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walitches.

HE Law againft Witches does not

be any; but it punishes the Malice of thofe People, that ufe fuch means, to take away Men's Lives. If one should profefs that by turning his Hat thrice, and crying Buz, he could take away a Man's Life (though in truth he could do no fuch thing) yet this were a juft Law made by the State, that whofo. ever should turn his Hat thrice, and cry Buz, with an intention to take away a Man's Life, fhall be put to death.

artife.

1. E that hath a handfome Wife, by other Men

"H is thought happy; 'tis a Pleasure to look up

on her, and be in her Company; but the Husband is cloy'd with her. We are never content with what we have.

2. You fhall fee a Monkey fometimes, that has been playing up and down the Garden, at length leap up to the top of the Wall, but his Clog hangs a great way below on this fide; the Bishop's Wife is like that Monkey's Clog, himself is got up very high, takes place of the Temporal Barons, but his Wife comes a great way behind.

3. 'Tis reafon a Man that will have a Wife fhould be at the Charge of her Trinkets, and pay all the Scores fhe fets on him. He that will keep a Monkey, 'tis fit he should pay for the Glaffes he breaks.

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Wife Man fhould never refolve upon any thing, at leaft never let the World know his Refolution, for if he cannot arrive at that, he is afham'd. How many things did the King refolve in his Declaration concerning Scotland, never to do, and yet did them all? A Man muft do according to Accidents and Emergencies.

2. Never tell your Refolution beforehand; but when the Caft is thrown, play it as well as you can to win the Game you are at. 'Tis but folly to ftudy how to play Size-ace, when you know not whether you fhall throw it or no.

3. Wife Men fay nothing in dangerous time. The Lion you know call'd the Sheep, to afk her if his Breath fmelt; fhe faid, Ay; he bit off her Head for a Fool: He call'd the Wolf and afk'd him; he said no; he tore him in pieces for a Flatterer: At last he call'd the Fox and ask'd him; truly he had got a Cold and could not smell. King James was pictured, &c.

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Wfudden turn, Wifdom is in bringing about

'IT Wifdom differ; Wit is upon the

ends.

2. Nature must be the ground-work of Wit and Art; otherwife whatever is done will prove but Jack-pudding's work.

3. Wit muft grow like Fingers; if it be taken from others, 'tis like Plums fluck upon black Thorns; there they are for a while, but they come to nothing.

4. He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get Money may be rich; fo he that lets fly all he knows or thinks, may by chance be Satyrically Witty. Honefly fometimes keeps a Man from growing Rich; and Civility from being Witty.

5. Women ought not to know their own Wit, becaufe they will fill be fhewing it, and fo fpoil it; like a Child that will continually be fhewing its fine new Coat, till at length it all bedawbs it with its pah Hands.

6. Fine Wits deftroy themselves with their own Plots, in medling with great Affairs of State. They commonly do as the Ape that faw the Gunner put Bullets in the Cannon, and was pleas'd with it, and he would be doing so too; at last he puts himself into the Piece, and fo both Ape and Bullet were fhot away together.

atomen.

1. LET the Women bave power of their heads, because of the Angels. The reason of the Words because of the Angels, is this; The Greek Church held an Opinion that the Angels fell in Love with Women. This Fancy St. Paul difcreetly catches, and ufes it as an Argument to perfwade them to modesty.

2. The grant of a Place is not good by the CanonLaw, before a Man be dead; upon this ground fome Mischief might be plotted against him in prefent pof

feffion,

feffion, by poisoning or some other way. Upon the fame reafon a Contract made with a Woman, during her Hufband's Life, was not valid.

3. Men are not troubled to hear a Man dispraised, because they know, tho' he be naught, there's worth in others. But Women are mightily troubled to hear any of them spoken againft, as if the Sex itself were guilty of fome Unworthiness.

4. Women and Princes must both trust somebody; and they are Happy, or Unhappy according to the defert of those under whofe Hands they fall. If a Man knows how to manage the Favour of a Lady, her Honour is fafe, and fo is a Prince's.

5. An opinion grounded upon that, Genefis 6. The Sons of God faw the Daughters of Men that they were fair.

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Pear.

WAS the Manner of the Jews (if the Year did not fall out right, but that it was dirty for the People to come up to Jerufalem, at the Feaft of the Paffover; or that their Corn was not ripe for their first Fruits) to intercalate a Month, and fo to have, as it were, two Februaries, thrufting up the Year ftill higher, March into April's place, April into May's place, &c. Whereupon it is impoffible for us to know when our Saviour was born, or when he dy'd.

2. The Year is either the Year of the Moon, or the Year of the Sun; there's not above eleven Days diffeOur moveable Feafts are according to the Year

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of the Moon; elfe they fhould be fixt.

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3. Tho' they reckon ten Days sooner beyond Sea, yet it does not follow their Spring is fooner than ours; we keep the fame time in natural things, and their ten Days fooner, and our ten Days later in those things mean the self fame time; just as twelve Sous in French, are ten Pence in English.

4. The lengthening of Days is not fuddenly perceiv'd till they are grown a pretty deal longer, because the Sun, though it be in a Circle, yet it seems for a while to go in a right Line. For take a Segment of a great Circle efpecially, and you fhall doubt whether it be ftraight or no. But when the Sun is got paft that Line, then you presently perceive the Days are lengthened. Thus it is in the Winter and Summer Solstice; which is indeed the true Reafon of them.

5. The Eclipfe of the Sun, is when it is new Moon; the Eclipfe of the Moon when 'tis full. They fay Dionyfius was converted by the Eclipse that happened at our Saviour's Death, because it was neither of these, and fo could not be natural.

Zealots.

NE would wonder CHRIST fhould whip the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple, and no body offer to refift him (confidering what Opinion they had of him.) But the reafon was, they had a Law, that whofoever did profane Sanctitatem Dei, aut Templi; the Holiness of God, or the Temple, before ten Perfons, 'twas lawful for any of them to kill him, or to do any thing this fide killing him; as whipping him, or the like. And hence it was, that when one

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