SATYRICALL
ESSAYES
,
CHARACTERS
AND
OTHERS
.
Three
Satyricall
Essayes
of
Cowardlinesse
.
ESSAY
.
I.
FEare
to
resist
good
vertues
common
foe
,
And
seare
to
loose
some
lucre
,
which
doth
grow
By
a
continued
practise
;
makes
our
fate
Banish
(
with
single
combates
)
all
the
hate
,
Which
broad
abuses
challenge
of
our
spleene
.
For
who
in
Vertues
troope
was
euer
seene
,
That
did
couragiously
with
mischiefes
fight
Without
the
publicke
name
of
hipocrite
?
Vaine-glorious
,
Malapert
,
Precise
,
Deuout
,
Be
tearmes
which
threaten
those
that
go
about
To
stand
in
opposition
of
our
times
With
true
defiance
,
or
Satyrickeri●es
.
Cowards
they
be
,
branded
among
the
worst
,
Who
(
through
contempt
of
Atheisme
)
neuer
durst
Crowd
neere
a
great-Mans
elbow
,
to
suggest
Smooth
tales
with
glosse
,
or
Enuy
well
addrest
.
These
be
the
noted
cowards
of
our
age
;
Who
be
not
able
to
instruct
the
Stage
With
matter
of
new
shamelesse
impudence
:
Who
cannot
almost
laugh
at
innocence
;
And
purchase
high
preferment
by
the
waies
,
Which
had
bene
horrible
in
Nero's
dayes
.
They
are
the
shamefull
cowards
,
who
contemne
Vices
of
State
,
or
cannot
●l●tter
them
;
Who
can
refuse
aduantage
;
or
deny
Villanous
courses
,
if
they
can
esp●e
Some
little
purchase
to
inrich
their
ch●st
,
Though
they
become
vncomfortably
blest
.
Wee
still
account
those
Cowards
,
who
forbeare
(
Being
possess'd
with
a
Religious
feare
)
To
slip
occasion
,
when
they
might
erect
Hornes
on
a
Trades-mans
noddle
,
or
neglect
The
violation
of
a
Virgins
bed
With
promise
to
require
her
Maiden-head
.
Basely
low-minded
we
esteeme
that
man
,
Who
cannot
swagger
well
,
or
(
if
he
can
)
Who
doth
not
with
implacable
desire
,
Follow
reuenge
with
a
consuming
fire
.
Extortious
Rascals
,
when
they
are
alone
,
Bethinke
how
closely
they
haue
pick'd
each
bone
;
Nay
with
a
frolicke
humour
they
will
brag
,
How
blancke
they
left
their
empty
Clients
bag
.
Which
dealings
if
they
did
not
giue
delight
;
Or
not
refresh
their
meetings
;
in
despight
They
would
accounted
be
both
weake
,
vnwise
,
And
like
a
timorous
coward
too
precise
.
Your
handsome-bodied
youth
(
whose
comely
face
May
challenge
all
the
store
of
Natures
grace
)
If
,
when
a
lustfull
Lady
doth
inuite
,
By
some
lasciuious
tricke●
his
deere
delight
,
If
then
he
doth
abhorre
such
wanton
ioy
;
Whose
is
not
almost
ready
to
destroy
,
Ciuility
with
curses
,
when
he
heares
The
tale
recited
?
blaming
much
his
yeares
,
Or
modest
weaknesse
,
and
with
cheeks
ful-blown
Each
man
will
wish
the
case
had
beene
his
own
.
Graue
holy
men
,
whose
habite
will
imply
Nothing
but
honest
zeale
,
or
sanctity
,
Nay
so
vprighteous
will
their
actions
seeme
,
As
you
their
thoughts
Religion
will
esteeme
.
Yet
these
all-sacred
men
,
who
daily
giue
Such
vowes
,
wold
think
themselues
vnfit
to
liue
,
If
they
were
Artlesse
in
the
flattering
vice
,
Euen
as
it
were
a
daily
sacrifice
:
Children
deceiue
their
parents
with
expence
:
Charity
layes
aside
her
conscience
,
And
lookes
vpon
the
fraile
commodity
Of
monstrous
bargaines
with
a
couetous
eye
:
And
now
the
name
of
Generosity
,
Of
noble
cariage
,
or
braue
dignity
;
Keepe
such
a
common
●kirmish
in
our
bloud
;
As
we
direct
the
measure
of
Things
good
,
By
that
,
which
reputation
of
Estate
,
Glory
of
rumor
,
or
the
present
rate
Of
Sauing
Pollicy
doth
best
admit
.
We
do
employ
materials
of
wit
,
Knowledge
,
occasion
,
labour
,
dignity
,
Among
our
spirits
of
Audacity
,
Nor
in
our
gainefull
proiects
do
we
care
For
what
is
pious
,
but
for
what
we
dare
:
Good
humble
men
,
who
haue
sincerely
layd
Saluation
for
their
hope
,
we
call
Afraid
.
But
if
you
will
vouchsafe
a
patient
eare
,
You
shall
perceiue
,
men
impious
haue
most
feare
.
ESSAY
.
II.
MAny
aspiring
fellowes
you
may
see
,
Who
,
after
they
and
fortune
doe
agree
,
Come
(
by
briefe
windings
)
to
be
men
elect
;
Through
priuate
means
,
heauen
knows
how
indirect
.
To
flourish
quickly
and
aduance
their
head
,
As
if
they
tooke
possessions
from
the
dead
:
When
all
the
Heralds
neuer
could
deuise
,
From
whence
the
fathers
kindred
might
arise
.
Though
many
cal
them
Nephew
,
Brothers
son
(
Because
a
thriftie
garment
they
haue
spun
)
Who
(
else
)
with
publick
shame
had
bin
disgrac'd
,
And
all
the
titles
of
their
loue
defac'd
:
But
now
they
flourish
,
and
with
Worship
swell
,
Whose
poore
beginnings
euery
Groome
can
tell
.
As
if
a
new-found
Whittingtons
rare
Cat
Came
to
extoll
their
birth-rights
aboue
that
Which
nature
once
intended
:
These
be
men
Who
thinke
not
of
a
Hundred
yeelding
Ten
:
They
turne
base
copper
into
perfect
gold
:
Counterfeit
couzning
wa●es
bewis●ly
sold.
Men
be
perswaded
well
of
prosperous
fate
,
Giuing
much
credite
to
a
crafty
pa●e
,
But
if
these
cowards
durst
discouer
all
,
Both
how
they
did
their
high
estates
install
,
How
they
began
to
make
a
league
with
hell
,
Or
how
they
did
in
damned
plots
excell
,
Their
very
liues
alone
,
if
they
were
dead
,
Would
make
an
other
work
for
Hollingshead
.
Alas
they
dare
not
;
these
be
cowards
right
,
For
whose
abortiue
d●eas
the
blackest
night
Is
neuer
black
enough
,
nor
can
conceale
Their
shame
,
which
lewd
posterities
reueale
.
Fine
hansome
outsides
who
so
highly
stand
On
the
reputed
courage
of
their
hand
:
Who
keepe
their
pages
with
such
spacious
gard
(
Scorning
to
play
without
a
coated-card
)
Who
keepe
a
large
Retinue
,
or
erect
Buildings
;
in
which
they
neuer
can
expect
To
dwell
,
with
credit
of
their
famish'd
flocke
;
Or
to
maintaine
the
vse
of
one
good
lock
.
These
notwithstanding
to
augment
their
glosse
,
And
turne
some
braue
expences
into
drosse
,
Will
be
the
seruile
debtors
to
a
slaue
,
(
Who
hath
no
remedie
,
but
to
depraue
Their
fortunes
with
inuectiue
impudence
,
Or
make
petitions
to
defray
expence
)
And
yet
these
mighty
Vpstarts
cannot
dare
,
To
pay
a
single
crosse
:
Except
they
spare
Their
pompe
;
which
giues
a
lustre
in
the
Court
,
And
in
the
Citty
makes
aboundant
sport
.
Spend-thrifts
,
&
Gallants
likewise
(
who
haue
lands
Which
beare
all
Saffron
for
their
yellow
bands
)
Those
which
haue
onely
complement
,
and
whoope
In
Tauernes
;
may
attend
the
former
troope
.
Those
that
dare
challenge
any
man
of
armes
,
And
seeme
to
bear●
about
them
valtant
charmes
;
Belching
vnciuill
Enuy
,
in
the
face
Of
him
that
meekely
contradicts
their
grace
;
As
if
they
carryed
vengeance
in
their
iawes
,
Or
executions
of
the
Statute-law●s
.
Those
men
if
stricktly
challeng'd
,
quake
with
feare
,
Contriuing
basely
how
they
may
forbeare
:
And
(
leauing
then
a
while
their
pompous
pride
)
They
best
bethinke
,
how
they
may
closely
hide
Their
contumacious
heads
with
priuiledge
:
For
when
the
flat-cap
tradesman
doth
alle
age
Forfeit
of
payments
(
and
because
at
length
His
wife
,
&
so
the
world
,
doth
know
his
strength
)
When
he
procures
a
Champion
to
demand
The
noble
answere
of
his
debtors
hand
:
And
dares
my
valiant
Swaggerer
to
meet
,
His
lawfull
chalenge
in
the
open
street
;
He
,
rather
then
he
will
prouoke
the
strife
,
Sues
by
petition
to
my
plaintifes
wise
:
Who
,
if
she
doth
not
very
much
forget
,
Takes
downe
the
quarrell
,
and
so
pa●es
the
debt
.
Another
sort
of
Cowards
you
may
see
,
(
Transcending
these
in
a
more
base
degree
)
Who
to
preserue
aduancement
,
or
vphold
Their
Families
,
(
without
expence
of
gold
)
Will
,
in
promiscuous
manner
,
congregate
Amongst
good
men
,
who
blockish
Papisme
hate
;
Nay
,
they
will
be
attentiue
in
the
Church
,
(
All
to
auoyd
the
law
,
and
penall
lurch
)
They
will
con-niue
at
holy
arguments
,
And
often
beare
a
sway
in
Parliaments
:
They
will
agree
to
constituted
lawes
,
Which
almost
ruine
to
their
kingdome
drawes
,
(
All
notwithstanding
)
they
directly
dare
Hope
to
be
sau'd
,
as
other
Papists
are
;
Expecting
on
some
opportunitie
,
When
they
may
make
a
traitrous
vnitie
:
For
all
the
truth
which
can
excuse
their
fate
,
Is
,
that
they
finely
can
equiuocate
:
A
Cowards
doctrine
,
full
of
shamelesse
feare
,
Infuses
ioy
to
their
misguided
eare
,
And
yet
no
equall
iustice
them
controules
,
Because
they
haue
a
Curtaine
to
their
soules
;
Corrupted
Officers
,
the
common
curse
Of
publicke
Law
,
who
stuffe
their
gaping
purse
With
wrongfull
fees
,
and
grow
extreamely
fat
By
their
delitious
trickes
,
or
lying
squat
Vp
to
the
cares
in
pleasant
Alchymie
,
If
these
men
durst
bewray
their
infamie
,
And
bring
their
holiest
actions
into
light
,
The
day
would
runne
to
a
prodigious
night
.
N●w
fees
created
are
,
and
then
the
match
M●st
something
take
to
frame
a
briefe
dispatch
:
I●formers
be
preuented
by
a
feate
,
Which
q●alifies
indeed
their
boysterous
heate
,
Although
vniustly
:
Clearkes
and
other
knaues
(
Who
with
their
generous
ruffs
the
court
outbraues
)
Will
take
a
pention
,
or
a
quarter
fee
,
To
make
their
friend
from
information
free
;
And
(
to
preuent
the
mischiefe
)
will
declare
How
other
billes
already
do
not
spare
To
certifie
the
Court
a
day
before
Of
that
,
for
which
the
plaintiffe
doth
implore
:
So
false
and
fained
reuolutions
cracke
The
craftie
meanings
that
pre-caution
lacke
:
Yet
still
they
gape
,
and
say
they
cannot
saue
The
many
pounds
which
th●y
so
freely
gaue
To
purchase
ten
times
more
for
they
intend
Onely
on
priuate
meanings
to
depend
.
Before
I
speake
,
let
no
good
Law●e●
bl●me
My
loue
to
him
,
though
I
bad
vices
name
.
Another
sort
of
Law-professors
come
Within
this
Catalogue
to
craue
a
roome
:
They
who
depend
vpon
a
Iudges
looke
More
then
the
poynts
of
Littleton
,
or
Brooke
,
They
who
procure
a
great
mans
happy
smile
,
By
Coaches
,
Colts
,
and
other
courses
vile
:
Who
keepe
one
speciall
Court
,
and
blind-sold
wise
Tread
(
Mill-horse
like
)
the
circuit
of
Assise
:
They
who
be
fitter
to
maintaine
the
sport
,
Of
Christmasse
reuels
at
an
Inne
of
Court
:
Fitter
to
feed
delitious
Ladies
eares
,
Or
flattringly
remoue
their
patrons
feares
:
Fitter
to
follow
the
forgotten
trades
,
Or
make
a
reading
of
the
knaue
of
Spades
:
To
make
a
libell
,
or
neate
ruffes
allow
;
And
sometimes
very
fit
to
driue
the
Plow
.
Fitter
then
to
exceed
the
true
degrees
Of
merites
,
and
conuert
meere
voice
to
fees
.
These
men
(
it
makes
me
laugh
)
they
still
contend
To
choose
a
long-liu'd
patron
for
their
friend
;
But
if
his
destin'd
length
becomes
too
short
To
make
the
time
of
long
vacations
sport
,
Then
all
my
fauourites
be
vanish't
farre
,
And
almost
tremble
to
approach
the
barre
.
Then
they
perceiue
,
Life
(
vpon
which
they
gnaw
)
Is
more
vncertaine
then
their
common
law
:
They
trauaile
home
againe
by
weeping
crosse
,
And
bring
the
law
much
credit
with
their
losse
.
But
if
they
dare
,
vntouch'd
,
remaine
still
free
,
Another
Patron
dares
corrupted
be
:
Else
like
egregious
Cowards
,
they
withdraw
,
Hiding
themselues
,
and
the
abuse
of
Law
.
I
see
a
Lawyer
,
who
hath
spent
his
time
At
Innes
of
Court
in
some
excessiue
crime
;
But
being
once
aduanc'd
to
view
the
barre
,
He
brings
all
bird-lime
,
and
polluting
tarre
,
With
which
he
so
defiles
the
Laws
pure
Sence
,
That
each
man
will
account
it
impudence
.
If
a
good
simple
Client
entertaines
This
Mercenary
Varlet
,
and
explaines
,
How
he
hath
purchas'd
a
conuenient
field
,
Lordship
,
or
Mannor
,
which
may
easly
yeeld
A
large
reuenue
,
that
affoords
full
cost
,
Whereby
he
saues
himselfe
,
and
nothing's
lost
:
The
greedy
Lawyer
doth
begin
to
pray
He
will
repriue
his
answere
till
a
day
;
Intending
he
perceiues
poynts
difficult
,
Through
which
the
crafty
seller
may
insult
.
Meanetime
he
visites
some
old
broking
knaue
,
And
(
with
a
sight
of
Angels
)
ties
the
slaue
,
Through
nice
propounded
Articles
to
swimme
,
And
get
his
Clients
bargaine
euen
for
him
.
Then
will
he
basely
flatter
,
and
pretend
The
seller
was
my
worshipfull
deere
friend
,
Who
recollecting
how
commodious
The
bargaine
was
for
me
(
so
couetous
)
Did
kindly
offer
me
the
peny-worth
In
which
(
before
)
I
wanted
putting
forth
.
Vngratious
were
it
to
impute
disease
To
any
men
of
knowledge
,
or
to
these
,
With
a
pernicious
meaning
to
contemne
The
most
respectfull
honest
Law
,
or
them
:
When
therefore
I
the
name
of
Lawyer
vse
,
Or
(
any
way
)
the
title
do
accuse
,
Imagine
,
I
,
as
doe
the
vulgar
clownes
,
Call
those
men
Lawyers
,
who
haue
Lawyers
gownes
:
Reseruing
to
my selfe
a
purer
sence
,
Which
saith
a
Lawyer
is
all
innocence
;
A
Lawyer
truly
taken
;
which
implies
One
who
doth
Art
and
Reason
exercise
,
Both
which
,
and
Equitie
do
him
sustaine
;
Who
truly
doth
the
name
of
Lawyer
gaine
.
That
waking
sighted
Run-away
,
the
Hare
,
(
Which
is
pres●ru'd
by
a
continuall
feare
)
Cannot
(
by
this
)
protect
her
innocence
,
So
much
as
Officers
their
lewd
pretence
:
The
Fox
an
ancient
Hierogliphicke
was
,
In
Fri●rs
robes
to
shew
the
common
passe
Of
smooth
hypocrisie
,
and
Church-mens
craft
;
But
now
a
formall
gowne
may
serue
to
waft
This
badge
among
our
prowling
Officers
,
Which
Name
and
Habite
rightuously
inferres
As
much
compacted
villanie
,
as
meetes
Among
the
Stewards
of
rich
Countrey
Leetes
:
Both
Couzen
with
as
great
conformitie
,
As
if
they
held
some
new
fraternitie
:
Both
be
so
practis'd
in
good
Vertues
scorne
,
As
if
Atturnies
had
directly
sworne
To
match
the
Officer
,
and
powle
the
flecee
,
As
if
they
both
consisted
of
one
peece
.
They
both
insinuate
their
sweating
paines
,
Their
common
paiment
:
each
(
alike
)
constraines
The
hunger-bitten
Client
to
disburse
,
Till
they
haue
left
his
hopes
euen
with
his
purse
.
Yet
will
you
dare
to
say
those
men
exact
?
No
;
that
were
brainlesse
:
they
so
well
compact
Their
polliticke
inuentions
,
that
the
fault
Of
asking
more
then
due
,
creepes
to
the
vault
Of
Clerkes
dull
ignorance
to
purchase
leaue
,
When
their
discouered
proiect●
d●
deceiue
A
Substitute
in
Courts
may
rather
take
All
wrested
fees
,
that
glosse
may
thereby
make
The
Steward
seeme
lesse
culpable
in
vice
,
When
Substitutes
are
taught
by
his
aduice
:
And
if
some
one
their
cousenage
doth
betray
,
The
Substitute
can
easily
slinke
away
.
My
baudy
Proctor
likewise
,
who
presumes
To
purge
mens
purses
▪
for
vene●eall
Rhumes
;
Who
th●●atens
pena●ce
in
agh●stly
sh●ete
,
If
Clie●ts
(
though
they
s●rip
from
head
to
feete
)
Be
sla●k●
in
paiment
of
extortious
coine
:
This
man
who
studies
first
how
to
purloine
,
Before
he
lookes
vpon
the
ciuill
Law
;
This
man
,
who
hath
a
prompt
and
ready
paw
,
Who
loues
no
Innes
of
Court
,
shutting
his
crackes
And
all
his
rage
,
vnder
a
nose
of
wax
;
Who
,
when
a
fornicato●
lookes
awry
,
That
he
the
least
aduantage
may
espy
,
He
will
●ff●●iously
attend
the
Court
,
Because
he
●●●els
out
the
ensuing
sport
,
And
when
a
grieuous
fi●e
afflicts
the
purse
Of
●●●shly
sinners
,
to
esc●pe
the
curse
,
He
and
the
thriftie
Iudge
can
closely
share
The
foul●
taxation
,
which
with
pious
c●re
Is
well
intended
to
correct
the
sinne
,
Establish
bridges
which
decay
within
,
Reli●ue
sicke
persons
,
or
amend
high-wayes
,
Or
some
religious
Chappell
,
which
decayes
.
But
they
haue
other
vses
to
respect
,
To
buy
their
ciu●ll
garments
,
or
affect
The
wanton
lust
of
some
egregious
whoore
,
To
winne
new
credit
,
to
deceiue
the
poore
;
And
so
deceiue
the
vnsuspectfull
time
,
For
(
else
)
he
durst
not
so
insatiate
clime
Into
the
fiery
region
;
neither
dares
His
habite
seeme
acquainted
with
these
cares
.
Now
must
I
summon
Parish-hypocrites
,
Who
seeme
attentiue
to
coelestiall
rites
,
Who
thinke
the
Art
of
him
that
well
doth
liue
,
Is
all
perform'd
,
if
he
example
giue
,
Which
may
become
the
parish
:
if
he
pray
Aloud
in
Chambers
,
or
deuoutly
pay
The
tribute
of
true
dealing
vnto
all
Who
(
can
to
their
ass●stance
)
Iustice
call
.
If
in
Assemblies
he
can
shew
good
workes
,
And
call
offendors
,
Infidels
or
Turkes
:
He
thinkes
he
hath
discharg'd
the
finall
part
Of
a
religious
or
honest
heart
:
Though
he
doth
closely
keepe
a
vertuous
punke
,
Or
though
(
on
cautious
t●arms
)
he●
can
be
drunk
:
Though
in
another
County
,
and
the
name
Of
other
Agents
he
can
schedules
fram●
;
And
thinkes
himselfe
to
be
a
man
well
blest
,
Though
he
receiues
the
Sinfull
Interest
:
For
this
eye-seruing-age
is
quickly
gone
To
all
deceit
if
we
lacke
lookers
on
.
These
be
most
valiant
Cowards
,
men
that
dare
Be
boldly
impious
,
and
y●t
basely
feare
,
Least
common
rumour
should
obserue
or
thinke
They
be
not
still
awake
,
though
still
they
winke
.
Some
false
Physitians
lye
within
the
reach
Of
these
,
who
true
sinceritie
impeach
,
Their
glasses
,
glisters
,
oyles
,
ingredients
(
Which
hope
of
lucre
oftentimes
inuents
)
Do
carry
all
(
as
if
a
cowards
soule
Kept
in
their
bosomes
)
to
the
dead
mans
rowle
;
Hiding
their
fearefull
practice
in
the
graues
:
Leane
death
,
their
operation
still
out-braues
.
Sometimes
their
crabbed
Enuy
doth
inuent
,
Sometimes
they
kil
with
new
experiment
:
For
still
they
er●e
by
custome
,
or
by
chance
,
Ei●her
by
malice
,
or
by
ignorance
:
And
(
hauing
spent
prescriptions
to
each
dram
)
He
thinkes
alas
sure
I
protected
am
,
If
now
I
see
our
physicke
does
no
good
,
Or
seeing
I
haue
suckt
his
purse
and
blood
,
If
I
can
tell
his
friends
there
is
no
hope
,
Or
that
he
must
expect
deaths
fatall
scope
:
Then
shall
I
be
discharg'd
with
credits
fee
,
And
to
condemne
more
liues
,
remaine
still
free
.
They
shift
their
compasse
to
auoyd
our
scorne
,
Hiding
their
actions
from
the
faire-fac'd
morne
.
Now
my
censorious
Criticks
who
disgrace
Each
worke
they
know
not
,
with
a
scuruy
face
,
Who
banish
Authors
to
Barbarian
lands
,
And
sling
true
solid
matter
from
their
hands
,
With
a
disdainfull
Motto
of
Nonsence
:
Although
themselues
(
excepting
impudence
)
Haue
nothing
to
excuse
their
vanitie
:
Latinle●se
Lawlesse
Rogues
,
they
often
be
,
Who
hauing
past
their
verdict
,
will
recant
:
For
their
maintaining
facultie
is
scant
.
Or
if
these
Apish
Cowards
dare
defend
,
The
vice
of
Iudgment
,
brings
them
to
their
end
.
And
yet
some
Writers
doe
deserue
the
name
Of
Cowards
likewise
:
they
be
growne
so
tame
With
being
often
handled
,
often
praisd
,
As
they
forget
their
motion
,
being
raisd
Aboue
the
highest
spheares
:
they
thinke
it
much
,
More
then
indeed
enough
,
to
haue
beene
such
As
they
were
once
accounted
:
though
they
sleepe
,
Follow
their
ease
,
and
sluggish
silence
keepe
:
Nay
thogh
they
wake
,
&
(
which
doth
po●son
them
)
F●llow
the
errors
which
they
did
condemne
.
Some
worthlesse
Poets
also
,
haue
the
vice
To
write
their
labours
as
they
cast
at
di●e
:
If
(
by
aduenture
)
some
strange
happy
chance
,
Smiles
on
their
borrowed
workes
of
ignorance
,
They
can
bewray
their
the●uish
names
,
and
giue
Notice
to
all
,
how
they
eterni●'d
liue
.
But
if
(
presuming
on
their
sickly
strength
)
They
write
,
and
do
betray
their selues
at
length
:
Then
,
oh
they
came
into
the
publicke
presse
Against
their
wils
;
they
dare
not
then
con●esse
Who
wrongs
the
world
with
such
base
Poetry
:
Nay
,
their
owne
eldest
sonnes
they
will
deny
.
All
hide
their
vices
.
Printers
also
hide
Errors
escap'd
,
w●ich
makes
wise
men
deride
Excellent
wits
,
deseruing
worthy
praise
,
When
(
through
distinctions
lest
)
the
truth
decaies
:
But
among
all
base
writers
of
the
time
,
I
cannot
reckon
vp
more
desperate
rime
,
(
Which
trauailes
with
a
feare
so
damnable
)
As
Libell-lashing
measures
:
they
excell
Onely
in
this
;
that
these
be
counted
best
,
Which
the
soole-Author
dares
acknowledge
least
.
These
are
contemptible
enough
,
and
yet
Their
lines
maske
vnder
a
fictitious
wit
,
When
wit
(
as
hitherto
)
was
neuer
seene
Truly
ingendred
by
a
tr●uiall
spleene
.
Nor
can
they
thus
reforme
what
is
impure
,
Seing
men
so
touch'd
,
conceiue
themselues
past
cure
.
Wel
do
these
cowards
thriue
,
when
hauing
blown
Shame
to
the
peoples
Eares
,
they
loose
their
own
.
Briefly
,
it
were
a
thing
preposterous
,
If
rich
men
,
who
are
nicely
co●etous
,
Shold
not
be
trembling
cowards
;
when
they
think
Vpon
the
ioyfull
paines
of
death
,
they
stinke
.
Nothing
prouokes
me
sooner
to
confesse
That
Atheisme
is
their
chiefest
happinesse
,
Then
to
consider
how
the
very
best
Struggle
with
death
,
declining
to
their
rest
:
One
pluckes
away
the
haires
which
should
reueale
His
righteous
thoughts
:
another
doth
conceale
The
furrowed
wrinkles
of
his
tawny
skinne
:
Another
scoures
his
stumpes
,
or
doth
beginne
To
breake
the
glasse
with
foolish
extasie
,
At
the
reflexe
of
Chap-f●lne
grauitie
.
Can
these
,
with
safetie
of
a
quiet
minde
Puffe
vp
themselues
with
an
ambitious
winde
Of
Riches
,
Rumor
,
Lucre
,
and
Expence
,
Whiles
Kings
and
good
men
haue
no
difference
?
They
haue
Abundance
,
I
haue
some
alone
,
They
feed
a
hundred
bellies
,
I
feed
one
.
Both
vanish
to
Obliuions
caue
,
vnlesse
Our
very
thoughts
a
liuing
soule
expresse
:
Which
being
once
admitted
,
no
soules
can
Keepe
their
worst
secrets
from
the
face
of
Man
.
ESSAY
.
III.
NO
more
:
no
more
:
now
saith
my
honest
friend
,
Be
politicke
;
or
study
to
commend
The
time
,
and
timelings
,
least
you
doe
bestow
More
copious
tearmes
then
licence
dare
allow
.
Content
thy selfe
(
Cordatus
)
I
will
blame
No
reuerend
Church-man
,
neither
will
I
name
One
lewd
professor
,
who
pollutes
the
grace
Of
such
a
formall
and
respected
place
:
I
will
not
name
their
liuings
,
nor
their
liues
,
Much
●esse
their
bondage
to
their
hansom
wiues
:
As
if
they
durst
not
shew
the
times
disease
,
Because
indeed
they
dare
not
them
displease
.
I
will
not
wrong
their
holinesse
:
and
why
?
In
holinesse
true
zeale
you
may
descry
.
Nor
will
I
taxe
Church-vices
,
least
I
wrong
The
labour
which
to
writing
doth
belong
.
For
when
I
haue
againe
repeated
all
Their
vices
publicke
,
and
sinnes
personall
:
I
shall
but
reckon
the
antiquities
,
Of
Glosse
,
of
Ignorance
,
and
Simonies
:
And
so
repeate
things
mention'd
long
before
,
Nay
things
prefixt
vpon
each
Play-house
doore
.
Let
them
(
alasse
)
continue
,
or
increase
,
O
let
them
long
enioy
a
qui●t
peace
;
For
they
already
know
the
mischiefes
well
,
They
almost
scorne
such
inwards
to
expell
.
And
why
?
they
feare
taxation
:
ò
strange
fate
!
They
who
contemne
reproofes
,
are
desperate
.
We
cannot
hope
such
persons
will
amend
,
Who
may
(
without
controule
)
their
vice
extend
.
Enough
,
enough
,
I
haue
bethought
so
much
Concerning
cowards
,
that
my selfe
am
such
:
I
dare
not
speake
my
meaning
vnder
paine
Of
being
crost
,
of
being
curb'd
againe
.
Why
crost
?
why
curb'd
?
go
aske
authoritie
Why
it
protects
peculiar
vanitie
?
And
it
perhaps
will
answere
in
de●ence
;
C●owes
to
themselues
beperfect
Innocence
.
Or
(
which
is
more
familiar
)
Enuy
loues
That
humor
best
,
which
bitterly
reproues
All
states
,
all
faculties
besides
her
owne
:
She
fauours
that
,
and
feares
it
should
be
knowne
,
Though
it
be
noted
;
or
with
publicke
shame
,
Hath
purchasd
(
〈◊〉
you
write
)
an
odious
name
.
Men
thinke
their
fashions
and
their
faces
best
If
(
in
a
flattred
humor
)
they
be
blest
,
To
heare
men
discommend
both
such
and
such
,
Not
naming
theirs
;
although
they
be
so
much
Apparant
filthy
,
as
no
vulgar
eye
Would
make
a
question
of
deformity
:
And
so
superior
vices
doe
propound
A
freedome
to
their
scope
,
as
being
sound
In
selfe-conceite
,
if
they
can
saue
their
skinne
From
being
Printed
with
a
publicke
s●nne
;
Though
(
setting
bookes
aside
)
they
do
●rofesse
,
Enough
to
poyson
all
their
names
no
l●sse
.
See
how
I
breath
into
the
spacious
Aire
,
A
Theame
as
spacious
:
Can
my
V●rse
repaire
The
fruitlesse
errors
of
men
obstinate
;
Who
cannot
freely
their
owne
vices
hate
?
Who
rather
gainefull
vices
do
cond●mne
,
Because
they
cannot
purchase
gaines
by
them
?
For
in
their
owne
offences
they
reserue
Such
cautions
as
may
closely
them
preserue
.
Well
,
sir
,
admit
men
labour
to
be
wise
,
And
for
themselues
do
secrets
exercise
,
Who
shall
dare
contradict
such
worthy
paines
Which
fosters
credit
,
and
ill
termes
restraines
?
Avant
base
Hipocrite
,
go
henceforth
set
Vpon
thy
pillow
,
thy
close
cabinet
,
And
sleepe
with
all
the
papers
in
thy
hand
,
Which
thy
most
secret
counsels
may
command
;
Or
I
with
Spaniards
better
shall
agree
;
Or
I
shall
trust
a
Lapwing
more
then
thee
.
Good
men
dare
iustifye
,
euen
touching
all
The
essence
of
their
thoughts
originall
:
Touching
themselues
,
their
meanings
they
may
saue
,
Least
they
their
good
successe
of
meanes
depraue
.
But
well
,
suppose
men
so
directly
halt
As
they
do
feare
to
patronize
the
fault
,
Shall
they
not
seeke
vnpunish'd
to
remaine
,
If
actions
pass'd
cannot
be
cal'd
againe
?
We
daily
do
transgresse
;
and
some
perhaps
Deserue
the
plagues
of
lashing
after-claps
:
But
then
,
alas
!
what
satisfaction
can
,
Written
reproofes
be
for
a
vicious
man
?
You
make
professions
vndergoe
contempt
,
And
make
the
least
offence
so
farre
exempt
From
ciuill
vertue
,
and
some
new
conceits
,
That
you
enforce
good
fellowship
to
straights
.
So
:
Haue
you
done
(
deere
Motley
?
)
yes
almost
;
But
stay
a
little
,
and
behold
vncrost
,
The
reason
,
why
we
do
so
closely
deale
,
And
why
we
couer
vice
:
I
can
r●ueale
,
To
frustrate
your
inuentions
which
produce
Nothing
halfe-worthy
of
a
well-borne
Muse
,
But
triuiall
vanities
,
and
deepe
expence
,
To
tell
mans
weakenesse
by
experience
:
You
might
with
more
applause
bestow
more
pains
To
grace
the
Mayors
Triumphs
,
and
the
chaines
Which
do
attend
his
Lordship
to
the
Hall
:
You
might
expound
things
termed
mysticall
:
Or
might
in
better
phrase
compose
a
song
,
To
shew
his
Highnes
staid
at
Cambridge
long
;
And
not
in
tearmes
,
as
hasty
as
the
truth
,
Discouer
haire-braine
fallacies
of
youth
:
You
might
,
you
might
,
Seuerus
,
and
detest
To
scourge
close
dealers
who
be
safely
blest
:
For
I
can
well
resolue
you
are
the
cause
,
Why
men
reserue
(
in
acts
)
a
priuate
clause
:
You
,
and
your
nice
obseruance
do
restraine
Men
,
and
their
actions
both
,
from
being
plaine
:
And
yet
you
call
those
Cowards
,
who
beware
As
if
they
were
possess'd
with
childish
feare
.
Suruay
thy selfe
,
quicke-sighted
formalist
,
And
then
discouer
that
abusiue
mist
,
With
which
men
shelter
any
priuate
sinne
:
Charity
alwaies
doth
at
home
beginne
.
Now
haue
you
ended
?
then
,
I
answere
all
By
scorning
to
excuse
or
hide
my
fall
As
thou
dost
vrge
:
if
I
transgresse
my
square
,
I
of
Relapse
,
not
of
Reproofe
beware
:
And
I
beleeue
thou
likewise
wilt
amend
,
If
so
thou
do'st
not
labour
to
offend
:
For
that
ind●ed
betrayes
mens
dealing
naught
,
When
they
do
study
rather
to
be
taught
,
In
subtle
mischiefe
of
a
newer
mint
,
Then
to
abiure
deceits
of
ancient
print
:
For
they
hate
couznage
,
once
intitled
Old
,
Because
the
Title
shewes
it
often
told
,
And
so
affoords
no
lucre
;
not
because
It
fauours
Atheisme
and
corruption
drawes
.
Why
do
I
taxe
,
why
do
I
trouble
men
,
Or
why
with
noted
crimes
defile
my
pen
?
The
most
notorious
cowards
will
betray
Themselues
,
and
follies
,
though
I
turne
away
.
Yes
(
which
is
worth
my
laughter
)
they
accuse
Their
closest
feares
,
euen
while
they
do
refuse
To
let
you
vnderstand
their
subtile
drifts
,
They
do
discouer
such
auoiding
shifts
,
That
you
may
thence
collect
some
fearefull
trick
,
They
study
to
appeare
so
pollitick
.
As
,
Fellons
brought
before
a
Iustice
,
each
Hopes
to
bee
sau'd
,
if
others
he
impeach
:
And
as
some
Indians
dealt
,
being
al-amaz'd
To
heare
the
Spanish
guns
and
forces
blaz'd
;
They
bought
their
safety
through
a
fine
deceit
:
For
knowing
gold
to
be
the
Spanish
baite
,
They
would
protest
,
that
fifty
leagues
beyond
Was
common
plenty
of
that
yellow
sand
;
Meaning
to
turne
the
fooles
another
way
.
And
so
deale
vicious
persons
:
they
betray
Anothers
folly
,
to
preserue
their
owne
:
Obserue
,
and
you
shall
gather
things
wel
known
.
Go
tell
a
Church
man
he
hath
lost
his
voyce
,
Or
aske
him
why
he
doth
in
strife
reioyce
:
And
he
will
answer
;
Lawyers
do
not
speake
So
much
to
purpose
,
as
the
Pulpits
creake
,
Althogh
they
do
receiue
fees
doubled
twice
;
Which
far
exceed
my
single
Benefice
.
Go
tell
a
Lawyer
he
relyes
on
chance
,
Because
he
doth
affect
dull
ignorance
:
And
he
the
worst
obiection
soone
auerts
By
telling
how
The
times
neglect
deserts
.
Go
tell
a
Magistrate
of
morning
bribes
,
And
he
,
to
shallow
meanes
,
the
same
ascribes
:
But
then
demand
of
Honour
why
she
failes
,
In
giuing
that
which
euery
way
auailes
To
nourish
her
beloued
sonnes
?
And
shee
Will
answere
,
They
profuse
,
insatiate
be
.
Aske
shifting
Russians
why
they
do
forget
,
To
hasten
payment
and
discharge
their
debt
,
Or
why
they
do
sufficient
men
dislike
?
