more sinews then one that makes bowstrings, and kild more idly then tobacco. A magistrate that had any way so noble a spirit, as but to love a good horse well, would not suffer him to be a farrier: his discourse is vomit, and his ignorance, the strongest purgation in the world: to one that would be speedily cured, he hath more delayes and doubles, then a hare, or a law-suit: he seekes to set us at variance with nature, and rather then he shall want diseases, hee'l beget them. His especiall practice (as I said afore) is upon women; labours to make their minds sick, ere their bodies feele it, and then there's work for the dog-leach. He pretends the cure of madmen; and sure he gets most by them, for no man in his perfect wit would meddle with him. Lastly, he is such a juggler with urinals, so dangerously unskilfull, that if ever the city will have recourse to him for diseases that need purgation, let them employ him in scouring Moore-ditch.

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A canting Rogue.

IS not unlikely but he was begot by some intelligencer under a hedge; for his mind is wholly given to travell. Hee

is not troubled with making of joyntures: he can divorce himselfe without the fee of a proctor, nor

feares hee the cruelty of over-seers of his will. Hee leaves his children all the world to cant in, and all the people to their fathers. His language is a constant tongue; the Northerne speech differs from the South, Welsh from the Cornish: but canting is generall, nor ever could be altered by conquest of the Saxon, Dane, or Norman. He will not beg out of his limit though hee starve; nor breake his oath if hee sweare by his Salomon, though you hang him : and hee payes his custome as truly to his grand rogue, as tribute is paid to the great Turke. The March sunne breeds agues in others, but hee adores it like the Indians; for then begins his progresse after a hard winter. Ostlers cannot indure him, for hee is of the infantry, and serves best on foot. He offends not the statute against the excesse of apparell, for hee will goe naked, and counts it a voluntary pennance. Forty of them lye in a barne together, yet are never sued upon the statute of inmates. If hee were learned, no man could make a better description of England; for hee hath travel'd it over and over. Lastly, he brags, that his great houses are repaired to his hands, when churches goe to ruine and those are prisons.

A French Cooke.

E learnt his trade in a towne of garrison neere famish't, where hee practised to make a little goe farre; some drive it from more antiquity, and say, Adam (when he pickt sallets) was of his occupation. He doth not feed the belly, but the palate; and though his command lie in the kitchin (which is but an inferiour place) yet shall you find him a very sawcy companion. Ever since the wars in Naples, he hath so minc't the ancient and bountifull allowance, as if his nation should keepe a perpetuall dyet. The servingmen call him the last relique of popery, that makes men fast against their conscience. He can be truly said to be no mans fellow but his masters: for the rest

of his servants are starved by him. cause why noblemen build their

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He is the prime houses so great:

for the smalnesse of their kitchin, makes the house the bigger and the lord calls him his alchymist that can extract gold out of hearbs, roots, mushroomes, or any thing: that which he dresses, we may rather call a drinking, then a meale; yet he is so full of variety, that he brags, and truly, that hee gives you but a taste of what he can doe: he dare not for his life come among the butchers; for sure they would quarter and bake him after the English fashion;

hee's such an enemy to beefe and mutton. To conclude, hee were only fit to make a funerall feast, where men should eat their victuals in mourning.

A Sexton

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S an ill-willer to humane nature. proverbs, hee cannot endure to heare that which sayes, We ought to live by the quick, not by the dead. He could willingly all his life time be confinde to the church-yard; at least within five foot on't: for at every church stile, commonly ther's an ale-house: where let him be found never so idle pated, hee is still a grave drunkard. He breaks his fast heartilest while hee is making a grave, and sayes, the opening of the ground makes him hungry. Though one would take him to bee a sloven, yet hee loves cleane linnen extremely, and for that reason takes an order that fine holland sheetes be not made wormes meat. Like a nation called the Cusani, hee weepes when any are borne, and laughes when they die: the reason; he gets by burials, not christnings: he will hold argument in a taverne over sack, till the diall and himselfe be both at a stand: he never observes any time but sermon time, and there hee sleepes by the houre-glasse. The rope-maker payes him a pension,

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and hee payes tribute to the physitian; for the physitian makes worke for the sexton, as the ropemaker for the hangman. Lastly, hee wishes the dog-dayes would last all yeere long and a great plague is his yeere of jubilee.

A Iesuite

S a larger spoone for a traytour to feed with the devill, then any other order:

unclaspe him, and hee's a gray wolfe, with a golden starre in the forehead: so superstitiously he followes the pope, that he forsakes Christ, in not giving Caesar his due. His vowes seeme heavenly; but in meddling with state-businesse, he seemes to mix heaven and earth together. His best elements, are confession and penance: by the first, he finds out mens inclinations; and by the latter, heapes wealth to his seminary. He sprang from Ignatius Loyola, a Spanish souldier; and though he were found out long since the invention of the canon, 'tis thought hee hath not done lesse mischiefe. He is a false key to open princes cabinets, and pry into their counsels; and where the popes excommunication thunders, he holds it no more sinne the decrowning of kings, than our Puritanes doe the suppression of bishops. His order is