A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- DMI number:
- 1650
- Publication Date:
- 1682
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R218198
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99829809
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO - Bod
- Full Title:
- [i]A Help to[/i] | DISCOURSE: | OR, | [i]More Merriment mixt with | serious Matters[/i]. | Consisting of Witty, Philosophical, | Grammatical, Physical, Astronomical | [i]Questions and Answers[/i]. | As also | [i]Epigrams, Epitaphs, Riddles, Jests, | Posies, Love-toys[/i], &c. [i]are added, | and plentifully dispersed[/i]. | Together with | The [i]Country-mans Counsellor[/i], and his | yearly Oracle, and Prognostication, with | Additions, or a Help to preserve his | Health; never before Printed. | As also the Art of Cookery, and sundry experi- | ments, and their Extractions of Oyl, | Waters, [i]&c[/i]. [rule made up of dashes] | [i] The seventeenth Edition[/i]. | [epigraph] | [rule made up of dashes] | LONDON, | Printed by [i]J. R.[/i] for [i]R. Scot, T. Basset, | J. Wright[/i], and [i]R. Chiswell[/i]. 1682.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Davus es? huc venias, & eris mox Oedipus alter.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Comments:
- Contents: The miscellany is divided into four sections with caption titles; pagination is continuous. (1) 'A Help to Discourse', pp. 1-126. (2) 'The Country-Man's Counsellor', pp. 127-63. (3) 'A Help to preserve Health', pp. 164-73. (4) 'Sphinx And Oedipus', pp. 174-229 [i.e. 174-243]. Unrecorded Verse: Latin verse - both quoted and freestanding - appears throughout; this has not been recorded. All freestanding English verse has been recorded; however, quotations of less than four lines have not been recorded.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Three commendatory poems in English, with Latin titles: 'In Laudem Operis & Authoris.', signed 'W. L.', sig. A2r-v; 'Aliud.', sig. A3r; 'Ad Amicum suum candidum et cordatum.', signed 'H. H.', sig. A3v.
- References:
- NCBEL 334 (1682)
- First Line:
- Look as a stately edifice raised high
- Page No:
- sig. A2r-v (unpaged)
- Poem Title:
- In Laudem Operis & Authoris.
- Attribution:
- W. L.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Or as a statuary on a stone
- Page No:
- sig. A3r (unpaged)
- Poem Title:
- Aliud.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What lay imprisoned and confined alone
- Page No:
- sig. A3v (unpaged)
- Poem Title:
- Ad Amicum suum candidum et cordatum.
- Attribution:
- H. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Between two thieves the just condemned to die
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fruitful vine and virtuous wife are both for man's delight
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- thus further the Poet
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the father is the daughter's son
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- the Poet thus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Both sin and death to our exceeding loss
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- 2.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where the dire serpent brought in
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- 1.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No fruitful field am I no blessed wheat
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Englished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O proud man
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- Englished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The many sorrows that are heirs to breath
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- Englished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before this judge all judges shall appear
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That thou no hurt of other men mayst take
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O sleep O gentle sleep nature's soft nurse
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- As the King sometimes in a Poem of his [...] wittily complained
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If I her fellow she me flies
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- English.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Number the days the cloudy and the clear
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold my uses are not small
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He that would know how minutes steal away
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The bee the goose the calf
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The man that's once from marriage free
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A smoke a storm and a contentious wife
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The seeing light and colours doth descry
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- one thus writes
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twixt Luther and Melancthon so long gone
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Time ruinates proud buildings with her hours
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- as one saith of Time
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Follow a shadow it still flies you
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- according to the Poet
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Man's like a glass filled full of water
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The loss of wealth I much lament
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- one thus complains
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Although the speaking word have life
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- one thus writes most wittily
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Did Longshanks purchase with his conquering hand
- Page No:
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- as one writes
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Richmond and Lenox duke without delay
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The stone reserved in England many a day
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A virtuous dame that saw a lawyer come
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- 1. Of a Lawyers absence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Geta from wool and weaving first began
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 2. In Getam.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In anger puffed you say I prove
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- To a proud, rich, but deformed Gentlewoman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fair the long the little and the black
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- More at large.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fair to folly easy to be led
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Upon which as followeth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The red wise the brown trusty
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Exposition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To a red man read thy read
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 3. Proverbs upon Complexions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From this small token take the letter G
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Upon the sending of a pair of Gloves.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He's happy that avoids lust female kind
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Upon Women and their praise.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He's happy that avoids lust female kind
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Women dispraised, the stops only changed.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lest our loves should part or sever
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Upon the sending of a ropes end to his Sweet-heart in the way of merriment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The rope is old the jest is new
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Her answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wife you wished me sir rich fair and young
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 7. In amorosum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Health is a jewel true which when we buy
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 6. De sanitate & medico.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here back to thee I do regreet this clout
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Upon her sending back a Handkerchief.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I that the winter's daughter am
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 5.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I took the wall one thrust me rudely by
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 4. In superbum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A clergyman that oft hath preached
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 8. Upon an Usurer, and an improp. Parson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 9. In Aulam West.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From thy confessor lawyer and physician
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 11. Consilium.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He that doth ask Saint James doth say shall speed
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 10. In Jacobum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By lease without writing one once let a farm
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 12. ... rent.
- Attribution:
- Hayw.
- Attributed To:
- John Heywood
- First Line:
- From a field fought one from the beaten side
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 13.
- Attribution:
- Hayw.
- Attributed To:
- John Heywood
- First Line:
- A beggar asked a penny once and swore
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Aenigma.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A fool a wise man riding once espied
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 15.
