ENGLAND'S SELECTED CHARACTERS, Describing the good and bad Worthies of this Age. Where the best may see their graces, and the worst discern their baseness. The Particulars be these, 1 A worthy King. 2 An unworthy King. 3 A worthy Queen. 4 An unworthy woman. 5 A worthy Prince. 6 An unworthy Prince. 7 A worthy Privy Counsellor. 8. An unworthy Privy Counsellor. 9 A worthy Nobleman. 10 An unworthy Nobleman. 11 A worthy Bishop or Minister. 12 An unworthy Bishop or Minister. 13 A worthy Judge. 14 An unworthy Judge. 15 A worthy Knight & Soldier. 16 An unworthy Knight & Soldier. 17 A worthy Gentleman. 18 An unworthy Gentleman. 19 A worthy Lawyer. 20 An unworthy Lawyer. 21 A worthy Soldier. 22 An untrained Soldier. 23 A worthy Physician. 24 An unworthy Physician 25 A Jesuit reprobated. 26 A cowardly Cavalier. 27 A Bawd of the black Guard. 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots. LONDON, Printed for T. S. 1643. To the Reader. I Am sure that if you read through this Book, you will find your description in one place or other: If among the Worthies, hold you where you are, and change not your card for a worse: If among the other, mend that is amiss, and all will be well: I name you not, for I know you not: but I will wish the best, because the worst is too bad. I hope there is no body will be angry, except it be with himself, for somewhat he finds out of order: if it be so, the hope is the greater, the bad will be no worse: yet the world being at such a pass, that living Creatures are scarcely known from Pictures till they move, nor Wise men from Fools till they speak, nor Artists from Bunglers till they work: I will only wish the Worthies their worth, and the contrary what may mend their condition: and for myself but pardon for my presumption in writing upon the natures of more worth than I am worthy to write of. So leaving my Book to your best liking, with my better Labours to the like effect, in hope to find you among the Worthies, I rest At your command, if worthy B.N. 1. A worthy King IS a figure of God in the nature of government, he is the chief of man, and the Church's Champion, Nature's Honour, and Earth's Majesty, is the director of Law, and the strength of the same, the Sword of Justice, and the Sceptre of Mercy, the glass of Grace, and the eye of Honour, the terror of Treason, and the life of loyalty; his Command, if right, is general, and his power absolute, his frown a death, and his favour a life, his charge is his Subjects, his care their safety, his pleasure their peace, and his joy their love, he is not to be paralleled, because he is without equality, and the prerogative of his Crown, may not in just ways be contradicted; he is the Lords anointed, and therefore must not be touched, and the head of the public Body, and therefore must be preserved; he is the scourge of sin, and a blessing of grace, God's Vicegerent over his People, and under him supreme Governor; his safety must be his Counsels care, his health his Subject's prayer; his pleasure his Peers comfort, and his content his Kingdom's gladness; his presence must be reverenced, his passion attended, his Court adorned, and his State maintained, his bosom must not be searched, his will (in write) not disobeyed, his wants not unsupplied, nor his place unregarded: in sum, he is more than a man, though not a God, and next unto God to be honoured above man. 2. An unworthy King IS the usurper of Power, where tyranny in Authority loseth the glory of Majesty, while the fear of terror frighteth love from obedience, for when the Lion plays with the Wolf, the Lamb dies with the Ewe; he is the messenger of wrath to be the scourge of sin or the trial of patience in the hearts of the Religious; he is a warrant of woe in the execution of his fu●v●, and in his best temper a doubt of grace; he is a dispeopler of his Kingdom, and a prey to his enemies, an undelightfull friend, and a tormenter of himself; he knows no God, but makes an I doll of Nature, and useth reason but to ruin of sense; his care is but his will, his pleasure but his ease, his exercise but sin, shame and blood, and his delight but unhuman; his heaven is his pleasure, and his gold his god; his presence is terrible; his countenance horrible; his words unconstant, uncomfortable and uncertain, and his actions intolerable: in sum, he is the foil of a Crown, the disgrace of a Court, the trouble of Council, and the plague of a Kingdom. 3. A worthy Queen IS the figure of a King, who under God in his grace hath a great power over his people: she is the chief of women, the beauty of her Court, and the grace of her sex in the royalty of her Spirit: she is like the Moon that giveth light among the Stars, and but unto the Sun, gives none place in her brightness: She is the pure Diamond on the King's fi●●ger, and the Orient Pearl unprizable in his eye, the joy of the Court in the comfort of the King, and the wealth of the Kingdom in the fruit of her love: She is Reason's honour in Nature's grace, and the Wisdoms love in virtue's beauty: in sum, She is the handmaid of God, and the King's second self, and in his Grace the beauty of a Kingdom. 