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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08597	Sir Thomas Ouerburie his wife with new elegies vpon his (now knowne) vntimely death : whereunto are annexed, new newes and characters / written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1611 (1611)	STC 18909; ESTC S1598	73,798	259

halting and going stiffely and therefore their staues are carued and tipped they trust their attire with much of their grauity and they dare not goe without a gowne in Summer Their hats are brushed to draw mens eyes off from their faces but of all their Pomandars are worne to most purpose for their putrified breath ought not to want either a smell to defend or a dog to excuse A Countrey Gentleman IS a thing out of whose corruption the generation of a Iustice of peace is produced Hee speakes statutes and husbandry well enough to make his neighbours thinke him a wise man hee is well skilled in Arithmeticke or rates and hath eloquence enough to saue his two pence His conuersation amongst his Tenants is desperate but amongst his equals full of doubt His trauell is seldome farther then the next market towne and his inquisition is about the price of Corne when he trauelleth he will goe ten mile out of the way to a Couzens house of his to saue charges and rewards the Seruants by taking them by the hand when hee departs Nothing vnder a Sub-poena can draw him to London and when hee is there he stickes fast vpon euery obiect casts his eyes away vpon gazing and becomes the prey of euery Cut-purse When hee comes home those wonders serue him for his Holy-day talke If hee goe to Court it is in yellow stockings and if it be in Winter in a slight taffetie cloake and pumps and pantofles He is chaind that wooes the vsher for his comming into the presence where hee becoms 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 he hath learned to kisse his hand and make a Leg both together and the names of Lords and Counsellours hee hath thus much toward entertainment and courtesie but of the last hee makes more vse for by the recitall of my Lord hee coniures his poor country-men But this is not his element he must home againe being like a Dor that ends his flight in a dunghill A Fine Gentle-man 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 limbs may read it He alloweth of no iudge but the eye painting boulstring and bombasting are his Oratours by these also hee prooues his industry for hee hath purchased legs haire beautie and straightnesse more then nature left him He vnlockes maiden-heads with his language and speakes Euphues not so gracefully as heartily His discourse makes not his behauiour but hee buies it at Court as Countrey men their cloathes in Birchin-lane Hee is somewhat 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 sighs sweetly and speakes lamentably for his breath is perfumed and his words are winde He is best in season at Christmas for the Boares head and Reueller come together his hopes are laden in his quality left Fidlers should take him vnprouided hee weares pumps in his pocket and lest hee should take Fidlers vnprouided he whistles his owne Galliard He is a Calender of ten yeeres and marriage rusts him Afterwards he mainetaines himselfe an implement of houshold by caruing and vshering For all this he is iudiciall onely in Taylours and Barbers but his opinion is euer ready and euer idle If you will know more of his acts the Brokers shoppe is the witnesse of his valour where lies wounded dead rent and out of fashion many a spruce Sute ouerthrowen by his fantasticknesse An Elder Brother IS a creature borne to the best aduantage of things without him that hath the start at the beginning but loyters it away before the ending Hee lookes like his Land as heauily and durtily as stubbornly He dares doe any thing but fight and feares nothing but his fathers life and minority The first thing hee makes known is his estate and the Loadstone that drawes him is the vpper end of the Table Hee wooeth by a particular and his strongest argument is the ioynture His obseruation is all about the fashion and hee commends Partlets for a rare deuise He speakes no language but smels of dogs or hawkes and his ambition flies Iustice-height He loues to bee commended and hee will goe into the Kitchin but hee le haue it He loues glory but is so lazie as hee is content with flattery Hee speakes most of the precedency of age and protests fortune the greatest vertue He summoneth the old seruants and tels what strange acts he wil doe when he raignes He verily beleeues house-keepers the best common-wealths men and therefore studies baking brewing greasing and such as the limmes of goodnesse He 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 then his will no man should keepe good conceit by him for hee thinkes it no theft to fell all he can to opinion His pedigree his fathers seale-ring are the stilts of his crazed disposition He had rather keepe company with the dregs of men then not to be the best man His insinuation is the inuiting of men to his house and he thinks it a great modesty to comprehend his cheere vnder a peece of Mutton and a Rubet if he by this time be not knowen he will goe home againe for he can no more abide to haue himself concealed then his land yet he is as you see good for nothing except to make a stallion to maintaine the race A Braggadochio Welchman IS the Oyster that the Pearle is in for a man may be pickt out of him He hath the abilities of the minde in Potentia and actu nothing but boldnesse His clothes are in fashion before his body and he accounts boldnesse the chiefest vertue Aboue all men he loues an Herrald and speakes pedigrees naturally He accounts none well descended that call him not Couzen and preferres Owen Glendower before any of the nine Worthies The first note of his familiarity is the confession of his valour and so hee preuents quarrels He vouchech Welch a pure and vnconquered language and courts Ladies with the story of their Chronicle To conclude he is precious in his owne conceit and vpon S. Dauies day without comparison A Pedant HE treads in a rule and one hand scannes verses and the other holds his Scepter He dares not think a thought that the nominatiue case gouerns not the Verbe and hee neuer had meaning in his life for he trauelled onely for words His ambition is Criticisme and his example Tully Hee values phrases and elects them by the sound and the eight parts of speech are his Seruants To be briefe he is a Hetoroclite for he wants the plurall number hauing onely the single quality of words A Seruing-man IS a creature