Lex Talionis. Neque est lex justior ulla Quam necis Artificis arte perire sua.  
Poor ROBIN turned ROBIN the DEVIL: Being his Exact CHARACTER.  Written by one that had his Friend, formerly twice most egregiously abused by him, to his great Disparagement, and greater Prejudice: 
Now Published upon his Second Attempt to appear again in Print, after he had been once suppressed by Authority, for his intolerable Abuses, especially, to one of eminent Quality. And may be very satisfactory to all those that have been formerly abused: and for diversion of others that detest his wicked Practices.  The words of a Tale-bearer are as wounds that go down into the innermost parts of the Belly, Prov. 18. 8. 
HE is a Meddler of those things that doth not concern him, an Harkner after other men's faults, a Forgetter of his own; One that endeavours to make a Laughingstock of the ill Accidents or Misfortunes of others by Proclaiming, Printing and Publishing them to the world; he is a Discoverer of his ill Nature, one that delights in nothing more than in Mischief, an Eves droper, an Incourager of Tale-bearers, and a prodigious teller of Lies; and, rather than his story shall want something to make his Reader laugh, to a Molehill of Truth, he will add a Mountain of lies: He's the Scab of a Commonwealth, that many men's fingers itch to pull off and throw in the dirt; he is an Abuser of men in Authority, especially Constables and their watchmen, upon all occasions rendering them ridiculous upon the least apprehension of a mistake; a Scoffer at the Authority he lives under; a Need-not in a Commonwealth, an unnecessary & troublesome member of the place he lives in, a mere Make bate, an Accuser of the Brethren, an Advancer of Untruths of the Town, a Paddler in the Excrements of men's Imperfections, a Wonder of men's Credits, a Robber of persons Reputations; an Agent for the Devil, the Foreman of his Shop, one that thinks the Devil's work is never well done unless he hath the finishing of it; one that would seem to outdo him in his own way, who was a Liar from the Beginning; a mere Rake-shame, one that's never more studious than when he endeavours to set people together by the ears, and is never better pleased than when he hath wickedly disgraced a man most: one that hath more ears than Nature gave him, he is the Cujus Contrarium to all manner of good, one that Nolens Volens will have an Oar in another man's Boat; one that will be down right sick if there be no ill News stirring in the Town, and tho' he be never so bad, yet the first sad Disaster, makes him perk up his ears and mend apace, and if the tidings of some sad misfortune chance to beat upon the Drum of his Ear, he is presently restored to his former health, and then with the Devils Ho, Ho, Ho, laughs so loud and so hearty, that then you may easily guests he is pleased to the very guts. He is the Devils terrestrial Register, an Engrosser of men's Misdeeds, the Herald of Misfortune, Ill Fame, and Shames Chief, the Sour of Sedition, an Hinderer of Peacemaking, a false Commentator upon men's Actions, an uncharitable Constructor of things and Accidents, a Perverter of things good in themselves, into those that are bad; a Tongue-pad, a Town-fop a Common Buffoon, a Jack-pudding in print, a Fellow made up of Canting and Bombast, a coiner of new words to do the Devils old Work; a Nick-namer of Places, a Miscaller of Men, a Mis-interpreter of their Actions, an Imposer of Falsities on men's Belief. One that is any thing but what he should be; so far from a Christian that he's not a good Moral man; He is the Antipodes to Love, for that covers a multitude of faults, but he discovers more than all, and makes Proclamation of it when he has done▪ a bold and saucy Rascal, a scribbling and impertinent Fellow: a shame to his Company wherever he is, being an Upholder of such like himself who march both City and Suburbs to hearken after and bring him the Intelligence of ill News, to supply his great Necessity: an Abuser of his Betters, worse natured than himself none can be; he is the Opposite to good manners and good Behaviour; an Exalter of Sauciness, a fit Usher, for disorder; the Offspring of a Rebellion-promoter, an evil speaker of dignified Persons, as well as the Communality; Death's Cousin-german, spares none; a Destroyer of White Paper, an Increaser of Bum-fodder, and the Licensers' Income; one that deserves public Punishment as well as Suppression; or privately to be Bastinadoed into better Manners, if Catch the Hangman do not catch him, and hang him out of the way, to the ease and quiet of the Commonwealth; a Fate, I am apt to believe hath befallen many an honester man than himself, for many of them rob men but of their Silver, but he robs them of that which is more precious than Gold. Pro. 22. 1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches: But he acts contrary to the Dictates of Nature itself:  
Vnum Os, Natura duas formavit & aures,  
 plus audiret quam loqueretur homo.  
Since of Ills thou act'st the Devil and all,  
we'll thee henceforth Robin the Devil call.   

Another CHARACTER of Poor Robin.  
Written by another Hand, upon the same Occasion, some time before the other; and now, both sent forth together, to inform the World what kind of Person he is; and also that there might not be a double Trouble with so inconsiderable a Fellow.  
POOR ROBIN the Devil's Secretary, is a little, silly, idle, impertinent lying, poor hungry Fellow; a miserable Ballad-maker and Character-Monger; a constant haunter of Tap-houses and Scandalous Places, hatched out of the Spawn of Meriton Lateroon, a mere Wanderer, having no known or certain habitation; One of Satan's Secret Council, a Member of the Hellish Cabal, a Promoter of Wicked Designs, who living by ungodly Gains, is the very Author and Fomenter of Strife, bringing fresh Coals to put out the fire, Rabshaka and Judas in folo, limned to the Life. He is a News-monger, an Incendary, One that writes and invents Lies, to supply his own pinching Necessities: His life is Profaneness, his Belief Atheism, his Religion Villainy, and his Soul a Tabernacle or Habitation of Infernal Legions: A grand Contriver and Assistant in Managing of Hell's Decrees, One without whom the Devil would be ill able to carry on his Designs; and who always takes him into Council when he has any great matter in agitation: he is a mere ranting Rodomontade, a Vagabond, a Changeling, a Detractor from other men's worth; a Minter of Calumnies and Slanders, a Forger of Abuses, a fellow made up of nothing but Deceit and Falsehood, Lucifer's Intimate, Secretary and Spoke's-man to Beelzebub's Council: one having neither Faith or Truth, ungrateful to his Benefafactors, and a Traitor to his Confederates and Friends, having neither Credit or Reputation, not caring for, or fearing either God or Man; An absolute Bundle of Abuses and Villainies, a Shameless Rascal, a a very Pitiful and sharking fellow, a light-fingered Animal, a Pettifogger, a mercenary Scribbler, and Desperate Hector of the Quill, being beholding to Charity for the Stuffing his Paunch, and filling of his empty Belly, whose otherwise starved, forlorn, wretched and miserable Carcase must have inevitably perished. The reward of his Villainies is generally a little Bread and Drink, to stuff his thin, lean Jaws withal. This his sad course of Living prompts him to act the greatest Villainies: He, for half a Crown, made a Ballad of his own Father, as his Mother says (for she was whore enough.) And takes all unlawful Course for bread to still and quiet the croaking of his ungodly guts, not valuing who he abuses provided he can get but a meals meat by it. See the Anabaptist's Champion, their Zeal and their Religion! The Devil, or the worst of his servants they'll entertain into pay, provided that with Tooth and Nail they'll stick to them, in helping them out at a dead lift.   

London, Printed in the Year, 1680.