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Witches.

HE Law againft Witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the Malice of thofe People, that ufe fuch means, to take away Men's Lives. If one should profess that by turning his Hat thrice, and crying Buz, he could take away a Man's Life (though in truth he could do no such thing) yet this were a juft Law made by the State, that whofoever should turn his Hat thrice, and cry Buz, with an intention to take away a Man's Life, fhall be put to death.

Wife.

E that hath a handfome Wife, by other Men

"His thought happy'; 'tis a Pleafure 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 shall see 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 reason a Man that will have a Wife should 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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Wisdom.

Wife Man fhould never refolve upon any thing,

at least never let the World know his Refolution, for if he cannot arrive at that, he is asham'd. How many things did the King refolve in his Declaration concerning Scotland, never to do, and yet did them all? A Man must do according to Accidents and Emergencies.

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

3. Wife Men say nothing in dangerous time. The Lion you know call'd the Sheep, to ask her if his Breath fmelt; she said, Ay; he bit off her Head for a Fool: He call'd the Woolf and ask'd him; he said no; he tore him in pieces for a Flatterer: At laft be 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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ends.

IT and Wisdom differ; Wit is upon the
fudden turn, Wisdom is in bringing about

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 ftuck 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 Honesty fometimes keeps a Man from growing Rich; and Civility from being wirty.

5. Women ought not to know their own wit, be cause they will still be fhewing it, and so spoil 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 destroy 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 fo too; at laft he puts himself into the Piece, and fo both Ape and Bullet were shot a way together.

Women.

ET the Women have power of their heads, because

Lof the Angels, The reafon of the Words because of

the Angels, is this; The Greek Church held an Opini on that the Angels fell in Love with Women. This Fancy St. Paul discreetly 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 posfeflion

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feffion, by poisoning or fome other way. Upon the fame reafon a Contract made with a Woman, during her Husband'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 against, as if the Sex it felf were guilty of fome Unworthiness.

4. Women and Princes must both truft fome body; and they are Happy, or Unhappy according to the defert of thofe 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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Bear.

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, thrusting up the Year ftill higher, March into April's place, April into Whereupon it is impoffible for us to know when our Saviour was born, or when he dy'd.

May's place, &c.

2. The Year is either the Year of the Moon, or the Year of the Sun; there's not above eleven Days difference. Our moveable Feasts are according to the Year of the Moon; else they should be fixt.

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3. Tho' they reckon ten Days fooner 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 same 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 feems for a while to go in a right Line. For take a Segment of a great Circle especially, and you shall doubt whether it be ftraight or no. But when the Sun is got past that Line, then you prefently 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 Eclipfe that happened at our Saviour's Death, because it was neither of these, and fo could not be natural.

Zelots.

NE would wonder CHRIST fhould whip

"the Buyers and Sellors 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 Sanditatem 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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