not sufficient to affect one and leave the rest vnrespect, for that were
to make an idoll of that precept. Obedience must be seasoned with love;
yf any other respect be predominat in our actions, as feare of
punishment, desyre of estimacion &c. they are out of temper.
Christ propoundes these commaundementes of the 2nd table, because, yf a
man cannot observe these, he shall never be able to keepe them of the
first, for yf a man love not his neighbor whom he hath seene, howe shall
he love God whom he hath not seene?
And he that is bound to observe the lesse must keepe the greater
commaundement.
The doctrine of justificacion consistes upon these pillars, 1. _Ex
merito, si non ex condigno at ex congruo._ 2. And this upon free-will,
for noe merrit with[24] a free agent. 3. And this upon a possibilitie of
keeping the commaundementes, for _liberum arbitrium_ is a power of
performing what wee would and should, and _libertas voluntatis_ and
_liberum arbitrium_ are severall.
[Footnote 24: _Sic_, but _qu._ "without."]
Noe man can performe anie any action soe well but he shall fayle either
in the goodnes of the motion efficient, the meanes, or end.
[Sidenote: fo. 5^b.]
Justificacion by workes is but old Pharisaisme and newe Papisme; the
Papists distinguishe and make _Justiciam legalem_ and _evangelicam_; the
1. in performance of outward required accions; the 2. in the intent
supplied [?]
All the sacrifices that God was most delighted with are for the most
part sayd to be young, a lambe, &c. and the exhortacion of him which was
more the agent and more learned than anie, for he was a King and the
wisest that ever was, is, Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy
youth, &c.
There is a generall and a speciall love of Christ wherewith he embraceth
men; the 1. is here ment and mentioned, and with that he loves all which
doe but endeauour to be morally good; soe doubteles he loved Aristides
for his justice, which was a work of God in him, and so being a good,
God could not but love it, and him for it.
But the speciall is that whereby he makes us heires of eternall lyfe,
and adoptes vs for his children.
Beholding him, God regardes the least perfections or rather imperfect
affections in us; he will not breake a crazed reede.
[Sidenote: fo. 6.]
AT ST. CLEMENTES;[25] THE PRECHER.[26]
[Footnote 25: St. Clement Danes in the Strand.]
[Footnote 26: The rector at this time was Dr. John Layfield, of
Trin. Coll. Cambridge, one of the revisers of the translation of the
Bible temp. James I. and one of the first fellows of Chelsea
College. Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 572.]
Note: The breade in the sacrament becoming a nourishment is a medicine
to our whole bodye.
The manner of receyving Christes body in the sacrament; as to make a
question of it by way of doubting, is dangerous, soe to enquire of it to
knowe it is relligious.
Wee receive it[27] _non per consubstantialitatem sed per germanissimam
societatem_. (_Chrisostom._)
[Footnote 27: In the MS. this word stands "is."]
It must be received with five fingers, the first the hand, the 2. the
understanding, 3. fayth, 4. application, 5. affection and joy; and this
makes it a communion.
"Take and eate," the wordes of the serpent to Eua, the wordes of the
brasen serpent to vs; those were beleued and brought in perdicion, these
yf beleived are the meanes to saluation.
[Sidenote: fo. 6^b.]
_Out of a booke called_ THE PICTURE OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH.[28]
[Footnote 28: Written by Thomas Floyd; published Lond. 1600, 12mo.]
A wicked King is like a crazed ship, which drownes both it selfe and all
that are in it.
Pleasures are like sweet singing birds, which yf a man offer to take
they fly awaye.
DR. MOUNFORDES[29] SERMON. (_Ch. Dauers._)
[Footnote 29: Dr. Thomas Mountford was a prebendary of Westminster
from 1585 to 1681-2. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii. 350.)]
Of pleasure. _Momentaneum est quod delectat, æternum quod cruciat._
It is better to eate fishes with Christ, then a messe of pottage with
Esau.
_Nil turpius quam plus ingerrere quam possis digerere._
The glutton eates like a dogge, and lives like a hogg, having his soule
as salt onely to keepe his body from stinkinge.
He that filleth his body emptieth his soule.
