Chapter IX: Front Matter (9)

Perseverance 19. 143. 175. 258

Pelican 154

Pietie 8. 41. 155

Pigmey Spirits 14

Planets 31

Planting 35

Pleasure 22. 23. 38. 68

Plenty 64

Plaine-dealing 228

Poeticall Libertie 148

Poets Horse, _vid._ Pegasus

Power 103. 179

Power divine 210.

Policie 80

Posterity 35

Poore Theeves 167.

Povertie 176

Cause of povertie. 248

Praise 146

Practise 66. 158

Preaching 89

Preferment 68

Prelats 41

Priests. ibid.

Pride to be avoyed 8

Princes 155

Profit causeth contention 71.

Processions 165.

Prosperitie 12. 16

Protection divine 245

Promotion is of God 223.

Prudence 74. 142. 151

Puritie 41

Punishment and reward 245

Pyramus 33.

_Q._

Qvarrellers 71.

_R._

Rashnesse 9. 19

Redeeme the time 23. 257

Recreation 234

A well Resolved man 228

Restraints from being Rich 248

Resolute constancy 24

Repine not at misfortunes 96

Reputation 140

Repentance to be hastned 213

Retirednesse 73. 79

Revolutions of things 45

Reward 135. 139 141. 229. 258

Reward and punishment 243

Riches 1. 98

Rich Theeves 197

Rod. 93.

Royall favour. 159.

_S._

Sacred callings 41

The best Sacrifice 77.

Salamander 30

Scepter 79

Scepter and Spade 48

Sea-horse 155.

Selfe perdition 68. 214

Selfe love 35

Shepherds crooke 149

Ship 13. 37

Sisyphus 11

Sinne 66. 69.

Silence 73

Simplicity 151

Sincerity 228, 230

Sive 20

A Skeleton 8

Sloath 9. 181.

Slownesse 19

Slow pace goes farre 173

Small beginnings 46. 50

Snake 5. 9. 45. 47. 74. 101. 102 142.

Snaile 19

Sophisters 38

Sober knowledge 147

Sorrow 24 79

Soveraigntie is of God, 21. 22

Spade 5

Spider 18

Squirrell 26. 136

Staiednesse 72 153

Starrs 31. 74. 251

States-men 15

Steresman 37

Stedfastnesse. _vid._ Constancy.

Stewes 27

Storke 149 155

Strength 80. 103. 136

Students 15

Studiousnesse 146

Suffering 23. 47. 81. 171. 232

Sufficiencie 86

Sunnshine after stormes 240

Swearing. 38.

Swine 38. 110.

Sword 66. 137. 163. 238. 245

_T._

Talents hidden 76. 181

A Tatler, 246.

Tennis-ball, 16

Terrene pompe 98

Temperance 169. 242

Terminus 161

Theeves 167

Thisbe 33

Time. 4. 102. 157. 212. 235 257

Titles, ill placed 224.

Tongue 42

Tortois 86

Touchstone 229

Transitorie things 85

Triall 30

Trie e’re thou trust. 84. 233

Truth 172

Turtle. _vid._ Dove.

_V._

Vanitie of earthly things 98

Vaine hopes. 69

Vaine shewes 20

Vengeance 66

Vertue. 1. 5. 6. 22. 30. 88. 97. 101. 109. 111. 139. 171. 218.

Vice 22. 104. 224.

Victorie vncertaine 252

Victorie is of God 241.

Viper 247

Vnanymitie 67

Vnchastitie 15

Vnitie 67. 177

Vnitie of faith 244

Vniversall Grace 210. 258

Vnprofitable gifts 76

Vprightnesse of heart 91

_W._

Wanton women 7

Warre 90, 238

Wast 35

Wearinesse 9 84 153

Watchfulnesse 79

Watchmen 149

Way of Uertue 160

Weapons 111

Wealth 68. 166.

Weights 110.

Welldoing 135

Weaknesse needes a suporter 222

Wisedome 1. 2, 31. 103. 142. 145.

Witt 1. 64. 136. 167

Wives 172

Whoredome. 27

Whore. _vid._ Harlot

Woods decayed 35

Woman 93. 231

World goes backeward 219.

_Y._

Youth. 22. 44.

A _Supersedeas_ to all them, whose custome
it is, without any deserving, to importune
_Authors_ to give unto them their
_Bookes_.

