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<P>THE Choi&s;e of Change: <HI>Containing the Triplicitie of</HI> Diuinitie, Philo&s;ophie, <HI>and</HI> Poetrie, &s;hort for memorie, Profitable for Knowledge, <HI>and nece&s;&s;arie for Maners: Whereby the learned may be confirmed, the ignorant in&s;tructed, and all men generally recreated.</HI></P>
<P>Newly &s;et foorth by S. R. Gent. and &s;tudent in the Vniuer&s;itie of Cambridge.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR HENRY HERBERT, <HI>Knight of the mo&s;t noble order of the</HI> Garter, Lorde of Cardiffe mannor and S. Quintin, and Earle of Pembrocke, <HI>the right wor&s;hipfull Sir</HI> PHILIP SIDNEI <HI>knight, with the right <HI>worthy Gentleman M.</HI></HI> Robert Sidney <HI>E&s;quire,</HI> S. R. <HI>wi&s;heth increa&s;e of vertuous qualities in the minde, of the giftes of the body, and goods of Fortune.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_RIght Honorable and Wor&s;hipful, If I &s;hould follow the cu&s;tome of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uch as &s;et forth bookes to the viewe of the world, which pa&s;&s;e vnder the protection of noble per&s;o|nages (be&s;ides the dread of offending wi&s;e men) I &s;hould run into one of the&s;e three errours, either to prai&s;e your H. and W. by adulation, prai&s;e my &s;elfe by o&s;tentation, or prai&s;e my worke by &s;eeking to bring men into admi|ration. I purpo&s;e none of all the&s;e The fir&s;t I leaue, lea&s;t my wordes &s;hould empaire your worthines. The &s;e|cond, I refrain, becau&s;e I find nothing in my &s;elf which can de&s;erue prai&s;e. The third I will avoide, for if my labor hath bene &s;o wel imployed, as it may plea&s;e you right H. and W it is able enough to prai&s;e it &s;elfe. I therefore pre&s;ent the&s;e my three bookes of Diuinitie, Philo&s;ophie, and Poetrie (comprized together in one volume) vnto you three right H. and W. (who are linked &amp; vnited together in an indi&s;&s;oluble band of amitie &amp; fraternitie) humbly reque&s;ting that you will countenance the~ with fauour, &amp; patronage them by your authoritie, that therby they may e&s;chew the reproches of malitious tongues, and bleare the enuious eies of &s;uch as prie at other mens faultes in the water, which cau&s;e things &s;eeme big|ger then they be, but regard their owne faultes, as through &s;mall nets, which cau&s;e things to &s;eeme le&s;&s;e. In &s;o doing, you &s;hall giue me cau&s;e to reioice in my trauell, and occa&s;ion by thankfulnes to acknowledge my bounden duetie. Thus leauing your Honour and Wor&s;hips to the direction of the Almightie, I cea&s;e, referring my &s;elfe to your good opinions.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honor and Wor&s;hips to com|maund, S. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1 <HI>HE that knoweth not that he ought to knowe, is a brute bea&s;t among men.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>He that knoweth no more then he hath neede of, is a man among brute bea&s;tes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>He that knoweth all that may be knowne, is a God among men.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>1 Reade willingly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Correct friendly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Iudge indifferently.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE FIRST HVNDRETH OF THE Triplicitie of Diuinitie.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1 Three things doe witnes the worde of God to be true, and of great authoritie.
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<ITEM>THe hi&s;torie of the world comprehended in the holy &s;cripture.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Many notable and &s;trange reuelations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The miracles of the Church, which do co~|firme the word.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2 The preaching of the worde of God is comprehended in three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In doctrine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In con&s;olation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In precepts.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The holy Scripture is diuided into three parts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Into hi&s;tories.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Into precepts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Into prophe&s;ies
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hi&s;tories con&s;i&s;t in tho&s;e things which are done.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Precepts in tho&s;e thinges which are commanded.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prophe&s;ies, in fore&s;hewinge things which either are alrea|die come to pa&s;&s;e, or &s;hall here|after be fulfilled.</ITEM>
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</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Thr&eacute;e good things are &s;et forth in the &s;cripture, which the Phi|lo&s;ophers neuer attained vnto.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The true knowledge of god, and calling on of his name.</ITEM>
<ITEM>True comfort in aduer&s;itie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The way to liue well and wor&s;hip God a|right.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>5 Thr&eacute;e things are mo&s;t certain in the word of God.
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<ITEM>Promi&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prophe&s;ies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Threatnings.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>6 There be thr&eacute;e &s;inguler things proper to the Scripture. <HI>Hugo.</HI>
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<ITEM>What&s;oeuer is taught, is trueth without fal&s;hood.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What&s;oeuer is commanded, is goodne&s;&s;e, without malice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What&s;oeuer is promi&s;ed, is happine&s;&s;e without mi&s;erie.</ITEM>
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<ITEM><PB REF="4">7 The word of God was reuea|led for thr&eacute;e cau&s;es.
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<ITEM>To be learned.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be beleeued.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be practi&s;ed.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>8 There are three vn|der&s;tandings of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;crip|tures &s;et down by <HI>Hu|go</HI> in his third booke of the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ule.
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<ITEM>Hi&s;toricall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mi&s;ticall.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t, containing examples fit for the &s;imple.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd, my&s;teries fit for the learned.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By miracles</ITEM>
<ITEM>By Figures</ITEM>
<ITEM>By words.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>The third, manners, common for both.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Morall.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>9 All Scripture giuen by in&s;pi|ration as <HI>Paule</HI> &s;aith 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. is profitable to thr&eacute;e.
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<ITEM>To teach.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To improue and correct.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To in&s;truct in righteou&s;nes.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>10 There be thr&eacute;e kinds of meditati|ons in contempla|tion. <HI>Hugo.</HI>
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<ITEM>In creatures.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In &s;criptures
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<ITEM>The fir&s;t ari&s;eth of admiration.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd of rea|ding.
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<ITEM>Admiration, brin|geth Que&s;tion: Que&s;tion, &s;ear|ching out.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Readinge myni|&s;treth matter to know y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> truth. circu~&s;pectio~ brin+geth operatio~.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Operation is y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> end of Medi|tation.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>The thirde, of cir|cum&s;pection.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>In maners.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>11 Thr&eacute;e waies God &s;pake vn|to our forefathers, as <HI>Luther</HI> is witnes in his expo&s;ition vppon the xxxv. chap. of <HI>Gen.</HI>
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<ITEM>By dreames.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By manife&s;t vi&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By the voices of proph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
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<ITEM>12 The holy &s;cripture is diui|ded into 3. partes.
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<ITEM>The law</ITEM>
<ITEM>The prophets</ITEM>
<ITEM>The go&s;pell.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>13 S. <HI>Paule</HI> in his thr&eacute;e epi&s;tles to the Romanes, Galathians, &amp; Ephe&s;ians, teacheth thr&eacute;e things
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<ITEM>He &s;heweth that all men are &s;inners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He teacheth that man is iu&s;tified by faith onely, without the workes of the law.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He pre&s;cribeth them that are iu&s;tified, to do good works by Gods law.</ITEM>
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<ITEM><PB REF="4">14 Three thinges make men &s;u&s;pect the Epi&s;tle of Iude not to be Canonicall
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<ITEM>The narration of the &s;trife of Michaell the Archangell with the deuill</ITEM>
<ITEM>The narration of the bodie of Mo&s;es</ITEM>
<ITEM>The prophe&s;ie of Enoch.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>15 There are three &s;ayinges founde in S. Paule his Epi&s;tles which are borowed of Heathen Antiquaries.
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<ITEM>Of <HI>Meander,</HI> Euill wordes corrupt good maners, 1. <HI>Cor. 5. ver,</HI> 33,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of <HI>Aratus,</HI> Couetou&s;nes is the roote of all euils 1. <HI>Tim. 6. ver.</HI> 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of <HI>Epimenides,</HI> Cretians are alwaies ly|ers, euill bea&s;ts, now bellies, <HI>Tit. 1. ver.</HI> 12</ITEM>
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<ITEM>16 Three thinges chiefly to bee ob&s;erued in the olde and newe Te&s;tament.
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<ITEM>Faith, that we, may bel&eacute;eue tho&s;e things to be true, which Mo&s;es, y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prophets, Chri&s;t and his apo&s;tles haue &s;poken by the in|&s;piration of the holy gho&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hope, that with a &s;tedfa&s;t beliefe we maye a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues that wee &s;hall obtaine tho&s;e things that are promi&s;ed,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Charitie, that we neither doe, nor &s;ay any thing but y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> which is acceptable to God, and profitable to men.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>17 For three cau&s;es the worde of God is to be preached.
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<ITEM>That the hearers may vnder&s;tand, becau&s;e without preaching he cannot heare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he which vnder&s;tandeth may beleue becau&s;e without hearing, he ca~not beleue</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he which bel&eacute;eueth may do good be|cau&s;e without faith he can not do good.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>18 For three cau&s;es wee ought to bee attentiue in hearing the word of God.
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<ITEM>For the reuerence due to God, who&s;e word we come to heare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That wee may auoide the dangers of neg|ligence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For the profite which is manifold.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>19 There be thre inui&s;i|ble vertues of God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Power.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;dom.
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<ITEM>Gf y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> which al things proceed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the whiche all things cen&s;i&s;t.
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<ITEM>The Father is power.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;onne is wi&s;edome.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Power creates Wi&s;do~ gouern goodnes pre&s;erue</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The holy gho&s;t is goodnes,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>By which al things are gouerned.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodnes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
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<HI>Rom. 11. ver.</HI> 36. Becau&s;e of him, in him, and by him are all things. To him be prai&s;e for euer and euer Amen.</P>
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<ITEM>20 God is three maner of waies al in al. <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In heauen onely he is all.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In earth onely he is al.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In heauen and earth he is all.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Three manner of waies god is euery where.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By his e&s;&s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By his pre&s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By his power.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 He that will know God as he ought: mu&s;t think vp|on the&s;e 3. things. <HI>Luther.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>What he hath commanded.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What he hath promi&s;ed.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hee y^t medita|teth the&s;e three findeth God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>What he hath threatned.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>23 For three cau&s;es are three things attributed to God.
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<ITEM>Eies, becau&s;e he &s;eeth all things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hands, becau&s;e he maketh all things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feete, becau&s;e he is euery where.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 There is none like vnto God for 3. things, <HI>Bernard.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>He is rich in mercie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He freely re&s;pecteth y^t hu~ble.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mightie in iu&s;tice.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Iu&s;tly iudgeth the wicked.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tifull in grace&punc;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pitifully &s;aueth &s;inners.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>25 We haue receiued 3. &s;ortes of thinges of God our Creator, wherof we ought alwaies to be mindful.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Such as lead vs vnto the feare of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as moue vs to loue God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as prouoke vs to yeeld thankes vnto his maie&s;tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 The knowledge of God is threefold.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Generall, as of the Philo&s;ophers, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> 2. <HI>Iob.</HI> 36.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Speciall, as of the Chri&s;tians, 1. <HI>Cor. 13. Rom.</HI> 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Singular, as of the~ that are ble&s;&s;ed. 1. <HI>Cor. 13. Ioh.</HI> 3.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 The&s;e things are to be knowe~ in di&s;pu|ting about God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not alwaies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor to all.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t is referred to the time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd to the per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third to the matter.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor all things.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 Three no|table benefits of God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Creation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Redemption.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By the three per&s;ons in Trinitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;onne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The holy Gho&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sanctification.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="5">29 There are 3 inwarde properties to be ob&s;erued in di&s;cerning the per&s;o~s of the Trinitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To beget.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be borne
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Father onely begets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sonne onely is borne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The holy Gho&s;t onely proceeds from both.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>To proc&eacute;ede.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 Three outwarde properties of the per&s;ons in <HI>Trinitie.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Father &s;endes, and is not &s;ent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sonne is &s;ent to be made a &s;acrifice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Holy Gho&s;t is &s;ent to &s;anctifie our mindes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>31 Three beare witne&s;&s;e in heauen.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sonne
<LIST>
<ITEM>And the&s;e thr&eacute;e are one.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Vnion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vniting.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vnited.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The holy Gho&s;t</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 There are three qualities in the Sunne repre&s;enting the qua+lities of the Trinitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The infinit fountaine of light.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The brightne&s;&s;e comming from that light</ITEM>
<ITEM>The heate proceeding and breathing from them both.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>33 Three thinges in vs which do repre&s;ent the ho|ly Trinitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Memorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nder&s;tanding.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Repre&s;ents the Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Repre&s;ents the Sonne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Repre&s;ents the holy Gho&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Will.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Three names beeing one thing in deed, are like|to the Trinitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Snowe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ice.
<LIST>
<ITEM>So God is thr&eacute;e in per&s;onne, and but one in Sub&s;tance.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>35 Gods iudgeme~ts are know|en by 3 things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Corporall puni&s;hments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;ting of the con&s;cience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The torments of hell.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Three manner of wayes wee may &s;inne in the wor&s;hip of God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When for onely true God, there are wor&s;hipped many Gods: as the heathen did.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When the true God is wor&s;hip|ped, but not according to his will.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whe~ y^t true God is wor&s;hipped but not onely, which is done of the~ that worwip other Gods be&s;ide the true God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="6">37 By three things the loue of God appeareth towards men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he hath giuen to man the v&s;e of hea|uen. earth, and all his creatures. <HI>Gene. 1 Eccle.</HI> 17.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he hath graunted Angels to be mini|&s;ters to men&punc; <HI>Heb. 1. ver&s;.</HI> 14.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For that he hath offred him&s;elfe for man|kind, taking vpon him the forme of a &s;er|uant. <HI>Phil. 2. ver&s;.</HI> 17.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 We may commit three things &s;afely into Gods hands.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Iniurie</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lo&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he is a reuenger of iniuries.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he is the re&s;torer of lo&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he is our Phi&s;iti|on and be&s;t comforter.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Griefe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>39 The &s;w&eacute;etne&s;&s;e of this name <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> con&s;i&s;teth in three things,
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is hony to the mouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Melodie to the eare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ioy to the hart.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>40 The &s;onne of God according to his office, is na|med in thr&eacute;e &s;eue|rall languages.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Me&s;sias,</HI> in Hebrew.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> in Greeke.
<LIST>
<ITEM>And according to the&s;e three names, hee is called.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A Prie&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prophet.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A King.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Annointed</HI> in Engli&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>41 Three things to be con&s;ide|red in Chri&s;t our &s;auiour.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He prayeth for vs, as he is our Prie&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He prayeth in vs, as he is our head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He is praied vnto of vs, as he is our God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 Chri&s;t was knowne to the world to be true <HI>Me&s;sias</HI> by thr&eacute;e thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The opening of heauen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The appearing of the holy Gho&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By the voice of his heauenly Father.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>43 Chri&s;t is called a Prie&s;t, and his office con&s;i&s;ts in 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In teaching, <HI>Malaehie</HI> 2. So th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sonne brought forth the Go&s;pell in the bo&s;ome of his Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In praying: as appeareth in <HI>Leuitcus</HI> And hee prayed for vs. <HI>Iohn 17 Heb.</HI> 1. 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In offring &s;acrifice <HI>Hebr.</HI> 5. He offred him|&s;elfe for our &s;innes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="6">44 Chri&s;t is called a King for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he put downe all power, and de|&s;troied the workes of the deuill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e by the vertue of the &s;pirit, he raig|neth in the minds of the faithfull.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he defendeth his Church again&s;t the tyrannie of the deuil.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>45 Chri&s;t the true teacher doeth in|&s;truct vs 3. waies. becau&s;e he is
<LIST>
<ITEM>The way.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The truth
<LIST>
<ITEM>They way not erring.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In example</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The truth not deceiuing.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In promi&s;e</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The life not cea&s;ing.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In reward</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>46 There are three cau&s;es of y^e incarnation of Chri&s;t.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he might brui&s;e the Serpents head. <HI>Gen,</HI> 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That by his &s;acrifice hee might appea&s;e. Gods wrath,</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he might iu&s;tify the vniu&s;t by y^e im|putation of his obedience.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>47 Thr&eacute;e figures of Chri&s;t his crucifying, &s;et down in the &s;crip|ture.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;acrifices lifted vp on high.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The offering vp of I&s;aac.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The bra&s;en Serpent lifted vp in the will dernes. <HI>Num 21. Iohn.</HI> 3.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>48 Chri&s;t his death for vs, and &s;ati&s;faction for our &s;innes, is thr&eacute;e fold.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A worke without example.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fauour without de&s;ert.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Charitie aboue mea&s;ure.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 The pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t is applied 3. waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is offered by the word, as by the hand of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is receiued by faith, as by the hand of man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is &s;ealed by the Sacraments &amp; the v&s;e there|of &s;et downe as it were in a table.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>50 There are 3. fruits of Chri&s;t his a&s;cen&s;ion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;end the holy Gho&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be a mediator to God the father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To pre&s;erue the Word, and the Church.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 The &s;onne of god was chaunged thr&eacute;e manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>From his humility, to his diuinitie in his tran&s;|figuration.</ITEM>
<ITEM>From pa&s;&s;ion to immortalitie in his re&s;urrection</ITEM>
<ITEM>From immortalitie to his fathers equalitie, in a&s;cention.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="7">52 Thr&eacute;e things con|curre in the per&s;on of Chri&s;t. <HI>Bernard.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The worde.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The&s;e thr&eacute;e are one, &amp; this one is 3.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The fle&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not by confu&s;ion of &s;ub&s;tance, but by vinitie of per&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;oule.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>53 Chri&s;t loued vs thr&eacute;e maner of waies. <HI>Bernard.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sw&eacute;etely.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In that he tooke our fle&s;h vpon him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;ely.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In that he e&s;chewed all fault.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;aliantly.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In that he &s;uffered death.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 There are three maruelous coniunctions as <HI>Luther</HI> &s;aith, in the expo&s;ition on y^t xx. cap. <HI>Gen.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The coniunction of the Father and Sonne in diuinitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The coniunction of diuinitie and humanity in Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The coniunctio~ of Chri&s;t with his church.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Chri&s;t confoundeth y^t worlde and all things therein 3. waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He accounts the chiefe wi&s;edome therof to be foli&s;hnes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He reckoneth their be&s;t workes for iu&s;tice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He changeth their be&s;t good into euill.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 Chri&s;t hath made vs partakers of thr&eacute;e nece&s;&s;arie things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of his Cro&s;&s;e</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of his Go&s;pel.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He hath redemed vs by his death on the cro&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He hath in&s;tructed vs by his go&s;|pell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He hath confirmed and &s;anctified vs by his &s;pirite.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of his &s;pirite.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 The whole world did mar|uell at three workes of Chri&s;t. <HI>Chry&s;.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he ro&s;e againe after death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he a&s;cended into heauen in the fle&s;h.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he conuerted the whole worlde by his twelue apo&s;tles.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>58 Chri&s;t had thr&eacute;e witne&s;&s;es. which did te&s;tifie of him.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn Bapti&s;t. <HI>Ioh. 1. ver.</HI> 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His works <HI>Ioh. 5. ver.</HI> 36.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His Father, <HI>Math, 3. ver.</HI> 17.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>59 Chri&s;t doth excell the Saintes in three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In dignitie of per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In worthynes of office.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The&s;e doe not exclude. his diuinitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In perfectnes of giftes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="7">60 The ioy which y^e aungels did expre&s;&s;e at y^e natiuity of Chri&s;te is &s;aid to be great for 3. cau&s;es,
<LIST>
<ITEM>For the matter which is great, namely our reconciliation with God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For the continuance and &s;tedfa&s;tnes there|of, for it continueth con&s;tant for euer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is &s;piritual, &amp; pertaining vnto all tho&s;e that haue the gift of faith.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Chri&s;t did fore&s;hew 3. kinds of war.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of outward enimies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of &s;educers.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Paule</HI> &s;aith, fighting a|broad, feare within, &amp; da~gers in fal&s;e brethre~</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of fal&s;e brethren.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>62 Chri&s;t did rai&s;e thr&eacute;e per&s;ons from death, as &s;ome iudge in 3. &s;euerall yeares.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t yeare the widowes &s;onne, <HI>Mar. 7 ver.</HI> 14. 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd yeare the daughter of <HI>Iairus Luk. 8. ver.</HI> 54. 55.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third yeare <HI>Lazarus, Ioh. 11. ver.</HI> 44.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 Chri&s;t reuealed three &s;ingu|lar &s;ecretes vnto three Apo&s;tles, <HI>Iohn</HI> the Euangeli&s;t, <HI>Peter,</HI> and <HI>Iames.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>His tran&s;figuration on the hil <HI>Thabor, Luk 9. ver.</HI> 28.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The reuining of <HI>Iairus</HI> daughter. <HI>Luk. 8. ver.</HI> 51.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The trea&s;on which <HI>Iudas</HI> practi&s;ed again&s;t him, <HI>Ioh. 13. ver.</HI> 26.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>64 Chri&s;te is to be con&s;idered of vs in three times.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Before his incarnation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>At the time of his incar|nation.
