CI.—Earl of M—RA.

‘"—Commende me to a busie COUNT for a bustlinge worlde! One minute will he wooe you gallantlie at a faire Dame's toilette on his humble knee—and flie the next to bende a prouder creste than his owne, in the face of the Lordes Senate-house!—You may always meete SERASKIN at one turn or other of human ex­tremes. He will with zeale overflowinge stop to pleade the cause of the poore captive, while conveying the gauge of honourable defiance to a proude PRINCE in aide of one, whom chaunce has barred from regal blood!—Fight will he himselfe most mansullie; but, as you prize the credit of his valoure, let it be done under his own guidance special.—Punctilious is he as noble; so that he will sence with the Sages of his Sov'raine's Council untill the moone's at the full, upon the sense constructive of their own decrees!—Such outwarde workinges sway this compound man, whose minde within moves but for others goode, which dothe his owne felicitie embrace!"’

CII.—Mrs. M—NT—GU.

‘"Marry, goode Dame! but you maie well deride the partial boones of Nature, when a left-handed imitation of taste dothe so currentlie counterfeite her handi­workes!—With the redundance of mortal frailties establish me thy faire fame on matchless singularitie!—Criticise where thou can'st not comprehend; and satirize where the weak worlde doth foolishlie admire.—Like the matron of Mantua, garter thy partie-co­loured leg below the knee; and mount on the listes of meeke-cyed Charitie, by feedinge with dates and dainties one day in the Kalendar, all the sootie race of Chimnie-sweepinge boyes, that they may enjoie the luxurie of their harde fate through the remainder of the yeare!"’

CIII.—Earl of B—LF—ST.

‘"Methinks, good STEPHAND, those of my father's house did take me for a Bulle of Irishe extraction; for they set curs to bait me into madness, while more tenderlie did they select an ambling Scotte, of Gallowaye breed, for the merriment of my junior brother!—But since they drove me to the altar of sacrifice, I did ad­venture to take with me a help-meet, and there, with the aide of pious Priest, I made my maiden ^* BELLE faste, by a knot tied with my tongue, which dothe now challenge all their wise wittes to untie againe with their teethe!"’

CIV.—C—ss of ******.

CV.—Colonel C—WTH—NE.

CVI.—Lady E— B—NG—M.

CVII.—Sir F— B—LL—R.

‘"This trottinge from Courte to Courte, terme after terme, befittes not my humour well!—But since I am sworne an Administrator of the Lawes, I will see them most wholesomelie dispensed to all offendinge crea­tures, male and female!—The knaves incorrigible will I stringe like ropes of onions; and to teache conjugal obeisance to womankind, their measure of chastisement will I decree to be dealt at their husbandes handes by the Rule of THUMBE!"’

CVIII.—Lady CAROLINE C—MPB—LL.

CIX.—Earl of EGR—M—T.

‘—"When they made such Lordes as this same Compte Hugolto, they knewe their trade well, and wrought with the best materials!—Marry, Sir, you trace not him through the foiles, and doubles of your Court purlieus, but finde him on his owne domaine, like one who shrinks not at the Shrieve's officer, nor feares the reproaches of a tenantrie tortured upon rack­rentes!—Although the learned languages be as familiar to him as plaine-dealing, he offends no unlettered man with his ecce homos! or tu quoques!—The felicitie of all Heaven's creatures is his delighte, and the voice of gratitude attends it—even his houndes challenge him at viewe, on the score of his benevolence!—Whatever be the portion of his failings, the frailtie of man's nature will reasonably account for it!"’

CX.—Countess of ES—X.

‘—"On her visit to Algieres, they did elect her Empress of the gaudie Maccaws!—since which, plumes, and cheekes of various hues, have mightlie adorned her!—After this, the doctrines of ^* painted paste-b [...]ards did she estudie under the learned Jewes in Palestine! strange trickes by slight of hande were then displaied to those her sisterhoode, who crossed her luckie palme i' the sillie hope of bettering their fortunes!—So that with her Lorde's Courte dealinges, and her own dex­terous dealinges in ^* Courtlie paper, they turne the worlde right merrilie around them!"’

CXI.—The Duke of L—DS.

‘—"In good truth he hathe been piouslie nurtured; for no sooner did his sainted mother bring him forthe, than falling sound asleepe, she dreamed of sucklinge his infant Grace upon the milkie way! hence of Christian mildness doe all his manners gentlie smack.—And yet he 'll quarrel not either with a Grace, or a Muse of fire; nay, he can whisper a light thing gallantlie to a female in the darke, and tag a mendicant Epilogue, to chaunte an half-damned Plaie-wrighte out of the tortures of purgation!"’

CXII.—Lady GR—NV—LE.

CXIII.—Sir P—P—R A—D—N.

