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A11388
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Picturæ loquentes. Or Pictures drawne forth in characters VVith a poeme of a maid. By Wye Saltonstall.
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Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
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1631
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STC 21645; ESTC S101219
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others To conclude hee 's a man posâ—est with a mixt passion of â—ove-melancholy which he more easily entertaines than â—s quit off His ielousy like â—inegar dryes up his blood hence his palenesse Hee wishes himselfe unmaried and thinks when he chang'd his batchelour buttons for Rosemary hee lost the best flower in his garden Lastly whole numbers may bee made out of fractions but Ielosy makes an irreparable division of love which growes worse by continuance 18. A Chamberlaine IS the first Squire that gives entertainement to errant strangers At your first alighting hee straight offers you to see a Chamber but has got the tricke of tradesmen to show you the worst first Hee 's as nimble as Hamlets ghost heere and every where and when he has many guests stands most upon his pantoflâ—s for hee 's then a man of some calling His gayne consists most in gratuities retayling of faggotts wherein hee 's allowd fourteene to the dozen and what he can over-reckon is his owne gaine Hee 's Secretary to the Kitching and Tapstry and payes himselfe his owne fees in adding something to every particular He takes wages of no man and yet serves every man Hee may seeme a base fellow over night but in the morning you shall find him a man of some reckoning When you aske what 's to pay hee comes downe and returnes againe with a generall totall which if you dislike hee offers to prove it by an Induction of particular Items Your Tapster takes great care that your jugges shall ne're be full and the Chamberlayne that they shall ne're bâ—e empty for hee 'le carry them away halfe full You shall sooner get fresh litter for your horâ—e than cleane shâ—etâ—s for your selfe for hee has a tricke by wetting them to make them feele damp and so having smooth'd up the matter if you dislike them he straight equivocates and sweares they were never layne in since they were last wet When hee 's cald up a mornings he gapes as though he were Sea-sicke and afterward like the embleame of deceit brings fire in one hand and water in the other If you save the remainder of your meate for breakefast hee grumbells for he holds that Tenent that wee ought not to care for the morrow Lastly his life for ease is â—ust about Serving man-like and commonly runnes the same fortunes both in their age overtaking beggery but I forbeare any farther description since his picture is drawne to the life in every Inne 19. A Maide IS a fruite that growes ripe at fifteene and if she bee not then gathered falls of her selfe Till she bee married she thinkes it long but afterwards she comes shorter of her expectation Iâ— she keepe a Chambermaide she lyâ—s at her bedds feete and they two say no Pater-nosters but in the morning tell one another all their wanton dreamâ—s talke all night long of young men and will be both sure to fast on St Agnes Night to know who shall bee their first husbands Her desires grow now impatient of delay nothing being more tedious than a full ripe maiden-head which shee lets a Servingman often obtaine by oportunity When she 's woo'd like the Lapwing she flyes farthest from her nest and because shee can seeme coy in words would make you beleeve her thoughts are so too Shee laughs at those that shoote at Rovers and make their owne way difficult when they might sooner hit the marke and prove themselves better shooters If she be troubled with night talking shee confesses all and her dreames make her blush awake when she falls sicke shee 's much affeard to leade Apes in Hell for she would not willingly dye in Ignorance she reades now loves historyes as Amadis de Gaule and the Arcadia in them courts the shaddow of love till she know the substance Each morning shee and her glasse helpe to correct the errataes of nature comes not out of her Chamber till she be fully drest Shee learnes many gracefull qualities as dancing and playing which all propose to themselves no other end but to hasten her marriage Till which she counts all time as last tarrying and if her wishes had beene true she had not beene a Maide since shee reacht her teenes first To conclude shee 's a fading flower her wedding night withers her when she rises againe with an innocent blush and ne're greeves for her losses 20. A Baylye IS the Supervisor of a mannor under the Lord of the Soyle The Tennants court him to connive at his Masters injuries but yet underhand hee perswades him to enclose his Common in hope to have the yeerely letting of it Though his master bee a Prodigall yet hee strives to inlarge his waste for hee informes him of all inchroachments He trusts his Tablebooke with much of his businesse and weares a Breâ—nors Almanacke in his pocket for the blanks-sake Hee can cast his face into a buying or bargaining forme and can soone reduce Pounds into Markes and Nobles Hee gives not an account but makes it and his Arithmetick is onely the rule of falshood His addition is by Counters with which hee casts up his Bills and his skill in Geometry serves him to measure a Roode of hedging and to know how many peâ—ches are contaynd in an Acre Hee informes his master when Faires happen where though hee cheate him in buying and selling yet at night he makes him a faire reckning Hee has the generall Theory of all husbandry but his businesse is the direction of other mens labours His diligence in harvest time is exprest by being seene often afield with a Forke on his shoulder and hee cuts grasse alwayes in the change of the Moone The Tennants hold his masters land in occupation and hee their wives and for bâ—friending them in renewing their Lease he seales them without witnesse He knowes how to bounder land and counts it a haynous offence to remove a merestone Hee is the apparitour of the Parish and brings in his presentments against the next court day with what Iustice the Lord knowes for they are fin'd to them by Amercements 21. A Petty Countrey Faire IS the publication of some few Pedlers packs distinguisht into Boothes which is yet fild with a great confluence of countrey people who fâ—ocke thither to buy some triviall necessaries A farre off it seemes a tumult of white staves and red petticoates and muâ—lers but when you come nearer they make a fayre shew The men buy hobnayles and plough-irons and the woemen houshould trifles yet such as are for use more than ornament Your countrey Gentlewomen come thither to buy bonelace and London gloves are onely knowne by a Maske hanging on their cheeke and an Anticke plume of feathers in a Faire and t' would doe you good to heare them bargaine in their owne dialect The Inns are this day fild every man meetes his friend and unlesse they crush a pot they thinke it a dry complement Heere the young Lads give their Lasses Fairrings which if shee take