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 an all-admirable Person.

BEauty alone is too secular a Theam for praise and vertue too Monasticall an one; together they make an excellent conjuction, so they are accompanied with goodnesse and obligingnesse; dis∣obliging Beauty else repelling as fast as it attracts (and loosing all its graces by in∣fusing them into vessels disobligingness makes bottomlesse) neither is vertue ever so honoured, when its goodnesse is con∣tracted in it self, as when tis diffusively good to all: To speak separatly than of all these perfections, which she has joint∣ly to admiration: For her Beauty all you call sweet and ravishing is in her Face; a cheerfulnesse tis joy for to behold, and a perpetuall sun-shine without any clouds at all, joyn'd with such attractive ver∣tue, as she draws all to a certain distance, and there detains and suspends them,

with reverence and admiration; none e∣ver daring to approach her nigher, nor having power to go farther off; whence that beauty, which in the dayes of Ethni∣cisme, had excited to Idolatry; now on∣ly excites to piety and devotion; suffici∣ent alone to fill the place with votius tables, and even in picture to work mi∣racles; she being still the greater miracle herself, and so all surprizing as a disease, but as taking as her eyes, would be epi∣demical, and soon depopulate all the world. Then shee's so obliging, civill, and courteous, as obligingnesse, civility, and courtesie seem to be born with her, and it is feared will dye and be buried with her in the same grave when she dyes; Her speech and behaviour being all so gentle, sweet and affable, as you may talke of Magick, but there is none charms but she; nor has complacency and observance more ready at a Beck; she (to the shame and confusion of the proud and imperious) doing more with one gentle intreaty than they with all their loud iterated commands. Whence she alone with her

sweetness and gentlenesse, would tame •…•…ierce Lions, and civilize barbarousest savages; and if there be any feircenesse •…•…nd savagenesse in the world, tis onely where she is not, and because she cannot be every where: whence Heaven seems onely to have made her so beautifull, to make vertue more lovely in her, the one serving to adorn the other; as her no∣ble obligingnesse and goodnesse does for the ornament of both.