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id: A39493
author: Earle, John, 1601?-1665.
date: 1642
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words: 1230
sentence: 40
flesch: 67
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title:
  A trve description of the pot-companion poet who is the founder of all the base and libellous pamphlets lately spread abroad : also a character of the seil-bole cook.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39493 of text R22492 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E94). Also, a chara Earle, John 1642 863 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 C The rate of 12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A45166
author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Characters of vertues and vices.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6046
sentence: 320
flesch: 80
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title:
  Characters of vertue and vice described in the persons of the wise-man, the valiant man ... attempted in verse from a treatise of the reverend Joseph Hall, late lord bishop of Exeter / by N. Tate.

summary:
  In Conquest does beyond the Warriour go , The surest Friend , the latest easiest Foe : Than others so much Happier does appear , As He can more and worse Mis-fortunes bear . For his Friend's sake with Honours he complies , Yields to be Great to help his Friend to Rise .


id: A02441
author: Heath, John, Fellow of New College, Oxford, attributed name.
date: 1619
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7377
sentence: 411
flesch: 86
cache: cache/A02441.xml
txt: txt/A02441.txt
title:
  The house of correction: or, Certayne satyricall epigrams. Written by I.H. Gent. Together with a few characters, called Par pari: or, Like to like, quoth the deuill to the collier

summary:
  The vtmost end of his studie . is but to attaine to the secrets of the Arte of L●●ming , wherein being vnskilfull , hee sometimes layes his Colours on a false ground , whereby they fading he himselfe is disgraced . Sure these are spitefull ●●●es .


id: A16733
author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
date: 1615
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mime: application/xml
words: 6947
sentence: 126
flesch: 41
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title:
  Characters vpon essaies morall, and diuine written for those good spirits, that will take them in good part, and make vse of them to good purpose.

summary:
  REsolution is the Honoure● Valor , in the quarrell of Ve●tue , for the defence of Right , an● Redresse of Wrong : She , beate● the March , pitcheth the Battaile plants the Ordinance , and Maintaines the fight : Her Eare is stop● from Disswasions , her Eie aim●● only at Honor , her hand takes the Sword of Valor , and her heart thinkes of nothing , but victory● Shee giues the Charge , makes the Stand , Assaults the fort , and enters the Breach : Shee breakes the Pikes , faceth the Shot , dampes the Souldior , and defeates the Army : Shee looseth no time , slippes no Occasion , dreads no danger , and , Cares for no force ; ●he is Valors life , and vertues ●oue , Iustice Honor , and , Mer●ies Glorie : Shee beates downe Castles , fires Shippes , Wades ●●orough the Sea , and Walkes ●●orough the World : She makes ●isedome , her Guide , and Will , ●er Seruant , Reason , her Compa●ion , and Honor , her Mistris : ●he is a Blessing in Nature , and a ●eauty , in Reason , a Grace in In●ention , and , a Glory in Action : ●he studies no plots , when her ●latforme is set downe , and defers ●o time , when her houre is pre●xed : Shee standes vpon no ●elpes , when she knowes her own ●orce , and in the Execution of her ●ill , she is a Rocke Irremoueable : ●he is the Kings Will , without Contradiction , and the Iudges ●oome , without Exception , the ●chollers profession , without Al●eration , and the Souldiers Honor without Comparison : In Summ● so many are the groundes of he● Grace , and the iust Causes of he● Commendation , that , Leauin● her worth , to the discription 〈◊〉 better wits , I will in these few wordes , conclude my Conceit● her .


id: A84694
author: Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674.
title: The times anatomiz'd, in severall characters. By T.F.
date: 1647
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mime: application/xml
words: 9653
sentence: 399
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Like Lyca●n , hee devoures men , and turns his Office into an Office of Escheat , making himselfe heire to every mans estate , under colour of the States service . Drukennesse is used in High Germany for the Index , or Touch-stone of a mans nature , for the parents will see men drunk before they marry their daughters unto them , because they will know what kinde of drunkennesse they are subject to ; and according to the good or ill ( if a Drunkard can have good )


id: A16748
author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
date: 1616
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mime: application/xml
words: 11199
sentence: 250
flesch: 55
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title:
  The good and the badde, or Descriptions of the vvorthies, and vnworthies of this age Where the best may see their graces, and the worst discerne their basenesse.

summary:
  In summe , hee is in the nature of Grace , worthy of Honour , and in the message of Life , worthy of Loue : a continuall Agent betwixt God and man , in the preaching of his Word , and Prayer for his people . AN Vntrained Souldier is like a young hound , that when the first falls to hunt , he knowes not how to lay his nose to the earth : Who hauing his name but in a booke , and marched twise about a market place , when he comes to a piece of seruice , knowes not how to bestowe himselfe : He marches as if he were at plough , carries his Pike like a Pike-staffe , and his sword before him , for feare of losing from his side : if he be a Shot , he will be rather ready to say a Grace ouer his Peece , and so to discharge his hands of it , then to learne how to discharge it with a grace : he puts on his Armour ouer his eares , like a waste-coate , and weares his Murrian like a night-cap ; when he is quartered in the field , he looks for his bed , and when he sees his Prouant , he is readie to crie for his victuals ; and ere hee knowe well where he is , wish heartily hee were at home againe , with hanging downe his head , as if his heart were in his hose : sleepe till a Drumme , or a deadly bullet awake him , and so carrie himselfe in all Companies , that till Martiall Discipline haue seasoned his vnderstanding , he is like a Cipher among figures , an Owle among birds , a Wise man among fooles , and a shadow among men .


