“Qui ferre incommoda vitae,
   Nec jactare jugum, vita didicere magistra.”

He is as much pleased to see many men approve his choice of his wife and has as great a kindness for them, as opiniasters have for all those whom they find to agree with themselves in judgment and approve the abilities of their understandings.

A LITIGIOUS MAN

Goes to law as men do to bad houses, to spend his money and satisfy his concupiscence of wrangling.  He is a constant customer to the old reverend gentlewoman Law, and believes her to be very honest, though she picks his pockets and puts a thousand tricks and gulleries upon him.  He has a strange kindness for an action of the case, but a most passionate loyalty for the King’s writ.  A well-drawn bill and answer will draw him all the world over, and a breviate as far as the Line.  He enters the lists at Westminster like an old tiller, runs his course in law, and breaks an oath or two instead of a lance; and if he can but unhorse the defendant and get the sentence of the judges on his side, he marches off in triumph.  He prefers a cry of lawyers at the Bar before any pack of the best-mouthed dogs in all the North.  He has commonly once a term a trial of skill with some other professor of the noble science of contention at the several weapons of bill and answer, forgery, perjury, subornation, champarty, affidavit, common barretry, maintenance, &c., and though he come off with the worst, he does not greatlv care so he can but have another bout for it.  He fights with bags of money as they did heretofore with sand-bags, and he that has the heaviest has the advantage and knocks down the other, right or wrong and he suffers the penalties of the law for having no more money to show in the case.  He is a client by his order and votary of the long robe, and though he were sure the devil invented it to hide his cloven feet, he has the greater reverence for it; for, as evil manners produce good laws, the worse the inventor was the better the thing may be.  He keeps as many Knights of the Post to swear for him, as the King does poor knights at Windsor to pray for him.  When he is defendant and like to be worsted in a suit, he puts in a cross bill and becomes plaintiff; for the plainant is eldest hand, and has not only that advantage, but is understood to be the better friend to the Court, and is considered for it accordingly.

A HUMOURIST

Is a peculiar fantastic that has a wonderful natural affection to some particular kind of folly, to which he applies himself and in time becomes eminent.  ’Tis commonly some outlying whimsy of Bedlam, that, being tame and unhurtful, is suffered to go at liberty.  The more serious he is the more ridiculous he becomes, and at the same time pleases himself in earnest and others in jest.  He knows no mean, for that is inconsistent with all humour, which is