an effeminate pillow in point of honour and courage.  He strikes when he is hot himself, not when the iron is so which he designs to work upon.  His tongue has no retentive faculty, but is always running like a fool’s drivel.  He cannot keep it within compass, but it will be always upon the ramble and playing of tricks upon a frolic, fancying of passes upon religion, State, and the persons of those that are in present authority, no matter how, to whom, or where; for his discretion is always out of the way when he has occasion to make use of it.

THE AFFECTED OR FORMAL

Is a piece of clockwork, that moves only as it is wound up and set, and not like a voluntary agent.  He is a mathematical body, nothing but punctum, linea, et superficies, and perfectly abstract from matter.  He walks as stiffly and uprightly as a dog that is taught to go on his hinder legs, and carries his hands as the other does his fore-feet.  He is very ceremonious and full of respect to himself, for no man uses those formalities that does not expect the same from others.  All his actions and words are set down in so exact a method that an indifferent accountant may cast him up to a halfpenny-farthing.  He does everything by rule, as if it were in a course of Lessius’s diet, and did not eat, but take a dose of meat and drink; and not walk, but proceed; not go, but march.  He draws up himself with admirable conduct in a very regular and well-ordered body.  All his business and affairs are junctures and transactions, and when he speaks with a man he gives him audience.  He does not carry but marshal himself, and no one member of his body politic takes place of another without due right of precedence.  He does all things by rules of proportion, and never gives himself the freedom to manage his gloves or his watch in an irregular and arbitrary way, but is always ready to render an account of his demeanour to the most strict and severe disquisition.  He sets his face as if it were cast in plaster, and never admits of any commotion in his countenance, nor so much as the innovation of a smile without serious and mature deliberation, but preserves his looks in a judicial way, according as they have always been established.

A FLATTERER

Is a dog that fawns when he bites.  He hangs bells in a man’s ears, as a carman does by his horse while he lays a heavy load upon his back.  His insinuations are like strong wine, that pleases a man’s palate till it has got within him, and then deprives him of his reason and overthrows him.  His business is to render a man a stranger to himself, and get between him and home, and then he carries him whither he pleases.  He is a spirit that inveighs away a man from himself, undertakes great matters for him, and after sells him for a slave.  He makes division not only between a man and his friends, but between a man and himself, raises a faction within him, and