And
they
will
answere
,
Great-ones
do
the
like
.
Go
tell
a
Gamester
he
hath
cheated
long
,
Or
vnto
many
offred
shamefull
wrong
,
And
he
will
answere
,
that
himselfe
before
Was
often
cheated
twenty
times
and
more
.
Go
aske
a
Drunkard
why
he
followes
wine
,
Abuses
God
,
or
giues
a
Heathen
signe
;
And
he
will
quickly
answere
thy
demand
,
The
Parson
was
so
drunk
he
could
not
stand
.
Go
tell
a
Hot-spurre
he
hath
kil'd
a
man
,
Go
aske
him
how
he
doth
the
terrour
scan
:
And
he
will
answere
;
a
Physitian
's
free
To
murther
twenty
millions
;
why
not
hee
?
Go
tell
a
fawning
wretch
he
doth
relye
Vpon
the
slauish
vice
of
flattery
:
And
he
will
answere
,
That
the
best
are
glad
To
follow
such
indeuours
,
or
as
bad
.
Go
tell
a
whore
she
doth
her
sexe
pollute
,
By
being
such
a
common
prostitute
:
And
shee
will
answere
in
defence
of
fame
,
Citizens
wiues
,
and
Ladies
do
the
same
.
Go
tell
a
trades-man
he
deceiues
the
day
,
Refusing
light
,
deluding
euery
way
:
And
he
will
answere
to
auoyd
thy
curse
,
Go
further
on
,
you
will
be
cheated
worse
.
Thus
cowards
all
(
not
daring
to
defend
The
diuers
follies
which
they
dare
intend
)
Confesse
themselues
,
and
others
do
elect
Vices
,
which
none
but
Diuels
dare
protect
.
When
I
pronounce
a
Coward
,
it
implies
,
Malice
and
spight
be
Cowards
qualities
:
They
are
inseparate
,
and
why
?
because
A
vicious
Coward
so
exactly
knowes
Himselfe
vnable
,
that
he
doth
decree
To
haue
consorts
as
impotent
as
h●e
;
Because
he
may
auoyd
the
mighty
shocke
Of
mens
contempt
,
rank'd
with
a
greater
flocke
;
Whereas
perhaps
if
he
were
lest
alone
,
His
basenesse
onely
would
be
look'd
vpon
.
But
harke
you
sir
(
saith
one
)
you
haue
forgot
To
brand
our
female
;
with
a
cowards
lot
.
They
be
a
proper
subiect
:
do
not
spare
Them
and
their
couert
dealing
to
declare
:
They
be
attired
with
inuentiue
doubts
,
And
haue
as
many
feares
as
they
haue
thoughts
:
They
labour
daily
,
yet
they
do
suspect
,
They
cannot
halfe
a
hansome
face
erect
:
They
paint
,
they
pow●er
,
they
with
toies
exced
,
Alas
!
they
dare
not
shew
themselues
indeed
.
Night
they
do
honour
:
then
they
do
obtaine
That
which
perhaps
the
day
cals
backe
againe
:
They
do
intice
their
Husbands
to
beleeue
Any
thing
(
then
)
and
any
thing
to
giue
:
They
do
entreate
,
when
Husbands
scarce
replye
But
with
a
purpose
nothing
to
deny
:
They
not
without
adu●n●age
do
contend
;
Nor
any
cowards
oddes
do
discommend
.
Well
,
〈◊〉
:
admit
they
do
abound
with
feare
,
Females
for
nothing
else
created
were
.
They
need
not
of
t●eir
weakenesse
be
asham'd
;
But
Men
should
blush
to
heare
the
folly
namd
.
You
do
discouer
mens
impediments
,
And
tell
vs
what
the
crafty
age
inuents
.
As
if
authority
forgat
his
whip
:
You
may
be
silent
,
and
surcease
to
nip
.
Let
sage
Authority
proceed
by
course
Of
Law
,
to
punish
these
without
remorse
.
Then
you
must
bid
Authority
respect
Things
not
accounted
euill
;
or
neglect
To
punish
friend-lesse
fee-lesse
infamies
,
And
taxe
braue
mischiefe
with
seuerer
eyes
.
Nay
that
will
neuer
be
;
for
tell
the
base
,
And
poore
offendor
(
who
feeles
no
disgrace
)
He
hath
offended
;
and
he
dares
reply
,
He
tooke
his
patterne
from
Authority
.
So
shifting
be
the
simple
Idiots
,
So
shifting
base
be
higher
Patriots
:
And
must
be
euer
till
they
do
reueale
Feare
to
commit
,
not
study
to
conceale
.
Of
High
Birth
.
ESSAY
.
IIII.
THINGS
curiously
made
,
differ
as
much
from
things
begotten
,
as
earth
from
liuing
men
,
and
artificiall
bodies
from
mans
issue
.
Children
therefore
may
challenge
from
their
parents
more
prerogatiue
,
then
workmanship
or
mans
Inuention
;
for
it
participates
with
vs
in
being
onely
,
but
they
in
being
ours
:
for
things
begotten
be
originally
our
own
,
but
things
created
be
ours
at
the
second
hand
continually
:
else
man
were
two
waies
excellent
,
and
able
to
create
,
as
well
as
to
beget
,
without
patterne
or
example
,
whereas
truely
in
matters
of
Science
and
manuall
labour
,
man
,
without
the
helpe
of
man
,
doth
nothing
.
So
ignorant
hee
is
,
and
chiefely
bound
vnto
imitation
,
as
hee
neuer
did
,
nor
will
,
produce
that
,
which
depends
not
on
some
president
:
onely
our
Issue
is
our
owne
absolute
;
for
man
,
secluded
from
the
company
of
men
,
is
by
the
helpe
of
Nature
fit
(
of
himselfe
)
for
infinite
generation
,
though
nothing
else
:
Which
argues
the
full
necessity
of
being
sociable
,
and
mightily
condemnes
those
currish
people
,
who
thinke
it
all-sufficient
,
if
they
can
once
assume
the
pride
,
to
say
,
they
are
not
any
way
indebted
;
or
that
they
bee
their
owne
Supporters
:
And
thinke
it
the
safest
friendship
to
forget
Humanity
,
neglect
Acquaintance
,
make
loue
an
outward
Ceremony
,
nay
scarce
so
much
:
and
neuer
bee
offended
with
a
curse
so
much
,
as
when
they
must
haue
mans
assistance
to
restore
them
.
These
are
vnmindefull
why
man
doth
multiply
,
Why
lawfull
Marriage
was
inuented
:
Or
why
GOD
,
thinking
it
not
enough
to
worke
a
Vnion
with
HVMANITY
by
the
bond
of
NATVRE
,
did
also
extend
affinitie
to
those
of
an
other
stocke
;
that
INCEST
might
be
vnacted
;
and
by
the
consequent
,
that
MAN
should
not
engrosse
onely
the
loue
of
his
owne
FAMILIE
.
Man
therefore
thus
enabled
to
produce
;
it
followes
by
implication
that
amongst
posterity
some
one
must
haue
precedence
;
in
which
,
sonnes
(
by
consent
)
haue
that
Immunity
of
Eldest
:
And
Hee
,
according
to
vsuall
speech
,
is
called
the
Heire
Apparant
:
which
is
a
name
so
largely
taken
,
as
(
with
it
)
wee
imply
any
one
able
to
inherit
,
though
not
the
eldest
.
But
properly
it
extends
to
the
First
Begotten
,
who
(
in
being
first
)
supplies
the
office
of
a
Substitute
to
discharge
that
which
incumbers
the
parent
;
the
office
of
a
valiant
warriour
likewise
,
who
couets
by
being
first
,
to
take
the
first
charge
,
giue
the
first
assault
,
and
(
aboue
all
)
to
bee
according
to
his
name
,
truely
forward
in
the
high
Atchieuements
of
honour
:
so
forward
,
as
for
any
of
his
Ranke
to
bee
before
,
should
bee
thought
a
miserable
basenesse
.
It
is
an
obserued
point
of
Nature
(
among
the
Ancients
)
that
Elephants
,
Pliny
.
A●l●anus
.
Philo●tr●
.
when
they
trauaile
by
Troupes
,
knowing
by
a
peculiar
instinct
that
their
aduersaries
(
for
the
most
part
)
incounter
them
in
the
Rereward
,
they
marshall
themselues
that
the
eldest
may
bee
first
ready
to
sustaine
the
violence
;
which
giues
a
memorable
precept
to
mans
issue
,
that
hee
(
if
eldest
)
ought
rather
to
protect
,
then
cauill
with
his
inferiour
relatiues
;
that
they
(
because
yongest
)
ought
rather
to
submit
,
where
his
good
counsell
may
assist
,
then
be
malignant
or
maintaine
Faction
.
This
Theater
of
mans
life
,
admits
degrees
of
height
,
in
which
the
eldest
is
aboue
the
others
;
and
therefore
as
the
Centinell
,
or
Scout
(
in
Armies
)
is
vigilant
to
foresee
aduantage
,
and
so
preserue
by
diligence
when
courage
of
the
rest
is
little
worth
:
So
should
superiours
in
birth
bee
as
much
prouident
for
the
safety
of
those
,
in
respect
of
whom
they
be
superior
,
as
to
esteeme
their
birth-right
a
blessing
.
It
is
therefore
no
safe
conclusion
,
to
say
hee
is
the
eldest
,
and
so
most
excellent
;
but
hee
is
the
eldest
,
and
therefore
should
bee
most
excellent
:
For
in
production
of
the
soule
it
fares
otherwise
with
a
man
,
then
with
vnreasonable
creatures
;
among
which
there
needes
no
better
warrant
to
signifie
courage
,
then
the
first
breede
,
which
signifies
the
strength
of
Nature
in
the
Parents
or
Breeders
.
But
with
Man
,
(
who
communicates
with
Beasts
onely
in
forme
)
it
is
onely
sufficient
for
him
to
challenge
in
his
Issue
what
himselfe
bestowes
:
As
for
the
Diuine
Materials
of
Reason
,
if
sometimes
they
doe
hereditarily
succeede
to
the
sonne
of
a
prudent
father
,
wee
may
from
hence
conclude
,
that
GOD
more
often
dispenses
with
it
,
to
make
man
see
the
true
ORIGINALL
,
rather
then
Flesh
should
challenge
any
part
;
or
Fathers
thinke
they
bee
the
sole
efficients
.
For
it
is
now
made
a
common
argument
of
the
SONNES
folly
,
if
the
FATHER
bee
more
then
commonly
wise
.
And
I
am
very
much
perswaded
,
that
this
(
if
nothing
else
)
may
assure
the
Polititian
of
some
supreame
disposer
,
who
giues
warning
to
his
presumptuous
folly
through
the
plague
of
a
foolish
heire
;
Nihil
dat
quod
non
babet
,
ergo
non
babet
:
nam
Si
babuisset
daret
.
His
pollicies
are
not
his
owne
:
for
he
would
then
impart
them
haereditarily
to
his
Issue
.
that
hee
may
ouer-value
himselfe
at
his
owne
perill
:
seeing
he
hath
often
his
owne
workemanship
before
his
eyes
,
to
argue
against
him
,
and
his
arrogant
conceit
.
Bee
it
sufficient
therefore
that
cunning
Natur●
,
which
principally
and
commonly
works
out
each
naturall
mans
existence
by
causes
well
known
,
Matter
,
Forme
,
and
Priuation
,
is
not
able
in
things
essentiall
,
to
distribute
any
particle
without
Diuine
prouidence
:
so
the
eldest
naturally
inherites
nothing
as
by
peculiar
claime
,
but
senselesse
lineaments
of
body
.
Howsoeuer
,
most
conuenient
it
is
,
that
euery
one
by
birth
ennobled
,
either
by
single
prioritie
,
or
prioritie
vnited
to
noble
parentage
,
should
seeke
to
accomplish
the
part
of
nature
vndone
in
more
then
complement
,
ciuill
silence
,
or
common
passages
;
and
make
the
birth
absolute
.
For
Man
,
a
sluggish
Creature
,
(
prompt
enough
to
decline
after
satietie
)
seemes
naturally
to
be
vnfurnished
,
that
hee
might
not
be
vnoccupied
.
So
Nature
hath
left
much
imperfect
,
to
intimate
by
the
vacant
absence
of
some
things
needfull
,
that
mans
labour
should
make
things
vsefull
.
Nature
affoords
timber
,
but
workmanship
the
structure
:
the
earth
produces
Ore
,
but
Art
the
Siluer
:
Nature
giues
plants
,
Knowledge
the
vse
:
Among
all
which
shee
doth
require
a
more
ample
and
lesse
supplement
,
according
to
the
value
,
raritie
or
estimation
of
the
thing
.
For
Chymicks
know
,
the
more
pretious
mettals
aske
more
paines
in
extraction
of
the
true
quintessence
,
then
baser
Minerals
:
Gold
is
the
seuenth
time
purified
,
and
then
becomes
beautifull
:
besides
the
qualitie
of
things
more
pretious
,
ought
still
to
bee
equiualent
with
their
pretious
subiect
.
Couragious
horses
bee
managed
with
curiositie
:
delicate
voyces
bee
selected
to
learne
harmonies
,
whilst
harsh
and
strong
voyc'd
cryers
bee
ridiculous
.
Diamonds
,
not
glasse
,
become
pure
mettall
,
and
rich
garments
haue
much
costly
appearance
.
High
blouds
likewise
be
the
fittest
receptacles
for
high
actions
;
but
if
a
sackecloth
bee
embroydred
,
the
adiunct
may
deserue
honor
,
thogh
the
ground-worke
be
Plebeian
:
and
men
of
vp-start
Parentage
may
,
in
respect
of
braine
,
take
place
before
Nobilitie
,
though
their
persons
bee
odious
.
Our selues
and
parents
,
or
instructors
,
be
the
secondary
causes
which
protract
or
abbreuiate
,
enrich
or
impouerish
,
our
owne
destinies
.
For
either
wee
are
driven
with
fatall
obstinacie
,
to
ouer-take
fortune
;
else
,
by
the
negligence
of
education
,
or
being
not
season'd
in
minority
,
our
stupid
dulnesse
giues
Fortune
leaue
to
ouer-take
vs
.
High
birth
is
so
farre
from
priuiledge
to
exempt
any
from
these
,
as
it
approches
neere
to
miserie
,
when
shame
is
vnpreuented
;
and
makes
destinie
notorious
.
I
know
no
difference
therefore
betwixt
the
degrees
of
Fortune
,
if
Birth
alone
makes
the
comparison
.
For
which
is
more
predominant
,
if
one
of
obscure
fortune
becomes
publicke
by
merits
,
remaining
still
the
same
if
he
transgresse
;
or
if
one
descended
nobly
,
doth
but
deserue
himselfe
,
and
family
,
through
great
engagements
,
being
ready
to
descend
below
himselfe
if
he
miscarry
,
and
be
as
publicke
in
disgrace
,
as
vpstarts
in
applause
?
For
this
Age
of
Innouation
is
fitter
to
behold
one
swimming
to
a
remote
shore
,
then
to
reuolue
how
happily
the
inhabitants
be
there
delighted
:
fitter
to
see
new
actions
,
&
actiue
spirits
proceeding
,
then
the
maintenance
of
honour
proceeded
:
and
fitter
to
behold
one
falling
from
a
rocke
,
then
from
a
stumbling
mole-hill
.
So
that
if
Noble-men
aduanced
,
continue
so
;
and
ambitious
Gentry
,
nay
or
basenesse
,
do
aspire
and
thriue
,
I
see
no
difference
:
if
ruine
threatens
both
,
the
last
transcends
in
outward
happinesse
.
The
best
similitude
which
makes
diuersitie
,
reaches
but
thus
farre
:
I
see
an
embroydred
emptie
purse
,
and
stoope
to
view
it
narrowly
,
because
the
out-side
glisters
:
I
spurne
a
powch
before
me
,
and
heare
the
sound
of
siluer
;
I
take
both
,
keepe
both
,
and
will
esteeme
the
coyne
aboue
the
emptie
purse
,
and
yet
preferre
the
outsides
alone
not
both
alike
;
because
the
one
is
capable
and
beauteous
already
,
the
other
doth
containe
already
,
but
can
neuer
be
beauteous
:
no
more
then
vpstarts
,
though
renowned
in
merits
,
can
euer
take
Nobilitie
of
Birth
;
because
it
will
demand
succession
to
confirme
antiquitie
.
So
that
ennobled
fortunes
(
being
an
outward
beauty
)
shall
but
make
me
more
willing
(
as
an
embroidred
purse
)
to
see
their
in-sides
,
not
enlarge
their
value
:
when
as
perhaps
one
basely
obscure
,
shall
more
purchase
my
reverence
,
though
lesse
attract
my
labour
to
discouer
him
.
As
for
the
chiefe
ornaments
which
qualifie
great
parentage
,
they
should
bee
such
as
make
most
in
the
aduancement
of
a
Common-wealth
.
For
when
Lawes
receiue
their
body
from
the
concordance
of
Nobilitie
;
it
must
(
by
good
coniecture
)
follow
,
that
the
life
or
motion
of
them
(
which
is
an
equal
prosecution
of
Iustice
)
would
,
through
the
countenance
of
Nobilitie
,
receiue
more
credit
and
reuerence
.
For
the
visible
dignitie
of
persons
,
doth
atract
sluggish
or
obstinate
beholders
,
with
vnanimitie
or
terror
.
Thus
ignorant
men
(
vnacquainted
with
our
state
of
question
)
will
often
wish
within
themselues
,
That
a
Dunce
or
Coward
may
preuaile
before
the
Combate
,
because
they
incline
more
to
the
estimation
of
his
carriage
,
fame
,
or
feature
,
then
to
the
others
:
which
loue
doth
(
notwithstanding
)
sometimes
vanish
into
feare
,
adoration
,
or
a
reuerend
conceit
.
The
very
name
of
Crumwell
was
able
to
disseuer
insurrections
;
By
this
caution
therefore
did
the
Noblest
Romanes
apply
themselues
to
take
the
patronage
of
Plebeians
;
This
therefore
should
bee
the
singular
part
of
instruction
among
Noble
pupils
,
and
all
that
would
become
proficients
,
to
certifie
,
allay
,
and
augment
nature
:
which
cannot
bee
by
a
restraint
,
but
by
giving
free
libertie
to
enioy
all
,
that
so
the
worst
may
bee
remoued
;
else
by
a
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easily
preuented
.
colourable
restraint
of
that
which
formerly
was
permitted
.
For
when
wee
say
,
Natura
recurrit
,
wee
must
conceiue
,
Nature
hath
tasted
:
for
Ignoti
nulla
cupido
.
And
by
the
consequent
,
whilst
wee
dote
vpon
things
absent
,
our
inclination
is
discouered
.
From
hence
therefore
did
Phrina
know
Praxitelus
loued
the
Image
of
his
Satyre
,
because
when
hee
heard
his
house
was
burnt
,
hee
asked
onely
if
the
Satyre
were
safe
:
So
when
wee
haue
once
enioyed
,
and
now
lacke
our
custome
,
desire
will
bee
manifest
.
It
is
not
therfore
wisdome
to
correct
the
natures
of
children
,
by
keeping
them
in
couert
from
the
worlds
eye
,
vnlesse
they
bee
appoynted
for
a
Monasterie
.
For
that
which
wee
cannot
doe
,
because
we
know
not
,
wee
dare
doe
freely
when
wee
are
acquainted
.
But
Nature
beeing
discouered
,
by
hauing
once
enioyed
,
yeares
will
then
easily
admit
a
contrarietie
.
And
as
Wormewood
,
rubbed
vpon
the
nipple
of
a
Nurses
Teate
,
weanes
the
childe
;
so
thy
detestation
,
or
continuall
inuectiue
against
that
vice
which
thou
wouldst
abolish
in
the
Childes
nature
,
remooues
it
sooner
then
stripe
,
or
furious
choller
towardes
the
Childe
himselfe
.
For
these
bee
able
to
make
him
,
not
abandon
the
vice
,
because
hee
abhorres
thee
;
and
in
despight
will
keepe
it
,
notwithstanding
eye-seruice
:
whereas
folly
being
hated
for
its
owne
sake
,
(
because
it
is
deformed
)
the
expounder
of
this
deformitie
may
bee
still
beloued
.
Vicious
men
may
,
without
question
,
bee
entertained
by
Princes
,
&
giue
much
morality
:
prouided
alwayes
,
that
apprehensiue
natures
be
neere
hand
,
to
make
applications
.
For
then
as
the
Apes
heart
(
it
selfe
beeing
a
most
timorous
Creature
)
being
well
applyed
,
begetts
courage
in
the
patient
:
So
Cowards
,
Epicures
,
and
blasphemous
persons
,
may
(
by
good
compositions
)
produce
Valiancie
,
Abstinence
,
and
Humilitie
in
Princes
:
but
poysons
bee
a
dangerous
physicke
,
without
skilfull
professors
.
The
study
to
discerne
Nature
in
Noble
persons
,
should
bee
equivalent
to
their
owne
disquisition
of
nature
in
others
;
for
seeing
they
ought
by
superintendence
to
ouer-looke
man
,
they
should
bee
perfect
in
the
Character
of
Man
,
bearing
their
best
Librarie
about
them
.
They
should
represent
the
Lyon
,
who
is
noted
(
aboue
all
)
to
carry
a
most
valiant
head
,
and
a
Maiesticke
countenance
;
intimating
the
apparant
and
invisible
potencie
of
high
spirits
.
Besides
(
that
I
may
continue
this
Mythologie
)
the
necke
of
a
Lyon
hath
no
ioyntes
;
whereby
he
cannot
looke
backwards
,
vnlesse
hee
turnes
his
body
;
neither
can
Princes
,
without
scandall
to
their
courage
,
and
bountie
,
turne
their
head
onely
vpon
the
foe
that
makes
pursuite
,
with
a
meaning
to
runne
away
faster
,
and
not
regaine
their
Title
,
or
recall
gifts
with
an
intention
to
vpbrayd
,
except
they
turne
themselues
to
encounter
,
or
their
iust
rage
to
inflict
a
deserued
ruine
.
The
back
of
Lyons
carries
a
magnanimous
bredth
:
And
all
the
noble
deeds
of
Ancestors
,
historicall
examples
of
Monarchs
,
with
infinite
renowned
precepts
of
former
ages
,
make
but
one
broad
backe
president
,
to
strengthen
the
wisedome
of
Princes
.
The
bones
of
a
Lyon
haue
lesse
marrow
then
others
;
for
lasciuious
suell
diminisheth
valour
.
The
want
of
pith
therefore
makes
Oke
more
durable
then
Elda
;
and
a
contempt
of
wantonnesse
prouokes
Princes
to
an
vnmoueable
subsistence
.
Lyons
haue
an
exquisite
propertie
to
smell
out
their
owne
aduantage
:
For
it
is
reported
,
the
male
knowes
when
the
Lionesse
hath
beene
adulterous
with
the
Panther
,
by
a
peculiar
sense
of
smelling
:
And
the
wisest
part
of
men
worthily
descended
,
is
to
betray
their
owne
abuses
;
for
men
of
this
ranck
are
incident
to
strong
delusions
.
A
Lyon
sleepes
and
yet
his
eies
are
open
:
so
prouident
high
Statesmen
,
that
possesse
much
,
cannot
haue
eyes
too
many
,
or
too
watchfull
:
Neither
may
absolute
man
incurre
security
.
When
Lyons
deuoure
,
famine
doth
inforce
them
;
And
when
Kings
take
the
sword
,
a
zealous
appetite
,
to
satisfie
forgotten
vertue
,
should
prouoke
them
.
Neither
may
generous
Natures
bee
nobly
offended
,
except
,
as
by
an
impulsiue
,
or
sufficient
cause
,
they
ouercome
.
So
by
a
Heroyicke
scorne
to
malice
,
they
can
both
swallow
and
digest
the
cause
with
the
conquest
.
Howsoeuer
it
may
bee
fictitiously
reported
,
that
Lyons
haue
(
by
a
miraculous
motion
)
beene
defensiue
to
condemned
Martyrs
;
yet
may
the
obseruation
affoord
thus
much
morality
:
That
,
as
a
true
noble
man
may
by
no
meanes
receiue
a
more
excellent
moderation
of
spirit
,
and
spur
,
to
greatly-good
actions
,
then
by
a
religious
Feare
;
so
cannot
this
bee
any
way
expressed
better
(
himselfe
being
so
eminent
)
then
in
perfection
of
Diuine
Iustice
,
and
good
mens
causes
.
It
is
admirable
(
if
true
)
to
see
how
generously
Lyons
haue
scorned
to
be
base
debtors
:
Insomuch
that
it
is
memorably
reported
,
Androcles
a
vagabond
captiue
,
cured
a
Lyons
paw
;
In
gratification
whereof
,
Such
is
the
common
treacherous
basenesse
of
their
conditions
,
though
they
protest
otherwise
;
which
may
exhort
any
Noble
minde
to
beleeue
this
Maxime
True
;
Hee
hath
discharged
halfe
his
reputation
among
men
,
that
scornes
the
credite
of
a
Cittizen
,
or
ind●ed
any
man
.
An
other
singular
note
is
fixed
vpon
this
magnanimous
beast
aboue
written
;
his
wrath
extends
no
further
then
the
prouocation
.
And
therefore
when
the
Arabian
souldier
,
I
bring
forth
one
,
&
yet
that
one
is
a
Lyon
:
which
good
allusion
may
remoue
the
curse
which
some
would
cast
vpon
Nobility
,
because
often
their
children
in
number
be
inferiour
to
common
prostitutes
:
But
I
am
peremptorily
resolued
,
that
the
multiplicity
of
children
reares
vp
an
obscure
family
,
and
brings
an
ancient
stocke
to
ruine
:
For
among
many
base
childrens
blessings
,
birth
may
make
variety
of
fortunes
:
But
among
much
Noble
posterity
,
Fortune
doth
challenge
a
more
vaste
partition
;
and
makes
a
discontented
heire
fit
for
all
innouating
enterprises
;
so
that
one
Noble
remainder
of
much
antiquity
,
or
one
true
Lyon
of
a
family
(
if
Art
and
Nature
can
be
made
operatiue
)
will
be
a
more
safe
prop
to
succession
,
then
the
doubtfull
variety
of
children
.
I
obserue
it
as
an
infa●lible
rule
,
that
there
haue
beene
as
many
base
originals
,
as
their
haue
beene
honorable
descents
in
Nobility
.
For
,
as
questionlesse
the
largest
Riuers
bee
deriued
from
lowly
Springs
;
So
birth
and
succession
haue
beene
so
basely
intermingled
,
so
casually
interrupted
,
so
frequently
impaired
,
and
very
often
attainted
(
though
with
absolution
)
that
I
may
well
iustifie
the
first
principle
,
and
adde
further
,
That
generally
,
to
maintaine
the
noble
estate
of
dead
Ancestors
,
requires
as
much
true
policy
,
as
to
erect
a
new
Family
:
And
to
exceed
the
patterne
of
heroicke
ancestry
,
deserues
perpetuall
commendations
.
Which
purpose
cannot
prosper
well
,
except
we
preuent
or
auoid
oppositions
,
rather
then
purchase
new
addition
.
For
men
may
clime
better
by
troublesome
,
rough
,
and
dangerous
passages
,
then
stand
tottering
vpon
the
eminent
spire
:
and
therfore
hath
contentious
dealing
beene
the
ouer-throw
of
kingdomes
,
and
flourishing
Captaines
;
because
prosperity
is
waspish
,
&
brookes
no
competition
,
nor
almost
assistance
.
The
Historian
therfore
saith
well
:
None
more
deafe
to
counsell
then
natures
vnthwarted
;
none
more
obtemperate
to
bee
counselled
,
then
men
destitute
.
As
for
the
ambitious
extasie
of
noble
spirits
,
which
makes
them
indirectly
consult
vpon
new
addition
;
the
Fable
doth
condemne
them
perspicuously
:
for
like
Aesops
Dogge
,
they
snatch
at
shadowes
,
and
loose
the
certainty
,
who
dote
vpon
such
couetous
desires
.
Presumption
also
,
and
Popularitie
,
be
two
treacherous
confederates
:
the
first
was
neuer
good
when
a
Kings
fauour
is
the
obiect
;
so
long
as
Mines
and
Countermines
haue
beene
the
Court-deuises
.
The
last
will
neuer
be
good
;
so
long
as
people
do
but
conduct
their
fauorites
to
the
Scaffold
,
and
cry
Alas
,
it
is
pitty
;
but
who
can
helpe
it
?
The
first
cannot
thriue
,
because
offences
with
Kings
outweigh
merits
:
as
also
the
iealous
còceit
of
safety
,
is
a
multitude
of
feares
,
and
they
threaten
the
most
highly
fauoured
:
The
last
is
mortall
,
because
hee
surfets
of
one
dish
;
nothing
but
fame
:
serued
in
(
like
Turkish
Rice
)
by
infinite
waiters
.
And
shall
wee
wonder
if
it
choakes
him
,
when
he
deuoures
all
?
The
best
loue
therefore
that
can
be
bestowed
vpon
the
people
,
or
the
best
friendship
that
you
can
receiue
from
them
,
is
to
suffer
them
in
things
indifferent
,
or
not
to
shew
a
currish
seuerity
:
for
(
like
the
Hungarian
Heyduckes
)
their
wrath
is
prone
to
mischiefe
,
and
their
amity
is
worth
nothing
:
so
that
indeed
to
flatter
with
them
,
and
not
regard
them
,
is
a
sound
proposition
:
For
if
Coriolanus
contemnes
their
authority
,
they
can
abhorre
his
name
,
and
banish
his
person
:
or
at
least
banish
him
from
preuailing
in
publicke
assistance
.
The
safest
course
(
that
I
can
be
acquainted
with
)
to
confirme
and
perfectly
retaine
noble
dignities
with
good
approuall
;
is
to
be
immutable
honest
,
and
no
reported
Polititian
:
for
the
very
name
containes
(
among
generall
opinions
)
much
powder-treason
,
Atheisme
,
curses
of
inferiours
,
and
condemnations
of
all
,
except
their
close
minions
.
An
other
thing
that
doth
briefely
replenish
a
noble
Spirit
,
must
be
more
example
,
dispatch
,
or
quick
perfect
motion
,
then
precepts
or
doctrines
:
These
being
the
dull
laborious
obiect
,
of
melancholy
Artists
;
the
other
being
a
Rhetoricall
inducement
to
establish
the
delight
of
action
:
In
which
nothing
drawes
greater
efficacie
,
then
speedinesse
and
fortunate
euent
;
though
both
these
relie
much
vpon
a
contriuing
faculty
,
which
is
begotten
by
a
frequent
practise
.
And
therefore
it
betokens
a
sluggish
feare
,
and
priuate
weakenesse
,
when
wee
loath
to
enterprise
:
For
couragious
mindes
acquire
hability
(
through
custome
)
equall
to
desire
:
but
when
the
appetite
failes
I
perceiue
no
stomack
of
Nobility
.
It
may
seeme
somewhat
controuersiall
,
whether
State-knowledge
,
or
Militant
resolutions
be
more
gracefull
to
generosity
:
And
,
questionlesse
,
I
conceiue
few
Romane
Senators
,
or
not
any
(
except
Cicero
)
was
vnsufficient
to
lead
an
Army
,
as
well
as
to
deliuer
his
opinion
in
the
Councell-chamber
:
both
be
so
vnseparably
annexed
,
as
wee
may
hardly
thinke
he
aduises
the
Common-wealth
louingly
,
who
is
afraid
to
iustifie
the
Common-wealths
quarrell
;
when
himselfe
adiudges
it
lawfull
.
As
for
the
outward
pompe
or
magnific●nce
of
mighty
persons
,
it
may
become
a
festiuall
day
better
then
common
pollicy
:
for
this
age
doth
not
so
soone
adiudge
the
royall
minde
,
as
the
fantasticke
humour
,
by
expence
of
needlesse
brauery
;
accompting
that
rather
magnificence
,
when
we
expend
our
own
about
the
Kingdomes
glory
:
which
by
reflexe
produces
an
apparant
loue
,
and
feare
toward
such
actiue
spirits
.
For
all
men
reuerence
him
truely
,
who
is
impartiall
,
and
industrious
to
aduance
equity
,
or
to
confirme
goodnesse
with
goodnesse
among
a
l.
And
howsoeuer
the
full
stomackes
of
men
will
hardly
suffer
them
to
commend
such
worthy
ones
aliue
;
yet
haue
their
deaths
beene
alwaies
deplorable
.
Whereas
polliticke
braines
with
false
bottomes
,
haue
found
a
publique
curse
,
which
was
before
restrained
with
Authority
.
I
dare
not
become
an
Instructor
,
it
appertaines
to
deepe
Professours
:
Neither
can
I
reproue
,
it
may
incurre
the
name
of
Malapert
:
I
labour
onely
,
to
proue
by
demonstratiue
reasons
,
which
is
bare
Counsell
.
As
for
Nobility
,
if
it
beare
the
name
of
Legitimate
,
it
will
beare
a
contempt
also
(
with
Agesilaus
)
to
be
reproued
,
when
paines
may
happily
discharge
their
function
.
Neither
at
any
time
shall
high
births
aspire
to
hazardous
downefals
,
if
they
esteeme
honor
as
the
reward
of
vertue
,
Of
Disinheritance
.
ESSAY
.
V.
IT
is
more
impossible
for
an
vnnaturall
father
to
bee
a
true
friend
,
then
for
an
abused
sonne
,
to
be
an
obedient
sonne
:
because
I
thinke
it
is
an
irrepugnable
precept
.
That
he
who
from
a
diuelish
disposition
findes
a
soone-moued
contrariety
betwixt
himselfe
and
his
vndoubted
children
,
must
(
of
necessity
)
bee
a
man
who
refuses
all
men
,
except
aduantage
pleades
for
them
;
seeing
he
neglects
those
,
for
whom
nature
pleades
,
if
aduantage
bee
absent
.
The
same
may
be
inferred
concerning
all
degenerate
Kinsfolke
,
though
in
a
lesse
degree
.
But
for
the
first
I
haue
obserued
it
generally
;
that
he
who
was
apt
for
disinheritance
,
hath
bene
a
man
alwaies
of
as
many
affections
,
as
there
be
faces
:
And
as
prompt
to
refuse
any
,
as
to
receiue
any
,
if
hee
might
saue
by
the
bargain
.
Howsoeuer
subiects
be
now
grown
so
tyrannical
,
that
where
pretences
may
accomplish
their
malice
,
they
cannot
thinke
there
is
a
God
,
or
,
at
least
,
they
think
God
fauours
their
proceedings
.
For
calumnious
pretences
,
and
aggrauated
trisles
haue
bene
the
common
glosse
of
parents
cruelty
in
this
kind
:
Their
president
is
vulgar
,
for
tyrants
neuer
slew
without
state-Alchimy
,
or
multiplication
of
pretended
treasons
;
neither
may
Alexander
lack
occasion
,
so
long
as
he
had
a
meaning
to
kill
Antisten●s
.
The
hungry
woolfe
may
call
the
lamb
his
debtor
,
but
a
good
stomack
is
the
day
of
payment
and
the
prouerbe
is
well
verified
:
If
thou
wouldst
beate
a
dog
heere
is
a
staffe
.
So
that
although
churlish
parents
pretend
iust
causes
of
disinheritance
,
yet
these
are
quickly
found
,
soone
allowed
,
&
as
soon
amplyfied
.
From
whence
you
may
gather
,
that
no
sparke
of
naturall
affection
,
but
only
a
compulsiue
maintenance
,
keeps
the
reference
betwixt
such
parents
,
and
such
children
.
For
louing
nature
and
affection
be
flexible
,
of
long
forbearance
,
much
pitty
,
manifest
care
;
&
keepe
an
establisht
forme
of
affability
,
with
which
friends
or
kinsfolk
be
vnacquainted
:
this
prouokes
an
eminent
reflexe
of
loue
;
whereas
rough
carriage
begets
loue
in
Curres
,
but
a
contemptible
scorne
in
Noble
Spirits
.
It
is
therefore
more
commendable
to
follow
the
extreame
of
vertue
abounding
,
then
defectiue
:
The
first
partakes
with
mediocritie
in
the
nature
;
but
the
last
is
altogether
opposite
.
We
may
more
safely
therefore
allow
indulgence
,
then
austerity
;
because
it
approcheth
neerer
to
true
loue
.
For
though
indulgence
hath
made
children
loftie
in
behauiour
towards
others
,
yet
(
I
obserue
)
it
breeds
a
true
and
vndiuorced
affection
towards
the
originall
cause
.
It
is
therefore
an
excellent
rule
,
for
children
,
to
receiue
instruction
of
strangers
;
and
by
the
consequent
,
to
bee
any
way
restrain'd
without
the
parents
knowledge
,
or
at
least
their
taking
notice
:
whereby
Nature
cannot
grudge
against
Nature
,
nor
yet
want
reprehension
.
For
howsoeuer
Marcus
Cato
said
well
,
That
he
had
rather
vnrewarded
for
doing
well
,
then
vnpunished
for
offences
:
yet
we
haue
naturally
a
secret
spleene
against
the
Iudge
,
though
wee
account
him
righteous
and
impartiall
.
