Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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A13456	What say you to the Leafe or Flecke of a Brawne new kild, to be of weight eight pound, and to be eaten hot out of the Bores belly raw?
A13456	much good doe you Gallants, was it not a glorious dish?
A87187	And was not this a great work of God, that so weak a Woman should be able to defend her selfe against so many, so potent enemies?
A87187	Yea, and not onely to match them, but to master them?
A87187	[ 8], 24 p. Printed for Richard Wodenothe in Leaden- hall street, over against Leaden- hall., London,:[ 1652?]
A41805	: 1699?]
A41805	An appeal to all true English- men( if there be any such left), or, A cry for bread Grascome, Samuel, 1641- 1708?
A41805	And what shall we do in this Case?
A41805	By this time I expect some should grow Testy, and say, If this be not the Reason ▪ what is?
A41805	Or shall we try, if there be any Remedy?
A41805	Or who shall pity them if they do starve, who have Bread enough, and are able to keep it, and yet tamely suffer others to carry it away from them?
A41805	Shall we believe those who tell us, that we can not want in such a Country as this?
A41805	Shall we lie down, and dye?
A41805	Shall we, like a Parcel of Sots and Fools, tamely sink under the Malady, and pine away the miserable Remainder of our Days without further Care?
A41805	What then?
A41805	You will say then, what is the Reason?
A41805	s.n.,[ London?
A41805	shall we send Hui and Cry after the Cause of this Mischief and Misery?
A63810	And if this will do so, what will Feathers do, that in the Root of Nature are unclean fulsom Excrements, of a hot strong Quality?
A63810	And will not Fleas breed from the very Dust of Chambers where People lie?
A63810	Are not Lice, that troublesom Vermin, bred from the Breathings of the Body, for want of often Change both of Linnen and Woollen?
A63810	Are not the People ten- fold as sickly in this Season, and double the number die, than they do at other times?
A63810	Does not the Life and Spirits of most sorts of Food waste and evaporate by keeping, if there be not a proper way of Preservation used?
A63810	WHat is more profitable for all Lovers of Health and Wisdom, than Food that is Radically Clean?
A63810	What is more pleasant and healthful than good Air?
A63810	When any Person is disordered with inward Diseases, does not the Mouth quickly complain of the Evils thereof?
A63810	Where are your Doctors that teach Men Sobriety in their Lives, or the proper and natural way of preparing Meats fit for the Stomach?
A63810	Would not every one condemn a Man, if he should wear a Shirt a Year, and lie in Sheets seven Years?
A13502	( quoth the mother,) I know he is very rich: rich, said the maide?
A13502	Away went the Butcher, the Porter, and the Gentleman, who asked the Butcher his name, and of what Country he was?
A13502	He must, and shall have Money, and so will I: Are you as mad as your man said the Serving- man?
A13502	I pray thee canst thou say thy prayers, or Creed?
A13502	Marry I say Sir, I charge thee bring hither our Sturgeon; What doe you meane, my Colt said hee?
A13502	Now, God blesse me, said the maide, for I can not love him: why canst thou not love him?
A13502	The Gentlemen perceiving that no deniall would satisfie their intruding importunacy, said, do''st thou heare fellow, how many are you?
A13502	The place being told, and the Taverne appointed, the witty Soldier went to the Tapster, and call''d for two Gunnes of Beere; Guns quoth the Tapster?
A13502	Wee are foure said the Musitian; Can you dance said the Gentlemen?
A13502	Well overtaken Katch- man sayes one, Gramercy Water- man said the other; wilt thou buy 100. of Faggots, said Bawdy Boy?
A13502	What, is my man mad said the Butcher?
A13502	Why sayst thou so?
A13502	Yes that it is said the other; then sayd Baxted, will not your Master bee angry if I doe goe away and not drinke?
A13502	and what is the reason that I have knock''t, and bounc''d so long for you?
