Transcriber’s Note: This text was originally printed in 1608, and uses the spelling of that period. The only alterations made (for readability) are to use s rather than long-s and j rather than i, and to standardise u/v to modern convention. One or two punctuation errors have also been corrected (poems should end with full stops). Any remaining apparent errors in the text are as printed. Decorative illustrations are not marked in this plain text version. Hunterian Club No. II.--1871-2. HUMORS LOOKING GLASSE BY SAMUEL ROWLANDS _REPRINTED FROM THE FIRST EDITION_ 1608 PRINTED FOR THE HUNTERIAN CLUB 1872 HUMORS LOOKING Glasse. _LONDON._ Imprinted by _Ed. Allde_ for _William Fere-_ brand and are to be sold at his Shop in _the popes-head Pallace, right over a-_ gainst the Taverne-dore. 1608. _To his verie Loving Friend Master_ George Lee. _Esteemed friend, I pray thee take it kinde,_ _That outward action beares an inward minde,_ _What objects heere these papers do deliver,_ _Bestow the viewing of them for the giver._ _I make thee a partaker of strange sights,_ _Drawne antique works of humours vaine delights._ _A mirrour of the mad conceited shapes,_ _Of this our ages giddy-headed apes,_ _These fash’on mongers, selfe besotted men_ _Of kindred to the fowle that wore my pen,_ _Are at an howers warning to appeare,_ _And muster in sixe sheetes of Paper heere._ _And this is all at this time I bestow,_ _To evidence a greater love I owe._ Yours SAMUEL ROWLAND_S_. _Reader._ As many antique faces passe, From Barbers chaire unto his glasse, There to beholde their kinde of trim, And how they are reform’d by him, Or at _Exchang_ where Marchants greete, Confusion of the tongues do meete, As _English_, _French_, _Italian_, _Dutch_, _Spanish_, and _Scot’sh_, with divers such. So from the Presse these papers come To show the humorous shapes of some. Heere are such faces good and bad, As in a Barbers shop are had, And heere are tongues of divers kindes, According to the speakers mindes. Beholde their fashions, heare their voice, And let discretion make thy choice. SAMUELL ROWLANDS. _Epigram._