A Dissembler S an essence needing a double definition, for he is not that he appeares. Unto the eye he is pleasing, unto the eare not harsh, but unto the understanding intricate, and full of windings: he is the prima materia, and his intents give him forme: he dyeth his meanes and his meaning into two colors, he baits craft with humility, and his countenance is the picture of the present disposition. He wins not by battery, but undermining, and his racke is smoothing. He allures, is not allur❜d by his affections, for they are the brokers of his observation. He knowes passion only by sufferance, and resisteth by obeying. He makes his time an accomptant to his memory, and of the humours of men weaves a net for occasion: the inquisitor must looke thorow his judgement, for to the eye only he is not visible. 康 A Courtier O all mens thinking is a man, and to most men the finest all things else are defined by the understanding, but this by the senses; but his surest marke is, that he is to be found only about princes. He smels; and putteth away much of his judgement about the situation of his clothes. Hee knowes no man that is not generally knowne. His wit, like the marigold, openeth with the sun, and therfore he riseth not before ten of the clock. He puts more confidence in his words than meaning, and more in his pronunciation than his words. Occasion is his Cupid, and he hath but one receit of making love. He followes nothing but inconstancie, admires nothing but beauty, honors nothing but fortune. Loves nothing. The sustenance of his discourse is newes, and his censure like a shot depends upon the charging. He is not, if he be out of court, but fish-like breaths destruction, if out of his owne element. Neither his motion, or aspect are regular, but he mooves by the upper spheares, and is the reflection of higher substances. If you find him not here, you shall in Pauls, with a picke tooth in his hat, a capecloak, and a long stocking. A Golden Asse S a young thing, whose father went to the divell; he is followed like a salt bitch, and limb'd by him that gets up first; his disposition is cut, and knaves rent him like tenter-hooks; hee is as blind as his mother, and swallowers flatterers for friends. He is high in his owne imagination, but that imagination is as a stone, that is raised by violence, descends naturally. When hee goes, hee looks who looks: if hee finds not good store of vailers, he comes home stiffe and seer, untill he be new oyled and watered by his husbandmen. Wheresoever he eates he hath an officer, to warne men not to talke out of his element, and his own is exceeding sensible, because it is sensuall; but he cannot exchange a peece of reason, though he can a peece of gold. Hee is naught pluckt, for his feathers are his beauty, and more then his beauty; they are his discretion, his countenance, his all. He is now at an end, for he hath had the wolf of vaine-glory, which he fed, untill himselfe became the food. A Flatterer S the shadow of a foole. He is a good wood-man, for he singleth out none but the wealthy. His carriage is ever of the colour of his patient; and for his sake hee will halt or weare a wrie necke. Hee dispraiseth nothing but poverty, and small drink, and praiseth his grace of making water. He selleth himselfe, with reckoning his great friends, and teacheth the present, how to win his praises by reciting the other gifts: he is ready for all imployments, but especially before dinner, for his courage and his stomack goe together. Hee will play any upon his countenance, and where he cannot be admitted for a counseller, he will serve as a foole. He frequents the court of wards and ordinaries, and fits these guests of toga virilis, with wives or whores. He entreth young men into acquaintance and debt-books. In a word, hee is the impression of the last term, and will bee so, untill the comming of a new term or termer. An ignorant Glory-hunter S an insectum animal; for he is the maggot of opinion, his behaviour is another thing from himselfe, and is glewed, and but set on. He entertaines men with repetitions, and returnes them their own words. He is ignorant of nothing, no not of those things, where ignorance is the lesser shame. Hee gets the names of good wits, and utters them for his companions. He confesseth vices that he is guiltlesse of, if they be in fashion; and dares not salute a man in old clothes, or out of fashion. There is not a publike assembly without him, and he will take any paines for an acquaintance there. In any shew he will be one, though he be but a whiffler, or a torch-bearer; and D beares downe strangers with the story of his actions. He handles nothing that is not rare, and defends his wardrobe, diet, and all customes, with entituling their beginnings from princes, great souldiers, and strange nations. He dares speake more then he understands, and adventures his words without the releefe of any seconds. He relates battels, and skirmishes, as from an eye-witnesse, when his eyes theevishly beguiled a ballad of them. In a word, to make sure of admiration, he will not let himselfe understand himselfe, but hopes fame and opinion will be the readers of his riddles. A Timist S a noune adjective of the present tense. feare, and his religion is not his but the princes. He reverenceth a courtiers servants servant. Is first his own slave, and then whosoever looketh big; when he gives hee curseth, and when hee sels he worships. He reads the statutes in his chamber, and weares the Bible in the streetes: he never praiseth any but before themselves or friends: and mislikes no great man's actions during his life. His new-yeares gifts are ready at Alhalomas, and the sute hee meant to meditate before them. He |