4. An unworthy Queen or woman IS the misery of man, whose demeanour is not to be described; but in extremities her voice is like the sc●●ching of an Owl, her eye the poison of a Cockatrice, her hand the claw of a Crocodile, and her heart a Cabinet of horror: she is the grief of Nature, the wound of Wit, the trouble of Reason, and the abuse of Time: her pride is unsupportable, her an●er unquenchable: she fears no colours, she cares for no counsel, nor advice, but such as is Jesuitical, derived from that cursed black mouth Whore of Rome, from whence proceeds nothing but blood, ●apine, mischief, and all manner of miseries, sparing no person, age of sex which walks not in her way: and in this she is vigilant at all times, not caring at what ra●te she purchaseth it, (be it Kingdoms, jewels, yet what note) her command is must, her reason will, her resolution shall, and her satisfaction so, she looks at no Laws, and thinks of no Lord; admits no command, and keeps no good order: she is a cross, but not of Christ, and a word, but not of Grace; a creature, but not of Wisdom; and a servant but not of God: in sum, she is the seed of trouble, the fruit of travel, the taste of bitterness, and the digestion of death. 5. A worthy Prince IS the hope of a Kingdom, the richest Jewel in a King's Crown, and the fairest flower in the Queen's Garden: he is the joy of Nature in the hope of honour, and the love of wisdom, in the life of worthiness in the secret carriage of his hearts intentions, till his designs come to action, he is a dumb show to the world's imagination; in his wisdom he startles the spirits of expectation in his valour, he subjects the hearts of ambition in his virtue, he wins the love of the noblest, and in his bounty binds the most sufficient: he is the crystal glass where Nature may see her comfort, and the book of Reason where Virtue may read her honour: he is the morning Star that hath light from the Sun, and the blessed fruit of the tree of earth's Paradise: he is the study of the wise in the state of honour, and in the subject of learning, the history of admiration: in sum, he is in the note of wisdom, the aim of honour, and in the honour of virtue, the hope of a Kingdom. 6. An unworthy Prince IS the fear of a Kingdom, when will and power carry pride in the impatience in the close carriage of ambitious intentions; he is like a featfull dream to a troubled spirit: in his passionate humours he frighteth the hearts of the prudent; in the delight of vanity, he loseth the love of the wise, and in the misery of avarice, is served only with the needy: he is like a little mist before the rising of the Sun, which the more it grows, the less good it doth: he is the King's grief, and the Queen's sorrow, the Courts trouble, and the Kingdom's curse: in sum, he is the seed of unhappiness, the fruit of ungodliness, the taste of bitterness, and the digestion of heaviness. 7. A worthy Privy Councillor IS the pillar of a Realm, in whose wisdom and care, next under God and the King, stands the safety of the Kingdom: he is the watchtower to give warning of the enemy, and a hand of provision for the preservation of the State: he is an oracle in the King's ear, and a sword in the King's hand; an even weight in the balance of justice, and a light of grace in the love of truth: he is an eye of care in the course of Law; a heart of love in his service of his Sovereign; a mind of honour in the order of his service, and a brain of invention for the good of the commonwealth: his place is powerful, while his service is faithful, and his honour due in the deepest of his employments. In sum, he is a fixed planet among the stars of the firmament, which through the clouds in the air, shows the nature of his light. 8. An unworthy Privy Councillor IS the hurt of a King, and the danger of the State, when the weakness of judgement may commit an error, or the lack of care may give way to unhappiness; he is a wicked charm in the King's ear, a sword of terror in the advice of tyranny: his power is perilous in the partiality of will, and his heart full of hollowness in the protestation of love: hypocrisy is the cover of his counterfeit religion, and traitorous invention is the agent of his ambition: he is the cloud of darkness that threateneth foul weather, and if it grow to a storm, (as now it is) it is fearful where it falls: he is an enemy to God in the hate of Grace, & thrice worthy of death in disloyalty to his Sovevereigne or Commonwealth: in sum he is an unfit person for the place of a Commonwealth, and an unworthy subject to look a King in the face, fit only for an outcast to be gazed at, or to be preferred aloft, as Haman was. 9 A worthy Nobleman's IS a mark of honour, where the eye of wisdom in the observation of desert sees the fruit of Grace, he is the Orient Pe●●●e that reason polisheth for the beauty of Nature, and the Diamond spark where divine graces give virtue honour; he is the note book of moral discipline, where the conceit of care may find the true Courtier; he is the nurse of hospitality, the relief of necessity, the love of charity, and the life of bounty; he is Learning's grace, and Valour's fame, Wisdoms fruit, and kindness love; he is the true Falcon that feeds on no carrion, the true Horse that will be no hackney, the true Dolphin that fears not the Whale; and the true man of God that fears not the Devil. In sum, He is the Darling of Nature in Reason's Philosophy: the Loadstone of Light in Love's Astronomy: the ravishing sweet in the music of Honour, and the golden number in Grace's Arithmetic. 