and no man speaks treason more securely.  He chides great men with most boldness, and is counted for it an honest fellow.  He is grumbling much in behalf of the commonwealth, and is in prison oft for it with credit.  He is generally honest, but more generally thought so, and his downrightness credits him, as a man not well bended and crookened to the times.  In conclusion, he is not easily bad in whom this quality is nature, but the counterfeit is most dangerous, since he is disguised in a humour that professes not to disguise.

A HANDSOME HOSTESS

Is the fairer commendation of an inn, above the fair sign, or fair lodgings.  She is the loadstone that attracts men of iron, gallants and roarers, where they cleave sometimes long, and are not easily got off.  Her lips are your welcome, and your entertainment her company, which is put into the reckoning too, and is the dearest parcel in it.  No citizen’s wife is demurer than she at the first greeting, nor draws in her mouth with a chaster simper; but you may be more familiar without distaste, and she does not startle at anything.  She is the confusion of a pottle of sack more than would have been spent elsewhere, and her little jugs are accepted to have her kiss excuse them.  She may be an honest woman, but is not believed so in her parish, and no man is a greater infidel in it than her husband.

A CRITIC

Is one that has spelled over a great many books, and his observation is the orthography.  He is the surgeon of old authors, and heals the wounds of dust and ignorance.  He converses much in fragments and desunt multa’s, and if he piece it up with two lines he is more proud of that book than the author.  He runs over all sciences to peruse their syntaxis, and thinks all learning com-prised in writing Latin.  He tastes styles as some discreeter palates do wine; and tells you which is genuine, which sophisticate and bastard.  His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Caesars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus.  He writes omneis at length, and quidquid, and his gerund is most inconformable.  He is a troublesome vexer of the dead, which after so long sparing must rise up to the judgment of his castigations.  He is one that makes all books sell dearer, whilst he swells them into folios with his comments.

A SERGEANT, OR CATCH-POLE

Is one of God’s judgments; and which our roarers do only conceive terrible.  He is the properest shape wherein they fancy Satan; for he is at most but an arrester, and hell a dungeon.  He is the creditors’ hawk, wherewith they seize upon flying birds, and fetch them again in his talons.  He is the period of young gentlemen, or their full stop, for when he meets with them they can go no farther.