It
must
bee
expected
then
,
that
children
doe
know
a
difference
betwixt
Fathers
and
Maisters
;
which
makes
them
the
more
implacable
,
when
they
see
Nature
impartiall
.
From
hence
Sertorius
,
a
politicke
Captaine
,
would
not
himselfe
represse
the
impudence
of
his
Souldiers
;
least
,
howsoeuer
they
deserued
ill
,
yet
his
correction
might
take
away
their
louing
dutie
:
which
respect
made
him
suffer
the
enemies
incursions
,
rather
to
scourge
their
insolence
,
whilst
they
,
out
of
a
hare-brained
lunasie
desired
battaile
.
And
thus
the
sacred
decree
of
Correction
may
bee
kept
vnviolate
,
and
the
loue
of
Children
vnblemished
.
For
I
am
vnanswerably
perswaded
,
that
parents
wrath
diminisheth
the
Childes
loue
,
making
him
seruile
,
or
else
refractorie
to
the
doctrine
of
themselues
and
others
;
because
they
cannot
vndertake
with
delight
,
so
long
as
frownes
and
feare
bee
crept
into
their
fancie
.
But
affable
parents
beget
truely
affectionate
children
,
who
may
endure
another
mans
reproofe
to
mitigate
the
name
of
Cosset
,
and
yet
louingly
adore
the
father
because
hee
was
alwayes
louing
.
So
then
the
Fathers
diligent
loue
,
and
a
Tutors
modest
instruction
,
may
make
a
seldome-seene
heire
affect
his
Fathers
life
without
hypocrisie
,
and
proue
a
venerable
wise
man
.
Without
which
loue
apparant
,
or
oftentimes
indulgence
,
I
see
an
eldest
sonne
,
instead
of
the
Fathers
blessing
,
render
backe
sweating
curses
.
I
see
another
inclining
onely
to
the
mother
;
and
a
third
,
slippe
into
his
disinherited
Fortune
.
The
Comaedian
therefore
saith
ingenuously
touching
a
fathers
dutie
:
I
ouer-passe
expences
,
I
call
not
euery
thing
to
a
strict
account
;
and
that
which
other
sonnes
labour
to
keepe
secret
,
I
do
not
bitterly
condemne
in
mine
,
lest
many
things
should
bee
concealed
;
for
hee
that
(
through
a
rugged
vsage
)
depriues
his
father
(
by
false
excuses
)
of
youthfull
accidents
,
will
soone
deceiue
others
.
It
is
more
availeable
then
,
to
governe
by
liberalitie
,
not
base
compulsion
:
for
hee
that
thus
becomes
obedient
,
expects
onely
till
hee
may
want
the
witnesse
of
his
actions
.
Now
for
the
dangerous
effect
of
parents
changeable
loue
(
it
having
beene
propounded
,
that
want
of
loue
breedes
disinheritance
)
I
will
demonstrate
,
how
horrible
,
vnlawful
,
&
impossible
disinheritance
maybe
iudiciously
accounted
.
The
diuorce
of
mariage
is
a
weighty
case
,
much
forbidden
,
much
controverted
;
because
marriage
it selfe
is
made
a
strict
vnion
,
so
farre
as
Husbands
seeme
incorporate
with
their
Wiues
,
being
both
to
bee
taken
as
one
flesh
.
But
this
vnion
admits
many
exceptions
;
neither
may
any
thinke
their
being
made
one
,
extends
further
,
then
the
rhetoricall
aggravation
of
vnitie
,
to
insinuate
how
difficult
a
thing
Diuorce
will
be
betwixt
two
,
so
narrowly
vnited
:
but
children
haue
a
more
exquisite
property
of
indiuorceable
,
because
they
really
partake
with
parents
by
existence
;
deriving
a
particular
&
true
strength
of
body
from
the
parents
abilitie
.
And
therefore
it
seemes
the
matter
of
disinheritance
is
a
thing
so
odious
,
as
(
being
held
improbable
to
be
acted
among
the
Iewes
,
or
any
Nation
)
no
Law
of
Scripture
contradicts
it
.
Indeed
rebellious
sonnes
are
by
the
verdict
of
Divine
iniunction
,
to
suffer
death
,
if
they
shall
strike
the
parents
,
or
rise
vp
against
them
:
But
for
the
matter
of
Disinheritance
(
which
farre
transcends
the
punishment
of
death
,
as
shall
appeare
)
I
haue
read
no
sillable
which
may
giue
the
toleration
of
Divinitie
.
Death
indeed
,
comparatiuely
respected
,
may
bee
thought
the
best
wages
of
a
rebellious
sonne
:
for
the
act
includes
his
full
sentence
;
because
to
smite
his
parent
,
is
to
seeke
the
destruction
of
his
efficient
cause
:
which
act
keepes
within
it
so
much
ingratitude
,
as
heauenly
Iustice
can
doe
no
lesse
then
remoue
him
,
who
durst
remoue
his
begetter
;
it
beeing
an
inseparable
part
of
holinesse
,
to
pay
offenders
with
their
owne
coyne
.
But
disinheritance
so
much
exceeds
death
,
as
it
approches
to
a
continued
torment
.
Death
is
so
fa●re
from
misery
,
wh●re
men
expiate
offences
,
as
it
rather
affoords
felicity
,
because
it
giues
a
present
satisfaction
,
and
a
present
hope
to
enioy
a
good
portion
;
if
penitence
,
and
a
satisfactory
mind
be
companions
.
But
disinheriritance
,
or
abdication
,
doth
not
onely
enforce
death
,
but
makes
the
circumstance
tyrannicall
.
A
violent
death
is
but
an
abridgement
of
nature
;
but
disinheritance
doth
often
bring
a
violent
death
,
and
enlarge
the
wickednesse
of
nature
.
I
see
no
difference
betwixt
them
in
the
conclusion
:
for
death
is
an
effect
commonly
of
disinheritance
;
but
no
death
more
excludes
all
humanitie
.
The
case
is
palpable
.
I
giue
directions
to
a
traveller
:
hee
arrogantly
contemnes
my
counsell
;
which
doth
so
much
provoke
mee
,
as
(
to
amend
the
matter
)
I
draw
him
by
compulsion
to
an
apparant
ambush
:
in
which
,
after
many
sustained
abuses
,
horrible
vexations
,
and
desperate
incounters
,
hee
concludes
his
life
with
infamie
;
or
perhaps
blasphemy
.
So
,
currish
and
cruell
parents
,
by
disinheritance
deales
every
way
answerable
to
this
similitude
.
The
hor●or
of
which
barbarisme
is
the
more
amplified
,
by
so
much
as
naturall
affinitie
claimes
a
more
humane
president
then
strangers
.
Banishment
or
abiuration
is
tolerable
:
for
it
takes
originall
by
publicke
decree
,
superior
counsell
,
and
authority
of
those
,
from
whom
I
can
chalenge
nothing
but
iustice
;
wheras
disinheritance
,
a
National
banishment
(
transcending
forraine
exile
in
the
Cause
and
Manner
)
proceedes
from
priuate
occurrences
,
which
cannot
reach
so
high
an
affliction
;
because
the
nature
of
it
is
equall
to
,
nay
aboue
publicke
iustice
.
Now
it
may
well
bee
esteemed
humane
,
when
parents
punish
with
rigor
,
where
the
Law
condemnes
not
;
because
in
every
offence
highly
punishable
,
the
Law
is
open
:
if
that
condemnes
,
the
Parents
loue
may
a
little
bee
excused
,
though
hee
doth
not
excuse
his
sonnes
accusation
;
but
where
himselfe
exceedes
the
Lawes
rigor
,
when
the
Law
is
silent
,
and
becomes
Accuser
,
Iudge
,
and
Executioner
,
wee
may
discouer
a
damnable
flintie
heart
;
apt
enough
for
massacre
;
seeing
hee
first
plaies
the
tyrant
with
his
owne
Image
.
Parents
therefore
cannot
argue
and
say
(
except
Disinheritance
)
they
haue
no
remedie
for
disobedience
;
seeing
there
is
no
crime
which
may
deserue
so
great
satisfaction
,
but
the
Law
is
all-sufficient
to
render
Iustice
,
and
saue
them
vnpreiudiced
in
the
aspersion
of
Vnnaturall
:
which
the
Title
Disinheritance
drawes
with
it
inseparate
.
For
if
wee
take
a
view
of
those
impulsiue
causes
which
breede
occasion
,
wee
shall
perceiue
how
accessary
Parents
bee
to
all
their
Childrens
vices
;
and
by
the
consequent
,
how
culpable
they
are
to
punish
that
so
strictly
,
of
which
themselues
bee
Authors
.
Setting
aside
the
position
which
makes
the
Children
participate
with
Parents
in
vices
liable
to
constitution
,
wee
may
(
without
these
)
demonstrate
,
how
guiltie
they
are
of
each
notorious
crime
in
Children
,
through
a
deficiencie
of
rectified
education
.
For
as
,
in
naturall
productions
,
nothing
is
so
absurd
,
from
which
Art
cannot
extract
a
deere
quintessence
;
so
among
naturall
men
,
and
the
conditions
of
humanitie
,
nothing
is
so
irregular
,
from
which
industrious
and
true
instructiue
methode
cannot
produce
a
Divine
excellence
.
Indeed
the
disquisition
of
natures
is
difficult
,
and
much
iudicious
labour
belongs
to
the
true
sifting
of
a
perverse
disposition
.
But
questionlesse
,
the
worst
natured
among
all
badde
men
,
are
,
by
a
true
seasoning
of
minoritie
,
a
wise
progresse
,
or
institution
of
ripe
yeares
,
and
an
ingenious
confirmation
of
practises
well
deserued
;
they
are
capable
of
goodnesse
,
subdued
in
mischiefe
,
and
apprehensiue
in
a
sufficient
measure
.
So
that
we
must
not
ignorantly
impute
the
curse
of
Children
to
a
wrong
cause
,
seeing
it
is
either
the
curse
of
the
Parents
;
First
,
not
to
instruct
children
at
all
.
Secondly
,
not
to
instruct
them
sufficiently
.
Thirdly
,
not
in
the
true
manner
.
Examples
are
infinite
:
Alcibiades
may
include
all
.
Hee
,
a
voluptuous
and
sensuall
Swaggerer
,
could
neuer
bee
reclaimed
by
many
strong
experiments
;
till
comming
by
chaunce
to
the
Philosophicall
Lecture
of
Socrates
,
hee
was
suddenly
converted
:
such
a
sympathie
there
was
betwixt
this
Philosophers
doctrine
,
and
the
Disciples
attention
;
whereas
twenty
others
might
perhappes
haue
beene
frustrate
in
the
same
conuersion
,
though
their
Precepts
had
beene
equall
;
because
there
is
an
invisible
concordance
to
make
them
aequiualent
.
Which
manner
of
instruction
,
respecting
the
qualitie
and
person
,
of
method
and
Tutors
,
bee
matters
onely
appertaining
to
the
Parents
charge
.
Now
(
if
a
curse
imposed
vpon
them
,
bee
a
hinderance
to
the
perfection
of
both
,
whereby
they
neither
can
be
prouided
of
true
Instructors
or
instructions
)
Shall
wee
accuse
the
childe
as
an
efficient
of
the
Fathers
curse
,
or
the
fathers
curse
now
existent
,
as
an
originall
of
the
childs
future
inconueniences
?
This
being
necessarily
concluded
,
wee
may
well
inferre
,
concerning
disinheritance
,
That
parents
curses
beeing
the
onely
causes
which
may
prouoke
this
irreligious
act
(
seeing
they
might
sometimes
,
but
doe
not
,
and
doe
not
sometimes
because
they
cannot
,
though
it
be
possible
,
ingraft
goodnesse
)
by
their
owne
ignorance
;
wee
may
inferre
,
(
and
that
most
iustly
)
that
they
resemble
Heliogabalus
,
who
being
the
cause
of
his
friendes
drunkennesse
,
would
cast
the
miserable
wretches
amongst
tame
Beares
and
Lyons
,
to
terrifie
them
when
they
awaked
.
But
herein
they
differ
:
hee
was
the
voluntarie
cause
of
his
Friendes
;
Parents
,
the
vnadvised
cause
of
their
Childrens
errour
:
in
stead
of
which
hee
threw
his
friendes
among
tame
Beares
and
Lyons
;
Parents
,
by
disinheritance
,
throw
their
issue
amongst
rampant
Wolues
.
For
besides
the
perplexed
imfamie
,
and
sorrowfull
perturbations
of
such
excluded
Castawayes
;
what
shal
we
coniecture
touching
their
desperate
resolution
?
Or
how
shall
wee
condemne
,
if
they
bee
mercilessely
ouerthrowne
by
the
impulsiue
necessity
of
destruction
?
Seeing
their
destitute
fortune
inuites
them
to
embrace
each
glistering
temptation
,
and
to
shake
hands
with
calamity
.
I
cannot
(
for
mine
owne
part
)
comprehend
all
this
without
remembrance
and
pitty
of
such
parents
ruines
;
seeing
they
cannot
discharge
all
,
before
children
haue
incurred
destruction
without
them
.
Nothing
is
written
which
doth
not
amplifie
our
instruction
(
saith
Diuinity
)
and
Nothing
amongst
all
is
more
effectuall
then
true
OBSERVATIONS
,
except
DIVINITIE
.
Most
ingenious
therefore
and
full
of
perswasion
,
may
that
Morality
bee
,
soone
collected
from
insensible
creatures
,
they
haue
an
excellent
and
singular
loue
(
each
creature
in
his
kind
)
to
nourish
vp
their
weake
little
ones
.
The
hunted
Lionesse
driues
her
whelpes
before
.
The
pregnant
Beare
forsakes
not
her
den
vntill
she
be
deliuered
;
neither
do
the
whelpes
come
forrh
vntill
they
can
escape
danger
.
The
Snake
swallowes
her
yong
,
if
any
disaduantage
happens
.
And
aboue
all
,
most
admirable
is
natures
ingenuity
,
touching
that
forraine
creature
,
called
by
the
name
of
Su
;
which
(
being
persecuted
)
shuts
vp
her
Cubbes
in
a
depending
scrip
,
and
so
protects
them
from
the
Huntsman
.
The
multitude
of
examples
would
be
tedious
.
Briefly
therefore
,
it
is
a
generall
note
among
them
;
they
neuer
forsake
their
infantry
till
it
be
able
euery
way
(
like
themselues
)
to
preuent
mischiefe
.
This
may
rebuke
all
cruell-minded
parents
,
who
(
notwithstanding
the
discursiue
light
of
reason
)
can
cast
off
meere
Humanity
,
and
goe
beneath
a
brutish
goodnesse
of
nature
,
not
onely
to
forsake
,
but
to
abhorre
their
issue
;
and
leaue
them
destitute
,
before
they
be
any
way
enabled
to
sustaine
nature
.
For
children
bee
indeed
thus
reiected
euer
,
because
they
be
vnable
.
Omitting
these
indifferent
allegations
,
which
some
may
account
sophistry
,
rather
then
sound
doctrine
;
because
they
beleeue
nothing
but
what
Scripture
makes
apparant
;
nor
that
can
be
accepted
among
them
,
vnlesse
no
Christian
contradicts
it
;
neither
can
that
which
all
acknowledge
,
winne
oftentimes
any
more
then
outward
beleefe
.
It
shall
bee
therefore
sufficient
to
confute
this
errour
in
question
,
by
the
soundest
proofe
;
and
then
the
vnbeliefe
of
Hypocrites
will
serue
to
multiply
their
condemnations
.
Wee
cannot
(
where
things
bee
left
vntouched
in
Scripture
)
assume
a
safer
patterne
then
the
Omnipotent
properties
of
our
Creator
.
First
then
,
that
Metaphoricall
affinitie
,
of
father
and
sonne
,
which
Himselfe
hath
pleased
to
entertaine
betwixt
Himselfe
and
the
Elected
,
may
serue
to
instruct
parents
(
without
controuersie
)
in
all
degrees
of
duty
,
and
inseparate
relation
.
Now
all
agree
vpon
this
Principle
,
that
whomsoeuer
God
hath
once
loued
,
him
hee
hath
loued
euerlastingly
.
It
is
impossible
therefore
,
if
at
any
time
there
hath
bene
Amity
betwixt
father
and
sonne
,
that
(
this
being
obserued
)
it
should
fall
away
to
disinheritance
.
For
if
Gods
Maiestie
descend
so
low
,
as
to
continue
his
loue
alwaies
where
Hee
hath
begunne
to
Loue
:
shall
not
imitation
hereof
be
requisite
in
fathers
,
who
be
commanded
to
loue
their
children
,
and
in
whom
nature
exacts
more
proportionate
equality
,
then
in
the
least
degree
can
be
imagined
betwixt
holinesse
and
frailty
?
each
circumstance
appeares
so
manifest
,
as
I
know
not
how
Sophisters
can
colourably
distinguish
.
A
second
instance
may
confirme
this
president
.
God
neuer
hath
forsaken
the
most
wicked
Reprobates
,
till
they
haue
voluntarily
forsaken
him
first
:
The
prodigall
demanded
his
portion
,
left
his
father
,
and
yet
the
father
willingly
accepts
him
being
conuerted
.
This
becomes
farre
opposite
to
the
practise
of
our
age
:
so
peremptory
is
the
humor
of
disinheriting-parents
,
as
they
forget
common
charity
,
and
refuse
loue
with
an
implacable
contempt
of
reconcilement
.
As
for
the
pretended
causes
which
commonly
prouoke
parents
,
I
cannot
any
way
coniecture
,
that
they
be
either
halfe
so
infinite
,
or
in
the
least
degree
so
terrible
,
as
those
with
which
all
parents
prouoke
Omnipotence
:
&
therfore
I
cannot
well
see
how
such
fathers
can
claime
the
petition
of
forgiuenesse
,
when
they
cannot
forgiue
their
owne
issue
.
The
heire
of
a
Kingdome
entitles
himselfe
not
more
iustly
to
his
Crowne
,
then
eldest
sonnes
do
to
their
homely
inheritance
.
Now
I
obserue
,
that
wheresoeuer
hath
been
a
successory
regiment
,
there
,
weake-braind
,
ryotous
,
tyrannicall
,
and
lewd
princes
,
haue
been
admitted
to
their
dignities
without
contradiction
.
And
doth
not
the
bloud
of
common
heires
answere
to
a
Kings
priuiledge
,
in
the
Title
of
Legitimate
?
Why
then
shall
wee
protect
such
vniust
partialitie
?
If
children
should
receiue
no
more
than
they
deserue
:
or
if
they
shold
claime
interest
of
loue
,
no
longer
then
merits
make
a
full
proportion
;
how
should
the
liberality
of
parents
,
and
the
prerogatiue
of
children
,
appeare
?
or
what
thankes
and
filiall
loue
may
Fathers
expect
from
such
Children
,
more
then
from
good
Apprentices
?
Cimon
could
intombe
his
Mares
,
when
they
purchased
credite
in
the
swift
races
of
Olimpiades
.
Xanthippus
could
bewaile
his
dogges
death
which
had
followed
his
Maister
from
Calamina
.
Alexander
could
erect
a
Citty
in
the
honor
of
Bucephalus
,
when
hee
had
long
bene
defended
by
him
in
the
dangerous
attempts
of
many
fortunate
battailes
.
The
Asse
may
well
(
among
the
Heathen
)
be
adorned
with
Lillies
,
Violets
,
and
Garlands
;
when
their
Goddesse
,
Vesta
,
by
an
Asses
voyce
,
auoyded
the
rape
of
Priapus
.
If
merits
therefore
should
onely
challenge
the
loue
of
parents
,
nothing
might
make
a
difference
betwixt
sonnes
and
bond-slaues
:
Seeing
bare
Humanity
,
and
the
Law
of
Nations
hath
accounted
the
honours
of
One
worthy
to
be
honored
,
nothing
but
equall
and
necessary
thankes
.
Nay
,
in
all
ages
,
so
bountifull
and
respectiue
hath
authority
beene
to
true
merites
,
as
euen
the
desertlesse
children
haue
met
with
dignitie
to
remunerate
the
fathers
worthinesse
:
Thus
did
the
Athenians
bestow
great
wages
vpon
Lysimachus
,
to
gratifie
the
seruice
of
Aristides
:
And
thus
the
Romans
preferred
the
cause
of
Marcus
Brutus
,
because
his
Ancestors
had
tooke
the
Countries
quarrell
against
tyrants
.
Shall
fathers
then
esteeme
it
such
irregular
custome
to
dignifie
their
owne
begotten
issue
,
though
desertlesse
;
seeing
strangers
haue
done
this
to
congratulate
good
fathers
?
Two
examples
there
bee
antient
and
moderne
(
worth
our
memory
)
that
shew
the
practise
of
our
Theame
in
question
;
and
affoords
singular
obseruation
.
The
first
is
euident
,
in
the
raigne
of
Agis
a
Lacedemonian
King
:
In
whose
principall
Citie
of
Sparta
,
the
custome
had
prohibited
alienations
that
preiudice
the
heire
:
The
custome
grew
to
bee
a
confirmed
Law
:
After
continuance
,
there
fell
a
difference
betwixt
one
of
the
highest
Magistrates
and
his
eldest
sonne
:
The
father
was
so
actually
prouoked
,
that
hee
exhibites
a
Decree
to
licence
Disinheritance
;
the
Decree
was
established
:
And
afterward
(
saith
Plutarch
)
couetousnesse
became
publick
.
From
hence
my
obseruation
is
double
.
First
,
the
originall
cause
of
disinheritance
was
fury
:
Secondly
,
the
commodity
was
ranke
couetousnesse
.
Lastly
,
it
is
apparant
by
the
Tower-rowles
,
that
(
during
the
raigne
of
Edward
the
fourth
)
one
Thomas
Burdet
an
Englishman
,
being
somewhat
innocently
condemned
to
death
(
about
captions
tearmes
ignorantly
vttered
)
in
his
way
to
death
espied
his
eldest
sonne
,
whom
(
before
)
hee
disinherited
:
him
therefore
hee
penitently
receiued
;
and
hauing
now
confessed
seriously
,
that
hee
felt
Gods
wrath
vpon
him
onely
to
punish
that
vnnaturall
sinne
:
Hee
humbly
beg'd
forgiuenesse
of
God
,
and
of
his
sonne
:
The
application
of
such
a
paenitent
remorse
is
easy
.
Hauing
now
marshald
vp
this
troope
of
Arguments
,
which
(
I
thinke
)
are
approueable
;
some
(
questionlesse
)
will
account
them
white-liuerd
souldiers
,
drest
vp
onely
with
a
Rhetoricall
habite
:
But
censure
is
no
lesse
infinite
,
then
oftentimes
odious
:
Tryall
therefore
shall
discharge
the
integrity
of
these
;
whilst
I
proceed
briefly
to
muster
one
troope
more
;
whose
courage
is
enough
animated
by
their
aduersaries
weaknes
;
if
not
impossibility
of
appearance
.
For
if
the
birth-right
(
which
intitles
an
heire
)
be
inseparate
,
then
the
prerogatiue
is
also
inseparate
;
for
inheritance
depends
vpon
priority
;
which
being
vnremoueable
;
the
adiunct
essentiall
cannot
perish
without
the
subiect
.
Relations
therefore
be
so
congruous
,
that
we
may
sooner
affirme
the
Sonne
and
Father
not
to
be
,
then
heires
and
inheritance
not
to
bee
correlatiues
:
and
by
the
consequent
as
lawfully
may
wee
depriue
both
of
Beeing
;
as
we
may
permit
the
one
without
the
other
.
(
:
*
:
.
:
*
:
.
:
*
:
)
(
***
)
ESSAY
.
VI.
Of
Poetry
.
POETRY
is
called
the
worke
of
nature
:
I
rather
thinke
it
a
Diuine
alacrity
,
entertained
by
the
fitnesse
of
nature
:
for
if
(
in
generall
)
a
cheerefull
spirit
partakes
of
a
Diuine
influence
;
then
this
(
being
spiritually
maintained
,
with
a
desire
to
communicate
,
and
expresse
such
quickning
inventions
)
can
bee
no
other
,
being
the
soule
of
alacrity
,
then
an
inuisible
Diuine
worke
;
which
doth
transport
nature
;
whilst
nature
meruailes
at
the
cause
.
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*
Aristotle
.
Philosophie
hath
diuided
our
soules
faculty
;
and
makes
the
Intelligent
part
our
principall
essence
;
that
cannot
perish
:
Poetry
depends
on
that
,
and
a
sublime
fancie
;
they
being
the
helpes
of
our
dispofall
:
or
(
to
speake
truely
)
a
Poet
vseth
euery
function
of
the
soule
:
Depending
vpon
which
,
hee
must
reiect
Nature
:
for
Nature
perisheth
;
the
Soule
cannot
.
Nature
is
then
the
Hand-maide
;
but
an
Infusiue
worthinesse
,
the
soule
of
Poetry
.
Conceiue
but
this
,
and
Nature
will
disclaime
:
Nature
imparts
her
Faculties
by
Generation
;
excluding
study
and
custome
:
A
Poet
neuer
is
engendred
so
,
further
then
a
naturall
Logician
,
therefore
he
exceeds
Nature
.
We
may
obserue
a
sweete
concordance
in
this
mighty
Fabricke
:
All
things
are
coupled
with
an
allusiue
vnion
:
Life
,
is
a
flash
of
immortality
;
Sleepe
,
of
death
:
middle
age
of
Summer
:
Arts
also
,
and
ages
past
,
haue
a
similitude
with
things
inferiour
,
and
signifie
things
future
.
Language
is
likened
to
a
Casket
,
Logicke
to
an
Artificers
Instrument
;
Rhetoricke
to
a
pretious
Colour
;
And
Poetry
likewise
hath
a
fit
resemblance
with
Prophecy
:
both
bee
an
vnutterable
rapture
;
both
bee
a
boundlesse
large
capacitie
:
both
bee
a
vniversall
tractate
:
both
bee
confined
within
a
small
number
:
both
bee
discredited
with
false
pretenders
:
both
bee
dispersed
among
men
(
originally
)
obscure
:
both
bee
alike
neglected
:
both
(
generally
)
contemned
alike
.
Poetry
is
made
the
conveyance
of
amorous
delights
:
and
certainely
it
doth
bestow
much
sweetnesse
in
apparrelling
loue-accents
.
This
onely
might
discover
it
for
a
supreme
donatiue
;
seeing
the
musicke
in
heaven
is
an
agreement
of
soules
.
Ierome
Savanarola
,
the
Monkish
Phylosopher
,
makes
Poetry
a
part
of
reasonable
Philosophy
;
maintaining
this
,
against
naturall
pretenders
of
Poetry
:
I
will
not
meddle
with
his
arguments
,
they
are
elaborate
and
learned
:
the
truth
is
evident
without
serious
proofe
.
Verse
and
Rime
bee
things
naturall
:
for
they
be
onely
colour
and
appearance
:
but
if
you
value
the
Phrase
and
the
Materials
after
the
same
proportion
;
as
thinking
your
conceit
able
to
furnish
a
poeme
;
you
shall
indeed
perceiue
it
likewise
naturall
;
that
is
,
naked
,
vnpolished
,
nay
the
scorne
of
Poetry
.
A
quicke
contriving
head
may
vtter
laudably
;
but
never
was
a
braine
so
sudden
,
as
to
compose
well
without
the
president
of
others
in
the
like
kinde
:
nay
,
take
the
most
illiterate
Writers
,
(
who
propound
experience
and
familiar
allusions
)
they
haue
a
time
to
Meditate
,
to
compare
,
to
dispose
.
This
Art
of
Poetry
cannot
proue
eminent
,
vnlesse
the
writer
hath
a
reioycing
heart
,
an
apprehensiue
head
,
and
a
disclouded
memory
.
It
is
impossible
therefore
for
one
deiected
by
calamity
,
or
one
perplexed
with
questions
of
another
Science
,
to
get
perfection
in
this
free
knowledge
:
I
say
,
perplexed
with
questions
of
another
Science
;
because
a
Poet
should
rather
copiously
discourse
of
all
,
by
application
to
a
witty
purpose
,
rather
then
be
exquisite
in
a
particular
Art
,
respecting
depth
of
rule
,
or
quidditie
.
Notions
,
coniectures
,
and
some
of
the
best
passages
,
be
more
sufficient
for
him
,
then
a
praecise
certaintie
of
rules
.
He
therfore
who
propounds
excellence
,
must
refuse
the
multitude
of
questions
,
and
the
vexation
of
miseries
:
both
bee
as
clogges
and
fetters
to
that
aspiring
facultie
.
From
hence
I
may
conclude
the
perfection
of
this
Science
doth
match
the
straines
of
right
Alch●mie
:
it
being
(
in
both
)
alike
impossible
to
find
that
man
who
shall
directly
promise
to
attaine
perfection
;
because
impediments
exceede
the
meanes
.
The
nourishment
of
Poetry
is
good
applause
:
for
Poems
being
made
to
allure
and
bewitch
the
reader
in
a
lesson
of
moral
precept
,
must
prosper
in
their
meaning
,
or
be
discountenanced
:
As
all
professions
be
,
which
make
mens
good
opinions
the
reward
of
knowledge
:
and
therefore
hath
England
affoorded
few
men
accurate
in
Poetry
,
because
opinion
hath
vouchsafed
to
ranke
her
among
triviall
labours
,
and
recreatiue
vanities
:
whereas
the
Italians
haue
proved
singular
proficients
;
because
(
saith
Rosinus
)
authority
hath
graced
their
elegance
.
The
reason
(
I
thinke
)
which
hath
wrought
in
England
such
a
degenerate
value
of
Poems
,
proceeded
(
first
)
from
the
the
professors
ignorance
&
generall
basenesse
:
but
secondly
from
the
stubborn
gravity
of
the
best
readers
;
who
scorne
to
account
the
best
Poems
profitable
works
,
because
all
haue
hitherto
bin
accounted
slight
composures
,
or
at
best
vnprofitable
.
And
we
imagine
it
a
weaknesse
to
recant
an
error
.
Some
haue
certainely
contemned
the
worthiest
labors
even
throgh
malicious
despaire
of
attempting
the
like
worthily
.
Howsoever
,
the
base
opinion
which
Poetry
incurs
among
vs
,
hath
bin
repaid
with
iustice
:
that
is
,
the
discredit
of
our
Nation
:
for
our
vnder-valuing
opinion
hath
deprived
the
publicke
of
more
iudicious
workes
then
bee
already
extant
:
And
so
the
glory
of
our
Nations
eminent
wit
,
hath
beene
eclipsed
with
forraigners
.
As
for
the
private
and
sensible
benefit
(
which
any
shal
conceiue
in
publishing
his
labours
)
I
see
none
vertuous
but
this
:
he
may
excuse
(
by
them
)
his
silent
nature
;
and
bee
accounted
better
,
as
a
Melancholy
Poet
,
then
a
speechlesse
foole
.
Fame
and
Eminence
savour
of
a
fruitlesse
ambition
;
that
will
now
purchase
nothing
for
Poetry
by
preferment
,
but
an
opinion
that
Poetry
is
his
knowledge
,
and
(
it
being
so
)
that
he
is
fit
for
nothing
else
:
or
some
perhaps
;
nay
,
the
wisest
,
will
bestow
compassion
,
and
say
,
It
is
pitty
such
a
pregnant
wit
should
e●d●uour
so
idly
.
These
bee
the
comforts
of
beeing
famous
:
let
Doetrs
be
ambitious
of
it
.
The
deepest
Poets
haue
neglected
verse
,
I
meane
the
polished
forme
of
verse
:
but
I
would
sooner
loue
such
workes
in
prose
;
and
heartily
intreate
such
writers
,
even
for
their
own
dispatch-sake
,
and
the
readers
also
,
to
abandon
Poetry
,
except
they
can
avoyd
that
crabbed
stile
and
forme
,
which
weakens
any
readers
appetite
and
apprehension
.
The
relish
of
Poetry
is
a
candied
barke
:
an
elegance
so
sweetned
with
apt
phrase
and
illustration
,
as
it
excludes
rough
harshnesse
,
and
all
mystery
:
controversies
and
Phylosophicall
questions
bee
therefore
improper
arguments
for
a
Poeticall
tractate
:
they
cannot
be
expressed
with
an
inticing
libertie
.
Similitudes
be
the
fit
interpreters
of
Poets
:
when
I
affirme
this
,
I
doe
not
approue
all
similitudes
,
but
such
as
doe
interprete
:
which
they
cannot
do
,
except
they
be
more
familiar
then
the
thing
interpreted
.
This
condemnes
any
,
who
from
a
depth
in
learning
,
shall
produce
the
Mathematickes
,
to
illustrate
Grammer
:
or
shall
compare
things
knowne
by
repetition
to
an
example
in
Astronomy
.
Poore
and
Prodigall
haue
been
a
Poets
Titles
:
these
haue
been
fixt
with
a
contemptiue
meaning
:
but
I
imagine
they
advance
his
qualitie
:
for
therefore
he
neglects
wealth
,
because
he
feeles
in
himselfe
a
Iewell
which
can
redeeme
his
bondage
in
adversitie
.
Freedome
of
Braine
and
Body
is
a
Poets
musicke
:
Peace
and
Health
preserue
,
and
do
reviue
his
fancie
.
When
therefore
a
Reward
is
motiue
,
it
makes
the
labour
like
it selfe
,
servile
.
Poetry
should
therefore
(
being
an
impartiall
free
science
)
be
vndertaken
by
the
free
Professor
;
a
man
sufficient
in
estate
:
such
a
one
as
need
not
vse
flattery
to
win
reward
;
nor
so
indite
,
that
things
may
be
dispatched
quickly
,
and
his
wants
quickly
furnished
;
nor
so
dispatch
,
that
hee
may
rather
make
things
saleable
,
through
obscoenitie
or
scandals
,
then
approved
labour
.
These
mischiefes
follow
a
mercenarie
hope
:
and
therefore
be
mercenarie
Poets
odious
:
such
(
I
meane
)
as
are
provoked
by
poverty
,
and
will
exact
their
wages
.
ESSAY
VII
.
Of
Discontents
.
PLeasure
and
Sorrow
bee
the
obiects
of
vertue
:
but
discontents
may
be
thoght
rather
the
obiects
of
pleasure
.
Vertue
moderates
the
folly
of
pleasure
&
sorrow
:
but
pleasure
so
moderated
,
remoues
discontents
.
I
reckon
discontents
among
my
private
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*
Sorrow
may
bee
●dmitted
in
behalfe
of
p●blic
▪
calamitie●
which
can
not
bee
s●
well
tearmed
Discontents
.
sorrowes
;
which
amplifie
my
owne
mis-fortune
;
which
feele
the
same
(
perhaps
)
a
greater
torment
for
my
friends
misery
,
then
my
owne
:
yes
,
I
am
better
assured
of
my
owne
fortitude
to
contemne
sorrowes
,
then
of
my
friends
aptnesse
,
to
relish
my
counsels
;
or
of
his
owne
freedome
to
advise
himselfe
:
and
therefore
his
vexation
(
he
being
my selfe
)
afflicts
me
more
iniuriously
:
because
I
can
overcome
my
owne
,
better
then
His.
I
call
those
properly
D●scontented
,
who
are
busiethoughted
:
who
,
like
brainelesse
patients
,
are
almost
desperate
if
another
giues
them
poyson
;
and
yet
(
being
recovered
)
they
will
adventure
to
poyson
themselues
:
for
many
of
this
ranke
you
shall
perceiue
,
who
having
passed
the
discontents
which
come
by
others
malice
,
will
(
of
their
owne
accord
)
frame
new
perplexities
:
They
will
conceiue
things
otherwise
then
they
be
,
and
so
nourish
a
conceit
till
they
beleeue
it
reall
.
Opinion
is
indeed
the
mediate
cause
of
discontents
;
but
then
a
rectified
or
false
capacitie
(
being
an
immediate
cause
of
rectified
or
false
opinions
)
begets
a
true
or
idle
discontent
.
I
call
that
idle
,
which
is
begotten
by
an
idle
fancie
:
such
idle
discontents
are
soone
expelled
;
they
are
a
causelesse
Melancholy
,
begot
by
alteration
,
dispersed
by
alteration
:
But
Melancholy
,
meeting
with
a
reall
cause
,
becomes
a
setled
mischiefe
.
Howsoever
,
nothing
(
though
most
worth
our
discontent
)
can
bee
said
His
or
My
discontent
,
vnlesse
wee
so
conceiue
it
.
For
certainly
,
a
carelesse
resolution
may
be
freed
from
conscience
and
discontent
together
:
wheras
perhaps
a
nice
examining
head
may
so
ensnare
it selfe
with
multitude
of
thoughts
,
that
the
confusion
may
prouoke
both
:
but
then
a
carelesse
resolution
serues
worthily
to
abate
such
idle
,
and
such
reall
discontents
.
For
as
in
naturall
bodies
fasting
and
food
destroy
&
nourish
;
so
in
our
daily
proiects
,
consideratiue
thoughts
and
carelesse
negligence
fasten
&
remoue
.
The
best
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*
Plato
.
Gilen
.
Cicero
.
D.
