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A64171 Heads of all fashions being a plain defection or definition of diverse and sundry sorts of heads, butting, jetting or pointing at vulgar opinion : and allegorically shewing the diversities of religion in these distempered times : now very lately written, since calves-heads came in season. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1642 (1642) Wing T464; ESTC R18587 4,217 8

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Heads of all Fashions Being A Plaine Desection or Definition of diverse and sundry sorts of heads Butting Jetting or pointing at vulgar opinion And Allegorically shewing the Diversities of Religion in these distempered times Now very lately written since Calves-Heads came in Season London Printed for Iohn Morgan to be sold in the Old-baily 1642. The Contents 1. A Round-head both at randome and couched 2. A Square head 3. A Solid head 4. An Empty head 5. An Hollow-head 6. A Full head 7. A Deepe head 8. A Great head 9. A little head 10. A long head 11. A short head 12. A Tall head 13. A Flat head 14. A Strong head 15. A weake head 16. A Thicke head 17. A Thine head 18. A Plaine head 19. A Forked head 20. A Smooth head 21. A Rugged head 22. A Logger head 23. A Narrow head 24. A Broad head 25. A Blocke head 26. A Light head 27. A Heavy head with some other whole and halfe heads To the gentle Reader DIstracted fame throughout the world so spreads That monster-like she now hath many heads A man can goe to no place but shall heare Things that may make him hope and make him feare But I doe hope and hope I will doe still All shall be well in spite of little Will Or any of his Crew farre off or neare Whose practices doe every day appeare Still more and more the Lord sees how they deale And doth their Plots and Projects all reveale Each City and each Towne yea every village Can fill us now with newes we need not pillage Tom Long and 's men rare tydings will relate Some of high Powr's and Peeres some of the State Some of Religion or Church Discipline Some of this Bishop some of that Divine Some of a Knot of villaines late found out Heav'ns mend or end that base conspiring rout Some brings us newes from Ireland false or true How ever all is calld both true and new Within one day a man may undertake Briefe notes or thousands severall things to make It he writes halfe what he shall heare or see Newes-mongers now have such varietie That let them make reports till tyr'd or dumbe Their last newes scarce is told but newes is come To wait their next attendance to be spread By this meanes fame hath got a monsters head Yea many heads whereof I found a few And here have laid them open to thy view Peruse them all in earnest or in jest And tell me which amongst them is the best If Round-head should be found the best to be Farewell all other heads Round-head for me But gentle Reader give me thy good word And then I care not what Round-heads afford Thine without hypocrisie I. 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A Round-head at randome VVHen as the worlds foundation first was laid A Round-head was the first head that was made Adams head and Eves head were both as one So all each following Generation That since the time of Adam hath ensu'd Hath formed beene to that similitude All Nations farre or neare ere knowne or found Like English men have had their heads still round Why then should any at Rounds-heads admire Since all from Adam come our Great-grand-sire To answer this these times are full of Gall And there 's no head no man that can please all But as this head is understood of late Some hold it scarce a friend toth' King and State And some suppose it whereso er'e it lurch To be a great disturber of the Church I can say nothing but as people say One might this Round-head otherwise display And if you le have't more couched more concisely More punctuall more briefly and precisely Then thus 1 A Round-head is a man whose braines compact Whose Verilies and Trulies are an Act Infallible beyond the vaine compare Of or●●nary men what ere they are This head though sometimes owned by a widgion Can make new moulds to shape a strange Religion 2 A Square-head is exact in many rules Knowes Horses Asses very well from Mules He is in Aglebra and Musicke skil'd His braine-pans with a thousand crotchets fil'd And yet of late as I have heard some say He cant endure to heare the Organs play 3 A Solid-head is one whose every part Is furnished with nature and with Art Hath all the faire endowments can be given By the auspicious Stars or powers of Heaven If this head be well guarded with Gods grace T it fit for Church or State or any place 5 An Empty-head hath still a shallow braine yet good enough to beare a Bishops Traine For that 's now fallen full low ev'n to the ground Old Canterburies pride hath pul'd all downe That little VVill together with the VVren Hath pluckt the Pope almost from out his den 4 An Hollow-head is one that is concave Joyn'd to an hollow-heart makes up a Knave This Hollow-head comes neere the empty Pate Good wit doth seldome enter in thereat He that the name of Hypocrite knowes well This Hollow-head or Hollow-heart may spell 6 A Full-head is full fraught with braines or guts Whose teeth are found can cracke the hardest nuts His grinders are at best his eares and eyes Are firme and good free from infirmities His nose is perfect pure and he can tell Which men are knaves which honest by the smell 7 A Deepe-head ●ead hath an apprehensive braine Dives far into the plots of Pope and Spaine If well affected to the King and State And to the Gospell who can blame this pate Yet there are many now which nere knew Schooles Would raise up selfe-conceit make wise men fooles 8 A Great-head may containe a world of wit For there is roome enough to harbour it Some mighty-headed pleaders I have knowne And yet their Great-heads little Law have showne But what talke I of heads it is the braine Enables them there cases to explaine 9 A Little-head if not with madnesse gored May with much wit enriched be and stored And then if well inclin'd towards God and King How many great things may this small head bring But ill disposed as many such there be It brings the body to disgrace wee see 10 A Long-head cannot weare a little cap The forehead is so distant from the nap This head hath many whimsies in the Braine Yet wonders much at Rome at France and Spaine These many plots have wrought against our Land But this Long-head hopes they shall nere long stand 11 A Short-head hath a kind of Brittle wit Can understand and breake Jests for a fit His Pericranium being thin and tender It followeth his Inge●●e must needs be slender He is not strong enough to be a Baker Yet he may serve to be a Comfit-maker 12 A Tall-head like a Pyramide or Steeple Ore tops the common sort of vulgar people T is often on a Pimps broad shoulders placed And thinks it selfe with bushy locks much graced This head is mounted up so in the Aire That there can nothing grow I feare but haire 13 A Flat-head is