Diary of John Manningham Part 23

[Footnote 120: William Perkins, of Christ Church, Cambridge, and minister of St. Andrew's in that town; the well-known Calvinistic divine.]

The preacher at the Temple said, that he which offereth himselfe to G.o.d, that is, which mortifieth and leaueth his pleasures and affection to serue G.o.d, doth more then Abraham did when he offered to sacrifice his sonne, for there is none but loues himself more dearly then his owne children.

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The embasing of the coyne for Irland hath brought them almost to a famine, for the Queen hath received backe as muche as shee coyned; they haue none other left, and for that none will bring anie victuall vnto them. (_Mr. Curle nar._)

I heard that the French King hath reteined the Sythers [Switzers?] for 8,000_l._ present and 3,000_l._ annuall, [and] hath sold divers townes to the Duke of Bulloine, whoe means to be on the part of the Archduke for them.

"I was brought up as my frends were able; when manners were in the hall I was in the stable," quoth my laundres, when I told hir of hir saucy boldnes.

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10 November.]

Mr. Curle demaunded of Wake a marke which he layd out for him when they rede with the reader; his aunswere was he lived upon exhibicion, he could not tell whether his friends would allowe him soe much for that purpose. (_Sordide._)

Soe soone as they began to rate the charges at St. Albans awaye startes hee. "He did justly, a dog would not tarry when you rate him," said L.

Mr. Blunt, a great gamester, marvellous franke, and a blunt cauelier.

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Mr. Bacon, in giving evidence in the Lord Morleys case for the forrest of Hatfield, said it had alwayes flowne an high pitche; _i. e._ hath bin allwayes in the hands of greate men.

The first Lord Riche was Lord Chauncellor of England in Edward VI.'s tyme[121] (_Bacon._)

[Footnote 121: Robert Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor from 1547 to 1551.]

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In the Starr Chamber, when Mr. Moore urged in defense of attournies that followed suites out of their proper courts, that it was usuall and common; the Lord Keeper said, "_Mult.i.tudo peccantium pudorem tollit, non peccatum_."

"Ha! the divel goe with the," said the Bishop of L. to his boule when himselfe ran after it. (_Mr. Cu._)

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November, 1602.]

"Size ace will not, deux ace cannot, quater tree must," quothe Blackborne, when he sent for wine; a common phrase of subsidies and such taxes, the greate ones will not, the little ones cannot, the meane men must pay for all.

The old Lord Treasurers witt was as it seemes of Borrowe Englishe tenure, for it descended to his younger sonne, Sir Robert.

A n.o.bleman on horsebacke with a rable of footmen about him is but like a huntsman with a kennell of houndes after him.

The Dutch which lately stormed the galleys which our s.h.i.+ps had first battered, deserve noe more credit then a lackey for pillaging of that dead body which his maister had slayne. (_Sir Robert Mansell._)

_Sequitur sua poena nocentem._

Bacon said that the generall rules of the lawe were like cometes, and wandring stars. Mr. Attorney [c.o.ke] said rather they were like the sunne; they have light in themselves, and give light to others, whereas the starrs are but _corpora opaca_.

The Attorney said he could make a lamentable argument for him in the remainder that is prejudiced by the act of the particular tenant; but it would be said of him as of Ca.s.sandra, when he had spoken much he should not be believed.

A difference without a diuersitie, a curiosity.

Vennar, a gent. of Lincolnes, who had lately playd a notable cunnicatching tricke, and gulled many under couller of a play to be of gent. and reuerens, comming to the court since in a blacke suit, bootes and golden spurres without a rapier, one told him he was not well suited; the golden spurres and his brazen face uns[uited?]

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November, 1602.]

A vehement suspicion may not be a judicial condemnacion: the Lord Keeper said he would dimisse one as a partie vehemently suspected, then judicially condemned [_sic_].

The callender of women saynts was full long agoe.

A womans love is river-like, which stopt doth overflowe, But when the river findes noe lett, it often runnes too lowe.

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An hypocrite or puritan is like a globe, that hath all in _conuexo, nihil in concauo_, all without painted, nothing within included. (_Mr.

Curle._)