10 An unworthy Nobleman IS the grief of Reason, when the title of Honour is put upon the subject of disgrace; when either the imperfection of wit, or the folly of will, shows the unfitness in nature, for the virtue of advancement: he is the eye of baseness, and spirit of grossness, and in the demeane of rudeness, the scorn of nobleness: he is the suspicion of a right generation in the nature of his disposition, and a miserable plague to a feminine patience: Wisdom knows him not, Learning bred him not: virtue loves him not, and honour fits him not: prodigality or avarice are the notes of his inclination, and folly or mischief are the fruits of his invention. In sum, he is the shame of his name, the disgrace of place, the blot of his title, and ruin of his house. 11 A worthy Bishop or Minister IS an Ambassador from God unto men: in the midst of war to make a treaty of peace, who with a pronunciation of a general Pardon, upon a general confession of sin upon the fruit of repentance, gives a full assurance of comfort: he brings tidings from heaven, of happiness on earth to the world: he is the silver trumpet in the music of love, where faith hath a life that never fails the beloved: he is the director of Life in the Laws of God, and the true Chirurgeon of the soul, in lancing the sores of fin, the terror of the reprobate in pronouncing their damnation, and the joy of the faithful in the assurance of their salvation. In sum, he is in the nature of Grace, worthy of honour, and in the message of life worthy of love; a continual agent betwixt God and man, in the preaching of his word, and prayer for his people. 12 An unworthy Bishop or Minister IS the disgrace of Learning, when the want of reading, or the abuse of understanding in the speech of error may beget idolatry: he is God's enemy in the hurt of his people, and his own woe in the abuse of the word of God. He is the shadow of a candle that gives no light; or, if he be any, it is but to lead into darkness: the sheep are unhappy that live in his fold, when they shall either starve or feed on the ground: he breeds this war in the wits of his audience, when his life is contrary to the nature of his instructions: he lives in a (Rome,) where he troubles a world, and in the shadow of a Saint, is little better th●n a Devil; he makes Religion a cloak of sin, and wi●h a counterfeit humility, covereth incomparable pride: he robs the rich to relieve the poor, and makes fools of the wise with the imagination of his wrath: he is all for the world, but nothing for God; and for the ease of nature loseth the sap of reason. In sum, he is the picture of hypocrisy, the spirit of heresy; a wound in the Church, and a woe to the World. 13 A worthy Judge IS a doom, whose breath is mortal upon the breach of Law, where criminal offences must be cutoff from a common wealth: he is the sword of Justice in the hand of a King, and the eye of wisdom in the walk of a kingdom: his study is a square for the keeping of proportion betwixt command and obedience, that the King may keep his crown on h●s head, and the Subjects his head on his shoulders: he is seared but of the foolish, and cursed but of the wicked; but of the wise honoured, and of the gracious beloved: he is a survey or of rights, and revenger of wrongs, and in the judgement of truth, the honour of Justice. In sum, his word is Law, his power Grace, his labour Peace, and his desert Honour. 14 An unworthy Judge IS the grief of justice in the error of judgement, when through ignorance or will, the death of innocency lies upon the breath of opinion: he is the disgrace of Law in the desert of knowledge, and the plague of power in the misery o● oppression; as by woeful experience these times of ours now tell us: he is more moral than divine, in the nature of policy, and more judicious than just in the carriage of his conceit: his charity is cold; when partiality is resolved, when the doom of life lies on the verdict of a Jury: with a stern look he frighteth an offender: he gives little comfort to a poor man's cause; the golden weight over-weighes his grace; when the Angels play the Devils in the hearts of his people, and the credit of his damnable bribes must not be questioned. In sum, where Christ is preached, he hath no place in the Church: and in this Kingdom, out of doubt, God will now visit them, not suffering any such Devil to bear sway any longer. 