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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05320	Characterismi: or, Lentons leasures Expressed in essayes and characters, neuer before written on. By F.L. Gent.	Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.	1631 (1631)	STC 15463; ESTC S109394	28,544	162

the whore with him and leaues himin his greatest extremity And when hee hath neither to pawne nor ●…ll hee is forc'd to borrow twelue pence to pay for his Ordinary and sometimes lyes a weeke together at the mercy of the Ordinary Hée ebbes and flowes as the tyde and nothing makeshim hope any good of himselfe but his daily change which perhaps may put him in mind of his last that death may not catch him dicing at hazzard no●… Time whom he hath much abused in fury breake his houre glasse and so iustly by Catastrophe coozen him without care that hath cheated so many without Conscience 26. An Host IS most commonly a Corpulent fellow so puft vp with the vnctious Element of Ale that his wicket is not wide enough for his passage and therefore his gates are daily open lest they should preiudice his guts His chiefest liuelihood is by the commings in of others and not of his owne He is as greedy of Guests as the Diuell of soules and as loath to part with them which makes him so often goe gaping to the Gate with a Tapster or Oastler in 's mouth gaping for new guests His thread-bare Salutation is alwayes welcome Gentlemen which very words doe winde in the Tapster and consequently a frothy lugge and it 's ten to one but ere you haue ended that hee is entred into some strange tale perhaps collected out of his last nights dreame and as true too for herein consists his best faculty in ministring cause of mirth and newes to his weary and welcome Trauellers things to which he knowes mans Nature is much addicted for he reads more men than Bookes and should be wise but that his head 's too little for his body yet if he catch your horse in arrerages you 'll find him cunning enough for hee 'll raise his Crest so hye that he 'll make the doore too little for him He is a great husband in his drinking for hee is neuer drunk at his own cost which makes my Ostesse beare with the bestowers the better and perhaps may require them with a nights lodging for 't in a time of need He cannot subsist without company tho ●…e be Cuckold for 't and is neuer melancholly but when Gallants passe by his gates without tarrying or tarry till he is forc'd to trust them and then he mournes i' th Chine for a moneth after His greatest trouble is that Physicians tell him hee is subiect to the Dropsie which he will not beleeue til he sees it and then hee and his purse are purged together of some of their sinister and superfluous gaine Drunkennesse and Gluttony are his best guests of which hee is both entertainer partaker grows fat by profusenes rich by riotous reuellings which tho it somtimes disturbs the peace of his little common-wealth yet the payment of the reckoning workes his pacification with an all 's well that ends well His trade cannot faile so long as men haue mouthes and mony which he knowes will be till both his lease and hee expire He is a man of little or no faith the cause hee doubts his saluation yet bezils vp and downe till hee waddles into his winding-sheet and then goes a iourny he knowes not whether and it is wel for him if at the end of his trauell hee findes an Inne not worse than his owne 27. A Common Drunkard IS a reasonable beast and a sensitiue man a strange Monster halfe man halfe beast swimming in the Ocean of Bacchus and like the Whale belching and foming out of his mouth and nostrils abundance of that frothy and vnsauoury Element he so lately ingurgitated and swallowed to the amazement of those smaller fishes that flocke together about him and is drowned in his owne orbe One whose essential parts are so obscured his sense so dulled his eyes so dazeled his face so distorted his Countenance so deformed his ●…oynts so enfeebled and his whole body and minde so transformed that hee is become the childe of folly the derision of the world and is led like the Oxe to the slaughter as his owne executioner yet in all this his head beares the greater sway and his feet are not swift to do mischiefe Hi belly is his god the which hee ouer-cloyes with drink-offerings and he is alwayes indebted to my Os●…esse and his belly to him but he neuer to that so long as his Purse Credit or shame can make euen with it He is one that either spues himselfe out or giues occasion to be spurnd out of all ciuill Company Apt to any thing he can stand to execute except Vertue a meere stranger to him Noddy is his vsuall game and for Ale too till hee growes so stupified that he nods his No●…e vpon the Noddy b●…ord and in reuenge strikes his opposite for the wrong offered and there the game ends and fray begins and then cals for drinke to drinke himselfe friends with them which friendly cup giues occasion of a second quarrell Hee is the Mault-worme of the Common-wealth that suckes in the ioyce of the poore laborer and leaues his owne family so dry that they are either parch't with famine or burnt with thirst In briefe hee is the off scumme of the kingdome and fit for nought but to set in the front of some vaine and voluntary voyage lest he should ●…unne away in the Rere and rob his owne parish for euer after 28. An Elder Brother IS oft-times the heire of Fortune and folly both together and will still maintaine the Prouerbe Fortuna fauet Fatuos and as hee is heire so is he often executor to his fathers ill-husbandry which somtimes gripes him so that it grindes his estate into a smaller quantity to the diminishing of the Mannor with the appurtenances Hee is so incumbred with such a Letany of Legacies for the smaller Infants that his wit is almost confounded with the very Catalogue of their names if not wholly distracted in the discharge of their portions for his braine generally is but shallow and consequently is soone empty as soone runs ouer He is not giuen to trauell the Ambition of sharper wits for he is in perpetuall trauell at home whose staidnesse his Low-Country brother takes aduantage of by strong stratagems and designes of war till besides his legacy hee hath angled himselfe into coyne enough to purchase him a Company which hee dissolues into Dutch Ale and dries it vp with more dul Tobacco His Lady with her Coach haue run themselues out of their way her out of wits and him out of his money to vpold her fancy and the new fashion both together till the Mercer for his money gathers into his estate by morgage which he is as wel able to redeeme as to build Pauls or rule his wife His Ambition is still to raise his house though he sels his land and liue vpon the lease at the rate of the Purchase Hee sometimes hath wit or wealth enough to bee made a Iustice for the