A13502	the Host answered, that it was good sawce for their meate; Sawce said the other?
A13502	who lets them Eate, Drinke, weare, say, or doe what they please, but Fooles?
A13502	yea quot the other, hee would have Money, I told you: Money, why should hee not have Money said the Butcher?
A00818	And from whom did he hide it?
A00818	And hee thought with himselfe, What shall I doe, because I haue no roome to bestow my fruits?
A00818	And how can abhominable selling expect a blessing?
A00818	Answer once an Heathen who neuer knew Christ and his Gospell, vnto his short question: Cur eget indignus quisquam te diuite?
A00818	Art thou not vnnaturall, who sufferest that which nature can not endure, vacuity?
A00818	But did not religious Ioseph in the yeares of plenty, gather and keepe vp Corne, which he sold afterward in the yeares of famine?
A00818	But how came these things to be thine owne?
A00818	But is this such a punishment to be hunted with the clamours and curses of the people?
A00818	But tell mee sadly, Who is a couetous man?
A00818	But when did hee hide his Corne?
A00818	By the top I vnderstand the recompence, which is no lesse than Blessing; than which, what more excellent?
A00818	Call ye me this Vsurie, or rather Fellonie?
A00818	Callest thou thy selfe a Christian, and arguest thou thus, quite contrary to the rules of Christianity?
A00818	Didst thou bring them with thee into the world?
A00818	Didst thou not come naked out of thy mothers wombe?
A00818	Doth Dauid say of him, l Who hath dispersed and giuen to the poore, that his righteousnesse remaineth for euer?
A00818	Doth not he put out the fire that puts not on wood, as well as hee that throwes on water?
A00818	Doth not hee put out the Lampe that powreth not oyle into it, as well as he that blowes it out?
A00818	Doth not the earth yeeld thee sufficient encrease?
A00818	God giues thee leaue to eat: Hast thou a great charge, many of thine owne to be prouided for, so that it is not for thine ease to giue?
A00818	God giues thee leaue to marry: Canst thou not fast?
A00818	Hast thou so much that thou knowest not what to do with thy goods?
A00818	How can we call our selues Christians, if wee will not buy Christ for a little siluer, or a morsell of bread?
A00818	How is that?
A00818	How many a hungry family might feast it a week, on the healths that are wasted in some Gentlemens houses in a night?
A00818	How sollicitous are you for corporall, how carelesse of Spiritual sustenance?
A00818	How?
A00818	I can not; and to whom should I bequeath it, rather then vnto them on whom my Text doth bestow it, the Sellers?
A00818	I demand of thee againe( in the words of that blessed man) What are those things thou callest thine owne?
A00818	I see here are Ministers present, as well as Magistrates, and shall I dismisse my brethren without a blessing?
A00818	If all were poore, who should be able to shew charity?
A00818	If all were rich, what praise were there of patience?
A00818	If any doe except and say, What is this against horders?
A00818	If blessing shall be on the head of the seller, how many blessings shall bee on the bountifull giuer and releeuer of the poore?
A00818	If our sinnes must needs be scourged, let not greater sinners be the Beadles: Who hath giuen you commission to be the Countries hangmen?
A00818	If thou confessest thou hast them from God, that he gaue them vnto thee; then tell me, why did God giue them vnto thee rather than vnto another?
A00818	Is he a theefe that takes from a man his owne, and makes him to be in want?
A00818	Is not this gaine more odious, more base then that of the Emperour, who extracted gold out of Vrine?
A00818	Latrocinium hoc an foenus appellem?
A00818	May I not do with mine owne as I list?
A00818	May I not doe with mine owne what I list?
A00818	Mother, saith another, where is bread?
A00818	Nonne haec pauperis vox est, non habentis subsidia viuendi?
A00818	Our children doe not say vnto their mothers, Where is Corne and Wine?
A00818	Quantas anni superioris frumento animas pauperum reseruare possem?
