THE SECOND Part of the Figure of Foure
1 THere are foure things greatly to bee taken heed of: a Flye in the eye, a bone in the throat, a dog at the heele, and a theefe in the house.
2 There are foure bitter things that are used but for necessity: Rubard Gall, worme wood, and a dogged wife.
3 There are foure grievous lacks to a great many in the world: lacke of health, lacke of wealth, lacke of wit, & lacke of honesty.
[Page]4 There bee foure especiall poore Schollers in the world: Petty-foggers Quacksalvers, Ballad-makers, and A. B. C. Schoole-masters.
5 There are foure things ill to bee proud of: a painted face, a patcht body, a pide coat, and a paltry wit.
6 There are foure things faire at the first sight: new books, fat horses, fresh colours, and flickt faces.
7 There are foure strange men in the world: they that make a god of their gold▪ an angell of the devill, a paradise of their pleasure, and glory of their pride.
8 There are foure notes of an exellent wit: to learne that which is good, to labour for that which is necessary, to foresee a mischiefe, and to forget that which cannot be recovered.
9 There be foure jests of wit: to hope for dead mens goods, to trust to the word of a bankrupt, to be in loue with a lewd Queane, and to tel newes after a Carrier.
[Page]10 There be foure things very uncomfortable: to lye in bed and cannot sleepe, to sit at meat and have no stomacke, to see musicke and cannot heare it, and to want mony and cannot come to it.
11 There are foure persons not to be beleeved: a horse-courser when he sweares, a whore when shee weepes, a lawyer when he pleads false, and a traveller, when he rels wonders.
12 There are foure persons not to be trusted: a foole, a flatterer, an Atheist, and an enemy.
13 There are foure ill houses to goe into: a smokie house, a rotten house, a lowsie house, and a bawdy house.
14 There are foure things very hurtfull for the stomacke: raw flesh, stale fish, musty bread, and sowre drinke.
15 There are foure silly fooles in the world: hee that followes a shaddow, starts a flea, drowns an Eele, and makes love to a picture.
16 There are foure great trials of wit: [Page] to chuse a friend and keepe him, to conceale adversity with patience, to bee thrifty without couetousnesse, and to live out of the feare of the Law.
17 There are foure suspitions of a perfect wit: to trust unfaithfullnesse, to shew unthankfulnesse, to advance unworthinesse, and to nourish wickednesse.
18 There are foure great Cyphers in the world: hee that is lame among dancers, dumbe among Lawyers, dull among Schollers, and rude amongst Courtiers.
19 Foure kinds of men may be well spared: a swaggerer among civill people, a theefe among true men, an Atheist among the religious, and a Jew among Christians.
20 Foure sorts of people are very troublesome: fooles among wisemen, borrowers among rich men, cowards among souldiers, and beggars amongst Courtiers.
21 There are foure wicked kinds of [Page] scoffers: they that scoffe at the honest, at the wise, at the learned, or at the poore.
22 There be foure knaves much dealt withall in the world: the Knave of Clubs; the Knave of Harts, the Knave of Spades, and the Knave of Diamonds.
23 There are foure base professions: a Wittall, a Cuckold, a Bawd, and a Begger.
24 There are foure close-catchers in the world: a Rat-catcher, a Moule-catcher, a Foole-catcher, and a Cony-catcher.
25 There are foure chiefe lights: the light of Sense, the light of Reason, the light of Grace, and the light of Glory.
26 There are foure sundry kindes of Loues: the love of God, the love of men, the love of women, and the love of children.
27 Foure kinds of men hatefull in a Common-wealth: a Parasite, an Hypocrite, a Mutiner, and a Murtherer.
[Page]28 Foure idle kindes of exercise: riming, riding, raging, and running on errands.
29 There are foure great sokers of a mans estate: long sicknesse, a costly wife, a sleepie eye, and a proud prodigall spirit.
30 There are foure ill wayes for a theefe: the way to the prison, the way to the ludge, the way to the Gallowes and the way to hell.
31 There are foure things foolishly proud: a Pea [...]ocke that is proud of his taile, for he must molt it once every yeare; an Hart that is proud of his hornes, for he must mew them once a yeare, a Cuckoe that is proud of her note, for she sings but once a yeare; and an Oake that is proud of his beafe, for it fals once a yeare.
