ALSO[/i] | Histories, Poems, Songs, Epitaphs, Epi- | grams, Anagrams, Acrosticks, Rid- | dles, Jests, Poesies, Complements, | [i]&c.[/i] With several other Varieties | intermix; | Together with | [g]The Countrey Man's Guide;[/g] | CONTAINING | Directions for the true knowledge of several | Matters concerning [i]Astronomy[/i] and [i]Husban-| dry,[/i] in a more plain and ease Method | than any yet extant. | [rule] | By [i]W. W.[/i] Gent. | [rule] | The Second Edition. | [epigraph] | [i]London,[/i] Printed by [i]T.S.[/i] and sold by the Book- | sellers of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster,[/i] 1680.

Epigraph:

[i]That Author best of all doth write, | Who mixeth Profit with Delight.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose

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Duodecimo

Comments:

CONTENTS: Mostly prose. 1) 'The New Help to Discourse' pp. 1-207. 2) 'The Countrey-Mans Guide' pp. 208-239.

Other matter:

END MATTER 1) A Brief Chronology of the times wherein these famous men lived.

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NCBEL 333 (1680)

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Reason doth marvel how faith tell can

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Christ is the word that spake it

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Elizabeth I

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Experience out of observation says

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Bring me quoth he a trowel quickly quick

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'Of which thus written the Divine Du Bartus:'

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Du Bartas||Guillaume de Salluste||seigneur

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Philip King of Macedon

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Friends like to leaves that on the trees do grow

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Drake who the encompassed earth so fully knew

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For razed Troy to rear a Troy fit place he searched then

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Our floods queen Thames for Ships and swans is crowned

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'...in one of Mr, Drayton's Sonnets'.

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At Christmas men do always ivy get

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Twelve pence here first presents him to young eye

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She is a lady of such matchless carriage

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Of murdering guns who might first author be

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Hence come our sugars from canary isles

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'thus set down by the divine Poet Du Bartus in his Colonies'

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Du Bartas||Guillaume de Salluste||seigneur

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Trust women ah fond man may rather trust

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'these verses of the Comedian:'

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Apelles-like when nature did thee make

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'to which one alludes in this Sonnet:'

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Who takes her breakfast daily in her bed

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'as is here described by the poet'

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Here lies Joan of arc the which

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Before such time age made her ruinous

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How many days in one whole year there be

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Behold my uses are not small

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Virtue we praise but practise not her good

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'according to the Poet:'

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Three kings to the king of kings three gifts did bring

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Death is a fisherman the world we see

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Further Verses upon Death.

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Thus whereas men no knowledge have within them

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Nature which head long into life did throng us

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The stone reserved in England many a day

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'Of which stone one thus further writes'

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But if diseases thou hast none

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Physicians are most miserable men

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'according to the Poet:'

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From Colchester there rose a star

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Staffordshire Darbyshire Cheshire and Lancashire

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When as wars are aloft

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The tongue was once a servant to the heart

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'we may say with the Poet,'

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Farewell thou Indian smoke Barbarian vapour

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Tell me dog whose tomb is this

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Diogenes

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When fortune fell asleep and hate did bind her

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They on the table set Minerva's fruit

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The bee the goose the sheep

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There's nought so vile that on the earth doth live

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'according to the Poet:'

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When man lay dead like woman took her life

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For when the seven mouthed Nile the fields forsake

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A rozen mould these fiery flames begin

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Who doth not know the Aethiopian lake

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Charon grim ferryman these streams doth guard

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'from the Poet:'

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A thousand six and sixty year

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It is decreed thus must great Richard die

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Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand

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'as one writeth'

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Not superstitiously I speak but H this letter still

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From every Shires end

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Farewell ye gilded follies pleasing troubles

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pp.174-6

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A farewel to folly by Sir Kenelm Digby.

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Kenelm Digby.

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Sir Kenelm Digby

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The world's a bubble

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p.176

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Humane Life Charactered

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by Francis Viscount St Albanes.

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Sir Francis Bacon

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I have used to resort unto the brook

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pp.177-8

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A Prisoner's Complaint.

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Like the violet which alone

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pp.178-179

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The Description of a Chaste Mistress.

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There's no dallying with love

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The Surprizal: Or Loves Tyranny.