15 A worthy Knight and Soldier IS a spirit of proof, in the advancement of virtue, by the desert of honour, in the eye of Majesty: In the field he gives courage to his Soldiers, in the Court grace to his Followers, in the City reputation to his person, and in the country honour to his house. His sword and his horse make his way to his house, and his armour of proof is an undaunted spirit: the music of his delight is the trumpet and drum, and the paradise of his eye is an army defeated, the relief of the oppressed makes his conquest honourable, and the pardon of the submissive makes him famous in mercy: he is in nature mild, and in spirit stout, in reason judicious, and in all, honourable. In sum, he is a Yeoman's commander, a Gentleman's superior, a Nobleman's companion, and a Prince and Kingdoms worthy favourite. 16 An unworthy Knight and Soldier IS the defect of nature in the title of honour, when to maintain valour, his spurs have no towels, nor his sword a point: his apparel is of proof, that may wear like his armour, or like an old Ensign that hath his honour in rags. It may be he is the Tailor's trouble in fitting an ill shape, or a mercer's wonder in wearing of silk: in the Court he stands for a cipher, and among Ladies like an Owl among birds: he is worshipped only for his wealth, and if he●e valued by his wit, when if his pride go beyond his purse, his ti●le will be a trouble to him. In sum, he is the child of Folly, and the man of Gotham, the blind man of Pride, and the fool of magination: but in the Court and Kingdom of Honour, are no such Apes, and I hope this Kingdom will breed no such Asses. 17 A worthy Gentleman IS a branch of the tree of honour, whose fruits are the actions of virtue, as pleasing to the eye of judgement, as tasteful to the spirit of Understanding: whatsoever he doth, it is not forced, except it be evil, which either through ignorance unwittingly, or through compulsion unwillingly he falls upon; he in nature kind, in demeanour courteous, in allegiance loyal, and in Religion zealous, in service faithful, and in reward bountiful: he is made of no baggage stuff, nor for the wearing of base people; but is woven by the spirit of wisdom, to adorn the court of Honour. His apparel is more comely than costly, and his diet more wholesome than excessive, his exercise more healthful than painful, and his study more for knowledge then pride: his love not wanton nor common, his gifts not niggardly nor prodigal, and his carriage neither apish nor sullen. In sum, he is an approver of his pedigree, by the nobleness of his passage, and in the course of his life an example to his posterity. 18 An unworthy Gentleman IS the ●●offe of wit and the scorn of honour, where more wealth than wit is worships of simplicity, who spends more in idleness, then would maintain thrift, or hides more in misery then might purchase honour: whose delights are vanities, and whose pleasures fopperies: whose studies fables, and whose exercise worse than follies: his converfation is base, and his conference ridiculous; his affections ungracious, and his actions ignominious. His apparel out of fashion, and his diet out of order; his carriage out of square, and his company out of request. In sum, he is like a mongrel dog with a velvet collar, a carthorse with a golden saddle, a buzzard kite with a Falcons bells, or a Baboon with a pied jerkin. 19 A worthy Lawyer IS the Student of knowledge, how to bring controversies into a conclusion of peace, and out of ignorance to understanding: he divides time into uses, and Cases into instructions: he lays open obscurities, and is praised for the speech of truth: and in the Court of conscience pleads much in Forma pauperis, for small fees: he is a mean for the preservation of titles, and the holding of possessions, and a great instrument of peace in the judgement of impartiality: he is the clients hope in his cases pleading, and his hearts comfort in a happy issue: he is the finder out of tricks in the craft of ill conscience, and the joy of the distressed in the relief of Justice. In sum, he is a maker of peace among the spirits of contention, and a continuer of quiet in the execution of the Law. 20 An unworthy Lawyer ANd unworthily called a Lawyer, is the figure of a Foot-post, who carries Letters, but knows not what is in them, only can read the superscriptions, to direct them to their right owners. So trudgeth this simple Clerk, that can scarce read a Case when it is written, with his hand-full of papers, from one Court to another, and from one Counselors chamber to another, when by his good payment for his pains, he will be so saucy, as to call himself a Solicitor: But what a taking are poor Clients in, when this too much trusted cunning companion, better read in Pierce Ploughman, then in Ploydon, and in the Play of Richard the Third, then in the Pleas of Edward the Fourth, persuades them all is sure, when