‘—"Marrie, Sir, I picked not up my common lawe as a pigeon dothe his pease, i' th' common fielde,—So will I throwe away an opinion hastilie for no man!—As everie case in pointe hathe of necessitie two sides, so hathe your libelle constitutional its texte, and contexte; out of which we sometimes make a third—to witte—your mar-texte!—But I do demean myselfe to parlie thus; because it appertaineth unto me, as Master of the Rolles to our trustie Sov'raine Lorde the Kinge, to see that on the proper side his royal breade be gliblie butter'd!"’

CXIV.—Mrs. C—P—G—Y.

‘"She is as daintie a wild-ducke as ever haunted the lake of a decoy—and, once on winge, arrest her giddie flighte who can! She hath the witte most wiselie to enacte whatever follie vanitie dothe sette before her; and a charitie so Christian-like, that she dothe barter fine foode and raiment for the emptie scraps of ped­dling poetasters!—Musique and farabands doe so in­vite her, that, with her lattice open, she'll sit through moon-light nights, unmasqued, to hear the straines of amorous serenaders, and come sorthe next morn the Arch'ress DIAN, displaieing a leg most continentlie buskined! Oh, Sir, so rarelie dothe she plaie these prettie prankes, that halfe the gapeinge worlde are cheated in beliefe that they have seen one angel upon earthe Stark mad!"’

CXV.—Earl of M—D.

‘—"To moulde a sturdie race of mortal men, you must fashion them from materials coarse and impene­trable!—Let there be none, which the teare of dull­eyed Charitie dothe melt to womanlie compassion;—but imitate the Stoique fortitude of him, whose breaste is harder than a ten weekes froste, and which no human breathe e'er thawed into benevolence!"’

CXVI.—Duchess of N—W—STLE.

CXVII.—Bishop of R—R.

‘—"I meete the prattling ABBOTTE of Glaston­burie, just as he had gotten the thorne i' the fleshe by meddling more busilie with the Lawe than the Gos­ [...] and though a preacher of obedience passive in other men, he bore the smart of his own sufferings a [...]er the manner of the priesthoode—intolerantlie!—He was clothed in lambe-skin throughout, signifying, I wotte, that he should become belle-wether to the re­verend flocke.—Journieing a little onward, I espied me the counterfeit resemblance of his worshippe, fagotted at the public Market Crosse, in full pontifi­calibus!—Marrie, quothe I, my neighbours, but this looketh like a burninge shame, to make ye of such combustible HOLINESS, a lighte to lighten the Gen­tiles!"’

CXVIII.—Lady MIL—G—N.

CXIX.—Marquis of L—T—N.

CXX.—Mrs. N—TH.

CXXI.—Alderman L—SH—N.

‘—"More headstrong are these fellowe Cittes of mine, than so manie Spannishe mules unbitted!—They delighte themselves as muche in a roasted Alder­manne on their hustinges, as a barbicued pigge in the eramminge ides of November!—And here am I, the representative sworne of such gluttonizing varlettes; compelled to bow to these stockes obeisantlie, or be dismissed their Senate-service!—make strange speeches to amuse their wilde-goose fancies!—eate with them through sirlines colde, and pasties hotte!—nay eate mine own wordes till they nearlie choake me, and all will not content them!—A plague on such servitude, saie I, where our men of Liverie doe lorde it o'er their betters, and keepe their Civicke Masters thus at painful watch, and warde!"’

CXXII.—Lady JOHN T—D.

CXXIII.—PRINCE LASC—S.

‘—"Pooh! pooh!—Nature could never mean, in wanton mockerie, to stampe me so like the thinge in veritie I am not!—Sir, I was smuggled from my cradle royal in the unfortunate hour of dark­nesse.—But, be that as it maie, each line of this faire face something majestique dothe denote; for women far and neare doate fondlie on my PRINCELIE seeming!—These finde it on my bloominge cheeke!—some in the nose of regal arche!—and others in each looke, and lineament, that marke superior birthe!—nay, there are those, who doe discern similitude of our House i' the leathern vest that dothe my rear environ!—True it is, that all these dignities are but ill provided for by sub­ject-like revenues: yet must they be uphelde; for who, yelep'd the shadowe of a Prince, could baselie crouch beneathe the slender substance of a Gentle­man!"’

CXXIV.—Countess of EX—R.

‘—"Alacke! is lordlie grandeur nought but this,—to live thus under vaulted roofes, too vaste for human wantes, and see poore folke pent up in heapes 'neath strawless houseings?—When they did tell me I was to be a Ladie noblie happy, I did expecte to holde more frequent commune with this worlde's peace; but, well a daie! time past I saw more inno­cencie 'mid the lowlie walkinges of my father's sheepe, than now I finde through all the hurley-Burleigh scenes of proude man's race!"’

CXXV.—Duke of GL—R.

CXXVI.—Hon. T. O—SL—W.

