Fifty five enigmatical characters all very exactly drawn to the life from several [brace] persons, humours, dispositions : pleasant and full of delight / by R.F. ...

CHARACTER. Of a valiant man.

HE is onely a man, your Coward and Rash, being but Tame and Savage Beasts; his courage is still the same, and drink cannot make him more valiant, nor danger lesse; his valour is enough to leaven whole Armies, and he is an Army him self worth an Army of other men: His sword is not alwayes out like chil∣drens Daggers, but he is alwayes last in beginning quarrels, though first in end∣ing them: He holds honour (though de∣licate as chrystall) yet not so slight and brittle to be broak and crackt with eve∣ry touch; therefore (though most wary of it) is not querilous nor punctilious; he is never troubled with passion, as know∣ing no degree, beyond clear courage, and is a••wayes valiant but never furious. He is the more gentle ith' chamber, more feirce he's in the field; holding boast

(the cowards valour) and cruelty (the Beasts) unworthy a valiant man: He is only coward in this, that he dares not do an unhandsome action. In fine, he can onely be overcome by discourtesie, and has but one deffect; he cannot talk much, to recompence which he dos the more.