_Id pro Deo colitur quod præ omnibus diligitur._
_Vtinam_, sayth Augustine, _tam finiatur quam definitur ebrietas_.
Bacchus painted yonge, because he makes men like children, vnable to goe
or speake, naked because discouers all.
It is noe better excuse for a drunkard to say that it was his owne that
he spent, then yf one should say he would cut his owne throate, for the
knife that should doe it is his owne.
Drunkennes is the divells birding synne; the drunkard like the stale
that allures other to be taken like it selfe.
Matt. 12.
Envie and mallice will barke though it be so musselled that it cannot
bite.
[Sidenote: fo. 7.]
It is almost divine perfection to resist carnall affection.
When wee censure other men wee should imitate that good imitator of
nature Apelles, whoe being to drawe a face of an great person[30] which
wanted an eye, drewe that syde only which was perfect.
[Footnote 30: Originally written "Emperour" and afterwards "great
person." When the word "Emperour" was altered, the writer omitted to
correct the preceding article.]
The malicious man is like the vultur, which passeth ouer manie sweete
gardens and never rests but vpon some carrion or garbage, soe he neuer
takes notice of anie thing but vices.
Libellers are the divels herauldes.
_Invidus alienum bonum suum facit peccando malum._
Envy, though in all other respectes it be a thing most execrable, yet in
this it is in some sort commendable, that it is a vexacion to it selfe.
It is like gunpowder, which consumes itselfe before it burnes the house.
Or the fly _pyrausta_, which would put out the candle, but burns
itselfe.
Honor is like a buble, which is raysed with one winde and broken with an
other.
MR. DOWNES.[31]
[Footnote 31: The celebrated Andrew Downes, appointed Regius
Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1595. (Hardy's Le Neve, iii.
660.)]
The love of the world is the divels eldest sonne.
Honour, riches, and pleasure are the worldly mans trynitie, wherewith he
committs spirituall idolatry.
Thankefullnes is like the reflex of the sunne beame from a bright bodie.
After a full tyde of prosperitie cometh a lowe ebbe of adversitie. After
a day of pleasure a night of sorrowe.
[Sidenote: fo. 7^b.]
Honour is like a spiders webbe, long in doinge, but soone vndone, blowne
downe with every blast. It is like a craggy steepe rocke, which a man is
longe getting vpon, and being vp, yf his foote but slip, he breakes his
necke. Soe the Jewes dealt with Christ; one day they would have him a
king, an other day none; one day cryed Hosanna to him, an other nothing
but crucifie him.
The world is like an host; when a man hath spent all, body, goodes, and
soule with it, it will not vouchsafe to knowe him.
Laban chose rather to loose his daughters than his idols, and the riche
man had rather forsake his soule then his riches.
If a citizen of Rome made him selfe a citizen of anie other place, he
lost his priviledge at Rome; yf a man wilbe a citizen of this world, he
cannot be a citizen of heaven.
Ambitious men are like little children which take great paynes in
runninge vp and downe to catch butterflyes, which are nothing but
painted winges, and either perishe in takinge or fly away from them.
Covetous man like a child, which cryes more for the losse of a trifle
then his inheritance; he laments more for losse of wealth then soule.
A covetous man proud of his riches is like a theife that is proud of his
halter.
MR. PHILLIPS.
The proverbe is that building is a theife, because it makes us lay out
more money then wee thought on; but pride is a theife and a whore too,
for it robbes the maister of his wealth, and the mistress of her
honesty.
[Sidenote: fo. 8.]
The drunkard makes his belly noe better then a bucking tubb, a vessell
to poure into, and put out at.
_Bona opera habent mercedem, non ratione facti, sed ratione pacti._
_Non est refugium a Deo irato, nisi ad Deum placatum._
Synn is Adams legacy bequeathed to all his posteritie: nothing more
common then to committ synn, and being committed to conceale it.
A concealed synn is _tanquam serpens in sinu, gladius in corde, venenum
in stommacho_; it is like a soare of the body, the closer it is kept the
more it festers.
_Scelera quandoque possunt esse secreta, nunquam secura._
Confession must be _festina, vera, et amara_.
