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Sixtynine
ENIGMATICAL
Characters,
ALL
Very exactly drawn to the Life.

{ Persons,
From several { Humours,
{ Dispositions.

PLEASANT
And full of
DELIGHT.

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The Second Edition by the Author R.F.  Esquire.

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London, Printed for William Crook, at the sign of the three Bibles on Fleet Bridge, 1665.

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CHARACTER.

Of one that Zanys the good Companion.

He is a wit of an under Region, grosly imitating on the lower rope, what t’other does neatly on the higher; and is only for the laughter of the vulgar; whilst your wiser and better sort can scarcely smile at him:  He talks nothing but kennel-raked fluff, and his discourse is rather like fruit cane up rotten from the ground, than freshly gathered from the Tree.  He is so far from a courtly wit, as his breeding seems only to have been i’ th’ Suburbs; or at best, he seems only graduated good company in a Tavern (the Bedlam of wits) where men are mad rather than merry; here one breaking a jest on the Drawer, or a Candlestick; there another repeating the old end of a Play, or some bawdy song; this speaking bilk, that nonsense, whilst all with loud houting and laughter confound the Fidlers noise, who may well be call’d a noise indeed, for no Musick can be heard for them; so whilst he utters nothing but old stories, long since laught thridbare, or some stale jest broken twenty times before:  His mirth compared with theirs, new and at first hand, is just like Brokers ware in comparison with Mercers, or Long-lane compar’d unto Cheap-side:  his wit being rather the Hogs-heads than his own, favouring more of Heidelberg than of Hellicon, and he rather a drunken than a good companion.

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CHARACTER.

Of a bold abusive Wit.

He talks madly, dash, dash, without any fear at all, and never cares how he bespatters others, or defiles himself; nor ceases he till he has quite run himself out of breath; when no wonder, if to fools he seems to get the start of those who wisely pick out their way, and are as fearful of abusing others as themselves:  He has the Buffoons priviledge, of saying or doing anything without exceptions, and he will call a jealous man Cuckold, a childe of doubtful birth Bastard, and a Lady of suspected honor a Whore, and they but laugh at it; and all Scholars are Pedants; and Physicians, Quacks with him, when to be angry at it is the avowing it.  Then in