he is sure of all? And in what a misery are the poor men, when upon a Nihil dicit, because indeed this poor fellow, Nihil potest dicere, they are in danger of an execution, before they know wherefore they are coudemned? But I wish all such more wicked than witty, unlearned in the Law and abusers of the same, to look a little better into their consciences, and to leave their crafty courses, lest when the Law indeed lays them open, instead of carrying papers in their hands, they wear not papers on their heads, and instead of giving ear to their Clients causes, or rather eyes into their purses, they have never an ear left to hear withal, nor good eye to see withal; or at least honest face to look out withal: but as the Grasshoppers of Egypt, be counted the Caterpillars of England, and not the Fox that stole the Goose, but the great Fox that stole the Farm from the Gander. 28. A worthy Soldier IS the child of Valour, who was borne for the service of necessity, and to bear the Ensign of Honour, in the actions of Worth: he is the Dyer of the Earth with blood, and the ruin of the erections of Pride: he is the watch of Wit, in the advantage of Time, & the executioner of wrath upon the wilful offender: he disputes questions with the point of a Sword, and prefers Death to indignities; he is a Lion to Ambition, and a Lamb to Submission: he hath Hope fast by the hand, and treads upon the head of Fear. He is the King's Champion, and the Kingdom's Guard, Peace's preserver, and Rebellions terror: he makes the Horse trample at the sound of a Trumpet, and leads on to a battle, as if he were going to a breakfast; he knows not the nature of Cowardice, for his rest is set upon Resolution: his strongest fortification is his Mind, which beats off the assault of idle humours, and his life is the passage of danger, where an undaunted Spirit stoops to no Fortune; with his arms he wins his Arms, and by his desert in the field, his Honour in the Court. In sum, in the truest Manhood he is the true man: and in the creation of Honour, a most worthy Creature. 22 An untrained Soldier IS like a young hound, that when the first falls to hunt, he knows not how to lay his nose to the earth: Who having his name but in a book, and marched twice about a Market place, when he comes to a piece of service, knows not how to bestow himself: he marches as if he were at plough, carries his Pike like a Pikestaff, and his sword before him, for fear of losing from his side: if he be a Shot, he will be rather ready to say a Grace over his Piece, and so to discharge his hands of it, then to learn how to discharge it with a grace: he puts on his Armour over his ears, like a waistcoat, and wears his Morion like a nightcap; when he is quartered in the field he looks for his bed, and when he sees his Provant, he is ready to cry for his victuals; and ere he know well where he is, wish hearty he were at home again, with hanging down his head, as if his heart were in his hose: sleep till a Drum or a deadly bullet awake him, & so carry himself in all Companies, that till Martial Discipline have seasoned his understanding, he is like a Cipher among figures, an Owl among birds, a Wise man among fools, and a shadow among men. 23 A worthy Physician IS the enemy of sickness, in purging nature from corruption: his action is most in feeling of pulses, and his discourses chief of the natures of diseases: he is a great searcher out of simples, and accordingly makes his composition: he persuades abstinence, and patience for the benefit of health, while purging and bleeding are the chief courses of his counsel: the Apothecary and the Chirurgeon are his two chief attendants, with whom conferring upon Time, grows temperate in his cures: surfeits and wantonness are great agents for his employment, when by the secret of his skill, out of others weakness he gathers his own strength. In sum, he is a necessary member, for an unnecessary malady, to find a disease, and to cure the diseased. 24 An unworthy Physician. IS a kind of a Horseleech, whose cure is most in drawing of blood, and a desperate purge either to cure or kill, as it hits: his discourse is most of cures that he hath done, and them afar off, and not a receipt under an hundred pounds, though it be not worth threehalfpences; upon the Market day he is much haunted with urinals, where if he find any thing (though he know nothing) yet he will say somewhat, which if it hit to some purpose, with a few fustian words, he will seem a piece of strange stuff: he is never without old merry taies, and stolen jests to make old folks laugh, and comfits or plums in his pocket to please little children; yea, and he will be talking of complexions, though he know nothing of their dispositions, and if his medicine do a feat, he is a made man among fools: but being wholly unlearned, and ofttimes unhonest, let me thus briefly describe him: He is a plain kind of Mountebank, and a true Quacksalver, a danger for the sick to deal withal, and a dizzard in the world to walk withal. 