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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55410	Poor Robins Character of France, or, France painted to the life in a brief dialogue of the description of that nation, their manners, customs, complements, language, discourse &c. : as also, an exact character of the city of Paris, of their gentry, peasants, women &c. / by Poor Robin ...	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1666 (1666)	Wing P2878; ESTC R8615	21,984	32

wid his Tord cut dem off at one blow English-man Was not St. George of England than a brave man to do so worthy an Act French-man Begar he was de brave Shampion in all de varle but de France man he kill de burn Dragon but de Seignior Amadis de Gaule be kill de Shyant one twa tre four story high begar den he was brave fellow let me see den dere was Monsieur le Charlemaigne de Roy Pepin Monsieur Oliver Monsieur Rowland begar de France man be de creat killer of de Shyants in all de varle English-man Indeed no Nation in the wo●ld is greater killers of Gyants and multitudes of people than the French but how why in Romances wherein there is little danger in fighting but for real feats of Arms alas how far short do they fall in the performance How often have they been beaten by the English with the greatest disadvantage almost that might be witness Poicters Crescy and Agen-Court Battels wherein their Armies exceeded ours almost ten to one nay have we not taken their Kingdom from them the English King Crowned King of France in France where was their Valour then Why they were forced to have recourse to a Witch one Joan of Arc when France lay as it were expiring out her latest breath How were they forced to pretend a Message to her from God to breathe new courage into the hearts of their fanting Soldiers and yet when they had wrought all these Forgeries it was not so much their Courage as our own Divisions that caused the English expulsion out of France French-man Begar though me ha skill to Fidele me ha no skill in de History me can no tell if de speak true but me mush tink dis me mush give looser leave to speak English-man Nay Monsieur if you are up with your Proverbs I must also give you one which though but a homely one yet sets out the three Nations French English and the Spaniards to the life The French man is compared to a Flea quickly skipping into a Countrey and as quickly skipping out their Valor being like a blaze of fire makes of a sudden a great show but is quickly extinguished The English are like a Lowse slowly mastering a place and as slowly driven out again The Spaniard like to a Crab fish● hardly gaining any thing but where he enters seldom or neve● again removed French-man Begar me leeke dis Proverb well enough of de men vat is de Pr●●verb of de weemen English-man They say that to the making up of an absolute Woman the●● is required the parts of a Dutch woman from the Girdle downwards the parts of a French woman from the Girdle up to the Neck over which must be placed an English Face for the greater perfection of all the rest for if you come to compare the French Beauries with the English alas they are not to be named the same day with them their Faces being as bad a punishment to the Eyes as their Discourse is a torment to the Eares And herein may the English glory that they have the fairest Women the goodliest Horses and the best breed of Dogs in all the whole world To which we may adde that as England is said to be A Paradise for women by reason of their Priviledges so it may be said to be A Paradise of women by reason o● their un-marchable Perfections French-man Begar de France woman be de hansom woman vor all dat English-man For your French women as their shoulders and backs are so broad that they hold no proportion with their middles so are they of a very black hair and swarthy complexion and though the Poets do commend Leda for he● black hair as in that Verse of Ovids Leda fuit nigris conspicienda comis yet that blackness reached onely to a kinde of dark brown not so fearful as this of the French women who are generally blacker th●n a gracious loveliness can admit And though black hair do give a lustre to a beautiful Face as a shadow doth to a Picture or a Sable bearing to a Field a●gent yet what are the French womens Faces concerned in that which are so far from that thing called Beauty that when they are adorned with black Patches they look like rusty Gammons of Bacon stuck with Cloves French man Me can no shuse but confess me had rader eat of de Gammon of Baoon dan kiss de hansom woman in all de v●rle English-man Now you talk of kissing I cannot but much admire that humor of the French women who though as I said before they are so light and wanton in their discourse and gestures yet are so coy of their Lips that they will not admit of a kiss accounting that woman that is kissed more than half whored be her deportment other wayes never so civil Now though I must confess I like this their custom very well it sparing me many an unsavory piece of mannerliness when I was amongst them yet it was to me a kinde of a strange Riddle that they should confine all immodesty and lasciviousness to a harmless kiss But as it is said of the Italian That he will rather murther a man in private than speak ill of him openly so it may be thought of these Damosels that they will not refuse a mans bed in private although they deny to kiss him openly French-man Begar de tell lye de France Madam be de Civil Madam dat lives in de whole varle English-man Yes Monsieur I shall tell you of a piece of Civility of one of your Madams as I was informed by an Acquaintance of mine who was an Eye-witness to it That being at a Tilting a Roguish Boy was peeking under a Ladies Coats a Courtier seeing it went about to remove him from that sawcy action but when her Ladyship perceived his intention she hindred him with this Complement Laisse Monsieur laisse les yeux ne sont pas larrons The boys eyes would steal nothing away Certainly those who are so w●nton in their discourse and actions abroad will not stick out of play when Night and the Curtains may conceal it French-man Par ma foy vis is no sush ting de Frensh be a no soe bad dey make more conscience den so English-man I will not deny but there may be some of them very conscientious but generally they are most irreverent and irreligious great Scoffers yea in matters of Religion and at those times when they should be most solid witness that Gallant who lying on his Death-bed when he had the Hoast so they call the Sacrament of the Lords Supper brought to him by a Lubberly Priest he said That Christ came to him as he went into Jerusalem riding upon an Ass Another of them being to receive the Sacrament when the Priest had with many words perswaded him that the Bread and Wine was the real Body and Blood of Christ he refused to taste of it because it was then Fryday And