His ambush is a shop-stall, or close lane, and his assault is cowardly at your back.  He respites you in no place but a tavern, where he sells his minutes dearer than a clockmaker.  The common way to run from him is through him, which is often attempted and atchieved, [[75]_and no man is more beaten out of charity._] He is one makes the street more dangerous than the highways, and men go better provided in their walks than their journey.  He is the first handsel of the young rapiers of the templers; and they are as proud of his repulse as an Hungarian of killing a Turk.  He is a moveable prison, and his hands two manacles hard to be filed off.  He is an occasioner of disloyal thoughts in the commonwealth, for he makes men hate the king’s name worse than the devil’s.

A UNIVERSITY DUN

Is a gentleman’s follower cheaply purchased, for his own money has hired him.  He is an inferior creditor of some ten shillings downwards, contracted for horse-hire, or perchance for drink, too weak to be put in suit, and he arrests your modesty.  He is now very expensive of his time, for he will wait upon your stairs a whole afternoon, and dance attendance with more patience than a gentleman-usher.  He is a sore beleaguerer of chambers, and assaults them sometimes with furious knocks; yet finds strong resistance commonly, and is kept out.  He is a great complainer of scholars loitering, for he is sure never to find them within, and yet he is the chief cause many times that makes them study.  He grumbles at the ingratitude of men that shun him for his kindness, but indeed it is his own fault, for he is too great an upbraider.  No man puts them more to their brain than he; and by shifting him off they learn to shift in the world.  Some chuse their rooms on purpose to avoid his surprisals, and think the best commodity in them his prospect.  He is like a rejected acquaintance, hunts those that care not for his company, and he knows it well enough, and yet will not keep away.  The sole place to supple him is the buttery, where he takes grievous use upon your name,[76] and he is one much wrought with good beer and rhetoric.  He is a man of most unfortunate voyages, and no gallant walks the streets to less purpose.

A STAID MAN

Is a man:  one that has taken order with himself, and sets a rule to those lawlessnesses within him:  whose life is distinct and in method, and his actions, as it were, cast up before:  not loosed into the world’s vanities, but gathered up and contracted in his station:  not scattered into many pieces of business, but that one course he takes, goes through with.  A man firm and standing in his purposes, not heaved off with each wind and passion:  that squares his expense to his coffers, and makes the total first, and then the items.  One that thinks what he does, and does what he says, and foresees what he may do before he purposes.  One whose