Diary of John Manningham Part 15

[Sidenote: 9.]

Every man semes to serue himselfe.

[Sidenote: October, 25.]

As the fox and the a.s.se were travayling by the way, they overtooke a mule, a strange beast as they thought, and began to be verry inquisitive, like a couple of constables, to know whence he came and what his name might be. The mule told them his name was written in his foote, and there they might reade it yf they would; the foxe dissembling sayd he was not bookish, and askt the a.s.se what he could doe. He like an a.s.se, without feare or witt, went about to shewe his schollership; but, while he was taking up the foote to reade what was told him, the mule tooke him such [a] blowe with his foote that the a.s.se paid for his cuning [?]. Such are meere schollers. (_Ed. Curle._)

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_Maiores in sacris litteris progressus proemia maiora postulant; et plures in vita necessitates plura vitae necessaria subsidia requirunt_: these causes of a plurality in a dispensacion.

_Dr. Parryes Ale for the Spring._

[Symbol: Rx]. Of the juyce of scouruy-gra.s.se one pint; of the iuyce of watercresses, as much; of the iuyce of succory, half a pint; of the iuyce of fumitory, half a pint: proportion to one gallon of ale: they must be all tunned vp togither.

There is a certaine kinde of compound called _Laudanum_, which may be had at Dr. Turner's, appothecary, in Bishopgate Streate; the virtue of it is very soueraigne to mitigate anie payne; it will for a tyme lay a man in a sweete trans, as Dr. Parry told me he tryed in a feuer, and his sister Mrs. Turner in hir childbirth.

The Lord Zouche, a verry learned and wise n.o.bleman, was made Lord President of the Marches of Wales after the death of the old Earle of Pembroke.[80]

[Footnote 80: Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke of that family, died 19 Jan. 1600-1. His successor in the Presidency of Wales here alluded to was Edward the last Lord Zouche of Haryngworth, before the abeyance was determined in 1815.]

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My cosen told me that the custome of burning women with their husbandes in Goa began vpon this occasion; the women of that country being skilfull in poysoninge, and exceedingly giuen to the synn of lechery, could noe sooner like an other, but presently their husband would dye, that they might marry him whom they best liked: whereuppon it came to[81] pa.s.se that one woman burried manie husbands, and soe the King lost many subiects. And therefore to preuent this mischiefe the King ordeined, that, whensoeuer the husband died, the wife should be burned with him, in great solemnitie of musike and a.s.sembly of frendes, esteeming by this meanes to moue the wiues to make much of their husbands, yf not for the loue of their companie, yet for loue of their owne liues, since their safety consisted in their preseruacion.

[Footnote 81: it, in MS.]

EPITAPHES IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHE.

_Hic jacet corpus H. Bellingham, Westmerlandiensis, generosi, et nuper Socij Medii Templi, cuius relligionis synceritas, vitae probitas, morumque integritas, eum maxime commendabant: obijt 10 Decembr. 1586, aetatis suae 22^o._

On the South side on a pillar.

D:O:M

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_Rogerio Bisshopio, ill.u.s.tris interioris Templi Societatis quondam studioso, in florentis aetatis limine morte immatura praerepto, qui ob foelicissimam indolem, moresque suauissimos, magnum sui apud omnes desiderium relinquens, corpus humo, amorem amicis, coelo animum dicavit._

_Monumentum hoc amoris et moeroris perpetuum testem charissimi posuere parentes._

_Obijt 7^o Sept. 1597: aetatis suae 3._

EPITAPHE IN THE CHURCHE AT HYTHE IN KENT.

_Whiles he did live which here doth lye Three suites [he] gott of the Crowne, The Mortmaine, fayre, and Mayralty, For Heith this auncient Towne; And was himselfe the Baylif last, And Mayor first by name; Though he be gon, tyme is not past To prayse G.o.d for the same._

(Of John Bridgman; obijt 1591.)

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May.]

_W. Wats, Antagonista. Summum jus non est summa injuria jure positivo, sed equitate._

[Sidenote: 14.]

Mr. Curle, my chamber-fellowe, was called alone by parliament to the barr.

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Those which goe to churche onely to heare musicke, goe thither more for _fa_ then _soule_. (_B. Reid._)

One said, yong Mr. Leake was verry rich, and fatt, "True," said B. Reid, "pursy men are fatt for the most part."

"He takes the stronger part still," of one that would be sure to drinke stronge beare yf he could come to it.

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April, 1602.]

_A medicine for the windines in the stomach._

[Symbol: Rx]. A quarter of a pint of lavanda spike water, half as much balme water, a fewe cloues, and a little long pepper beaten together; drinke this at twise. (_Mrs. Cordell's exper^t._)

_For the haymeroyds._

[Symbol: Rx]. Two ounces of shoemacke brayed, and put it to halfe a pint of red rose water; warme them over the fyre, and bath the place with it. (_My Cosen exper^t._)

The covetous man rides in a coache which runnes upon 4 wheeles. The 1.