‘—"I charge you, fellowes, lay not un­courtlie handes on me!—Should you finde me not the softe sleepie sonne of a Bedchamber LORDE, tosse me in a Tailor's blankette!—Though I maie lacke vaste possessions of landes and beeves, I am a huge in­heritor of pride, and that 's enough for me:—so looke too 't—for he must have more follie than doth apper­tain to my share who contends with the first begotten of a race, so riche in oftentation human!"’

CXXVII.—Mrs. M—LLS.

‘—"And this be a LORDE's mansion, I'd have you to knowe, that I and mine have beene housed in a better!—We knewe what was what before we did departe from Merrie Wakefielde to joine the Londonne Gentrie!—My goode man, and it like your Ladieship, was a clothier, and so it bechanced that I became so marvelouslie dressed!—For my parte, I like everie thinge that is goode for the outside, as well as within; and the best will be the best, after all!—Small as I appeare, and little as your Ladieship maie think it, I am worthe no lesse than ten thousand du­cattes, simplie as I stand apparelled before you!"’

CXXVIII.—Mrs. BR—ST—W.

CXXIX.—THE LORD M—Y—R.

‘—"This Sir KNIGHTE that would be, was a thrivinge baker of unleavened biscuite, and his counte­nance being combustiblie inclined, did take much fire at the mouthe of his own oven!—He banquetted sumptu­cuslie whole troopes of Courtiers, in vessels of sretted silver, in honour of his own nativitie, while poore men were crying aloud for bread-corne, which they were forbidden to taste, and therefore lamented the houre they were born!—His fellowe Cittes did proclaim in waggerie that he was himself but slacklie ba [...]ed; but that heeded he not, while he could contrive to gette a goodlie cutte at the Loafe of State, and thence lay up in store, the crumbes of his owne comforte!"’

CXXX.—Earl of ORF—D.

‘—"Why shoulde they make any one of God's fraile creatures a mightie man against his wille, when so many packes of hungrie knaves are huntinge nighte and daie for lordlie honoures!—A title is to me no more than a potte of founding mettal is when tied perforce to a poor curre's taile, and which, with all his mighte, he cannot shuffle off!—I had rather be an indentured binder of bookes, and stiche mine owne workes in humble coveringe of vellum, than the pa­ramount Duke in Palestine, enrobed in golde, and er­mine!"’

CXXXI.—Lady M—LB—NE.

CXXXII.—Lady BRIDGET T—LL—M—CHE.

CXXXIII.—Sir JAMES M— P—LT—Y.

‘"Tell me, Bellostern, did I not delineate their militarie exploites on the Continente, with marvellous circum­stantiation? When we were cussed like frogges acrosse the dykes o' the Low Countries, sente I not over cou­riers to them of victories atchieved, and i' the face of the Senate, vouched I not the veritie of mine own Commentaries?—And howe for all those deedes have they repaide me? I asked but to be ennobled after the manner of others of like deserts, when they did re­nounce my suite who profitted of my service; so that I was compelled to become the founder of mine owne honours, by creating myselfe a Knighte of the BATHE!"’

CXXXIV.—Mrs. H—ST—GS.

‘—"Marke me that fictionne fretted on the clothe in golde, and priestlie purple! A tale it is in veriue, though here by holie fabuliste proclaimed!—She on the righte, with precious jewelrie bedecked, is the 'witch­ing Sheba, who rose and journied with the Sunne, to visitte Solomon in all his glorie!—To winne him o'er to Eastern dalliance, see howe her pliante bodie she dothe bende ev'n to the grounde she sprang from!—and lo! her eyes by basselisques bequeathed, do rivette on his frame the silke-worme chaine she wroughte for his enthraldomme!"’

CXXXV.—Alderman B—K W—TS—N.

‘"My Warde of ^* Coblers, revengeful of the fin I loste, are sworne devourers of the jowles of Coddo, with shoulders huge 'pertaininge!—These simple knaves of gluttonie, but little wotte that I did tempte the prowlinge Sharke to plaie with me i' the waters, that I mighte learne of him voracious artes aright;—and howe, like this purveyor of the deepe, to boulte what­ever floated tempting to the eye!—I heede not then the shapeful limbe I loste—for, down the jawe capacious of a Greenlande Whale alike the gorged PROPHET would I hoppe, so I might gaine more worldlie wis­dome by the dreade descente!"’

CXXXVI.—Mrs. B—RW—L.

CXXXVII.—Princess AMELIA.

CXXXVIII.—Major-General M—C—D.

‘"I knowe the savage HUNTER well; like his owne HOUNDES he dothe himselfe delighte in human bloode! When he let slip his thirstful dogges of warre, he did insultinglie denounce my northerne nose as not well-sensed for the fielde! therefore, as village curie, must I pursue, and yelpinge marre the chace I cannot share!"’