32 There are foure terrible sounds in the world: the report of a Cannon, a clap of thunder, the doome of a Iudge, and the scolding of a shrewd woman.
[Page]33 There are foure naturall skippers: a Flea, a Frog, a Grashopper, and a Cat.
34 There are foure chiefe smellers: Deere, Dogs, Ravens, and Smell-feasts.
35 There are foure things seldome seene: a begger to grow rich, an Usurer to grow bountifull, a foole to grow wise, and a baggage to become honest.
36 There are foure creatures of more charge than profit: Parrats, Monkies, fysting dogs and fidling wenches.
37 Foure pitifull objects to a good eye: a wise man distracted, a City ruined, a ship on fire, and an Armie defeated.
38 Foure kinds fine fooles: hee that thinkes himselfe wise and is not, he that spends all to be thought bountifull, he that pines himselfe to leave to another, and he that beleeves a Queans love.
39 There bee foure things of much [Page] strength in the world: love with the religious, for it upholds the soule; health with the laborious, for it upholds the body; learning with the studious, for it upholds the wit; and parience with the gracious, for it upholds the spirit.
40 Foure excellent vertues in a Virgin: Silence, Humility Constancie, and Devotion.
41 Foure great blessings to a wife a modest eye, a kind spirit, a paineful hand, and a true heart.
42 Foure notes of a divine nature: to regard him whome the world scorneth to love him whom the world hateth, to help him whom the world hurteth, and to advance him whom the world overthroweth.
43 There are foure chiefe notes of a good huswife: early rising, close gathering, safe keeping, and well bestowing.
44 There are foure things goe commonly together: a fleeting face, a leering [Page] eye, a flatering tongue, and a false heart.
45 There are foure fearefull Judgements: sudden madnesse, sudden warre, sudden ruine, and sudden death.
46 Foure kindes of Vermine doe very much hurt where they come: Mice among cheese, Weezels among Conies Moules among Gardens, and Whoores among Gallants.
47 Foure things are tedious to many good mindes: a long tale, a long winter, a long fasting, and a long voyage.
48 Foure things weary out a good minde: imployment without reward, oppressions without releefe, cruell cre [...]s, and importunate beggers.
49 Foure things to be taken heed of: an intruding friend, a flattering servant a wanton wife, and a wicked neighbour.
50 There be foure chiefe horses for service: the cours [...]r for the souldier, the Hackney for the post, the Carthorse [Page] for the Farmer, and the Hobbihorse for the Morris-dance.
51 Foure men to be banished all good company: a lyer, a swearer, a quareller and a tale-teller.
52 Foure kindes of women much set a worke: a mid-wife, a milke-maid, a market-woman, and a meale-woman.
53 Foure kinds of cleanly wenches: a dairy wench, a shop wench, a needle wench, and a starch wench.
54 Foure kinds of black men: a Moore, a Collier, a Smith, and a Scullion.
55 Foure white women: the Lady White, Mistris White, Good-wife White, and Widdow White.
56 Foure high things to looke upon: a high man, a high Constable, a high Steeple, and a high May-pole.
57 Foure needfull eyes in a Taverne: an eye to the guest, an eye to the plate, an eye to the score, and an eye to the doore.
58 Foure things goe through many things: wit, art, experience, and mony.
[Page]59 Foure dayes welcome to Schollers: Christmas day, Shrove-tuesday, Easter-day, and Whitsunday.
60 Foure kindes of men not to bee stood against: Princes and Potentates, Judges and Generals.
61 Foure things grievously empty: a head without braines, a wit without judgement, a heart without honesty, and a purse without money.
62 Foure diseases hardly to be cured: the gout in an old man, the green-sicknesse in a woman, the farcie in an old horse, and the rot in a sheep.
63 Foure chiefe comforts to the sense of nature: health, liberty, mirth, and money.
64 Foure chiefe nuts in the world the Chest-nut, the Wall-nut, the Small-nut, and the sort nut.
65 Foure chiefe musicall birds: the Nightingale, the Larke, the Linner, and the Robbin-red-brest.
66 Foure fine little labourers: the Bee, the Ant, the Silke-worme, and Spider.
[Page]67 Foure kindes of beastly men in the world: a glutton, a drunkard, a lecher, and a bawd.