It merits nor your Anger, nor my Blame,
That, thus I have inscrib’d this _Epigram_:
For, they who know me, know, that, _Bookes_ thus large,
And, fraught with _Emblems_, do augment the Charge
Too much above my _Fortunes_, to afford
A _Gift_ so costly, for an _Aierie-word_:
And, I have prov’d, your _Begging-Qualitie_,
So forward, to oppresse my _Modestie_;
That, for my future ease, it seemeth fit,
To take some Order, for preventing it.
And, peradventure, other Authors may,
Find Cause to thanke me for’t, another day.
These many years, it hath your _Custom_ bin,
That, when in my possession, you have seene
A _Volume_, of mine owne, you did no more,
But, _Aske_ and _Take_; As if you thought my store
Encreast, without my Cost; And, that, by _Giving_,
(Both _Paines_ and Charges too) I got my living;
Or, that, I find the _Paper_ and the _Printing_,
As easie to me, as the _Bookes_ Inventing.
If, of my _Studies_, no esteeme you have,
You, then abuse the _Courtesies_ you crave;
And, are _Vnthankfull_. If you prize them ought,
Why should my _Labour_, not enough be thought,
Vnlesse, I adde _Expenses_ to my paines?
The _Stationer_, affoords for little Gaines,
The _Bookes_ you crave: And, He, as well as I
Might give away, what you repine to buy:
For, what hee _Gives_, doth onely _Mony_ Cost,
In mine, both _Mony_, _Time_, and _Wit_ is lost.
What I shall Give, and what I have bestow’d
On Friends, to whom, I _Love_, or _Service_ ow’d,
I grudge not; And, I thinke it is from them,
Sufficient, that such _Gifts_ they do esteeme:
Yea, and, it is a _Favour_ too, when they
Will take these _Triflles_, my large _Dues_ to pay;
(Or, Aske them at my hands, when I forget,
That, I am to their _Love_, so much in debt.)
But, this inferres not, that, I should bestow
The like on all men, who, my _Name_ do know;
Or, have the Face to aske: For, then, I might,
Of _Wit_ and _Mony_, soone be begger’d, quite.
So much, already, hath beene _Beg’d_ away,
(For which, I neither had, nor looke for pay)
As being valu’d at the common Rate,
Had rais’d, _Five hundred Crownes_, in my Estate.
Which, (if I may confesse it) signifies,
That, I was farre more _Liberall_, than _Wise_.
But, for the time to come, resolv’d I am,
That, till without denyall (or just blame)
I may of those, who _Cloth_ and _Clothes_ do make,
(As oft as I shall need them) _Aske_, and _Take_;
You shall no more befoole me. Therfore, _Pray_
_Be Answer’d_; And, henceforward, keepe away.

A _Direction_, shewing how they who are so
_disposed_, _shall find out their =Chance=, in the
=Lotteries= aforegoing_.

Turne about one of the _Indexes_ in the Figures, which are in the following Page, without casting your eyes thereupon, so observe where it stayeth untill your hand ceaseth to give it motion. If it be the upper _Figure_, whose _Index_ you moved; than, that _Number_ whereupon it resteth, is the number of your _Lot_, or Blancke.

This being knowne, move the other _Index_ in like manner, and that _Quarter_ of the said _Figure_ whereon the same standeth (when your hand is taken away) sheweth in which of the foure Bookes, or _Lotteries_, that _Chance_ is to be expected, whereunto your _Number_ doth send you, whether it be _Lot_, or _Blancke_. If it be any Number above Fifty, it is a _Blancke Chance_, and you are to looke no further. If it be any of the other _Numbers_, it sends you to the _Emblem_ answering to the same _Number_, in the _Booke_ next before the same _Lotterie_.

If the letter _M._ be placed before the alotted _Number_; then, that Lot is proper onely to a _Man_: If _W._ stand before it, it is proper onely to a _Woman_: if there be no letter, it is indifferent to both _Sexes_: And, therefore, when a _Man_ or _Woman_ happneth on a _Chance_ impertinent to their proper _Sexe_, they are then, to take the next _Chance_ which pertaineth properly to their _Sexe_, whether it be _Blancke_ or _Lot_; the triall whereof, I have thus contrived, without the use of _Dice_; lest by bringing them into sight, they might, sometimes, occasion worse _Gaming_.

_If =King=, =Queene=, =Prince=, or any one that springs
From Persons, knowne to be deriv’d from =Kings=,
Shall seeke, for =Sport sake=, hence to draw their =Lot=;
Our =Author= sayes; that, hee provided not
For such as =those=: Because, it were too much
For him, to find out =Fortunes=, fit for such,
Who, (as hee thinkes) should, rather, =Ayde= supply
For him, to mend his evill =Fortunes= by.
To =them=, hee, therefore pleased is to give
This noble, and this large =Prerogative=;
That, they shall chuse from hence, what =Lots= they please,
And make them better, if they like not =these=.
All other =Personages=, of =High degree=,
That, will professe our Authors friends to be,
This =Freedome=, likewise, have; that till, they find
A =Lot=, which is agreeing to their mind,
They shall have libertie, anewe, to try
Their fought-for Chance: And, ev’rytime-apply
The =Morrals= they disliked, unto those,
Which are, ill-quallifide, among their =Foes=.
All others, who this =Game=, adventure will,
Must beare their =Fortunes=, be they Good, or Ill._

Transcriber's notes:

In the text version italics are represented with _underscore_ and small caps with ALL CAPS. Upright text in italic sections, has been marked with =equals=.

As noted at the start of the text, inconsistencies and apparent errors in the text have been left. The only changes that have been made are to unclear or missing punctuation marks (e.g. where a gap in the text is seen). In these cases, consistent punctuation has been used.

A list of inconsistencies and problems found in the text:--

Introduction

Sheet 6 "A Writ of Prevention". STRVCTVRFS should probably read STRVCTVRES.

Sheet 13 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after "Graver" (whether hee were the Versifier or the Graver.

Sheet 14 "To The Reader". A closing bracket should be added after Hieroglyphicks (as in the Tetragrammaton; in the Figure of Arîon; and in the Proprieties due to some other Hieroglyphicks.