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Trust no more a wanton whore

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The Baseness of the Whores.

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Mistake me not | I am as cold as hot

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A Song.

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I loved a lass alas my folly

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A Song.

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Why sit you here so dull

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The Invitation.

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Gather your rose buds while you may

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To make much of Time.

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When love with unconfined wings

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The Prisoner.

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Learned shade of Tycho Brache who to us

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A Song.

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I must confess I am in love

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The Lover.

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No man love's fiery passion can approve

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Upon passionate Love.

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Mambrino having spent all his estate

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On Mambrino.

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Rubinus is extreme in eloquence

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On Rubinus.

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A dwarf upon a pismires back

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Of a Dwarf, Old.

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Bess does not only hide her privy ware

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Besses Bravery.

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Doctor Bond to avoid all further strife

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On Doctor Bond.

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Dolens doth show his purse and tells you this

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In Dolentem.

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Franks flesh is free and yet it is not free

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On Frances.

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A prison is a house of care

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On a Prison.

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Bedlam fare bless thee thou wants nought but wit

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On the Compter.

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Tom's wife is sick and therefore he doth run

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In Cornutum.

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We to our selves most partial judges be

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Self-Love.

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A wight whose name was Tyndar

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Of Tyndarus. Old.

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Mysus and Mopsa hardly can agree

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Mysus and Mopsa.

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A beggar once exceeding poor

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Riddle 3.

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An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

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The fencer and Physick Doctor.

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Lie thus the fencer cries thus must you guard

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The fencer and Physick Doctor.

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Rembombo straddling goes in great distress

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An old Leacher.

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Here Hocus lies with his tricks and his knocks

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On a Hocus Pocus.

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Here lies John Baker wrapped in mould

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On a Bald-pate.

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Saint George tis writ his cutting morglay drew

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On Saint George.

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Here lies an honest cobbler whom cursed fate

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On a Cobler.

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Here lies the water poet honest John

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On John Taylor the water-Poet.

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Ho stay who lies here

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An ancient Epitaph on an Earl of Devonshire.

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If heaven be pleased when men do cease to sin

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On Bernard.

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Reader cease thy pace and stay

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On a Man and his Wife buried together.

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Here lies the first and last edition

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On Hugh Peters.

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Stay traveller guess who lies here

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Eights Jester.

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Untimely because so late and late because

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On John Lilburn.

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Here Hobson the merry Londoner does lie

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On Hobson the merry Londoner.

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Under this same stone

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On a very fat Man.

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Here lies at least ten in the hundred

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On an Usurer.

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The death of all men is the total sum

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On Death.

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Unto the exchange I went some knacks there for to buy

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Riddle 1.

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I went to the wood and I got it

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Riddle 2.

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In thickest woods I hunt with beagles ten

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Riddle. 5

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My Coat is green and I can prate

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Riddle 8.

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There was a bird of great renown

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Riddle 9.

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What is that is as white as snow

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Riddle 7.

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I am called by the name of a man

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Riddle 10.

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Learning hath bred me yet I know no letter

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Riddle 14.

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What part of man may that part be

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Riddle 11.

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All day like one that's in disgrace

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Riddle 16.

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God did decree

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'Posies for Rings.'

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As I expect so let me find

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Posies for Rings.

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In danger puffed you say I prove

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To a proud, rich, but deformed Gentlewoman.

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Malt is the grain by which a fox we gain

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Another.

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Malt is the grain of which we make strong ale

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Acrostick on Malt.

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Though crossed in our affections still the flames

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A cross Acrostick on two crost Lovers.

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Time with his scythe brings all to their last home

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Acrostick on time.

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A toast is like a sot or what is most

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TOAST.

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Asks thou reader who it is lies here

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An Acrostick Epitaph on a virtuous Gentlewoman.

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Death is the last end of our mortal race

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Acrostick on Death.

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He that's devoted to the glass

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A Fancy upon words.

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He that is greedy of the grape

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If long he to that idol pray

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p. 207

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The lover whose devotion flies

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p. 207

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This side is toasted now enough

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If Saint Pauls day be fair and clear

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Thus each month doth procure an observation

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And where all beasts look down with grovelling eye

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The heavens so framed are

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All animals that be do grovelling lie

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pp.234-223

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Translated out of Manilius, Lib. 4.

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