Thom.
Philosophers
haue
left
a
doubtfull
number
of
mens
perturbations
;
some
assigne
sixe
,
some
fiue
,
some
foure
,
some
eleven
.
They
might
(
in
my
conceit
)
be
all
reduced
vnto
a
triple
number
:
including
likewise
the
very
causes
of
all
discontent
.
Imagine
therefore
they
proceed
first
from
iealousies
of
what
kind
soever
;
either
in
being
contemned
,
neglected
,
or
ambiguous
of
good
successe
:
then
from
doubts
not
to
be
resolued
,
either
through
weaknesse
of
our
vnderstanding
,
or
intricacie
of
the
question
,
then
from
an
extreame
desire
,
either
of
things
difficult
or
impossible
.
To
iealousies
,
and
such
desires
,
all
are
incident
;
to
doubts
and
questions
,
Schollers
,
or
Scholler-like
heads
onely
:
these
comprehend
the
summe
of
all
our
crosses
:
of
all
our
sorrowes
both
in
soule
and
body
:
Nay
,
all
more
narrowly
may
be
reduced
to
a
desire
:
for
when
we
briefly
say
,
He
hath
his
desire
,
we
must
withall
intend
,
that
he
is
neither
troubled
with
pleasure
,
griefe
,
feare
,
audacity
,
hope
or
anger
:
the
sixe
turbulent
passions
reckoned
by
Plato
.
Certainly
(
amongst
all
)
perplexed
questions
be
to
a
labouring
head
,
most
troublesome
:
and
lesse
blameable
was
that
found
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Aristotle
.
Philosopher
,
who
made
the
Ocean
capable
of
him
,
because
he
was
not
capable
of
reason
for
the
Ebbe
and
Flow
;
rather
then
such
as
be
ashamed
to
liue
,
when
either
needinesse
,
feare
,
ignominy
,
griefe
,
or
disappoyntments
contradict
them
.
It
is
meere
bestiall
to
dye
vpon
such
weake
incounters
;
which
might
be
all
confuted
with
a
Heathens
knowledge
:
but
then
to
dye
for
ignorance
may
seeme
excuseable
:
for
such
aliue
is
bestiall
,
where
we
are
ignorant
of
reason
;
and
better
is
it
to
be
ignorant
of
reason
how
to
prevent
death
,
then
to
preserue
life
in
ignorance
.
The
truth
is
,
our
discontents
of
any
kinde
do
mis-informe
our
iudgement
;
no
otherwise
then
a
busie
knaue
,
who
(
seeing
the
bad
luck
of
lawfull
meanes
)
doth
bribe
the
Magistrate
and
neuer
was
a
Magistrate
more
easily
bribed
,
then
is
a
iudgement
(
so
oppressed
)
corrupted
.
Wee
haue
no
liberty
to
know
,
much
lesse
to
iudge
;
no
reason
to
discourse
,
much
lesse
to
put
a
difference
,
no
freedome
to
conceiue
,
much
lesse
to
vnderstand
,
when
Discontents
do
trouble
vs
.
They
interpose
our
brightest
eminence
of
wisedome
;
no
otherwise
then
clowdes
darken
the
Sunnes
glory
:
They
keepe
a
strong
possession
against
our
vertue
&
all
good
society
.
The
most
significant
title
they
can
deserue
is
Trecherous
:
for
they
breed
sensibly
an
innovation
;
begetting
in
vs
a
preposterous
change
;
&
that
commonly
proceeds
from
worse
to
worse
:
For
being
more
incorporate
with
them
&
their
mutations
,
we
challenge
lesse
freedom
in
our selues
,
to
help
our selues
.
Discontents
,
like
an
extreme
disease
,
be
of
a
shifting
nature
:
they
delight
continually
in
motion
;
as
men
vehemently
sicke
doe
change
their
beds
&
chambers
.
A
Discontented
man
does
and
vndoes
,
that
he
may
doe
againe
:
thinking
to
loose
his
humour
in
variety
;
or
by
aduenture
(
if
by
nothing
else
)
among
many
changes
to
make
one
good
one
.
But
this
desire
of
change
corrupts
our
honesty
.
We
shal
perceiue
a
three-fold
mischiefe
which
goes
inseparate
with
discontents
:
for
they
bee
ready
to
seduce
our
thoughts
,
our
words
,
our
actions
:
We
mis-esteeme
,
mis-condemne
,
mis-attempt
,
through
discontented
passions
.
The
reason
is
manifest
:
for
Discontent
being
the
companion
of
our
thoughts
,
makes
them
,
our
words
and
actions
ruled
by
that
;
and
so
become
vnpleasing
,
like
it selfe
:
Therefore
doe
male
contents
vnder-value
merite
in
their
owne
opinion
;
Therefore
(
being
waspish
)
they
detract
from
worthinesse
;
therefore
they
dislike
or
doe
condemne
bitterly
;
and
therefore
,
likewise
,
do
men
thus
affected
,
vndertake
more
venturously
then
wisely
.
So
that
Salust
hath
obserued
well
touching
the
Character
of
Catilines
adhaerents
;
that
they
were
Homines
quos
flagitium
,
egestas
,
aut
conscius
animus
exagitabat
.
And
,
questionlesse
,
such
men
so
inwardly
bitten
with
their
owne
afflictions
,
can
finde
no
leasure
in
themselues
to
keepe
affinity
with
others
:
Good
Soueraignes
therefore
,
louing
Parents
,
honest
Friends
,
loyall
Subiects
,
wise
Maisters
,
haue
bene
no
male-contents
:
for
(
being
so
)
it
is
impossible
that
such
a
troubled
Fountaine
should
send
forth
any
thing
but
offensiue
tumults
.
There
is
nothing
more
doth
make
our
enemies
reioyce
,
then
a
deiected
spirit
;
and
nothing
more
afflicts
our
soule
then
to
be
sensible
of
their
reioycings
;
therefore
doth
that
experienced
Prophet
Dauid
so
often
wish
for
a
deliuerance
from
their
triumph
;
so
often
doth
he
lament
their
insultations
.
Infinite
are
those
aduantages
,
which
may
be
had
against
men
discontented
:
and
therefore
hath
a
melancholy
spirit
some
prerogatiue
in
this
respect
;
because
his
time
of
discontent
is
scarce
distinguished
from
his
daily
carriage
;
for
night
is
sooner
visible
in
an
open
Pallace
,
then
a
smoky
Cottage
.
I
may
propound
of
these
,
what
Celsus
doth
of
Cole-worts
:
being
halfe
sodden
,
they
are
laxatiue
;
but
twice
sodden
,
they
are
binding
:
So
discontents
beeing
but
slightly
apprehended
and
entertained
,
may
bee
a
meanes
sitting
to
prepare
the
way
for
honest
applications
,
and
to
purge
security
:
But
being
suffered
long
to
boyle
within
vs
,
they
do
confirme
their
owne
;
and
also
stoppe
the
passage
of
other
worse
corruptions
.
Of
Morall
and
awakening
discontents
,
the
wise
Salomon
speakes
;
when
hee
resolues
positiuely
;
Anger
is
better
then
laughter
,
for
by
a
sad
looke
the
heart
is
made
better
:
Melior
est
ira
risu
:
quia
per
tristitiam
vultus
,
corrigitur
animus
delinquentis
:
Some
Fauourites
there
bee
,
so
much
beholding
to
Fortune
,
that
in
a
whole
AGE
they
haue
scarce
learnt
the
definition
of
sorrow
.
In
these
men
the
Prouerbe
is
verified
;
Fooles
are
Fortunate
;
and
yet
agreeable
with
an
honest
meaning
:
For
those
(
I
thinke
)
are
chiefly
bound
to
Fortune
,
or
Prouidence
rather
,
who
cannot
through
a
good
simplicity
affect
dishonest
practises
,
and
close
dealings
:
It
being
consonant
with
reason
,
that
men
ill-befriended
with
a
subtle
Braine
,
should
bee
assisted
with
some
higher
POLICIE
.
All
that
wee
suffer
,
is
by
our
OWNE
or
FORTVNES
worke
:
Wee
cannot
bee
too
patient
with
Fortunes
,
too
much
prouoked
with
our
owne
workes
of
sorow
:
when
fortune
punisheth
,
wee
haue
no
remedy
;
when
our
owne
indiscretion
punisheth
,
we
may
afflict
our selues
the
longer
with
a
wise
fury
,
that
wee
may
learne
to
recollect
and
to
awaken
our
iudgement
.
Some
haue
a
resolute
contempt
for
all
aduersities
;
but
such
a
valorous
scorne
may
be
ingendred
by
a
sottish
ignorance
,
or
an
vncapable
dulnesse
;
no
otherwise
then
both
may
be
a
Drunkards
motiues
in
extreme
hazard
.
As
for
my selfe
;
I
neuer
felt
a
sorrow
,
which
I
esteemed
a
discontent
,
vnlesse
it
gaue
no
profitable
vse
;
either
by
making
mee
more
circumspect
and
prouident
;
or
acquainting
me
before-hand
with
my
destiny
.
The
most
honourable
dealing
with
our
worst
afflictions
,
is
to
confute
them
by
a
discourse
of
braine
,
and
so
exercise
our
knowledge
,
for
our
owne
aduantage
,
against
the
foes
of
knowledge
.
But
none
among
the
worst
crosses
shall
indeed
predominate
,
if
sometimes
in
a
lawfull
humour
wee
doe
crosse
our selues
.
Two
Bookes
of
Characters
.
The
first
Booke
.
CHARACTER
.
I.
An
Impudent
Censurer
IS
the
torture-monger
of
wit
,
ready
for
execution
before
Iudgement
.
Nature
hath
dealt
wisely
with
him
in
his
outside
;
for
it
is
a
priuiledge
against
confutation
,
and
will
beget
modesty
in
you
to
see
him
out-face
:
He
is
so
fronted
with
striuing
to
discountenance
knowledge
,
by
the
contempt
of
it
,
as
you
would
thinke
him
borne
to
insolence
,
though
indeed
it
bee
habituall
and
comes
by
negligence
of
his
company
,
which
rather
seeke
to
laugh
and
continue
,
then
to
reforme
his
vanity
.
A
Chimney-sweeper
may
conuerse
with
him
very
safely
,
without
the
hazard
of
blushing
;
and
so
may
any
that
will
contemne
his
ignorance
:
buffets
will
conuince
him
better
then
language
or
reason
:
That
proues
him
ranke-bestiall
,
descended
from
the
walking
Ape
;
which
on
the
Mountaines
seeme
carefull
Inhabitants
,
but
at
your
approach
,
the
formality
of
man
onely
.
The
Land-theefe
,
and
Sea-captaine
,
be
neuer
lesse
out
of
their
way
;
but
wiser
commonly
about
their
obiect
:
They
spare
to
wound
poore
trauellers
,
but
he
incounters
any
thing
not
worth
eye-sight
.
A
wise
mans
minde
gouernes
his
body
,
his
minde
is
onely
restrained
by
a
bodily
feare
:
And
if
you
hope
to
be
released
of
what
he
dares
,
you
must
inforce
him
to
what
he
dares
not
;
and
then
you
shall
perceiue
him
to
be
the
comicall
braggard
,
or
the
gingling
spur
.
Lay
aside
this
medicine
and
he
is
incurable
;
for
hee
is
so
rauisht
with
his
owne
folly
,
as
hee
often
commends
what
he
misinterprets
,
and
still
dispraises
(
if
he
scorne
the
Author
)
because
hee
cannot
perceiue
.
To
commend
therfore
and
discommend
what
he
conceiues
not
,
is
alike
tolerable
and
equall
.
The
wilde
Arabian
comprehends
him
fully
;
for
as
the
one
,
so
the
other
,
takes
tribute
and
exaction
of
all
passengers
,
except
acquaintance
and
familiars
:
if
any
thing
makes
him
praise-worthy
,
this
must
,
or
nothing
;
because
he
seemes
(
by
this
means
)
morall
in
frendship
;
and
so
in
some
kind
vertuous
:
But
his
applause
and
detraction
,
are
both
odious
,
because
abounding
through
his
meere
pleasure
.
When
all
Trades
perish
,
he
may
turne
Shop
keeper
,
and
deale
with
ballance
;
For
in
weights
and
measures
none
is
more
deceitfull
.
Hee
ponders
pithy
volumes
by
the
dram
or
scruple
,
but
small
errours
by
the
pound
.
If
he
takes
courage
in
his
humour
,
he
haunts
the
Authours
company
,
recites
the
worke
,
intends
it
to
some
third
person
,
and
after
he
hath
damnd
the
thing
in
question
,
hee
refers
himselfe
to
the
right
owner
;
who
,
if
hee
be
there
manifest
,
must
coniure
this
deuill
quickely
,
or
he
will
seeme
honest
,
and
craue
satisfaction
:
but
call
his
life
in
question
,
and
he
betraies
his
guiltinesse
,
which
then
accuses
him
of
false
dealing
howsoeuer
;
yes
,
though
he
hath
commented
rightly
;
for
he
commends
ignorantly
,
and
discommends
scandalously
.
For
delighting
in
his
humour
,
he
makes
his
Free-hold
an
Inheritance
:
put
it
to
the
hazard
,
and
he
will
compound
for
the
title
.
CHARACT:
II.
A
Compleate
Man
IS
an
impregnable
Tower
:
and
the
more
batteries
he
hath
vndergone
,
the
better
able
he
is
to
continue
immoueable
.
The
time
&
he
are
alwaies
friends
:
for
he
is
troubled
with
no
more
then
hee
can
well
employ
;
neither
is
that
lesse
,
then
will
euery
way
discharge
his
Office
;
So
he
neither
surfets
with
Idlenesse
,
nor
action
.
calamities
,
&
Court-preferments
do
alike
moue
him
,
but
cannot
remoue
him
:
Both
challenge
from
him
a
conuenient
vse
,
no
vilde
indeuour
,
either
to
swell
or
dispaire
.
His
religion
,
learning
,
and
behauiour
,
hold
a
particular
correspondence
:
He
commands
the
latter
,
whilst
himselfe
and
both
be
commanded
by
the
first
.
Hee
holds
it
presumption
to
know
,
what
should
be
looked
,
or
thought
vpon
with
wonder
;
and
therefore
rather
then
he
will
exceed
,
hee
can
be
lesse
then
himselfe
:
accounting
it
more
noble
to
imitate
the
fruitfull
bough
which
stoopes
vnder
a
pretious
burthen
;
then
applaud
the
tall
eminence
of
a
fruitlesse
Birch-tree
:
knowing
Humility
is
a
fitter
step
to
knowledge
,
then
Presumption
.
He
smiles
vpon
Vice
and
Temptation
first
,
seeming
to
allure
it
,
till
,
without
suspicion
,
hee
may
soone
disrobe
and
disarme
it
:
For
hauing
laboured
to
know
the
strength
of
follie
,
he
knowes
it
to
be
his
Captiue
.
From
hence
proceeds
his
victorie
,
in
that
he
can
preuent
mischiefe
,
and
scorne
the
advantage
of
basenesse
.
His
worthinesse
to
bee
rewarded
hee
may
conceale
:
but
his
desire
to
doe
nobly
,
in
a
better
kinde
,
his
actions
will
not
suffer
to
bee
vnknowne
;
by
which
the
world
can
iudge
he
deserues
,
and
saue
him
from
the
scandall
of
a
Cunning
Hypocrite
.
If
merites
direct
him
in
the
way
to
honor
,
they
do
not
leaue
him
in
the
way
to
honour
;
but
are
his
best
attendants
to
accompany
his
whole
preferment
:
For
to
deserue
what
hee
obtaines
,
and
to
deserue
no
more
,
is
sluggish
;
to
deserue
after
a
thing
bestowed
,
is
duely
thankefull
;
But
a
continued
merit
stops
accusation
.
Whatsoeuer
he
borrowes
of
the
world
,
is
by
himselfe
paid
back
with
double
interest
:
For
what
hee
obserues
,
passeth
through
the
forge
of
his
wisedome
,
which
refines
it
;
and
the
file
of
his
practise
,
which
confirmes
it
as
a
good
patterne
:
So
the
interest
exceeds
the
principall
,
and
(
which
exceeds
all
)
praiseth
the
vsurer
.
The
name
of
guilt
(
with
him
)
is
vanished
vnder
the
charme
of
a
good
conscience
:
which
with
his
eye-sight
saue
his
tast
a
labor
:
for
he
knows
what
experience
can
teach
,
but
is
not
taught
by
experience
.
Hee
is
faithfully
his
owne
friend
:
and
accepts
the
friendship
of
others
for
his
owne
sake
;
but
imparts
his
owne
for
others
.
When
he
loues
,
hee
loues
first
:
from
hence
hee
chalenges
a
double
honour
:
for
Loue
and
Prioritie
is
a
two-fold
merit
.
Hee
lackes
nothing
to
ingender
happinesse
;
for
he
can
spare
nothing
that
he
enioyes
;
he
enioyes
it
so
honestly
:
And
that
hee
hath
already
,
serues
to
purchase
new
contentment
.
For
as
he
liues
,
his
capacitie
is
enlarged
,
though
before
it
were
sufficient
for
his
other
faculties
:
they
be
most
numerous
when
himselfe
is
nothing
:
for
being
dead
,
hee
is
thought
worthier
then
aliue
:
then
hee
departs
to
his
aduancement
.
CHARACTER
.
III.
A
good
Husband
IS
the
second
part
of
a
good
man
:
hee
chalenges
no
more
nor
lesse
from
Art
or
Nature
,
then
doth
become
his
facultie
,
and
giue
comfort
to
his
wife
;
so
he
doth
not
(
by
striuing
to
please
)
seeme
low
minded
;
nor
by
ouer-valuing
his
properties
,
proue
a
tyrant
.
His
behauiour
and
discourse
promise
no
more
then
he
meanes
,
and
may
very
well
iustifie
.
Hee
is
not
altogether
to
bee
chosen
by
the
common
weight
,
or
standard
;
for
his
best
parts
be
invisible
.
A
good
wife
shal
know
him
quickly
to
bee
worth
her
taking
:
for
h●e
enquires
out
her
worthinesse
first
.
He
is
not
therefore
put
to
much
trouble
of
being
denied
twice
:
for
if
hee
thinkes
he
can
prevaile
amisse
,
prevaile
too
soone
,
or
not
prevaile
,
because
hee
is
too
good
;
hee
hath
the
modesty
to
refuse
first
:
but
otherwise
,
if
opinion
dares
susspect
,
and
so
refuse
him
first
,
hee
may
account
it
happinesse
,
because
he
was
refused
so
soone
:
hauing
(
by
that
meanes
)
escaped
one
who
could
not
discerne
him
.
The
honor
of
a
good
wife
makes
him
no
more
vnpractised
in
the
patience
of
a
bad
,
then
if
hee
conversed
with
her
:
so
his
vertues
be
habituall
,
not
enforced
.
The
misery
of
a
bad
wife
likewise
hath
no
more
●nraged
him
to
discredit
all
,
then
the
worthinesse
of
a
good
one
hath
moued
him
to
bee
an
Idolater
:
So
his
blessing
is
,
not
to
augment
his
curse
,
or
curse
his
blessing
.
The
highest
end
of
his
marriage
premeditated
,
is
to
resolue
how
he
may
desire
it
without
end
.
Hee
feeles
not
the
absence
of
youth
by
a
decay
in
lust
;
but
measures
the
approach
of
a
crooked
body
by
his
entire
affection
.
Hee
neither
deceiues
himselfe
with
a
foolish
confidence
,
nor
drawes
a
disadvantage
to
himselfe
,
by
being
distrustfull
:
for
he
may
bee
acquainted
with
those
,
to
whom
hee
cannot
safely
commit
his
wealth
,
much
lesse
his
wiues
honesty
;
but
hee
never
suspects
,
before
he
be
past
suspition
,
and
every
thing
be
apparant
.
Hee
hath
(
notwithstanding
)
no
friend
whom
hee
dares
make
his
deputie
.
Hee
seekes
rather
to
bee
well
knowne
,
then
commonly
noted
:
for
beeing
knowne
,
hee
cannot
bee
mistaken
;
but
otherwise
it
is
very
doubtfull
.
Hee
hates
not
her
,
but
hers
;
and
that
with
a
hope
to
make
her
detest
herselfe
,
not
bee
divorced
from
him
:
for
hee
couets
rather
to
bee
daily
amending
her
,
then
make
a
new
hazard
,
or
want
resolution
.
Hee
may
dislike
therefore
his
wiues
humour
,
and
loue
her
in
the
same
quantitie
.
Hee
cannot
bee
chosen
,
because
a
better
is
absent
:
for
hee
is
himselfe
,
the
president
&
the
paterne
.
He
cannot
therefore
be
refused
,
if
he
be
well
known
:
For
being
good
,
hee
proues
the
best
,
and
beeing
so
,
the
best
Husband
.
CHARACTER
.
IIII.
A
Contented
Man
IS
a
faire
building
in
the
bottome
of
a
Valley
:
you
can
discerne
nothing
about
him
,
vnlesse
you
approach
neere
,
and
nothing
in
him
worth
himselfe
,
vnlesse
you
doe
proceed
.
There
is
no
land
like
vnto
his
owne
conscience
:
that
makes
him
sow
and
reape
together
:
for
actions
bee
(
with
him
)
no
sooner
thoughts
,
then
they
proue
comforts
,
they
bee
so
full
of
Innocence
.
His
life
therfore
is
a
continuall
haruest
:
his
countenance
and
conuersation
promise
hope
;
they
both
smile
vpon
their
obiect
:
neither
doth
the
end
faile
his
purpose
:
for
his
expectation
was
indifferent
and
equall
,
according
to
the
meanes
.
Events
therefore
cannot
oppresse
him
;
for
he
propounded
all
,
before
he
vndertooke
some
;
and
saw
the
extreamest
poynt
of
danger
,
before
he
did
imbarke
.
He
medles
no
further
with
vncertainties
,
then
losse
and
lucre
be
alike
in
accident
:
for
doubtfull
things
of
moment
,
make
men
stagger
;
whilst
hope
and
feare
distracts
them
.
If
probable
and
lawfull
meanes
deceiue
him
,
they
cannot
trouble
him
:
for
he
ascribes
nothing
to
himselfe
,
that
is
aboue
him
.
When
Gods
determinations
doe
therefore
disappoynt
;
hee
neither
maruailes
,
nor
mis-interprets
.
Neglected
fortunes
,
and
things
past
,
hee
leaues
behinde
;
they
cannot
keepe
pace
with
him
.
The
necessity
of
things
absent
,
he
measures
by
his
meanes
:
but
as
for
things
impossible
,
hee
could
neuer
begin
to
affect
them
.
And
in
the
quest
of
future
proiects
,
hee
neuer
doth
transgresse
the
pesent
comfort
.
Hee
can
with
as
much
selfe-credit
bee
a
Captiue
,
as
a
promoted
Courtier
.
Dignities
may
do
him
honour
,
not
entice
him
:
povertie
may
threaten
,
and
be
peremptory
,
but
cannot
ouer-come
.
Riches
may
make
his
honesty
more
eminent
,
not
more
exquisite
.
Hee
is
so
far
from
adding
malice
to
any
,
that
he
can
praise
the
merits
of
an
enemy
.
Anger
and
Revenge
bee
two
turbulent
passions
:
in
him
(
therefore
)
the
first
shewes
onely
that
hee
can
apprehend
:
the
last
,
that
he
can
iustly
prevent
further
mischiefe
.
So
he
neither
doth
insult
through
anger
;
nor
satisfie
his
bitternesse
by
revenge
.
Repentance
,
which
with
some
proues
melancholly
,
with
him
proues
a
delightfull
assurance
:
for
seldome
doth
hee
lament
things
meerely
vicious
,
so
much
as
vertues
imperfectly
attempted
.
Hee
vndertakes
every
thing
with
more
advantage
,
then
any
(
but
himselfe
)
can
imitate
:
for
beeing
voyd
of
troublesome
vexation
,
his
willing
minde
makes
the
way
lesse
difficult
.
His
policie
and
close
dealing
doe
not
disturbe
his
time
of
pleasure
,
or
his
quiet
dreames
:
For
he
can
awake
with
as
much
delight
in
day
,
and
sleepe
with
as
much
solace
in
the
darke
,
as
either
his
intimate
purpose
can
awake
to
every
mans
applause
;
or
bee
concealed
to
his
owne
safetie
,
and
no
mans
detriment
.
Hee
doth
not
readily
incurre
anothers
rage
;
nor
doth
hee
raile
against
himselfe
;
for
he
cannot
bee
before
hand
with
quarrelsome
engagements
;
nor
rashly
run
into
a
manifest
error
.
He
doth
not
therefore
(
when
all
approue
him
)
miscall
himselfe
,
closely
,
damned
Hypocrite
,
or
lewd
villaine
.
He
feeles
more
felicitie
in
this
,
that
he
can
forbeare
to
enioy
any
thing
,
rather
then
let
any
thing
enioy
him
;
or
rather
then
hee
will
enioy
any
thing
indirectly
.
He
is
not
so
selfe-subsisting
that
hee
scornes
to
borrow
;
so
shamelesse
,
that
hee
borrowes
all
:
nor
so
alone
contented
,
that
others
doe
not
partake
in
his
freedome
:
or
so
absolute
in
freedome
,
that
hee
becomes
not
more
absolute
by
the
vse
of
others
.
Hee
makes
more
ill
mea●ings
good
,
by
good
constru●tion
,
more
haplesse
events
honest
by
a
lawfull
confidence
,
and
more
dangerous
vndertakings
easie
,
by
a
calme
proceeding
,
then
the
contrary
.
For
(
whilst
hee
knowes
Iealousie
as
a
fearefull
,
eating
,
and
distastfull
vice
)
hee
cannot
suspect
without
the
cautions
of
why
,
whom
,
how
,
where
and
when
.
Briefly
,
beeing
contented
,
hee
is
content
to
be
happy
:
and
being
so
,
he
thriues
best
when
hee
thinkes
best
:
he
does
more
then
he
vndoes
.
He
wins
more
often
then
he
saues
:
and
,
like
the
Caspian
Sea
,
remaines
the
same
vnchangeable
.
CHARACT.
V.
A
good
Emperour
IS
the
second
Sauiour
to
Christianity
,
and
a
direct
center
of
his
peoples
loue
:
his
greatnesse
extends
rather
to
posterity
,
then
is
confident
of
pedigree
.
He
may
be
counselled
or
confirmed
,
but
his
election
remaines
peculiar
.
His
obiect
therefore
(
to
discerne
)
may
be
infinite
,
or
extravagant
;
but
paterns
(
to
imitate
)
must
be
supernal
;
for
he
acknowledges
but
one
supremacy
,
and
in
that
remembers
a
succession
:
which
makes
him
leaue
mans
precepts
vnto
frailty
,
view
honor
as
a
thing
mediate
,
himselfe
immediatly
next
to
his
Creator
,
and
doth
onely
know
his
high
commission
a
determinable
power
,
not
know
and
murmure
.
He
lackes
nothing
of
divinitie
,
but
time
in
his
prerogatiue
,
the
want
of
which
takes
away
eternitie
:
so
all
the
honour
which
relates
to
him
for
Gods
sake
,
conueighes
it selfe
to
God
for
his
owne
.
His
feare
doth
vanish
into
loue
or
anger
;
for
he
may
embrace
or
conquer
,
but
cannot
submit
.
His
royall
bounty
is
as
well
prompt
to
take
with
honour
,
as
to
giue
with
liberty
.
And
as
hee
can
deserue
nothing
because
on
him
depends
every
thing
:
so
is
he
not
by
any
man
to
be
deserued
,
because
vnto
him
every
man
owes
his
whole
Inheritance
.
If
therfore
hee
doth
giue
where
subiects
docōdemne
;
or
chuse
when
multitudes
abandon
;
he
doth
but
manifest
his
free
desires
,
and
shew
affinity
betwixt
himselfe
&
holines
:
which
raises
from
the
dunghill
to
the
scepter
;
and
from
the
most
obscure
disdain
of
vulgar
thoughts
vnto
the
state
of
happinesse
.
Nay
oftentimes
this
secret
in
publicke
office
,
proues
true
;
That
men
without
the
aid
of
birth
,
and
glory
of
famous
merit
,
lack
only
so
good
an
entrance
,
but
haue
commonly
a
better
ending
:
or
at
least
,
striue
more
to
attaine
what
others
presume
vppon
.
The
event
therefore
makes
his
large
prerogatiue
true
wisedome
,
which
may
bee
mis-interpreted
weaknesse
.
The
Lyon
,
a
King
of
beasts
,
is
recouered
in
sicknesse
,
by
eating
an
Ape
;
and
a
good
King
by
devouring
flatterers
.
CHARAC.
VI.
A
worthy
Poet
IS
the
purest
essence
of
a
worthy
Man
:
He
is
confident
of
nature
in
nothing
but
the
form
,
and
an
ingenious
fitnesse
to
conceiue
the
matter
.
So
he
approues
nature
as
the
motiue
,
not
the
foundation
or
structure
of
his
worthinesse
.
His
workes
doe
every
way
pronounce
both
nourishment
,
delight
,
and
admiration
to
the
readers
soule
:
which
makes
him
neither
rough
,
effeminate
,
nor
windy
:
for
by
a
sweet
contemperament
of
Tune
and
Ditty
,
hee
entices
others
to
goodnesse
;
and
shewes
himselfe
perfect
in
the
lesson
.
Hee
never
writes
vpon
a
full
stomacke
,
and
an
empty
head
;
or
a
full
head
,
and
an
emptie
stomacke
.
For
he
cannot
make
so
Diuine
a
receptacle
stoope
to
the
sordid
folly
of
gall
or
enuy
,
without
strength
:
or
strength
of
braine
stoope
,
and
debase
it selfe
with
hunting
out
the
bodies
succour
.
Hee
is
not
so
impartiall
as
to
condemne
every
new
fashion
,
or
taxe
idle
circumstance
;
nor
so
easie
as
to
allow
vices
,
and
account
them
generous
humours
.
So
hee
neither
seekes
to
enlarge
his
credit
of
bitternesse
,
by
a
snarling
severitie
;
nor
to
augment
his
substance
by
insinuating
courtshippe
.
Hee
hath
more
debttors
in
knowledge
among
the
present
Writers
,
then
Creditors
among
the
ancient
Poets
.
Hee
is
possessed
with
an
innocent
libertie
,
which
excludes
him
from
the
slavish
labour
and
meanes
of
setting
a
glosse
vppon
fraile
commodities
.
Whatsoever
therefore
proceeds
from
him
,
proceedes
without
a
meaning
to
supply
the
worth
,
when
the
worke
is
ended
;
by
the
addition
of
preparatiue
verses
at
the
beginning
;
or
the
dispersed
hire
of
acquaintance
to
extoll
things
indifferent
.
He
does
not
therefore
passionatly
affect
high
patronage
,
or
any
further
then
hee
may
giue
freely
;
and
so
receiue
back
honest
thankes
.
The
dangerous
name
and
the
contempt
of
Poets
,
sprung
from
their
multitude
of
corruptions
,
proues
no
disaduantage
or
terrour
to
him
:
for
such
be
his
antidotes
that
he
can
walke
vntouched
,
euen
through
the
worst
infection
.
He
is
no
miserable
selfe-louer
,
nor
no
vnbounded
prodigall
:
for
he
can
communicate
himselfe
wisely
to
auoide
dull
reseruednesse
,
but
not
make
euery
thought
common
,
to
maintaine
his
market
.
It
must
be
imputed
to
his
perfect
eye-sight
,
that
he
can
see
error
,
and
auoide
it
without
the
hazard
of
a
new
one
:
As
in
Poems
,
so
in
proiects
,
by
an
easie
coniecture
.
Hee
cannot
flatter
,
nor
bee
flattered
:
If
hee
giues
Desert
,
hee
giues
no
more
;
and
leaues
Hyperbole
in
such
a
matter
of
importance
:
As
for
himselfe
,
he
is
so
well
knowne
vnto
himselfe
,
that
neither
publicke
fame
,
nor
yet
his
owne
conceite
,
can
make
him
ouervalued
in
himselfe
.
Hee
is
an
enemy
to
Atheists
;
for
he
is
no
Fatist
nor
Naturalist
:
hee
therefore
excludes
Lucke
and
Rime
,
from
the
acceptance
of
his
Poems
;
scorning
to
acknowledge
the
one
as
an
efficient
,
the
other
as
an
essence
,
of
his
Muses
fauour
.
Hee
paies
back
all
his
imitation
with
interest
;
whilst
his
Authors
(
if
reuiued
)
would
confesse
their
chiefe
credit
was
to
bee
such
a
patterne
:
otherwise
(
for
the
most
part
)
he
proues
himselfe
the
patterne
,
and
the
proiect
in
hand
:
Siluer
onely
and
sound
mettall
comprehends
his
nature
:
rubbing
,
motion
,
and
customary
vsage
,
makes
the
brightnesse
of
both
more
eminent
.
No
meruaile
though
he
be
Immortall
,
seeing
he
conuerts
poyson
into
nourishment
;
euen
the
worst
obiects
and
societies
to
a
worthy
vse
.
When
he
is
lastly
silent
(
for
he
cannot
die
)
hee
findes
a
Monument
prepared
at
others
cost
and
remembrance
,
whilst
his
former
actions
bee
a
liuing
Epitaph
.
CHARACT.
VII
.
An
honest
Lawyer
IS
a
precious
Diamond
set
in
pure
gold
,
or
one
truely
honest
,
and
a
compleate
Lawyer
:
The
one
giues
glory
to
the
other
;
and
being
diuided
,
they
be
lesse
valuable
.
Diuinity
,
and
a
corrected
nature
,
make
him
habituall
in
the
first
;
but
studious
labor
,
&
a
discursiue
braine
make
him
equal
,
if
not
absolute
,
in
the
last
:
he
knows
Law
to
be
the
Mris
of
man
,
&
yet
hee
makes
Honesty
the
Mris
of
Law
.
The
first
therefore
may
exceed
the
last
;
but
the
last
neuer
hath
predominance
in
him
,
without
the
other
.
He
is
too
diuine
to
be
tempted
with
feare
,
fauor
,
Minerals
,
or
Possessions
;
and
too
diuine
not
to
be
tempted
with
perfect
knowledge
,
&
a
pittifull
complaint
:
he
hath
as
much
leasure
to
conferre
with
conscience
,
in
the
most
busy
Terme
,
as
in
the
deadest
Vacation
:
And
he
is
alwaies
more
diligent
to
maintain
wronged
pouerty
,
then
attentiue
to
allow
iniurious
Greatnesse
:
hee
can
as
freely
refuse
a
prodigall
,
or
enforced
bounty
,
as
hee
can
accept
or
demand
due
recompence
:
He
resorts
to
London
with
a
more
full
braine
,
then
empty
bags
,
and
(
at
his
returne
)
he
purses
vp
more
full
comfort
,
then
yellow
coine
.
He
cannot
bee
so
confident
as
to
persist
in
error
;
nor
so
ignorant
as
to
erre
by
weaknes
:
When
therefore
(
through
an
aboundance
)
some
knowledge
is
confounded
;
his
errour
onely
proues
a
doubtfull
question
;
and
serues
to
reduce
scattered
remnants
into
methode
.
The
multitude
of
contentions
make
not
him
reioice
in
the
number
,
but
in
the
difficulty
;
that
truth
may
appeare
manifest
to
our
progeny
.
He
railes
not
against
the
vices
of
his
profession
,
but
makes
his
profession
commendable
by
his
owne
practise
of
vertue
:
his
Clients
disease
of
being
suspended
touches
him
like
his
own
sicknes
;
hee
dares
not
giue
a
dangerous
purgation
to
dispatch
him
,
nor
by
negligence
and
delay
,
let
the
euill
grow
inward
and
incorporate
;
to
strengthen
it selfe
,
or
consume
the
patient
.
He
is
therefore
exquisit
in
preseruatiues
against
the
consumption
;
though
perhaps
he
may
faile
in
restoratiues
to
support
weakenesse
.
Hee
may
well
bee
a
president
to
the
best
Physitians
;
for
he
vndertakes
no
cure
when
he
perceiues
it
inclining
to
bee
desperate
:
So
hee
makes
the
cause
,
and
not
his
Client
,
the
obiect
of
his
labour
.
If
hee
hath
fauour
enough
to
make
truth
be
currant
,
he
lookes
no
further
:
which
he
needs
not
to
patch
businesse
;
nor
would
he
willingly
pursue
it
;
if
truth
were
not
often
discountenanced
.
Hee
doth
therefore
at
a
Iudges
death
lament
the
death
of
his
learning
,
not
his
owne
priuate
lucre
:
Hee
can
ride
the
circuit
,
and
scorne
to
be
circular
.
He
hath
no
leasure
to
protract
time
or
saue
his
Clients
opinion
with
iests
premeditated
,
or
windy
inferences
:
His
modesty
was
neuer
below
his
courage
in
a
good
cause
;
nor
his
courage
inclining
to
impudence
,
though
hee
were
still
honored
with
a
prosperous
euent
.
He
owes
so
much
worship
to
desert
and
innocence
,
that
hee
can
as
faithfully
applaud
sufficient
worth
,
as
not
insult
ouer
,
or
exclaime
against
dull
ignorance
.
