The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.

Inconstancy.

INconstancy is properly a levity and an irresolu∣tion of mind, which shewes it self in his man∣ners,

actions and words, who is touched with it. To say truth, this passion is a Divell that inhabits in a land of Quicksilver, where Earthquakes are al••ost perpetuall, windes blow on each side, and blowing, make many weather-cocks turn to & fro and every moment change posture. In this place a•• admirable creature is to be seen, who is not what she is, and is that she is not, so many faces and figures she hath: She likewise is still upon transformations, and seems to do nothing at all, but to make and unmake herself. One while she is great, another while little; one while gross, ano∣ther while sl••nder; one while affable, anoth••r while harsh; one while serious, another while gamesome, but ever slippery; and if you lay hold of her, you catch nothing. She goes forth of her lodging to appear in publique, as if she came into a Theater, cloathed one while in changeable Taf∣fata, another while with different pieces, set to∣gether out of a singular fantastick addleness of wit. She alone represents all personages, talkes with all kind of voices, and in all manner of lan∣guages, &c. H. Court.