."
3. News from the new Exchange. The commonwealth of ladies. Printed in the
_year of women with out Grace_, 1650.
4. There are many countries characterized--Italy, Spain, Holland,
Scotland. 'Holland' is in verse. It bears out Earle's contemptuous
references to the Dutch. It is here called "The offscouring of the British
land."
"This indigested vomit of the sea
Fell to the Dutch by just propriety."
1672. [It will be found among Marvell's satires, but Bliss does not
mention this.]
5. "Scotland characteriz'd: in a letter to a young gentleman to dissuade
him from an intended journey thither, 1701."
6. "The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller
cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. An answer to Wither's Campo Musae. A vigorous
preface says--"To begin roundly, soundly, and profoundly, the Cavalier is
a gentleman." By John Taylor.
7. Lucifer's Lacky: the true character of a dissembling Brownist, 1641.
8. "The Tincker of Torvey: a scholler, a cobler, a tincker, a smith; with
Bluster, a seaman, travel from Billingsgate to Gravesend." 1650.
9. "The interpreter," 1622, deals with "three principall terms of state--a
puritan, a Protestant, a papist."
10. "The Joviall Crew; or the Devill turn'd Ranter." 1651.
11. [Greek: ta diapheronta]; or divine characters, in two parts, will have
an interest for Bristol readers; it is "by that late burning and shining
lamp, Master Samuel Crook, B.D., late Pastor of Wrington in Somerset, who
being dead yet speaketh." 1658.
12. "A character of the Religion and manners of Phanatiques in Generall,"
1660, includes in the list "Seekers and Enthusiasts." The last sounds
strange as _a species_.
13. "The character of an Ignoramus Doctor," 1681, recalls The
Microcosmography.
14. The captive Captain, or the restrained Cavalier," 1665, also, in part,
suggests Earle. "Of a Prison," "The anatomy of a Jayler," "The lean
Prisoner," "The restrained Cavalier and his melancholy."
15. Bliss also mentions "The character of a learned man," and gives some
choice extracts. "Our sottish and idle enthusiasts are to be reproved who
call learning but a _splendidum peccatum_." "Alexander commanded his
soldiers neither to damnify Pindarus, the poet, nor any of his family."
16. "A wandering Jew telling fortunes to Englishmen." 1640.
17. "The spiritual navigators bound for the Holy Land." 1615.
18. "The picture of a modern Whig: a dialogue between Whiglove and Double,
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