. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, NEWES FKOM ANY WHENCE. OR, OLD TRUTH, UNDER A SUPPOSALL OF NOVELTIE. Occasioned by divers Essaies, and private passages of Wit, betweene sundrie Gentlemen upon that subject. Newes from Court. |T is thought heere that there are asgreat miseries beyond happinesse, asa this side it, as being in love. Thattruth is every mans by time makes every thing aged, and yet it selfewas never hut a minute old. That, next sleep, thegreatest devourer of time is businesse : the greateststretcher of it, passion: the truest
. The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, NEWES FKOM ANY WHENCE. OR, OLD TRUTH, UNDER A SUPPOSALL OF NOVELTIE. Occasioned by divers Essaies, and private passages of Wit, betweene sundrie Gentlemen upon that subject. Newes from Court. |T is thought heere that there are asgreat miseries beyond happinesse, asa this side it, as being in love. Thattruth is every mans by time makes every thing aged, and yet it selfewas never hut a minute old. That, next sleep, thegreatest devourer of time is businesse : the greateststretcher of it, passion: the truest measure of it,contemplation. To be saved, alvvayes is the bestplot: and vertue alwayes cleares her way as shegoes. Vice is ever behind-hand with it selfe. Thatwit and a woman are two fraile things, and both the. 172 NEWES. frailer by concurring. That the meanes of begettinga man, hath more increast mankind then the the madnesse of love is to be sicke of one part,and cured by another. The madnesse of jealousie,that it is so diligent, and yet it hopes to lose hislabour. That all women for the bodily part, are butthe same meaning put in divers words. That thedifference in the sense is their understanding. Thatthe wisdome of action is discretion ; the knowledgeof contemplation is truth: the knowledge of actionis men. That the first considers what should be,the latter makes use of what is. That every man isweake in his owne humours. That every man alittle beyond himselfe, is a foole. That affectationis the more ridiculous part of folly then the matter of greatnesse is comparison. ThatGod made one world of substances ; man hath madeanother of art and opinion. That money is nothingbut a thing which art hath turned up custome is the soule of circumstances. Thatcust
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