CXXXIX.—Lady D—D—Y and W—D.

‘"Touchinge at the samed Island of Madeira, the na­tives did courte her Excellencie to sojourne there, fan­cieing that their vintage might purple more richlie under her roseate influence! On this we gave our canvasse to the windes, lest our own Britain might it­self be spoiled of a countenance, which argufied the better deedes of the goode creature!"’

CXL.—Mr. WH—TB—D, Sen.

‘—"This is he, who dothe an oylie beverage compounde, to cheere the honest vaslalles of our isle! Of liquor stoute he hoops ye countlesse caskes; though he makes no if, nor butte, in which to bung up his benevolence. He hathe a harte so faire abroache to silent charitie, that never can it reache the lees;—nay, looke at his verie beastes of burden!—do they not shine out the kindlie semblance of their master's face upon the polished surface of their well-sed skinnes?"’

CXLI.—Right Hon. T. H—RL—Y.

‘"Well have they stamped VIRGISTERN father of the capitalle, whose heade Dan TIME has silvered o'er so honourablie in theire servitude! Unlike the cloudie-witted Cittes his fellowes, he taketh not his sleepe and foode as dull provocatives to eache other's joie; for, his commercial duties done, he hies him to the noble culture of his soile, and thus standes he ad­mired in eache, the civicke championne, and the ruralle Lorde!"’

CXLII.—Marchioness of D—N—G—L.

CXLIII.—Mr. M. A. T—L—R.

CXLIV.—Lady AUGUSTA CL—V—G.

CXLV.—M—q—s of B—K—H—M.

CXLVI.—Lady E—TH R—CK—TS.

‘"I doe remember me, a faire, and noble maiden of Padua, so envied for her beautie, that some of her owne sexe did chronicle against her lovelinesse, tideings, false, as they were foule! but, in good soothe, Justice did amende her damaged fame with so rounde a summe in duckattes, that she was constrained to call a hus­bande in to counte them!—marry, from hence it wag­gishlie was said, that her Ladieship did drawe her wedding sheetes from out the libertie of our presse!"’

CXLVII—Vice-Admiral C—NW—S.

‘—"That same blustering Ocean, let me tell you, Neighbour, breedes us a fewe odde monsters, as trouble­some as itselfe!—It is an element on which the circumnavigators of our Sovereign Lorde doe saile too ofte in chace of their owne phantasies! Some, like the moodie animals in Noah's daies, you can­not drive on boarde their barque with pitch-forkes; while others, muleishlie inclined, will hardlie quitte the mountain ARKE when it be stranded!"’

CXLVIII.—Lady SM—H B—G—SS.

CXLIX.—Lord M—LD—N.

‘"In these aristocratique daies, 't is well there be some littel LORDES, who can devise the meanes to make themselves lesse: such are your sillie knaves, who, setting not their bartes on aught substantial, will bar­ter you the charmes of a delectable mistresse for the more fleetinge semblance of a Prince's favour!—These fellowes, without the spirit to protect a woman, will provoke you one of our most puissante Lordes to single combatte, and after all he toucheth not his dou­blette, though it be swollen out as huge as an Isling­towne haystacke!"’

CL.—D—ss of M—LB—GH.

CLI.—Sir W—TK—N L—W—S.

‘"I have kepte my Sabbathes in potte houses to a scur­vie tune, if these varlette Citizens, whom I have so nightlie drenched, do turne their ungrateful tailes upon me, now that my Welch ale is upon the lees!—But I will hie me to the lordlie ruler of our isle, and aske of him, whom I have followed through thicke and thinne, whether my deserts do entitle me to no better fate than to be turned up like a worn-out gander, to starve upon a common!"’

CLII.—C—ss of CH—M—D—Y.

CLIII.—Sir JOHN H—PSL—Y.

‘—"The nurse who first proclaimed my goodlie nose must have predicted unwiselie, for it has led me on a wrong scent from it's nativitie to the present daie! If men's wives did marvelle in admiration of it in my youthe, their witlesse Lordes were sett upon their guard by this precursor of my approach! and now 't is dwindled to a gibeing stocke for the honourable Virgin­nes of the Courte to giggle at!—Since I have commenced Courtlie Sir, our witcrackers have cudgelled me with mine own weapons; nay the holie Pontiffe's blessing has availed me nought in the honours it procured, for my constituents have laughed this bloodie hand to scorne, because, forsoothe, they found it not bleede freelie!"’

CLIV.—Lady H—G—ST—N.

CLV.—Duke of Q—SB—Y.

‘"That can be no other than the Compte Falsteinberg, who still wears the gaie doublette of youthe, for having wrestled so long with Gaffer Time without a falle! He hath so beshattered the optical nerve of his nether eye, by gazing beautie from it's countenance, that it latelie went out like a small lighte in a strong winde!—Nowe puts he more confidence in Women, and but little in Princes, thinking hereby to leade a life that is uprighte, and Christian-like! Although insirmities manifolde do besette him, the milke of human kindnesse flows so rounde his weather-beaten harte, that when the ballance of his frail account is strucke, his follies shall weigh but as a feather, light against him!"’

