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Characterismi: or, Lentons leasures Expressed in essayes and characters, neuer before written on. By F.L. Gent.
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Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.
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1631
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STC 15463; ESTC S109394
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Characterismi OR LENTONS LEASVRES Expressed IN ESSAYES AND CHARACTERS Neuer before written on By F. L. Gent. Dum viuo video Errorem in humanis Terrorem in libris LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Michell 1631. To the right Honorable OLIVER Lord S t IOHN Baron of Bletsoe Right Noble AMidst the rest of your sports and pleasures I haue presumed to interpose this small volumne of Characters vpon certaine subiects as yet neuer wrote vpon To which Assumption I was led not by any affectation or conceit of my selfe or of these but from the true knowledge of that innate worth and noblenesse in you of which the world so much takes notice that it iustifies me to be no Parasite in that my tongue and heart agrees with that generall fame which is neuer blazed without desert After some more violent exercise of body which though through the pleasure thereof is not felt till ended some wearinesse may accurre These may perhaps minister occasion of mirth to the minde and giue digestion to your former delights Your Honors acceptance of it shall rightly Characterize your curtesie and your reading it re-ingage mee to amplifie it with more and more merry And though these goe forth in the reare they may if not too much mangled in the Combat with Criticks returne in the front with victory which I leaue to the fortune of the day your Honours fauour which I shall study to deserue whilst I liue to be Your Honors most oblig'd FRA. LENTON To his most lou'd friend M r FRANCIS LENTON IF loue not Learning May my lines preferre To front not grace Thy well writ Character Or if a willing minde May plead th' excuse Of my vnable More vnworthy muse Then take me with thee Frank I meane as well As he whose lines But few can parallell And thâ—… my approbation Cannot adde Least lustre to thy booke Or make 't be had In more esteeme Or free it from the mew Of Simon Simple Or the senselesse Crew Who finding more New Characters will aske What 's he dares vndertake So blunt a taske Then Master Criticke Comes and seemes to snarle Saying this worke Onely becomes an Earle Yet this I know Thine are so witty merry As would haue bin Allow'd by Ouerberry Had he e're seene 'em Boldly then goe on Well to enlarge what Thou hast well begun For in despight of Blacke-mouth'd Calumny Thy lines shall liâ—…e Vnto Posterity And after-times may With delightfull pleasures Find sportiue mirth In reading Lentons leasureâ—… Thiâ—…e 〈◊〉 IOâ—…N 〈◊〉 The Contents A State Politician 1 A Gallant Courtier 2 A young Barrister 3 A Commissary 4 A Parasite or Flatterer 5 An Vxorious man 6 A Country Widdow 7 A Chambermaid 8 A Brokeâ—… Citizen 9 A Bawd 10 A Pander 11 A Darling 12 A Lawyers Clarke 13 A Farmer Tenant 14 A Double benefic'd Parson 15 A Schoole-master 16 A Countrey Alewife 17 An Aldermans daughter 18 A Prodigall 19 An Vsurer 20 A Broker 21 A Bragadotio 22 A Sempster 23 A Prostitute or Whore 24 A Gamester 25 An Host. 26 A Common Drunkard 27 An Elder Brother 28 Aâ—…â—…nnes a Court Gentleman 29 A Low Country Souldier 30 A Gentleman-Vsher 31 A Cuckold 32 An Informer 33 A Bachelour 34 An Vndershriefe 35 A Drawer 36 A Good Husband 37 A Constant man 38 A iealous man 39 A desperate man 40 A True friend 41 Characters 1. A State Politician IS a great Man deepely read in the Mysteries of iniquity who being wel grounded in the Theoricke assumes the Practique as an Effect of the Cause One whose much study hath cald him to more Care then Conscience that whatsoeuer by Power and Proiect he atchieues and accumulates to himselfe his pretence is still for the good of the Common-weale For the safety whereof he watcheth as a Foxe for his prey Forraigne estates are as familiar with him as his owne for the knowledge whereof he spends much and gets more The vulgar honour him more for fear then loue and either barke or are silent as his distance is from them Their popular applause hee esteemes not but laughes at their Enuy in his higher Spheare soaring aboue their Capacities by the sides of Princes and seriously contemplating how to carry himselfe in the next Charge being neuer troubled with any alteration hauing his seuerall Postures for all for his Grauity his lookes and his language are neere allide this austere that seuere for his Habit hee is all ouer furr'd but seldome or neuer foxt except at a Coronation In a word he climes vp with much cost staggers there with many cares and commonly falls with more feares And those that neuer durst libell him liuing dare cowardly throw one of Iuuenals stones at his Graue 2. A Gallant Courtier IS the outside of a StatesmaÌ„ a little more gaily trimd vp and as he is â—…epleat with internall indowments so this is compleat with externall Complement Hee is a man so courteous that hee cannot deny you any thing and so carelesse after his grant that he will performe nothing One whom your Taylor is much bound to for his new fashion which is his prime study and he reciprocally for his Taylors faith which neuer goes without works both which concurre together till the day of account and then he is deferr'd till doomesday or else presently paid with a Priuilege Hee hath more deuices vpon a new Doublet than Ouid had verses and those as Geometricall as his naturall He spares for no cost whilest he may be credited and when that failes he fals vpon some full-mouth'd Lady whose marke hath beene long out where he stil preyes but seld or neuer praies for ought but her death Hee is composed onely of two Elemens Ayre and Fire Leuity and Choler hauing the predominance wanting water and earth humidity and solidity and holds nothing more ignoble than the defect of formality His Barber and his beard doe hold a faire and euen Correspondency and agree aswell as his head with its Perriwig of which how carefull he is the doffing his Beauer wiâ—…l discouer euen from Ludgate Hill if he dares come so nye it to Chairing Crosse his more secure walke His Congees are so common that few care for them and his bodye's most lowly when his mind 's most lofty Cupid is his key Venus his deuotion and Mercury his messenger whilst he cornutes lame Vulcan You may smell him before you see him and see him long enough before you know him Hee is oftentimes his his owne admirer and thinks himselfe the onely obiect of others whilst they thinke him their abiect In briefe his tongue and his heart are most commonly as great strangers as his hands and his actions or his large promises lame performances 3. A young Barrester IS one call'd too t by Reading though he neuer read for 't and hath tane his leaue of Littleton before he was wel acquainted with him At his first entrance he hath a very good Conscience and therefore loues the