<LIST>
<ITEM>God, the worde, the Image, the &s;onne of God</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, God and man, the &s;onne of Mary, y^e &s;onne of god the &s;onne of man, Emanuell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Al God, al man, the truth of his diuine &amp; humane nature re|maining.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In his glorification, after his re&s;urrection, and a&s;cen&s;ion.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 Thr&eacute;e thinges doe teache vs that the holy gho&s;t is true God, with the father and the &s;onne.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Te&s;timonies out of the &s;cripture, as <HI>Actes 5. Ananias</HI> did lie vnto the holy gho&s;t, not vnto men but vnto God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The worke of creation, <HI>Iob</HI> 33. the &s;pirite of God made me, and the breath of the al|mightie receiued me.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That which is euery where, &s;eeth, &amp; killeth al things with his pre&s;ence, knoweth and heare&s;h al things <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 139. whether &s;hall I go from thy &s;pirit.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="8">66 The Apo&s;tles receiued thr&eacute;e giftes when the holy Gho&s;t de&s;|cended vpon the day of the fea&s;t of <HI>Penteco&s;t.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The gift
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of interpreting the &s;criptures</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of knowledge of al languages</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a con&s;tant heart bold to &s;et forth the truth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>67 The light of the holy Gho&s;t doth rule vs in three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In our coun&s;els.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In our maners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the actions of our whole life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>68 The holy Gho&s;t doeth con|firme three things in vs.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hope.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 The holy Gho&s;t doeth gouerne thr&eacute;e things in euery god+ly per&s;on.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The minde,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The heart.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It doth lighten the mind with the light of thy holy word.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It doth kindle the heart that it may co~|ceiue the motions of good works, and vertues which plea&s;e God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It doth moue the will to b&eacute;e willing to doe what&s;oeuer God willeth in his word.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The will.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>70 Thr&eacute;e e&s;pecial here&s;ies which do ouerthrow the doctrine of the holy gho&s;t.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of the <HI>Graecians,</HI> which will haue the holy gho&s;t to proceede from the Father only, and not &s;o likewi&s;e from the &s;onne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Macedonians,</HI> which &s;ay the holy &s;pi|rite is a liuing crature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the <HI>Sabellians,</HI> which affirme the holie gho&s;t to be all one with the Father and Sonne, and not three per&s;ons.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>71 Wee commit &s;inne three maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In not rewarding good thinges w^t good things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In requiting e|uill with euill. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>On the contrary the&s;e 3. things are prai&s;ewor|thy.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To reward good thinges with good things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to acquite euil with euil.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To reco~pence e|uil thinges w^t good.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In recompen&s;ing the good with e|uil things.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="8">72 The almightie created three vitall &s;pirites.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which is not couered with fle&s;h.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which is couered w^t fle&s;h but dieth not courced with f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Angels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of brute bea&s;tes</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Whiche is couered with fle&s;h, and dieth with the fle&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>73 We &s;inne 3. ma|ner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of infirmitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of ignorance.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Again&s;t the Father, becau&s;e he is the God of might.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Again&s;t the Sonne, becau&s;e he is the perfection of wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Again&s;t the holy gho&s;t, becau&s;e he is the giuer of grace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of malice.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>74 Wee are put in minde of three things &s;o oft as we beholde a rainebowe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of the anger of god when he de&s;troyed the worlde with water, whereof the blew co|lour is a witne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the mercy of God, who wil not v&s;e that puni&s;hment againe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the latter iudgement, and burning the worlde with fire. The fierie coulour of the rainbowe &s;hewing the &s;ame.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 The creation of the world is an euident te&s;timonie of three excellent things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of the
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omoipotencie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodne&s;&s;e of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 Three things &s;hew that the ende of the world is at hand.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the ende of the Romane Empire is at hand.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e there is a generall defect and apo|&s;tacie from the Faith throughout the world.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the Go&s;pell hath bene preached throughout the worlde.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>77 Three &s;ayings of Angels are v&s;ed in the &s;criptures more th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n oth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Michaell,</HI> who is like God? <HI>Dan.</HI> 10: &amp; 12 chap.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Raphaell</HI> Gods Phi&s;ition. <HI>Tob. 3. ver&s;e. 17 Gabriel,</HI> The &s;trength of God. <HI>Dan.</HI> 8. and 9. chap. <HI>Luke.</HI> 1,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="9">78 Three chiefe offices which Angels doe execute towards vs.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They withdrawe vs from &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They defend vs from enemies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They lead vs into heauen.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>79 The holy Gho&s;t the comforter, giueth vs three thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The earne&s;t of &s;aluation.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he may beare witne&s;&s;e tothy &s;pirit, that thou art the Sonn of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The light of knowledge.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That whe~ thou ha&s;t don al y^t thou cau&s;t, thou &s;hould&s;t think thy &s;elf to be an vnprofitable &s;eruant.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;trength of life.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That which is vnpo&s;&s;ible for thee by nature, is made ea&s;ie to thee by grace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>80 Three things to be co~&s;idered in the creation of y^e cceature.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Who made it</ITEM>
<ITEM>By what hee made it.
<LIST>
<ITEM>If we a&s;ke who made it? God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For there is no au|thour more excel|then God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>If by what hee made it? Hee &s;aide, &amp; it was done.
<LIST>
<ITEM>No Arte of more force then y^e word of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>If therefore hee made it? be|cau&s;e hee is good.
<LIST>
<ITEM>No cau&s;ebetter the~ that good &s;houlde be created of God that is good.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wherefore hee made it.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>81 The whole worlde hath bene three times ruled by 3 lawes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The lawe of nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The lawe of Mo&s;es,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sixe thou&s;ande yeres the world &s;hall endure, &amp; the~ be burned, &s;aith Elias,
<LIST>
<ITEM>2000. before the lawe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2000 vnder the lawe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2000 vnder the Go&s;pell. But for y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> elect &s;ake the&s;e la&s;t daies &s;hal be &s;hortned.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The lawe of the Go&s;pell,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82 Faith as <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> &s;aith is of 3 thinges and times,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of things pa&s;t.
<LIST>
<ITEM>We beleeue that Chri&s;t is dead which is pa&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of things pre&s;ent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>We beleue that Chri&s;t &s;itteth at the right hand of his Father, which is pre&s;ent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of things to come
<LIST>
<ITEM>We bel&eacute;eue that he &s;hall come to iudgement which is to come</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="9">83 Beliefe is of three &s;ortes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To bel&eacute;eue that there is a God, is of know+ledge,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To bel&eacute;eue God, is to con&s;ent to his trueth</ITEM>
<ITEM>To beleeue in God, is to haue true confi|dence in his mercie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 There be 3 kindes of knowledge.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To learne to knowe onely for knowledge &s;ake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To learne to knowe, to that ende to bee knowen of o|thers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t curio&s;itie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd, vaine glorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The thride, perfect charitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>To learne to knowe, that thou mai&s;t be edified.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>85 Faith and hope dif|fer in three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In obiectes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith apprehe~deth a pre&s;ent bene|fit: Hope looketh for one to come.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In offices.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith apprehendeth the promi&s;e made by Chri&s;t, which neither hope nor other workes can doe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In &s;ubiectes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith is a knowledge in the mind and tru&s;t in the will: Hope is in the will, and in the hart,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>86 Faith exc&eacute;ede three thinges as Bernard &s;aith.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The end of mans rea&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The v&s;e of nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The bondes of experience.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>87 Th&eacute;e thinges without all doubt are to be hoped for of God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pardon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grace.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pardon of our &s;innes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grace in regeneration.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Glorie after re&s;urrection.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Glorie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Three things in which our whole hope con&s;i&s;teth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the loue of adoption.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the truth of Chri&s;t his promi&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the power of his redemption.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 The hope of the wic|ked may bee compared to three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To du&s;t &s;catered in the winde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;moke flying in the ayre.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To a gue&s;t departing the &s;ame day that he cam.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 Charitie is of three &s;orts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Towards God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Towardes our &s;elues,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Towards our neihbous,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="10">91 Our neighbour, though he be euill, mu&s;t be loued for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For Gods &s;ake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For his own &s;ake.
<LIST>
<ITEM>If thou loue&s;t God, thou wilt loue his &s;onne al&s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If thou loue&s;t thy brother when he is in health, thou wilt loue him al&s;o being di&s;ea&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thou &s;halt loue him, that thou maye&s;t gaine his loue, which &s;eeketh hurt to thee.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>For thine own &s;ake.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">2 Golde and charitie are com|pared together three manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>As golde doeth excell all mettals, &s;o cha|ritie doth excell all vertues.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As golde is rare and deare, &s;o likewi&s;e is charitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As gold is more faire and durable then o|ther mettals, &s;o farre charitie endureth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>93 The humble ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> efcheweth three vices.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Singularitie, whereby a man will bee ac|counted more holy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arragancie whereby a man doth &s;et foorth him&s;elfe aboue others.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pre&s;umptio~, whereby a man doth account him &s;elfe fit for greater matters, then in deede he is fit for.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 Patience doeth &s;uffer any paine for three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>God and Godline&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith and religion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;ertues and lawes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>95 By three maner of meanes, the vertue of patience is exerci&s;ed.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of God we &s;uffer puni&s;hments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the deuil tem|ptations.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wherein we mu&s;t take heere.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That we do not murmure a|gain&s;t god for our afflictio~s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That the temp|tations of the deuil cau&s;e vs not to con&s;ent to &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That y^e mi&s;chife of our neigh|bor prouoke vs not to requite euill,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of our Neigh|bors per&s;ecuti|ons, lo&s;&s;e, &amp; re|proch.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="10">96 The&s;e 3. thinges are a great prai&s;e in the iu&s;t,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To holde his peace when his &s;eruant reui|leth him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he forbeare him that is &s;icke, when hee offereth iniurie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he make no an&s;were to a poore ma~, char+ging him with vntruth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 Patience is a great vertue, for 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>If thou hurte&s;t not him, of who~ thou wa&s;t fir&s;t borne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If thy &s;elfe being hurt, thou doe&s;t forgiue him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If thou feare&s;t him whom thou coulde&s;t haue hurt.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>98 Three examples of patience in the &s;cripture,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of <HI>Iob Iames</HI> 5. you haue heard of the pati|ence of <HI>Iob,</HI> and &s;ene his end.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Chri&s;t the only paterne of patience. 1. <HI>Cor. 1. 1, Pet.</HI> 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of <HI>Lazarus</HI> which bare patiently infamie, di&s;ea&s;es, and contempt <HI>Luk.</HI> 16.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 A good life con&s;i&s;teth in the&s;e three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To e&s;chew euil.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To do good</ITEM>
<ITEM>To per&s;euer in goodnes to the end</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 Per&s;euerance hath affinitie with the&s;e three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is the &s;i&s;ter of patience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The daughter of con&s;tancie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In aduer&s;itie</ITEM>
<ITEM>In labour</ITEM>
<ITEM>I pro&s;peritie</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The friend of peace</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="11">
<HEAD>THE SECOND HVNDRETH OF THE <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">riplicitie of Diuinitie.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 Three things are comprehen|ded in the knowledge of God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>TO know who God is, namely, the Fa|ther, the Sonne, and the holy Gho&s;t</ITEM>
<ITEM>To beleeue in him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To direct and gouerne our life accordinge to his will.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Abraham</HI> receiued 3. Aungels into his hou&s;e, and they talked fa+miliarly with thr&eacute;e per&s;ons of y^e &s;ame hou&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>With <HI>Abraham</HI> the ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With <HI>Sara</HI> his wife,</ITEM>
<ITEM>With their maide <HI>Hagar.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Three things which the deuil will not graunt.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That Chri&s;t is the &s;onne of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hee cannot abide that Chri&s;t &s;houlde be man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hee will not confe&s;&s;e that Chri&s;te hath done tho&s;e thinges which in trueth hee hath done.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Three things chiefly to be re|membred.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gods benefites, that wee maye render thanks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our &s;innes, that we may be &s;orie for them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our death, that we may be carefull to liue well.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Poore men are more ea&s;ily co~|uerted vnto God then rich men, for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e pride is annexed with riches: and as <HI>Gregorie</HI> noteth: <HI>Pride of minde is a hinderance vnto truth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the hart of a rich man is full of y^e cares of this world, which choke y^e worde of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e rich me~ haue temporal comfortes, and therefore do little regarde &s;pirituall con&s;olation.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="11">6 Our olde aduer&s;arie the deuill is bound with three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When our minde being tempted, doeth not con&s;ent to euill, and take delight therein.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When we can &s;o rule our minde, that wee hate not our neighbour when he &s;peaketh reprochfull words again&s;t vs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When we can &s;o gouerne our minde, that wee murmure not again&s;t God, when he puni&s;heth vs for our de&s;ertes,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Three weapons where with we may repul&s;e the deuil.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The worde of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith in Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feruent praier.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Saint <HI>Ierome</HI> &s;aith that wee ought only to boa&s;t of one thing: which is, that we knowe God a|right, not of tho&s;e 3. things which worldlings do glorie in.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Strength.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riche&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>9 To loue God w^t all our heart with all our &s;oule, with all our might, con&s;i&s;teth in 3. thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not to be led away with &s;lattery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to be &s;educed with deceites.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to be ouercome with iniuries.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 We mu&s;t prai&s;e God with three in|&s;truments.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our mouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our hart.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For it is the in&s;trument wherewith he will be glorified.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Singing and giuing thankes in hart vnto God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let your light &s;o &s;hine before men, that they may &s;&eacute;e your good works &amp; glorifie your father which is in heauen. <HI>Math. 5, ver.</HI> 16. and chap. 7. <HI>ver. 21. Rom. 2. ver.</HI> 23.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Our workes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 The feare of God worketh 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It correcteth our minds.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It driueth away &s;innes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It pre&s;erueth innocencie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 God is to be fea|red for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the hou&s;e of him that feareth not God, &s;hal &s;oone be ouerthrowne. <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 27.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he that feareth not God &s;hall dwell in places where &s;hal be no regard of knowledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e that God is able to ca&s;t both bodie and &s;oule into hell fire. <HI>Math. 10. Luk.</HI> 12.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="12">13 Thr&eacute;e cau&s;es which mooue vs to feare God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Al calamities which happen vnto ma~kind: death, di&s;ea&s;es. de&s;tructions of cities and nations, hunger, wars, &amp;c. Al&s;o dreadfull puni&s;hments which afflict the wicked, &s;hewing that god is angry with &s;inners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All the erhortations of the prophetes vnto repentaunce. The lawe of God, and the horrible cur&s;es which are added vnto y^e law.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The death of the &s;onne of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 About the time y^t the worlde &s;hall haue end, men &s;hall be euil inclined 3. maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They &s;hall be louers of them&s;elues, follow|ing plea&s;ure and riotou&s;nes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They &s;hall be gr&eacute;edie and couetous.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They &s;hal be high minded and proud.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of people are cal|led to religion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One &s;ort God calleth by holy in&s;pirations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another &s;ort is cho&s;en of men by good coun|&s;els, as <HI>Hippolito</HI> was conuerted to the Faith, by the in&s;tructions of Saint <HI>Lau|rence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The third &s;ort is con&s;trained to enter into religion by &s;ome nece&s;&s;itie or mi&s;aduen|ture happened vnto them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Humilitie is a vertue which doth chiefly comprehende three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Humilitie acknowledgeth our own vnclea|nes and infirmitie, and doth feare God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She doth not de&s;ire matters aboue her vo|cation, but keeping her &s;elfe within her bounds, &s;he re&s;teth hoping in Gods help.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She doth not de&s;pi&s;e others that are Gods in&s;truments, but acknowledgeth Gods gifts in them, knowing that all labour is in vaine vnle&s;&s;e he pro&s;per it.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 He that is humble and low|ly as he ought, doth reape triple commoditie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He hath God dwelling with him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The humble man is honored of men, &amp; they alwaies giue him a good report,</ITEM>
<ITEM>He alone hath the fruit therof, becau&s;e hu|militie is the mother of &s;hamefa&s;tnes, y^t way of patience, which leadeth to wi&s;e|dome, the keeper of feare and faith.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="12">18 The tokens of true humilitie con&s;i&s;te in 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In behauiour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In words.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that is humble in mind &amp; bo|dy, doth &s;hew y^t &s;ame by loking &s;tedfa&s;tly vpon the ground, and in not laughing without great cau&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He &s;peaketh few words and &s;oft, &amp; holdeth his peace vntill he be a&s;ked.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He doth nothing but that which is agreable with good maners, &amp; that without pride.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In d&eacute;edes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Patience doth comprehende and &s;ignifie three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;&s;e of the mind, &s;uffring any af|fliction or contumelious reproches with|out murmuring or repining.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A reuenge giuing a deadly wound, &amp; hea|ping coles of fire vpo~ our enimies heads.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A clo&s;e martering, not without rewards.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 When wee &s;uffer anye cro&s;&s;e or affliction, we mu&s;t be patient for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That wee maye followe the example of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e God hath &s;o commaunded.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we may gather the fruites of pati|ence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Chri&s;t commaundeth in the 5. chap. of <HI>Math.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat we &s;hould not re&s;i&s;t eull: and by 3. precepts doth exhort vs vnto patience
<LIST>
<ITEM>He comma~deth that who&s;oeuer &s;hal &s;trike thee on the right cheeke, to turne to him the other al&s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He commandeth if any man wil &s;ue th&eacute;e at the law, and take away thy coate, to let him haue thy cloke al&s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He commandeth that who&s;oeuer wil com|pell thee to goe a mile, to go with him twaine.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 We mu&s;t &s;uffer 3. kindes of euill patiently.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Nece&s;&s;arie euils, &s;uch as can neither be al|tred nor amended, nor hindered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Accidental euils, which haue not happened vnto vs by our own euill coun&s;ell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such euils as we haue de&s;erued.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="13">23 The reward of patience.