id: A11388
author: Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
date: 1631
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13846
sentence: 552
flesch: 76
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title:
  Picturæ loquentes. Or Pictures drawne forth in characters VVith a poeme of a maid. By Wye Saltonstall.

summary:
  C. S. S. P. D. THe eye can judge of no object in the darke : ●●en so these Pictures ●eing hidden in tene●is , could not be dis●rned , untill the Prin●r brought them to light , and set the forth to the view the world . And the●fore as they lived darknesse , and proc●ded from a minde 〈◊〉 of darke thoughts , have given them darke Dedication since for my self I desire to bee ignot● unknowne to other and for you to who I present them , I kno● no fame can redou● unto you by the ●●eane Essayes , which ●ere written Ocium ●agis foventes , quàm stu●entes gloriae , as Sheap●eards play upon their ●aten pipes , to recre●te themselves , not to get credit .


id: A05320
author: Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.
date: 1631
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15356
sentence: 514
flesch: 70
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title:
  Characterismi: or, Lentons leasures Expressed in essayes and characters, neuer before written on. By F.L. Gent.

summary:
  He is a great obseruer of mens fancy that hee ma●…●…it his lyre to that tune . And his Colter and ●…hare the emblemes of his Graue , the which hee is alwayes digging .


id: A68130
author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
title: Characters of vertues and vices in two bookes: by Ios. Hall.
date: 1608
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words: 15818
sentence: 566
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Hee hates constancie as an ear-then dulnesse , vnfit for men of spirit : and loues to change his worke and his place ; neither yet can hee bee so soone wearie of any place , as euerie place is wearie of him ; for as hee sets himselfe on worke , so others pay him with hatred ; and looke how manie maisters hee hath , so manie enemies : neither is it possible that anie should not hate him , but who know him not . Hauing once cleaued ( like a burre ) to some great mans coat , he resolues not to be shaken off with any small indignities , and finding his holde thorowly fast , casts how to insinuate yet neerer ; and therefore , hee is busie and seruile in his indeuours to please , and all his officious respects turn home to himselfe .


id: A96944
author: Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.
title: Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.
date: 1646
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mime: application/xml
words: 16795
sentence: 553
flesch: 68
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summary:
  David in this way of Poesy made an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for Saul and Ionathan . And Ieremy made the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for good Iosias . The Jewes buryed their dead with great ceremony , and had their Praeficaes , women singers , their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , their songs of mourning and lamentation , their burning of Incense and sweet odours for their Kings , and solemn mournings for their Princes .


id: A16681
author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name.
title: A strange metamorphosis of man, transformed into a vvildernesse Deciphered in characters.
date: 1634
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18533
sentence: 656
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Hee will stalke you up and downe as he were some bodie , and so he is , for hee hath a bodie , and that is all . He is tall enough of stature of himselfe , but affects a portlinesse so much , that as others helpe themselves with Corkes and Cheppeens , hee hath his Stilts upon his head , to make him seeme much higher then he is .


id: A21075
author: Earle, John, 1601?-1665.
title: Micro-cosmographie, or, A peece of the world discovered in essayes and characters.
date: 1628
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19951
sentence: 904
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Wee laugh at his foolish ●ports , but his game is our ●arnest : and his drums , ●attles and hobby-horses , ●ut the Emblems , & mock●ng of mans businesse . He is the Chr●●stians example , and the o●●mans relapse :


id: A09036
author: Parrot, Henry.
title: Cures for the itch Characters. Epigrams. Epitaphs. By H.P.
date: 1626
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mime: application/xml
words: 19782
sentence: 1041
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Hee 's seldome seene abroad vnlesse at Out-cryes , where hee forestalles all sorts of buyers on that old watch-word of No man better . Shee s any good mans better second selfe , the very mirror of true constant modesty , the carefull huswife of frugalitie , and dearest obiect of mans hearts felicitie .


