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A16733 Characters vpon essaies morall, and diuine written for those good spirits, that will take them in good part, and make vse of them to good purpose. Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1615 (1615) STC 3635; ESTC S104709 11,952 62

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Characters VPON ESSAIES MORALL AND Diuine WRITTEN For those good Spirits that will take them in good part AND Make vse of them to good purpose LONDON Printed by Edw. Griffin for Iohn Gwillim and are to be sold at his shop in Britaines-Burse 1615. TO THE HOnorable and my much worthy honored truly learned and Iudicious Knight Sr Francis Bacon his Ma ties Attourney Generall Increase of honor health and eternall happinesse WORTHY Knight I haue read of many Essaies and a kinde of Charactering of them by such as when I lookt into the forme or nature of their writing I haue beene of the conceit that they were but Imitators of your breaking the ice to their inuentions which how short they fall of your worth I had rather thinke then speake though Truth neede not blush at her blame Now for my selfe vnworthy to touch neere the Rocke of those Diamonds or to speake in their praise who so farre exceede the power of my capacitie vouchsafe me leaue yet I beseech you among those Apes that would counterfet the actions of men to play the like part with learning and as a Monkey that would make a face like a Man and cannot so to write like a Scholler and am not and thus not daring to aduenture the Print vnder your Patronage without your fauourable allowance in the deuoted seruice of my bounden duty I leaue these poore Trauells of my Spirit to the perusing of your pleasing leasure with the further fruites of my humble affection to the happie employment of your honorable pleasure At your seruice in all humblenesse NICH BRETON To the Reader READ what you list and vnderstand what you can Characters are not euery mans construction though they be writ in our mother tongue and what I haue written being of no other nature if they fit not your humor they may please a better I make no comparison because I know you not but if you will vouchsafe to looke into them it may bee you may finde something in them their natures are diuers as you may see if your eyes bee open and if you can make vse of them to good purpose your wits may prooue the better In briefe fearing the foole will bee put vpon me for being too busie with matters too farre aboue my vnderstanding I will leaue my imperfection to pardon or correction and my labour to their liking that will not thinke ill of a well meaning and so rest Your well-willing friend N.B. WHo reads this Booke with a iudicious eye Will in true Iudgment true discretion try Where words and matter close and sweetly coucht Doe shew how truth wit art and nature toucht What need more words these Characters to praise They are the true charactering of Essaies I.R. IN words of worth to speake of these Essayes Let this suffice the worke it selfe will prayse C.N. SOme haue an humor that to discommend They know themselues they know not how to mend Other correct what they doe thinke amisse While in their owne conceit the error is But true iudicious wits and honest mindes Will giue their censure in some better kindes And say but truth that cannot be mistooke Wit hath well labour de learning in this Booke R.B. Ad Authorem HE that shall read thy characters Nic Breton And weigh them well must say they are well written They taste the lampe much reading obseruation Art matter wit all worthy commendation Some weaue their lines of such a slender thred They will not last so long as to be read Thou hast so spunne so weau'd thy words thy lines They please vs most being viewd a hundred times W.D. In laudem operis WOrds are the pensils whereby drawne we sinde The picture of the inward man the minde Such thoughts such words such words such is the man Say is this Spirit a Plebeyan That like the singing Larke doth mount so high We cannot reach them with an earthly eye W.P. WHile I Essay to character this Booke And th●se charactered Essayes o'relooke I herein finde few words great worth involve A Lip●o● stile terse Phrase and so resolve That as a Stone 's best valu'd and best prised When best in knowne So this when best revised I.B. Wisedome WISEDOME is a working Grace in the Soules of the Elect by whom the Spirit is made capable of those secrets that neither Nature nor Reason is able to comprehend who by a powerfull vertue She hath from the diuine Essence worketh in all things according to the will of the Almighty and being before beginning shall exceede Time in an eternall proceeding She is a Light in the Intellectuall part by which Reason is led to direct the Sences in their due Course and Nature is preserued from Subiecting her selfe to Imperfection in the Creation Shee was of Councell with the Trinitie in the pleasing of the Deity in the Redemption the Inuenter of Mercy for the preseruation of the Elect and in the Glorification the Treasurer of life for the reward of the faithfull who hauing committed to her Care the cariage of the whole Motion finding the disposition of earth in all the Children of her Wombe by such a Measure as she findes fitting their qualitie she giues them either the grace of Nature or the glory of Reason While being the Mother of the Graces Shee giues them that holy Instruction that in the knowledge of the highest Loue thorough the pathes of Vertue makes a passage to Heauen Learning hath from her that knowledge without the which all knowledge is meere Ignorance while onely in the Grace of Truth is seene the Glorie of vnderstanding Knowledge hath from Her that Learning whereby she is taught the direction of her Loue in the way of life Vnderstanding hath from her that Knowledge that keepes Conceit alwaies in the Spirits comfort and Judgement from Vnderstanding that Rule of Iustice that by the euen waight of Impartiality shewes the hand of Heauen in the heart of Humanitie in the Heauens She keepes the Angels in their orders teacheth them the Natures of their Offices and emploies them in the seruice of their Creator in the Firmament She walkes among the Starres sets and keepes them in their places courses and operations at her pleasure She ecclipseth the light and in a Moment leaues not a Clowde in the ●kie in Her Thunders and Lightenings she shewes the Terror of the Highest Wrath and in Her temperate Calmes the patience of his Mercy in her frostie Winters she shewes the weaknes of Nature and in her Sunny Springs the Recouery of Her health in the Louers of this world liues no part of her purenesse but with Her beloued She makes a Heauen vpon Earth in the King she shewes her Grace in his Councell her Care and in his State her Strength in the Souldior she shewes Vertue the truest Valor in the Lawier Truth the Honor of his Plea in the Merchant Conscience the wealth of his Soule and in the Church-man Charity the true fruit of his Deuotion She liues