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Iames.</HI> 1. Ble&s;&s;ed is the man that endu|reth temptation: for when he is tryed, he &s;hall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promi&s;ed to them y^t loue him.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prou.</HI> 19. A mans knowledge is perceiued by his patience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. If when yee doe well yee &s;uffer wrong and take it patiently: this is ac|ceptable to God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 Thr&eacute;e things direct vs in the right path, and &s;uffer vs not to goe a&s;tray.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loue which bani&s;heth all wearines &amp; cau|&s;eth all labour &amp; trauell to &s;eeme ea&s;ie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hope of promi&s;e or reward.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith which is grounded vpon promi&s;es, and beleeueth in God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>25 &V;nle&s;&s;e the &s;pirite of God do e&s;tabli&s;h and &s;eale our mindes, that they may continue &s;tedfa&s;t in faith, we &s;hal be ouercome by one of the&s;e three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either by &s;athan who is furni&s;hed with a thou&s;and artes, &s;leightes, and deceites, to entrap vs</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or by our owne frowardnes &amp; incon&s;tan|cie, which is ea&s;ily &s;educed by euil exam|ples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or by per&s;ecution &amp; affliction which cau&s;e vs de&s;paire &amp; throwe our &s;elues headlong into hell.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Three chiefe rewards of per &s;euerance.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A crowne of life. <HI>Apoc.</HI> 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A plentifull reward in heauen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Life euerla&s;ting. <HI>Math.</HI> 24. He that end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+reth to the end &s;halbe &s;aued.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Three things wherwith we may comfort our &s;elues being in tribulaiion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That the &s;onne of God is our aduocate. our mediator, and maketh interce&s;&s;ion for vs. <HI>Luk. 2. Ioh.</HI> 17.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he will not &s;uffer vs to be tempted a|boue our power. 1. <HI>Cor. 10. ver.</HI> 13.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he heareth our praiers, and will helpe vs in time of need.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="13">28 Three properties that belong to Epicures.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They neither feare nor reuerence God, and e&s;t&eacute;eme all godline&s;&s;e as a mokery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They offer &s;acrifice vnto their guttes, o|ther God they knowe not.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neither griefe nor feare can compell them to be carefull for the time pre&s;ent, or to come.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Three kinds of doubting re|pugnant to faith.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To doubt of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To doubt of his prouidence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To doubt of the certaintie of that doctrine which the Prophets and Apo&s;tles deliue|red.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 All idols had their originall o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of &s;uper&s;tition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of wicked imitation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of flattery.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>31 Three efficient cau&s;es of I|dolatrie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The deuill fretting with helli&s;h heat, and haggi&s;h hate, and prouoking mans mi&s;e|rable nature to deui&s;e idoles thereby to haue God in deri&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The blindne&s;&s;e of mens mindes, and bold|ne&s;&s;e to reiect the worde which hath bene deliuered by the Prophets and Apo&s;tles, and deui&s;ing &s;trange opinions and wor|&s;hipping of God after their own plea&s;ure</ITEM>
<ITEM>A per&s;wa&s;ion of wi&s;dom, and a good intent, which not content with the word of God onely doeth imagine it can inuent more excellent kindes of wor&s;hip.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Three cau&s;es why Idolatry &s;hould be aboli&s;hed.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is &s;inne again&s;t the fir&s;t com|maundement, not to aboli&s;h images. <HI>Iud|ges</HI> 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e not being aboli&s;hed. they trouble the church of God. 3 <HI>King. 18 Elias</HI> &s;aith <HI>I haue not troubled I&s;raell &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The are to be aboli&s;hed for feare of puni&s;h|ment, becau&s;e God is angry with idola|ters, and will puni&s;h them. <HI>Deuteron. 4 Ho&s;.</HI> 2. and 7.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="14">33 We mu&s;t fight with three &s;orts of weapons a|gain&s;t heretikes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>With prayers,</ITEM>
<ITEM>With learning
<LIST>
<ITEM>To conuert them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To conuince them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To condemne them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>With lawes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Euill men doe per&s;ecute the good, three manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By hatred of their hearts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By iniuries in deedes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>God commaun|deth that wee re&s;i&s;t them w^c three contrary things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>With loue of hart whe~ he &s;aith <HI>loue your enemies.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>With giuing bene fits when he &s;aith <HI>doe good to them that hate you.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>with praying for the~ when he &s;aith <HI>pray for the~ which reuile &amp; per&s;ecute you.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>By reuyling wordes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Three things to be knowen and marked co~cerning &s;uper&s;ti|tion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That it doth &s;pring of true godline&s;&s;e, and diuers wayes doeth weary mens minds</ITEM>
<ITEM>That it doth vaunt of the title of true reli|gion, and doeth allure multitudes of peo|ple vnto it, and doeth gouern them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It atributeth a certain vertue vnto things without Gods ordina~ce or naturall rea|&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Magical ble&s;&s;ings or enchan|tings do differ fro~ the ble&s;&s;ings of the Patriarchs thr&eacute;e manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Magicians are not called of God to ble&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They abu&s;e good wordes, and wre&s;t them to another end then God hath appointed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They haue no promi&s;e that their endeuour &s;hall take effect.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 The proud mans hart is de&s;titute of thr&eacute;e good things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is hardened and wanteth godlines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is voyde of Contrition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is dry, wanting the dew of &s;pirituall grace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 Three hor|rible thinges may be noted in a proude man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he &s;triueth again&s;t God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he will make him &s;elfe equall with God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing Gods co~man|dements.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By de&s;iring to be almightie as God is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In y^t he will haue his own co~ma~+dement ob&s;erued, though it bee co~trary to gods co~mandement.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>That he exalteth him&s;elf</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he exalteth him&s;elf aboue God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="14">39 Three things being thought vppon, &s;houlde abate the pride of man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our birth, which is lamentable, becau&s;e we are borne in &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our life, which is nothing els but labour and griefe, and &s;ubiect to many inconue|niences.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our death which is terrible, e&s;pecially, be|cau&s;e we &s;hall be con&s;umed w^t wormes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>40 Three partes of repentance.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Contrition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gonfe&s;&s;ion,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the mouth
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e we be &s;eene w^t the hart vnto righte|ou&s;nes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e we confe&s;&s;e w^t the mouth vnto &s;alua+tio~, <HI>Rom. 10. ver.</HI> 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the offence is not forgiuen, before re&s;titution be made.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In workes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sati&s;faction.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>41 Pride is an exalting of the minde which doeth rai&s;e it &s;elfe aboue our
<LIST>
<ITEM>Creation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;ocation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humane condition.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 By the &s;hameful falles of three it doth appeare that &s;ecurity hath no place to re&s;t in.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Neither in heauen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In paradi&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In heaue~ lucifer &s;inned through &s;ecuritie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>In paradi&s;e Ada~ &s;inned through &s;ecuritie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> world Iudas being one of Chri&s;t his di&s;ciples, &s;inned tho|row &s;ecuritie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor in the worlde.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>43 Thr&eacute;e things in Chri&s;t worthy to be wo~dered at.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The examples of his life.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His words of wi&s;|dome.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Whereby he edified the enuious.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wherby he in&s;tructed the ignorant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wherby he did conuert the vnbel&eacute;e|uers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The maruels of his glorie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>44 Three benefices which wee haue receiued, ought to moue vs dayly and hourely to giue tha~ks vnto God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our creation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our redemption.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our iu&s;tification.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="15">45 Let vs giue thankes to God al the day lon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d e&s;pecially to acknowledge three benefits.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e hee hath &s;anctified vs beeing vn|cleane.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e we haue receiued tho&s;e thinges of his maie&s;tie which we had not.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bicau&s;e he hath giue~ vnto vs tho&s;e things which we neuer de&s;erued.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>46 The thanke&s;giuing of thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men ought de&s;eruedly to he reprehended.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of hipocrites which is fained.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of worldlings which is for cu&s;tome &s;ake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of &s;uch as are newly recouered of a &s;icke|nes which is wont to be very &s;hort.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>47 Preaching is v&s;ed for three purpo&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That God may be feared.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That God may be known, and his wil ful|filled.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That many may be made inheritors of e|ternall life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>48 Thr&eacute;e kindes of confe&s;&s;ion in the holy &s;criptures.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Confe&s;&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of prai&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Confe&s;&s;ion of trueth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Confe&s;&s;ion of a fault.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 Three, effectes of confe&s;&s;ing the trueth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A confirming of the doctrine &s;ent from hea|uen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;trengthening of tho&s;e which are weake in faith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Te&s;timonies of the iudgment to come and eternall life,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>50 Chri&s;t in the fift ot <HI>Mathew</HI> commaundeth vs not to &s;weare by 3. thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By heauen,</ITEM>
<ITEM>By earth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is y^t throne of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is his foot|&s;toole.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e man cannot make on white hair or one blacke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>By our head.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 For 3. cau&s;es as <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> &s;aith, it &s;eemes that we &s;houlde not &s;weare at all,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Lea&s;t we &s;hould take a facility in &s;wearing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lea&s;t our facilitie bring vs to a cu&s;tome of &s;wearing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lea&s;t by that cu&s;tome we fall into that da~|ger which is prouided for &s;wearers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="15">52 For 3. cau&s;es we may law|fully &s;weare&punc;
<LIST>
<ITEM>That God may be wor&s;hipped &amp; glorified, <HI>E&s;a 19. ver. 8. 1. King. 22, ver.</HI> 14.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That trueth may be maint<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ned.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That Iunocentes being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">nuented by crafte may be deliuered from danger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>53 Thr&eacute;e things to be ob&s;erued in othes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>We mu&s;t not v&s;e all maner of othes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>We mu&s;t not v&s;e them alwaies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>We mu&s;t not v&s;e them for light occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 By 3. maner of wayes men for&s;weare them &s;elues.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either when they deceiue or are deceiued</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they thinke that to be fal&s;e whiche is true.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or when they think that to be true which is fal&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Thr&eacute;e things are like othes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;owes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Couenantes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Promi&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 The 4. commaundement of tho&s;e ten which were deliuered vnto Mo&s;es was appointed to be kept for thr&eacute;e cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;ignifie vnto vs the &s;pirituall re&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To maintaine eccle&s;ia&s;tical gouernment.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That cattel and &s;eruantes might cea&s;e fro~ their labour.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 Thr&eacute;e principall holidayes on which the Iewes v&s;ed to goe vp to Ieru&s;alem.
<LIST>
<ITEM>On Ea&s;ter day.</ITEM>
<ITEM>On Whit&s;onday, otherwi&s;e caled the fea&s;t of <HI>Penteco&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>On y^e day of the fea&s;t of tabernacles which was wont to be ob&s;erued the 15 of <HI>Sept.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>58 We ought to m&eacute;ete togither on tho&s;e dayes whiche by the church are appointed holidayes for thr&eacute;e cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That me may heare the word of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we may pray vnto him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we may confirm our faith with the Sacramentes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>59 Thr&eacute;e things which as <HI>Lu|ther</HI> affirmeth wil de&s;troy chri|&s;tian religion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Forgetfulne&s;&s;e of benifits which we haue receiued by the Go&s;pell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mans wi&s;dome which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">il bring al things in order, and with euill coun&s;aile make common quietnes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Securitie which reigneth here and there, and in euerie place.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="16">60 Three kinde of hearers of the worde of GOD are prai&s;e worthie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They which li&s;ten attentiuely.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which lay it vp in their heart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which &s;hew foorth the fruits thereof in their life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>61 The knowledge of 3. things very nece&s;&s;ary for a chri&s;tian.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To knowe God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To knowe his will.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To knowe him&s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>62 Thr&eacute;e mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary things for a chri&s;tian man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>True repentance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feruent praier.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Patience.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 The whole life of Chri&s;ti|ans as <HI>Melancthon</HI> teacheth, ought to bee directed vnto three purpo&s;es
<LIST>
<ITEM>That God may be glorified.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That the Church may be beautified.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we our &s;elues in the Church &s;eruing God, may looke for eternall rewardes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>64 Thr&eacute;e thinges in a Chri&s;tian whiche mu&s;t agree together, That his light may &s;hine before God and men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctrine, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>65 S. <HI>Paule</HI> vnto <HI>Titus</HI> chap. 2. &s;aieth, that a Chri&s;tian ought to liue 3. manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Soberly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hone&s;tly</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;cr&eacute;etly.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>66 Thr&eacute;e things God requireth at our hands. <HI>Deut.</HI> 10.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That we feare him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we loue him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we walke in his wayes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>67 Paule in the epi&s;tle to y^e <HI>Ga|lathians</HI> doth warne Chr&s;tians to take h&eacute;ede of thr&eacute;e things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That they be not de&s;irous of vaine-glory.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That they prouoke not one another to an|ger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That they enuie not one another.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>68 <HI>Paul</HI> in the fift to the <HI>Ephe|&s;ians</HI> will not haue thr&eacute;e things named among Chri&s;tians.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fornication.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;ncleannes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 Chri&s;tians haue 3. accu&s;ars before God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The diuill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The lawe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Their owne con&s;cience guilty of a faulte.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="16">70 <HI>Paule</HI> in the 2. chap. to <HI>Titus,</HI> willeth a mini&s;ter to do 3. things with authoritie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To
<LIST>
<ITEM>Speake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Erhort.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Reproue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>71 Thr&eacute;e things are nece&s;&s;arie for a chri&s;tian at all times.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faith towards God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue towards our neighbour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mortification of y^e fle&s;h towards our &s;elues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>72 The <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> being in aduer&s;itie, and comforting and exhorting one another vnto faith and obedience v&s;ed to &s;peake thus as in a prouerbe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Be of good courage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tru&s;t in God.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That God which proui|ded the Ramme for A|braham to &s;acrifice, h&eacute;e al&s;o wil &s;ende happi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ucce&s;&s;e to thy enter|pri&s;es. <HI>Gen. 22. ver.</HI> 13.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Follow thy vocation.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>73 Preachers and Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|cal rulers &s;hould alwaies medi|tate on 3. &s;ayings in the &s;crip|ture, and not &s;uffer them to &s;lide out of their memories.
<LIST>
<ITEM>We mu&s;t one day render an account of our &s;teward&s;hip, and of euery idle word. <HI>Luk&punc;</HI> 16.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whe~ I &s;hal &s;ay vnto the wicked, thou &s;halt &s;urely die, and thou giue&s;t not him war|ning, nor &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ke&s;t to admoni&s;h the wic|ked of his wicked way, that he may liue the &s;ame wicked man &s;hall die in his ini&punc; quitie, but his bloud wil I require at thy|hand. <HI>Ezech. 3. ver&s;e.</HI> 18.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An hard iudgement &s;hal they haue y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> beare rule. <HI>Wi&s;d. 6. ver.</HI> 5.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>74 Thr&eacute;e things by which ap|peareth, that it is very difficult to preach.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e of all things it is mo&s;t labor&s;ome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e of all things it is mo&s;t dangerous.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e of al things in the world it is mo&s;t de&s;pi&s;ed, and &s;ubiect to the iudgements of mo&s;t vile per&s;ons,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 Thr&eacute;e things nece&s;&s;arie for a Preacher that he may haue ma|ny hearers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Learning.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eloquence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Holines of life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 The preacher of the woorde of God ready to goe vp into the Pulpet, mu&s;t remember three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he hath Chri&s;t for his iudge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Angels beholders of him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Simple hearers, who&s;e mindes are ea&s;ilye wounded.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="17">77 Thr&eacute;e ornaments fitte for a mini&s;ters hou&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An open gate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A godly hou&s;hold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A good librarie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>78 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of euil mini&s;ters
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which teach ill, and liue wickedly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which teach well, and liue euilly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which teach ill, and &s;eeme toliue well.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>79 One of the&s;e 3. things doeth &s;urely happen vnto Mini&s;ters which preach the worde of God in euil princes courtes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either for feare they denie their mai&s;ter Chri&s;t, as <HI>Peter</HI> did. <HI>Iohn.</HI> 18.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or they are handled as Chri&s;t was in He|rodes court, and made a mocking &s;tocke. <HI>Luke. 23. ver&s;e.</HI> 11.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or they are ca&s;t in pri&s;on, tormented and &s;lain, as was <HI>Iohn Bapti&s;t, Mathew 14. ver&s;e</HI> 10.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>80 Thr&eacute;e horrible euils were y^e cau&s;e of the rich mans co~demp|nation of whom there is menti+on made in the 16. of <HI>Luke.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Securitie in that he didnot repent, nor had no f&eacute;eling of Gods wrath and iudegment,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riot and &s;urfeiting, Hauing no care of the &s;aluation of his &s;oule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Want of faith. In that he did not re&s;pecte <HI>Lazarus:</HI> for where true faith is, there cannot be crueltie towards the afflicted.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>81, The man is ble&s;&s;ed that doth the&s;e 3. thinges. <HI>P&s;al</HI> 112.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pitieth the poore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lendeth to them that want.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gouerneth his affaires by iudgment.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82 Truth is &s;tronger then thr&eacute;e &s;trong thinges. 1. <HI>E&s;dras.</HI> 3.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Strong wine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A woman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;trong king.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 Heretikes do repre&s;ent the properties of 3. bea&s;ts. <HI>Bernard.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>They are byting lyke dogs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Subtill like foxes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Proud like lions:</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 Hi&s;tories and the old fathers doe attribute three things vnto heretikes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Great knowledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;hew of wonderfullull holines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A di&s;agr&eacute;eing with other Churches.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="17">85 Three &s;ortes of Angells.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;onne of God. <HI>Gen.</HI> 48.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The preachers of the word. <HI>Malach.</HI> 2</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spirits created by God. <HI>Mat. 18. 2 Pet.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>86 For 3. cau&s;es heretikes doe troble more the godly teachers, then the common lay men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Godly teachers do more ea&s;ily vnder&s;tand their deceites, and barke at them as good dogges doe in the entrie of their ma&s;ters hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godly teachers cannot defende them&s;elues with externall force, and many times the communaltie which &s;hould defend them, doth for&s;ake them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The pretence of heretikes is alwaies to di+mini&s;h the glorie of God and holye wor|&s;hippe, whereof the mini&s;ters are perfect and godly teachers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>87 Three things to be noted in the enimies of Chri&s;t and his Church.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fir&s;t, they are vnthankefull, and after the maner of y^e worlde, for a great good turne they repay great ingratitude,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondarily, they haue zeale w^tout know|ledge, they will &s;eeme and be accounted defenders of trueth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>La&s;tly, they are man&s;lears &amp; doe all things with execrable cruel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Three &s;ortes of hypocrites workes which compell <HI>E&s;ay</HI> in his fift chapiter to crie, <HI>Wo vn|to them.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Such as &s;peake good of euill, &amp; euill of good,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as &s;tand in their owne conceits.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as draw wickednes vnto them&s;elues with the cordes of vanitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 What&s;oeuer we doe is both good and iu&s;t, if we be not decei|ued with three thinges. <HI>Augu&s;|tine.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>If forgetfulne&s;&s;e confound not our memo|rie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If error ob&s;cure not our vnder&s;tanding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If iniquitie depraue not our will.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 Hypocrites, as <HI>Bernard</HI> wit|ne&s;&s;eth are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Iudges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Witn&s;&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>But, without authoritie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>But, by heare&s;ay.</ITEM>
<ITEM>But without truth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Accu&s;ers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="18">91 Chri&s;t hath 3 &s;ortes of &s;oul|diers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some he hath placed in the kingdom of the earth, and the&s;e are fighting &s;ouldiers. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 6</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some are triumphant &s;ouldiers, for the&s;e he hath ordained the kingdome of heauen vnto whom after the victorie, he wil giue a crowne. 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some are cowardes and fugitiues, and for the&s;e he hath appointed the pri&s;on of hell. <HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 24</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 The godly are afflicted &s;ome time for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That their faith may be tried.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That true repentance may increa&s;e in the~.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That they may be &s;tirred vp vnto the de&s;ire of eternall life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>93 The thoughts of men not re|generate, are of 3. &s;orts 1. <HI>Iohn. 2 ver&s;e.</HI> 16.
