he makes of him is some gull in plush.  He is one loves to hear the famous acts of citizens, whereof the gilding of the cross[88] he counts the glory of this age, and the four[89] prentices of London above all the nine[90] worthies.  He intitles himself to all the merits of his company, whether schools, hospitals, or exhibitions, in which he is joint benefactor, though four hundred years ago, and upbraids them far more than those that gave them:  yet with all this folly he has wit enough to get wealth, and in that a sufficienter man than he that is wiser.

A LASCIVIOUS MAN

Is the servant he says of many mistresses, but all are but his lust, to which only he is faithful, and none besides, and spends his best blood and spirits in the service.  His soul is the bawd to his body, and those that assist him in this nature the nearest to it.  No man abuses more the name of love, or those whom he applies this name to; for his love is like his stomach to feed on what he loves, and the end of it to surfeit and loath, till a fresh appetite rekindle him; and it kindles on any sooner than who deserve best of him.  There is a great deal of malignity in this vice, for it loves still to spoil the best things, and a virgin sometimes rather than beauty, because the undoing here is greater, and consequently his glory.  No man laughs more at his sin than he, or is so extremely tickled with the remembrance of it; and he is more violence to a modest ear than to her he defloured.  An unclean jest enters deep into him, and whatsoever you speak he will draw to lust, and his wit is never so good as here.  His unchastest part is his tongue, for that commits always what he must act seldomer; and that commits with all what he acts with few; for he is his own worst reporter, and men believe as bad of him, and yet do not believe him.  Nothing harder to his persuasion than a chaste man; and makes a scoffing miracle at it, if you tell him of a maid.  And from this mistrust it is that such men fear marriage, or at least marry such as are of bodies to be trusted, to whom only they sell that lust which they buy of others, and make their wife a revenue to their mistress.  They are men not easily reformed, because they are so little ill-persuaded of their illness, and have such pleas from man and nature.  Besides it is a jeering and flouting vice, and apt to put jests on the reprover.  Their disease only converts them, and that only when it kills them.

A RASH MAN

Is a man too quick for himself; one whose actions put a leg still before his judgement, and out-run it.  Every hot fancy or passion is the signal that sets him forward, and his reason comes still in the rear.  One that has brain enough, but not patience to digest a business, and stay the leisure of a second thought.  All deliberation is to him a kind of sloth and freezing of action, and it shall