He
is
miraculously
preserued
against
incantations
:
the
strongest
spell
cannot
charme
him
silent
,
nor
the
most
tempting
spirit
prouoke
him
to
a
vaine
pleading
.
He
dares
know
,
and
professe
in
spight
of
potency
;
he
dares
be
rich
and
honest
in
despight
of
custome
:
And
if
he
doth
not
grow
from
a
good
man
,
to
a
reuerend
Title
,
hee
scornes
to
bee
a
Traytor
and
blame
tyranny
;
but
he
descends
below
his
owne
vnworthinesse
.
Briefly
,
he
is
a
pretious
vessell
,
he
indures
the
rest
,
and
the
defiance
of
time
:
hee
is
a
sound
commodity
which
neuer
failes
the
Customer
:
and
doth
heartily
confesse
that
whosoeuer
swarues
from
this
patterne
,
swarues
from
honesty
,
though
he
be
deepely
learned
:
Howsoeuer
,
he
thinkes
a
Lawyer
deepely
learned
cannot
chuse
but
be
honest
;
except
multitude
of
Clients
oppresse
him
.
CHARACT.
VIII
.
A
Detractor
IS
his
owne
priuate
foe
,
and
the
worlds
professed
enemy
:
He
is
indeed
an
obstinate
heretick
,
and
if
you
will
conuert
him
,
you
must
anew
create
him
likewise
:
he
is
of
the
Mahumetan
sect
which
hath
despised
all
religious
Arts
,
and
Sciences
,
except
the
confusion
of
all
;
so
he
approues
continually
the
worst
things
among
many
good
,
and
condemnes
that
which
is
iudiciously
commended
:
to
read
therefore
and
refuse
,
makes
vp
the
best
part
of
his
iudgement
.
His
fiue
senses
haue
a
mortall
combat
with
all
obiects
,
that
afford
sense
,
or
any
thing
vpon
which
they
fasten
:
his
eye
could
neuer
yet
behold
a
woman
faire
enough
,
or
honest
enough
,
on
whom
he
might
bestow
the
sincere
part
of
his
affection
:
but
he
marries
one
to
beget
an
equall
society
of
froward
children
:
his
eare
was
neuer
well
contented
with
a
delicious
tune
,
for
the
left
is
onely
open
,
and
that
onely
apt
to
conceiue
discords
through
a
customary
habit
;
which
hath
reiected
all
,
and
therefore
will
:
For
that
he
once
hath
,
and
is
againe
minded
to
oppose
worthinesse
,
giues
him
both
reason
and
encouragement
to
continue
spightfull
:
but
(
to
our
comfort
be
it
spoken
)
his
enuy
ends
commonly
with
himselfe
,
or
at
most
,
indeuours
no
otherwise
then
a
nasty
passenger
,
to
rubbe
against
,
and
defile
faire
outsides
,
because
himselfe
is
loathsome
:
hee
stops
his
nose
if
a
perfume
approch
,
but
can
well
endure
a
stinking
draft
,
or
kennell
,
and
embrace
the
sauour
:
His
palate
hath
no
relish
except
hee
may
discommend
his
dyet
,
and
yet
hee
consumes
all
to
the
very
fragments
:
hee
touches
or
takes
vp
nothing
which
is
not
blasted
by
him
with
a
naturall
defiance
;
or
at
least
hee
will
vtter
the
manifest
forme
of
discontent
.
His
tongue
,
the
Herald
of
his
imagination
,
is
a
busie
officer
,
and
will
(
without
question
)
challenge
the
same
reward
of
him
,
that
it
doth
of
women
;
for
it
dispatcheth
the
same
seruice
,
and
deserues
therefore
(
proportionably
alike
)
to
bee
called
the
maine
property
of
each
:
hee
is
not
inferiour
also
to
a
woman
in
malice
;
for
shee
is
that
way
limited
,
though
vndeterminable
:
but
hee
transcends
;
accounting
it
his
pompe
to
be
infinitely
licentious
towards
all
.
Hee
railes
against
the
Sate
,
and
speakes
treasons
confidently
to
himselfe
alone
,
expecting
an
euent
of
his
desires
:
Nay
,
sometimes
he
is
taken
(
through
the
licence
of
his
tongue
,
and
a
litle
sufferance
of
the
company
)
in
peremptory
speeches
that
bring
him
to
his
answere
:
Neither
will
he
hearken
to
reformation
,
till
he
lackes
his
cares
:
Hee
is
not
(
if
a
Church-man
)
ashamed
to
quarrell
,
first
with
his
Patron
,
and
openly
disclaime
against
the
poore
value
of
his
Benefice
:
If
,
a
common
humorist
,
hee
will
diminish
the
worth
likewise
of
a
gift
,
before
the
giuers
face
;
and
lookes
to
the
disconueniences
,
not
the
commodity
,
he
receiues
by
possession
.
A
slight
Arithmetician
may
cast
vp
the
totall
sum
of
his
Character
:
&
by
substraction
(
being
the
body
of
his
soule
)
may
find
him
vnder
the
value
of
an
honest
man
,
aboue
halfe
in
halfe
:
for
he
lacks
Charity
,
and
so
comes
short
six
degrees
of
a
good
Christian
:
and
therfore
is
an
egregious
coward
because
he
scornes
to
iustifie
,
except
hee
railes
against
the
dead
;
thither
he
hastens
being
vnworthy
to
liue
longer
.
CHARACT.
IX
.
An
Humorist
IS
the
shadow
of
Vnderstanding
,
the
traitor
to
Reason
,
or
the
vanity
of
a
better
man
:
Bloud-letting
,
a
good
whip
,
honest
company
,
or
reasonable
instructions
might
(
at
the
first
)
recouer
him
.
But
if
he
continues
among
laughing
spirits
one
quarter
,
the
disease
will
grow
inward
,
and
then
the
cure
growes
desperate
.
If
his
humour
bee
hereditary
,
hee
is
more
familiar
with
it
,
and
makes
it
the
principall
vertue
of
his
family
:
If
imitation
breedes
a
habite
,
hee
makes
it
the
pledge
of
sworne
brother-hood
,
or
at
least
the
fauour
of
new
acquaintance
:
he
neuer
is
infected
single
,
or
with
one
onely
;
for
either
he
is
now
admitted
to
the
seuerall
orders
;
or
hee
is
prompt
enough
to
subscribe
generally
when
occasion
peeps
.
You
must
not
dare
to
discommend
,
or
call
in
question
,
his
behauiour
seriously
with
his
companions
;
for
thogh
you
cannot
cal
the
humor
lawfull
,
it
is
sufficient
if
you
can
cal
it
his
humor
.
You
may
iustly
forbeare
to
restraine
him
;
for
if
he
be
truely
adopted
,
he
thinkes
it
an
especiall
part
to
be
respectlesse
.
Tobacco
is
a
good
whetstone
for
his
property
;
hee
doth
seldome
therefore
forget
to
prouoke
his
constitution
this
way
:
&
(
by
being
insatiate
)
he
knowes
well
his
humor
may
escape
the
search
of
reason
,
by
vertue
of
the
mist.
He
hath
from
his
cradle
bin
swadled
vp
,
with
much
obstinate
and
peremptory
affectation
:
It
being
indeed
commonly
the
character
of
his
ripest
age
,
to
support
that
freely
in
his
man-hood
,
which
was
forbidden
in
the
spark
of
his
minority
:
hee
neuer
slips
opportunity
with
deliberation
;
hee
is
therefore
prompt
enough
to
begin
;
and
the
reason
of
his
act
is
enough
,
though
onely
that
he
hath
begun
,
because
humor
is
the
motiue
.
There
is
nothing
within
the
compasse
of
thought
so
triuiall
,
so
absurd
,
and
monstrous
,
which
his
vanity
will
not
auerre
to
be
ponderous
,
decent
,
and
naturall
.
Neither
will
he
abhor
to
iustifie
them
by
his
owne
practise
,
against
all
opposers
.
He
trauailes
vp
and
downe
like
Tom
of
Bedlem
,
vnder
the
title
of
mad
Rascall
,
Witty
Rogue
,
or
Notable
mad
sla●e
,
and
these
attributes
be
a
more
effectuall
oratory
to
applaud
his
humour
,
then
a
direct
commendation
.
He
will
not
sometimes
(
vpon
smal
discontinuance
)
vouchsafe
to
acknowledge
,
or
(
at
least
)
know
,
his
familiar
friends
,
without
much
impertinence
and
Interrogatories
of
their
name
,
or
habitation
;
whilst
another
time
,
hee
dares
aduenture
his
knowledge
,
&
salutations
vpon
meere
aliens
.
Hee
is
very
much
distracted
,
and
yet
I
wonder
how
the
frenzy
should
be
dangerous
;
for
he
neuer
breaks
his
braine
about
the
study
of
reason
or
inuention
:
seeing
his
humour
is
the
priuiledge
of
both
:
It
is
therfore
sufficient
for
him
to
be
extreme
melancholy
,
&
be
most
ignorant
of
the
cause
or
obiect
;
and
suddenly
to
be
vnmeasurably
frolick
without
prouocation
:
whilst
hee
is
onely
beholding
to
a
brainlesse
temperature
in
discharge
of
his
credit
.
He
will
converse
freely
with
Serving-men
&
Souldiers
within
12.
houres
;
&
presently
when
the
ague
hath
once
seized
him
,
he
proues
tyrannicall
and
insolent
towards
the
silly
vermin
.
He
never
brake
a
vow
in
his
whole
life
,
or
brake
vowes
continually
:
for
either
they
haue
not
suted
with
his
variety
,
to
be
intended
,
or
hee
hath
intended
to
obserue
them
no
longer
then
might
agree
with
his
body
,
which
ebbes
and
flowes
.
When
hee
growes
old
,
and
past
voyce
,
he
learns
forraigne
languages
:
as
if
,
when
he
had
dined
,
hee
should
devoure
the
sauce
.
In
a
word
,
he
is
a
chiefe
commander
of
actions
,
but
no
command●r
of
himselfe
;
being
in
his
best
brauery
but
a
Turkish
Slaue
,
ever
subiect
to
desire
and
appetite
:
according
to
their
paterne
,
hee
is
himselfe
to
himselfe
praise-worthy
,
or
elegant
;
but
to
worthinesse
it selfe
,
odious
.
CHARAC.
X.
A.
Coxcombe
IS
a
needlesse
Ornament
:
Hee
takes
the
vpper
hand
of
a
foole
,
and
of
a
wise
man
also
;
and
in
opinion
is
as
good
as
a
Courtier
.
His
education
hath
beene
(
from
a
childe
)
tenderly
fearefull
;
and
the
mother
remains
still
afraid
of
his
fortunes
,
least
his
politicke
wisedome
should
hazard
them
too
farre
:
whilst
his
fortunes
hazard
his
wisedome
.
Hee
hath
beene
alwayes
a
yong
Master
,
and
yoked
his
eares
first
to
insinuation
,
vnder
some
oylie-tong'd
seruant
,
or
flattering
Tutor
.
To
know
he
hath
rich
kindred
,
and
to
deriue
a
pedigree
;
satisfie
his
valour
,
learning
,
proficience
in
estate
or
credit
with
meere
contemplation
.
So
much
indeed
doth
he
hang
vpon
the
pillars
of
his
gentry
.
As
it
shall
therefore
be
the
first
preparatiue
of
his
acquaintance
to
salute
,
and
aske
What
countrey-man
your
Father
is
,
of
what
house
:
or
he
will
enquire
his
demesnes
onely
(
of
some
neighbour
:
)
and
if
your
body
be
hansome
,
your
cloathes
proportionable
,
your
parents
wealthy
;
he
hath
purchased
an
everlasting
friend
.
A
round
oath
is
valour
enough
,
a
foolish
Dittie
Art
enough
,
and
good
fellowship
honesty
enough
.
The
truth
is
,
he
scornes
to
bee
a
searcher
,
and
thinkes
it
enough
for
his
Taylor
to
medle
with
linings
.
But
in
the
circumstance
of
making
your
cloathes
,
the
price
of
your
Beaver
and
silke
stockins
,
your
purpose
to
travaile
,
or
of
your
long
absence
;
The
Spanish
Inquisition
cannot
be
so
vnmercifull
.
He
is
contented
richly
,
nay
absolutely
,
to
be
taken
onely
for
a
harmlesse
man
.
The
generositie
and
noble
carriage
of
his
discourse
,
is
to
run
desperately
into
the
name
of
some
couragious
gallant
Knight
,
or
some
Baron
in
favour
:
if
their
alliance
to
his
family
can
be
detected
,
he
giues
way
with
an
apparant
relish
.
He
is
very
well
fitted
for
all
societies
,
if
his
out-side
be
sutable
;
further
then
which
he
never
conversed
with
himselfe
effectually
.
Nor
can
I
wonder
,
though
he
payes
deerely
,
and
preserues
cloathes
delitiously
;
seeing
those
alone
are
the
maintenance
of
his
whole
worth
;
and
therefore
you
shall
perceiue
him
more
furiously
engaged
about
the
rending
of
his
doublet
,
or
a
little
lace
,
then
a
magnanimous
box
,
or
a
bastinado
.
He
is
ambitiously
giuen
to
be
promoted
,
either
by
some
embassage
to
divulge
his
pedigree
,
and
learne
fashions
,
or
by
entertainment
of
some
chiefe
Noble
men
to
discover
his
bountie
;
and
(
withall
)
his
stipendious
affection
.
Hee
shifts
his
familiars
by
the
survey
of
prospect
,
and
the
externals
;
but
his
directions
proceed
from
the
proverbe
of
like
to
like
,
rather
then
Physiognomy
.
Hee
is
credulous
and
confident
:
the
lesse
certainty
hee
hath
of
a
report
,
the
more
publicke
hee
is
,
and
peremptory
.
Hee
commits
the
best
part
of
his
vnderstanding
to
a
talkatiue
Barber
:
with
whom
he
is
the
more
frequent
;
because
he
thinks
,
to
haue
a
curle
pate
,
is
to
haue
a
visible
wit
.
He
would
be
Physicall
,
and
iustly
;
for
not
to
preserue
his
folly
in
health
,
were
to
deceiue
the
world
of
his
paterne
:
but
being
merry
for
disgestion
,
his
laughter
is
exorbitant
,
causelesse
,
endlesse
,
and
like
himselfe
.
His
safest
course
will
bee
to
marry
:
nothing
makes
him
so
sensible
as
a
wise
,
good
or
badde
;
till
then
,
the
further
he
flies
from
his
Character
,
he
becomes
it
the
more
naturally
.
***
CHARAC.
XI
.
A
Ranke
obseruer
IS
his
owne
Comoedy
,
and
his
own
Audience
:
for
whatsoeuer
hee
frames
by
experience
,
hee
applauds
by
custome
:
but
being
out
of
his
element
,
he
is
an
Eele
in
a
sand-bagge
;
for
he
,
wanting
the
humor
of
his
wrested
observance
,
falles
away
into
ignorant
silence
.
Hee
is
arrogant
in
his
knowledge
so
far
,
as
he
(
thinks
)
to
study
men
,
will
excuse
him
from
the
labour
of
reading
,
and
yet
furnish
him
with
absolute
rarities
,
fit
for
all
fashions
,
all
discourses
.
He
is
a
very
promiscuous
fellow
;
and
from
thence
proceeds
the
vice
which
makes
him
without
difference
,
comprehend
ponderous
and
triviall
passages
vnder
the
same
degree
of
value
or
estimation
.
For
whatsoever
becomes
his
politicke
vent
,
becomes
his
vnderstanding
.
When
he
doth
therefore
fill
vp
the
vessell
of
his
conceits
,
he
hath
regard
to
such
things
as
may
bee
vttered
with
most
advantage
,
either
of
money
among
the
plaiers
,
or
reputation
among
the
generall
gallants
of
our
Cittie
.
He
takes
account
of
all
humours
,
and
through
the
practise
of
a
contempt
to
all
,
he
partakes
in
all
:
for
hee
vses
what
he
derides
,
vnder
the
priviledge
of
scorne
,
and
so
makes
it
familiar
.
So
the
largest
benefit
which
others
reape
by
contemning
the
vice
in
himselfe
,
arises
beyond
his
purpose
or
intention
:
for
he
extends
to
others
no
further
then
agrees
with
his
owne
greedy
constitution
,
meaning
to
credit
,
or
enrich
himselfe
;
not
amend
others
:
by
which
meanes
all
his
goodnesse
is
accidentall
.
He
doth
(
notwithstanding
)
in
some
poynts
resemble
vertue
;
but
in
the
worst
manner
.
For
being
impartiall
,
he
playes
the
tyrant
;
and
sels
the
vices
of
his
deerest
friends
to
discoverie
,
by
playes
or
pamphlets
,
but
is
content
that
they
should
stil
reserue
them
to
their
future
infamie
:
So
hee
becomes
sooner
excluded
oftentimes
from
society
,
then
his
flattring
shifts
can
readily
repaire
.
Flattery
and
insinuation
be
indeed
the
number
of
his
thriving
morall
vertues
,
through
which
(
vnder
a
pretence
of
faire
meaning
)
he
takes
occasion
to
betray
the
marrow
of
mans
varietie
:
and
this
affoords
fuell
for
his
bitter
derision
.
His
Table-bookes
be
a
chiefe
adiunct
,
and
the
most
significant
Embleme
of
his
owne
qualitie
,
that
man
may
beare
about
him
:
for
the
wiping
out
of
old
notes
giue
way
to
new
:
and
he
likewise
,
to
try
a
new
disposition
,
will
finally
forsake
an
ancient
friends
loue
;
because
he
consists
of
new
enterprises
.
His
capacity
is
apprehensiue
in
a
strange
measure
:
if
he
were
lesse
capable
,
he
might
be
more
commended
.
For
hee
incroaches
often
vpon
admittance
(
where
things
be
well
delivered
)
to
multiply
his
obseruation
:
and
yet
hee
will
verifie
the
thing
,
as
if
it
were
now
committed
.
If
hee
converts
to
a
deserving
qualitie
,
hee
will
propound
the
credit
of
a
good
meaning
no
stipend
for
his
vaine
discoueries
.
Till
then
,
he
must
intreate
to
be
suspected
,
or
odious
,
whilst
he
whispers
closely
among
free
companions
:
Neither
must
he
hope
to
amend
the
Age
,
or
himselfe
;
because
he
never
intended
the
first
;
and
the
last
he
forgets
(
though
he
intended
it
)
through
vaine
glory
;
as
being
transported
with
his
pride
onely
,
that
he
hath
observed
,
and
can
obserue
againe
.
Briefly
,
he
resembles
a
foolish
patient
,
who
takes
a
costiue
pill
to
loosen
his
body
:
for
whilst
hee
meanes
to
purge
himselfe
by
observing
other
humors
,
hee
practises
them
by
a
shadow
of
mockage
,
and
so
becomes
a
more
fast
corruption
:
if
he
doth
not
therefore
feele
the
disease
,
hee
dies
hide-bound
.
(
***
)
CHARACT:
XII
.
A
Parish
Polititian
IS
Machiavels
Mungrell
Puppy
;
taken
from
schoole
before
he
hath
learned
true
Latine
;
and
therfore
in
triviall
things
onely
,
hee
partakes
with
the
Sire
;
because
he
lackes
true
breeding
,
and
true
bringing
vp
.
Hee
labours
commonly
for
opinion
where
he
is
so
well
knowne
,
that
opinion
would
persecute
him
,
without
labour
:
he
thinkes
religion
deceiues
most
vnsuspected
;
and
therefore
hee
seemes
to
be
a
zealous
Christian.
The
Church
is
a
principall
part
of
his
devotion
;
and
to
bee
a
frequent
Auditor
,
or
outwardly
attentiue
,
is
a
sure
defence
(
hee
thinkes
)
against
capitall
errour
.
Hee
is
openly
kinde-hearted
;
cries
God
forbid
,
Amen
,
Christ
bee
his
comfort
.
But
rather
then
hee
will
seeme
a
Puritan
,
with
indifferent
companions
,
hee
can
breake
an
obscoene
Iest
,
bee
wanton
,
sociable
,
or
any
thing
,
till
hee
converse
with
a
Precisian
by
whom
he
hopes
to
saue
:
then
the
eyes
roule
vpward
,
the
hands
be
elevated
,
commiserating
tearmes
bee
multiplied
,
with
sighes
innumerable
:
then
hee
railes
against
the
wicked
,
whom
a
little
before
hee
heartilie
saluted
.
And
after
some
paraphrase
vpon
the
verse
of
such
an
Evangelist
,
Apostle
,
or
Prophet
,
hee
dismisses
the
Puritan
,
that
himselfe
may
laugh
in
a
corner
.
His
minde
and
memorie
put
on
the
same
vizard
of
greatnesse
,
which
makes
him
so
much
incline
to
the
posture
of
weighty
labours
,
that
he
giues
no
attention
to
things
openly
recited
,
though
they
actually
possesse
him
.
To
be
imploid
therefore
for
a
Noble
man
,
is
(
to
him
)
an
infinite
trouble
,
and
begets
imployment
with
all
acquaintance
to
discover
it
:
so
the
bare
meanes
to
make
men
think
hee
is
much
entertained
,
costs
a
time
equall
to
his
occurrents
.
Being
to
bee
visited
(
though
by
sure
Clients
)
he
hath
the
roome
of
attendance
,
the
Art
of
delay
,
and
a
visage
that
seemes
pittifully
interrupted
.
If
he
rides
to
dispatch
,
the
horses
be
early
sadled
,
and
brought
to
the
doore
,
that
neighbours
may
obserue
;
when
,
after
fiue
or
sixe
houres
expectation
,
hee
comes
like
one
that
was
detained
by
vrgent
importunacies
.
His
best
materials
to
worke
vpon
,
bee
Time
,
and
Place
;
which
,
if
they
affoord
circumstance
to
let
you
vnderstand
his
new
purchase
,
his
new
buildings
,
the
great
marriage
of
his
children
,
or
entertainement
of
high
personages
,
or
bountie
towards
the
Hospitall
,
it
comes
freely
and
fitly
,
if
openly
.
When
occasions
trouble
him
a
little
,
he
loues
to
trouble
himselfe
extreamly
;
and
thinkes
it
a
poynt
of
●eaching
policie
,
to
reproue
or
amend
that
formally
,
which
hath
beene
allowed
by
singular
good
iugdements
.
If
hee
dares
(
with
priviledge
of
the
hearers
ignorance
)
disparage
worth
in
any
,
hee
takes
leaue
of
the
occasion
,
and
his
owne
policie
.
This
he
takes
in
honor
of
his
courtship
to
shew
he
can
bee
ambitious
,
and
build
on
others
ruines
:
But
this
proclaimes
him
a
starved
Cannibal
;
who
,
through
the
famine
of
desert
,
feeds
his
worthinesse
with
his
owne
excrement
of
detraction
.
His
desire
and
audacitie
be
at
open
strife
.
When
he
would
,
but
dares
not
commend
himselfe
,
by
correcting
anothers
facultie
:
then
with
a
straind
laughter
,
and
a
willing
palsie
in
his
head
,
he
seemes
to
discover
somwhat
is
vnsetled
;
or
he
makes
his
elbow
signifie
,
that
somthing
wants
his
finger
.
His
complements
be
at
liberty
,
his
friendship
lies
locked
vp
in
prison
;
the
key
whereof
he
hath
lost
willingly
.
For
if
you
call
him
friend
before
hee
hath
wrested
the
advantage
of
an
enemy
,
hee
leaues
you
destitute
,
but
more
happy
then
you
beleeue
.
If
hee
can
seeme
to
forget
your
countenance
,
hee
intends
that
you
must
thinke
him
deuoted
to
things
aboue
you
,
or
that
his
braine
labours
:
and
vpon
this
ground
he
walkes
when
he
neglects
your
salutations
,
or
takes
no
notice
of
your
person
.
Briefly
,
he
is
a
man
of
this
daies
profit
;
he
expects
nothing
without
double
interest
,
and
that
by
compulsion
.
Hee
is
a
weake
foe
,
a
weaker
friend
,
or
the
generall
shadow
of
a
wiser
man
.
CHARAC.
XIII
.
A
Spend-thrift
IS
a
man
euer
needy
,
neuer
satisfied
,
but
ready
to
borrow
more
then
he
may
be
trust-à
with
:
The
question
of
him
will
be
,
whether
his
learning
doth
out-ballance
his
braine
,
and
so
becomes
a
burthen
;
or
whether
both
bee
crept
into
his
outward
senses
:
Certainely
his
Intellectuals
of
wit
,
and
wisedome
,
be
manifest
,
but
are
(
like
the
seuen
Starres
)
seldome
seene
together
;
they
mutually
succeed
,
as
hauing
vow'd
to
gouerne
by
course
:
whilst
wit
reignes
,
excesse
,
and
royot
haue
the
vpper
hand
:
But
when
he
recollects
himselfe
,
hee
is
wholy
metamorphosed
;
wit
giues
place
,
and
his
extreme
of
wisedome
,
disclaimes
the
smile
of
a
merrie
countenance
.
His
onely
ioy
is
to
domineere
,
be
often
saluted
,
and
haue
many
Creditors
:
his
Lordships
lie
among
the
Drawers
,
Tobacco-men
,
Brokers
,
and
Panders
:
But
aduersity
makes
him
leaue
company
,
and
fall
to
house-keeping
,
and
then
his
seruants
be
vanished
into
Sergeants
.
His
onely
flatterers
bee
Conceite
and
Fancy
,
which
charge
Memory
his
Steward
,
to
bring
in
no
Accompts
till
they
bee
casheerd
;
which
cannot
bee
whilst
Imitation
is
his
Captain
,
or
Credit
his
Corporall
.
Hee
dreames
of
being
Lord
chiefe
Iustice
,
or
at
least
being
eminent
,
though
hee
liues
dissolutely
;
and
hath
no
Saint
but
Fortune
.
Hee
is
,
and
euer
will
be
a
quarter
behind
with
frugality
;
in
which
volume
he
cannot
be
perfect
,
because
the
booke
is
imperfect
:
for
he
still
rendes
out
the
beginning
of
his
lesson
.
His
Heauen
vpon
Farth
,
is
a
faire
Mistresse
;
and
though
his
meanes
be
l●rge
,
yet
his
principall
sorrow
is
the
lacke
of
maintenance
.
The
misery
of
his
sense
is
an
old
man
,
and
his
fathers
life
troubles
him
not
a
little
:
Almanackes
therefore
which
foretell
the
death
of
age
,
be
very
acceptable
.
The
hurly burly
of
his
braine
is
infinite
,
and
he
scarcely
knowes
what
hee
may
freely
make
an
election
of
.
His
worst
bawd
is
too
good
a
nature
,
which
makes
him
incident
to
false
applauses
,
and
carue
his
soule
out
among
his
famil●ars
:
hee
hath
multitudes
of
deere
acquaintance
,
but
his
deerest
friends
are
ready
to
stabbe
him
.
For
either
those
whom
hee
accompts
so
,
be
men
of
fashion
;
or
those
who
be
indeed
so
,
desire
his
death
,
because
they
see
no
amendment
.
He
scornes
to
acknowledge
his
debts
,
but
as
things
of
duety
,
with
which
mechanicks
are
(
as
he
thinkes
)
bound
to
vphold
high
birth
and
Gentry
:
but
the
end
proues
otherwise
.
His
downefall
therefore
is
not
admired
,
because
hee
was
euer
falling
;
and
his
bare
excuse
,
makes
experience
the
shadow
.
Briefly
,
he
may
seeme
a
treacherous
friend
;
for
he
deales
dishonestly
with
all
that
challenge
interest
in
him
;
they
be
his
Creditors
:
And
yet
hee
deales
more
louingly
with
them
,
then
with
himselfe
;
for
when
he
paies
them
,
he
punisheth
himselfe
:
If
he
cannot
pay
,
hee
is
punished
more
then
they
;
and
punished
enough
,
because
he
cannot
pay
:
for
then
he
consumes
.
CHARACT.
XIIII
.
A
Vbiquitarie
IS
a
Iourney-man
of
all
Trades
,
but
no
sauer
because
no
s●tter
vp
:
He
would
be
an
Epitome
of
Artes
,
and
all
things
,
but
is
indeed
nothing
lesse
then
himselfe
:
If
an
itchy
Tailor
gaue
him
not
his
making
,
he
had
(
I
thinke
)
perpetually
beene
vnmade
:
For
if
he
scratch
his
head
,
the
body
cals
him
;
if
the
body
,
then
the
elbow
;
if
his
elbow
,
then
againe
the
body
;
if
the
body
,
then
the
head
itches
:
so
neuer
quiet
,
neuer
constant
,
still
doing
,
stil
about
to
do
the
same
,
remaines
my
doer
doing
nothing
.
The
worst
of
dog-daies
was
his
birth-day
when
fleas
abounded
,
which
(
from
his
cradle
)
haue
so
bitten
him
,
as
till
his
death
he
must
be
tickled
.
The
worme
of
giddinesse
hath
crept
into
his
priuate
purposes
:
euery
houre
,
almost
,
giues
him
a
new
Being
,
or
,
at
least
,
the
purpose
to
be
an
other
thing
then
he
is
.
If
a
country
l●fe
inuites
him
he
yeelds
:
the
Court
request
him
,
he
yeelds
likewise
:
but
then
disgrace
auerts
him
to
his
study
;
a
Library
is
gotten
:
by
this
time
loue
hath
strucke
him
,
and
hee
adores
the
Saint
:
But
then
some
play
declaimes
against
this
loue
;
hee
quickly
is
perswaded
,
and
followes
Poetry
.
Thus
my
vagabond
of
vanity
is
from
post
to
pillar
transport●
,
because
hee
trauels
without
a
perfect
licence
.
You
shall
soone
discerne
him
by
his
arguments
and
reasons
;
They
(
for
the
principals
)
flow
from
one
fountaine
of
ignorance
:
for
all
his
proofe
depends
vpon
I
thinke
so
;
Euery
man
saith
so
:
All
dislike
it
:
His
very
conuersation
is
infectious
,
but
neuer
frustrate
:
for
either
you
must
follow
him
,
and
that
way
you
must
looke
to
be
a
looser
:
or
he
will
follow
you
,
and
then
resolue
that
your
intention
thriues
but
badly
.
No
obiect
,
no
society
,
season
,
thought
,
or
language
,
comes
amisse
,
or
vnexpected
,
his
pollicy
therefore
seekes
to
be
rather
frequent
then
effectuall
;
to
run
about
the
world
daily
,
then
trauell
seriously
;
to
see
a
multitude
,
before
society
;
and
gesse
at
much
,
rather
then
know
a
little
.
In
his
discourse
hee
daunces
All
Trades
;
and
flies
from
field
to
thicket
,
as
being
hunted
by
an
Ignis
fatuus
.
Talke
of
Academies
,
and
hee
tels
you
Court-newes
;
canuase
the
state
of
your
question
,
and
hee
tels
you
what
new
booke
is
extant
.
If
you
discourse
,
hee
still
desires
the
conclusion
;
and
is
attentiue
rather
to
the
sequele
,
then
carefull
to
vnderstand
the
premisses
.
In
his
behauiour
hee
would
seeme
French
,
Italian
,
Spanish
,
or
any
thing
,
so
he
may
seeme
vn-vulgar
;
accounting
it
barbarous
not
to
contemne
his
owne
Nation
,
or
the
common
good
;
because
he
loues
to
bee
more
valued
by
seeming
singularly
pretious
:
His
habite
onely
discouers
him
to
be
true
English
:
and
to
be
weary
of
the
place
,
colours
his
emploiment
:
To
liiie
(
with
him
)
is
all
vanity
,
and
that
life
alone
his
deerest
happinesse
:
his
death
therefore
may
bee
somewhat
doubtfull
,
because
with
it
hee
hath
no
Beeing
.
CHARAC.
XV.
A
Gamester
IS
Fortunes
Vassaile
,
temptations
Anuile
,
or
an
out-landish
text
which
may
soone
be
translated
into
cheaters
English
:
He
affects
gaming
from
a
schoole-boy
;
and
superstitiously
fore-thinkes
how
his
minde
giues
him
.
The
elements
of
fire
,
earth
,
and
aire
,
be
with
him
alike
predominant
;
he
i●
in●●●med
with
rage
,
melancholy
with
thoughts
,
iouiall
with
fortune
;
but
hee
neuer
we●●●●
in
sorrow
or
repentance
:
When
he
looses
little
,
you
must
●now
he
looses
much
,
for
hee
loues
tha●
any
man
should
coniecture
he
is
able
:
And
though
his
luck
be
infinite
to
win
aboundance
,
yet
could
hee
neuer
haue
the
luck
to
purchase
.
If
he
quarrel●
you
may
protest
hee
looses
,
●nd
he
must
scr●mble
or
be
bea●e●●re
hee
can
bee
quiet
:
if
hee
make
peace
you
must
meet
him
●n
the
winning
way
,
and
then
you
might
more
safely
swagger
with
him
:
he
loues
his
owne
aduantage
well
enough
to
bee
a
Lawyer
,
but
would
make
a
most
preposterous
Iudge
:
The
seuen
deadly
sinnes
sleepe
in
his
pocket
,
and
he
neuer
drawes
money
but
the
noise
awakes
them
.
Pride
,
Lechery
,
Drunkennesse
,
and
Gluttony
,
bee
his
Sabboth
sinnes
,
which
(
out
of
gettings
)
he
employes
on
Festiuals
,
and
Sundaies
.
Blasphemy
and
murther
play
the
Drawers
with
him
,
and
bring
the
fearefull
reckoning
of
his
losses
;
and
insteed
of
Vsury
,
Theft
plaies
the
Scriuener
to
furnish
him
with
money
:
He
can
both
fast
,
and
watch
,
and
yet
is
farre
enough
from
being
a
true
penitent
;
for
curses
following
,
do
discouer
why
the
rest
was
intended
.
Fortune
makes
him
her
most
silly
States-man
:
shee
holds
him
by
the
chinne
a
while
,
but
ere
hee
can
recouer
what
he
onely
wishes
,
hee
sinkes
incontinent
,
and
worthily
;
for
losse
and
gaine
alike
encourage
him
,
but
neuer
satisfie
.
If
he
plaies
vpon
Ticket
,
hee
knowes
you
are
but
a
simple
fellow
not
able
to
exact
,
though
he
resolues
to
pay
nothing
;
so
he
did
neuer
purchase
,
if
not
this
way
,
except
he
borrowes
;
and
that
extends
farre
enough
to
make
him
the
debtor
at
his
owne
pleasure
.
If
he
be
perished
,
his
restauration
is
to
famine
,
though
not
degenerate
;
for
seeing
he
was
ruind
vnder
the
Goddesse
Fortune
,
he
may
well
claime
the
portion
of
a
rich
widdow
.
If
neither
shee
,
nor
any
shee-creature
else
be
gratious
;
let
him
vnpittied
proue
a
Cheater
,
for
he
thrust
himselfe
to
exile
,
and
went
to
willing
bondage
.
CHARACT.
XVI
.
A
Nouice
IS
one
still
ready
to
aske
the
way
,
yet
farre
from
finding
it
,
though
you
do
direct
him
:
He
is
indeed
a
simple
thing
of
one
and
twenty
,
that
dares
safely
be
a
pupill
to
any
Tutor
.
Or
take
him
naturally
for
a
familiar
kind
of
Spaniell
,
that
may
be
readily
taken
vp
,
and
stolne
away
from
himselfe
,
or
his
best
resolutions
.
Hee
is
euer
haunted
with
a
blushing
weakenesse
,
and
is
as
willing
to
embrace
any
,
as
not
to
be
distastfull
vnto
any
:
He
trusts
any
mans
opinion
before
his
owne
,
and
will
commit
his
life
to
him
that
can
insinuate
;
you
get
acquaintance
with
him
by
a
bare
salutation
;
drinke
to
him
with
a
new
complement
,
and
you
haue
purchased
his
entire
loue
,
till
hee
bee
cheated
.
The
name
of
Country-man
,
or
ciuill
carriage
,
vnlockes
his
Cabinet
of
intentions
,
till
you
extract
the
very
quintessence
.
He
cannot
chuse
but
be
exceeding
credulous
,
for
he
confutes
nothing
further
then
his
eye-sight
,
or
common
sense
extends
.
Draw
him
to
the
paradise
of
taking
all
in
good
part
;
or
teach
him
to
apprehend
the
worst
things
well
,
by
screwing
in
a
meere
conceit
of
your
generosity
,
and
he
wilthrust
the
ward-ship
of
his
credit
,
Lands
,
or
Body
,
to
your
patronage
:
So
you
may
take
reliefe
,
and
tender
Marriage
,
though
his
father
held
not
in
Knights
seruice
.
If
you
misdoubt
he
should
perceiue
you
,
or
if
you
thinke
it
difficult
to
deceiue
him
;
compare
his
Title
with
his
Index
,
o●
both
together
with
his
stuffe
contained
,
and
you
may
soone
discerne
him
:
For
either
vnexpectedly
he
doth
betray
himselfe
;
or
false
fire
doth
discharge
him
.