<LIST>
<ITEM>After the concupi&s;cence of the &s;le&s;h.</ITEM>
<ITEM>After the lu&s;t of the eyes</ITEM>
<ITEM>After the pride of life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 Let a mini&s;ter liue &s;o that he may b&eacute;e as a paterne of good life vnto his hearers, following the example of <HI>Paule.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Cor. 4. ver&s;e</HI> 16.</ITEM>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Cor. 11. ver&s;e</HI> 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Phil. 3. ver&s;e</HI> 17.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>95 The chiefe knowledge of a Chri&s;tian con&s;i&s;teth in 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To bel&eacute;eue inui&s;ible thinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To hope for thinges promi&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To loue God, though he &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eme to &s;hew him|&s;elfe to be our enemie by puni&s;hing vs.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>96 Thr&eacute;e things to be ob&s;erued in all thinges that we doe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That we followe the expre&s;&s;e word of God</ITEM>
<ITEM>That, we craue Gods aide.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That we looke for &s;uch euent as &s;hal plea&s;e him to &s;end.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 Thr&eacute;e giftes of God which proc&eacute;ede out of his owne mouth <HI>Prouerb.</HI> 2.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Knoweledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nder&s;tading.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="18">98 Three kindes of knowledge requi&s;ite in a Chri&s;tian.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome to knowe what belongeth to God that we may de&s;ire heauenly things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nder&s;tanding for the world that we may learne to de&s;pi&s;e it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Foreknowledge of our death, y^t while we liue we may liue to God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 For 3 cau&s;es it was nece&s;&s;a|ry that Chri&s;t &s;hould ri&s;e again the third day.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That the prophe&s;ie might be fulfilled. <HI>Ho&s;. 6. ver&s;e.</HI> 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That his bodie &s;hould not corrupt. <HI>P&s;al. 16. ver&s;e</HI> 14.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That the omnipotencie of his Diutnitie might be linked with his humanitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 Thre argumentes and te&s;|timonies agayn&s;t the Anabap|ti&s;tes to prooue that Chri&s;t was borne of the fle&s;h of the &V;irgine Marie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of the promi&s;es made vnto Abraham and our fore fathers. <HI>Gen. 22. ver&s;e 18. item 26. ver&s;e</HI> 3. And in thy &s;&eacute;ede &s;hall all the nati|ons of the earth bee ble&s;&s;ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> All &s;uch pro|mi&s;es &s;houlde be fal&s;e, if Chri&s;t had not come out of the wombe of the &V;irgine Marie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is nec&s;&s;arythat Chri&s;t &s;hould take fle&s;h of the virgin Marie, &s;eeing in many pla|ces of the &s;cripture he calleth him&s;elfe the &s;onne of man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is manife&s;t in the fir&s;t chapter of the epi+&s;tle of S. Paule to the <HI>Romans. ver&s;e</HI> 3. the wordes be the&s;e, <HI>Who was borne of the &s;eede of Dauid according to the fle&s;he</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="19">
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>THE FIRST HVNDRETH OF THE Triplicitie of Philo&s;ophie.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 The whole cour&s;e of mans life con&s;i&s;teth in the&s;e three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>TO be borne w&eacute;eping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To liue laughing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To die fighing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Hee is worthyly called a wi&s;e man
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which remembreth things pa&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which marketh the cour&s;e of thinges pre|&s;ent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which fore&s;&eacute;eth things to come.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Three thinges obtaine great frend&s;hip,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faire &s;p&eacute;ech in pre&s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Good report in ab&s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faithfulnes in frend&s;hip.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men differ in wi|&s;hing.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The ambitious.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The ba&s;e minded.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wi&s;heth &s;o much, that for it hee is hated.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Craueeh &s;o little, that euery ma~ ouercroweth him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De&s;ireth a meane with loue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The vertuous.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men accounted happie in this world.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that oweth nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A man &s;ingle and not maried.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that hath new buried his ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h parents&punc;</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Three &s;ortes of men wofull to be &s;cene.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A rich man fallen into pouertie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A vertuous man di&s;prai&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A wi&s;e man &s;corned of the ignorant.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Three thinges which euery man doth in re&s;pecte of his enimies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He feares</ITEM>
<ITEM>He hates
<LIST>
<ITEM>Whom he feares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whom he hates, he bewares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whom he bewares he &s;eekes his de&s;truc|tion.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>He bewars</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 <HI>Plutarch</HI> doth require the&s;e 3, things in a young man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Temperance in his minde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Silence in his tongue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ba&s;hfulnes in his countenance,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="20">9 The art of gouernment was
<LIST>
<ITEM>Found out.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Defended.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By experience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By &s;cience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By prudence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;erued.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Pride is noted in a man by 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;hew a certaine &s;tatelines in going.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To di&s;daine his companions and equals.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;eparate him&s;elfe from the companie of others, with a vaine kind of &s;elfeloue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Three cau&s;es why a man may be earne&s;t in giuing good coun&s;ell, becau&s;e
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is an ea&s;ie thing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of little co&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the be&s;t gift a man can giue vnto his friend.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Thr&eacute;e de&s;ires among&s;t fre~ds
<LIST>
<ITEM>To enioy health.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e honour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to &s;uffer nece&s;&s;itie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Three &s;oueraigne plai&s;ters for a heart which is greeued.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Temperance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Forgetfulnes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Three things good for euery man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To vnder&s;tand well.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;peake better.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To doe be&s;t of all.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> king of <HI>Aragon,</HI> v&s;ed to thanke God mo&s;t hartily e&s;pecially for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For that he made him a man, &amp; not a brute bea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For that he was a chri&s;tian.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For that he was Prince and ruler ouer &s;o many countries.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 <HI>Plato</HI> at the point of death, yeelded thanks vnto nature, for 3. cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he was borne a man, and not a bea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For that he was a Grecian borne, and not a Barbarian.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That it was his chance to liue in the time of <HI>Socrates.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> y^t philo&s;opher approching vn|to death, his &s;cholers reque&s;ted him to vnter &s;ome &s;ententious &s;aying vnto them in &s;t&eacute;ed of a la&s;t wil &amp; te&s;t ament, who &s;ighing, &s;aide
<LIST>
<ITEM>I came hu~bled into this world.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Here I haue liued carefully.</ITEM>
<ITEM>I depart troubled, being vn&s;kil|full and ignorant.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="20">18 As dogs be like wolues &s;o three &s;orts of me~ are like friendes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Para&s;ites.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Flatterers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fawne for the belly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Co&s;en for the coyn e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;&s;emble in religion.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hypocrittes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>19 The couetous ma~ doeth alwaies <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ffende three per|&s;ons.
<LIST>
<ITEM>God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His neigh|bour.
<LIST>
<ITEM>From God, he withhol|deth his right.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He denieth things nece&s;|&s;ary vnto his neighbour.
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;nthankful to God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wicked to his neghbour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cruell to him &s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>He keepeth that which is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> needefull from him&s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Him &s;elfe</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Euill coun&s;ellors teach a yong and vn&s;kilful prince, 3. things which after ward hurt him and his &s;ubiects much
<LIST>
<ITEM>To pre|fer
<LIST>
<ITEM>Profite before hone&s;tie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaine before vertue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tyrannie before mode&s;tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 A good coun&s;eller &s;houlde be furni&s;hed with the&s;e 3.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Experience of many thinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>True loue towardes him vnto whome he mini&s;treth coun&s;ell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Libertie to &s;peake freely.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Three things ought to bee con&s;idered in a witne&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The condition.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That a witnes be a ma~ and not a woma~, for women are diuers &amp; in con&s;tant in their reporte.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he be fr&eacute;e &amp; not a bo~d&s;laue for he wil conceale a trueth for feare of his ma&s;ters di&s;ple&s;ure</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he be innocent &amp; not infa|mous, for iu&s;tice will not ac+company a wicked man.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>23 We ought to beare 3 &s;ortes of affection to|wards him that is con|uicted of a crime.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hatred.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Co~&s;idering his nature, we ought to loue him, becau&s;e he is a man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;idering his fault which he hath co~|mitted we &s;hould hate him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;idering y^t paine which he mu&s;t &s;uf|fer for his fault we ought to pitie him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 No man ought to prai&s;e him&s;elf, nor de|&s;ire to be prai|&s;ed for 3. cau|&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For if he re&s;pect the time he hath pa&s;&s;ed he &s;hall finde that he hath done many thinges for which he ought to be &s;ory.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he con&s;ider of the time to come, he &s;hal perceiue many im|minent dangers whereof he &s;hould be afraid.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he regard y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pre&s;e~t time, he &s;hal find many defects &amp; much want in him&s;elfe, which mini&s;ter occa&s;ion of ba&s;hfulne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="21">25 &V;pon 3 occa&s;ions men v&s;e to excu&s;e them&s;elues for not doing thinges which they were enioy|ned to doe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either when they are weary &amp; would re&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or when that which is appointed doeth &s;eeme to be hard and difficult.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or when it &s;eemeth to be vnfruitefull and vnprofitable.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 For three cau|&s;es wee ought to v&s;e fewe words.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e of manye wordes, proceede many faults.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is a &s;igne of Fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e to v&s;e many words.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Socrates</HI> the Philo&s;opher holding his peace among&s;t co~pany &amp; be|ing a&s;ked why he did &s;o, an&s;we|red, Becau&s;e I haue bene &s;ory &s;ometimes for &s;peaking, but ne|uer for holding my peace.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Solon</HI> the Philo&s;opher being &s;ile~t when other men talked, one de|manded of him whether he held his peace for want of wordes to &s;peake, or for that he was a foole? He an&s;wered. No foole <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">an hold his peace.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xenocrates</HI> the Philo&s;opher &s;ayd vnto one y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was a great babler, If you hard your &s;elfe with my eares you would hold your peace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e many words are the cau&s;es of di&s;contentment &amp; di&s;plea&s;ing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Tho&s;e which are angry make &s;malle account of 3 thinges which &s;hould be highly e&s;teemed.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Olde age which ought to be reuerenced.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Affinitie of kinred.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Benefits which are pa&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 Tho&s;e iudges can not iudge vprightlye, which either.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Suffer them&s;elues to be corrupted with giftes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Are moued with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uthoritie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will requtie frend&s;hip, or reuenge enmitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Our minde mu&s;t be pre&s;erued from three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Anger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hatred.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fretteth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;umeth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Puffeth vs vp with pride</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Glorie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 A guiltie con|&s;cience worketh 3. miracles.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It maketh the heauen &amp; earth though they were x. times greater then they be, to be narrower then a mou&s;e hole.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It cau&s;eth &s;trong men to be &s;o fearefull that they are a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|toni&s;hed at the &s;haking of a leafe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It &s;tirreth vp the little dog, which though it hath &s;lept al his life time, yet at his death it barkes, &amp; is in the &s;tead of a thou&s;and witne&s;&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="21">31 Three thinges make a man very &s;orrowfull.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he mu&s;t die,</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he knowes not when.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That after death he knowes not where<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;hall be.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Three powers of the &s;oule a&s;&s;igned vnto three partes of the bodie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Rea&s;on to the head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anger &amp; other perturbations to the heart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lu&s;t and concupi&s;cence to the liuer.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>33 Three in&s;trumentes of mens actions.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nder&s;tanding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Appetite.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 The countrey life is mai|&s;tre&s;&s;e of three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Frugalitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diligence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iu&s;tice.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>35 The whole life of man pa&s;|&s;eth away with doing three vn|nece&s;&s;ary things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A great part with doing euill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A greater doing nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The greate&s;t with doing things to &s;mall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> purpo&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Al men are bu&s;ied about one of the&s;e 3 things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hone&s;tie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Profite.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plea&s;ure.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 The Sunne hath 3. titles atttributed vnto it.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is called
<LIST>
<ITEM>The eye of the worlde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The plea&s;ure of the day.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The beautie of heauen.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 The A&s;tronomers te&s;tifie that there commeth profite from the Sunne 3. maner of wayes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By influence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By motion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By light.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>39 The world is likened to the &s;ca for 3 cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bec au&s;e
<LIST>
<ITEM>Swelleth</ITEM>
<ITEM>Burnes
<LIST>
<ITEM>With pride.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With lu&s;t and riot.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fometh.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>40 We ought to rule our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ong in &s;peaking, 3. maner of wayes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;peake but little of the nobler &s;ort.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;peake well of all men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;peake nothing in commendation of our &s;elues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="22">41 H&eacute;e that will liue in quiet, mu&s;t frame him&s;elf to 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To
<LIST>
<ITEM>Heare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S&eacute;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;ay nothing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 <HI>Democritus</HI> the Philo&s;opher is thought to haue thru&s;t out his owne eies for 3. occa&s;ions.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e his &s;ighte did hinder his inwarde meditations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he coulde not looke on women without lu&s;ting after them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e he could not patiently abide to be|holde the flori&s;hing e&s;tate of wicked men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>43 The Philo&s;opher <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> beleeued but 3 thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That which he touched with his hand.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That which he &s;awe with his eies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That which he could co mprehend in argu|ment.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>44 Hope is good for 3 cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is aremedy in aduer&s;itie, wiping teares fro~ the eies, for hope only doth &s;u&s;taine the~ whome iniurous fortune doeth oppre&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It nouri&s;heth the life, promi&s;ing better &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e to morrowe,</ITEM>
<ITEM>It leaueth not a man athis death, but exal|teth his harte to immortalltie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>45 Hope doeth comfort 3. &s;ortes of men, of whome others are pa&s;t hope.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Him whome the Phi&s;itions haue giuen ouer,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Him that is bound &amp; ca&s;t into a deepe dongeon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Him that hath &s;uffred &s;hipwracke being to&s;&s;ed with waues: hope per&s;wades to ca&s;t his armes abroade.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>46 Hope is mi&s;liked of &s;ome men.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Plato</HI> and <HI>Pindarus</HI> call it a dreame of him that waketh.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cato</HI> &s;aith, y^t it maketh great things &s;mall, and &s;mall things nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another &s;aith, that it is a griefe and an vn|profitable burden which wanteth euent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>47 Thr&eacute;e things to be noted co~|cerning the affection of loue.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To loue them which hate vs, is a deuine vertue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To loue them that loue vs again, is a com|mon thing amon&s;t men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>But to hate them that loue vs, is wor&s;e the~ brute bea&s;tlyne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="22">48 Three things requi&s;ite in al good works.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Knowledge how to do them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Power able to do them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will to be readie to do them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 Three guides to pouertie,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gluttonie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sloth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whoredome.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>50 Three things worthy prai&s;e are attributed vnto per&s;euera~ce
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cicero</HI> &s;aith, it is a &s;tedfa&s;t and continuall vpholder of that which is grounded vpo~ rea&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It doth &s;earch out the truth, and follow it alwaies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It cannot be altered to departe from the truth, neither by fauour, allurements, nor giftes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 Thr&eacute;e mo&s;t da~gerous things will not alter the mind of a iu&s;t man (being re&s;olute in his pur|po&s;e) from the &s;tate of &s;tedfa&s;t|nes. <HI>Horace.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not the rage of citizens commanding that which is euil.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not the puffed and &s;wolne countenance of a terrible tyrant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor <HI>Iupiters</HI> thunderboltes, the gates of hel, no though the world &s;hould be turned top&s;i-turuie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>52 Three abhominable &s;ayings of the Epicures.
<LIST>
<ITEM>There is no plea&s;ure after death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A vengeance on him that careth for to mo|row.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neither feare thou the latter day, nor wi&s;h for it.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>53 Three cau&s;es why men loue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e another.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One loueth becau&s;e he is loued.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An other becau&s;e hee is aduanced to ho|nour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third, becau&s;e he looketh for &s;ome bene|fit at his hands whom he loueth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 Prid doth &s;tudie to conioine 3. things her with &s;elfe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Power.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nobilitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riches.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="23">55 Thre things which <HI>Phytago|ras</HI> chiefly wi&s;hed for him&s;elfe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Beautie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riches.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Health.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 S. <HI>Ierome</HI> writing to <HI>Ruffi|nus</HI> &s;aith.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That a friend.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Is long &s;ought for.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Scarcely to be found.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And hard to be kept.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 <HI>Phauorinus</HI> wri|ting of ambitious per|&s;ons &s;aith, that
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some be &s;coffers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which ambitiou&s;ly attempts high matters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which haue obtained things too good for their degrees.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which are deceiued by hope.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Some full of hate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some be mi&s;erable.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Three things which cau&s;e a man keepe his frends.
<LIST>
<ITEM>If he giue much.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he a&s;ke litle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he take nothing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>59 Thr&eacute;e things which we ought to take in good woorth of our friend.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A gift.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His good will.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His coun&s;ell.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>60 The minde which is coue|tous of money knoweth
<LIST>
<ITEM>Neither howe to ab&s;taine from that which is forbidden.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor how to reioice in that which is graun|ted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neither howe to frame it &s;elfe vnto good|nes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>61 <HI>Cicero</HI> &s;aith, that he is wont to be called a thriftie fellow.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which neither, for feare doeth for&s;ake his fortre&s;&s;e, which is the part of a coward.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neither for couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e doeth not re&s;tore that which was clo&s;ely committed vnto him, which is a point of iniu&s;tice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neither ra&s;hly hath mi&s;behaued him&s;elfe, which is &s;tarke fooli&s;hnes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 You may marke thr&eacute;e things in &s;launderers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They are vaine in hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They haue lyes in their mouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Their throtes are open &s;epulchers, breathing out filthy &amp; abhominable &s;p&eacute;eches, which &s;eeme to infect the aire, euen like y^e &s;tench of dead bodies</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="23">63 Such as are hearers of &s;lan|derers, as <HI>Philo&s;tratus</HI> witne&s;&s;|eth are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Louers of many wordes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Followers of. lightnes and crudelitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Enuious hearers of iu&s;t matters.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>64 Trueth is likened vnto the&s;e 3. thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The light.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;mell.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For the light is plea&s;a~t vnto him y^t hath a cleare &s;ight, but offen|&s;iue to one that is pore blinde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;mell which is comfortable to man, will either driue away or kill a &s;erpent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bread is &s;auory to a &s;ound ta&s;te, but vn&s;auorie to him that hath a &s;ore mouth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Ta&s;te.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>65 Hatred is like|ned vnto the&s;e 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Both.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For as the fire doth con&s;ume that &s;ub&s;tance whereby it is nori&s;hed, &s;o hatred con&s;u|meth the hart wherein it hath bin nu&s;led.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As the Moth doeth gnaw y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> garment wher|of it is bred, &s;o hatred gnaweth the harte wherein it is conceiued.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As a b&eacute;e pricking another doth lo&s;e his &s;ting and can neither make hony, nor liue but a &s;mall time after, &s;o the hart pricking ano|ther with the &s;ting of hatred doth lo&s;e ma|ny &s;w&eacute;ete vertues and killeth it &s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Bee.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>66 Thr&eacute;e things to be learned of the~ that applie them&s;elues to any Arte.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Let him be apt to learne, neither let him per&s;wade him&s;elfe that he kno|weth all things after a litle in&s;truc|tion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let hym be ready to bel&eacute;eue, though he vnder&s;tand not al things, becau&s;e as <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> &s;aith: the learner mu&s;t beleeue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let him be obedient &amp; not contemne good admonitions, nor condemne whol&s;ome coun&s;els.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>67 Thr&eacute;e thinges beeing in one man, make him very learned.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Arte maketh him certaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;&s;e maketh him ready.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Imitation, maketh him expert.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="24">68 The drunken man commeth in cont<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mpt by his &s;urfe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ting
<LIST>
<ITEM>He is an abhomination before God and his angels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He is &s;coffed and &s;corned of men, &amp; thought vn&s;it for hone&s;t exerci&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He is confounded with the diuel, and led in all maner of mi&s;chiefe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 Drunken men by too much &s;willing, bring 3. euils vpo~ them &s;elues.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;tumble and tremble.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Madnes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> length the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> die, either bla&s;ted or &s;triken with a planet.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>70 King <HI>Philip</HI> of <HI>Macedon</HI> re|ceiued 3. lucky me&s;&s;ages at one time.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he had wnone the games at <HI>Olym|pus</HI> by the running of his chariots.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That his Captaine <HI>Parmenio</HI> had ouer|throwne the <HI>Dardanians.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>That his wife <HI>Olympia</HI> had borne him a &s;onne which was called <HI>Alexander.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>71 Three things to be required of a Iudge, which are nece&s;&s;arie to the di&s;charging of his office.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Let him heare the accu&s;ation, and li&s;ten as well to the poore mans complaint, as to the rich mans reque&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let him &s;ift the accu&s;ation by examining witne&s;&s;es, &amp; allowing of lawfull proofes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Let him pronounce the &s;entence of Iu&s;tice earne&s;tly, without re&s;pect of fauouring one, or hating the other.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>72 The Iudge mu&s;te haue re&s;pecte vnto three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The law.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The guiltie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The authoritie of the law mu&s;t be defended without crueltie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The former life of him that is guiltie, his di&s;po&s;ition, and his nature mu&s;t be con&s;idered.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He mu&s;t haue re&s;pect vnto y^e peo|ple, lea&s;t he &s;pare them that be guiltie to the hinderance &amp; dan|ger of the common wealth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The people.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>73 Three thinges as <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> &s;aith, make a iudge ignorant of the truth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hatred.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Priuate gaine.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="24">74 <HI>Lycurgus</HI> &amp; almo&s;t al y^e other Lawreaders of the worlde, albeit in many things they were diffe|rent, yet they had full concord &amp; agreement in the&s;e three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To honour God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To owe compa&s;&s;ion to the poore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To beare a reuerence to olde men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 All mens actions, or all the deedes of men are thr&eacute;efold.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some things are done to a godly &amp; a hone&s;t ende and purpo&s;e, and the&s;e are worthye prai&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some are done vpon vrgent nece&s;&s;itie, and the&s;e are not worthy of excu&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some are done to an euil intent, yet not of nece&s;&s;itie, and the&s;e de&s;erue puni&s;h+ment.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 A wi&s;e man lamenteth and repe~teth that he hath done the&s;e 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gone by &s;ea, when he might haue gone by land.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he hath reuealed his &s;ecrets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he hath let one day pa&s;&s;e without do|ing &s;ome vertuous thing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>77 <HI>Marcus Sergi|us</HI> had the v&s;e of 3. hands.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A right hand.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When he lo&s;t his right hand he receiued 23. woundes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A left hand.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He fought in 4. &s;undrie battels with his left hand.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>An iron hand in &s;tead of his right hand.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He fought with his iron hande at the &s;iege of <HI>Cremona</HI> and tooke 12. places in <HI>Gaule</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>78 Three great benefites we re|ceiue when we eate cheries.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They clen&s;e our &s;tomacke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The meate of them br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">eth good bloud.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The kernels of them are good again&s;t the di&s;ea&s;e of the &s;tone.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>79 The gentle minde is of thr&eacute;e &s;ortes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Milde to &s;uffer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Readie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Willing to helpe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>80 We mu&s;t put 3. thinges out of our mindes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The de&s;ire of other mens welth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="25">81 Golde as <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> &s;aith, is
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;nare of &s;oules.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The hooke of death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The baite of &s;inne.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82 The craftines of the Eagle is knowen by three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>She layeth &s;tones in the ne&s;t which haue the vertue to driue away &s;erpents.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She teacheth her yong ones to flie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She buildeth her ne&s;t in a &s;afe place.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 Thr&eacute;e excellent things in the flying of the Eagle.