CLVI.—Mrs. M. A. T—YL—R.

CLVII.—The P— of —.

CLVIII.—Mrs. ST—T.

‘"Goe, Gertrude, and informe my Lorde the Kynge's Chiefe Justice, that though a weake, and sillie woman, I doe defie the power of his denunciations legal!—Tell him to boote, that, malgre his bar-points, I must have nightlie a cocke on my carde, though I do pennance for it by forfeiture of goodes, and chattalles! If his Lord­ship dothe saie trulie that I have lost the sense of shame, I can looke for it through any wooden ^* tellescope in the face of the worlde, without further expenditure of blushinge!"’

CLIX.—Admiral Sir A— G—RD—R.

CLX.—Lady M—N—RS.

CLXI.—Earl of C—V—Y.

‘—"I doe still prefer the rogueish twinkeling of an hazel eye, to any other constellation; and yet the spiteful jades reporte I am grown olde, and ebbing faste to dotage! Marry but it likes me not to fall into the vale of yeares, because possession there is at the will of another Lorde, and deathe the fine cer­tain for the fee-simple of a sinful life!—Were I not to encounter in the other worlde, wives, and doxies who have paid the debt of nature's frailties half a centurie before me, I might not heede this journie­ing hence; but to be clapper-clawed bothe here, and hereafter, is a pennance too harde for any mortal sinning!"’

CLXII.—Miss SN—W.

‘"That faire embodied masse is one of the mountain Appenines, for ever capt with Snowe! Whene'er the Sunne dothe woo her with his smiles right lustilie, charmed with his warme embrace, she melting yieldes unto his wille, and then poures forthe a genial current to the worlde belowe!"’

CLXIII.—Mr. BR—D—L.

‘"I knewe that whimsical Sir Hugo well, who waged knighte-errantrie against his own sweete peace! In a sunne-shinie day, one might see him, like an arrant schoole-boy, making duckes and drakes with the fleet­inge comfortes of human life! At other times would he stand slip-shod at his lattice, to kicke the purest bless­inges from his thresholde! With so unreasonable an eare for musique was he born, that he would forsake all the harmonies of his owne housholde, only to carry the cracked lute of a lewd minstrel, from Padua to Verona!"’

CLXIV.—Lady ANN L—MB—N.

‘—"Lowe on my bended knees I praie you pause, And viewe the dreadful precipice you neare With steppes unhallowed! Quick'ie tread them back, And Time oblivious soone shall raze them out. No longer let the proude, and parent soure Attainte the lesser vessels of your bloode, To pour dishonour foule on all our race!"’

CLXV.—Sir G. P. T—R.

‘"Which meddling Sir among you, can fathome the minde of a greate man by the shallownesse of his everie daie understanding?—As to mine own selfe, let my deedes challenge their paramount desertes: am I not political, comical, scientifical, pragmatical, naie per­chance poetical, according to the quarterly variations of St. Dunstan's chimes?—In the Senate, I doe speake mar­velloussie without booke; and, returning home, can, upon a pinche, threade a needle for a faire sempstresse, though I doe pricke my littel finger in the atchieve­mente!—In a worde, I emploie the passing houres more in wisdom and sound discretion, than any other of our motlie Squires to be met with in Salamanca!"’

CLXVI.—Countess of G—F—D.

‘"Come, come, Blanche, on the worlde let us sette its proper value!—'tis this same wealthe dothe yielde to us women, all that our little hartes so sobbe, and sighe for. Marry, I tell thee, Girl, that monie is a matche as well as mischiefe-maker; for though it sett half mankind at loggerheades, it sweetlie bindes the better parte in golden-bondage!—Had my Lorde been even blinde to my at­tractions personal, (which Heaven forbade), he had witte enough at will to spie endowments in me, which out­live the short heighos of a bridal honie-moone!"’

CLXVII.—Lord D—L—V—L.

‘"A plague on these female musquitoes!—why do they keep buzzing about the fraile parte of man, after he is paste flie-blowing?—The jades know my weaknesse, and practise lasciviouslie upon it: and yet the lees of life are sweetened only by their cajoleries!—Men, it seems, have different tastes and palates; for mine own parte, I am for plaine sauce to my pickled gurnette! give me but a fine wenche and a fiddle, and consign all the witchinge whoredoms of BABYLON to my Lordes the Bench of B—S!"’

CLXVIII.—Miss K—P—L.

CLXIX.—Bishop of B—R.