Confession of synne onely at the hour of death, is like a theifes
confession at the gallowes, or a traytors at the racke, when they cannot
choose.
_Sine confessione justus est ingratus, et peccator mortuus._
The mercy of God is never to be despayred of, but still to be expected
even _inter pontem et fontem, jugulum et gladium_.
Dissembled righteousnes is like smoake, which seemes to mount up to
heaven, but never comes neare it.
Prayse is a kinde of paynt which makes every thing seeme better then it
is. (_Cha. Dauers._)
To prayse an unworthy man is as bad as to paint the face of an old
woman. (_Idem._)
Sorrowe is the punishment and remedy for synn; _sic Deus quod poenam
dedit, medicinam fecit._ (_Augustine._)
[Sidenote: fo. 8^b.]
MR. MUNOES[32] OF PETERHOUSE IN CAMBRIDGE.
[Footnote 32: Monoux or Munoux?]
_Primum querite regnum Dei, et omnia adjicientur vobis._ Tullies
brother, in a sort reprehending or discouraging his suit for the
consulship, tells him that he must remember that he is _novus,
consulatum petit_, and _Romæ est_; the Devill, perhaps least any should
attempt to put this precept in practise, will terrifie us by shewinge vs
our weakenes, and that greatnes. _Terræ filius es; regnum quæris?
Coelum est, &c._
_Sit modus amoris sine modo._
_Beatus est, Domine, qui te amat propter te, amicum in te, et inimicum
propter te._
Quere 3. (1.) _Quere Deum et non aliud tanquam illum._ (2.) _non aliud
præter illum._ (3.) _non aliud post illum._
_Diuitiæ non sunt bonæ, quæ te faciant bonum, sed unde tu facias bonum._
Beda interpreted those letters, S. P. Q. R. written upon a gate in Rome,
_Stultus Populus Quoerit Romam_, intimating they were but fooles that
went thither for true relligion.
Yf Christ had thought well of wealth he would not have bin soe poore
himselfe. He was _pauper in ingressu_, borne in a manger; _in
progressu_, not a hole to hide his head in; _in egressu_, not a sheet of
his owne to shroude him in.
The covetous persons like the seven leane kine that eate up the seven
fatt, and yet remaine as ill favoured as before.
Yf thou carest not to liue in such a house as hell is, yett feare to
dwell with such a companion as the Divel is.
[Sidenote: fo. 9.]
SERCHEFEILD OF ST. JOHNS IN OXFORD.[33]
[Footnote 33: Dr. Rowland Searchfield, Bishop of Bristol from 1619
to 1622. (Wood's Athenæ, ii. 861.)]
_Cursus celerimus, sæpe pessimus._
_Sit opus in publico, intentio in occulto._
A dissembled Christian, like an intemperate patient, which can gladly
heare his physicion discourse of his dyet and remedy, but will not
endure to obserue them.
_Minus prospere, qui nimis propere._
MR. SCOTT, TRINIT. CANT'BR.
_Dum sumus in corpore peregrinamur a Domino._
_Non contemnenda sunt parva, sine quibus non consistunt magna._
The soules of the just men are like Noahs doue sent out of the arke;
could finde noe resting place upon the earth.
He that hath put on rich apparrail will be carefull he stayne it not; he
that hath put on Christ as a garment must take heede he soile not
himself with vices.
* * * * *
An high calling is noe priviledge for an impious action.
All our new corne comes out of old feilds, and all our newe learning is
gathered out of old bookes. (_Chaucer._)
Words spoken without consideracion are like a messenger without an
errand.
Our owne righteousnes at the best is but like a beggars cloke, the
substance old and rotten, and the best but patches.
[Sidenote: fo. 9^b.]
AT BRADBORNE WITH MY COSEN THIS CHRISMAS. 1601.
My cosen[34] told me that Mr. Richers would give his cosen Cartwright
8,000_l._ for his leas of the abbey of towne Mallinges, the Reversion
whereof the L. Cobham hath purchased of hir Majestie.
[Footnote 34: The cousin alluded to, and frequently vouched as an
authority by the Diarist, was Richard Manningham, esq. of Bradbourne
in East Malling, Kent. He survived his wife, who is mentioned in
this page, and died 25th April 1611, æt. 72.]
