A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.

Of a dull Countrey Gentleman.

BY the instructions of his Mother, he comes up to Town to get a Wife, hearing how many rich Citizens Daughters there are to marry; and when he is here, knows not what to say to them; for he sits nodding in company, like a person over∣watched, whence they commonly call him the Drow∣sie Esquire; and ask him any thing, and he stares upon you, and thinks you'd sell him a Bargain; nor can you ask him any thing he understands, except about his Horses, or his Mothers Cows; yet re∣turned to his Lodging, he and his Man John have many a dry Dialogue about Wiving and good Husbandry: For he is so miserable, as he ab∣hors the mention of the Park, or the Garden, or going to Plays, or the New Exchange, &c. And never gives his Mistress any thing above a Bottle of Ale, a Cheescake, or Pound of Cherries, when they are at cheapest. So, unless he be very rich, it will be long enough before he get a Wife; and if he be, a hundred to one, but some Wife or other gets him, and makes an Ass, if not an Ox of him.