‘—"Pshawe! my good Lorde of Canterburie! nowe are you grown more meeke, than trulie sapient. If, for a little manual batterie in defence of our Holie Churche, they be suffered to assault me legallie—'tis well!—By St. Paule, I stretched out mine arme of fleshe but to subdue the wratheful spirit of the sinful man. In veritie he did refuse salvation in mine own way, that I might humble him to the grounde, and thus from eternal bondage save him! Should they still squib their pop-gun quidlibets at nisi prius—appeal­ing to our Alma Mater, I must bring her Cannon Lawe in my defence:—nay, and they more enchafe my mitred browes, malgre my wife's salt teares, by the masse, as Abbotte of BANGOR, but I will lay right lustilie about me!"’

CLXX.—Lady W—L—GH—Y of E—BY.

CLXXI.—Sir G—DF—Y W—R.

‘—"And you should see Sir Godbolde's pette Ewe passe the mountaine, doe his Worshippe a goode turne, honest shepherde, and make reporte of her right speedilie!—The poore Knight hathe lamentablie lost in her, four quarters of as prettie muttone as ever sheepishlie looked tuppe i' th' face!—We doe marvel what the murrain could aile her, unless she was stricken with the gad-flie, and argyle on our Southerne Downes, could not decentlie contain herself!—Marry, I doe fear at best she will return to us too full of unlaw­ful lambe, to be fit foode for any but FOXES to de­voure!"’

CLXXII.—Hon. Miss R—.

CLXXIII.—Earl of ER—L.

‘"As you are more sharpe-witted than myselfe, I do subscribe most voluntarilie to your opinion:—so thus it simplie standes:—‘'by foregoing my title, I am the more entitled to be a Gentleman than when I was a Lorde;'’—for say you trulie, that Gentlemen were made ere Lordes were created, or begotten; ergo, Lordships were fabricated but to make new-fangled Gentrie, which we, of original stocke, stand not in neede of. In veritie then it is a problem most cleare, that I do think it long till I am beridden of my Lordlie title, and be­come the prettie kinde of Gentleman that you do de­voutlie wish to see me!"’

CLXXIV.—Lady A—KL—D.

CLXXV.—Rev. Dr. R—ND—PH.

‘—"Looke ye, Sirs! as a man of holie life and con­versation, I doe expecte to be entreated with all priestlie reverence!—I'll take the sinnes of no fraile fleshe in christendom more than what I bear alreadie.—I deli­vered the pacquet royalle with my own handes, and sawe it booked, ‘'by the whole dutie of manne!'’—Touchinge the Golden Coinage of our Sov'rain Liege, I know nought—for by the masse if it did journie with me it chinked not! That I placed this pacquet in the right roade to salvation, is true as lighte! let those who did pervert it to purposes of darkness therefore be responsible.—If the worlde, putting ‘'faithe in my goode workes,'’ do be­lieve me, ‘'well!'’—if not, I pleade my benefitte of Clergy!"’

CLXXVI.—M—n—ss of ST—F—D.

CLXXVII.—Marquis of B—TH.

‘"Slave! bring me another stoope of Canarie, and then leave me to my lucubrations!—In taking offe all my bon companions, Dame Fate hathe rather run me harde; for nowe am I doom'd, bottle after bottle, to re­count my loss of those who popped off before me, like decayed corkes from wine upon the frette!—So here incessantlie sit I, to drink a requiem to their jollie soules!"’

CLXXVIII.—Hon. Mrs. B—V—RIE.

‘—"Oh! she hathe an unconquerable spirit in matters of public concerne; and so zealous for the well doinge of the common weale, that she kicked her tailor down staires, onlie, forsoothe, because he had made a costlie robe of state for the Queene's Majestie, when she looked to be sole Regent of the People!"’

CLXXIX.—Duke of M—NCH—R.

‘"I viewed him on the margin of the Thames, plyeing a pair of oares, as if he had to earn a scantie liveli­hoode by buffeting the foamie tide!—Whether his Grace will thus bequalifie himself the better for affaires of state, I wotte not; but, certes, he must be well prepared for the worste of times; because, by the dexterous use of his scull, he maie contrive at least to keepe his owne heade above the water!"’

CLXXX.—Princess S—PH—A of GL—R.

CLXXXI.—Sir WILLIAM G—RY.

‘—"To the SULTAN's prime Mufti am I indebitted for mine election, who deigned to choose me publicke spendthrifte of mine own privie purse for the benefitte of the State! The nexte honour I do looke for, is a permission, under his Highness's hande and seale, to builde an hospitalle for courtlie lunatiques, and to be named sole Governor thereof myselfe, at special times, whene'er the moone be at her fulle!"’

CLXXXII.—Hon. Mrs. N—TH.

‘—"Oh! there is a giddie worme within this un­subdued fleshe of mine, that will not die, and which neither travel e, nor the arte spiritualle of my mitred LORDE can ever sette at reste!"’

