xxiii. The Times anatomiz'd, in severall Characters. By T. F[ord, seruant to Mr. Sam. Man[DR].] Difficile est Satyram non scribere. Juv. Sat. 1. London, Printed for W. L. Anno 1647."
[12mo. in the British Museum.]
| The Contents of the severall Characters. | |
| 1. A good king. | 15. Time. |
| 2. Rebelion. | 16. A newter. |
| 3. An honest subject. | 17. A turn-coat. |
| 4. An hypocritical convert of the times. | 18. A moderate man. |
| 19. A corrupt committee-man. | |
| 5. A souldier of fortune. | 20. A sectary. |
| 6. A discontented person. | 21. Warre. |
| 7. An ambitious man. | 22. Peace. |
| 8. The vulgar. | 23. A drunkard. |
| 9. Errour. | 24. A novice-preacher. |
| 10. Truth. | 25. A scandalous preacher. |
| 11. A selfe-seeker. | 26. A grave divine. |
| 12. Pamphlets. | 27. A selfe-conceited man. |
| 13. An envious man. | 29. Religion. |
| 14. True valour. | 30. Death. |
"PAMPHLETS
Are the weekly almanacks, shewing what weather is in the state, which, like the doves of Aleppo, carry news to every part of the kingdom. They are the silent traytors that affront majesty, and abuse all authority, under the colour of an Imprimatur. Ubiquitary flies that have of late so blistered the eares of all men, that they cannot endure any solid truth. The ecchoes, whereby what is done in part of the kingdome, is heard all over. They are like the mushromes, sprung up in a night, and dead in a day; and such is the greedinesse of men's natures (in these Athenian dayes) of new, that they will rather feigne then want it."
FOOTNOTES:
[DR] (MS. interlineation in a copy among the King's pamphlets.)
xxiv. Character of a London Diurnal, 4to. 1647. [This was written by Cleveland, and has been printed in the various editions of his poems.]