The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.

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The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.
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T. G., fl. 1616.
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London :: Printed by I[ohn] B[eale] for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleete Conduit,
1616.
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"The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01402.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Of Vices, curled haire, sweet smels, custome, condition, country.

Wee must not offend any man with our vices; for as they be foule and filthy in them∣selues; so they produce shamefull effects, and turne to our losse and reproach; it shall then be necessary for Gentlemen, and men of good behauiour to haue a regard to this measure, I speake of in going, standing, sit∣ting, iesture, apparell, port, silence, rest and action; for a man must not apparell himselfe like a woman: as in their haire and beardes frisled and curled with bod-kins: their face, necke, and handes painted or starcht; their perfumes so hot as a daintie strumpet, and themselues meerely effeminate and woman∣nish. As for apparell spoken of before, wee must vse them according to the fashion, and our calling: for we must not take vpon

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vs to alter custome at our will: for time doth beget them, and time doth also weare them out: yea, wee should apparell according to the countrey we liue in, for what peraduen∣ture is allowed in Verona, perchance would not be suffered in Venice.

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