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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08592	A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1614 (1614)	STC 18904; ESTC S120266	28,037	66

or rates and hath eloquence enough to saue his two-pence His conversation amongst his Tenants is desperate but amongst his equalls full of doubt His trauell is seldome farther then the next market towne and his inquisition is about the price of corne when hee trauelleth hee will goe ten mile out of the way to a Cosens house of his to saue charges and rewards the Seruanrs by taking them by the hand when hee departs Nothing vnder a Sub-poena can draw him to London and when hee is there hee stickes fast vpon euerie obiect casts his eyes away vpon gazing and becomes the prey of euery cut-purse When he comes home those wonders serue him for his holliday talke If hee goes to Court it is in yellow stockings and if he be in winter in a sleight taffetie cloke pumpes and pantastles He is chaynd that wooes the vsher fo his comming into the presence where hee becomes troublesome with the ill managing of his rapier and the wearing of his girdle of one fashion and the hangers of another by this time hee hath learned to kisse his hand and make a leg both together and the names of Lords and Counsellors he hath thus much toward entertainment and curtefie but of the last he makes more vse for by the recitall of my Lord hee coniures his poore countrymen But this is not his element but he must home againe being like a Dor that ends his flight in a dunghill A fine Gentleman IS the Cynamon tree whose barke is more worth then his body Hee hath read the booke of good manners and by this time each of his limbes may read it He alloweth of no iudge but the eye painting boulstring and bombasting are his Orators by these also he proues his industrie for he hath purchased legs haire beauty and straightnesse more then nature left him Hee vnlocks maidenheads with his language and speakes Ephues not so gracefully as heartily His discourse makes not his behauiour but he buyes it at Court as countrymen their clothes in Burchin lane Hee is somwhat like the Salamander and liues in the flame of loue which paines he expresseth comically and nothing grieues him so much as the want of a Poet to make an issue in his loue yet he sighes sweetly and speakes lamentably for his breath is perfumed and his words are winde Hee is best in season at Christmas for the Boores head and Reueller come together his hopes are laden in his qualitie and lest fidlers should take him vnprouided he weares pumpes in his pocket and lest hee should take fidlers vnprouided he whistles his owne galliard He is a calender of ten yeares and mariage rusts him Afterwards hee maintaines himselfe an implement of houshold by caruing and vshering For all this he is iudiciall only in Tailors and Barbers but his opinion is euer ready and euer idle If you will know more of his Arts the Brokers shop is the witnes of his valour where lies wounded dead rent and out of fashion many a spruce suite ouerthrowen by his fantastikenes An elder Brother IS a creature borne to the best aduantage of things without him that hath the start at the beginning but loy●ers it away before the ending He lookes like his land as heauily and durtily as slubbornely He dares doe any thing but fight and feares nothing but his Fathers life and minoritie The first thing hee makes knowne is his estate and the load-stone that drawes him is the vpper end of the table He wooeth by a particular and his strongest argument is the ioynture His obseruation is all about the fashion and he commends Partlets for a rare deuise Hee speakes no language but smells of dogs or hawkes and his ambition flies Iustice-hight He loues to be commended and hee will goe into the kitchin but hee le haue it He loues glory but is so lazie as he is content with flatterie He speakes most of the precedencie of age and protests fortune the greatest vertue He summoneth the old seruants and tells what strange acts hee will doe when he raignes Hee verily beleeues hous-keepers the best common-wealths men and therfore studies baking brewing greasing and such as the lyms of goodnesse Hee iudgeth it no small signe of wisdome to talke much his tongue therefore goes continually his errand but neuer speeds If his vnderstanding were not honester than his will no man should keepe a good conceit by him for hee thinkes it no theft to sell all he can to opinion His pedigree and his fathers seale-ring are the stilts of his crazed disposition He had rather keep companie with the dregs of men than not to be the best man His insinuation is the inviting men to his house and hee thinkes it a great modestie to comprehend his cheere vnder a peece of mutton and a rabbet if by this time he be not knowne hee will goe home againe for hee can no more abide to haue himselfe concealed then his land yet he is as you see good for nothing except to make a stallion to maintaine the race A Welchman IS the Oyster that the pearle is in for a man may be pickt out of him He hath the abilities of the mind in potentia and actu nothing but boldnesse His clothes are in fashion before his bodie and hee accompts boldnesse the chiefest vertue Aboue all men he loues a Herrald and speakes pedigrees naturally He accompts none well descended that call him not Cosen and prefers Owen Glendower before any of the nine Worthies The first note of his familiaritie is the confession of his valour and so he preuents quarrells Hee voucheth Welch a pure an vnconquered language and courts Ladies with the storie of their Chronicle To conclude he is pretious in his owne conceit and vpon S. Dauids day without comparison A Pedant HE treads in rule and one hand skans verses and the other holds his scepter He dares not thinke a thought that the Nominatiue case gouernes not the verbe and he neuer had meaning in his life for he trauelled onely for words His ambition is Criticisme and his example is Tully Hee values phrases and elects them by the found and the eight parts of speach are his seruants To be briefe he is a Hetaroclue for he wants the plurall number hauing onely the single qualitie of words A Seruingman IS a Creature which though he be not drunke yet is not his owne man He tells without asking who ownes him by the superscription of his liuery His life is for ease and leasure much about gentleman-like His wealth enough to suffice nature and sufficient to make him happy if hee were sure of it for hee hath litle and wants nothing he values himselfe higher or lower as his Master is Hee hates or loues the men as his Master doth the Master He is commonly proud of his Masters horses or his Christmas hee sleepes when he is sleepie is of his religion onely the clocke of his stomacke is set to goe an hower after