The character of a trimmer, This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B01988 of text R13601 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C1995A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B01988 11708016 Wing C1995A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 839.m.22[21] ESTC R13601 99882792 ocm99882792 181747 2248523641

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01988) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181747) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:2[21]) The character of a trimmer, 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil, London: : 1683. Verse: "Hang out your cloth, and let the trumpet sound ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Political poetry, English -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The character of a trimmer, anon 1683 1 305 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Character of a Trimmer , HAng out your Cloth , and let the Trumpet sound , Here 's such a Beast as Africk never own'd . A twisted Brute , the Satyr in the Story , That blows up the Whig-Heat and cools the Tory. A State Hermaphrodite , whose doubtful Lust Salutes all Parties with an equal Gust . Like Iseland-Shocks , he seems two Natures joyn'd , Savage before , and all Betrimm'd behind : And the well tutor'd Currs like him will strain ; Come over for the KING , and back again . 'T is such a Sphinx , the Devil can't unriddle , A Human Schism upward from the middle , And split again below , which gives us light To the sole Point that can all Sects unite . Thus did the fam'd Dutch-double-Monster Trimm , And that cleft Soul 's Pythagoriz'd in him . Noah ( whom for the sake of Wine we love ) Sav'd Natures breed by Mandate from above , But all the learned Sages doe agree He kept his Ark from Mules and Leopards free , All such mix'd Animals he scorn'd to float , And would not save one Trimmer in his Boat . Beasts feed on Beasts , and Fishes Fish devour , And o're weak Birds the Winged Tyrants tour ; But this same Land-Fish with his Feather'd-Finns Commits both Air , and Earth , and Water-Sins , Complies with those that Fly and Walk and Dive , But fastens only upon those that Thrive . In short , his only Art is to inveagle , Flatter the Popular-Power as well as Regal , Like a State Janus , or a Church Spread-Eagle .

London : Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh at the Black Bull in Cornhil , 1683.