Junij 9, 1602. fo. 26. Marti , lib. 10, Epig. 47. 65
I take noe care to gett, my wealth was left me,
I reape the harvest of what'ere I sowe,
I stur not muche abroade, home best befits me,
I ne're received wronge, nor none I owe.
I travaile not in publique busines,
Nor ought's within my charge but myne owne soule,
My body's healthfull, fitt for exercise,
Myselfe enioys myselfe without controule.
I have a harmeles thought, an æqual friend,
My clothes are easy, and my face wants art,
I greive not when I rest, nor doe I spend
More tyme in sleepe then nature can impart.
I cast the worlde behinde, Heauen is my guide,
I would be what I am, and nought beside;
But above all, [and] which is all and summe,
I neither wishe nor feare the day to come.
Th. Sm.
June, 1602.
fo. 26b.
Arbella Stuarta: tu rara es et bella.
Henricus Burbonius: rex bonus orbi.
12.Common preachers worse then common swearers, for these doe abuse but Gods name, but they abuse Gods worde. (Curle.)
15.Upon a tyme when the late Lord Treasurer, Sir William Cecile, came before Justice Dyer66 in the Common Place with his rapier by his side, the Justice told him that he must lay aside his long penknife yf he would come into that Court; this speache was free, and the sharper, because Sir William was then Secretary. (Bradman.)
There is nowe a table placed for the barresters crosse over the hall by the cuppord, which one called St. Albanes, because he said it was in the waye to Duns-table.
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"Roome! Roome!" said one, "Here comes a woman with a cupbord on hir head;" of one that had sold hir cupboard to buy a taffaty hat. (Franklin.)
16 June, 1602.
fo. 27.Kentish tayles are nowe turned to such spectacles, soe that yf a man put them on his nose he shall haue all the land he can see. (Idem.)
22.Sergeant Heale, since he became the Queens Sergeant, came to the Lord Keeper,67 desyring that he would heareafter give him more gratious hearinge; otherwise, his clients already beginning to fall from him, he would nowe betake himself to his ease in the country, and leave this troublesome kinde of lyfe. The Lord Keeper made him noe other answere but said, yf that were his resolucion he doubted68 not but the blessing of Issakar would light upon him. (Mr. Bennet narr.) Vide Gen. xlix. 14: "Issachar shall be a stronge asse couching downe betweene two burdens; and he shall see that rest is good; and that the land is pleasaunt, and he shall bowe his shoulders to beare, and he shalbe subiect unto tribute."