68 Foure kindes of theeves worthy to be hanged: horse-stealers, cut-purses house-breakers, and pick-pockets.
69 Foure things good in a goose: her quils for pens, her feathers for pillowes, her flesh for the dish, and her grease for the ache.
70 Foure exellent medicines for many diseases: abstinence, exercise, mirth and patience.
71 Foure things ill for a Carrier: leane horse, hard fare, foule weather, and foggy women.
72 Foure great in-liers: a woman that lies in child-bed, a knave that lies in wait, a whore that lies in a sweat, and a mad-man that lies in Bedlam.
73 Foure present cases for foure great paines: to scratch for the itch, to breake wind for the collick, to pisse for the stone, and to sweat for the cold.
74 There are foure kindes of ugly [Page] objects: a scabbie Iade, a mangy dog, a lowsie knave, and a pockie whore.
75 Foure chiefe Doves in the world: the Turtle-dove, the Wood-dove, the Ring dove, and the House-dove.
76 Foure perilous snares to fall into: the snare of an Usurer, the snare of a lewd woman, the snare of a slatterer, and the snare of the Devil.
77 Foure strange sports: to see a Beare hunt a wild ducke, an Ape kisse an Owle, a Goose bite a Fox, and a Squirrell hunt a Coney.
78 Foure sweet Trades in a Citie: Sugar-men, Comfit-makers, Perfumers and Nose-gay-makers.
79 Foure speedie passengers in the world: a bird thorow the aire, a ship thorow the sea, a word from the mouth and a thought from the minde.
80 Foure round walkers in the world a wheele, a spindle, a bowle, and a milstone.
81 Foure tokens of foule weather: aches in the limbs, sleepinesse in the [Page] head, sweating of stones, and darkenes of weather.
82 Foure tokens of faire weather: when the Robbin-red-brest sings early, when the Bee workes earnestly, when the Spider keepes home, and the Swallow flies merrily.
83 Foure creatures are great spoylers where they come: Hogs among pease, Deere among corne, Cats among milkpans, and Whales among Herrings.
84 Foure Kings without Kingdomes: the King of Man, the King of Portugall, a King in a play, and a painted King.
85 Foure strange things to be deciphered: a man and no man, threw a stone and no stone, at a bird and no bird, in a tree and no tree.
86 Foure interpretations of these foure things: a man and no man was an Eunuch, and therefore no man: the stōe was a pumice, the bird was a Bar, and the tree was an Eldertree.
87 Foure hard dayes in the yeare: Good-friday for Schollers, for then [Page] they fast: Ash-wednesday for Papists, for then they must be whipt; rent-day for poore folks, for then they must pay their Land-lords; and the Executionday for Theeves, for then they must be hanged.
88 Foure things much talkt of, and little found: Wisedome, Vertue, Honesty, and Conscience.
89 Foure creatures goe willingly to their businesse: a Bride to Church, a boy to breckfast, an heire to his land, and a swee [...]-heart to his loue.
90 Foure things are soone out: a candle out of his light, a foole out of his tale, an eye out of his sight, and a prodigall out of his patrimony.
91 Foure things ill for the earth: a winters thunder, a summers frost, a long drought, and a sudden floud.
92 Foure things pretily described: a whore by her leering, a setter by his peering, a parasite by his fleering, and an epicure by his cheering.
93 Foure vile things in nature: to be [Page] unkinde to a wife, unnaturall to a child untrue to a Master, unthankfull unto a friend.
94 Foure offenders not to be pardoned: he that will not be admonished, he that will outface a lye, he that will not amend, and he that delights in his wickednesse.
95 Foure costly spots in the world: the spots on the cards, the spots on the dice, the spots on embroyde [...]ies, and the spots on ill tongues.
96 Foure men needfull in an armie: a good Commandor, a good Scout, a good Sentinell, and a good Gunner.
97 Foure things chiefly necessary in peace: a good King, a good Counsell, a good soile, and good Subjects.
98 Foure ill things in Musicke: to play out of time, or out of tune, false strings, and bad instruments.
99 Foure things good aboue all: God, his Word, his grace, and Glory.