<LIST>
<ITEM>She flyeth very &s;wift.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eth far higher then any other bird.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She is neuer wearie of flying.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 Three things &s;hew y^t there is great clemencie in Lions.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They wil not hurt them that lie groueling</ITEM>
<ITEM>They will exerci&s;e their crueltye &s;ooner a|gain&s;t men, then women.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They will not hurt children vnle&s;&s;e it bee when they be almo&s;t fami&s;hed for hun|ger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>85 There bee 3. things in y^t night which cau&s;e vs to &s;le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The darkene&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The colde.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For men de&s;irous to &s;leepe, doe &s;eeke the darke&s;t places.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For both in winter men &s;leepe more &s;oundly, &amp; &s;uch as are colde of com|plexion, will &s;leepe longer then o|thers which are h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For according to Philo&s;ophie, moi&s;te vapours ari&s;ing from the &s;tomacke, and a&s;cending to the braine, doe pro|uoke &s;leepe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The moi&s;ture.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>86 There be 3. things very com+mendable in the Dolphin.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The loue it bea|reth vnto man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The protection of her yong ones.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Arion</HI> was &s;aued in the &s;ea by a Dol|phin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If it chaunce any of her yong ones to be taken by Fi&s;hermen, they will not for&s;ake them, but follow them &s;o extremely, that they will &s;uffer them&s;elues rather to be taken, then for&s;ake them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For <HI>Plime</HI> reporteth, that &s;he is the &s;wifte&s;t of all fi&s;hes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Her &s;wiftnes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="25">87 We mu&s;t &s;eek to get money for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For nece&s;&s;arie expences.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To keepe eredit.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To preuent grinous mi&s;haps.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Thr&eacute;e famous ciuill warres among the <HI>Romans.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Betweene <HI>Sylla</HI> and <HI>Maurius.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Betweene <HI>Ce&s;ar</HI> and <HI>Pompey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Beteene <HI>Antonius</HI> &amp; <HI>Augu&s;tus Octauus.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 Thr&eacute;e thinges nece&s;&s;arie for the increa&s;e of corne.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Good &s;&eacute;ede.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Good ground.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gods ble&s;&s;ing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 Three mon&s;trous thinges which be in many men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An enuious harte.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A couetous minde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A proude looke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>91 Thr&eacute;e thinges very nece&s;&s;ary in warr to obtaine victorie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To deliberate &amp; con&s;ult wi&s;ely of al th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ngs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To keepe clo&s;e that coun&s;ell which is con|cluded on, lea&s;t by trea&s;on it be reuealed to the enemies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To knowe a&s;&s;uredly by e&s;pials the conditio~ and &s;tate of the aduer&s;aries.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 <HI>Charles</HI> the 5. &s;aid, that there is thr&eacute;e things whic h maintaine warre.
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;ictuals.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Money.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Souldiours.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 Thr&eacute;e things nedeful for the~ that wil ouercome cruel enemis with a &s;male armie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Munition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Money.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Coun&s;aile.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 He that will place his battell mu&s;t fore&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e three thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;unne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The du&s;t.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;unne before the face taketh away the &s;ight.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The du&s;t fillteh the eies and hurteth them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The winde in fight helpeth the weapons.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The wind.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>95 Three things which de&s;erue the prai&s;e of goodne&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To ouercome crueltie with gentelne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To moue them to be bet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er affected that doe vs iniurie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;uffer patie~<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">euer is d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e vn|to vs.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="26">96 We may read in the chroni|cles of Flaunders, that king <HI>Ed|ward</HI> of Englande warring a|gain&s;t <HI>Philip Vale&s;ius</HI> King of Fra~ce, by his letters offred him 3. conditions. To fight either
<LIST>
<ITEM>Per&s;on to per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A hundred again&s;t an hundred.
<LIST>
<ITEM>King <HI>Philippe</HI> made an&s;were, y^t he woulde none of his offers, neither would y&eacute;eld to any thing which he, demaunded.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Armie again&s;t ar|mie,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 <HI>Tamburlanes</HI> of a &s;hepheard being made king of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> when he we~t to lay &s;iege to any town, he would 3 &s;undry dayes pitche 3. tents of &s;undry colours, &s;igni|fying 3 things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The 1. day a white tent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The white &s;ignified, that he woulde not hurt any that would yeeld vnto him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd day a red tent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The redde &s;ignified, that hee would put euery one to the &s;word.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The 3 day a blacke and &s;mo|kie tent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The blacke and &s;mokie tent &s;ignified, that what&s;oeuer remained, &s;houlde &s;mell of fire and &s;moke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>98 That a man may &s;inne the le&s;&s;e, let him take heede of three thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Euill occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Euill cu&s;tomes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Euill conuer&s;ations.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 Three &s;ortes of men which care not greatly for meat.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Couetous men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as be &s;orowfull in hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that loue &s;olitarines.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 We mu&s;t not be curious, nor carefull in three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of good rule and order in another mans hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the diuine gouernment of the almighty</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the coun&s;els of noble men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>THE SECOND HVNDRETH OF THE Triplicitie of Philo&s;ophie.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 Three thinges di&s;clo&s;e mens impatience, and make the~ mur|mure.
<LIST>
<ITEM>TO &s;erue without recompence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To a&s;ke and be denyed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To giue and haue no thankes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Thr&eacute;e things which euery ma~ is loth to indure.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pouertie in olde age.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Infamie after honour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bani&s;hment from his naturall countrie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 A man is mo&s;t gr&eacute;eued for 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;ee the death of his children.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To heare the lo&s;&s;e of his goods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;ee the pro&s;peritie of his enimies.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Three things vndoe a man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To defer and prolong his bu&s;ines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To meddle with other mens matters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To reiect the good coun&s;ell of his frends.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Three enimies to good coun|&s;ell.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ha&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Couetou&s;nes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Three thinges make a man willing to &s;erue.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;ee his &s;eruice acceptable.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 <HI>Chilo</HI> the <HI>Graecian</HI> beeing a&s;|ked what was hard, an&s;wered.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To keepe clo&s;e &s;ecret coun&s;ell,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To keepe a man from idlenes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;uffer wrong.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Hee that yeeldeth him&s;elfe to the world, ought to di&s;po&s;e hym|&s;elfe to 3. things which hee can|not au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ide.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To pouertie, for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ee &s;hall neuer attaine to the riches that he de&s;ireth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;uffer iniurie paine and trouble.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To bu&s;ines, without e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">dition,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="27">9 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men ought not to bee made pertakers of &s;ecrete coun&s;ell.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The man that wil be often angrie for &s;mal occa&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The drunkard that in his fit will report al he knoweth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that is in &s;ubiection to a woman.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 <HI>Pythagoras</HI> b&eacute;eing demanded of king <HI>Le|ontius,</HI> what differen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e there was betweene Philo&s;ophers and o|ther men, an&s;wered, Mans life &s;eemeth to be like a congregation a&s;&s;embled to &s;e a game to which me~ re&s;ort for &s;undrie purpo&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some by theyre ownactiuity to winne the wor|&s;hip of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> game.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some for Lucar &s;ake to buy or &s;ell &s;ome what.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Other &s;ome min|ding neyther to gain not to pro|fite, come onely to beholde &amp; &s;ee what is done.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In like maner men whiche are come vn|to this lyfe as out of an other life <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> nature, oc|cupye them &s;elues w^t di|lige~ce either
<LIST>
<ITEM>To get prai&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Profite.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or regarding neither applie their myndes to &s;earche and knowe the na|ture of things, of which &s;orte are Philo&s;o+phers, that is|to &s;ay, Louers of wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Glory is fought for, 3. maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either by doeing &s;ome valiant acte which may be eternized in the regi&s;ter of fame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or by writing &s;omewhat which the po&s;te|ritie may read and maruell at.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or erecting &s;om famous building for a mo|nument.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Three &s;orts of men who&s;e maners are worthy to be repre|hended.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They which neither inuite their neighbors to banquets, nor being inuited them&s;elues will come vnto them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which inuite others, and be&s;tow ba~|quets on them, but they them&s;elues de&s;|pi&s;e other mens good cheare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which being inuited will come vnto banquets, but will inuite no man to any banquet of their co&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="27">13 Three things nece&s;&s;arie to y^e maintenance of our bodies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sufficient meat to appea&s;e the rage of hun|ger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clothing to couer the bodie, and expel cold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sl&eacute;epe which doth refre&s;h y^e wearied lim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> with labour.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 The body co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eteth 3. things
<LIST>
<ITEM>Good cheare.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sl&eacute;epe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mery talke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men haue &s;u~|drie &s;ortes of maners in giuing and taking coun&s;ell.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One &s;ort of men, which &s;&eacute;e what is to bee done and doe it, and the&s;e bee the be&s;te &s;ort.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another &s;ort are tho&s;e, which though they &s;ee not into the matter, yet they obey the~ which haue more knowledge then them&punc;|&s;elues and the&s;e al&s;o are good.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third &s;ort (which are altogether ether vnprofitable &amp; abhominable) are of tho&s;e men which are neither gouerned by their owne wi&s;edome, nor will bee ruled by the wi&s;edo me of other men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 Three thinges which for the vncertaintie of that which may en&s;ue, a man cannot &s;afely giue coun&s;ell to enterpri&s;e them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To take a wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To trauell by &s;ea.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To follow warfare.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 Three things to be noted in giuing coun&s;ell.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To giue coun&s;ell to a foole, it is charitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To giue coun&s;ell to a wi&s;e man, is a &s;igne of vaineglorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To giue coun&s;ell in a froward time, is a token of wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>18 For 3. cau&s;es as <HI>Auicene</HI> &s;aith, our dinners ought to be greater the~ our &s;up|pers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e in the day time our natural heate is helped by the heate of the &s;unne to concoct our meate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which exerci&s;e them&s;elues had n&eacute;ed of meat, that they may be able to labor. But in y^e day time men ex|erci&s;e the~&s;elues, therfore they had n&eacute;ed of more meat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With exerci&s;e our nouri&s;hme~t is ea&s;ily dige&s;ted. Ther|fore in the day time we n&eacute;ed more meat the~ at night</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="28">19 Thr&eacute;e rea&s;ons which <HI>Galen</HI> &amp; <HI>Hipocrates</HI> alleadge to prooue that it is nece&s;&s;arie for the helth of our bodies to eate more meat at &s;upper then at dinner.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e the time is longer betw&eacute;ene &s;up|per and dinner, then betw&eacute;ene dinner and &s;upper, wherein &s;eing we maye concoct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> more meat, we may al&s;o eate more meat at &s;upper.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e fleepe following after &s;upper, doth helpe concoct ion. <HI>Hipocrates 1 Aphori&s;,</HI> 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Re&s;t &amp; quietnes helpeth concoction, and di|ge&s;tion, whereas litle mouing or exerci&s;e is very hurtfull after meate.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 In hi&s;tories we can reade of 3. cities onely which were be&s;ie|ged three yares continually to|ther.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t <HI>Bizantium,</HI> in the time of <HI>Seuerus</HI> the Emperour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd <HI>Bethoron,</HI> in the time of <HI>Adri|an</HI> the Emperour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third <HI>Sama<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ia.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Three &s;ortes of men whiche &s;hould not bee hindered in their purpo&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He which will lawfully marry a wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He which will helpe the n&eacute;edie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He which from a wicked life is purpo&s;ed to returne to vertue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Thr&eacute;e things are required as nece&s;&s;arye for a manne and his wife.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loue in the hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Concord outwardly, in dwelling together peaceably.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Both an outward and inwarde agr&eacute;ement to do goodworks.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>23 Dayly exerci&s;es of rea&s;oning and di&s;puting, are profitable for 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They &s;harpen the wit wonderfully.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They do con&s;ume &amp; &s;trenthen our iudge|ment concerning profitable and nece&s;&s;a|ry things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They br&eacute;ede quicknes in re&s;oluing doubts and intricate que&s;tions.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 There is a continuall de&s;ire of riches in men, as &s;aith <HI>Demo|critus.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that hath nothing, is trobled with a de|&s;ire to get wealth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that hath enough, is mole&s;ted w^t cares, in k&eacute;eping that he hath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that hath lo&s;t all he had, is vexed with &s;orow for his mi&s;hap.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="28">25 Three &s;ortes of men gather riches couetou&s;ly for 3 cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that is giuen to plea&s;ure, loueth riches that by the help of them he may continue in his voluptious vaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that is ambitious and de&s;irous of vain glorie, de&s;ireth trea&s;urre, that by the ayde thereof he may be aduanced &amp; accounted honorable.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A man fearing future pouertie, &s;crapeth vp wealth by hooke or croake, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rdeth it, and keeketh it, doubting hunger, age. di&s;ea&s;es, bani&s;hment, &amp;c. and repo&s;ing more tru&s;t and confidence therein. then in God.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Three thinges which &s;eeme to make a man happie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sufficiencie</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tranquilitie
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wanting nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grieuing for nothing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fearing nothing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Securitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Three thinges proper vnto beautie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is fraile, and fadeth in &s;hort time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Many wicked vices of the minde, are coue|red with the vale of beautie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It hath brought commoditie to fewe, but many vnto de&s;truction.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 Our aunce&s;tours feigned a triple fortune, or 3. fortunes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One blind.
<LIST>
<ITEM>She was called blind, becau&s;e &s;he be&s;towed benefits vpon euill &amp; vnthankful per&s;ons.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>An other mad and furious.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mad, becau&s;e &s;he ea&s;ily &s;nai|cheth &amp; taketh awaye that which &s;he hath giuen.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The third deafe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Deafe, becau&s;e &s;hee will not heare y^e co~plaints of y^e poore.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Ignorance is of three &s;orts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some is good when wee are ignorant of euill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some is euill when wee are ignorant of good.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some is indifferent which is neither good nor euill.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 We are ignorant of many things which we might know, and that for 3 cau&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either for carele&s;nes of the knoweledge of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or for &s;loth to learne them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>This kind of ignora~ce hath no ex+cu&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Or for &s;hamefa&s;tnes to enquire after the~.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="29">31 Ignorance al&s;o is of 3. &s;ortes after another manner.
<LIST>
<ITEM>On is affected, which will not knowe that which it knoweth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another gro&s;&s;e, which for &s;louth and negli|gence, will not learne and &s;earch foorth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third inuincible, which remaineth af|ter all diligence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Three thinges which are a ioy to beholders.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;&eacute;e agr&eacute;ement amonge&s;t brethren.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Looue amonge&s;t neighbours.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A man and his wife k&eacute;eping faith and loy|altie together.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>33 Beautie hath prerogatiue a|boue deformitie, three maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Beautie &s;etteth forth hone&s;tie, as &s;aith <HI>Pa|catus,</HI> for vertue in a comely bodye is al|wayes more acceptable.</ITEM>
<ITEM>We more willingly talk with tho&s;e which are faire, then tho&s;e which are foule, as <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> witne&s;&s;eth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Beautie is of more force to commende a|ny body, then any letter of commendati|on.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Three thinges make men breake their couenants.
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;ngodly de&s;ire of gaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Heady anger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lu&s;t which &s;ets mens hartson fire.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>35 Three euils for the mo&s;te parte accompany beautie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faire people are di&s;dainfull, and pride fol|loweth beautie, and beautie how litle &s;oe|uer it is, proude it is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>There is great &s;trife betwixt beautie &amp; cha|&s;titie. And that which plea&s;eth manye is kept with great danger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is an oc ca&s;ion of &s;inne, or a &s;tirrer vp of fooli&s;h looue: for lightne&s;&s;e hath alwayes beene a &s;uter to the faire&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Three excellent gouernors.
<LIST>
<ITEM>God gouerneth the worlde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The minde gouerneth the &s;oule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome doeth rule and gouerne the feli|cetie of this life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="29">37 <HI>Lampedo</HI> is iudged happie for euer (as <HI>Plinie</HI> writeth) for 3 cau&s;es, for that &s;he was
<LIST>
<ITEM>A kinges daughter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A kings wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A kings mother.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 Al moral Philo&s;o|phie is deuided into 3. parts.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ethicall.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oeconomi|call.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Which pertaineth to the gouerne|ment of a mans owne &s;elfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which belongeth to y^e gouernment of a mans hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which concerneth the gouernment of the common wealth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Politicall.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>39 Thr&eacute;e thinges which whette the eie &s;ight.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To viewe fountaines of water.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To Looke vpon gr&eacute;en thinges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To behold a mans &s;elfe in a looking gla&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>40 Three commodities of let|ting bloud.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It cheareth the hartes of &s;uch as are &s;ad</ITEM>
<ITEM>It appea&s;eth &s;uch as are angrie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It keepeth louers from running mad.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>41 Three &s;ortes of people will tell trueth alwayes for the mo&s;t part.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Children.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fooles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Carele&s;&s;e men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 Three chiefe parts in a man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The braine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The hart.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Yeeldeth &s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Life.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nouri&s;hment.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The liuer.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>43 Thr&eacute;e things which can &s;el|dome or neuer be cured.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fren&s;ie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Here&s;ie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ielou&s;ie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>44 Thr&eacute;e thinges nece&s;&s;ary to obtain and maintaine by autho|ritie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wonderfull wi&s;dome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Happie and pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e in the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e of our vocation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The good opinion and inclination of the peoples mindes towards vs.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>45 Craftie and boulde coun&s;els haue thr&eacute;e thinges pioper vnto them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>At the fir&s;t, in &s;hew they doe delight.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Afterwarde, being in execution, they ap|p&eacute;ere hard to be compa&s;&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>La&s;tly, in euent they are found to be woful and lamentable.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="30">46 We may fortell of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> change of weather 3 maner of wayes by the moone.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The moone appearing pale, it betokeneth we &s;hall haue raine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Mone appearing red, fore&s;heweth we &s;hall haue windes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The moon e appearing white, pre&s;ageth we &s;hall haue faire weather.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>47 Three thinges which are as nece&s;&s;ary as as any phi&s;ike.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A ioyfull heart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Quiet re&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A moderate diet,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>48 Three thinges nece&s;&s;ary to be knowne in drinking.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To drinke but litle and often at dinner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to drinke b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">twene meales.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To drinke at the beginning of &s;upper but not after.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 Three things ouercome pa|tience.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Griefe conquereth y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tro~ge&s;t hearts <HI>Tibul</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;n&s;kilfulne&s;&s;e then which as <HI>Seneca</HI> affir|meth nothing is more vnpatient di&s;dai|ning to heare any rea&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feare, le&s;t y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ufferance of on iniurie &s;hould prouoke men to offer vs another iniurie&punc;</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>50 Thr&eacute;e nece&s;&s;ary offices for a good wife to execute whe~ her hu&s;band is &s;icke.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a Cooke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a Phi&s;ition.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Imitating y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> example of <HI>Saratomacha</HI> the wife of K. <HI>Deiotarus.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a Chirurgian</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 Thr&eacute;e cau&s;es why a man may weepe for the death of his friend.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In as much as we re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oyce in his life, it is nece&s;&s;ary we &s;hould weepe at his death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Since two heartes vnited in one hone&s;t af|fection haue but one being and place of re|&s;idence, it is good rea&s;on that we bewaile the death of our cho&s;en friend, euen with the &s;ame nature and compa&s;&s;ion that we would do our owne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lea&s;t we be euill &s;poken of <HI>Eccl. 38 ver&s;.</HI> 17.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>52 The glory of a man exalted vnto honor, engendreth 3. thing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Strife anong great men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Su&s;pition among his equals.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Enuy among the meaner &s;ort.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="30">53 Three things abate pride.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sicknes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pouertie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Impri&s;onment and bondage.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 <HI>Marcus Aurelius</HI> the Empe|rour was forewarned of great &amp; grieuous puni&s;hments whiche &s;hould fall vpon the citie &amp; citi|zens of Rome, by 3. &s;trange mi|racles which happened in y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> time of his Empire.
