Advice to a Son; or Directions For your Better Conduct...
...Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life.
Not an especially snazzy title, I'll grant you, but Francis Osborne's book of 1656 contains some rare gems, and is up for auction next month:
"Never buy but with ready money; and be drawne rather to fix where you find things cheape and good, then for friendship or acquaintance."
"Loose your liberty, & see your leggs rott in the stocks of the physician; they being often unwholsome." (The latter quotation being advice on not visiting prostitutes.)
More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3438061/Lads-mag-for-the-17th-century.html
Not an especially snazzy title, I'll grant you, but Francis Osborne's book of 1656 contains some rare gems, and is up for auction next month:
"Never buy but with ready money; and be drawne rather to fix where you find things cheape and good, then for friendship or acquaintance."
"Loose your liberty, & see your leggs rott in the stocks of the physician; they being often unwholsome." (The latter quotation being advice on not visiting prostitutes.)
More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3438061/Lads-mag-for-the-17th-century.html