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Satyrical essayes characters and others. Or Accurate and quick descriptions, fitted to the life of their subiects. Iohn Stephens
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Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615.
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SATYRICAL ESSAYES CHARACTERS AND OTHERS OR Accurate and quick Descriptions fitted to the life of their Subiects 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THEOPHRAS Aspice heâ—â—sâ— sorte aliquid decoctius audis Mile vaporaâ—â— ector mihi serueat aure luuen Plagosas minime Plagtarius IOHN STEPHENS LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes and are to be sold by Roger Barnes at his Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard 1615. TO THE WORTHY AND WORSHIPfull my honored Friend Mr. THOMAS TVRNER Esquire c. SIR YOVR approbation of some parcels hath entitled you to all and your alone worthinesse hath deserued all If I entreate your Kindest iudgement that is your Impartiall to suruey this I shall but rather furnish out a briefe Epistle then instruct your knowledge which is already I dare say resolued that the impartiall censure is the best if soundest of which you are prouided well to censure this And if I tell you that instructions likewise may be heere admitted though such as may confirme and not prouoke your detestation of basenesse imagine that I meane no otherwise Nay if I tell you further that some things heere included may modestly endure the name of knowledge you shall but take the promise of my owne iudgement to encourage yours in the pervsall by way of hazarding my whole credite and so absolue me from the thought of Arrogance I wrong your patience and worth by preparation of your way to reade and iudge You are sufficient for me and able to conceiue that all becomes your owne as I would be being your Truely Affectionate I.S. To the People MY Epistles haue no fortune to purifie mens apprehension much lesse to new create or to increase their iudgements Be therefore suddenly perswaded to reclaime thy censure hauing viewed this or be perpetually haunted with thy double mischiefe Impudence and dulnesse Take this along and I haue done speedily Things bee heere censured so tractable as if they and thou disclaime acquaintance thou must immediately be taken for one affected to tyrannicall or clownish ignorance Be then thy owne Reader thou needst not my comment nor do I request thy fauourable constraction Yet if thou canst beleeue that perfect sense and meanings be not onely tied to publick fauourites thou needst not bee ashamed to iustifie both mee and mine If otherwise thou canst not relish blame thy selfe onely at thy owne perill The Contents THree Essayes of Cowardlinesse Essay 4. Of High-birth Essay 5. Of Disinheritance Essay 6. Of Poetry Essay 7. Of Discontents Two Bookes of Characters THE FIRST BOOKE Charact. 1. An impudent Censurer Charact. 2. A compleat Man Charact. 3. A good Husband Charact. 4. A contented Man Charact. 5. A good Emperour Charact. 6. A worthy Poet. Charact. 7. An honest Lawyer Charact. 8. A Detractor Charact. 9. An Humorist Charact. 10. A Coxcombe Charact. 11. A Ranke Obseruer Charact. 12. A Parish-Polititian Charact. 13. A Spend-thrift Charact. 14. A Vbiquitarie Charact. 15. A Gamester Charact. 16. A Novice Charact. 17. An Epicure Charact. 18. A Churle Charact. 19. An Athiest Charact. 20. A Lyar. Charact. 21. A Drunkard Charact. 22. A Begging Scholler THE SECOND BOOKE Charact. 1. A Iaylor Charact. 2. An informer Charact. 3. A base Mercenary Poet. Charact. 4. A common Player Charact. 5. A Warrener Charact. 6. A Huntsman Charact. 7. A Fawlconer Charact. 8. A Farmer Charact. 9. An Hostesse Charact. 10. A Tapster Charact. 11. A Lawyers Clarke Charact. 12. A meere Atturney Charact. 13. A craftie Scriuener Charact. 14. A welsh Client Charact. 15. A Countrey Bride-groome Charact. 16. A Countrey Bride Charact. 17. My Mistresse Charact. 18. A Gossip Charact. 19. An old woman Charact. 20. A Witch Charact. 21. A Pandar A Caution BE once advisd and thou shalt never take A Mercenarie though a famous man To proue the labours which thy Muses make Each line although he doth directly scan Directly no he cannot so survay Except with resolution to persist But if a while you do forbeare to pay His resolutions he doth all vntwist And like a crafty Lawyer though he frame A formall iudgement to recover cost Yet brings a writ of error in the same So by himselfe his iudgements worth is lost Doth he not then his credit much deface No that you would beleeue he doth beseech If so his iudgement takes no common place His meaning held no concord with his speech Doth he recover credit then or saue Opinion kept perhaps aboue desert Impossible for like a cheating Knaue Protested faith to shame he doth convert Friends oft be sparing Poets of the Towne Value their iudgement high aboue the rate Both may devise to bring the censure downe Yet both can never change a volumes fate Then rather let this worke commended be By those vnknowne who know capacitie So shall each sentence that they do rehearse Prefixe a iust and laudatory verse A Friends Inuitation no Flatterers Encomion WHen many are inuited to a Feast Thogh the inuiter doth not know his guest And therefore cannot well provide in hast One dish so curious as may please each tast Yet if this Host hath such a carefull minde As that he will for each mans stomacke finde A seuâ—rall meat and so provide with care Good hous-roome hearty welcom good fare Shall we condemne his liberall act and loue If thanklesse invitants the same disproue Some peraduenture doth one dish there see Which with his nature doth not well agree Some other may perchance dislike the feast Because it is not all what he likes best And so with diuers censures they do take Due praise froÌ„ him who did the baÌ„quet make Which may discourage him that doth intend Such careful cost another time to spend Yet worthy Author let not this dismay Thee to goe forward in that vertuous way Thou hast propounded nor let that be lost Which is so rare Thou art a noble Host And 'cause thou knowest not the minds of those That shall receiue thy feast thou dost dispose Of things so fitly that all here may finde Diuers provisions for each readers minde What if perchance some surfet at thy feast Because they cannot easily disgest Some vicious quality which reignes so rife In vicious minds made known by their lewd So rife as you the daÌ„ger haue exprest life That knowing it they might the vice detest Pitty their weaknes then seeing thou dost tel Nothing to poyson humor but expell What if some others will thy feast abuse Because it is of seu'rall kindes refuse The founders dignitie because tiâ— knowne Mens tastes and palates onely be their owne Thou mad'st it not for onely one mans sake But all the worlds if all of it partake Take resolution therefore to thy mind Adde wings vnto thy fainting courage bind All thy due strength together to provide So rare a Banquet which may long abide To all mens profit and the founders praise He therefore doth invite the guests that sayes This is a Noble Feast and wisheth this That he which of this feast doth iudge