<LIST>
<ITEM>As he was in the temple of the virgins ve|&s;tals, &s;odainely there entred in two hogs, and ran about his f&eacute;ete, &amp; there fell downe dead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another day as he came from his high Ca|pitoll to haue gone out at the gate Sala|rie, hee &s;awe two kites ioyning together with their talents, and &s;o fell down dead in his pre&s;ence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Within a &s;hort &s;ea&s;on after, as he came fro~ hunting a wilde bea&s;t, while hee was gi|ning two greyhounds which hee loued well water to drinke, &s;odainely they fell downe dead at his f&eacute;ete al&s;o.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Three things do ha&s;ten our death.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sorow.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Solitarines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De&s;peration.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 One demaunded of <HI>Diogines</HI> what were be&s;t for a man doe, to be in fauor of the gods, &amp; beloo|ued of the people. He an&s;wered.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Reuerence and honour much the gods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bring vp his children in due correction.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And be thankefull to his benefactors.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 Three mothers bring foorth thre euill daughters.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Truth the mother, hatred the daughter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riches the mother, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nuy the daughter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Familiarity the mother, contempt y^e daugh+ter.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>58 A noble ma~ being de&s;irous to knowe of K. Alexa~der for what cau&s;e he would be go|uernour of the whole world. He made him this an&s;wer. All wars are rai&s;ed for one of the&s;e 3. cau&s;es, either.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To haue many gods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Many lawes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Therfore would I be conqueror of y^e world, that I might com|mand through out the world.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That they ho|nor but one God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ob&s;erue but one law.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Serue but one king.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Or many kings</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="31">59 Thr&eacute;e tokens to know a wi&s;e man by.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To endure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to exalte him&s;elfe being prai&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If he know when to &s;peake, and when to be &s;ilent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>60 Thr&eacute;e principal plagues that Princes &s;hould take heede on.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To call their owne follies and ra&s;hne&s;&s;e Prudence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Their crueltie, iu&s;tice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To fatten them&s;elues with the mi&s;ery and calamitie of the poore.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>61 Thr&eacute;e things which &s;oone de|ceaue a man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faire &s;peech.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Great giftes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Little knowledge.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>62 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men which are worthy to be accounted good
<LIST>
<ITEM>Common peacemakers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that can forget iniuries doone vnto them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that will not forget to requite good turnes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 The <HI>Romans</HI> had a law na|med <HI>Falcidia,</HI> which was enacted for the reforming of di&s;obedient childrens maners, containing 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For the fir&s;t offence hee was pardoned, if there were any hope of amendment.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For the &s;econd he was puni&s;hed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For the third he was puni&s;hed.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>64 Three &s;ortes of men ea&s;ilye get friends.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pitifull men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Curteous men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Liberall rich men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>65 No man &s;hould thinke him|&s;elfe worthy the honor of three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a prince.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a prie&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a Iudge.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>66 Men may lawfully fight in defence of three thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Law.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The prince.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The countrie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="31">67 Three things do allure vs to epicuri&s;me.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The diuell which promi&s;eth plea&s;ures, and the goods of this world to them y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> wor|&s;hip him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our own fle&s;h and frailtie, which prefer|reth &s;w&eacute;ete and plea&s;ant things aboue al goodnes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Greedie gutlings, which by their example entice the ignarant vnto the like bea&s;tli|nes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>68 Patience ouercommeth any aduer&s;e calamitie, 3. manner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not by &s;triuing, but by &s;uffering.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not by murmuring, but giuing thanks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not by w&eacute;eping, but by hoping.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 Pride being in a ma~, cau&s;eth him to be le&s;&s;e e&s;t&eacute;emed, though he haue the&s;e 3 things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fauour of men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Beaetie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>70 We cannot y&eacute;elde worthie thankes vnto thr&eacute;e, as <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> affirmeth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The gods.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our parents,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our mai&s;ters.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>71 Ambitious me~ are not with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e three vices
<LIST>
<ITEM>They are very de&s;irous of vaineglorie</ITEM>
<ITEM>They are very wittie in cauilling at other mens wordes, and reprouing their d&eacute;eds that thereby them&s;elues may winne the peoples hartes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they are become famous in the mouthes of the common people, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">though through the labor of others, yet they are &s;o &s;tout and high minded, that they dare enterpri&s;e any thing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>72 Three thinges are daunge|rous for young men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Solitarines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Common company.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e whe~ a ma~ is &s;olitary, the diuel is mo&s;t readie to tempt him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e of euill talke which corrup+teth good maners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e it is y^e in|ue~ter of naughtines</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Idlenes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="32">73 Humilitie is y^e key of know|ledge, whereof though there are many precepts, yet the&s;e 3. chief|ly to be ob&s;erued.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To contemne or de&s;pi&s;e no kind of learning or knowledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to be a&s;hamed to learne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hauing obtained knowledge not to extoll him&s;elfe aboue any man.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>74 For 3. cau&s;es men cry with a loud voice.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When he is far off vnto who~ they woulde &s;peake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they talke with one that is deafe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they are incen&s;ed with anger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar</HI> v&s;ed to carie 3. things with him while he folo|wed the wars.
<LIST>
<ITEM>His penne to write the whole cour&s;e of the <HI>Romans</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;e in their wars.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His bookes, to find him&s;elfe occupied.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His lance, to helpe to repul&s;e his enimies.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 The Bi&s;hop of <HI>Sarisbury</HI> did affirme that there is 3. waies to conclude peace betw&eacute;ene the pa|pi&s;ts and prote&s;tants.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That the prote&s;tants &s;hould y&eacute;eld vnto the papi&s;ts, which they will neuer do, beinge gouerned by the word of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That the papi&s;ts &s;houlde yeelde vnto the Prote&s;tants, which they will neuer doe, while might and multitude might pre|uaile.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wherefore it remaineth, that the &s;tronger in fight, do vtterly ouerthrow and di&s;co~|fit the weaker</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>77 Three euill qualities of euil cu&s;tomes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They take away from a man the &s;en&s;e and feeling of his &s;innes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They make men euerie day wor&s;e &amp; wor&s;e</ITEM>
<ITEM>They neuer for&s;ake a &s;inner before his death.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>78 <HI>Pomponius</HI> affirmeth, that there are 3. &s;orts of bodies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One which hath but one &s;hape. As a man: wood, a &s;tone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another which con&s;i&s;teth of many bodies, agreeing or hanging together as a &s;hip, a hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third which is compri&s;ed of many and &s;undry (as &s;uppo&s;e of many bodies co~pre|hended vnder one name:) as the people, a congregation, an armie, a legion.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="32">79 Thr&eacute;e things though they be very good, yet they plea&s;e not e|uery bodie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Raine, though it will do very much good to to the earth towards increa&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;pright iudgement.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The labours of learned men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>80 Gluttonie doth harme vnto men thr&eacute;e maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It maketh the bodie deformed &amp; mi&s;hapen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It br&eacute;edes infirmities, and &s;ometimes brin|geth death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It cau&s;eth them to be in&s;atiable like raue|nous brute bea&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>81 <HI>Appius Claudius</HI> did a&s;&s;ay 3. maner of waies to bereaue <HI>Vir|ginia</HI> of her virginitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By prayer and reque&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By great giftes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By threatnings.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82 <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> reporteth y^t there are three kind of errors.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;te kinde, when that which is fal&s;e is thought to bee true according to his meaning that is the authour of it. As if a man &s;hould thinke that Idoles are true gods, becau&s;e they are called gods in the &s;cripture.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whe~ that which is fal&s;e is taken for truth as if by reading <HI>Lucretius</HI> bookes, thou &s;houlde&s;t thinke the &s;oule to con&s;i&s;t of motes of the &s;unne, which he both wrote|and thought, and yet it is an error.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whe~ &s;omething of another mans writing is bel&eacute;eued to be true, which the Author neither thought nor meant, as if a man &s;hould think the Epicure to account ver+tue to be the chiefe felicitie, becau&s;e hee prai&s;eth continencie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 Three vertues mo&s;t comme~|dable in a woman.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sobrietie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Silence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cha&s;titie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 We &s;alute 3. &s;ortes of peo|ple when we meete them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our betters.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of nece&s;&s;itie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Our equals.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of our own will.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Our inferiours&punc;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of m&eacute;ere vertue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="33">85 Thr&eacute;e renoumed kings haue 3. &s;undry titles.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The king of England is intituled defender of the church.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The king of Fraunce is called y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> mo&s;t chri|&s;tian king.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The king of Spaine is termed the mo&s;te catholike king.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>86 They which &s;igh much are troubled with one of the&s;e three pa&s;&s;ions,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sorrow.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>87 The&s;e three vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es keepe to|gether for company.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gluttonie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Drunkennes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lecherie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Three kinde of people are ie|lous.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Such as be of euil condition them&s;elues, for they mu&s;e as they v&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as haue faire wiues, and great re&s;ort of men vnto their hou&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Olde men that marrie young girles.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 There are 3. pointes of wi&s;e|dome.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To beleue little.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To keepe that which thou ha&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To take no thought for that is lo&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 There are three properties of the enuious man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To leuell at high markes, and to enuie his &s;uperiors.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be blear eied &amp; not to enuy tho&s;e which are farre off, or the dead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be his owne de&s;truction, and his owne executioner.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>91 Thr&eacute;e things which are o|uercome one of another.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Death ouercomes man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fame flori&s;heth after death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Time triumpheth ouer fame</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 Death hath three Sum|ners.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sickene&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Aduer&s;itie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sheweth the weaknes of y^e bodie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The in&s;tabilitie of fortune.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Which euer hath one foote to &s;tep into the graue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Age.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="33">93 Labour is good for 3 thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It occupieth the minde, &amp; driueth away fan+ta&s;ies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It helpeth the body in concoction and dige|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It increa&s;eth thy &s;ub&s;tance, and augme~teth thy &s;tore.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 There are thr&eacute;e intollerable plagues.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Warre bringeth famine and dearth of all things.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Famin, br&eacute;edeth pe&s;tilence and di&s;ea&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pe&s;tilence, bringeth death and de&s;olation in countries.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>95 All the lawes of this worlde are reduced, and haue their origi+nall from one of the&s;e thr&eacute;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The lawe of nature.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ancient cu&s;tome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The or dinances of men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>96 Mans nature is de&s;irous of 3. things e&s;pecially
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of newes, becau&s;e olde things are &s;tale and loth&s;ome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of libertie, becau&s;e we de&s;ire to goe abroad and hate &s;eruitude.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of dignitie becau&s;e we de&s;ire to triumph ouer our enemies by &s;uperioritie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 As there are 3. kinds of &s;tars &s;o there are 3 &s;orts of freinds.
<LIST>
<ITEM>One &s;orte which appeare vnto the behol|ders like &s;tarres, yet are none: (and the&s;e proc&eacute;ede of an exhalation beeing &s;et on fire:) &s;o &s;ome waiting vpon our pro&s;pe|rous fortune, &s;&eacute;eme to be our friendes, &amp; yet are not.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An other &s;orte are wandering Starres, which al&s;o haue their owne proper moti|on: &s;o &s;ome are friendes which by per|uer&s;e wil are chaunged, and become our enemies, yet he was neuer true friende which did once de&s;i&s;t fro~ being friendly. <HI>Salu&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The third &s;ort are Starres indeede, &amp; fixed Sarres: &s;o there are &s;ome con&s;tant and vnfeined.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="34">
<PB REF="34">
98 A mans anger or hatred is to be auoided 3. maner of waies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either to be a&s;&s;waged and mitigated by words.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or &s;uffred with &s;ilent patience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or e&s;chewed by ab&s;ence.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> being in the warres of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> wrote a letter vnto the Senate of Rome, touching his happy &s;ucce&s;&s;e, which letter was contained in 3. words.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Veni.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I came.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vidi.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I &s;awe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vici.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>I ouercame.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 Breuitie bringeth 3. com|modities.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It winneth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It obteineth fauour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It getteth profite.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="35">
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>THE FIRST HVNDRETH OF THE Triplicitie of Poetrie</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 It is gaine and plea&s;ure for 3. &s;ortes of men to lie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>POets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Painters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;tronomers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Thr&eacute;e things nece&s;&s;arie in a flatterer.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An impudent face.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;tedfa&s;t coulor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A changing voice.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Three things which our auu|ce&s;tors haue abhorred.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Meate twi&s;e &s;odden.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A reconciled friend.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A woman with a beard.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Three things which will not be hidden.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Straw in thy &s;hooes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;pindle in a &s;acke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A whore in a chamber.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Three &s;ortes of men we mu&s;t take hede of.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A ruddie Etalian.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A white French man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A blacke Almaine.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Three kindes of people which &s;hould not be bel&eacute;eued.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A woman when &s;he weepes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A merchant when he &s;weares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A drunken clowne when he prayeth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Thr&eacute;e &s;ignes of great pouertie in a man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A naile in the pocket,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Water in a bottle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;traw hat in winter.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Three creatures do no good in 3. places.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Knaues in a coun&s;ell chamber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Swine in a bath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dogs in a church.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>9 The world con&s;i&s;teth in the&s;e 3. things and in nothing els.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Proude mi&s;erie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Glorious vanitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sweete bitternes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="36">10 Thr&eacute;e horrible thinges are reported of the worlde.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That is the region of death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;hop of the diuel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The pri&s;on of men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Three &s;ortes of be|nefites peri&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Such as are be&s;towed vpon olde men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as are giuen to children.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They die before they haue time to quite them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They forget the~ before thei be able to requite them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dogs wil as &s;oone bark at him y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> giueth the~ meate as at &s;traungers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as are ca&s;t away vpon other mennes dogs.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Thr&eacute;e things which if a man put tru&s;t in them, will deceiue him.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Old wiues tales.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Charmes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dreames.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>13 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of things where|of there is plentie, yet in manye mens iudgement there ought to be &s;carfitie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Errors.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Euil words.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Beggers wiues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Thr&eacute;e mo&s;t filthie places.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The courte wherein a tyrant raigneth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An Inne, the ho&s;t whereof is a th&eacute;efe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A hou&s;e wherein the wife and daughters are wantons, the goodma~ knowing ther|of, and holding his peace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 Three things v&s;ed by monks which prouoke other menne to laugh at their follies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They are &s;haue~ and nocht on the head like fooles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By their apparell and going barefote, they &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eme to be beggers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They weare ropes about their middles like theeues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 A certain monke being very deuout, was accu&s;ed of incon|tinency &amp; breaking his vowe, he an&s;wered very demurely, that he had vowed 3. things: pouertie, o|bedience, and cha&s;titie, &amp; yet not at all times, and in a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l places.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pouertie, being in a bath naked, and with|out his pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Obedience, in the fields when he was alone &amp; without the companie of his betters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cha&s;titie, when he was celebrating ma&s;&s;e on the aulter, not in his chamber. This deuout monke hath many companions like him&s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="36">17 tru&s;t not thr&eacute;e things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dogs teeth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s;es F&eacute;ete.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Womens prote&s;tations.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>18 <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> &s;aide that three things were ab&s;urd.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To purge wheat from cockle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To rid vnprofitable &s;ouldiers out of the ar|mie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not to expul&s;e the enutous out of the com|mon wealth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>19 <HI>Bonifacius</HI> maintained his Popedome after the maner of 3. bea&s;tes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Entring like a foxe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Raigning like a lion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dying like a dog.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Thr&eacute;e things are very bitter.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Griefe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Death.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men which may lie by authoritie, without reprehen&s;ion.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ole men, &s;eeing no yong man can tell whe|ther it be true or no which they &s;peake.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Farre trauellers, becau&s;e rather then we will aduenture the like daungers whiche they haue pa&s;&s;ed, we beleeue that which they report.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Noble men, becau&s;e none dare be &s;o bold to controle them, &s;peake they the trueth or not.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Three things which women can doe all at once.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Spinne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>W&eacute;epe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prattle.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>23 There is &s;carcitie of 3. &s;ortes of men in our age.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of prei&s;ts, for if there were not, one &s;hould not n&eacute;ede to haue 3. or 4 benefices.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of noble men, becau&s;e citizens do a&s;pire to honour, and buy nobilitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Iewes, becau&s;e chri&s;tians make an oc|cupation of v&s;erie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="37">24 We can not knowe the au|thours of thr&eacute;e mi&s;cheifes which happen oftentimes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that is drunke can not iu&s;tly &s;ay, This cuppe of wine or that made me drunke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that walketh among thornes, &amp; is hurt, cannot declare which thorne pricked him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A common whore being with childe, know|eth not who is the father of her infant</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>25 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men are ve|ry &s;louthfull.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They that &s;it long at dinner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that lie long in bed when they &s;hold ri&s;e to their labor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that come to the Churche at the end of &s;eruice.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 <HI>George</HI> duke of <HI>Saxonie,</HI> did once boa&s;t that he had at <HI>Lip&s;ia</HI> 3. mona&s;tries, wherein were &s;uch Friers as were wondred at of all the worlde.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t, barefooted Friers, which neuer handled money, and yet did builde &s;umtu|ous hou&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd, of the order of S <HI>Paule,</HI> which had great &s;tore of corne, and &s;olde great &s;tore, and yet had no fieldes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third, of the order of S, <HI>Thomas,</HI> who were without wiues, and yet had many children of their owne.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Thr&eacute;e thinges confounde a whole multitude.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The lawiers booke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>She Phi&s;itians receiept,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The zeale of mini&s;ters.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 When an euill man dieth, there is great &s;trife.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The deuell will haue his &s;oule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His friendes the trea&s;ure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The wormes his fle&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Thr&eacute;e thinges which &s;eldom can be &s;&eacute;ene.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A broker which neuer made lie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Collier which neuer was black.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two hilles neere without a valley.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 A croked old man &s;eeketh by 3. things to increa&s;e his &s;tre~gh.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By taking his ea&s;e in a warme and &s;ofte bedde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By drinking good wine and b&eacute;ere.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By &s;itting neere the fire, where he may ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a whote pie, ro&s;ted apples, and peares, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uch like,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="37">31 Thr&eacute;e things &s;eldom brought to pa&s;&s;e. That is
<LIST>