id: A39707
author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
title: Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21770
sentence: 667
flesch: 69
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txt: txt/A39707.txt
summary:
  Kitchi●-stuff , or Candles ends , 't is sure to go to pot ; there is no entring any of her other Rooms , without first putting off your Shooes , as if 't were holy Ground ; and y 'ad better spit in her face then spit in 't , whilst you are there ; her Tongs and Fire-shovel , with all the res● of her Chimney-implements , serve more for ornament then use ; and you may assoon ge● her to set fire on the house , as make a fire in any Chimney besides the Kitchin one ; for her own Chimney , 't is under her Coats in her Lul●pot , with which she so bemackerels he● Thighs , as you 'd take her for a Maremaid , half fish , half flesh , by which unnatural heat she brings forth nothing but Zooterkins : I represent this Lady op●nly , and without Enigma , since her Beauty is so bright , and Vertue 's so transp●rent , as they cannot be shaddow'd nor over-clouded ; and with her conclude th●se Characters , since I cannot con●lude them with a fairer Subject .


id: A39706
author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22318
sentence: 467
flesch: 51
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title:
  Enigmaticall characters, all taken to the life from severall persons, humours, & dispositions by Rich. Fleckno.

summary:
  SHe is a degree farther from the Cloister , and nigher the world than a Beguine ; to recompence which , she is more exemplar in her manners and behaviour , walking the streets like an Image carried in procession , without stirring hand or eye , wearing her eyes just like spectacles on her nose , and not daring to scratch though it itch never so furiously for fear of transgressing the rules of modesty : whence a fly is as safe on her nose , as a thief in Sanctuary , and a flea as t' had pasport may travell where it please : Returned home she is so neat , she puts all her cloaths up i th' presse ( almost her self too ) brushing her carefully for fear of a spice of Fornication ever since she understood , man was but dust : for the world , she desies it with all its pompts and vanities ( and t is almost all the vanitie she has ) and for the Devill , she knows ' all his slights and tricks so well , as that Devill must rise betimes that couzens her ; as for the Flesh she mortifies not onely her own , but that of her hoch-pot too , giving it so strong allay of Carrots and Turnips , there is no danger of it insurrection . HE is a Lover , and the Warre is his Mistresse , whom he courts so nobly as not onely she , but all are enamour'd on him : all his thoughts are on her , and all his Ambition is to deserve her favours , and declare himself worthy of her ; he doing that in effect , which others onely talk off ; hazzard and expose his life for his Mistresse , as often as brave Action cals him to 't : Mean time , compare him but with your other fine Gallants of the Town , and you 'le see what little pittifull things they 'le seem compared to him ( just as Puppets in comparison with men )


id: A16687
author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
title: Whimzies: or, a nevv cast of characters
date: 1631
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mime: application/xml
words: 38173
sentence: 1557
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Hee ha's a warren to turne Co●…e-catcher ; where he erects a place of Ex●…cution for his ver●…in . Being as you are ennobled by des●…ent , so enabled by desert ; a patron to the le●…rned professant , and in all le●…ing a ●…ich proficient .


id: A12956
author: Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615.
date: 1615
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40693
sentence: 1426
flesch: 62
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txt: txt/A12956.txt
title:
  Satyrical essayes characters and others. Or Accurate and quick descriptions, fitted to the life of their subiects. Iohn Stephens

summary:
  Hee , a voluptuous and sensuall Swaggerer , could neuer bee reclaimed by many strong experiments ; till comming by chaunce to the Philosophicall Lecture of Socrates , hee was suddenly converted : such a sympathie there was betwixt this Philosophers doctrine , and the Disciples attention ; whereas twenty others might perhappes haue beene frustrate in the same conuersion , though their Precepts had beene equall ; because there is an invisible concordance to make them aequiualent . Which manner of instruction , respecting the qualitie and person , of method and Tutors , bee matters onely appertaining to the Parents charge . Hee holds it presumption to know , what should be looked , or thought vpon with wonder ; and therefore rather then he will exceed , hee can be lesse then himselfe : accounting it more noble to imitate the fruitfull bough which stoopes vnder a pretious burthen ; then applaud the tall eminence of a fruitlesse Birch-tree : knowing Humility is a fitter step to knowledge , then Presumption .


id: A12957
author: Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615.
date: 1615
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61256
sentence: 2022
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A12957.xml
txt: txt/A12957.txt
title:
  Essayes and characters, ironicall, and instructiue The second impression. With a new satyre in defence of common law and lawyers: mixt with reproofe against their common enemy. With many new characters, & diuers other things added; & euery thing ammended. By Iohn Stephens the yonger, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.

summary:
  And sure I thinke ( by thee ) that soules doe passe , From one to another as 〈◊〉 Did teach his times : for who can heare you name Hackney●… so o●…t but thinkes your essence came Out of a stall●…on : or indeed perchaunce , A Hackn●…y was thy ▪ whole inheritance . But Ignoramus may conceiue that I Am ouer-ea●…nest now ; and may reply , Things are as they be taken ; and indeed Things oft be taken worser then they need : But you and your additions doe expound Your hearty tryumphes vnto malice bound : Seeking ( as if you had forsworne the Law Of reason and of reuerence ) to misdrawe That ornament of men ; and to annoy The chiefest Iustice and the chiefest ioy That our law doth acknowledge : were it so As the report already seemes to know ; You should affixe vnto your tainted place , Eternity of shame and of disgrace .