Being
a
little
boulstred
vp
with
sweete
heresies
of
subtill
language
,
and
Musicall
Tauernes
,
he
suddenly
beginnes
(
except
some
charitable
hand
reclaimes
him
)
to
mistake
Tobacco
for
a
precious
hearbe
;
and
oftentimes
I
thinke
it
cures
his
raw
humour
,
by
operation
of
the
price
,
without
the
Physicke
.
You
may
easily
also
driue
him
to
mistake
brown
paper
for
Littletons
Tenures
;
Canuas
,
and
Red
Herrings
,
for
his
fathers
hoppe-bagges
and
Lent
prouision
.
I
need
not
say
hee
will
be
valorous
;
for
Parasites
and
Cony-catchers
know
,
he
oftentimes
can
see
hee
hath
beene
cheated
,
and
yet
his
modesty
will
not
suffer
him
to
enforce
satisfaction
.
Hee
will
much
wonder
at
a
triuiall
euent
,
and
thinkes
it
Witch-craft
to
foresee
disaduantage
.
As
for
the
world
,
Religion
,
or
naturall
causes
,
he
can
enquire
of
them
,
but
difficultly
beleeue
reason
:
In
the
shutting
vp
therfore
of
his
folly
he
doth
confesse
the
character
,
and
leaues
it
to
succession
.
CHARAC.
XVII
.
An
Epicure
IS
the
picture
of
Some-body
,
or
a
man
of
two
senses
:
the
Eye
and
the
Palate
:
for
his
smelling
propertie
is
stuffed
with
the
vapours
of
a
full
stomacke
;
his
hands
the
instruments
of
his
mouth
,
no
senses
;
and
the
belly
hath
no
cares
,
but
a
trusse
to
support
it
:
He
is
his
owne
Taylor
,
and
thinkes
directly
that
more
expences
belong
to
the
linings
,
then
to
the
out-side
.
He
cannot
stirre
in
businesse
without
a
Coach
,
or
a
Litter
;
and
then
he
is
suddenly
interrupted
,
if
the
clocke
strikes
Eleven
.
Hee
is
(
whatsoever
some
think
)
a
good
Physitian
for
his
owne
body
;
for
he
still
riseth
from
the
Table
with
an
appetite
,
and
is
soone
re●dy
for
another
meale
of
dainties
.
If
hee
bee
a
Lawyer
,
the
b●●t
meates
will
soonest
corrupt
his
carkasse
,
and
his
conscience
:
for
he
feeds
immode●●tely
,
and
will
doe
much
for
●
brace
of
Pheasants
.
If
he
bee
a
Divine
,
he
preaches
all
charity
,
and
discommends
Gentlemen
extreamely
,
because
they
leaue
House-keeping
.
He
thinkes
his
bed
the
best
study
,
and
therefore
speakes
wel
in
the
praise
of
stretching
meditations
.
He
accounts
Cookery
a
delicate
science
,
and
preferres
the
knowledge
of
confectionary
receipts
;
to
which
purpose
nothing
passes
through
the
throate
,
till
he
takes
particular
notice
of
the
ingredients
.
He
is
troubled
much
to
thinke
,
how
he
may
most
readily
shorten
his
life
,
and
not
perceiue
the
reason
:
Therefore
he
revolues
continually
,
what
may
be
most
convenient
for
the
tast
,
and
hurtfull
for
the
stomake
.
He
invites
himselfe
to
much
provender
by
accident
of
visitation
;
though
hee
comes
with
a
resolved
policie
:
and
hee
provokes
many
solemne
meetings
,
vnder
the
title
of
Hospitalitie
,
when
hee
makes
himselfe
(
by
these
meanes
)
fitter
for
an
Hospitall
.
Hee
is
contented
to
bestow
broken
meate
among
poore
folkes
,
but
no
money
:
for
he
loues
not
to
depart
with
that
,
in
which
himselfe
hath
beene
no
taster
.
He
is
the
noted
foe
of
famine
,
and
yet
he
is
daily
imploied
about
the
procreation
of
a
dearth
:
for
the
value
of
nothing
is
beyond
his
abilitie
,
if
he
hath
present
money
,
though
no
more
then
enough
to
discharge
the
present
commoditie
;
or
credite
to
make
men
trust
vpon
executors
.
Hee
hath
heightned
the
price
of
out-landish-fruits
,
and
hath
purchased
the
generall
name
to
our
Countrey
of
Sweet-mouth'd
English-men
.
Marrow-pies
,
Potato-rootes
,
Eringoes
,
and
a
cup
of
Sacke
be
his
chiefest
Restoratiues
,
and
comfortable
Physicke
:
He
makes
no
dinner
without
a
second
course
.
He
is
over-ruled
more
by
his
teeth
,
then
his
appetite
:
for
when
they
grow
weary
,
he
leaues
feeding
,
and
falles
to
drinking
:
which
argues
(
vnlesse
I
mistake
)
a
larger
capacity
of
Stomack
then
Vnderstanding
.
He
keeps
a
principall
poynt
of
statelinesse
in
carriage
;
for
he
delights
rather
in
a
subtill
flatterer
,
or
secretary
,
that
giues
good
el-bow
attendance
,
then
to
heare
himselfe
discourse
,
or
any
who
neglects
to
feed
his
humor
;
either
with
commendations
,
or
voiling
reverence
to
his
high
fortunes
,
or
with
licentious
fables
,
and
derisions
of
his
opposites
.
If
dinner
bee
ended
,
and
you
desire
to
converse
with
him
,
you
must
tarry
till
he
be
awake
:
for
his
vast
chaire
,
a
downy
couch
,
and
chiefly
a
fine
capable
seat
in
the
Church
,
that
may
confront
the
Preacher
,
or
be
situate
behinde
some
pillar
,
are
three
easie
and
common
receptacles
for
his
full
stomack
.
None
resembles
death
so
fitly
,
yet
none
makes
lesse
morall
:
His
sleepe
therefore
which
proues
him
rotten
and
stinking
aliue
,
proues
rather
death
it selfe
,
then
a
remembrance
.
Briefly
,
being
true
English
,
hee
will
abhorre
thirst
,
and
hunger
,
because
hee
scornes
a
Spaniard
and
his
properties
.
CHARACT.
XVIII
.
A
Churle
IS
the
sup●rfluity
of
solemne
behauiour
:
And
was
intended
for
an
allay
to
fif●y
light
louiall
constitutions
;
but
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na●●r
●●ntendit
op●●mum
.
Nature
being
then
otherwise
employed
,
hee
was
(
against
her
will
)
made
a
monstrous
lump
of
Humanity
;
through
the
negligence
of
her
hand-maids
,
or
the
malice
of
her
enemies
bad
education
and
nutriment
.
Hee
is
the
vnsociable
sonne
of
Saturne
,
that
lookes
strangely
at
the
face
of
man
,
as
if
hee
were
another
thing
then
himselfe
.
He
thinkes
,
to
be
familiar
is
to
betray
himselfe
;
and
that
the
world
might
plentifully
be
inhabited
,
by
him
onely
,
and
a
couple
of
drudges
.
If
you
be
ciuill
,
he
saith
you
are
phantastick
;
and
friendly
language
he
termes
flattery
.
No
estate
,
no
aduancement
,
can
remoue
his
humour
:
for
hee
doth
not
liue
(
whilst
he
liues
not
discontented
)
but
sleepes
,
or
counterfeits
.
He
thinkes
salutations
were
ordained
to
beguile
,
or
betray
;
hee
loues
not
therefore
to
salute
,
or
be
saluted
.
Hee
will
refuse
gifts
,
that
come
from
reconciled
foes
,
and
thinkes
an
iniury
can
neuer
be
forgotten
.
On
equall
termes
likewise
,
he
is
heartily
vnwilling
to
receiue
,
except
(
in
glory
)
he
can
ouer-value
his
deserts
,
by
thinking
he
hath
deserued
tenne
times
more
.
A
selfe-respect
,
and
a
disdaine
of
others
,
be
his
nourishing
vices
:
So
he
chuses
rather
to
loose
a
bargaine
,
then
to
become
a
debtor
;
for
he
holds
it
more
honour
and
pollicy
to
steale
,
then
to
be
beholding
.
If
you
enquire
his
health
,
or
the
times
newes
,
hee
dares
protest
you
are
an
impertinent
,
or
a
shallow
companion
.
Other
mens
triumph
is
his
sorrow
,
other
mens
sorrow
his
triumph
:
for
in
his
conscience
he
hath
reioyced
never
,
if
not
in
mis-fortunes
of
some
,
or
all
.
His
owne
adversitie
quickens
him
to
reioyce
at
others
misery
.
He
cannot
therefore
bee
saved
,
seeing
he
admits
company
as
a
delight
,
in
nothing
but
desolation
:
and
then
,
not
their
company
,
but
their
passion
.
His
entertainments
be
,
a
fierce
dogge
to
bid
you
welcome
,
a
currish
voyce
to
confirme
it
,
and
the
way
is
open
for
a
fare-well
.
The
two
first
be
apparant
,
the
latter
hee
intends
:
So
doth
he
embrace
acquaintance
or
neighbours
;
but
impotent
people
he
threatens
in
another
kinde
with
Whippe
,
stockes
,
and
Beadle
,
they
onely
be
his
familiars
and
defenders
.
His
Dogge
,
and
hee
,
are
the
onely
good
fellowes
;
and
his
dogge
proues
the
better
man
,
by
being
more
tractable
.
He
will
prevent
you
in
a
commoditie
,
and
giue
more
;
as
also
,
hee
dares
discredit
any
thing
,
or
any
,
not
with
a
meaning
to
commend
his
owne
,
but
to
endammage
others
.
He
will
bee
shaven
all
wayes
to
the
best
helpe
of
a
deformitie
:
and
though
his
actions
will
soone
verifie
the
Character
,
yet
he
will
more
mis-shape
nature
by
ill-favoured
Linnen
,
a
greasie
felt
,
and
Garments
made
for
the
purpose
;
as
if
hee
meant
to
discover
himselfe
by
the
fore-head
,
least
hee
should
not
be
knowne
quickly
.
He
is
satisfied
vpon
the
smallest
wrong
,
and
will
rather
take
the
lawes
assignment
,
though
a
trifle
,
then
be
content
with
large
composition
:
yet
none
doth
more
grumble
against
the
Law-professors
.
He
listens
to
the
death
of
great
personages
,
as
a
Butchers
dogge
to
the
Oxes
slaughter
;
reioycing
to
be
glutted
with
his
entrailes
,
or
vices
,
seeing
hee
is
not
bettred
by
his
body
of
worth
,
the
best
food
.
It
fattens
him
to
heare
a
prodigalls
consumption
,
though
hee
partakes
nothing
in
the
●ootie
.
If
you
fasten
a
gift
vpon
him
,
his
thankes
bee
liberall
,
though
he
doth
not
requite
:
if
hee
doth
not
brand
you
with
an
insinuating
Title
;
yet
in
extremitie
of
his
passion
he
is
so
farre
(
as
hee
thinkes
)
from
being
vncharitable
,
as
he
makes
the
charitie
of
Counsell
,
Purse
,
or
Assistance
,
things
that
would
giue
little
thanke
for
his
labour
:
and
so
he
practises
them
vnder
the
ranke
of
such
things
as
doe
not
concerne
him
:
He
saith
therefore
,
Meddle
with
me
,
when
I
meddle
with
you
.
So
that
if
shame
provokes
his
wealth
to
invite
strangers
,
he
hath
no
bountifull
meaning
,
but
a
resolution
to
liue
by
broken
meate
long
after
,
which
doth
not
savour
well
,
except
it
be
mouldy
:
that
,
and
himselfe
therefore
,
should
be
spent
sooner
;
otherwise
they
grow
visibly
odious
,
but
himselfe
more
odious
then
that
.
CHARAC.
XIX
.
An
Atheist
IS
no
reasonable
Man
:
for
hee
will
sooner
embrace
a
superficiall
colour
in
things
of
moment
,
then
search
into
direct
causes
:
as
for
obvious
and
common
accidents
,
he
never
looks
vpon
them
so
much
with
reason
,
as
vpon
matters
of
course
.
In
subtilties
he
is
bestiall
;
for
hee
admits
no
more
then
event
;
and
he
is
therfore
no
reasonable
man
,
because
no
religious
man
.
For
Heathens
and
Barbarians
haue
from
the
beginning
beene
worshippers
of
somwhat
.
If
thou
canst
seeme
to
bee
familiar
with
him
,
and
enter
into
the
extremities
of
ill
fortune
,
or
begin
to
speake
of
great
mens
funerals
,
or
honest
mens
persecutions
,
hee
will
instantly
discover
what
he
beleeues
,
being
bold
enough
to
speak
plainly
(
if
thou
canst
apprehend
)
that
vertue
,
innocence
,
and
craftie
dealing
be
alike
rewarded
:
that
wicked
and
religious
men
haue
no
difference
but
the
Name
:
that
wrongs
may
lawfully
(
if
without
danger
apparant
)
bee
repelled
with
worse
wrongs
:
and
that
therefore
it
argues
basenesse
of
spirit
,
to
contemne
any
opportunity
of
advantage
:
that
expectation
of
other
,
where
ioy
is
already
present
,
were
dotage
,
or
madnesse
;
and
that
honesty
,
which
exceeds
common
forme
,
is
singularity
.
From
which
Arguments
you
may
draw
the
conclusion
.
If
he
reserues
these
precepts
among
strangers
,
his
practise
will
verifie
the
paterne
.
Take
this
for
a
foundation
,
Euery
Atheist
is
an
Epicure
,
though
the
one
is
not
controvettible
.
If
he
inclines
more
to
Epicurisme
then
policie
;
this
watch-word
will
be
frequent
in
his
cups
,
hoc
est
vivere
,
hoc
est
vivere
.
But
you
may
stil
obserue
,
that
he
contends
to
wash
away
all
care
with
company
,
discourse
&
laughter
,
as
if
he
knew
his
vsurious
creditor
(
a
guiltie
conscience
)
waited
to
expostulate
with
him
at
an
advantage
.
One
therefore
of
this
proportion
,
is
more
liable
to
the
Law
,
but
lesse
dangerous
to
the
common-wealth
.
Hee
brings
most
villany
that
feeles
the
disease
inward
;
and
confutes
his
own
obiections
with
falacious
doctrines
.
He
liues
much
about
the
fountain
of
Iniquitie
,
and
therfore
he
must
propound
that
those
streames
of
custome
be
tolerable
,
or
leaue
his
profession
.
He
hath
a
natural
flourish
for
super-naturall
accidents
.
He
turnes
Diuinity
into
colorable
inuentions
of
Philosophy
.
He
knows
every
thing
vnder
the
name
of
a
naturall
body
:
hee
beleeues
Nature
to
be
an
invisible
power
,
which
intended
generation
for
corruption
,
and
corruption
for
generation
.
He
distinguishes
bodies
into
simple
and
compound
,
and
makes
creation
a
vulgar
proiect
obedient
to
the
harmony
of
elements
.
Then
,
if
he
knowes
the
meaning
of
Homogenea
,
and
Hetrogenea
,
of
corpus
imperfctè
mixtum
,
and
perfectè
mixtum
,
he
remaines
largely
satisfied
.
As
for
the
causes
of
terrible
events
,
he
apprehends
the
power
of
Exhalations
,
Meteors
,
Comets
,
&
the
Antiperistasis
:
which
very
names
are
able
to
forbid
all
further
inquisition
.
He
goes
not
therfore
beyond
himselfe
for
his
authority
:
and
he
esteemes
it
more
convenient
to
think
there
is
a
reason
in
nature
,
then
to
trouble
his
braine
with
miracles
,
when
they
exceed
his
positions
.
Hee
never
was
taken
for
a
friend
in
society
,
neither
can
he
bestow
loue
,
because
cause
hee
cannot
adventure
his
person
.
If
at
any
time
hee
intended
loue
,
he
intended
likewise
a
Physitian
;
and
him
,
no
further
then
agreed
with
his
owne
humidum
radicale
:
which
must
also
be
vnderstood
,
if
himselfe
were
no
Physitian
.
He
is
alwayes
consident
beyond
reformation
.
Hee
dies
with
hope
betweene
his
iawes
,
and
therefore
one
may
thinke
him
no
desperate
slaue
;
but
such
hope
deceiues
him
,
because
he
hopes
to
liue
longer
.
CHARACT.
XX.
A
Lyar
IS
a
tame
Foxe
;
hunted
vp
and
down
,
often
for
pleasure
,
often
against
his
will
.
Arithmetick
is
in
him
a
natural
vice
,
or
at
least
the
principall
parts
of
the
Science
:
for
he
can
both
substract
&
multiply
with
more
ease
then
speake
true
English
:
He
may
as
well
be
a
Trades-man
of
any
sort
by
his
profession
,
●s
a
Knight
of
the
post
,
or
a
man-pleaser
.
He
should
(
by
his
qualities
)
be
a
good
Gamester
;
for
the
one
is
iust
in
league
with
a
voluntary
ignorance
,
or
any
inforced
knowledge
,
as
much
as
the
other
:
Hee
neuer
offends
this
way
,
but
he
offends
double
;
for
he
cannot
with
credit
,
or
knowledge
of
the
Art
Military
,
thinke
it
sufficient
to
defend
with
bare
affirmance
,
&
the
wals
of
circumuention
,
except
his
cannōothes
be
ready
planted
and
discharged
.
He
is
not
guilty
of
his
own
vice
alone
;
for
seldom
doth
he
auouch
it
,
which
his
confederate
wil
not
iustifie
:
&
therfore
he
prouides
adherents
for
security
:
his
common
misery
is
wel
known
,
it
persecuts
him
with
diuine
iustice
for
all
his
truth'is
extraordinarie
,
winne
no
beleife
;
because
no
false-hoods
are
so
frequent
.
Any
aduantage
accruing
to
himselfe
prouokes
his
faculty
;
though
sometimes
a
friends
loue
intices
him
to
strange
aduentures
.
If
neither
the
first
nor
second
bee
opportune
,
he
so
labours
onely
to
beget
wonderfull
narrations
.
Hee
is
ready
enough
to
ouer-value
himselfe
,
his
friends
,
and
his
commodity
:
accounting
it
a
pollitick
straine
to
set
an
excellent
faire
glosse
on
all
;
that
hee
may
purchase
the
reputation
of
a
large
estate
:
Which
seemes
to
argue
an
innocent
vpright
course
,
not
fearing
tyranny
:
But
indeed
he
doth
(
from
hence
)
deceiue
the
world
and
die
a
beggar
,
through
the
foregoing
estimation
.
Hee
tels
no
wonder
,
without
some
preparatiue
:
as
namely
,
he
admits
before
hand
what
may
be
:
or
he
begins
thus
:
You
may
thinke
it
is
a
lie
:
or
,
it
will
seeme
strange
,
but
I
protest
before
God
,
it
is
very
true
:
or
the
like
:
But
if
hee
bee
one
that
maintaines
Ordinaries
and
publick
meetings
;
he
speakes
altogether
vpon
credible
report
;
and
you
shall
be
the
third
man
partakes
of
the
nouelty
:
for
hee
hath
alwaies
talked
with
one
,
that
was
an
eye-witnesse
:
if
hee
were
not
himselfe
the
agent
or
beholder
.
He
may
at
his
electition
be
admitted
into
the
Colledge
of
Iesuites
,
but
hee
loues
not
to
forsake
his
Country
,
though
he
boasts
of
trauailes
;
and
yet
he
is
a
meere
fugitiue
.
He
was
originally
intended
for
a
Rhetorician
;
and
lackes
onely
a
little
instruction
:
For
hee
is
more
conuersant
with
Tropes
then
Figures
;
and
yet
the
figure
of
repetition
,
is
his
owne
naturall
.
Attention
makes
thee
very
much
culpable
in
his
reports
:
beliefe
makes
thee
apt
to
erre
in
the
same
kind
.
He
is
more
confident
(
if
hee
could
be
vncased
)
in
the
rare
exploits
of
Rosaclere
,
and
Delphoebo
,
Amadis
de
Gaule
,
or
Parismus
,
then
the
most
holy
Text
of
Scripture
.
If
hee
should
striue
for
Antiquity
,
no
English
Generation
can
compare
with
him
:
And
yet
hee
needes
no
Herald
,
for
hee
deriues
his
Pedigree
immediately
from
the
deuill
.
CHARACT:
XXI
.
A
Drunkard
IS
in
Opinion
a
good
fellow
,
in
practice
a
liuing
conduit
.
Hee
is
at
all
points
armed
for
a
Knight
errant
,
and
cald
vpon
for
aduentures
,
euery
way
as
full
of
hazard
.
This
makes
him
enter
boldly
into
the
Lyons
,
or
the
Greene
Dragons
Caue
;
into
the
White
Beares
iawes
,
the
Mermaids
closets
,
the
Sunnes
Palace
;
nay
,
more
into
the
deuils
chamber
of
presence
.
And
for
his
Trauailes
let
the
Globe
witnesse
;
through
euery
corner
of
which
,
he
hath
or
can
walke
at
his
pleasure
.
Freedome
hee
challenges
,
and
therefore
scornes
to
be
a
tedious
customer
,
till
by
enforcement
,
hee
drinkes
vpon
record
:
otherwise
he
shifts
his
watring
place
;
either
to
auoid
his
lowse
,
the
Baylife
;
or
to
renew
his
fountaine
:
the
last
onely
pleades
for
his
commendation
,
because
hee
proceedes
still
from
worse
to
better
:
which
discommends
him
most
,
because
it
nourishes
his
facultie
.
The
torment
of
his
eye-sight
is
a
frothy
Tapster
,
or
a
sluggish
Drawer
with
a
deceitfull
po●
.
The
plagues
of
his
palat
be
good
wines
,
where
he
cannot
purchase
,
nor
be
trusted
:
or
a
Taverne
well
furnished
,
that
ioynes
to
the
prison
doore
:
they
vexe
him
,
as
a
feast
vexes
the
famished
,
in
a
strong
Castle
:
or
a
Lambe
the
starued
Foxe
,
when
Mas●ifes
be
awake
.
He
never
disallowes
religion
for
putting
Lent
in
the
Almanack
:
for
Tobacco
,
a
Rasher
,
and
red
Herrings
,
his
instruments
of
relish
,
bee
at
all
times
perhibited
.
Hee
hath
a
cheape
course
of
breake-fasts
,
to
auoide
dinners
;
which
at
his
pleasure
he
can
spare
,
through
morning
Antidotes
:
the
inquisition
of
these
he
studies
,
and
looses
by
the
knowledge
.
Hee
indifferently
concludes
,
and
beginnes
quarrels
:
that
quality
neither
much
blames
nor
praises
him
.
Opportunity
hee
embraces
,
but
in
a
bad
sense
:
for
he
is
rather
studious
to
follow
any
mans
calling
then
his
owne
.
His
nose
the
most
innocent
,
beares
the
corruption
of
his
other
senses
folly
;
From
it
may
bee
gathered
the
embleme
of
one
falsely
scandald
:
for
it
not
offending
,
is
●olourably
punished
.
It
serues
therefore
for
nothing
but
such
an
Embleme
,
except
to
proue
the
owners
great
innocence
,
by
how
much
it
is
the
greater
:
His
eminent
seeming
vertues
be
his
peculiar
vices
:
For
his
casting
vp
expences
,
and
his
wisedome
ouer
the
pot
,
be
his
vnthriftinesse
,
and
folly
:
Hee
were
vtterly
base
,
if
vnable
to
defend
his
habite
:
you
shall
therefore
know
him
by
his
arguments
.
If
hee
inclines
to
Scholler-ship
,
they
be
these
:
First
,
to
abandon
melancholy
;
For
care
,
hee
faith
,
kils
a
Cat
:
then
to
auoide
mischieuous
thoughts
;
for
hee
that
drinkes
well
,
sleepes
well
,
and
hee
that
sleeps
well
thinks
no
harme
:
The
weaknes
of
which
may
be
soone
confuted
,
because
he
staggers
in
the
argument
.
His
teeth
be
strongest
,
because
least
employed
.
Hence
you
●ay
take
the
embleme
of
one
truely
miserable
;
who
abounds
in
profites
,
which
he
doth
not
vse
.
A
beggar
,
and
he
are
both
of
one
stock
,
but
the
beggar
claimes
antiquity
:
the
beggar
did
drinke
that
he
might
beg
,
&
hath
his
meaning
:
the
other
drinkes
that
he
may
beg
,
&
shal
haue
the
true
mening
shortly
.
In
the
degree
of
beggars
it
is
thought
he
wil
turne
Dummerer
;
he
practises
already
,
&
is
for
that
purpose
many
times
taken
speechlesse
.
If
he
goes
out
in
the
morning
a
libertine
or
free-man
,
he
returns
at
night
a
prisoner
,
if
he
doth
return
:
for
he
cannot
returne
safely
without
his
keeper
:
otherwise
,
he
converts
suddenly
from
flesh
to
fish
,
&
diues
into
the
mud
,
or
swims
in
his
own
water
.
These
together
proue
fasting-nights
to
be
his
naturall
season
.
Whilst
he
is
waking
,
he
purges
all
secrets
;
least
I
therefore
by
keeping
him
awake
longer
,
should
erre
in
the
same
kinde
,
I
haue
now
cast
him
into
a
dead
sleepe
.
CHARAC.
XXII
.
A
Begging
Scholler
IS
an
Artificiall
vagabond
:
Hee
tooke
his
first
degree
(
as
wee
may
imagine
)
in
the
Vniuersity
:
But
he
neuer
thinkes
himselfe
a
full
Graduate
;
till
by
Cosmographicall
science
,
he
suruey
the
degrees
of
Longitude
,
and
Latitude
,
belonging
to
most
of
our
famous
Citties
in
England
:
So
he
becomes
practitioner
in
the
Mathematickes
,
though
hee
pretends
Diuinity
by
order
of
Commencement
,
which
might
bee
a
safe
licence
among
diuers
;
if
the
Statute
vouchsafed
not
to
take
notice
of
his
roguery
.
He
hath
from
the
first
houre
of
his
Matriculation
inherited
the
name
of
Sharke
,
by
way
of
a
generall
dependance
in
the
Colledge
:
But
being
perhaps
expulsed
,
or
departing
in
a
hungry
humor
,
he
trauels
with
a
prompt
memory
,
insteed
of
other
knowledge
;
and
aboue
all
things
he
is
wise
enough
for
himselfe
,
to
remember
his
wants
.
Hee
neuer
looked
into
Diuinity
beyond
the
meaning
of
two
Sermons
;
and
vpon
those
he
hath
insisted
so
often
,
that
he
feeles
no
need
of
another
Library
:
He
still
pretends
(
like
some
single
Physitian
)
the
cure
of
one
disease
,
that
is
,
the
cold
of
charity
,
and
therefore
(
his
charitable
aduise
being
ended
)
a
bill
of
receipt
followes
for
the
ingredients
:
But
the
disease
may
be
thought
to
grow
more
desperate
through
the
mistaken
cure
;
because
the
medicine
is
applied
vnfitly
.
His
helpe
extends
farre
and
neere
to
fugitiue
Raga-muffians
,
vnder
the
signe
of
impotent
souldiers
,
or
wandring
Abraham-men
;
but
his
helpe
proues
the
maintenance
of
their
function
,
because
it
proues
his
owne
,
by
occasion
:
For
being
receiued
as
a
Secretary
to
the
counsell
of
vagrants
,
hee
conceals
much
idle
property
,
in
aduantage
of
himselfe
and
Country-men
,
not
of
the
common-wealth
.
If
you
would
priuately
know
him
;
you
must
know
likewise
,
the
iourney
to
his
friends
hath
beene
tediously
vndertaken
;
and
whilst
hee
brings
his
mony
in
question
,
you
must
know
he
begges
for
an
answere
,
and
so
betrayes
the
doubt
of
sufficiency
:
howsoeuer
(
in
publick
)
he
insinuates
a
depriuation
;
by
being
too
sufficient
.
Being
admitted
(
for
Hospitality
sake
)
to
receiue
lodging
;
he
hath
a
slight
of
hand
,
or
cleanely
conueiance
,
which
threaten
siluer
spoones
;
and
leaues
a
desperate
sorrow
among
all
the
houshold
seruants
,
because
he
departed
so
soone
.
In
the
space
of
a
naturall
day
he
seldome
trauailes
further
then
to
the
next
Ale-house
;
that
so
by
degrees
he
may
approach
to
a
great
Market
vpon
the
Sabboth
.
He
paies
for
what
he
takes
continually
,
one
way
or
other
:
for
being
no
customer
,
he
cannot
bee
trusted
,
except
in
case
of
necessity
;
and
then
he
paies
them
experience
to
beware
of
such
as
he
another
time
.
He
hath
learning
to
propound
the
Apostles
president
for
trauailes
,
but
conscience
litle
enough
to
look
any
further
.
If
his
family
be
not
portable
,
it
comes
in
the
rereward
,
and
awaites
his
returne
to
the
Rendevouze
:
if
otherwise
he
be
attended
with
neither
wife
,
nor
maide-seruant
;
he
makes
vse
of
both
,
as
hee
finds
himselfe
able
:
Hee
is
sometime
inducted
by
a
simple
Patron
,
to
some
more
simple
Vicarage
;
But
his
Tithes
and
Credit
concluding
in
Haruest
,
he
takes
his
slight
with
the
Swallow
:
He
cannot
therefore
thriue
among
the
promoted
begging
Schollers
,
because
hee
hath
no
continuance
.
(
***
)
(
⸫
)
The
second
Booke
of
Characters
.
CHARACT.
I.
A
Iaylor
IS
the
beggars
body-lowse
,
which
liues
vpon
the
bloud
and
carcase
of
them
which
can
worst
spare
any
:
He
proceeds
commonly
from
such
a
one
,
as
could
not
gouerne
himselfe
,
to
gouerne
others
imperiously
:
He
cannot
thinke
of
a
place
,
more
sutable
with
the
safe
practise
of
his
villany
:
No
,
not
among
the
roarers
,
or
the
company
of
quack-saluers
:
a
thiefe
,
&
a
Murtherer
,
be
the
names
which
make
him
iron
mad
,
whiles
himselfe
proues
the
more
exquisite
offender
:
and
if
formerly
he
hath
bin
infamous
among
al
,
it
proues
felicity
with
him
now
to
insult
over
some
,
&
growes
the
more
implacable
.
At
his
first
induction
,
he
begins
(
like
al
new
Officers
)
to
reform
methodically
:
Neither
doth
he
spare
to
diuulge
(
with
oftentation
)
the
marrow
of
his
deerest
policies
:
He
may
very
wel
seeme
a
bountiful
Host
,
for
he
detaines
his
customers
whether
they
will
or
no
:
but
his
bounty
retireth
,
when
he
looseth
aduantage
.
He
is
a
true
Alchymist
,
no
dreamer
in
that
science
:
nor
the
best
proficient
hath
thriu'd
better
in
his
proiections
:
He
doth
indeed
familiarly
(
by
vertue
of
his
stone-wals
,
without
the
Philosphers
stone
)
conuert
rusty
Iron
into
perfect
siluer
:
He
makes
men
beleeue
,
that
the
poore
captiues
shall
work
in
daily
labor
to
get
a
liuing
:
whiles
his
coniecture
is
verified
in
their
nightly
labor
,
Liuing
lice
.
by
working
throgh
the
enclosure
;
or
being
idle
they
get
liuings
too
many
:
If
he
perceiues
an
open
obiect
of
increase
,
he
wil
himselfe
work
the
meanes
of
disorder
by
plentiful
liquor
,
that
so
a
large
fine
may
redeeme
the
quarrell
:
To
which
purpose
he
doth
sophisticate
his
fuming
Beere
,
to
breed
a
skirmish
the
sooner
:
&
then
the
dungeon
is
a
dreadfull
word
,
vntill
a
competent
bribe
pacify
his
humor
.
Nothing
makes
him
so
merry
as
a
harsh
mittimus
,
&
a
potent
captiue
:
they
come
like
an
inscription
with
a
fat
goose
against
new-yeares-tide
:
but
baile
sounds
a
sorrowfull
retrait
:
as
if
the
inferiour
Thiefe
should
loose
a
booty
by
composition
:
and
yet
he
will
take
his
wiues
suretiship
for
the
more
extent
of
liberty
,
because
hee
knowes
her
perfect
in
the
instructions
of
that
Alchymie
.
Hee
is
a
circumspect
companion
,
and
still
dreames
of
an
escape
:
and
of
a
breaking
forth
hee
may
well
dreame
,
having
so
many
putrified
sores
in
one
body
;
but
seldome
do
any
escape
in
his
debt
,
though
at
their
breaking
out
,
they
be
a
weeke
behinde
:
for
aboue
one
weeke
he
never
trusts
;
and
not
so
long
,
vnlesse
the
former
aduantage
wil
recompence
a
fortnights
arrerages
.
Briefly
,
hee
is
in
a
manner
the
Diuels
huntsman
,
who
keepes
those
Beagles
either
for
castigation
,
because
they
were
not
cunning
enough
,
else
for
amendment
of
the
Chace
.
For
if
he
sends
them
forth
,
they
proue
Graduates
,
when
they
escape
the
Gallowes
.
As
for
himselfe
,
you
may
either
meet
him
in
the
midst
of
Carrowses
among
his
Customers
,
or
riding
post
in
melancholy
,
to
re-imparke
his
wilde
runnagates
.
CHARAC.
II.
An
Informer
IS
a
protected
Cheater
,
or
a
Knaue
in
authoritie
,
licenced
by
authority
:
he
sprang
from
the
corruption
of
other
mens
dishonesty
;
and
meetes
none
so
intricately
vitious
,
but
hee
can
match
the
paterne
:
which
makes
him
free
of
all
Trades
by
the
statute
:
for
this
giues
him
a
freedome
to
survey
all
besides
himselfe
.
He
is
a
fellow
as
much
beholding
to
his
fiue
senses
,
as
to
his
intellectuals
:
he
can
diversly
imploy
all
his
senses
about
diverse
obiects
;
but
commonly
they
are
all
occupied
about
one
or
two
chiefly
:
the
winding
vp
of
a
iack
is
better
then
musicke
to
his
cares
in
Lent
:
the
steame
of
a
roasted
ioynt
attracts
his
nostrils
vnsatiably
:
the
sight
of
a
shoulder
of
Mutton
then
feeds
his
stomacke
;
but
the
taste
and
feeling
of
it
,
provokes
him
to
a
dreadfull
insultation
.
He
is
worse
then
an
Otter-hound
for
a
diue-dopping
Ale-house-keeper
:
and
hunts
him
out
vnreasonably
from
his
Element
of
Liquor
;
and
yet
he
may
seeme
reasonable
honest
,
for
he
hearkens
readily
to
a
composition
.
But
whilst
he
consents
to
saue
men
harmlesse
(
vpon
tearmes
indifferent
)
he
makes
open
way
for
another
of
his
coat
to
incroach
vpon
the
like
premises
.
Victuallers
therefore
find
no
relaxation
by
his
oath
or
assistance
;
though
they
shold
meet
with
more
trouble
,
if
he
did
not
assist
them
.
Arbitrements
be
besides
his
calling
:
but
if
he
be
held
sit
to
be
an
arbibitrator
,
he
will
haue
a
sure
hand
in
the
businesse
.
For
if
he
be
trusted
to
keepe
the
pledge
of
their
reconcilement
,
the
pledge
must
be
his
,
whilst
they
are
reconciled
at
their
own
peril
.
He
comes
alwaies
with
a
serious
countenance
to
deiected
Ale-men
,
and
promiseth
restauration
with
an
Exchequer
licence
to
vex
the
Iustices
:
whilst
hee
takes
forty
shillings
,
three
pound
,
or
vpward
for
a
single
sub-poena
,
to
defend
the
Liquor-man
;
who
incurres
new
charges
by
trusting
in
the
apparant
cousenage
.
He
takes
away
the
relation
betwixt
a
Lawyer
and
his
Client
;
and
makes
it
generally
extend
to
the
Clearkes
in
Offices
;
vnder
whose
safegard
hee
hath
his
Licence
seal'd
to
travaile
:
a
foot-post
and
he
differ
in
the
discharge
of
their
packet
,
and
the
payment
:
for
the
Informer
is
content
to
tarry
the
next
Tearme
(
perhappes
)
till
a
Iudgement
.
His
profession
affoords
practisers
both
great
and
small
;
both
bucke-hounds
and
harriers
:
the
essence
of
both
is
inquisition
.
But
the
first
is
a
more
thriving
and
ancient
stocke
of
hatred
:
for
he
is
a
kinde
of
Antiquarie
:
the
last
is
seldome
medling
with
men
much
aboue
him
:
howsoever
,
sometimes
he
is
casually
the
scourge
of
an
ignorant
Iustice
.
CHARAC.
III.
Abase
Mercenary
Poet
IS
the
most
faithfull
obsequious
seruant
of
him
that
giues
most
:
he
subscribes
his
definition
to
all
Dedicatory
Epistles
.
