Politeuphuia VVits common wealth.

Of Day, or Light.

Defi. The word Dies which signifieth day, is so called, quod sit diuini operis, it is Gods faire creature, and the cheerefull comfort of man, who by his word made the light thereof to beautifie it to the worlds end.

THose children which are borne betweene the foure and twenty houres of midnight, and midnight, with the Romans are said to be borne in one day.

Numa Pompilius, as hee deuided the yeere into Moneths, so hee deuided the moneth into dayes, and called them Festos, profestos, and Intercisos, the first dedicated to the gods, the next to men, for dispatching of theyr bu∣sines; the last as common for theyr Gods as men.

A day natural hath twenty & foure houres, a day artificiall, hath twelue houres.

The day beginneth vvith the Egyptians at sunne-setting, and vvith the Persians at the sunne-rising.

The Athenians count all the time from the setting of the sunne, till the setting of the sun againe, but one day.

The Babylonians count their day from the sunne rising in the morning, till the sun rising the next day.

The Vmbrians, an auncient people in Italy, count theyr day from noonetide, till no one∣tide next following.

The vvicked and euill-liuing man, loueth darknes, and hateth the light.

One day taketh from vs, the credite that a∣nother hath giuen vs, and the last must make reckoning of all the rest past.

By daily experience we wax wiser & wiser.

Hee that refuseth to amend his life to day, may happen to be dead ere to morrow. Aure.

Let no day be spent without some remem∣brance how thou hast bestowed thy time.

Vespasian thought that day lost vvherein he ••ad not gotten a friend.

One day the hardy broode Of Fabius sent to fight, Thus sent one day, Did see them nobly dead ere night.

The Romans called Iupiter Diespiter, which signifieth the father of the day, or light.

Light is some-times taken for day, and darknes for night.

No day commeth to man, wherein he hath not some cause of sorrow. Quintil.

The entrance of adolescencie is the end of infancie, mans estate the death of youth, and the morrow dayes birth, the ouer-throw of this dayes pride.

Light is the Queene of the eyes. Aug.

GOD in the beginning made tvvo great lights, one for the day another for the night.

Day is the image of life, night of death. Aug.

The pleasure of the day, is the sunne, called of the Philosophers the golden eye, and hart of heauen.

The light of learning, is the day of the minde. Aug.

Euery day that passeth, is not to be thought as the last, but that it may be the last. Seneca.

The sunne melteth wax, and hardneth clay.

Abbreuiare dies poteris producere nunquam, Abbreuiare tuum est sed prolong are tonantis. Optima quae{que} dies miseris mortalibus eui Prima fugit: subeunt morbi tistis{que} senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.