Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and CharactersEarle, John
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Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Earle, John
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[DV] Langbaine notices a prologue intended for a play, called _The
Physician against his Will_, which he thinks was never published. A MS.
note in my copy of the _Dramatic Poets_, says it was printed in 1712.
[DW] The Bodleian library contains "_The Affections of a pious Soule, unto
our Saviour-Christ. Expressed in a mixed treatise of verse and prose. By
Richard Flecknoe._" 8vo. 1640. This I can scarcely consent to give to
_Mac_ Flecknoe, as in the address "To the Town Reader," the author informs
us that, "ashamed of the many idle hours he has spent, and to avoid the
expence of more, he has retired from the town"--and we are certain that
_Mac_ resided there long after.
xxxviii. _The Character of a Coffee-house, with the symptoms of a
Town-witt. With Allowance. April 11, 1673. London, Printed for Jonathan
Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1673._
[Folio, reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, with an answer to it, vol.
vi. 429-433.]
xxxix. _Essays of Love and Marriage: Being Letters written by two
Gentlemen, one dissuading from Love, the other an Answer thereunto. With
some Characters, and other Passages of Wit._
---- _Si quando gravabere curis,
Haec lege, pro moestae medicamine mentis habeto._
_London, Printed for H. Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard,
1673._
[12mo. pp. 103, title, &c. 4 more.]
xl. _The Character of a Fanatick. By a Person of Quality. London. 1675._
[4to. pp. 8. Reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, vii. 596.]
xli. _Character of a Towne Gallant }
of a Towne Miss }
of an honest drunken Curr }
of a pilfering Taylor }
of an Exchange Wench }
of a Sollicitor } 1675.
of a Scold }
of an ill Husband }
of a Dutchman }
of a Pawnbroker }
of a Tally Man_ }
[4to. See _Sale Catalogue_ of George Steevens, Esq. 8vo. London, 1800,
page 66, No. 1110.]
xlii. _A Whip for a Jockey: or, a Character of an Horse-courser. 1677.
London, Printed for R. H. 1677._
[8vo. pp. 29.]
xliii. _Four for a Penny, or Poor Robin's Character of an unconscionable
Pawnbroker, and Ear-mark of an oppressing Tally-man; with a friendly
Description of a Bum-bailey, and his merciless setting cur, or follower.
With Allowance. London, Printed for L. C. 1678._
[4to. reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, vol. iv. p. 141.]
xliv. _Character of an ugly Woman: or, a Hue and Cry after Beauty_, in
prose, written (by the Duke of Buckingham) in 1678. See Lord Orford's
_Royal and Noble Authors_, by Park, iii. 309.
xlv. _Character of a disbanded Courtier. Ingenium Galbae male habitat.
1681._
[Folio, pp. 2. Reprinted in the _Harleian Miscellany_, i. 356.]
xlvi. _Character of a certain ugly old P----. London, Printed in the Year
1684._
[In Oldham's _Works_, 8vo. London, 1684.]
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