A00818	Quid faciam?
A00818	Shall I speake now vnto the deafe Adder, who will not heare the voyce of the Charmer?
A00818	Shalt thou not returne naked againe?
A00818	Tell mee againe, who is a theefe?
A00818	That which followes is most patheticall; q Shall the women eat their owne fruit, and their children of aspan long?
A00818	The ascent I call the Duty, which is selling, than which, what more easie?
A00818	They say vnto their Mothers, where is corne and wine?
A00818	Thinke not to fillip off these curses which your cruelties haue squeised from them, with Tush, what care I what the people say?
A00818	Thou answerest, why?
A00818	Thou sayest( saith the same) To whom doe I wrong, if I keepe mine owne?
A00818	Thou sellest it, but to whom?
A00818	Thou sellest it, but where?
A00818	Thou sellest, but in what manner?
A00818	Thou sellest, but to whom?
A00818	Vt quid ego abscondam cui Deus facit ab indare quod l ● rgior?
A00818	What Hell shall be hot enough for those that will not sell, when Hell fire is prepared for those who would not giue?
A00818	What canst thou expect then, who wilt rather be cursed by the poore, than sell thine own to them at a reasonable rate in their necessity?
A00818	What is a pardon worth, that commeth after execution?
A00818	What is hee lesse, that will not sell a poore man his owne when hee is in want?
A00818	What is this but to delay a blessing, vntill it turne to a curse; like the reprieuing of a good dish of meat till it be moulded, and full of worms?
A00818	What shall I doe?
A00818	What shalt thou doe, man?
A00818	What shalt thou doe?
A00818	What then can we thinke of them but as enemies both to God and man, opposite both to Grace and Nature?
A00818	Whence then hast thou these things?
A00818	Why art thou rich, and hee poore?
A00818	Why seest thou any one to want; who is vnworthy, while thou doest abound?
A00818	Why then hath God giuen thee so much, and him so little?
A00818	Why?
A00818	a False ballances are abhomination vnto the Lord; and are not false Bushels and false Peckes also?
A00818	c God turneth a fruitfull land into barrennesse: why doth he so?
A00818	crying out that you are ready to dye for want of a crust, and not perceiuing that you doe daily perish for want of knowledge?
A00818	g Canst thou not( saith a Saint) keepe virginity?
A00818	h Sell that you haue, and giue almes, saith our Sauiour: Is that somewhat hard to sell and giue all?
A00818	how can the infant draw milke from the breast, when the Nurse can not get meat for the belly: Mother, saith another childe, when shall we eat?
A00818	k But doe wee not read that Gedeon threshed out his Corne, not to sell it, but to hide it, and yet is not blamed for so doing?
A00818	shall tribulation, or distresse, or persecution, or FAMINE?
A00818	they who are not moued by any of these, by all of these, what hope is there that they will be mollified by my weake words?
A00818	to the poore?
A00818	what meanest thou to plow and harrow the very guts of thy poore brother for greater gaine?
A00818	what wilt thou doe then?
A00818	why?
A00818	— Quid faciam( inquit) quòd non habeo?
A89219	And how proveth he that?
A89219	And if Salt- meats( not over- salted) be generally held to give the best nourishment, why should we deny that Salt nourisheth?
A89219	And if the old Romans fed not diversly, why had they usually three dishes at their table?
A89219	And is not the sweetest oil marred by mingling, which being kept alone by it self would be ever fragrant?
A89219	And tell me Philo; why should it not be in meats as it is in wines?
A89219	And to say the truth, what dish can any Cooks- shop afford, that can be compared with a boild or rosted Capon?
A89219	And verily for strong and able persons, what need we prescribe more sawces then exercise and hunger?
A89219	And verily till God would have it so, who dared to touch with his lips the remnant of a dead carcass?
A89219	As for raw flesh( besides Butchers, Cooks, Poulterers, Slaughter men, and Canibals) who dare almost touch it with their fingers?
