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SEemes in the Senate of the rest of beasts to bee as grave as any of them: but is indeed a slye and crafty Merchant. Hee is the Davus in Esops Co∣medies, and the best jests in all those Interludes are fathered upon him. Hee hath the Monopoly of the best blades in his hands; witnesse his figure ingraven thereon, forbid∣ding all to sell them with∣out his stampe. Hee is so crafty a companion, that he will not be drunke, be∣cause
he will not be over∣taken himselfe, but still lyes in wayte to catch o∣thers: and therefore when men are overtaken with drinke, they are said to be foxed. Hee is a true Pur∣veyer, because he provides and takes, not for the King, but for himselfe, upon no price, and there∣fore is hated and cursed where he comes. Hee makes no conscience of any shifts; & for a Goose, or a Ducke, or such a matter, it is but a Schol∣lers tricke with him to amend his commons with, and so passes it over without any scruple at all,
unlesse hee be taken in the manner, and then proues it a hanging matter, which halters the case quite. Hee is a great Lecturer, but reades to a company of Geese onely, when hee will bee sure to bee well paid for his paines, with a good supper, where some one of his Auditory are present. Hee is very neat in his habit, for he alwaies carries his brush with him, especially when hee rides, for then hee carries it not at his pommell, for that were not fightly, but carries it still at the Crup∣per. He hath a slye looke, and a notable leering eye
of his owne; and so good a mar-kman, as likely hee never misseth his ayme. For his eye, hee would make a notable Gunner, but that hee cannot away with a piece, especially if it lie in Ambascado, for that puts him quite out of his play. Hee cannot abide a packe of dogges, which if he should, would cost him his life. He hath his forts and holes to re∣tire into, where he feares nothing but counter∣mynes to oppose and con∣front his; for then hee is brought to a parley with his enemies, and faine to yeeld to hard conditions:
In fine, were the world turned honest againe, and all knavery banished thence, it would be found in a Foxe skinne.