An old child sucks hard; _i.[e.]_ children when they growe to age proue
chargeable.
Peter Courthope said it would be more beneficiall yf our woll and cloth
were not to be transported but in colours; but my cosen[35] said we may
as well make it into clokes and garmentes, as dye it in colours before
we carry it ouer; for both variable, and as much change in colour as
fashion.
[Footnote 35: Cousin Richard Manningham had been a successful
merchant in London. Hence the importance evidently attached to his
remarks on Subjects connected with commerce and foreign countries.]
JANUARY.
To furnishe a shipp requireth much trouble,
But to furnishe a woman the charges are double.
(_My cosens wife said._)
The priviledge of enfranchising anie for London is graunted to every
alderman at his first creation for one: to every sherif for 2: to every
maior for 4. (_Cosen._)
And almost any man for some 40_l._ may buy his freedome, and these are
called free by redemption.
If a man prentice in London marry, he shall be forced to serve of his
time, and yet loose his freedome. But yf a woman prentice marry, shee
shall onely forfayte hir libertie, but shall not be forced to serve.
(_Cosen._)
To be warden of the Companie of Mercers is some 80_l._ charge; to be one
of the livery, a charge but a credit. A bachelor is charged at the
Maiors feast some 100 markes.
[Sidenote: fo. 10.
Jan. 1601.]
The Flushingers wanting money, since hir Majesties tyme, and while they
were our friends, seised certayne merchant ships [and] forced them to
give 40,000_l._ The merchants complayned but could not be releived.
Oftymes the Princes dutys are defrayed with the subjectes goods.
Sir Moyle Finche of Kent married Sir Frauncis Hastinges daughter and
heir,[36] worth to him 3,000_l._ per annum. All his livinge in
Lincolnshire and Kent, &c. worth 4,000_l._ per annum. (_Dene Chapman._)
[Footnote 36: This marriage is not mentioned by Dugdale (Bar. ii.
445) nor in Collins (iii. 382, ed. Brydges). Both of them mention
only one marriage of Sir Moyle, which was the source of all the
importance of his family, namely, with Elizabeth sole daughter and
heir of Sir Thomas Heneage. After Sir Moyle's death this lady was
created Countess of Winchelsea.]
8. Dyned at Mr. Gellibrands, a physician, at Maidstone.
11. Mr. Fr. Vane, a yong gent, of great hope and forwardnes, verry well
affected in the country already, in soe much that the last parliament
the country gave him the place of knight before S^r. H.(?) Nevell; his
possibilitie of living by his wife verry much, shee beinge daughter and
co-heire to S^r. Antony Mildmay; and thought hir mother will give hir
all hir inheritance alsoe; the father worth 3,000_l._ per annum, the
mother's 1,200_l._[37] (_Mr. Tutsham._)
[Footnote 37: These expectations of the growing importance of Mr.
Francis Vane were not altogether disappointed. At the coronation of
James I. he was made K.B. and on 19th December 1624 was created
Baron Burghersh and Earl of Westmoreland. He died in 1628. The Sir
Anthony Mildmay here alluded to was of the Mildmays of Apethorp, co.
Northampton.]
The Duke of Albues [Alva's] negligence in not fortifying Flushinge
before other places in the Netherlands was the cause he lost the
country, for, when he thought to have come and fortified, the towne
suddenly resisted his Spanish souldiers, and forced them to returne.
(_Cosen._)
18. I rode with my cosen's wife to Maidstone; dyned at Gellibrands.
[Sidenote: fo. 10^b.
Jan. 1601.]
As we were viewinge a scull in his studye, he shewed the seame in the
middle over the heade, and said that was the place which the midwife
useth shutt in women children before the wit can enter, and that is a
reason that women be such fooles ever after.
My cosen shee said that the Gellibrands two wives[38] lived like a
couple of whelpes togither, meaninge sporting, but I sayd like[39] a
payre of turtles, or a couple of connies[40], sweetely and lovingly.
