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 an extream Vitious Person.

HIs mind is a Room all hung with Aretine Postures, and he is so full of the Species, as h•…•… is incapable to imagine how any man can be honest or woman chaste. He is so bravely vicious, as h•…•… would give any one a good reward to find him out 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sin he knew not, and he would be ashamed not to commit it, when he knew it once. He is so immersed in the flesh, as all spirit is suffocated in him, and h•…•… lives not but possest by some wicked spirit, that in∣cites him to all wickedness. To say nothing of his deboichery or peccadillioes, and sins of lesser note•…•… he out-goes an Atheist in unbelief; for profanenes•…•… has no parallel, and I should offend all pious ears to mention his impiety. I will say no more then, no•…•… to be thought falsly to tax the age, with producing Monsters of Men, whose Vices no Water can purge, no Fire expiate; and whose wickedness were able to call down destruction on a Nation, if it were no•…•… averted by some pious in it yet; whose vertues, though they equal not the others vices, yet with the allowance of humane frailty, help somewhat to aleviate the wight at least.