Rich. Flecknoe's ænigmatical characters being rather a new work, than new impression of the old.

Character 36. Of an all-admirable Person.

ALL that is sweet and ravishing is in her looks, with a chearfulness 'tis joy to be∣hold, and a perpetual sun-shine, without any clouds at all, joyn'd with so much noble ver∣tue, and attractive sweetness, as she draws youto a certain distance from her, and there suspends you betwixt Love & Reverence, none ever da∣ring to approach her nigher, nor having pow∣er to go farther off: So as that Beauty which in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dayes of Ethnicisine, had excited to Idolatry, now excites onely to Devotion; suffi∣cient to fill the place where she is with votive Tables, and to work miracles, whilst she's the greatest miracle her self; and so all sur∣prizing, as a Disease but half so taking as her eyes, wo'd be Epidemical, and depopulate all the world. Then she's so courteous and obli∣ging, as the sun and air are not more diffusive∣ly good then she; and her speech and behavi∣our so gentle and affable, as you may talk of Magick, but there's none charms but she. In a

word, her Gentleness is so great, as 'tis enough to tame the fiercest Lions, and civilize the most barbarous Savages; and if there be any fierce∣ness or savageness in the world, 'tis onely where she is not, and because she can't be every where. In fine, her Beauty, Vertue, and Obligingness is so great, as Heaven seems to have made her as she is, onely to make Beauty more vertuous, and Vertue more beautiful, by ••oyning them together with so much sweetness and gentleness.