CLXXXIII.—Hon. Capt. GEORGE B—KL—Y.

‘"The faulte must lie at his own doore, if a warfareing man be not accounted valorous in the world's weake judgement at the least!—Why hathe he the gifte of tongue, but to promulgate deedes, which did not reach the eyes of ordinarie observers?—Marry, to make Fame's records surer on your side, call forthe the Limner's arte, which dothe bepaint right lustilie beyond the life, and he will so beblazon fiction's feates to after­times, that they shall long survive the short-lived va­loure of your fighting Sirs!"—’

CLXXXIV.—Duchess of N—TH—B—D.

CLXXXV.—Earl of L—SD—LE.

‘—"That is the manne to my thinking on the score of valour personal, who can fighte with all heaven's creatures more heartilie than feede them!—Such an one is constrained to delve into the hungrie bowels of the laude, in searche of wealthe he lacketh not; thus procreating convulsions under grounde, and making her people with their mother earthe to quake!—Of such almightie men, Marvino, they now-a-daies doe moulde their Lordes, so that their constitution politique be not sapped by more desperate underminers!"’

CLXXXVI.—Mrs. M. A. T—YL—R.
[Her Second SUFFRAGE.]

CLXXXVII.—Lord M—LMS—Y.

‘—"Oh, Sir, their choice did well devolve on him, so artfullie ordained to nibble things asunder!—Marked you not, in Regencies of yore, how well he did essay to gnawe the ligatures in twaine, which had so long up­held the canopie o' the State?—Who then so fitte to trie his skilfulle toothe upon the newer cordage that dothe more slightlie binde the destinies of France!—Trust to 't, the deede he 'll doe, if that his ratteish nose be not ensnared within the fresh-filed trappe of thier new republique!"’

CLXXXVIII.—Miss ST—RT.

CLXXXIX.—Sir WM. P—LT—Y.

‘—"Naie, and what of that?—If manne be borne of earthlie minde, let him be forthwith nomi­nated Purveyor-General in peccadilloe of that duste, to which worm-like he must returne;—I knewe me such an one, the strange inhabitant of a venerable dwellinge, who did escape taxation of all windowe lattices, by contenting himselfe with the simple lu­minations of his owne braine!—there satre he, time out of patience, exorbitantlie measuring forth to needie trowel-menne, his owne soile by the inch square!—thus he grewe abundant in his wealthe, until the maine beames of his mansion did becracke with the sterling weighte of golde, incontinentlie piled up!"’

CXC.—Madame S—W—L—GH.

‘"Mine Got! but dey doe belie his royalle youthe most marvelouslie!—By mine trute, but he be growne both a sveete, and a goote P [...]ince! Vhy—in his grace he now be so font of me, that he dothe wisitre de bedde in mine affliction, and plaie with efferie littel haire upon mine cheeke!—then he dothe talke of mine ducattes so kindlie, az eef dey ve [...] his owne!—naie, I doe be­liefe dat he vould kindl [...]e take dem into his own royalle keepinge, for de comforte of mine old age!—Oh! he be de sveeiest, and de visest Prince that ever did spring from the Royalle stocke of Yarmanny!"’

CXCI.—Alderman C—MBE.

‘—"Sir, I tell you, though I am a brewer of browne stoute, these civique honours sitte not lightlie on my shoulders. True it is, that I have raised my­selfe, from a man o' the Common Liverie, to be a chiefe o'er Common Counsellors i' the Easte, while my com­panions i' the West did declare unto me, that 'robes and fuired gownes hide all!' Marry, Sir, if that were so, the Cittes had not espied the shaking of my elbowe beneath an Aldermanique gabardine!—I tell you once againe, these civique honours sitte not light upon me!"’

CXCII.—Lady H— S—YM—R.

CXCIII.—Bishop W—TS—N.

‘—"Suppose that he be an ABBOTTE cloathed in priestehoode, he will prove no worme-eaten buttrasse to our Mother Churche on this side the grave, or I have mista'en his Reverence hugelie! Whilst his bretheren in the houre of jeopardie did turn their mitres into night-cappes, from their meeke propensitie to dozeing, he bestirred lustilie in his vocation, and stoode him forthe the true defender of our Christianne faithe!—Hence is yclep'd the holie Al-hymiste, because he dothe extracte for men's mindes, the puritie of earthlie comforte from the cruscible of his owne benevolence!"’

CXCIV.—Lord C—M—LF—D.