A89219	But can you not prescribe one certain measure or quantity fit for all men?
A89219	But here a great question ariseth, whether sweet smels correct the pestilent aire, or rather be as a guide to bring it the sooner into our hearts?
A89219	But how could it be otherwise, when the wind blows there most commonly out of Africa, the mother of all venomous and filthy beasts?
A89219	But to answer the Carthusians arguments, I say this; That Christ in the places of Scripture cited before, asked his Disciples what meat they had?
A89219	But what followed?
A89219	But would you know what Temperancy is?
A89219	Concerning the tempering of aire in our houses: is it too hot and dry?
A89219	Contrariwise wanteth your stomach appetite, through abundance of choler, or adust and putrified phlegm?
A89219	Dic mihi, cur nostras incipit illa Dapes?
A89219	Finally if they were an ill and heavy meat, why were they appointed to be eaten first?
A89219	Finally, admit Deer be dry; doth not butter amend them?
A89219	For as Solomon saith, to whom is pain of the belly, and gripings, and redness of eyes, and want of health?
A89219	For can we imagine that he taught our forefathers( having sinned) how to cloath their bodies, and not how, and when, and wherewith to feed them?
A89219	For tell me, what humanity can we call it, to give a man less then his stomach wanteth?
A89219	For who is ignorant that cabbages once sod loosen the belly, but twice sod( I mean in several waters) procure most dangerous and great costiveness?
A89219	For who knoweth not that the smell of Opium bringeth on sleep, drowsiness, and sinking of the spirits?
A89219	Furthermore doth not the Diars Art instruct us, no colour to keep so long in cloth or silk, as that which is made by one simple?
A89219	He that taught Abel how to diet sheep, would he leave him unskilful how to diet himself?
A89219	How able am I now to all exercises, being erst so unable to the least labour?
A89219	How careful is the mind alwaies to preserve life?
A89219	How great and powerful is riot, which maketh the highest covering of mountains, and the lowest creatures of the seas to meet together?
A89219	Is it too cold and moist?
A89219	Is it too thick and misty?
A89219	Is not the earth sufficient to give us meat, but that we must also rend up the bowels of beasts, birds, and fishes?
A89219	Knew Physicians in Iacobs time how to conserve dead bodies, and wanted they knowledge to preserve the living?
A89219	Let it be hot, how can that be cold?
A89219	May I not in like manner say the like of Salt ▪ to which Homer giveth the title of Divinity, and Plato calleth it Jupiters Minion?
A89219	Nay bread the very staff and strength of our sustenance, is it not unwholesom, heavy and untoothsom some without Salt?
A89219	Notwithstanding, sith by nature they provoke vomiting, how can they be nourishing?
A89219	On the otherside will it please you to mark the commodities of diet, and moderate nourishing?
A89219	Pig?
A89219	Secondly they demand, How can her flesh be wholsom, whose milk being drunk, filleth our bodies full of leprosie ▪ scurf, tetters and scabs?
A89219	Secondly, what necessity is there to use them, Nature having replenished the earth with fruit, herbs, grain, beasts also, and birds of all sorts?
A89219	Some have put the question, Whether there be any sawce but appetite?
A89219	Suppose they be cold; doth not pepper and salt, and baking, give them sufficient heat?
A89219	Upon which and some other things, arose these questions and sayings, Whether eating of crusts of Bread, and sinews of flesh, make a man strong?
A89219	Veal?
A89219	What Lawyer hath not heard of Mr. Tanfiels conceit, who is feared as much with a dead Duck, as Philip of Spain was with a living Drake?
A89219	What Nation more lascivious then the fenny Egyptians, and the Poeonians?
A89219	What Sir?
A89219	What Souldier knoweth not that a roasted Pigg will affright Captain Swan more then the sight of twenty Spaniards?