If
mother-wit
raisd
him
to
be
a
writer
,
he
shewes
himselfe
a
dutifull
Childe
,
and
begges
Poems
in
defence
of
Nature
:
neither
can
hee
choose
but
betray
himselfe
to
be
a
cosset
,
by
his
odde
frisking
matter
,
and
his
Apish
Titles
:
which
may
perswade
any
reasonable
man
,
that
he
studies
more
to
make
faces
,
then
a
decent
carriage
.
If
he
haue
learnt
Lillies
Grammer
,
and
a
peece
of
Ouids
Metamorphosis
,
he
thinkes
it
time
to
aske
his
patrons
blessing
with
some
worke
that
savours
very
much
of
the
authors
meaning
,
and
two
or
three
Latine
sentences
.
If
he
hath
seene
the
Vniversity
,
and
forsaken
it
againe
,
because
he
felt
no
deserts
which
might
chalenge
a
benefactor
:
then
he
calles
every
man
(
besides
his
patron
)
a
despiser
of
learning
,
and
he
is
wonderfull
angry
with
the
world
;
but
a
brace
of
angels
will
pacifie
his
humour
.
If
hee
be
an
expulsed
Graduate
,
hee
hath
beene
conversant
so
long
with
rules
of
Art
,
that
hee
can
expresse
nothing
without
the
Art
of
begging
,
or
publicke
sale
:
but
commonly
hee
is
some
swimming-headed
Clarke
,
who
after
he
hath
spent
much
time
in
idle
Sonners
,
is
driven
to
seeke
the
tune
of
Silver
,
to
make
vp
his
consort
.
Necessity
and
covetous
hire
,
bribe
his
invention
,
but
cannot
corrupt
his
conscience
:
for
though
hee
vndertakes
more
then
hee
is
able
,
yet
hee
concludes
within
expectation
of
others
that
know
him
,
and
so
hee
deceiues
himselfe
onely
.
Hee
will
never
forfeite
his
day
to
necessitie
,
if
hee
writes
by
obligation
;
but
hee
never
payes
backe
the
principall
to
his
Authour
:
which
happens
divers
times
when
hee
is
the
Scriuener
and
the
Debtor
:
for
the
tide
of
one
Pamphlet
beeing
vented
at
his
elbowes
,
with
leaning
vpon
Taverne-tables
;
hee
tyes
himselfe
to
certaine
limites
;
within
which
precinctes
hee
borrowes
much
,
translates
much
,
coynes
much
,
converting
all
to
his
proiect
:
and
if
matter
failes
,
hee
flyes
vpon
the
Lawyer
,
or
flatters
his
obiect
:
but
hee
never
becomes
so
excellent
,
that
the
Creditor
of
his
invention
,
may
thinke
it
a
dignitie
to
haue
had
such
a
Debtor
:
and
therefore
hee
payes
backe
nothing
.
His
Apologies
discover
his
shifting
cousenage
:
For
he
attributes
the
vices
of
his
quill
to
the
Ages
infirmitie
;
which
endures
nothing
but
amorous
delights
,
close
bawdry
,
or
mirthfull
studied
Iests
:
As
if
the
ignorance
of
any
Age
could
hinder
a
wise
mans
propositions
.
Hee
is
a
Traded
fellow
,
though
hee
seemes
a
Scholler
:
but
is
never
free
of
the
Company
,
or
accepted
,
till
hee
hath
drunke
out
his
Apprentise-hood
among
the
grand
Masters
,
and
then
with
an
vnivocall
consent
,
hee
may
commend
his
Wares
,
turne
them
into
the
fashion
,
and
dresse
over
his
old
Pamphlets
,
to
incroach
vpon
the
buyer
.
He
presumes
much
vpon
absolute
good
meanings
,
though
the
Text
bee
palpable
:
and
yet
where
hee
commends
himselfe
best
,
hee
is
not
refractorie
:
for
hee
still
promises
amendment
,
or
some
more
voluminous
worke
,
to
gratifie
his
Benefactors
;
but
hee
could
never
liue
long
enough
to
finish
his
miracles
.
But
hee
is
much
indebted
to
the
favour
of
Ladies
,
or
at
least
seemes
to
haue
been
graciously
rewarded
:
if
he
affects
this
humour
,
hee
extolls
their
singular
iudgement
before
he
meddles
with
his
matter
in
question
:
and
so
selles
himselfe
fictitiously
to
the
worlds
opinion
.
If
his
handes
bee
no
more
actiue
then
his
head
,
hee
is
guiltie
of
many
a
good
Scribes
idlenesse
,
by
making
that
legible
,
which
(
before
Trans-scription
)
might
haue
been
tolerable
folly
.
If
you
be
therefore
an
honest
,
or
generous
Patron
,
suffer
him
not
to
bee
printed
.
CHARAC.
IIII.
A
common
Player
IS
a
slow
Payer
,
seldome
a
Purchaser
,
never
a
Puritan
.
The
Statute
hath
done
wisely
to
acknowledge
him
a
Rogue
:
for
his
chiefe
Essence
is
,
A
dayly
Counterfeite
:
Hee
hath
been
familiar
so
long
with
out-sides
,
that
hee
professes
himselfe
,
(
beeing
vnknowne
)
to
bee
an
apparant
Gentleman
.
But
his
thinne
Felt
,
and
his
Silke
Stockings
,
or
his
foule
Linnen
,
and
faire
Doublet
,
doe
(
in
him
)
bodily
reveale
the
Broaker
:
So
beeing
not
sutable
,
hee
proues
a
Motley
:
his
minde
obseruing
the
same
fashion
of
his
body
:
both
consist
of
parcells
and
remnants
:
but
his
minde
hath
commonly
the
newer
fashion
,
and
the
newer
stuffe
:
hee
would
not
else
hearken
so
passionatly
after
new
Tunes
,
new
Trickes
,
new
Devises
:
These
together
apparrell
his
braine
and
vnderstanding
,
whilest
hee
takes
the
materialls
vpon
trust
,
and
is
himselfe
the
Taylor
to
take
measure
of
his
soules
liking
.
If
hee
cannot
beleeue
,
hee
doth
coniecture
strongly
;
but
dares
not
resolue
vpon
particulars
,
till
he
hath
either
spoken
,
or
heard
the
Epilogue
;
vnlesse
he
be
prevented
:
neither
dares
hee
entitle
good
things
Good
,
vnlesse
hee
bee
heartned
on
by
the
Multitude
:
till
then
,
hee
saith
faintly
what
hee
thinkes
,
with
a
willing
purpose
to
recant
or
persist
:
So
howsoever
he
pretends
to
haue
a
royall
Master
,
or
Mistresse
,
his
wages
and
dependance
proue
him
to
bee
the
servant
of
the
people
.
The
cautions
of
his
iudging
humour
(
if
hee
dares
vndertake
it
)
bee
a
certaine
number
of
lying
iests
against
the
common
Lawyer
;
hansome
conceits
against
the
fine
Courtiers
;
delicate
quirkes
against
the
rich
Cuckold
a
Cittizen
;
shadowed
glaunces
for
good
innocent
Ladies
and
Gentlewomen
;
with
a
nipping
scoffe
for
some
honest
Iustice
,
who
hath
once
imprisoned
him
:
or
some
thriftie
Trades-man
,
who
hath
allowed
him
no
credit
:
alwayes
remembred
,
his
obiect
is
,
A
new
Play
,
or
A
Play
newly
revived
.
Other
Poems
hee
admits
,
as
good
fellowes
take
Tobacco
,
or
ignorant
Burgesses
giue
a
voyce
,
for
company
sake
;
as
things
that
neither
maintaine
,
nor
bee
against
him
.
Hee
can
seeme
no
lesse
then
one
in
honour
,
or
at
least
one
mounted
:
for
vnto
miseries
which
persecute
such
,
hee
is
most
incident
.
Hence
it
proceedes
,
that
in
the
prosperous
fortune
of
a
Play
frequented
,
hee
proues
immoderate
,
and
falles
into
a
Drunkards
paradise
,
till
it
be
last
no
longer
.
Otherwise
when
adversities
come
,
they
come
together
:
For
Lent
and
Shroue-tuesday
bee
not
farre
asunder
:
then
hee
is
deiected
daily
and
weekely
:
his
blessings
be
neither
lame
nor
monstrous
;
they
goe
vpon
foure
legges
;
but
moue
slowly
;
and
make
as
great
a
distance
betweene
their
steppes
,
as
betweene
the
foure
Tearmes
.
If
he
marries
,
hee
mistakes
the
Woman
for
the
Boy
in
Womans
attire
,
by
not
respecting
a
difference
in
the
mischiefe
.
But
so
long
as
hee
liues
vnmarried
,
he
mistakes
the
Boy
,
or
a
Whore
for
the
Woman
;
by
courting
the
first
on
the
stage
,
or
visiting
the
second
at
her
devotions
.
Take
him
at
the
best
,
he
is
but
a
shifting
companion
;
for
he
liues
effectually
by
putting
on
,
and
putting
off
.
If
his
profession
were
single
,
hee
would
thinke
himselfe
a
simple
fellow
,
as
hee
doth
all
professions
besides
his
owne
:
His
owne
therefore
is
compounded
of
all
Natures
,
all
Humours
,
all
professions
.
Hee
is
politick
enough
to
perceiue
the
Common-wealths
doubts
of
his
licence
,
and
therefore
in
spight
of
Parliaments
or
Statutes
he
incorporates
himselfe
by
the
title
of
a
Brother-hood
.
I
need
not
multiply
his
character
;
for
boyes
and
euery
one
,
will
no
sooner
see
men
of
this
Faculty
walke
along
,
but
they
will
(
vnasked
)
informe
you
what
hee
is
by
the
vulgar
denomination
.
CHARAC.
V.
A
Warrener
IS
an
earthly
minded
man
:
Hee
plucks
his
liuing
from
the
earths
bowels
:
and
therfore
is
his
mind
most
conuersant
about
that
element
:
He
liues
in
a
little
Arcenall
or
Watch-tower
,
being
well
prouided
with
Engines
and
Artilery
:
with
which
(
like
another
tyrant
)
he
doth
encounter
the
enemies
of
his
Inhabitants
;
that
he
may
engrosse
them
all
the
more
entirely
:
And
yet
in
some
respects
he
is
a
good
Gouernour
,
for
he
delights
more
in
the
death
of
an
enemy
,
then
six
subiects
:
The
reason
is
apparant
,
for
one
foe
is
able
to
destroy
twenty
of
his
Vassailes
;
and
so
his
gaines
be
preuented
:
Therefore
a
Pole-cat
and
he
be
at
continuall
variance
:
yet
he
is
charitable
and
mercifull
,
for
if
the
Pole-cat
turne
Ferret
and
obey
him
,
none
agree
better
:
Hee
doth
Waive
much
spoile
by
his
mid-night
watches
,
and
yet
he
owes
no
Lord-ship
:
The
truth
is
,
tumblers
,
nets
,
and
other
traffick
do
escheate
to
him
,
although
the
owner
be
liuing
.
He
verifies
the
prouerbe
of
plenty
,
as
the
more
he
hath
,
the
more
he
doth
desire
:
for
though
his
owne
ground
be
full
of
breeders
,
yet
he
cannot
forbeare
to
haue
his
hand
in
priuate
Warrens
.
Hee
is
much
,
and
most
perplexed
,
because
pales
and
hedges
will
not
keepe
his
Cattell
in
compasse
:
if
he
cannot
therefore
compound
with
the
neighbours
adiacent
,
he
hath
a
trick
to
affright
those
that
transgresse
their
limites
,
by
scattering
murtherd
captiues
(
as
Pole-cats
,
and
Weasels
)
in
their
places
of
refuge
:
And
this
is
a
deepe
quillet
in
the
profession
:
Besides
this
,
he
hath
little
knowledge
of
moment
,
except
the
science
of
making
Trappes
:
or
circumuention
of
innocent
dogs
to
feed
vermine
:
The
chiefe
petition
of
his
prayer
,
is
for
blacke
frosts
,
Sunne-shine
weather
,
and
calme
mid-nights
:
vnder
the
protection
of
the
last
,
he
walkes
fearelesse
,
with
a
pike-staffe
,
to
exercise
the
liberty
of
that
season
among
other
mens
backesides
:
Where
he
hath
many
night-spels
,
to
the
hazard
of
much
Pullen
,
and
indeed
all
things
thieue-able
;
if
he
doth
not
play
the
valiant
Foot-man
,
and
take
tribute
of
passengers
:
Neither
is
he
worthy
to
be
such
a
dealer
with
nets
and
Cony-catchings
,
if
he
could
not
intrap
the
Kings
subiects
.
I
make
no
question
therfore
that
he
is
worthy
of
his
profession
:
Howsoeuer
sometimes
he
is
catcht
in
a
pitfal
of
liquor
by
his
companions
:
whilst
they
perhaps
being
Poulterers
,
proue
tyrannicall
substitutes
,
and
rob
his
possessions
:
but
in
reuenge
,
hee
doth
often
encroach
vpon
the
Poulterers
likewise
with
a
drunken
bargaine
.
CHARAC.
VI.
A
Huntsman
IS
the
leiutenant
of
dogs
,
and
foe
to
Haruest
:
He
is
frolick
in
a
faire
morning
fit
for
his
pleasure
;
and
alike
reioyceth
with
the
Virginians
,
to
see
the
rising
Sun
:
He
doth
worship
it
as
they
;
but
worships
his
Game
more
then
they
:
And
is
in
some
things
almost
as
barbarous
.
A
sluggard
he
contemnes
,
&
thinks
the
resting
time
might
be
shortned
;
which
makes
him
rise
with
day
,
obserue
the
same
pace
,
and
proue
full
as
happy
;
if
the
day
be
happy
.
The
names
of
Foxe
,
Hare
,
and
Bucke
,
be
all
attracting
sillables
;
sufficient
to
furnish
fifteene
meales
with
long
discourse
in
the
aduentures
of
each
.
Foxe
,
drawes
in
his
exploits
done
against
Cubbes
,
Bitch-foxes
,
Otters
,
and
Badgers
:
Hare
,
brings
out
his
encounters
,
plat-formes
,
engines
,
fortifications
,
and
night-worke
done
against
Leueret
,
Cony
,
Wilde-cat
,
Rabbet
,
Weasell
,
and
Pole-cat
:
Then
Bucke
,
the
Captaine
of
all
,
prouokes
him
(
not
without
strong
Passion
)
to
remember
Hart
,
Hind
,
Stagge
,
Doe
,
Pricket
,
Fawne
,
and
Fallow
Deere
.
He
vses
a
dogged
forme
of
gouernement
,
which
might
bee
(
without
shame
)
kept
in
Humanity
;
and
yet
he
is
vnwilling
to
be
gouerned
with
the
same
reason
:
either
by
being
satisfied
with
pleasure
,
or
content
with
ill
fortune
.
Hee
hath
the
discipline
to
marshall
dogs
,
and
sutably
;
when
a
wise
Herald
would
rather
meruaile
,
how
he
should
distinguish
their
coates
,
birth
,
and
gentry
.
Hee
carries
about
him
in
his
mouth
the
very
soule
of
Ouids
bodies
,
metamorphosed
into
Trees
,
Rockes
,
and
Waters
:
For
when
he
pleases
,
they
shall
eccho
and
distinctly
answere
;
and
when
he
pleases
,
be
extreamely
silent
.
There
is
little
danger
in
him
towards
the
Common
wealth
:
for
his
worst
intelligence
comes
from
Shepheards
or
Woodmen
;
and
that
onely
threatens
the
destruction
of
Hares
;
a
well-knowne
dry
meate
.
The
Spring
and
he
are
still
at
variance
;
in
mockage
therefore
,
and
reuenge
together
of
that
season
,
he
weares
her
liuery
in
Winter
.
Little
consultations
please
him
best
;
but
the
best
directions
he
doth
loue
and
follow
,
they
are
his
dogs
:
If
hee
cannot
preuaile
therefore
,
his
lucke
must
be
blamed
;
for
he
takes
a
speedy
course
.
He
cannot
be
lesse
then
a
conquerour
from
the
beginning
,
though
he
wants
the
booty
;
for
he
pursues
the
flight
.
His
Man-hood
is
a
crooked
sword
with
a
saw
backe
;
but
the
badge
of
his
generous
valour
is
a
horne
to
giue
notice
.
Battery
and
blowing
vp
,
hee
loues
not
:
to
vndermine
is
his
Stratageme
.
His
Physick
teaches
him
not
to
drinke
sweating
;
in
amends
whereof
,
he
liquors
himselfe
to
a
heate
,
vpon
coole
bloud
;
If
hee
delights
(
at
least
)
to
emulate
his
dog
in
a
hot
nose
.
If
a
kennell
of
hounds
passant
take
away
his
attention
and
company
from
Church
;
do
not
blame
his
deuotion
;
for
in
them
consists
the
nature
of
it
,
and
his
knowledge
.
His
frailties
are
,
that
he
is
apt
to
mistake
any
dog
worth
the
stealing
,
and
neuer
take
notice
of
the
Collar
.
Hee
dreames
of
a
Hare
sitting
,
a
Foxe
earthed
,
or
the
Bucke
couchant
:
And
if
his
fancy
would
be
moderate
,
his
actions
might
be
full
of
pleasure
.
CHARACT.
VII
.
A
Falkoner
IS
the
egge
of
a
tame
Pullet
,
hatcht
vp
among
the
Hawkes
and
Spaniels
.
Hee
hath
in
his
minority
conuersed
with
Kestrils
,
and
yong
Hobbies
;
but
growing
vp
he
begins
to
handle
the
sure
,
&
look
a
Fawlcon
in
the
face
.
All
his
learning
makes
him
but
a
new
Linguist
;
for
to
haue
studied
and
practised
the
termes
of
Hawkes
Dictionary
,
is
enough
to
excuse
his
wit
,
manners
,
and
humanity
.
He
hath
too
many
Trades
to
thriue
;
and
yet
if
hee
had
fewer
,
hee
would
thriue
lesse
:
Hee
need
not
bee
enuied
therfore
,
for
a
Monopolie
,
though
he
be
Barber-surgeon
,
Physitian
,
and
Apothecary
,
before
he
commences
Hawk-leech
:
for
though
he
exercise
all
these
,
and
the
Art
of
Bow-strings
together
,
his
patients
be
compelled
to
pay
him
no
further
,
then
they
bee
able
.
Hawkes
be
his
obiect
,
that
is
,
his
knowledge
,
admiration
,
labour
,
and
all
:
they
be
indeed
his
idoll
,
or
mistresse
,
be
they
Male
or
Female
:
to
them
he
consecrates
his
amorous
Ditties
,
which
be
no
sooner
framed
then
hallowed
:
Nor
should
he
doubt
to
ouercome
the
fairest
,
seeing
he
reclaimes
such
Haggards
;
and
courts
euery
one
with
a
peculiar
Dialect
.
That
he
is
truely
affected
to
his
Sweet-heart
in
her
fether-bed
,
appeares
by
the
sequele
;
himselfe
being
sensible
of
the
same
misery
:
for
they
be
both
mewed
vp
together
:
But
he
still
chuses
the
worst
pennance
;
by
chusing
rather
an
Ale-house
,
or
a
Cellar
,
for
his
moulting
place
,
then
the
Hawkes
mew
.
He
cannot
bee
thought
lesse
then
a
spie
,
and
that
a
dangerous
one
:
For
his
espials
are
,
that
hee
may
see
the
fall
of
what
he
persecutes
:
and
so
the
Wood-cocks
perish
:
If
they
do
not
,
his
Art
is
suspended
.
He
is
a
right
busy-body
,
who
intermeddles
so
much
with
others
affaires
,
that
he
forgets
his
own
.
He
would
not
else
correct
his
Hawkes
wildnesse
;
and
be
so
ready
to
trample
downe
the
standing
corne
;
or
make
way
through
enclosures
:
That
argues
him
to
be
Rebellious
,
&
Vulgar
;
one
apt
to
striue
for
liberty
.
His
Man-hood
I
dare
not
signifie
,
it
remaines
doubtfull
vpon
equall
tearmes
,
because
,
seldome
tried
with
any
thing
but
wild-fowle
:
and
then
he
performes
water-seruice
;
perhaps
sea-seruice
;
but
both
in
some
fowle
manner
:
By
Land
he
serues
,
on
horse
or
foot
;
on
both
,
to
destroy
Partrige
,
or
Pheasant
.
There
is
no
hope
of
his
rising
,
though
he
doth
excell
;
for
he
rather
seekes
to
make
others
ambitious
of
rising
,
then
himselfe
:
and
therefore
though
he
frames
wings
with
Daedalus
,
he
therby
makes
his
Hawke
onely
ambitious
:
Yet
if
any
shall
(
by
coniecture
)
take
a
flight
from
Paules
Steeple
;
hee
will
(
I
suppose
)
as
soone
as
any
.
I
had
rather
(
in
the
meane
time
)
take
his
word
then
his
oath
;
for
when
he
speakes
without
an
oath
,
he
is
not
troubled
with
the
passion
of
his
Curres
,
or
Haggards
;
and
therefore
cannot
so
well
excuse
it
,
if
he
breakes
his
promise
.
As
for
Religion
,
she
is
a
bird
of
too
high
a
wing
;
his
Hawkes
cannot
reach
it
,
and
therefore
not
Hee
:
And
if
hee
flies
to
heauen
,
it
is
a
better
flight
,
then
any
hee
hath
commemended
:
There
,
I
meddle
not
with
him
;
thither
he
must
carry
himselfe
:
for
I
can
neither
condemne
,
nor
saue
him
.
CHARACT.
VIII
.
A
Farmer
IS
a
concealed
commodity
:
his
worth
or
value
is
not
fully
knowne
till
he
be
halfe
rotten
,
and
then
he
is
worth
nothing
:
he
hath
Religion
enough
to
say
,
God
blesse
his
Maiesty
;
God
send
peace
,
and
faire
weather
;
So
that
one
may
picke
Haruest
out
of
him
to
be
his
time
of
happines
:
but
the
Tith-sheafe
goes
against
his
conscience
;
for
he
had
rather
spend
the
value
vpon
his
Reapers
and
Plough-men
,
then
bestow
any
thing
to
the
maintenance
of
a
Parson
.
Hee
is
sufficiently
booke-read
,
nay
a
profound
Doctor
,
if
he
can
search
into
the
diseases
of
Cattell
:
and
to
fore-tell
raine
by
tokens
,
makes
him
a
miraculous
Astronomer
.
To
speake
good
English
is
more
then
he
much
regards
;
and
for
him
not
to
contemne
all
Arts
and
Languages
,
were
to
condemne
his
owne
education
.
The
pride
of
his
house-keeping
is
a
messe
of
Creame
,
a
Pig
,
or
a
greene
Goose
,
and
if
his
seruants
can
vncontrowled
finde
the
high-way
to
the
Cup
boord
,
it
winnes
the
name
of
a
bountifull
Yeoman
.
To
purchase
Armes
(
if
he
aemulates
Gentry
)
sets
vpon
him
like
an
Ague
:
it
breakes
his
sleepe
,
takes
away
his
stomacke
,
and
he
can
neuer
be
quiet
till
the
Herald
hath
giuen
him
the
Harrowes
,
the
Cuckow
,
or
some
ridiculous
Embleme
for
his
Armory
.
The
bringing
vp
,
and
Mariage
of
his
eldest
sonne
,
is
an
ambition
which
afflicts
him
so
soone
as
the
boy
is
borne
,
and
the
hope
to
see
his
sonne
superior
,
or
placed
aboue
him
,
driues
him
to
dote
vpon
the
boy
in
his
Cradle
:
To
peruse
the
Statutes
and
preferre
them
before
the
Bible
,
makes
him
purchase
the
credit
of
a
shrewd
fellow
,
and
then
he
brings
all
aduersaries
to
composition
;
and
if
at
length
he
can
discouer
himselfe
in
large
Legacies
beyond
expectation
,
he
hath
his
desire
.
Meane
time
,
he
makes
the
preuention
of
a
dearth
his
title
,
to
be
thought
a
good
Common-wealths
man
:
And
therefore
hee
preserues
a
a
Chandelors
treasure
of
Bacon
,
Linkes
and
Puddings
in
the
Chimney
corner
.
Hee
is
quickely
and
contentedly
put
into
the
fashion
,
if
his
cloathes
bee
made
against
Whitsontide
or
Christmas
day
:
and
then
outwardly
hee
contemnes
appearance
:
he
cannot
therefore
choose
but
hate
a
Spaniard
likewise
;
and
(
hee
thinkes
)
that
hatred
onely
,
makes
him
a
loyall
subiect
:
for
benevolence
and
subsidies
be
more
vnseasonable
to
him
,
then
his
quarters
rent
.
Briefly
,
being
a
good
house-keeper
,
hee
is
an
honest
man
;
and
so
,
hee
thinkes
of
no
rising
higher
,
but
rising
early
in
the
morning
;
and
beeing
vp
,
hee
hath
no
end
of
motion
,
but
wanders
in
his
woods
and
pastures
so
effectually
,
that
when
he
sleepes
,
or
sits
,
hee
wanders
likewise
.
After
this
,
he
turns
into
his
element
,
by
being
too
ventrous
hot
,
&
cold
:
then
he
is
fit
for
nothing
but
a
checkered
graue
:
howsoever
some
may
think
him
convenient
to
make
an
everlasting
lasting
bridge
;
because
his
best
foundation
hath
been
(
perhaps
)
vpon
wool-packes
.
CHARAC.
IX
.
An
Hostesse
IS
(
if
beautifull
)
the
abatement
of
reckonings
,
or
the
second
course
:
if
a
widow
,
shee
is
the
iourneyes
end
of
a
wether-beabeaten
Traveller
:
if
ordinary
,
she
is
the
seruant
&
the
mistris
;
but
in
generall
,
she
is
a
receiver
to
all
professions
,
and
acquainted
by
experience
with
cookery
,
or
sluttery
.
Being
invited
to
her
owne
provisions
,
shee
prepares
the
way
to
mitigate
her
prises
,
either
by
exclaiming
vpon
the
hard
times
,
or
insinuating
the
sublime
price
of
Mutton
.
She
must
be
pardoned
,
though
she
depart
before
supper
is
ended
,
or
approch
when
supper
is
ended
;
for
shee
is
modestly
ashamed
to
heare
her
sinfull
reckonings
.
She
professes
the
kitchin
,
but
takes
place
in
the
chamber
:
and
having
interrupted
the
Guest
with
a
cup
of
Heartily
welcome
,
she
signifies
his
sorrow
,
though
it
bee
manifest
silence
;
shee
excuses
the
attendance
by
variety
of
guests
;
and
blaming
the
Maid-servants
,
she
commends
herselfe
for
the
sole
agent
:
and
you
must
conceiue
amisse
of
the
shambles
,
or
butter-market
vpon
her
honesty
.
Her
chiefest
knowledge
is
to
distinguish
vpon
the
trades
of
our
belly
;
and
though
shee
condemnes
a
Taylor
for
strengthening
his
bill
with
bumbast
,
stiffening
,
silke
and
buttons
;
yet
shee
furnishes
her
owne
in
the
same
kinde
,
with
wine
,
bread
,
sallets
,
and
cheese
;
and
though
she
seldome
abate
the
price
of
reckonings
,
yet
she
can
giue
a
morsell
of
her
owne
into
the
bargaine
;
if
that
may
satisfie
.
She
may
abhorre
drunkennesse
;
but
in
her
owne
house
conceales
it
,
and
receiues
the
advantage
:
neither
dares
she
reproue
her
husbands
thirstie
humor
,
least
she
should
loose
her
libertie
;
when
hee
resignes
his
power
to
lazinesse
,
by
which
hee
was
ingendred
.
Her
husbands
sloth
make
her
imployed
proudly
;
being
heartily
ambitious
of
labour
,
if
shee
can
boast
well
,
that
her
paines
alone
keepe
her
husband
and
his
family
:
If
her selfe
be
spunge
and
corke
,
she
hath
a
daughter
,
or
a
Chamber-maid
of
Ivy.
These
and
she
together
make
the
best
of
a
bad
bargaine
;
and
therefore
shee
affoords
no
peny-worth
which
is
not
the
best
that
can
suddenly
be
bought
for
money
.
She
seldome
invites
cost-free
:
for
she
determines
to
be
paid
commonly
.
If
therefore
she
doth
invite
,
she
is
a
rare
woman
;
neither
hath
she
any
thing
else
to
plead
raritie
.
Briefly
,
shee
is
a
thing
of
cleane
linnen
,
that
is
the
warrant
of
her
cleanlinesse
:
She
makes
the
welcome
of
a
new
,
the
farewell
of
an
old
Traveller
.
She
hearkens
ioyfully
to
the
numerous
footing
of
horses
;
and
having
,
with
a
quicke
accent
twise
called
the
Chamberlaine
,
she
is
now
busie
about
dressing
supper
.
CHARACT.
X.
A
Tapster
.
IS
an
Infernall
:
the
Belzebub
of
a
Sellar
,
and
the
very
motion
of
a
double
Iugge
.
Hee
was
ingendred
by
a
Drunkards
appetite
and
vrine
:
for
nothing
but
his
desire
to
fill
and
emptie
,
hath
bred
a
Tapster
.
He
striues
to
be
familiar
at
first
sight
;
but
instead
of
friendship
hee
retaines
the
names
of
Customers
:
onely
betwixt
Brewers
men
and
him
,
there
passes
hungry
and
thirstie
loue
;
consisting
of
Holland-cheese
&
rowles
in
recompence
of
Bottle-ale
,
and
strong
Beere
.
Drawers
and
hee
liue
at
variance
;
for
he
thinkes
the
grape
a
disparragement
to
malt
;
and
therefore
hee
incounters
Wine
even
with
the
smallest
Beere
he
hath
,
to
affright
the
fortitude
of
Sacke
and
Claret
with
extremitie
:
But
(
which
betrayes
his
stratagems
)
he
gladly
makes
the
Vintners
vessell
his
vassaile
and
Renegado
.
His
riches
are
single
,
they
consist
of
single
money
;
his
profession
double
,
it
consists
of
double
Beere
:
but
then
his
faculties
are
againe
so
single
,
that
if
he
leaues
the
cellar
,
hee
must
begge
or
steale
:
for
ignorance
and
lazinesse
haue
beene
his
education
.
Meane
time
he
is
kept
from
robbery
by
exchange
of
single
peeces
:
and
yet
hee
disables
himselfe
in
exchange
,
vnlesse
hee
expects
nothing
by
delay
.
He
feeles
the
same
sorrow
to
heare
you
discommend
his
liquor
,
that
hee
doth
to
see
you
depart
.
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That
which
aagrees
with
a
couetous
mans
gain
,
agrees
with
his
conscience
;
therfore
what
goes
against
his
profit
,
goes
against
his
conscience
It
goes
against
his
conscience
to
see
the
cup
stand
quietly
;
and
against
his
stomack
to
see
you
preferre
Mutton
before
powdred
beefe
.
He
hath
an
ambitious
memory
,
which
cannot
deceiue
him
,
because
hee
hath
taught
it
to
deceiue
others
:
for
his
aboundance
of
memory
,
and
his
meaning
to
get
a
stocke
,
labour
to
beget
a
superfluous
two-pence
in
the
reckoning
.
His
braine
swarmes
with
a
tempest
of
bottle-reckonings
;
which
makes
him
carelesse
of
hats
,
least
hee
should
breed
an
impostume
,
by
inclosing
their
multitude
,
else
he
is
afraid
least
the
hot
and
moyst
reckonings
he
carries
in
his
head
,
should
dissolue
his
felt
;
and
therfor
che
goes
vncovered
:
else
to
shew
he
reverences
the
Cellar
&
weeke-dayes
,
more
then
the
Church
or
Sabboth
;
for
then
onely
hee
playes
the
Turke
,
and
puts
on
else
(
which
is
indeed
the
reason
)
he
knowes
all
commers
claime
his
dutie
,
and
therfore
he
walkes
bare-headed
to
saue
a
labour
.
He
attributes
the
scant
measure
of
his
Iugge
to
the
Cellars
darkenesse
,
and
his
saving
nature
;
but
rather
then
he
will
iustifie
both
,
he
hath
a
certaine
slight
of
hand
to
fill
the
first
glasse
,
and
so
avoyds
inquisition
.
All
his
conscience
is
,
that
he
dares
not
cast
away
Gods
good
creatures
;
and
therefore
he
preserues
the
droppings
to
make
a
compound
.
Of
his
prayers
and
religion
,
I
neither
finde
any
thing
,
nor
will
I
leaue
any
thing
written
.
But
I
beleeue
strongly
,
that
in
stead
of
Praying
,
he
wishes
to
heare
men
desirous
of
Collops
and
Egges
,
or
red
Herrings
.
And
therefore
I
thinke
he
should
thriue
best
in
a
sea
voyage
;
because
hee
commends
the
relish
of
meates
seasoned
exceedingly
.
He
hath
nothing
to
commend
his
literature
,
but
Brachigraphy
,
or
the
science
of
short
writing
,
which
hee
practises
vpon
the
barrels
head
,
or
behind
the
doore
:
the
meaning
whereof
hee
propounds
,
but
doth
not
discover
the
rules
.
If
he
dares
defend
his
function
in
Winter
,
he
must
provide
an
Orator
:
for
he
speakes
coldly
for
himselfe
,
as
being
troubled
with
a
common
hoarsenesse
,
to
betray
his
vigilance
.
Briefly
,
you
must
imagine
him
a
light
fellow
,
and
like
the
c●rke
,
which
swimmes
with
moysture
,
is
supported
with
liquor
,
and
tied
about
the
bottle
or
iugges
neck
:
there
,
or
neere
about
that
,
you
may
finde
him
personally
.
CHARAC.
XI
.
A
Lawyers
Clarke
IS
his
Masters
right
hand
,
except
hee
writes
with
his
left
:
or
the
second
dresser
of
Sheep-skinnes
:
one
that
can
extract
more
from
the
parchment
,
then
the
Husband-man
from
the
Fleece
.
He
is
a
weake
Grammarian
;
for
hee
beginnes
to
peirce
,
before
he
can
construc
well
:
witnesse
the
Chamber-maid
.
Neither
can
you
discommend
him
:
for
his
best
education
hath
beene
at
a
dull
Writing-schoole
.
Hee
doth
gladly
imitate
Gentlemen
in
their
garments
;
they
allure
the
Wenches
,
and
may
(
perhaps
)
provoke
his
Mistresse
:
but
then
hee
must
bee
a
Customer
to
Cookes
shoppes
,
and
low
Ordinaries
,
or
visite
the
Broaker
,
to
be-speake
Silke
stockings
;
without
which
hee
thinkes
Gentry
doth
much
degenerate
▪
presuming
on
which
,
and
his
plausible
discourse
,
he
dares
attempt
a
mistresse
:
but
if
hee
chooses
worthily
,
hee
feeles
himselfe
worthily
contemned
,
because
hee
woes
with
bawdery
in
text
;
and
with
Iests
,
or
speeches
stolne
from
Playes
,
or
from
the
common-helping
Arcadia
.
Hee
may
bee
reasonably
commaunded
by
his
maister
in
attendance
:
but
if
he
rides
with
a
Cloake-bagge
,
hee
thinkes
himselfe
disgraced
behinde
his
backe
.
Howsoever
,
hee
is
otherwise
a
peaceable
companion
:
for
as
hee
continually
makes
agreement
,
so
himselfe
sits
quietly
,
by
his
owne
Embleme
of
meeknesse
,
the
sheeps-skinne
;
except
the
itch
troubles
him
.
You
can
make
no
question
that
he
is
not
ignorant
to
dispatch
readily
;
for
he
hath
his
businesse
at
his
fingers
end
.
Hee
may
pretend
Schollership
,
but
all
that
is
nothing
to
a
Iugglers
,
who
exceedes
in
the
slight
of
hand
;
which
is
the
Art
of
both
.
Hee
trembles
therefore
alike
with
all
Handicrafts
,
(
though
he
be
most
valorous
)
to
thinke
he
should
dare
strike
in
the
court
:
for
vpon
his
Palmes
and
Fingers
depend
his
In-comes
.
Hee
is
no
vaine
Disputant
;
his
knowledge
is
positiue
ingrossed
,
and
so
vpon
record
.
Selfe-conceit
in
labours
,
hee
refuses
:
for
hee
labours
about
nothing
which
is
not
iustifiable
by
Presidents
;
either
of
West
,
his
master
,
or
a
teacher
.
His
Poetry
is
meere
naturall
,
if
he
hath
any
;
that
costs
him
no
labour
:
in
carriage
,
and
the
rest
,
hee
barely
imitates
;
that
labour
is
worth
nothing
.
Hee
is
not
ashamed
of
what
he
doth
:
for
hee
regards
not
to
haue
a
finger
,
but
a
whole
hand
in
the
businesse
.
To
which
purpose
you
may
see
his
name
subscribed
in
Court
,
after
sealed
and
delivered
.
Hee
doth
relye
vpon
his
masters
practise
,
large
indentures
,
and
a
deske
to
write
vpon
.
Westminster
likewise
doth
not
altogether
not
concerne
him
:
hee
hath
a
motion
thither
,
and
a
motion
there
:
thither
hee
moues
by
way
of
iniunction
from
his
Master
:
there
he
moues
in
the
common
place
of
breake-fasts
,
for
reliefe
of
his
stomacke
;
and
if
hee
can
match
his
breake
fast
and
dinner
without
grudging
of
his
stomacke
,
hee
hath
his
desire
.