- Attribution:
- Haw.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Besse does not only hide her privy ware
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 14.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One time as twas my ordinary wont
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Epigram 16.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies at least ten in the hundred
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph 1. On the Usurer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies he now where no man sees
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph 3. Upon a riotous Courtier.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies Jack Careless
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph 2. Upon a Spend-thrift.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Conceive a fault by me conceived
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- Certain Verses fixed upon a Child laid in St. Thomas's Hospital.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pius the fifth is dead and understood
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- In Papam, Pium quintum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though the earth's the lord's and all that is therein
- Page No:
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- Upon the unequal division of the Earth, how some have all, and some have none.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Buried I am and yet I am not dead
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 6. Upon Jonas in the whales belly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Earth take my earth Satan my sin I leave
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph 5. Written by a religious Gent. before his death.
- Attribution:
- Written by a religious Gent.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For Christ his spouse his cause and at Christ's tide
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 4. St. Tho. Becket. ... Englished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay thy foot that passest by
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 7. In Verolamium, a forgotten-City, sometimes near St. Albans.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From wares and cares and fained breath
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 11. Upon a Citizen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth he he lieth here
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 9. Upon a love-sick Youth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Underneath this stone is laid
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 8. Upon a Chamber-maid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Within this everlasting tomb
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Epit. 10. On a rich covetous Lawyer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mortality behold and fear
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. 12. A memento for mortality, taken from the view of the Sepulchres of so many Kings and Nobles, as lie interred in the Abbey at Westminster.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See here this plot of all her store
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- A short Addition or Memento hereunto annexed, upon the death of Queen Anne.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To add more noble ashes to this store
- Page No:
- pp.108-109
- Poem Title:
- A second addition or short Memento of sorrow, taken from the occasion of the sad remembrance of the death of King James, and that fearful Visitation that succeeded in that wonderful Year, 1625.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies one in flower of youth
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph 14. Upon the death of the eldest Son of one Master Kitching.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet lady such a boon I crave
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 2.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What part of man may that part be
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 3.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What sepulchre is that and where doth it stand
- Page No:
- p.111
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 8.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was a man bespake a thing
- Page No:
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 9.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In thickest woods I hunt with beagles ten
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 13. ... Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Learning hath fed me yet I know no letter
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 14.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All day like one that's in disgrace
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 21.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Far in the west I wot not where
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 20.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First I was small and round like a pearl
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 18.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There is a body without a heart
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 19.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One evening as cold as cold might be
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 22.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Out of his glass one took a fly
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- an Epigram of Sir Thomas Moor's
- Attributed To:
- Sir Thomas More
- First Line:
- Each heart shows duty
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good sir a posy for my wit can savour
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- The Apology.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In comely hue
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In thee each part
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In thee the Graces
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Cupid fails
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who so aspires
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A loyal breast
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Each day I die
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I seek to be
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm what thou art
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In body two
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love takes no loss
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My fancy is
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heart ay me
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My joy will die
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some comforts give
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That friend is true
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though friends cross love
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy graces move
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis love alone
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- True love appears
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O blessed letters that combine in one
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- as the Poet ... wittily writeth
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the house the goods whereof excel
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- Conclusion. ... Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou whose short span of life as plain appears
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- To The Buyers of yearly Almanacks and Prognostications. Praefatio, sive Admonitio pia & utilis.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Then if a slow paced star had stolen away
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The sanguine causeth cheerfulness
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- one thus writeth
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She is a lady of such matchless carriage
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- Hereunto are annexed certain verses describing the person and quality of that Child of chase, or Lady Pecunia: ... and as something pertinent to our purpose hereinto inserted.
- Attribution:
- written long since by that Gentleman of quality, I. T.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He that makes conscience of a venial sin
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- The Introduction.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That money should engender thus and breed
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- Admiratio.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First see the land that thou intendst to buy
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- Certain Rules and Admonitions in way of Purchase or Sale, to direct the ignorant Seller or Buyer; ... To which purpose this inserted Rule is very pertinent.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He that would purchase and would gladly know
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- Certain Rules and Admonitions in way of Purchase or Sale, to direct the ignorant Seller or Buyer; ... To which purpose this inserted Rule is very pertinent.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So short is this life that every peasant strives
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These rivers through our island fairly glide
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In France in Bohem Ree Palatinate
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To be of high birth and of worthy fame
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some say for ever against that season comes
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- W. Shakes.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The stare escaped that was at point to die
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- The use of both to the Reader.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There's nought so vile that on the earth doth live
- Page No:
- p.201
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- according to the Poet
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Such comfort to my heart O Christ
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I will not take three words but one to tell
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- The Answer
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What thing is that that doth with most men reign
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- A Problem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All things finished now and ended
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dismas the happy to repent though late
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- Englished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wonders to tell how many days
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- a famous Antiquary thus writeth
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Betwixt two suitors sat a lady fair
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- The Proposition and Resolution of the Garland.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In my conceit she him would soonest have
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- Reply.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus men and kingdoms change and ever shall
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not born Not dead Not christened Not begot
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The nut ass bell and slothful hind
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The nut falls down the ass creeps on the
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- Or thus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A tree there is eight letters do express
- Page No:
- p.229
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No house I living found but dead a grave
- Page No:
- p.229
- Poem Title:
- Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy matter from a carcass dead
- Page No:
- p.230
- Poem Title:
- Englished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sith both our age our sex and all do move
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- English | A Dissertation or Strife between a hot-blooded Monk, and a chast young Votary Virgin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The world's a bubble
- Page No:
- pp.241-242
- Poem Title:
- Humane Life Charactered by Francis Viscount Saint Albans.
- Attribution:
- Francis Viscount Saint Albans.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Francis Bacon
- First Line:
- I that this while have travelled in a task
- Page No:
- p.229 [i.e. 243]
- Poem Title:
- Conclusion.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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