<ITEM>An errant knaue &s;hould proue a good hou&s;|holder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;hamele&s;&s;e woman &s;hould become a mo|de&s;t matrone.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A dog being v&s;ed to eate durtie puddinges &s;hould afterward leaue and loath them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Three thinges whereof wee may hope for no goodnes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a tamed wolfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a Iewe baptized.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a theefe &s;aued from the gallowes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>33. Thr&eacute;e things are vncertaine and vncon&s;tant.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fauour of princes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The loue of women.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;hining of the &s;unne in Aprill.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Thr&eacute;e thinges which are a di&s;grace to a riche man, yet no di&s;credit to a poore man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To weare a coate of cour&s;e cloth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To haue little money in his pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To haue feathers &s;ticking in his beard.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>35 Thr&eacute;e thinges be not &s;ilent where they be.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Money in the pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wantonne&s;&s;e in hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Griefe in &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men ea&s;ilye become poore.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Tho&s;e which con&s;ume their wealth in ban|que<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing and exce&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho&s;e which are &s;lothful and idle, not ca|ring which ende goe forwarde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho&s;e which are contentious, and by &s;tri|uing in lawe, enrich the Lawier, and vn|doe them &s;elues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 Thre things are intollera|ble.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A Gentleman fallen into pouertie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A rich ru&s;ticall clowne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A woman delighting in dainties &amp; brauerie</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 Thr&eacute;e kindes of people will neuer be good.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Yong men without feare or reuerence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Maides without mode&s;tie and ba&s;hfulnes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seruants without trueth and hone&s;tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>39 Three thinges which are li|tle to be regarded.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Womens noddings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Halting dogges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Merchants othes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="38">40 Thr&eacute;e thinges which euery man ought to take heede of.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Lea&s;t he be curious when he readeth ouer other mens letters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he touch nothing in Smiths &s;hops.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he ta&s;te nothing in an Apothecaries hou&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>41 Women haue three &s;orts of teares in their eies.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t of Griefe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd of deceipte.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third of impatience.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men which are not conte~t with things pre|&s;ent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Couetous men, which alwaies looke for more gaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Curious per&s;o~s which &s;til &s;tudyfor variety.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Adulterers which alwayes hunt after new whores.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>43 A dog is to be prai&s;ed for 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For that he can cure and heale him &s;elfe with his tongue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He is a faithfull friend vnto his mai&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And he wil giue warning when any come neere the hou&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>44 There are 3. vnhappy bea&s;ts according to the olde prouerb.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A good woman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A good mule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A good Goat.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>46 A thriftie hou&s;holder &s;hould e&s;pecially take heed of 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Newe wine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Greene wood.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hote bread.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>47 He hath nothing, neither can looke any thing that is depriued of the&s;e thr&eacute;e things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Shame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Trueth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hone&s;tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>48 Three thinges are gotten without money:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Maladie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ignorance.</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">onor.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 Thr&eacute;e thinges nece&s;&s;arie for an Inne k&eacute;eper.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he be as merrie as <HI>Hector.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>That he be as pacient as <HI>Iob.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>That he be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s carefull for his gue&s;tes as <HI>Philemon.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="38">50 We may read three thinges in comodies, of the craft and &s;ub|teltie of louers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That they knowe what their meaning is, that cracke their fingers, &amp; without noi&s;e can &s;et the print of a key in waxe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That they wil come &s;neaking into a hou&s;e &amp; tread &s;oftely on their toes like th&eacute;eues, faining them&s;elues to haue other bu&s;ines there, then in truth they haue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That in the hearing of many people, they can tell a faire tale for cha&s;titie, and di&s;|prai&s;e lu&s;t vtterly.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 We may perceiue 3. great imperfections of louers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They are blinde, wanting iudgement, and &s;uffering affection to lead the~ in a &s;tring.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In a &s;mall time they loo&s;e bodie, &s;oule, welth and all.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They &s;erue filthy whores, and like oxen are con&s;trained to draw the plough.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>52 Thr&eacute;e peculiar cro&s;&s;es which do afflict louers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They liue by another bodies life.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They &s;peake in a &s;traunge language.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They can &s;ee other mens harmes, and can not perceaue their owne.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>53 Three things cannot agree with other three.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sleepe with de&s;ire to learne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riches, with prodigalitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diuine religion with humaine &s;uper|&s;tition.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 Of 3. thinges wee mu&s;t be|ware.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Too much wine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Strife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The princes anger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Three thinges wee mu&s;t e&s;|chew and flie from.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sinne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;erpent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An euil woman.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 Three things are not worth a fleece of wooll.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A Popes bull.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A dead mans &s;kull.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An olde trull.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 Three things as whole&s;ome as medicines for the bodie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Running.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Walking.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Reading with a loude voic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="39">58 Beautie cau&s;eth 3. thinges.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gazers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Louers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Theeues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>59 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men mo&s;t me|ry, mo&s;t free, mo&s;t mad.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Prie&s;ts are mo&s;t merie. who at burials doe &s;ing when other folke weepe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Phi&s;itions are mo&s;t free, vnto whom it is lawfull onely to kill men, and though it be death to other men to commit murder yet it getteth them rewardes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grammarians are mo&s;t mad, who hauing neither &s;kill in pro&s;e nor ver&s;e, yet when they looke vpon other mens works, they will &s;&eacute;eme as though they could &s;&eacute;e verie far in a mil&s;tone.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>60 Three things wil not endure long.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Con&s;trained loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Painting which women lay on their faces</ITEM>
<ITEM>Counterfect coine.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>61 Women are not to be bel&eacute;e|ued at three times.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When they w&eacute;epe: for they haue taught their eyes how to gu&s;h out with teares at their plea&s;ure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they faine them&s;elues to be &s;ick, we we &s;hould not giue the~ credit til we &s;aw they were dead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they &s;ay that they are not hungry, if they bring not their trencher &amp; eate, wee mu&s;t either bel&eacute;eue that they haue dined in the kitchin, or el&s;e haue &s;et vp a dainty mor&s;ell for them&s;elues.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>62 Three &s;hort times &s;eeme ve|ry long to &s;ome.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The night &s;eemeth long vnto him, who&s;e be&s;t beloued hath broken promi&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The day &s;&eacute;emeth long vnto them that owe a daies worke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The yere &s;emeth tedious vnto tho&s;e childre~ who&s;e mother doth abridge their liberty.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 A hu&s;band is forbidden thre daies of fa&s;ting.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When the wife is gone to the bath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When he hath wel beate~ hir, &amp; &s;he is angry</ITEM>
<ITEM>When &s;he is abroad at good chears with her go&s;&s;ips.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="39">64 You may knowe good wine by 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The coulor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;mell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The ta&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>65 A maker of cleere &s;pectacles did complain that his arte was not &s;o gainful as it had bene be|fore times, &amp; that for 3. cau&s;es,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e olde monkes and prie&s;ts could &s;ay their prayers without booke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They were to daintie ware for rude fol|lowes to meddle withall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kings and Princes can &s;&eacute;e through their fingers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>66 Three di&s;ea&s;es which can not be helped.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The gnawing of enuie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The heate of loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;ting of the con&s;cience.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>67 Thr&eacute;e thinges which wee mu&s;t not hope to obtaine after certaine times.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Beautie after the age of twentie yeares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Strength after the age ot thirtie yeares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Riches after the age of three &s;core yeares.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>68 Thr&eacute;e things make a man circum&s;pect and carefull.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The loue he beareth to his wife and chil|dren.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Want of friendes and money.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The iniquitie of times.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 Princes haue prerogatiue in 3. things. aboue other men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When they are drunke, their familiars &s;ay they are mery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If they be blacke, they are &s;aide to bee brown<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whe~ they be fooles, they are called hone&s;t, &s;imple and innocent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>70 <HI>Crates</HI> the <HI>Theban</HI> &s;ayeth, that there are thr&eacute;e medicins for &s;uch as be in loue.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hunger,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hunger cureth loue, for loue quaileth when good cheare faileth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Time.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Time will either mitigate &amp; a&s;&s;wage loue, or end it,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A halter.
<LIST>
<ITEM>If the&s;e two will not cure this maladie, yet will a hal|ter helpe pre&s;ently this in|firmitie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="40">71 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men for the mo&s;t part are great babblers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Barbers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bathk&eacute;e|pers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The rea&s;on is, becau&s;e they heare mariners, &s;oldiers, and other extrauagant fellowes, reciting manye &s;trange and &s;undrie tales, that being as it were infected with their talk, they become great bab|lers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;intners</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>72 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of egges are ac|counted for good.
<LIST>
<ITEM>White.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Long.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Egges.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Newe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>73 Three &s;ortes of men deceiue vs in &s;hew.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Such as weare long kniues, and yet be no Cookes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Maides y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> haue their haire hanging down, yet being no virgins.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such as haue &s;hauen crownes, and bee no prie&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>74 We labor in vaine with 3. &s;ortes of men.
<LIST>
<ITEM>By mini&s;tring a medicine to a dead man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By admoni&s;hing an olde man that is ob&s;ti|nate in his opinions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In wa&s;hing an Ethiopian.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 We may take example by 3. &s;orts of men which hazard the~|&s;elues in daunger, and often pe|ri&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The be&s;t &s;wimmers are drowned.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t climbers do fal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The be&s;t fen&s;ers are wounded.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 Three &s;ortes of people, from whom we mu&s;t flie as from the diuel.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A wilde and vnruly monke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A meale mouthed flatterer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A crafty olde witch.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>77 Three &s;ortes of men which will trouble them&s;elues when they may liue without care.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The prince that will proclaime war when he may liue in peace.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that hauing a barren wife, will increa&s;e his well gotten goods with fraud and v|&s;urie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A man of 70. yeares of age, that will leade with him a &s;pringhall of 18. yeares olde.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="40">78 Thr&eacute;e gue&s;ts which are fir&s;t at a banquet.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Flies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dogs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Flatterers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>79 We mu&s;t not beleeue three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The incon&s;tant win<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our deceitfull dreames.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That our pro&s;peritie will continue.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>80 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of liuing crea|tures haue very good eie &s;ight.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Eagle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;potted bea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The curious per&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>81 <HI>He&s;iodus</HI> &s;aith, that hee had n&eacute;ede of three things that wil ex|pell pouertie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An Oxe to till the ground.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82 Thr&eacute;e thinges to be noted in a pecocke.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He is clothed like an Angell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He walketh like a th&eacute;efe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He crieth like a deuill.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 All creatures do daily preach the&s;e 3. le&s;&s;ons vnto man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Receiue a good turne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Giue that vnto others which is due to the~.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Flie puni&s;hment.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 Thr&eacute;e things to be auoided, of which we &s;hold not hope wel.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An incon&s;tant minde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A rowling eie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>F&eacute;ete readie to runne to doe mi&s;chiefe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>85 <HI>Regiomontanus</HI> an excellent A&s;tonomer, being a&s;ked on a time which were the be&s;t &s;ignes for a ma~ to know whe~ he &s;hould take his iorney, an&s;wered.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A good hor&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Money in the pur&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Good companions.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>86 Thr&eacute;e proud creatures.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A knaue &s;itting in a chaire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A queane riding in a charriot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A ramping lou&s;e in a &s;cabbed head.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>87 Thr&eacute;e faults in maids which play with euill neighbours.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They bewray our &s;ecrets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They &s;ell vnto them the goodes they haue &s;tolen from vs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They are gadding abroad in the night.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="41">88 Thr&eacute;e thinges being in the hou&s;e, maides wi&s;he out of the hou&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An angrie mai&s;tre&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Smoke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A broken di&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 An a&s;&s;e doth 3. filthy things not without commoditie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Where he doeth file, there he dongeth the ground.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Where he doth pi&s;&s;e, he watars y^e ground.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Where he tumbleth he breaketh the clods.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thr&eacute;e things are &s;it for an a&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fodder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stripes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Burdens.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 Thr&eacute;e thinges are alwayes good cheape.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Earth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Worces.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lies.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>91 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men ought to be very vigilant.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pa&s;tours to their flockes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pilats to their &s;hippes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Portors to their gates.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 Whoe&s;oeuer will retaine a Lawier, and lawfully &s;eeke his owne right, mu&s;t bee furni&s;hed with 3. pucket<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the fir&s;t pocket he mu&s;t haue his decla|rations and certificats, wherewith he may &s;hewe his right.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the &s;econd pocket he mu&s;t haue his redd rudduckes ready, which he mu&s;t giue vn|to his Laweir, who will not &s;et penne to paper without them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the third pocket he mu&s;t haue patience: which mu&s;t &s;tand him in &s;teade when his Laweirs doe delay him, and when &s;en|tence pa&s;&s;eth again&s;t him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>93 Louers are &s;laues vnto death for lu&s;tes &s;ake, and doe de&s;pi&s;e 3. things which maintaine life.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They &s;uffer hunger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They continue thir&s;tie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They pa&s;&s;e the night in thoughtes without &s;l&eacute;epe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 Euery flower hath the&s;e 3. things naturally.
<LIST>
<ITEM>His blo&s;&s;ome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His &s;auour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His &s;appe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="41">95 A certaine hor&s;e|cour&s;er &s;old a hor&s;e, &amp; whe~ he had receiued ready mony, the bui|erwould n&eacute;eds know of him what faultes the hor&s;e had. The hor&s;ecour&s;er an&s;we|red that he had thr&eacute;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That he would not clim tr&eacute;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That he would not &s;wallow i+ron.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Well, quoth the buier, then he wil &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oyle no crowes nea&s;tes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He &s;hall n&eacute;ede no iron, for h&eacute;e &s;hall haue haye &amp; pro|uender inough.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In his iournie home|ward hee perceiued y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his hor&s;e woulde not goe ouer woodden brides.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That hee coulde not away with the iron bit.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That hee fell often, and yet quicklye for|gat his fals, whereby hee had triall of the hor&s;ecour&s;ers hone&s;|tie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>I will not com|mit my bu&s;ine&s;&s;e vnto him, but di&s;|pach it my &s;elfe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>That he was to for getfull.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>96 Thr&eacute;e thinges very nece&s;&s;ary in a fen&s;er.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A quick eye.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;trong arme.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;tout hart.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 Thr&eacute;e thinges are very hard and difficult.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To cau&s;e a woman take penance patiently when &s;he hath de&s;erued.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To cau&s;e an old doting foole to reforme his maners.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To teach on a&s;&s;e mu&s;icke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>98 An Epitaph worthy memo|rie con&s;i&s;ting of 3. parts.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>O man thou &s;ee&s;t what I am.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thou knowe&s;t what I haue bene.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Now thinke what thou &s;halt be thy &s;elfe.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 A ploughman gaue 3. le&s;&s;ons vnto his &s;onne.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Be holy in Lent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Be painfull in harue&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Be merry at Chri&s;tmas.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 Thr&eacute;e things by no meanes tollerable.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A long tongue in a fooles head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A loo&s;e life in a godly profe&s;&s;or.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A proud hart and a beggars pur&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="42">
<HEAD>THE SECOND HVNDRETH OF THE Triplicitie of Poetrie.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 It is not good to brag of thr&eacute;e things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>THat thou ha&s;t good wine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A faire wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plentie of money.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Thr&eacute;e things agree not well.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A litle hor&s;e and a heauie man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that is thir&s;tie with a little pot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An auncient man and a young wife.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 A man maye do three thinges without learning them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Laugh.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Weepe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sleepe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 A man mu&s;t not make choi&s;e of 3 things in 3, places.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a wife in we&s;tmin|&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a &s;eruant in Paules.
<LIST>
<ITEM>lea&s;t he chu&s;e a quean a knaue or a iade.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a hor&s;e in Smith|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">eld.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 Three thinges make a man ga&s;pe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>La&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An emptie belly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Want of mirth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 A man mu&s;t not be too ha&s;tie in lending three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>His &s;word.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>His hor&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 A vine bringeth foorth three grapes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t of plea&s;ure.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd of drunkennes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The third of &s;orrow.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 Three &s;houlde be alwaies at home.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The henne roo&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The catte.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The good wife.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="42">9 Three are not without &s;pot or blemi&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A potter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">le of a cart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He which frequenteth euil companie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Three maner of &s;ages.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;age hearbe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;age &s;oole.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Who &s;o for wi&s;e him&s;elfe doth ac|cept.</ITEM>
<ITEM>May match with &s;age, the &s;age wi&s;e accept.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;age wi&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 Women de&s;ire three things chiefly.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To be gorgeou&s;ly apparelled.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be e&s;t&eacute;emed faire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To go whither they lu&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Three occa&s;ions that manye times moue debate.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To talke with him that is angrie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;end him of an arrand that is wearie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To wake a man out of his &s;leepe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>13 All the gue&s;tes pre&s;ent at a banquet, &s;hould haue one of the properties belonging to certain letters.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some of which &s;ort are olde men: &s;houlde be like vowels, which make a full &s;ounde by them&s;elues, &s;o olde men among them|&s;elues, &s;hould be the authors of talke and communication.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some of which &s;ort are women: &s;hould bee like &s;emiuocales, otherwi&s;e called halfe vowels, which h aue libertie to &s;peak, but not aloud like vowels, but &s;oftly not &s;ou~|ding their words.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some of which &s;ort are boies and virgins, &s;hould be mute like mutes which yeelde no perfect &s;ound without a vowell, nor they talke vnle&s;&s;e they be &s;poken vnto, by their betters.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 Three things are &s;aide to b&eacute;e nece&s;&s;arie for him that is a &s;tu|dent in the law.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An iron head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A pur&s;e ful of gold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A leaden taile.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 There are 3. &s;ortes of cun|ning beggers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Min&s;trels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Enterlude players.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iuglers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="43">16 A good hor&s;e &s;houlde haue 15. properties, that is to wit, 3. of a man, 3. of a woman, 3. of a foxe, 3. of a h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re, and 3. of an A&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bolde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Proude.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hardie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of a hare&punc;
<LIST>
<ITEM>A great eye.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A drie head.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Well running.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a woman.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faire bre&s;ted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faire of haire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ea&s;ie to leape vpon.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of an A&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A bigge chine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A flat legge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A good hoofe,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a foxe.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A faire taile.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Short eares.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A good trot.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 The&s;e will neuer accorde in one.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Two wiues in one hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two cattes and one mou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two dogs and one bone.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>18 Three &s;ortes of &s;au&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;auce of meat is hunger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;auce of loue, beautie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;auce of frend&s;hih, gentle wordes and curteous behauiour.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>19 Three occupations whereof there are many theeues. of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Weauers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Millers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tailers</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 Three thinges are able too make a rich man poore.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A proude wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> wide hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd a back doore.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 Three &s;ortes of men di&s;po&s;e of all our goods.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The goods of the minde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The goods of the bodie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Incon&s;tant diuines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;n&s;kilful Phi&s;itions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Couetous Lawiers.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The goods of fortune.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 Thr&eacute;e things nece&s;&s;arie for a Scholler.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A wil.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A witte.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A booke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="43">23 There was a kind of daun|cing v&s;ed among y^e <HI>Lacedemoni|ans,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of 3. ages, &amp; euerie age v&s;ed to &s;ing a &s;euerall &s;ong.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Children,</HI> they &s;ang, We &s;hal be men and &s;trong one day.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Olde men,</HI> they &s;ang, We haue b&eacute;ene men and &s;trong.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Men of middle age,</HI> they &s;ang, We are men and &s;trong: for that which children hope for, and olde men haue lo&s;t, we enioy and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 Thr&eacute;e litle creatures are al|waies eating.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Children.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chickins.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whelpes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>25 Three places at London, wherein 3. notable vices raigne.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the Royall exchange.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In Pauls
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;&s;urie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Simonie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Briberie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>In We&s;tmin&s;ter hall.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of liuing crea|tures, which who &s;o loueth not one of them, &s;emeth not worthy to be called by the name of a ma~ in a mery mans iudgement.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faire whelpes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faire hor&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faire women.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 Thr&eacute;e bea&s;ts are comely in their going.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A lion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A grayhound.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A goate.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 &V;nto 3. &s;ortes of men &s;ome things are a di&s;honor &s;ometimes and &s;ometimes not.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Few burials are no di&s;credite to a Phi&s;iti|on, but many are.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cha&s;ti&s;ements are both honor and di&s;ho|nor to a Prince.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is not infamous to a &s;ouldier to be wou~|ded in the face, but to be hurt in y^e backe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>29 Thr&eacute;e &s;euerall daies in thr&eacute;e &s;undrie monethes, wherein it is not whole &s;ome to bee let blood, nor to eate goo&s;e fle&s;h.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t day of may.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The la&s;t day of Aprill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The la&s;t day of September.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 Thr&eacute;e intollerable creatures
<LIST>
<ITEM>A &s;eruant when he raigneth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>A hateful woman when &s;he is married.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A maid that is heire to her mi&s;tre&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="44">31 It is no playing with three lea&s;t ie&s;t turne to earne&s;t.