Hee
is
a
follower
:
for
he
weares
a
livery
;
but
no
seruant
,
for
hee
payes
his
owne
wages
.
Serving
himselfe
,
he
serues
God
by
occasion
:
for
whilst
hee
loues
his
gaine
,
and
serues
his
desire
of
getting
,
hee
hates
idlenesse
.
If
his
master
thriues
,
hee
cannot
doe
amisse
;
for
hee
leades
the
way
,
and
still
rides
before
;
but
if
hee
incline
to
the
consumption
of
state
,
hee
needes
a
master
that
can
thriue
in
that
practise
also
,
to
recover
him
.
Hee
is
the
Sophister
,
or
Solliciter
to
an
Atturney
;
and
from
himselfe
hee
proceedes
to
an
Atturney
:
that
is
his
commencement
.
(
***
)
CHARACT.
XII
.
A
meere
Atturney
IS
a
fellow
at
your
command
for
ten
groates
,
and
hath
no
inheritance
,
but
a
knavish
forme
of
vnderstanding
.
Hee
is
extreamly
graced
if
he
talke
with
two
velvet-cloak'd
Clients
in
fiue
Tearmes
;
and
desires
to
salute
great
Lawyers
in
view
to
purchase
reputation
.
He
is
indeed
the
vpshot
of
a
Lawyers
Clarke
,
and
retailes
his
Learning
from
Poenall
Statutes
,
or
an
English
Littleton
.
He
is
a
better
commoditie
to
himselfe
then
Stockefish
(
being
wel
beaten
)
His
chiefe
invention
is
how
he
may
take
bribes
from
both
parties
,
&
please
both
fashionably
:
how
he
may
cousen
his
friends
to
all
advantage
,
and
giue
the
glosse
of
good
dealing
:
if
his
wickednesse
thriues
well
,
he
proues
a
terrible
Asse
in
a
Lyons
skin
:
But
whilst
he
out-dares
the
Eagle
,
and
forgets
himselfe
to
be
a
Kastrell
,
his
confidence
deceiues
him
:
His
Pen
and
Inke-horne
is
a
speciall
propertie
;
he
weares
it
pendant
,
to
expresse
his
dependance
:
Sub-paenaes
,
Executions
,
and
all
Writs
of
quarrell
be
his
bond
slaues
.
He
doth
naturally
exclaime
vpon
Poets
and
Players
;
they
are
too
inquisitiue
about
his
cousonage
.
He
commends
Diuinity
;
but
makes
the
professors
simple
men
when
they
submit
to
his
mercy
:
He
still
preferres
the
authority
of
a
Statute
where
it
makes
for
his
purpose
(
though
mistaken
)
before
God
and
a
good
conscience
.
His
Religion
is
the
Kings
continually
:
And
he
would
willingly
come
to
C●urch
on
Sundaies
if
he
had
ended
his
Declarations
:
His
chiefe
pride
is
to
behaue
himselfe
better
then
he
is
able
,
and
chiefely
in
deliuering
of
his
charge
at
Court-leetes
,
where
he
assumes
much
peremptory
state
,
and
knowes
the
audience
cannot
distinguish
where
hee
stole
his
lesson
:
and
then
though
his
minde
be
not
in
the
Dishes
,
it
is
in
the
K●tchin
.
His
highest
ambition
is
an
Innes
of
Court
,
an
old
rich
Widdow
,
and
the
Steward-ship
of
Leetes
,
and
still
hee
hopes
to
be
first
of
his
name
:
Hee
loues
little
manners
but
where
he
hopes
to
saue
,
and
there
he
plaies
the
Sycophant
.
He
had
rather
eate
still
then
wipe
his
mouth
:
his
Almes
bee
old
S●ooes
for
Broomes
,
one
for
another
;
for
without
receiuing
he
neuer
giues
.
His
discourse
is
commonly
attended
with
a
Scire
facias
,
and
he
is
ashamed
in
his
heatt
when
he
heares
of
a
cunninger
knaue
then
himselfe
.
Briefly
,
indeed
hee
is
a
meere
Atturney
,
fit
for
all
turnes
that
any
way
enrich
his
Cofer
:
for
he
hath
knauery
enough
to
cosen
the
people
,
but
wit
enough
to
deceiue
the
gallowes
.
Howsoeuer
being
too
busy
about
his
common
baite
of
lucre
(
thinking
to
snappe
at
the
diuels
glow
worme
)
he
is
catched
in
his
common
noose
,
the
Pillorie
;
from
whence
he
is
deliuered
:
but
the
Hunts-man
markes
him
for
for
an
old
breeder
.
CHARAC.
XIII
.
A
crafty
Scriuener
IS
the
curse
of
mans
crafty
dealing
,
a
curious
workeman
,
and
may
be
free
of
the
Locke-smithes
,
for
full
of
Instruments
hee
is
,
and
Engines
:
and
makes
Manacles
for
any
mans
wearing
aboue
Twenty
One
.
His
first
ambition
commonly
is
to
ioyne
forces
,
and
make
vp
his
defects
of
policy
,
and
custome
by
partaking
in
anothers
proiects
:
then
doth
hee
readily
aspire
to
frequented
places
,
a
conuenient
shop
,
the
notice
of
his
neighbours
,
and
to
engrosse
credit
,
or
some
text
Widdow
,
by
the
nouerint
of
his
Grogren
Gowne
:
A
common
strumpet
neuer
fawned
so
much
on
yong
heire
,
as
hee
with
flattery
obserues
the
Vsurer
,
and
with
nice
dutifull
care
to
preserue
him
,
makes
his
rotten
hide
,
the
chiefe
Indentures
that
containe
his
Title
.
Obligations
be
his
best
prayers
;
for
hee
cannot
tie
God
to
performe
conditions
,
or
put
in
fuertyship
:
his
friendship
hath
a
Counter
mand
of
being
too
honest
;
which
hee
will
obey
,
rather
then
not
saue
by
the
bargaine
.
Hee
is
the
safest
man
from
danger
in
the
pedigree
of
rapines
;
for
first
,
the
gallant
liues
by
sale
and
Country
Tenants
;
the
Cittizen
by
the
Gallant
;
the
Scriuener
and
the
deuill
vpon
both
,
or
all
:
So
neither
liues
by
losse
with
the
Gallant
,
nor
vpon
trust
,
with
the
Citizen
:
his
condemnation
is
a
knot
of
Seales
and
their
Impression
:
the
first
discouer
to
him
a
conformed
vnity
;
yet
none
hath
more
hand
in
the
procuring
of
variance
.
The
last
discouers
a
tractable
nature
,
which
giues
and
takes
impression
.
Of
the
first
(
that
is
to
giue
)
he
knowes
no
meaning
but
when
he
giues
the
print
of
his
fist
,
that
it
may
sticke
by
elder
brothers
a
whole
age
:
Of
the
last
(
that
is
to
take
impression
)
hee
knowes
none
but
a
wrong
meaning
:
for
the
best
seale
that
imprints
loue
in
him
,
is
onely
the
Kings
picture
;
and
that
loue
continues
no
longer
then
he
beholds
it
.
His
quils
and
instruments
betoken
peace
:
you
cannot
therefore
expect
more
valour
in
him
,
then
to
win
ground
by
the
aduantage
of
weake
Prodigals
,
and
such
as
runne
away
from
thriftinesse
:
they
be
most
importunate
with
him
:
with
them
hee
preuailes
most
:
to
them
he
sels
his
extortious
nature
at
the
highest
value
,
because
they
be
most
willing
to
make
it
their
peny-worth
.
His
memory
is
his
owne
;
another
cannot
safely
trust
it
in
reckoning
the
day
of
payment
:
for
he
reckons
what
he
can
saue
,
by
renewing
the
hazard
of
a
second
forfeit
,
not
your
losse
by
the
first
:
and
so
he
ouer-reaches
you
,
by
ouer-reaching
the
time
,
when
you
trust
his
memory
:
which
(
like
an
old
ridden
Iade
)
lookes
not
to
the
Iourneies
end
but
to
the
baiting
place
,
though
he
goes
further
then
the
iournies
end
:
If
you
trust
him
therefore
you
may
feele
the
forfeite
,
and
pay
largely
for
an
acquittance
.
His
learning
iumps
iust
with
,
or
fals
sometimes
short
of
an
Atturnies
;
being
onely
able
to
repeate
the
afore-said
forme
to
thousand
purposes
:
So
all
his
mistery
is
indeed
nothing
to
encrease
his
Art
,
but
his
Policy
,
or
plaine
knauery
:
And
that
,
being
serued
in
,
to
the
worlds
banquet
,
represents
a
large
foxes
head
,
and
a
little
Sheepe-skinne
in
diuers
dishes
.
It
is
the
totall
of
his
Creed
,
that
nothing
should
bee
iustified
,
or
called
lawful
,
which
hath
not
hand
and
Seale
:
that
makes
him
exercise
Hand
and
Seale
,
as
the
warrant
for
deuises
of
his
head
and
Soule
.
He
neuer
rayses
the
spirit
of
a
Prodigall
by
charmes
,
but
he
together
rayses
the
spirit
of
mammon
a
Citizen
,
and
then
this
potent
coniurer
binds
them
both
fast
in
a
Quadrangle
.
Hee
will
seeme
to
know
the
Statute
and
common
Law
;
but
the
construction
failes
commonly
(
for
he
looks
to
his
owne
aduantage
)
except
the
Law
hath
practised
vpon
his
hearing
,
to
teach
the
comment
when
he
mistakes
the
Law
.
Hauing
at
length
beene
a
long
Auditor
to
the
sweete
lecture
of
Vsury
,
hee
loues
the
matter
so
well
,
that
he
becomes
proficient
,
graduate
,
and
professour
in
the
Science
:
but
after
generall
profession
hee
approaches
quickely
to
his
center
(
from
whence
hee
sprung
)
Nothing
.
CHARAC.
XIIII
.
A
Welch
Client
IS
a
good
Iourney-man
,
if
not
a
good
Foot-man
:
He
is
the
onely
friend
of
Lawyers
(
if
they
be
Welch
begotten
)
and
still
sollicites
them
for
a
iudgement
.
His
valour
is
,
that
hee
can
by
no
meanes
carry
coales
;
and
is
therefore
euer
fittest
for
an
action
of
the
case
.
When
hee
expresseth
(
as
hee
thinkes
)
his
bounty
to
out
braue
his
aduersary
before
his
Counsell
,
then
doth
hee
rather
and
indeed
expresse
a
waspish
nature
:
The
which
together
with
variety
of
purses
,
be
the
best
maintenance
,
if
not
commencement
,
of
his
action
.
His
pride
lies
wrapt
vp
in
a
clout
betweene
his
legges
,
or
in
a
pocket
in
the
Arme-hole
:
from
thence
hee
drawes
his
Angels
to
feed
his
Lawyer
,
though
himselfe
sleepe
supper-lesse
.
(
Howsoeuer
)
hee
is
content
to
bee
his
owne
Cooke
;
and
though
his
dyet
bee
slender
,
yet
his
mony
and
victuals
lie
within
a
clowtes
thickenesse
,
to
proue
him
able
:
This
might
excuse
him
from
a
beggarly
want
of
food
,
but
rather
detects
him
of
a
beggarly
thrift
.
Hee
makes
the
Tearme
his
time
of
pilgrimage
,
and
Offices
at
Law
,
the
Shrine
where
hee
offers
vp
his
deuotion
:
Which
(
after
hee
hath
ended
his
voyage
)
amounts
to
voluntary
pennance
;
for
hee
trauailes
bare
foote
.
Though
hee
bee
long
in
trauaile
and
tarries
late
,
yet
nothing
can
be
recouered
by
default
of
apparance
:
for
invndations
be
his
perpetuall
affidavit
;
and
they
alone
are
able
to
wash
away
all
costs
.
The
profit
which
hee
giues
to
English
Lawyers
,
hee
giues
generally
to
the
Lawes
profession
:
that
proceeds
from
his
language
,
which
to
the
credite
of
Innes
of
Court
,
and
Law-French
,
he
vtters
harshly
,
to
the
great
amazement
of
beholders
.
A
peece
of
Parchment
and
a
Seale
throughly
paid
for
,
satisfies
him
presently
in
steed
of
iudgement
;
but
otherwise
he
spends
his
faith
vpon
the
hope
of
costs
:
And
if
hee
dies
before
execution
,
he
scarce
hopes
to
be
saued
.
CHARACT.
XV.
A
Country
Bridegroome
IS
the
finest
fellow
in
the
Parish
;
and
hee
that
misinterprets
my
definition
,
deserues
no
Rosemary
nor
Rose-water
:
Hee
neuer
was
maister
of
a
feast
before
,
that
makes
him
hazard
much
new
complement
:
But
if
his
owne
Maister
bee
absent
,
the
Feast
is
full
of
displeasure
;
except
in
his
latter
dayes
he
grew
rebellious
;
and
then
he
must
remoue
away
to
his
wiues
Country
;
except
his
fortunes
be
peremptory
.
Although
he
points
out
his
brauery
with
ribbands
,
yet
he
hath
no
vaine-glory
;
for
he
contemnes
fine
cloathes
with
dropping
pottage
in
his
bosome
.
The
inuitation
of
guests
,
prouision
of
meate
,
getting
of
children
,
and
his
nuptiall
garments
,
haue
kept
his
braine
long
in
trauaile
;
if
they
were
not
arguments
of
his
wooing
Oratory
.
His
inuitations
are
single
,
his
prouisions
double
,
his
expected
children
seldome
more
then
treble
;
but
his
garments
at
least
quadruple
.
Hee
inuites
by
rule
within
in
distance
,
where
hee
hopes
to
preuaile
;
not
without
some
paraphrase
vpon
his
meaning
.
But
(
howsoeuer
)
hee
seemes
generous
:
for
nothing
troubles
him
,
or
takes
away
his
stomacke
more
,
then
default
of
company
:
yet
in
his
prouision
hee
had
rather
take
away
your
stomacke
then
fill
your
belly
.
As
for
his
children
if
he
begets
aboue
three
,
hee
may
beget
for
Gods
sake
to
store
the
Parish
.
And
yet
his
rayment
(
for
the
time
)
must
shew
much
variety
.
The
Taylor
likewise
must
bee
a
vexation
to
him
,
or
his
cloathes
would
neuer
sit
hansomely
:
But
(
aboue
all
)
a
bridle
in
his
mouth
would
serue
better
then
a
Pickadell
;
for
if
you
restraine
him
from
his
obiects
,
and
the
engine
of
his
necke
,
you
put
him
into
the
Pillory
.
Hee
must
sauour
of
gallantry
a
little
;
though
he
perfume
the
Table
with
Rose-cake
;
or
appropriate
Bone-lace
,
and
Couentry-blew
.
Hee
hath
Heraldry
enough
to
place
euery
man
by
his
Armes
:
But
his
quality
smels
rancke
with
running
vp
and
downe
to
giue
a
heartily
welcome
:
Blame
him
not
though
hee
proue
preposterous
:
for
his
inclination
was
perhaps
alwayes
good
,
but
his
behauiour
now
begins
:
which
is
notwithstanding
(
hee
thinkes
)
well
discharged
if
when
he
dances
,
the
heeles
of
his
shooes
play
the
Galliard
.
(
***
)
(
⸪
)
CHARACT.
XVI
.
A
Country
Bride
.
IS
the
beginning
of
the
world
:
or
an
old
booke
with
a
new
Title
:
A
quarters
wages
before
hand
,
and
the
Title
of
a
Country
Dame
bee
the
two
Adaments
of
her
affection
.
She
rises
with
a
resolution
to
be
extremely
sober
:
this
begets
silence
,
which
giues
her
a
repletion
of
aire
without
ventage
:
and
that
takes
away
her
appetite
.
Shee
seemes
therefore
commendably
sober
vnto
all
:
but
she
driues
the
Parson
out
of
patience
with
her
modesty
,
vnlesse
he
haue
interest
or
be
inuited
:
She
inclines
to
statelines
,
thogh
ignorant
of
the
meaning
:
Her
interpretor
,
taster
,
caruer
,
and
Sewer
,
be
therefore
accidentall
;
and
yet
without
these
,
she
were
an
Image
to
the
assembly
.
Rosemary
and
Ribbands
be
her
best
magnificence
.
She
will
therefore
bestow
a
Livery
,
though
she
receiues
backe
wages
:
behauiour
stickes
to
her
like
a
disease
;
necessity
brings
it
;
neither
can
she
take
pleasure
in
the
custome
:
and
therefore
importunacie
with
repetition
,
enforce
her
to
dumbe
signes
:
otherwise
you
must
not
looke
for
an
answere
.
She
is
a
courteous
creature
:
nothing
proceedes
from
her
without
a
courtesie
:
Shee
hath
no
ornament
worth
observance
,
if
her
gloues
be
not
miraculous
and
singular
.
Those
be
the
Trophy
of
some
forlorne
sutor
,
who
contents
himselfe
with
a
large
offring
,
or
this
glorious
sentence
,
that
she
should
haue
beene
his
bed-fellow
.
Her
best
commendation
is
to
be
kist
often
:
this
onely
proceeds
from
her
without
interruption
.
She
may
to
some
,
seeme
very
raw
in
cariage
,
but
this
becomes
noted
through
the
feare
of
discovering
it
.
No
question
is
to
bee
made
of
her
maiden-head
:
yet
if
she
weepes
,
a
question
may
arise
;
as
whether
she
doth
still
desire
to
keepe
it
?
but
the
answere
take
:
away
the
doubt
of
loosing
it
:
for
neither
can
she
repent
her
match
before
tryal
,
nor
the
losse
of
chastitie
,
seing
she
matcht
for
that
purpose
:
but
these
are
nothing
to
preserue
her
honesty
:
for
she
cannot
also
cunningly
proceed
;
but
like
a
quiet
creature
,
wishes
to
loose
her
Garters
quickly
,
that
shee
may
loose
her
maiden-head
likewise
.
And
now
she
is
layd
.
CHARAC.
XVII
.
My
Mistresse
IS
my
perspectiue
glasse
,
through
which
I
view
the
worlds
vanity
:
she
hath
fiue
seruants
beside
my selfe
:
and
me
(
that
I
may
stil
continue
dutifull
)
she
suffers
to
be
before
hand
with
my
wages
:
But
I
that
know
her
coyne
is
counterfeit
,
suspect
shee
is
a
witch
,
and
charmes
the
taker
,
or
it
would
not
else
be
so
currant
:
The
truth
is
,
I
first
began
to
look
vpon
her
,
because
she
said
she
loved
a
Poet
well
,
and
was
in
part
a
Poetresse
:
for
which
good
qualitie
I
might
haue
loved
her
likewise
;
but
she
was
onely
good
at
long
Hexameters
,
or
a
long
and
a
short
,
even
for
variety
sake
;
which
came
so
full
vpon
Ouids
amorous
veine
,
that
I
despised
her
meaning
.
She
had
her
education
vnder
a
great
Countesse
;
and
if
she
could
leaue
the
courtship
she
learnt
when
she
was
a
waiter
,
she
might
quickly
proue
a
reasonable
good
woman
.
Her
body
is
(
I
presume
)
of
Gods
making
;
and
yet
I
cannot
tell
,
for
many
parts
therof
she
made
herselfe
.
Her
head
is
in
effect
her
whole
body
and
attire
:
for
from
thence
,
and
the
devises
there
ingendred
,
proceeds
her
blushing
modesty
,
her
innocent
white
teeth
,
her
gawdy
gownes
,
her
powdred
haire
,
her
yellow
bands
,
her
farthingals
,
and
false
Diamonds
.
All
these
together
,
and
a
quicke
fansie
commend
her
function
:
for
Fidlers
and
Painters
be
full
of
Crotchets
.
I
haue
heard
her
also
wish
for
new
hands
:
but
those
she
hath
,
will
serue
conveniently
among
them
that
know
her
properties
:
you
need
not
make
the
question
whether
she
can
sing
;
for
visitation
will
teach
you
,
that
she
can
scarce
leaue
singing
.
And
as
for
dauncing
,
she
will
aske
the
question
of
you
.
She
hath
the
tricke
of
courtship
,
not
to
bee
spoken
with
;
to
take
Physicke
,
and
to
let
her
mountebancke
bee
the
best
ingredient
.
Her
wit
is
Dainty
,
because
seldome
:
and
whatsoever
is
wanting
in
the
present
delicacie
of
conceit
,
shee
makes
good
by
rehearsall
of
stolne
wittie
answeres
,
even
to
the
seventh
addition
.
She
purposes
to
travell
shortly
,
when
as
her
voyage
will
onely
returne
with
some
French
commoditie
;
and
shee
will
rather
fetch
it
,
though
shee
may
be
furnished
at
home
,
because
shee
loues
the
cheapest
ware
,
and
the
outlandish
fashion
.
Her
generositie
extends
thus
farre
;
to
bestow
loue
,
and
looke
for
neither
thankes
nor
requital
;
because
a
Marmoset
and
little
Dogge
bee
ignorant
of
both
.
These
excepted
,
she
never
loved
truely
.
Her
morall
vertues
be
a
subtill
thrift
,
and
a
thriving
simplicitie
.
But
whilst
she
makes
the
best
construction
of
a
matter
,
she
would
make
likewise
a
thousand
pound
Ioyncture
of
her
behaviour
onely
,
and
Court-carriage
.
This
bargaine
is
open
for
any
man
,
who
thinks
not
the
peny-worth
doubtfull
.
Her
best
Religion
is
to
teach
a
Parret
the
Lords
prayer
;
but
the
ten
Commandements
be
a
new
matter
:
so
that
Petitions
be
more
plausible
with
her
,
then
Iniunctions
:
at
her
owne
request
therefore
I
giue
this
to
her
looking-glasse
.
CHARAC.
XVIII
.
A
Gossip
IS
a
windie
Instrument
;
a
paire
of
hellowes
,
or
indeed
two
:
For
without
her
fellow
,
she
is
nothing
.
These
labour
ioyntly
as
at
an
Alchymists
furnace
,
onely
to
beget
vapours
:
she
receiues
and
sends
backe
breath
with
advantage
;
that
is
her
function
.
Her
end
is
to
kindle
;
that
is
,
to
warm
,
or
burne
:
she
can
do
both
.
And
being
quiet
,
or
not
in
contention
,
shee
is
without
her
calling
;
that
is
,
her
company
.
Her
knowledge
is
her
speech
;
the
motiue
,
her
tongue
;
and
the
reason
her
tongue
also
:
but
the
subiect
of
her
eloquence
is
the
neighbours
wife
,
and
her
husband
;
or
the
neighbours
wife
and
husband
both
.
Shee
is
the
mirth
of
marriages
,
and
publicke
meetings
:
but
her
naturall
season
comes
in
with
a
minc'd
pye
,
at
Christmas
;
when
all
may
attend
with
leasure
.
Shee
carries
her
bladder
in
her
braine
,
that
is
full
;
her
braine
in
her
tongues
end
,
that
shee
empties
.
It
was
washed
down
thither
with
pints
of
Muscadine
;
and
being
there
,
shee
looses
it
like
vrine
,
(
but
in
publicke
)
to
ease
her
kidneyes
:
which
would
otherwise
melt
with
anger
,
because
she
cannot
be
heard
;
or
consume
with
malice
,
because
she
was
prevented
.
Being
once
a
servant
,
shee
then
learnt
to
runne
,
or
goe
apace
;
that
she
might
tarry
and
take
,
or
giue
intelligence
by
the
way
.
Shee
aemulates
a
Lawyer
in
riding
the
circuite
,
and
therefore
she
keepes
a
circuit
in
,
or
out
of
her
own
liberties
:
striuing
to
be
both
one
of
the
Iudges
,
Iury
and
false
witnesses
:
that
is
her
freedome
onely
,
to
censure
.
Shee
contemplates
within
,
that
she
may
practise
abroad
;
that
makes
her
reveale
secrets
.
Her
meaning
is
colour
,
that
shee
dawbes
on
every
Fable
;
but
in
her selfe
abhorres
it
.
Her
truth
is
,
to
make
truths
and
tales
convertibles
:
tales
be
her
substance
,
her
conceit
,
her
vengeance
,
reconcilements
,
and
discourse
.
To
talke
of
Cookerie
,
or
cleanlinesse
,
and
to
taxe
others
,
is
her
best
and
onely
commendation
.
To
talke
of
what
she
is
ignorant
,
yeelds
her
credit
and
presumption
;
to
taxe
,
giues
a
tribute
to
her
owne
praise
by
implication
;
and
begets
her
Empire
.
Her
lungs
be
everlasting
:
she
cannot
bee
short
winded
:
if
those
would
perish
,
she
might
bee
recovered
.
Shee
is
alike
dangerous
with
the
Poxe
,
to
the
town
where
she
inhabites
:
and
being
pledged
,
or
admitted
among
the
fem●les
,
she
infects
more
easily
.
If
she
railes
against
whoredome
,
it
favours
not
of
devotion
;
for
she
is
onely
married
,
to
escape
the
like
scandall
;
from
the
doore
outward
.
The
buriall
of
a
second
husband
giues
her
the
title
of
experience
;
but
when
shee
hath
out-lived
three
,
she
takes
authoritie
and
experience
both
(
as
a
Souldier
that
hath
passed
the
pikes
of
three
set
battailes
)
for
granted
.
Her
commendable
antiquitie
reaches
not
aboue
fiftie
;
for
growing
old
,
she
growes
odious
to
her selfe
first
:
And
to
prevent
the
losse
of
company
;
(
having
lived
vainly
)
she
commences
hostesse
:
that
alone
preserues
her
humour
.
A
mungrill
print
would
best
expresse
her
Character
:
for
she
is
indeed
a
mungrell
woman
,
or
the
worst
part
of
both
sexes
,
bound
vp
in
one
volume
:
seing
she
corrupts
the
best
by
the
vse
of
them
.
CHARAC.
XIX
.
An
old
Woman
IS
one
that
hath
seene
the
day
:
and
is
commonly
ten
yeares
yonger
,
or
ten
years
elder
by
her
own
confession
,
then
the
people
know
she
is
:
if
she
desires
to
be
youthfull
accounted
,
you
may
call
her
Mistres
,
Widow
,
or
the
like
;
but
otherwise
old
Mother
,
grandame
,
and
such
names
that
do
seale
antiquitie
:
the
first
she
takes
well
,
if
childlesse
:
the
last
never
well
,
but
when
shee
can
speake
wonders
to
grand-children
of
the
third
generation
.
If
they
please
her
,
she
hath
old
Harry
soueraignes
,
that
saw
no
sun
in
fiftie
yeares
,
to
giue
away
on
her
death-bed
.
She
loues
the
vpper
end
of
the
table
,
and
professes
much
skill
in
Cookery
:
she
thinks
it
also
some
felicitie
to
giue
attendance
about
sicke
persons
:
but
is
the
common
foe
to
all
Physitians
.
In
agues
,
aches
,
coughes
and
tissickes
,
she
confidently
will
vndertake
to
cure
by
prescription
:
if
her selfe
be
vntainted
.
As
for
diseases
which
she
knowes
not
,
shee
dares
proceed
to
Dragon-water
,
Holy
Thistles
,
Worme-wood-drinkes
,
and
Clister
s
,
without
the
helpe
of
Galen
,
or
Hippocrates
:
if
she
blushes
at
the
Sunnes
rising
,
her
colour
changes
not
till
bed-time
:
and
somtimes
though
she
drinkes
downe
her
break-fast
,
by
dinner
time
her
teeth
be
grown
,
&
she
wil
seeme
to
chew
the
cud
.
She
may
as
safely
walke
amongst
contagious
Lepers
,
as
into
the
kitchin
,
and
smels
infection
,
or
perfume
with
the
same
nostrill
.
She
hath
perpetually
the
pride
of
being
too
cleanly
,
or
the
adherent
vice
of
being
too
sluttish
.
She
affects
behaviour
in
the
brood
of
youth
,
and
will
divulge
her
secrets
of
superstition
to
any
that
will
be
attentiue
.
Envy
is
to
her
a
iust
parable
twinne
,
and
though
it
be
offensiue
commonly
to
few
,
yet
doth
it
oftentimes
consume
her selfe
,
and
starue
away
her
memory
.
CHARAC.
XX.
A
Witch
IS
the
Diuels
Hostesse
:
he
takes
house-roome
and
dyet
of
her
;
and
yet
she
paies
the
reckoning
:
guilty
thoughts
,
and
a
particular
malice
of
some
one
person
,
makes
her
conceiue
detestation
of
all
:
her
policy
of
sequestration
,
to
avoid
iealousie
of
neighbours
,
detects
her
envious
spirit
:
for
the
melancholy
darknesse
of
her
low
cottage
is
a
maine
coniecture
of
infernals
:
her
name
alone
(
being
once
mounted
)
makes
discourse
enough
for
the
whole
parish
:
if
not
for
all
hamlets
within
sixe
miles
of
the
market
.
She
receiues
wages
in
her
owne
coine
:
for
she
becomes
as
well
the
obiect
of
every
mans
malice
,
as
the
fountaine
of
malice
towards
every
man
.
The
torments
therefore
of
hot
Iron
,
and
mercilesse
scratching
nails
,
be
long
thought
vpon
,
and
much
threatned
(
by
the
females
)
before
attempted
.
Meane
time
shee
tolerates
defiance
through
the
wrathfull
spittle
of
matrons
,
in
stead
of
fuell
,
or
maintenance
to
her
damnable
intentions
:
she
is
therefore
the
ignorant
cause
of
many
Witches
besides
her selfe
:
for
ceremonious
avoidance
brings
the
true
title
to
many
,
although
they
hartily
scorne
the
name
of
Witches
.
Her
actions
may
wel
seeme
to
betray
her
high
birth
and
pedigree
:
for
she
doth
quickly
apprehend
a
wrong
before
it
be
mentioned
:
and
(
like
a
great
family
)
takes
no
satisfaction
which
doth
not
infinitely
countervaile
the
abuse
:
children
therefore
cannot
smile
vpon
her
without
the
hazard
of
a
perpetuall
wry-mouth
:
a
very
Noble-mans
request
may
be
denied
more
safely
then
her
petitions
for
small
Beere
:
and
a
great
Ladies
,
or
Queenes
name
may
be
lesse
doubtfully
derided
.
Her
prayers
and
Amen
,
be
a
charme
&
a
curse
:
her
contemplations
and
soules-delight
be
other
mens
mischiefe
:
her
portion
and
suters
be
her
soule
,
and
a
succubus
:
her
highest
adorations
be
Yew-trees
,
dampish
Church-yards
,
&
a
faire
Moone-light
:
her
best
preservatiues
be
odde
numbers
,
and
mightie
Tetragrammaton
:
these
provocatiues
to
her
lust
with
Divels
,
breedes
her
contempt
of
Man
;
whilst
she
(
like
one
sprung
from
the
Antipodes
)
enioyes
her
best
noone
about
midnight
:
and
(
to
make
the
comparison
hold
)
is
troden
vnder
foot
by
a
publicke
&
general
hatred
:
she
is
nothing
,
if
not
a
Pythagorean
;
for
she
maintaines
the
transmigration
of
spirits
:
these
doe
vphold
the
market
of
bargain
&
sale
among
them
;
which
affoords
all
sorts
of
cattell
at
a
cheaper
rate
then
Bankes
his
horse
,
and
better
instructed
:
but
(
like
a
prodigall
)
she
is
out-reached
,
by
thinking
earnest
is
a
payment
;
because
the
day
is
protracted
.
Her
affections
be
besotted
in
affectation
of
her
science
;
Shee
would
not
else
delight
in
Toades
,
Mice
,
or
spinning
Cats
without
diuersity
:
It
is
probable
she
was
begotten
by
some
Mounte-bank
,
or
Wording
Poet
,
for
she
consists
of
as
many
fearefull
sounds
without
s●ience
,
and
vtters
them
to
as
many
delusiue
purposes
:
Shee
is
a
cunning
Statuary
:
and
frames
many
idols
:
these
she
doth
worship
no
otherwise
then
with
greedy
scorne
:
and
yet
she
is
a
deepe
Idolater
:
implication
is
enough
with
her
,
to
bespeake
any
mans
picture
,
without
his
entreaty
:
for
if
it
appeares
that
he
can
prouoke
her
,
it
implyes
likewise
that
he
desires
to
be
remembred
by
her
;
and
images
be
a
certaine
memoriall
.
Shee
seldome
liues
long
enough
to
attaine
the
Mysterie
of
Oyntments
,
herbs
,
charmes
,
or
Incantations
perfectly
:
for
age
is
most
incident
to
this
corruption
,
and
destiny
preuents
her
.
But
howsoeuer
she
be
past
child-bearing
,
yet
she
giues
sucke
till
the
latest
minute
of
fiue-score
and
vpwards
.
If
she
out-liues
hempe
,
a
wooden
halter
is
strong
enough
:
vnlesse
she
saues
a
labour
.
CHARACT.
XXI
.
A
Pandar
IS
the
scab
of
a
Common-wealth
:
surfets
raise
him
to
a
blister
;
necessity
,
and
want
of
good
Surgeons
,
make
him
a
mattery
sore
;
whilst
Time
and
Tobacco
brings
him
to
a
dry
scale
.
He
is
commonly
the
vpshot
of
a
yonger
brother
,
who
lackes
Honestie
and
Inheritance
;
or
the
remainder
of
a
prodigall
,
who
hath
lost
them
and
himselfe
.
His
Etymologie
is
Pawne-dare
:
which
intimates
;
hee
dares
pawne
his
soule
to
damnation
,
or
his
stolne
parcels
to
the
Brokers
.
Bawdy
songs
and
he
came
both
in
together
;
for
he
is
no
generous
companion
except
he
can
sing
,
and
also
compose
stinking
Ditties
.
He
hath
bene
a
great
hunter
vp
and
downe
in
his
daies
,
and
therefore
(
it
is
no
wonder
)
if
towards
a
decay
he
become
Warrener
.
He
is
the
deuils
Country-man
or
indeed
acquaintance
:
therefore
in
the
deuils
absence
hee
proues
his
Deputy
;
and
welcomes
customers
with
fire-workes
:
a
pipe
of
Tobacco
,
and
a
hot
Queane
.
His
Vsher-like
attendance
on
Publike
whores
hath
made
Coaches
frequent
;
to
distinguish
them
and
Priuate
Ones
.
His
valour
is
expressed
in
blacke
patches
(
much
about
Roaring
Boyes
humour
)
but
playsters
,
which
expresse
him
more
ventrous
,
hee
conceales
.
He
wishes
to
be
the
first
teacher
of
a
Nouice
:
and
(
being
so
admitted
his
Tutor
)
hee
first
teaches
him
to
beware
of
adultery
and
theft
,
by
making
him
guilty
before
he
hath
offended
:
with
which
two
vices
hee
doth
first
accuse
him
,
because
himselfe
is
best
acquainted
with
those
two
.
If
he
be
married
,
hee
hath
diuorced
himselfe
,
because
his
wife
was
honest
,
&
so
meanes
to
continue
:
or
(
beeing
dishonest
)
because
shee
was
odiously
deformed
,
not
worthy
to
entice
others
.
His
Creed
is
a
matter
of
three
Articles
,
and
them
he
beleeues
actually
:
First
,
that
there
is
no
God
:
secondly
,
that
all
women
,
and
more
especially
that
all
Citizens
wiues
,
bee
,
or
would
bee
,
common
,
or
peculiar
whores
:
&
lastly
,
that
all
things
are
lawfull
,
which
can
escape
the
Lawes
danger
:
good
examples
therefore
preuaile
with
him
,
as
showers
among
the
stones
:
they
make
him
more
studious
to
deceiue
passengers
:
not
to
produce
imitation
in
him
,
nor
to
beget
fertility
in
them
.
His
Fellowships
be
retired
,
and
within
dores
:
for
being
abroad
,
he
is
a
sober
lumpe
of
villany
;
delighting
vnsociably
(
like
a
Cut-purse
,
and
for
the
same
reason
)
rather
in
multitudes
then
ciuill
numbers
.
The
Bawd
and
Hee
,
are
chiefe
confederates
:
with
whom
(
together
,
as
occasion
happens
)
the
Constable
hath
standing
wages
to
be
an
assistant
;
euery
way
as
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Hee
being
ready
to
disturbe
or
not
disturbe
their
customers
,
as
they
shall
instruct
him
.
dangerous
as
the
other
two
.
Bowling-allies
,
Dicing-houses
,
and
Tobacco
shopes
,
be
the
Temples
,
which
Hee
,
and
his
Fraternity
of
Rorers
,
haue
erected
to
Mercury
and
Fortune
:
In
the
two
first
he
doth
acknowledge
their
Deity
;
in
the
last
hee
offers
smoking
incense
to
them
both
;
in
recompence
of
booty
gotten
by
Chance
and
cheating
.
If
the
Gallowes
be
disappointed
of
his
destiny
,
they
can
blame
nothing
but
his
tender
bones
,
which
could
not
brooke
so
long
a
iourney
;
or
a
whores
quarrell
,
whilst
Wine
was
his
Leader
.
FINIS
.