item: #1 of 18 id: A02441 author: Heath, John, Fellow of New College, Oxford, attributed name. 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 date: 1619 words: 7377 flesch: 86 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 . keywords: art; characters; doe; doth; english; haue; hee; iustice; loue; man; tcp; text; thee; thou; time; vnto; vpon cache: A02441.xml plain text: A02441.txt item: #2 of 18 id: A05320 author: Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640. title: Characterismi: or, Lentons leasures Expressed in essayes and characters, neuer before written on. By F.L. Gent. date: 1631 words: 15356 flesch: 70 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 . keywords: actions; bee; cause; characters; conscience; day; doe; good; hand; hath; haue; heart; hee; himselfe; leaue; lookes; loues; man; master; men; neuer; new; owne; reason; seldome; shee; tcp; text; time; tongue; vpon cache: A05320.xml plain text: A05320.txt item: #3 of 18 id: A09036 author: Parrot, Henry. title: Cures for the itch Characters. Epigrams. Epitaphs. By H.P. date: 1626 words: 19782 flesch: 82 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 . keywords: art; bee; cause; characters; come; day; death; doe; doth; giue; good; hand; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; hold; iohn; knowes; knowne; leaue; life; like; long; loue; man; men; needs; nere; new; night; pay; proue; quoth; reason; rich; sayes; shee; sir; tcp; tell; text; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; want; wife; young cache: A09036.xml plain text: A09036.txt item: #4 of 18 id: A11388 author: Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640. title: Picturæ loquentes. Or Pictures drawne forth in characters VVith a poeme of a maid. By Wye Saltonstall. date: 1631 words: 13846 flesch: 76 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 . keywords: againe; bee; characters; countrey; desires; feare; forth; good; hand; hee; himselfe; home; house; ill; keepe; knowes; love; man; marriage; men; ne're; night; owne; shee; tcp; text; thinkes; thoughts; time; world; ● ● cache: A11388.xml plain text: A11388.txt item: #5 of 18 id: A12956 author: Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615. title: Satyrical essayes characters and others. Or Accurate and quick descriptions, fitted to the life of their subiects. Iohn Stephens date: 1615 words: 40693 flesch: 62 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 . keywords: aboue; art; bee; birth; body; cause; charact; children; common; cowards; credit; death; desire; disinheritance; doe; doth; euery; feare; fortune; giues; good; hand; hath; haue; head; hee; hee bee; hee doth; hee hath; himselfe; knowledge; labour; law; lawyer; lesse; loue; man; mans; meanes; meaning; men; nature; nay; neuer; new; owne; parents; poetry; proues; publicke; question; reason; seeme; shee; text; themselues; things; thinkes; thou; time; title; vices; vnder; vpon; way; wee; worth; ● ● cache: A12956.xml plain text: A12956.txt item: #6 of 18 id: A12957 author: Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615. 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. date: 1615 words: 61256 flesch: 63 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 . keywords: aboue; aduantage; age; art; base; bee; beene; betwixt; birth; body; braine; cause; charact; character; children; common; cowards; credit; day; death; desire; doe; doth; english; est; euery; feare; fellow; fortune; friend; giue; god; good; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; hee; hee bee; hee doth; hee hath; hee neuer; himselfe; honour; hope; humour; ignorance; know; knowledge; labour; law; lawyers; lesse; lib; life; little; liues; loue; man; mans; matter; meanes; meaning; men; mens; minde; nature; nay; neuer; new; opinion; ouer; owne; parents; place; poetry; poets; proue; purchase; purpose; question; reason; saith; scorne; seeme; shee; soule; t ●; text; thee; themselues; therfore; things; thinke; thou; thought; time; title; truth; vices; vnder; vpon; way; wee; wise; wit; worke; world; worth cache: A12957.xml plain text: A12957.txt item: #7 of 18 id: A16681 author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed name. title: A strange metamorphosis of man, transformed into a vvildernesse Deciphered in characters. date: 1634 words: 18533 flesch: 76 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 . keywords: backe; bee; companion; day; fine; good; hand; hath; head; hee; hee hath; himselfe; hold; keepe; life; man; nature; owne; rest; right; seemes; set; shee; shew; tcp; text; thing; time; wildernesse; world; yea cache: A16681.xml plain text: A16681.txt item: #8 of 18 id: A16687 author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. title: Whimzies: or, a nevv cast of characters date: 1631 words: 38173 flesch: 76 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 . keywords: age; art; b ●; bee; c ●; characters; co ●; countrey; day; death; doe; e ●; earth; end; eye; feare; finde; g ●; good; h ●; hand; hath; hath hee; head; heart; hee; hee bee; hee ha; hi ●; himselfe; holds; hope; keeper; knowes; l ●; leave; lesse; life; like; long; looke; love; m ●; man; master; meanes; n ●; new; night; o ●; owne; p ●; place; play; purchase; rest; s ●; seldome; set; sh ●; shee; state; t ●; text; th ●; thou; time; time hee; use; want; way; world cache: A16687.xml plain text: A16687.txt item: #9 of 18 id: A16733 author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 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. date: 1615 words: 6947 flesch: 41 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 . keywords: glory; grace; hath; hir; honor; life; loue; mans; nature; reason; shee; spirit; time; truth; vertue; world cache: A16733.xml plain text: A16733.txt item: #10 of 18 id: A16748 author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 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. date: 1616 words: 11199 flesch: 55 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 . keywords: eye; god; good; grace; hath; heart; hee; honour; life; like; loue; man; nature; reason; sinne; spirit; summe; vertue; vpon; wealth; wisedome; wit; world cache: A16748.xml plain text: A16748.txt item: #11 of 18 id: A21075 author: Earle, John, 1601?-1665. title: Micro-cosmographie, or, A peece of the world discovered in essayes and characters. date: 1628 words: 19951 flesch: 79 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 : keywords: bee; booke; church; company; country; discourse; doe; friends; good; hath; haue; hee; hee ha; himselfe; learning; life; loues; man; men; nature; neuer; ouer; owne; place; religion; scholler; shee; tcp; text; thing; thinkes; time; vpon; way; world; ● ● cache: A21075.xml plain text: A21075.txt item: #12 of 18 id: A39493 author: Earle, John, 1601?-1665. 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. date: 1642 words: 1230 flesch: 67 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. keywords: companion; poet; pot; text cache: A39493.xml plain text: A39493.txt item: #13 of 18 id: A39706 author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678? title: Enigmaticall characters, all taken to the life from severall persons, humours, & dispositions by Rich. Fleckno. date: 1658 words: 22318 flesch: 51 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 ) keywords: alwayes; beauty; character; company; end; eyes; fine; french; good; hand; honour; house; ladies; lady; life; look; making; man; men; minde; ones; person; rest; saying; self; shee; text; thing; time; whilest; wit; words; world cache: A39706.xml plain text: A39706.txt item: #14 of 18 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 words: 21770 flesch: 69 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 . keywords: agen; alwayes; character; english; french; god; good; heaven; house; life; looks; love; man; mean; men; minde; new; rest; sayes; self; shu'd; shud; tcp; text; thing; time; way; wit; wo'd; work; world; ● d; ● e; ● y; ● ● cache: A39707.xml plain text: A39707.txt item: #15 of 18 id: A45166 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Characters of vertues and vices. 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. date: 1691 words: 6046 flesch: 80 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 . keywords: characters; english; friend; god; good; heart; life; man; ne'er; tcp; text; vertue; vice; wou'd cache: A45166.xml plain text: A45166.txt item: #16 of 18 id: A68130 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. title: Characters of vertues and vices in two bookes: by Ios. Hall. date: 1608 words: 15818 flesch: 69 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 . keywords: cares; doth; euer; feare; friend; giue; god; good; hand; hath; haue; heart; hee; himselfe; knowes; lesse; loue; man; ouer; owne; secret; tcp; text; thing; time; tongue; vertue; vpon; worke; world cache: A68130.xml plain text: A68130.txt item: #17 of 18 id: A84694 author: Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674. title: The times anatomiz'd, in severall characters. By T.F. date: 1647 words: 9653 flesch: 74 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 ) keywords: errour; good; hand; hath; hee; himselfe; kingdom; lesse; life; man; men; peace; religion; sun; text; things; time; truth; warre; way; winde cache: A84694.xml plain text: A84694.txt item: #18 of 18 id: A96944 author: Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652. title: Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet. date: 1646 words: 16795 flesch: 68 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 . keywords: blood; brave; cause; church; command; doth; elegy; faith; fire; friends; god; gods; good; great; hath; heaven; hic; himselfe; honour; jacet; king; lesse; love; man; master; men; nec; non; owne; peace; power; prince; qui; right; royall; soule; text; thee; thou; thy; vertues; world cache: A96944.xml plain text: A96944.txt