25 A Jesuit reprobated IS the child of sin, who being borne for the service of the Devil, cares not what villainy he does in the world; he is always in a maze, for his courses are ever out of order, and while his will stands for his wisdom, the best that falls out of him, is a fool; he betrays the trust of the simple, and sucks out the blood of the innocent; his breath is the fume of blasphemy, and his tongue the firebrand of hell; his desires are the destruction of the virtuous, and his delights are the traps to damnation: he baths in the blood of murder, and sups up the broth of iniquity: plots, conspiracies, and all manner of mischief, are the chiefest aim of his studies: he frighteth the eyes of the godly, and disturbeth the hearts of the religious; he marreth the wits of the wise, and is hateful to the souls of the gracious. In sum, he is an inhuman creature, a fearful companion, a man-monster, and a Devil incarnate; therefore to be quite packed out of this our England, to his own proper centre the whore of Rome. 26 A cowardly Cavalier IS the child of fear, he was begotten in cold blood, when Nature had much ado to make up a creature like a man: his life is a kind of sickness, which breeds a kind of palsy in the joints, and his death the terror of his conscience, with the extreme weakness of his faith; he would have peace, in regard he fears a sword in his soul, hating to meet a man, or to encounter an enemy or opposite in the field, witness our present troubles, when like the Egyptians plagues they fester, and are the disquiet of this our land, robbing, pillaging and spoiling poor Countrymen and carriers, who cannot give any resistance (one eyed Hasting-like:) if he cut his finger, he looketh presently for the sign, and if his head ache, he is ready to make his will, a report of a Gavon strikes him flat on his face, and a clap of thunder makes him a strange metamorphosis: rather than he will fight, he will be beaten, and if his legs will help him he will put his arms to no trouble, but try the strength with the levity of his flight, while he is as he conceives beyond the reach of his arrival, where like a mole he is ready to run his head into any hole to hid him, searing the very sent of a man; he makes love commonly with his purse, and brags most of his maidenhead; he will not marry but into a quiet family, and not too fair a wife to avoid quarrels; if his wife frown upon him, he sighs, and if she give him an unkind word, he weeps: he loves not the borne of a Bull, nor the paws of a Bear; if he chance to be rich, he is afraid of thiefs; if he be poor, he will be slave to a beggar. In sum, he is the shame of manhood, the disgrace of Nature, the scorn of Reason, and the hate of Honour. 27 A Bawd of the black Guard IS a kind of woman-beast, who having lost the honour of her virginity in her youth, means to go to hell in her age: she is dangerous among young people, for fear of the infection of the falling sickness: and not to teach children to spell, lest she learn them too soon to put together: she is partly a Chirurgeon, but most for the allaying of swelling in the lower parts, and hath commonly a charm to conjure the Devil into hell. She grieves at nothing so much, then at disability to sin, and is never so merry, as when she is persuaded to be young: she fears nothing more than the Cart, and cares for nothing but ease, and loves a cup of sack, and a pot of ale, almost as well as the hope of her salvation. She is much troubled with sore eyes and ill teeth, with sitting up late, and feeding upon sweet things. She is well versed in the black Art, to accommodate them of the black Guard: a weesel-looked goslip she is in all places, where her mirth is a bawdy tale; and a matron in an Hospital to see young Wenches well set to work. In sum, she is the loathsomeness of nature, the hate of virtue, the spoil of wealth, and the ruin of maidenheads. 28 A malignant knave a hatcher of plots IS the scum of wit, and the scorn of reason, the hate of wisdom, and the dishonour of humanity: he is the danger of society, and the hurt of amity, the infection of youth, and the corruption of age: he is a traitor to affiance, and an abuse to employment, and a rule of villainy in a plot of mischief: he hath a Cat's eye, and a Bear's paw, a Sirens tongue, and a Serpent's sting: his words are lies, his oaths, perjuries, studies, subtleties, and his practices villainies: his wealth is his wit, his honour is his wealth: his glory is his gain, and his God is his gold: he is no man's friend, and his own enemy; cursed on earth, and banished from heaven: he was begotten ungraciously, borne untimely, lives dishonestly, and dies in a halter, or worse, shamefully. His heart is a puddle of poison, his tongue a sting of iniquity, his brain a distiller of deceit, and his conscience a compass of hell. In sum, he is a dog in disposition, therefore not worthy to live among men; a fox in wit, a wolf in his prey, and a Devil in his pride. FINIS.