[Footnote 38: It appears in an omitted passage that, besides the
physician Gellibrand, there was another of the same family, who is
mentioned as Th. Gellibrand.]
[Footnote 39: Live, MS.]
[Footnote 40: _i. e._ rabbits.]
* * * * *
Mr. Alane, a minister, was very sicke. Gellibrand gave him a glyster,
and lett him bloud the same day, for a feuer; his reason was, that not
to have lett him bloud had bin verry dangerous; but to lett bloud is
doubtfull, it may doe good as well as harme.
* * * * *
My cosen shee told me, that when shee was first married to hir husband
Marche, as shee rode behinde him, shee slipt downe, and he left hir
behinde, never lookt back to take hir up; soe shee went soe long a foote
that shee tooke it soe unkindly that shee thought neuer to have come
againe to him, but to haue sought a service in some vnknowne place; but
he tooke hir at last.
Wee were at Mrs. Cavils, when she practised some wit upon my cosen[41].
Cosen she called double anemonies double enimies. Mrs. Cavill desired
some rootes, and she referd hir to hir man Thomas Smith.
[Footnote 41: My cosen, shee, MS.]
[Sidenote: fo. 11.
Jan. 1601.]
My cose she Speaking lavishly in commendacions of one Lovell of
Cranebrooke (a good honest poore silly puritane,) "O," said shee, "he
goes to the ground when he talkes in Divinitie with a preacher." "True,"
said I, "verry likely a man shall goe to the ground when he will either
venture to take vpon him a matter that is to waightie for him, or meddle
with such as are more then his matche." "I put him downe yfaith," said
one, "when he had out talked a wiser then himselfe." "Just," said I, "as
a drumme putes downe sweete still musicke, not as better, but mor
soundinge."
22. AT LONDON.--_In a booke of Newes from Ostend._
Touchinge the parly which Sir Fr. Vere held with the Archduke there,
till he had reenforced himself, Sir Franc. said that the banes must be
thrice askt, and yf at the last tyme anie lawefull cause can be showen,
the marriage may be hindred. The Duke answered, he knewe that was true,
yet, he said, it was but a whore that offered hir selfe.
Divers merchants arrested by Leake for shipping ouer cloth aboue the
rate of their licence. (_Theroles_ [?] _nar._)
The Companie of Peweterers much greived at a licence graunted to one
Atmore to cast tynne, and therefore called him perjured knaue; whereupon
he complayned to the Counsell, and some of them were clapt vp for it. "I
will be even with him for it yfaith," said one that thought he had bin
disgraced by his credit; "Then you will pay him surely," quoth I.
[Sidenote: fo. 11^b.
Jan. 1601.]
Nature doth check the first offence with loathing,
But vse of synn doth make it seeme as nothing.
The spending of the afternoones on Sundayes either idly or about
temporall affayres, is like clipping the Q. coyne; this treason to the
Prince, that prophanacion, and robbing God of his owne,--(_Archdall._)
* * * * *
Hide to Tanfeild;[42] "It is but a matter of forme you stand so much
upon." "But it is such a forme," said Tanfeild, "as you may chaunce to
breake your shins at, unless you be the nimbler."
[Footnote 42: The "Hide" here mentioned was probably the future Sir
Lawrence, elder brother of Sir Nicholas the future Lord Chief
Justice, and uncle to Lord Chancellor Clarendon. (Foss's Judges, vi.
335.) Tanfield was the future Lord Chief Baron, whose only daughter
was mother to Lucius Lord Falkland. (Ibid. 365.)]
Certaine in the country this last Christmas chose a jury to finde the
churle of their parishe, and, when they came to give their verdick, they
named one whose frende, being present, began to be verry collerick with
the boys for abusing him. "Hold you content, gaffer," said one of them,
"if your boy had not bin one of the jury you had bin found to have bin
the churle." The game of vntimely reprehension and the verry course of
common Inquests, all led by some frend.
[Sidenote: fo. 12.
Jan. 26.]