<LIST>
<ITEM>With fooles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With mightier men then our &s;elues.</ITEM>
<ITEM>With vntamed bea&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 Three things are ami&s;&s;e in Princes courtes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>They which haue but a bad place, are cau|&s;ed to remoue further from the fire.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which are mo&s;t hungrie, haue lea&s;t meat &s;et before them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They which &s;it lowe&s;t at the table, are &s;oo|ne&s;t called from their meate.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>33 He is worthie to haue the ble&s;&s;ing of the gallowes
<LIST>
<ITEM>That buildes his hou&s;e all of fallowes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That pricketh a blind hor&s;e ouer y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fallows</ITEM>
<ITEM>That &s;uffereth his wife to &s;eeke many hal|lowes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>34 Thr&eacute;e &s;mal bea&s;tes are full of wi&s;edome.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The bee</ITEM>
<ITEM>The emef.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;pider.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>35 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of people in re|&s;pect of v&s;e, in nece&s;&s;itie may b&eacute;e accounted good.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Schollers, for they may &s;erue in the prie&s;ts places when they are dead.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;irgins, which may &s;upplie in place after men haue buried their wiues.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Merchants for they may play the v&s;erers in &s;tead of the Iewes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>36 <HI>Socrates</HI> maketh mention of 3. &s;ortes of idle per&s;ons.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t &s;ort are &s;uch as &s;pend their whole time in dicing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd &s;ort are of tho&s;e which con&s;ume their life in eating and drinking fro~ mor|ning till night.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The thirde &s;orte are &s;uch as followe filthie whores, and walke in the woods.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 Three thinges many a man beguiles.
<LIST>
<ITEM>E&s;&s;ex miles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kenti&s;h &s;tiles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Norfolke wiles.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>38 Three things who&s;e endes are inglorious.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of March flowers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a wanton maid.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of a prie&s;t that delighteth in warre.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="44">39 It is a &s;hame for a man to take a fall 3. maner of waies,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To fall in the plaine high way.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To take a foyle in woing a wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To take a fal in the &s;ight of many from the hor&s;eback, which in riding on thou toke&s;t a pri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>40 They which are troubled w^t the goute, haue 3. thinges which they haue not.
<LIST>
<ITEM>When they mu&s;t eate, they haue handes and on handes, becau&s;e they haue no v&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>When they mu&s;t walke, they haue f&eacute;et and no feete becau&s;e they cannot goe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They haue rea&s;on to &s;&eacute;eke after remedye, but want it, to endure &s;uch paine as ten|deth to the cure of their di&s;ea&s;e,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>41 Thr&eacute;e rea&s;ons alledged by 3. <HI>Romane</HI> matrones, why after the death of their fir&s;t hu&s;bands, they would not marrie <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t was <HI>Marchia,</HI> who being a&s;ked why &s;he would not take another hu&s;band, aun&s;wered, &s;he found none that would haue her for her per&s;on, but mary her for her mo|ney.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd <HI>Valeria,</HI> who being demaun|ded why &s;he did not mary again, an&s;we|red, that &s;he could not, becau&s;e her hu&s;band was not dead, but liuing: for &s;o long as &s;he liued, her hu&s;band liued al&s;o together with her in her hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The 3. <HI>Amnia,</HI> with whome when her pa|rentes were in&s;tant to marry again (being yong and rich) an&s;wered that &s;he could not hauing had a good hu&s;band, and therefore taking another, either he &s;hould be good or euill, if he were good &s;he &s;hould alwaies be in feare to loo&s;e him: if euill, alwaies agr&eacute;e|ued that it was her chaunce in choice to haue changed for the wor&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>42 Thr&eacute;e things in the be|ginning are ea&s;y, which af|terward appeare very dif|ficult to remedy.
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is an ea&s;ie matter to ca&s;t fire into any place, but veie hard to quench it being kindled.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is an ea&s;ie matter to moue debate, but hard to reconcile men being at varience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is an ea&s;y matter to turne ouer money by ex|change, but a hard matter to come out of debt.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="45">43 Three things are requi&s;it at 3: times of the yeare.
<LIST>
<ITEM>At Cri&s;tmas great loaues.</ITEM>
<ITEM>At Lent cleane &s;oules</ITEM>
<ITEM>At Whit&s;ontide newe clothes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>44 Thr&eacute;e thinges to be noted in a wedding ring.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That it be of golde, for as gold is the be&s;t mettall, &s;o the loue betweene man and wife, is the deare&s;t loue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That it be round, y^t is without end, wher|by is meant, that loue &s;hould not cea&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That it be put on y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> 4, finger &s;ignif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing har|ty loue, for the phi&s;itions &s;ay that a veine in that finger commeth from the heart.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>45 Thr&eacute;e cau&s;es why Prie&s;tes haue &s;hrewder wiues for the mo&s;t part, then their neighbors
<LIST>
<ITEM>That &s;&eacute;eing they are &s;o readie to reprooue other mens vices abroad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, their wiues might reprehend their faultes at home.</ITEM>
<ITEM>They that being exerci&s;ed with patience at home, may learne to &s;uffer more ea&s;ily common troubles abroade.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prei&s;tes de&s;erue to haue &s;hrowd wiues, for that they chu&s;e to marry the faire&s;t, which commonly are &s;hrewe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>46 Thr&eacute;e things of their owne accord in a&s;ce~ding vani&s;h away
<LIST>
<ITEM>Smoke, the higher it mounteth, the &s;ooner it vani&s;heth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wicked men, the higher they climbe, the greater they fall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;ong begun in a note to high, cau&s;eth the voice to faile or end in <HI>la, mi.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 Three things are ea&s;ily lo&s;t but neuer got again.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A word &s;poken.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;irginitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Time</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>48 Thr&eacute;e things verye requi&s;it in a Chirurgian.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A haukes eie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A lions hart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A ladies hand.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>49 Thr&eacute;e thinges change the nature and condition of man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dignitie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wine</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="45">50 Three things make vs wan|ton and &s;hamele&s;&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Night.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Night hath no &s;hame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue hath no rea&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wine hath no &s;eace.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wine.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>51 Three things makes a man wearie of his hou&s;e, and often of his life.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Smoke&punc;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Raine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A cur&s;t wife.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>52
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cut candle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breake cole.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Was neuer good hu&s;band, nor good hu&s;bands friend.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Set &s;ticke on end.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>53 Three mo&s;t odious creaturs.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A begger proud.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A rich man a lyer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An olde man lecherous.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>54 He that &s;&eacute;eketh the&s;e things may be deceaued.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loialtie and truth in a flatterer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A fine wit in a fat belly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;ertue in all euill companie.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>55 Three things very harde or not at all to be found.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A hare without a mu&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A fenne without a &s;lu&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A whore without a &s;cu&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>56 Three things are very diffi|cult.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To carrie water in a &s;iue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To roote out a vice which hath bene graf|ted of long time in a mans mind.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To make women good with &s;tripes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>57 One repenteth no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to haue obeyed. 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The truth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Good coun&s;ell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Cocke crowing early in a morning.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>58 Three creatures &s;ee cleerely in the night.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Owle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The night rauen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Wea&s;ell.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>59 Three liuing things that ex|cell man in the &s;en&s;e of &s;melling
<LIST>
<ITEM>A vulture.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A hound.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;owe.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="46">60 There are 3. dayes, as &s;aith S. <HI>Bede,</HI> on which who&s;eoeuer is borne, his fle&s;h &s;hall neuer rotte.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The 12 of Ianuarie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The 24&punc; of March,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The 28. of March.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>61 Thr&eacute;e thinges the elder they bee, the more delight we take in them.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Olde wine to drinke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Olde Bookes to reade in.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Olde freindes to be conuer&s;ant withall.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>62 Thr&eacute;e true tokens to knowe a foole by.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To be angrie too much without a cau&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To laugh without mea&s;ure vpon no occa|&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To reprehend other mens faultes, and will not &s;ee his owne.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>63 There are 3. &s;ortes of men generally.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t &s;ort are of &s;uch as haue learning but want di&s;cretion and wi&s;edome. For according to the prouerbe. The greate&s;t clarkes be not the wi&s;e&s;t men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Another &s;ort are of tho&s;e which haue no ler+ning, but by experience haue obtained prudence and wi&s;edome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The 3 &s;ort are of tho&s;e which haue neither learning nor di&s;cretion, &amp; they are &s;tarke fooles.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>64 The inuention of 3. thinges is wondefull.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The inuention of gunnes and gunpouder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The making of gla&s;&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Printing of bookes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>65 Thr&eacute;e things in a man which may be likened vnto 3. things in a Smithes &s;hop.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To wit a &s;tith<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The tongue, to a hammer</ITEM>
<ITEM>Learning to a gad of &s;teele.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>66 Thr&eacute;e doubtfull que&s;tions, which none but <HI>Salomon</HI> coulde re&s;olue.
<LIST>
<ITEM>What was mo&s;t plea&s;ant &amp; &s;w&eacute;et in mans life? He an&s;wered A quiet minde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What meat was mo&s;t fit for infants? He aun&s;wered, No meate better agreeing with a childes nature then his owne mo|thers milke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What was the fitte&s;t place for achild to be repo&s;ed in, and to take his re&s;t? He an&s;we|red the mothers bo&s;ome.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="46">67 There are three cau&s;es why old men loue their goods &s;o wel.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e they think it a great matter to be reported to die rich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The memorie of the actions of their youth, &amp; the infirmities of their pre&s;ent age, ma|keth them &s;o il co~tented, y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> they are care|le&s;&s;e to prouide for death which they &s;ee euen before their eies, looking to liue &s;til to inioy their goods, till death part the in both a&s;under.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e they had rather leaue the~ to their enimies being dead, the~ in their life time be in danger to their friends for them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>68 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men may be &s;orie though they &s;ay nought.
<LIST>
<ITEM>He that &s;pendeth much &amp; getteth nought.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that oweth much and hath nought.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> looketh in his pur&s;e &amp; findeth nought.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>69 Thr&eacute;e cau&s;es why louers di&s;|cerne not the fault<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r friendes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e their aflection hath ouermai&s;tred their rea&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e they wil not &s;uffer their fan&s;ies to be controle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by other mens wils.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e (according to the Philo&s;ophers) al great motions hinder tho&s;e that be le&s;&s;e: but loue hauing occupied the chiefe and mo&s;t principal motions of the &s;pirit, tro|bleth the vertue and originall of the &s;en|&s;es, the &s;ame being the cau&s;e (with <HI>Plato</HI> whye louers are made blinde with the &s;ight of their Ladies, and according to the &s;ame the Poets haue fained <HI>Cupid</HI> with|out eyes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>70 For 3. cau|&s;es we &s;uffer the lo&s;&s;e of 3. things to our great di&s;|content<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ent.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of our wealth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of our honour.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e being once lo&s;t, we &s;eldome recouer it againe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e hee that hath lo&s;te his good name is ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le hanged.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Becau&s;e wee maye a&s;&s;ure our &s;elues that we &s;hall neuer enioy life againe after he we once dead.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of our life.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>71 There are 3. &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ing hornes to plucke on a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A beautiful face in the wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A ielous head in her hu&s;band.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A wanton eye in a louer.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="47">72 There are 3. very vigilant bea&s;ts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A goo&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A cocke.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Theeues on a night had &s;toln Iupiter had a goo&s;e not a keaked.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Germans</HI> v&s;e to carie their cocks with them to the warres, to the end by their crowing, they may know how the day pa&s;&s;eth away.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For he will wind a th&eacute;efe and bewray him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>A dogge.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>73 Thr&eacute;e things bite &s;ore.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An olde dogge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A hungrie flie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An &V;&s;urer.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>74 He were be&s;t to go where no man knoweth him.
<LIST>
<ITEM>That &s;weareth till no man tru&s;t him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That lyeth till no man beleeueth him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That boroweth till no man wil lend him.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>75 Three conditions of Abbey lubbers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To labour till they are a cold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To eate till they &s;weate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To lye in bed till their bones ake.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>76 There are 3. dangers of the world.
<LIST>
<ITEM>To ride on a fierce hor&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;aile on the &s;ea.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To liue vnder a tyrant.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>77 Thr&eacute;e &s;ortes of men which are &s;eldome &s;&eacute;ene, and hard to be found.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A friend in aduer&s;itie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>An olde tyrant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A lawyer that will take no bribes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>78 Thr&eacute;e things will not proue well without beating.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A walnut tr&eacute;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An a&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A woman</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>79 Honours change maners in 3. &s;ortes of men.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Merchantes,</HI> becau&s;e they forget that euer they were apprenti&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prie&s;tes,</HI> becau&s;e they forget that euer they were pari&s;h clarkes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Magi&s;trates,</HI> becau&s;e they are vnmindfull that they were priuate men.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 Three trades of life which may trauell without a pa&s;&s;eport
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pedlers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tinkers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Min&s;trels.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="47">81 There are 3. vnlucky bea&s;ts which doe portend and fore&s;hew of mi&s;chiefe en&s;uing.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A howling dog.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;critching owle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A croking rauen.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>82. Mens iudge|me~ts differ much in the&s;e 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bookes.
<LIST>
<ITEM>For one &s;aith, this booke is too long, another too &s;hort, the 3. of due length, &amp; for fine phra&s;e and &s;tile, the like that booke was not made a great while. It is al lies &s;aid an other, y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> booke is &s;tarke naught.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For concerning the qualities of wine, men are diuer&s;ly affected. Ah, this is a hard wine quoth one, it is too &s;w&eacute;et in my opinion &s;ayde another: nay, nay quoth the 3. ma~, it is &s;harpe and piercing me thinkes. It is a cup of neate wine &s;aid the owner. I &s;aid another, it hath a good &s;macke of the ca&s;ke, it will do a man as much good in his &s;hooes, as in his belly.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For ch&eacute;e&s;e hath diuers ta&s;tes in &s;euerall mens mouthes. He &s;aith it is too &s;alt, he &s;aith it is fre&s;h, he &s;aith it is too hard, hee &s;aieth it is too new. It is too &s;trong of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> runnet &s;aith he It is &s;aith another not &s;trong enough for me. It is &s;aid one as good as can bee: Hereof no two of any ten can agr&eacute;e. So that, <HI>No booke, no wine, no chee&s;e, be it good or bad: but prai&s;e and di&s;prai&s;e it hath, and hath had.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chee&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>83 Thr&eacute;e things of &s;mall conti|nuance.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A wonder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;aineglorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The remembrance of a &s;traunger.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>84 There is great folly &s;hewed in the&s;e three things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In fi&s;hing before the net.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In vaunting before the victorie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In reckoning without the ho&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>85 It is no d&eacute;ede of charitie to giue any thing vnto thr&eacute;e &s;orts of beggers.
<LIST>
<ITEM>&V;nto counterfect beggers, which &s;ay they are lame &amp; di&s;ea&s;ed, when it is neither &s;o nor &s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nto couetons beggers, which hauing their bottell and di&s;h filled with drinke, and their &s;crippe and wallet &s;tuffed with victuals, yet they will craue at the next doore they come at.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nto proude beggers which will take not kinde of almes but money.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="48">86 Thr&eacute;e things are proud in 3. places.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A cocke on his dunghill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A dog at his mai&s;ters doore.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The good wife at home among her maides.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>87 A man n&eacute;ed not go a borow|ing to his neighbours that hath the&s;e 3.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A litle land wel tilde.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A litle hou&s;e wel fild.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A litle w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e wel wild.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>88 Thr&eacute;e of the greate&s;t bea&s;ts are afraid of 3. very &s;mal bea&s;ts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The lyon of the cocke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The eagle of the b&eacute;etle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The whale of the &s;wordfi&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>89 Thr&eacute;e &s;orts of men are like|ned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nto 3. kind of bea&s;ts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The flatterer with the Cameleon, for as a Cameleon can turne him&s;elfe into al co|lors &s;aue white, &s;o wil a flatterer change him&s;elfe into al hewes &s;aue hone&s;tie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The backbiter vnto the ba&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">li&s;ke: for as the ba&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">li&s;ke doth kil a man a far of by &s;ight, &s;o a &s;launderer doth kill a man a far of be hind his backe with his tongue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The enuious man vnto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he &V;iper: for as y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &V;iper doth kil her dam by gnawing out her guts, &amp; afterward doth &s;ting &amp; poy&s;on others, &s;o enuy doth co~&s;ume him in who~ it is bred, &amp; afterward hurteth others.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>90 A birchin broome con&s;i&s;teth of 3. things fit for correction.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Twigges, belonging to Scholema&s;ters for the correction of &s;mal offences.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;taffe, belonging to ma&s;ters for the puni|&s;hing of greater faults.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A with, belonging to magi&s;trates for the execution of traitors, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elons, murtherers, and &s;uch like.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>91 Thr&eacute;e things are very ea&s;ie.
<LIST>
<ITEM>An ea&s;ie thing to finde a &s;taffe to beate a dog.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An ea&s;ie matter for him that is willing to inuent an excu&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An ea&s;ie matter to giue good coun&s;ell.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>92 Thr&eacute;e things are directed by de&s;tinie
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wedding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hanging.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thriuing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="48">93 Thr&eacute;e &s;till things are dange|rous for the mo&s;t part.
<LIST>
<ITEM>A &s;till fellow, for he commonly is &s;ubtill and craftie.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;till water which is d&eacute;epe, and therefore dangerous.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;till &s;owe, for &s;he will eat vp all the draff.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>94 Thr&eacute;e things to be auoyded by a wi&s;e man.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hope of things impo&s;&s;ible.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sorrowe, for things vnrecouerable.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Feare, of things ineuitable.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>95 Thr&eacute;e thinges can &s;uffer no fellow&s;hip.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Loue, for a louer hates his corriuall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord&s;hip, for honor is impatie~t of comp&eacute;ere.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An Hermite, for he &s;&eacute;eketh to abandon the company of men by &s;&eacute;eking de&s;art places.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>96 The Papi&s;ts did v&s;e to cur&s;e with 3. things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Booke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Candle.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>97 Thr&eacute;e thinges are d&eacute;erelye bought.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wit gotten by experience.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fame wonne by death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>That which is obtained by praier &amp; reque&s;t for one man cannot entreat another with out ba&s;hfulnes or blu&s;hing.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>98 Thr&eacute;e thinges are not to bee regarded.
<LIST>
<ITEM>The great vanities we &s;&eacute;e with our eyes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The great wonders we heare w^t our eares</ITEM>
<ITEM>Great &s;orrow when we conceaue it in our mindes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>99 There are three very &s;trong things.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gold, for there is no place inuincible, where in an a&s;&s;e laden with gold may not enter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Loue, becau&s;e it prouoketh vs to aduenture our goods, life, renowme and all.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Labor, becau&s;e it ouercommeth all thinges.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>100 God made 3. places for 3. purpo&s;es.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Heauen, for the good.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hell, for the wicked.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Earth, for both.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>Deo trino &amp; vni &s;it laus, honor, &amp; gloria. Amen.</TRAILER>
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