78.]

This was written long before publication, as is proved by the following.

xlix. _Character of a Tory in 1659, in answer to that of a Trimmer (never
published) both written in King Charles's reign._

[Reprinted in the _Works of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham_.
4to. Lond. 1721.]

l. _Characters addressed to Ladies of Age._ 8vo. _Lond._ 1689.

[Brand's _Sale Catalogue_, p. 66, No. 1747.]

li. _The Ceremony-monger, his Character, in six Chapters, &c. &c. By E.
Hickeringill, Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints, in Colchester. London,
Printed and are to be sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans, without
Bishopsgate. 1689._

[4to. pp. 66.]

lii. _Character of a Jacobite. 1690._

[4to. See _Bibl. Harl._ v. No. 4279.]

* * * * *

The following are without date, but were probably printed before 1700[DX].

FOOTNOTES:

[DX] In Butler's _Remains_, published by Thyer, 2 vols. 8vo. 1759, are
several _Characters_ by the author of _Hudibras_, and consequently written
previously to this date, but as they do not appear to have been printed so
early, they cannot, with propriety, be included in this list.

liii. _Character of an Ill-court-favourite, translated from the French._

[4to. reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, ii. 50.]

liv. _Character of an honest and worthy Parliament-Man._

[Folio, reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, ii. 336.]

lv. _Characterism, or the Modern Age displayed._

[Brand's _Sale Catalogue_, No. 1757.]

_Character of the Presbyterian Pastors and People of Scotland._

[_Bibl. Harleiana_, v. No. 4280.]

vii. _Character of a compleat Physician or Naturalist[DY]._

[_Bibl. Harleiana_, v. No. 4304.]

FOOTNOTES:

[DY] In the extracts made from the foregoing series of _Characters_, the
original orthography has been most scrupulously attended to, in order to
assist in shewing the progress and variation of the English language.

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.

Page 2, line 18, for _ports_ read _sports_.

4, line 9, "_table-book._" The custom of writing in
table-books, or, as it was then expressed, "in tables,"
is noticed, and instances given in Reed's _Shakspeare_,
vi, 13. xii, 170. xviii, 88. Dr. Farmer adduces a
passage very applicable to the text, from Hall's
character of the _hypocrite_. "He will ever sit where he
may be seene best, and i