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e that is most liberall to them heere makes them sure. If they get a church their faces are the richer, and they are men of more reckoning at the bush or read lattice." "Long lived, etc." A SHOP-KEEPER. _39 in MS._ (_48 in Bliss_). "He examines the necessity of passengers, and beggs in the phrase of the giver 'with what do you lacke?'" "... _abuse his brother_. His prizes are like new playes, very dear at first view, but after you goe over them they still fall lower, and he is one who of all men you shoulde not take of his worde." "_He is your slave, etc._" A BOWL ALLEY. _38 in MS._ (_30 in Bliss_). "Say nothing." "It is their as it is at skirmishes the first man doth much, and no victory without a good leader." "_It is, etc._" After the first sentence comes in MS. "fortune is never pox't louder nor the Deuill oftener sent about errands; he is the companion that goes with every bowle, and with him the bowlers." A SHE PRECISE HYPOCRITE. (The Shee Puritane _in the MS._) _36 in MS._ (_34 in Bliss_). "Owne Parish." "And if her husband be so profaine that he will not carrie her on horsebacke to heare another preach shee will goe as far on foote to heare her selfe pray." "_She doubts, etc._" "Scruples." "Shee dareth not give a penny to a beggar for feare he be a reprobate, but shee thinkes usury lawfull upon strangers that be not her brethren." "_Shee is more fierce, etc._" "Shee is discovered though shee weare a vaile," after "_Geneva Print_." "Reads that shee hath noted, and applauds herselfe for a noble woman of Berea," after "_comes home_." After "_gossippings_," "unlesse to exercises." After "_sampler_," "save that once a year she workes a black-wrought night-cap for some reverend good man to weare, because it is against the cannon, and then she thinkes him a bishop's fellow." After "_weapons_" (weapon), "is the Practice of Piety, or else shee is armed with the sixt to the Ephesians." For "the Brownist" read "thinks that Amsterdam is erroneous." THE WEAK MAN. In the Bright MS. there are some important additions and variations in "_The Weak Man_." After the words "his brain stays behind," it goes on "He is for wit as your young travellers for languages, as much as will call for necessities and hardly that. He is not crafty enough to be a knave, nor wise enough to be honest, but the midway betwixt; a kind of harmless man. His whole vice is his indiscretion, and yet this makes him seem guilty of a
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