177

A poor man 179

An ordinary honest man 181

A suspicious, or jealous man 183

APPENDIX.

Some account of bishop Earle[AS] 186

Characters of bishop Earle 194

List of Dr. Earle's Works 197

Lines on sir John Burroughs 199

Lines on the death of the earl of Pembroke 201

Lines on Mr. Beaumont 203

Dedication to the Latin translation of the [Greek: Eikon Basilike] 207

Inscription on Dr. Heylin's monument 211

Correspondence between Dr. Earle and Mr. Bagster 213

Inscription in Streglethorp church 217

Chronological List of Books of Characters, from 1567
to 1700 219

Corrections and additions 279

A note on bishop Earle's arms, from _Guillim's Heraldry_ 282

_Supplementary Appendix, 1897, (Durham MS., Letters
of Earle and Clarendon, etc.)_ 303

FOOTNOTES:

[AS] It will be remarked, that Dr. Earle's name is frequently spelled
_Earle_ and _Earles_ in the following pages. Wherever the editor has had
occasion to use the name himself, he has invariably called it _Earle_,
conceiving that to be the proper orthography. Wherever it is found
_Earles_, he has attended strictly to the original, from which the article
or information has been derived.

TO THE READER[AT].

I have (for once) adventured to play the midwife's part, helping to bring
forth these infants into the world, which the father would have smothered;
who having left them lapt up in loose sheets, as soon as his fancy was
delivered of them, written especially for his private recreation, to pass
away the time in the country, and by the forcible request of friends drawn
from him: yet, passing severally from hand to hand, in written copies,
grew at length to be a pretty number in a little volume: and among so many
sundry dispersed transcripts, some very imperfect and surreptitious had