A89219	What is more unpleasant to most mens natures, then the taste of humane flesh?
A89219	What is raw flesh till it be prepared, but an imperfect lump?
A89219	What made Pelias( Tyrus and Neptunes son) so bruitish, but that he was nursed by an unhappy mare?
A89219	What made Romulus and Polyphemus so cruel, but that they were nursed by She- wolves?
A89219	What need I write of Achilles, who in his nonage living with Chiron, desired most to feed upon Lions livers?
A89219	What need I write that when the Israelites loathed Manna, Quails were sent them as the best and daintiest meat of all other?
A89219	When elder times did feed on Lettice last, Why is it now the first meat that we tast?
A89219	Whether Ashes be Physick, and mouldy Bread clear the eyesight?
A89219	Whether an iron Ladle hinders Peas and Rice from seething?
A89219	Whether roast meat be best, and best tasted, larded, barded, scorch''d or basted?
A89219	Which in effect what is it else, then with the Sicilians to erect a Temple to riot: or with the Barbarians to praise surfeiting?
A89219	Who sees not a dry Summer peeleth, and a dry winter riveleth the skin?
A89219	Would you see the discommodities of excess?
A89219	Yea but( some will say) how shall we know when we have eaten enough?
A89219	an idle, a needless, a womanly pleasure?
A89219	and shall( man the measurer of Heaven and Earth) be ignorant how in Diet to measure the bigness signes or strength of his own stomach?
A89219	and that contrariwise, an over- moist aire puffeth it up with humors, and engendreth rheumes in the whole body?
A89219	doth not variety of wines make bad distribution, and cause drunkenness sooner then if we kept to one wine?
A89219	for had not the aire, water, and earth, certain impurities, how should men, beasts, birds, fishs, and plants continue?
A89219	for tell me to what meat( be it flesh, fish or fruit) or to what broth Salt is not required, either to preserve season or rellish the same?
A89219	how do fooles long for unwholsome meats?
A89219	knows he by signes when they are over filled; and is he ignorant of the signes of repletion in himself?
A89219	let it be chilled with frost or snow, our skin( yea our inwards themselves) begin to shiver?
A89219	may diet prolong a mans life?
A89219	namely of satiety, loathing, drowsiness, stiffness, weakness, weariness, heaviness and belching?
A89219	nay will they not in time be both sick?
A89219	or Goats flesh?
A89219	or had Cain the art of tilling the ground, and not the knowledge how to use the grain thereof?
A89219	or rather was it not most cunningly made or preserved, when at twenty years end it did eat as soft as at the first day?
A89219	or that the Kings of Egypt fed never upon more meats, then either Veal or Goslings?
A89219	or the flesh of Birds?
A89219	or the flesh of wild beasts?
A89219	or to set the pray of a wolfe, and the meat of a falcon upon his table?
A89219	or whether it be good to use sawces?
A89219	or with Ulisses drunken companions to open Aeolus his bottle all at once?
A89219	that the use of salt is unnaturall or unwholesome?
A89219	what doe you vaunt and brag of purity, when the purest things do least nourish?
A89219	what geometrical proportion is that, which giveth as much to the half- full, as the empty vessel?
A89219	what is fish but an unrellished froth of the water, before Salt correcteth the flashiness thereof, and addeth firmness?
A89219	what law, what reason, nay what conjecture found out this canibals diet?
A89219	what remedy call you that, which is more savage and abominable then the grief it self?
A89219	what so void of relish as the white of an egg?
A89219	who I say durst feed upon those members which lately did see, go, bleat, lowe, feel, and move?
A89219	who knoweth not( as Galen affirmeth) that Asparagus often washed is a good nourishment, but otherwise so bitter that it wholly purgeth?
A89219	who will urge his Horse to eat too much, or cram his Hawke till she be over gorged, or feed his Hound till his tail leave waving?
A89219	ye feedeth he not some times upon Snakes and Adders?