Diary of John Manningham Part 24

About some three yeares since there were certayne rogues in Barkeshire which usually frequented certaine shipcoates every night. A justice having intelligence of their rablement, purposing to apprehend them, went strong, and about midnight found them in the shipcoate, some six couple men and women dauncing naked, the rest lying by them; divers of them taken and committed to prison. (_Mr. Pigott._)

_Posies for a jet ring lined with sylver._

"One two:" soe written as you may begin with either word.

"This one ring is two," or both sylver and jet make but one ring; the body and soule one man; twoe frends one mynde.

"_Candida mens est_," the sylver resembling the soule, being the inner part.

"_Bell' ame bell' amy_," a fayre soule is a fayre frend, &c.

"Yet fayre within."

"The firmer the better;" the sylver the stronger and the better.

_Mille modis laeti miseros mors una fatigat._

* * * * *[122]

[Footnote 122: We have here ventured to omit seven pages of extracts from an academical oration by Thomas Stapleton the controversialist, "_An Politici horum temporum in numero Christianorum sint habendi_,"

printed among his works.]

[Sidenote: November, 1602.

fo. 64^b.]

Yf foure or five a.s.sist one which kills another, the lawe sayth they shall all be hanged, because they have deprivd the Queene of a subject; but is this a way to preserve the Queens subjects, when there is one slayne already, to hang up four or five more out of the way? Is this to punishe the fact or the State? (_Benn._)

[Sidenote: 16.]

Goe little booke, I envy not thy lott, Though thou shall goe where I my selfe cannot.

[Sidenote: 18.]

One would needes knowe of a philosopher what reason there was that a man should be in love with beauty; the other made noe other answer, but told him it was a blind mans question. Soe one wondered what sweetenes men found in musicke they were soe much delighted in, an other said it was but the doubt of a deaf man, &c.

"_Flumen orationis, micam vero habuit rationis_," hee had a streame of wordes, but scarce a drop of witt.

Beauty more excellent then many virtues, for it makes itselfe more knowne: noe sooner seene but admired, whereas one may looke long enough upon a man before he can tell what virtue is in him, untill some occasion be offered to shew them.

[Sidenote: 28.]

Captaine Whitlocke, a shuttlec.o.c.k: flyes up and downe from one n.o.bleman to an other, good for nothing but to make sport, and help them to loose tyme.[123]

[Footnote 123: See page 60.]

[Sidenote: fo. 65.

14 November, 1602.]

DR. DAWSON _of Trinity in Cambridge_, AT PAULES CROSSE.

His text, vii. Isay. 10. All the while he prayed he kept on his velvet night cap untill he came to name the Queene, and then of went that to, when he had spoken before both of and to G.o.d with it on his head.

Yf G.o.des words will not move us, neither will his workes. If _dixit_ will not perswade, neither can _fecit_ induce us.

A regall not a righteous motive.

Puts on the visard of hypocrisie.

_Omne bonum a Deo bono_, as all springs from their offspring the sea.

Judge the whole by part, as merchants sell their wares, the whole b.u.t.t by a tast of a pint, &c.

Jobs patience compared to G.o.ds not soe muche as a drop to the sea, or a mote to the whole earth.

Sinfull man approching G.o.ds presence is not consumed as the stuble with the fyre, because man is G.o.ds worke, and G.o.ds mercy is ouer all his workes.

What will you make me like unto, or what will you make like unto me, saith G.o.d.

_Scriptura discentem non docentem respicit_, and therefore penned in a plaine and easie manner.

_Essentia operis est potentia creatoris._ Here he stumbled into an invective against contempt of ministers, and impoverishing the clergy.

Pharoes dreame is revived, the leane kine eate up the fatt, and were never the fatter. Laymens best liuings were the Church livings; yet the gentry come to beggery.

[Sidenote: fo. 65^b.

14 November, 1602.]

_Magnum solatium est magnum supplicium a magno impositum_; but intollerable when the basest make it their cheife grace to disgrace the ministers.

Christ calls them the light of the world, and they are the children of darknes that would blowe it out.

Pride is a greate cause of unthankefullnes, when he shall thinke _omne datum esse tuum officium et suum meritum_.

Bishop Bonner made bonefires of the bones of saints and martyres in Queen Maries days.

Praysd our happy gouernment for peace and religion; and soe ended.

[Sidenote: fo. 66.