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clothes, are parcels loosely tackt together, and for want of good utterance, she perpetually laughs out her meaning. Her mistris and she helpe to make away time, to the idlest purpose that can be, either for love or mony. In briefe, these chambermaids are like lotteries: you may draw twenty, ere one worth any thing.

A Precisian.

O speake no otherwise of this varnisht rottennesse, then in truth and verity hee is, I must define him to be a demure creature, full of orall sanctity, and mentall impiety; a faire object to the eye, but starke naught for the understanding or else a violent thing, much given to contradiction. He will be sure to be in opposition with the Papist, though it be sometimes accompanied with an absurditie; like the ilanders neere adjoyning unto China, who salute by puting of their shooes, because the men of China doe it by their hats. If at any time he fast, it is upon Sunday, and he is sure to feast upon Friday. Hee can better affoord you ten lies, then one oath; and dare commit any sin gilded with a pretence of sanctity. He will not sticke to commit fornication or adultery, so it be done in the feare of God, and for the propagation of the godly; and can find in his heart to

lye with any whore, save the whore of Babylon. To steale he holds it lawfull, so it bee from the wicked and Egyptians. He had rather see Antichrist, then a picture in the church window : and chuseth sooner to be false hanged, then see a leg at the name of JESUS, or one stand at the creede. He conceives his prayer in the kitchin, rather then in the church; and is of so good discourse, that he dares challenge the Almighty to talke with him ex tempore. He thinkes every organist is in the state of damnation, and had rather heare one of Robert Wisdomes Psalms, then the best hymne a cherubin can sing. He will not breake wind without an apology, or asking forgivenesse, nor kisse a gentle-woman for feare of lusting after her. He hath nicknamed all the prophets and apostles with his sonnes, and begets nothing but vertues for daughters. Finally, he is so sure of his salvation, that hee will not change places in heaven with the Virgin Mary, without boote.

An Innes of Court man.

EE is distinguished from a scholler by a paire of silke stockings, and a beaver

hat, which makes him contemn a scholler

as much as a scholler doth a schoolemaster. By that he hath heard one mooting, and seene two playes, he thinkes as basely of the University, as a

young sophister doth of the grammar-schoole. He talkes of the University, with that state, as if he were her chancellour; finds fault with alterations, and the fall of discipline, with an, It was not so when I was a student; although that was within this halfe yeare. He will talke ends of Latine, though it be false, with as great confidence, as ever Cicero could pronounce an oration, though his best authors for't be tavernes and ordinaries. He is as farre behinde a courtier in his fashion, as a scholer is behind him and the best grace in his behaviour, is to forget his acquaintance.

He laughes at every man whose band sits not well, or that hath not a faire shoo-tie, and he is ashamed to be seene in any mans company that weares not his clothes well. His very essence he placeth in his outside, and his chiefest praier is, that his revenues may hold out for taffata cloakes in the summer, and velvet in the winter. For his recreation, he had rather goe to a citizens wife, then a bawdy house, onely to save charges: and he holds fee-taile to be absolutely the best tenure. To his acquaintance he offers two quarts of wine, for one he gives. You shall never see him melancholy, but when he wants a new suit, or feares a sergeant: at which times onely, he betakes himselfe to Ploydon. By that he hath read Littleton, he can call Solon, Lycurgus, and Justinian, fooles, and dares compare his law to a Lord Chiefe-Justices.

A meere fellow of an house.

E is one whose hopes commonly exceed his fortunes, and whose mind soares

above his purse. If he hath read Tacitus, Guicchardine, or Gallo-Belgicus, hee contemnes the late Lord Treasurer, for all the state-policy he had ; and laughs to think what a foole he could make of Solomon, if hee were now alive. He never weares new clothes, but against a commencement or a good time, and is commonly a degree behind the fashion. He hath sworne to see London once a yeare, though all his businesse be to see a play, walke a turne in Pauls, and observe the fashion. He thinkes it a discredit to be out of debt, which he never likely cleares, without resignation mony. He will not leave his part he hath in the privilege over yong gentlemen, in going bare to him, for the empire of Germany: he prayes as heartily for a sealing, as a cormorant doth for a deare yeare: yet commonly he spends that revenue before he receives it.

At meales, he sits in as great state over his pennycommons, as ever Vitellius did at his greatest banquet and takes great delight in comparing his fare to my Lord Mayors.

If he be a leader of a faction, he thinks himselfe greater than ever Cæsar was, or the Turke at this day is. And he had rather lose an inheritance then an office, when he stands for it.

If he be to travell, he is longer furnishing himselfe for a five miles journey, then a ship is rigging for a seven yeares voyage. He is never more troubled, then when hee is to maintaine talke with a gentle-woman: wherein hee commits more absurdities, than a clown in eating of an egge.

He thinkes himselfe as fine when he is in a cleane band, and a new paire of shooes, as any courtier doth, when he is first in a new-fashion.

Lastly, he is one that respects no man in the University, and is respected by no man out of it.

A worthy Commander in the Warres

S one, that accounts learning the nourishment of military vertue, and laies that as his first foundation. He never bloudies his sword but in heat of battel; and had rather save one of his own souldiers, then kill ten of his enemies. He accounts it an idle, vaineglorious, and suspected bounty, to be full of good words; his rewarding therefore of the deserver arrives so timely, that his liberality can never be

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