| Prefatory verses. | { | When coffee once was vended here, |
| The Alc'ran shortly did appear, | ||
| ... reformers were such widgeons, | ||
| New liquors brought in new religions. |
2. Also a character of coffee and coffee-houses. "It was first brought into England when the palats of the English were as fanaticall as their brains.... The Englishman will be a la mode de France. With the barbarous Indian he smooks tobacco: with the Turk he drinks coffee."
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 Musæ. 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.