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ng to Wood, are upon the loyalists who lost their lives in the king's service, at the end of which are epitaphs. 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. 2. Rebelion. 3. An honest subject. 4. An hypocritical convert of the times. 5. A souldier of fortune. 6. A discontented person. 7. An ambitious man. 8. The vulgar. 9. Errour. 10. Truth. 11. A selfe-seeker. 12. Pamphlets. 13. An envious man. 14. True valour. 15. Time. 16. A newter. 17. A turn-coat. 18. A moderate man. 19. A corrupt committee-man. 20. A sectary. 21. Warre. 22. Peace. 23. A drunkard. 24. A novice-preacher. 25. A scandalous preacher. 26. A grave divine. 27. A selfe-conceited man. 29. Religion. 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.] xxv. _Character of an Agitator. Printed in the Yeare 1647. 4to. pp. 7._ This concludes with the following epitome--"Hee was begotten of Lilburne (with Overton's helpe) in Newgate, nursed up by Cromwell, at first by the army, tutored by Mr. Peters, counselled by Mr. Walwin and Musgarve, patronised by Mr. Martin, (who sometimes sits in counsell with them, though a member) and is like to dye no where but at Tyburne, and that speedily, if hee repent not and reforme his erronious judgement, and his seditious treasonable practises against king, parliament, and martiall
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