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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'i S. VII. Mar, 26. '59. 



See farther the indexes to both parts of Brucker's 

 History of Philosophy, vol. iv. 



J. E. B. Mator. 

 St John's College, Cambridge. 



COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF THE SEVENTEENTH 

 CENTURY. 



There is a curious MS. of the middle of the 

 seventeenth century in Sion College library, which 

 is sufficiently curious to deserve a note. It 

 is an old book containing epitaphs, jests, poesies, 

 and such things. Among the jests are several 

 current even up to our own time, showing how 

 long such things keep in a nation's recollection. 

 It begins with a prologue : — 



" Sum liber et non sum liber quia servio servo, 

 Sum servus Domini, servus et iste Dei 



Edward Brooke." 



Here are some quotations : — 



"Himnus hie est modus vitse 

 Quo utuntur Jesuits. 



" Opulentes civitates, 

 Ubi sunt coinoditates, 

 Semper quasrunt isti patres. 



" Bonum panem, melius vinum, 

 Non recipiunt peregrinum, 

 Neque surgunt ad matutinum. 



"Came pingui vitulina 

 Per quam exul est vaccina, 

 Plena est horum coquina. 



" Indii galli atque pavones. 

 Quorum cibus sunt macherones, 

 Horum patrum sunt buccones. 



"Crocum piper cum amomo, 

 Et qua nuUus sanctus homo 

 Habuit, habent isti in domo. 



" Quando vocant carcerati 

 Bonis omnibus privati 

 Dicunt sunius occupati. 



" Sed si vocant potentes, 

 Divitiis atfluentes, 

 Kogant Deum et omnes genlcs. 



"Divitiumque patrimonia, 

 Magnatumque matrimonia, 

 Ficta tractant sanctimonia. 



"Si quis dives infirmatur 

 Pro ejus morte Deus rogatur, 

 Quando hereditas speratur. 



" Q lupinam feritatem 

 IrsB dicando charitatem, 

 Nostram rapiunt hereditatem. 



" Habent opes Venetorum, 

 Gravitatem Hispanorum, 

 Et potentiam Komanorum. 



" Si quis quserat regia ofRcia, 

 Ecclesiastica beneficia, 

 Horum dantur amicitia. 



*' Dominantur temporale, 

 Dominantur spirituale, 

 Dominantur omne et vale." 



" This hymne the usual forme doth give 

 In which the Jesuites do live. 



" To wealthiest cittyes wherr the rather 

 They most coiTiodityes may gather, 

 Flyes every Jesuitish father. 



" Best wine they drinke and eate good bread. 

 With w"='' no stranger sees them fed, 

 Nor notes how long they ly in bed. 



" With gross beefe they will never deale ; 

 • But (for it) fatt and tender veale 

 To their full chitehins still they steale. 



" Indian cockes and Turkies great, 

 Fed alwaj'es with the purest wheat, 

 Are those bitts that thes fathers eate. 



" Saffron, pepper, nourish them, 

 And Roses of Hierusalem 

 Of which no holy man doth dreame. 



" When prisoners for their charity call, 

 They say wo are deprived of all, 

 And must to our devotions fall. 



" But when their mighty freinds and rich 

 Require their helpe, they God beseech 

 For them, and thro' all nations preach. 



" The inheritances of rich heires, 

 And princes nuptiall affaires, 

 Disposeth this fained zeale of theirs. 



" When rich ly sicke, and thes men gape 

 To have their riches feed their rape, 

 They pray God they may never scape. 



" wild and woolvish cherisance, 

 That when they charity advance 

 They ravish our inheritance. 



"Venetian wealth they still apply, ' 



Affect the Spanish gravity, 

 And build on Rome's authoritj'. 



" If Princely offices be sought 

 By Jesuites they must be wrought. 

 And with rich spiritual livings bought. 



"In temporal state they beare the bell, 

 In spirituall state as much excel. 

 In all states they coiiiand — farewell." 



Among several in disparagement of the fair sex 

 is the following : — ,: 



" A woman faire I dare not wedd 

 For feare 1 weare Actason's head. 

 A woman blacke is alwa3's proud, 

 A woman little alwa3's loud, 

 A woman that is tall of groth 

 Is always subject unto sloth ; 

 For faire or foule, little or tall, 

 Some fault remaines amongst them all." 



Upon a woman that fell out with her hus- 

 band : — 



" A woman lately fiercely did assaile 

 Her husband with sharp toung, but sharper nayle ; - 

 But one tbat heard and saw it to her saide, 

 Why do 3'ou use him thus, hee is your heade? 

 He is my heade, indeed, saithe she, 'tis true ; 

 Sir, I may scratch my heade, and so may you." 



" A certain Priest that had much gold 

 Would lay it in a chest 

 Within the chancel, and theron 

 Did write ' hie Deus est.' 