‘—"Avaste, my brinie messemates!—if you thwa [...]e, and turn him blufflie nose to tide, the spraye of his wrathe will souse some of you sore and afte, I tell ye!—Only ease him, d'ye see, a point or two from the winde, and you 'll ride safelie with him through the roughest weather!—Neither your Courtes nor crownettes, bilboes nor bastinadoes, can warpe him from sait water, which he delights in like a wild-ducke!—He met the Algerine but t'other day, who gave him so short an allowance of comfort on board his corsair!—my limbs! but he rubbed out the old score with his rattan upon his Barbary shoulders, till the Sea-calfe roared out for mereie he had never [...]ew [...]!—The younker is a pickled fish, that's certain—but a goode office goes with him through life, while a dirtie one never slippe, his reckoninge!"’

CXCV.—Miss M—L—S.

CXCVI.—Lord R—LLE.

‘—"Certes, SIRE, a man may plaie the foole in lowe life in order to his exaltation; but having at­tained a Lordshippe paramount, he cannot continue to execute the humble things that appertain themselves to simple common-hoode!—True it is, my LIEGE, that our vassalage of DEVONNE have swerved from their betrothed allegiance to the Ruler of your State. Deign you to aske, why I, with all my mighte and zeale, did not prevent it?—my answer, SIRE, is short­lie this: I could have dispersed the sturdie knaves with the bare breathe of my lordlie nostrils, though they had swarmed like pilchardes on our coaste; but since it did beplease your Highnesse to shape from me a PEER of Brittaine's realme—marry I've other fishe to frie!"’

CXCVII.—Lady ELIZ. L—T—L.

‘"What an Irishe howle is here sette up, about the departure of a paltrie rouleau of light guineas, for which I gave a draughte upon my monie-holder's banke, for value not received!—A Bill of Plai [...], not being stamped for honourable purpose, ought not, by legalle custom of exchange, to be dulie honoured; therefore did I counter-cheque my order, which, in the weaknesse of womanhoode, I had issued; and for this onlie hathe my saire fame been scandalouslie beslurred throughout the capital!—But if I have not ample ven­g [...]ance on that dealer in odde trickes, may I never sette cocke upon a carde againe!"’

CXCVIII.—Mr. T—RN—Y.

‘—"Canvasse me the voters wives of Southwarke, for I must batter the hustinges once more with the cuckoldie heades of their Lordes and Masters!—Since no lawe, dead or living, can denominate this a treate, kisse me also their spinster daughters throughout the Mint, being heedful that the hussies do not warmlie paie you back in your own coine!—Having stayed the trencher worke of my opponent, perchance I may the electors starve into a just opinion of mine own desert.—I have told them roundlie, that a freed-man must come to the polle with an emptie stomach, to preserve a sounde constitution, and that he can swallowe nought but my wordes without a deep transgression of the statute lawe:—if this avail me not, there will be no trap­pinge the warie knaves, either full, or fastinge!"’

CXCIX.—Hon. Miss H—Y.

‘—"By my knighthoode but she is a comlie lasse! and so expert a mistresse in the arte of signalles, that she can make you a mirrour of her own 'kerchiefe, and, by the quicknesse of her eye, reade its reflected answers from one streete's end to the other. In good soothe, this faire dame is in a faire way to be mar­velouslie signalized!"’

CC.—Mr. W—LB—F—CE.

‘"Mark me nowe, Honourable Sirs! although manne's conscience be enslaved, may not his bodie still be free, and active to the warie purports of his minde!—For mine own parte, I had, in Christianne veritie, an earlie calle unto the humbler pathes of grace;—whate'er the proffitte of it be in this vaine worlde, I take it as a foretaste of my future recompence in that which is to come!—Nay, and it be our sacred privilege, goode Se­nators, to trafficke in pietie, we must be allowed to barter the superfluxe of spiritual concerns, to insure our own political salvation!"’

CCI.—Lady S—MP—N.

‘—"If she be an old Puss too proude and statelie to catch a mouse i' the barne, she were as well, for the quiet of the house, to be without her clawes!—A mur­rain seize your tabbie CATTES, say I!—what a spittinge and meweinge doe they sette up, to make the braw­linges of a high winde more hideous! Woe betide the restless tenants of that roose, o'er the pann-tiles of which these whiskered wizzardes doe rantipole it so shrewishlie!"’

CCII.—Mr. C. ATK—N.

‘—"Blesse the poore manne's odde wittes, that will never let his heade reste but in stations too ex­alted! Here have they thruste it once more into our Senate House, where the wagges doe throwe their jokes and jibes more cuttinglie about them, that your poul­terers wives their filthie egges at Martin-masse!"’

CCIII—Ald—n P—CK—T.

‘—"When they did expunge those emptie heades from off the frontler of our Citie's gate, mine own was sette thereon, and did most wittinglie devise how to dismantle our Temple's barre to pub [...]ique inter cursion. It doth seeme, to builde a civique fame, one must be constrained to pull you down the stouter workes of an­tient men!—But the minde, my masters, must be kept in concussion, or the braine of an ordinarie citizen would soon curdle over, like greene duck-weede on a gardenne ponde!"’

CCIV.—Lady H—THC—TE.