The L. Paget upon a tyme thinkinge to have goded Sir Tho. White (an
alderman of London) in a great assembly, askt him, what he thought of
that clothe, shewing him a garment in present. "Truly, my Lord," said
he, "it seemes to be a verry good cloth, but I remember when I was a
yong beginner I sold your father a far better to make him a gowne, when
he was Sergeant to the L. Maior; truly he was a very honest
sergeant!"[43] None so ready to carpe at other mens mean beginnings as
such as were themselves noe better. (_Reeves._)
[Footnote 43: Dugdale remarks that the first Paget who "arrived to
the dignity of Peerage" was son to "---- Paget, one of the Serjeants
at Mace in the City of London." (Bar. ii. 390.) Sir Thomas White was
of course the founder of St. John's college, Oxford.]
Tarlton[44] called Burley house gate in the Strand towardes the Savoy,
the Lord Treasurers Almes gate, because it was seldom or never opened.
(_Ch. Dauers._)
[Footnote 44: Richard Tarlton, the celebrated low comedian and Joe
Miller of his day.]
Repentaunce is like a drawebridge, which is layd downe for all to passe
over in the day tyme, but drawne up at night: soe all our life wee have
tyme to repent, but at death it is to late. (_Ch. Dauers recit._)
It was ordered by our benchers, that wee should eate noe breade but of 2
dayes old. Mr. Curle said it was a binding lawe, for stale breade is a
great binder; but the order held not 3 dayes, and soe it bound not.
EPITAPHE OF JOHN FOOTE.
Reader look to' it! Here lyes John Foote,
He was a Minister, borne at Westminster.
ALIUD OF MR. CHILD.
If I be not beguild,
Here lies Mr. Child.
(_Ouerbury recit._)[45]
[Footnote 45: We have retained these trifling entries solely on
account of the name appended to them. The unfortunate Sir Thomas
Overbury, who was son of a gentleman of Gloucestershire, having
taken his B.A. degree at Queen's College, Oxford, removed in
1598 to the Middle Temple.]
I will be soe bolde as to give the Assise the lye:
(_Ch. Dauers in argument._)
"I came rawe into the world, but I would not goe out rosted," said one
that ment to be noe martyre. (_Curle nar._)
* * * * *
[Sidenote: fo. 12^b.
Jan. 1601.]
This last Christmas the Conny-catchers would call themselves
Country-gentlemen at dyce.
When a gentlewoman told Mr. Lancastre he had not bin soe good as his
word, because he promised shee should be gossip to his first child
(glaunceing at his bastard on his landres), "Tut," said he, "you shall
be mother to my next, if you will."
ANAGRAM.
Margaret Westfalinge.
My greatest welfaring.[46]
(_Streynsham nar._)
[Footnote 46: Herbert Westfaling, Bishop of Hereford (1585-1602)
had a daughter Margaret who may have been the lady here alluded
to, although at this time married to Dr. Richard Eedes, Dean of
Worcester. (Wood's Athenæ, i. 720, 750.) Like many of these
trifles, it will be observed that the anagrammatic reading is
incomplete.]
Davis.
Advis. Judas.
(_Martin._)
FEBR. 1601.
[Sidenote: Feb. 2.]
At our feast wee had a play called "Twelue Night, or What you Will,"
much like the Commedy of Errores, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like
and neere to that in Italian called _Inganni_[47]. A good practise in it
to make the Steward beleeve his Lady widdowe was in love with him, by
counterfeyting a letter as from his Lady in generall termes, telling him
what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his
apparaile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him beleeue
they tooke him to be mad.
[Footnote 47: It seems from remarks of Mr. Hunter, in his
Illustrations of Shakspeare, i. 391, that the Italian play here
alluded to was not one of those termed the _Inganni_, of which there
are several, but the _Ingannati_, which, like the Taming of the
Shrew, is a play preceded by a dramatic prologue or induction,
entitled _Comedia del Sacrificio di gli Intronati_. There is no
separate title-page to the _Ingannati_, but there are several
editions of the _Sacrificio di gli Intronati_, in which the
_Ingannati_ is introduced, printed at Venice in 1537, 1550, and
several subsequent years.]
[Sidenote: 12.]
_Quæ mala cum multis patimur læviora putantur._
[Sidenote: 11.]
Cosen Norton was arrested in London.
[Sidenote: fo. 13.