Miscellaneous tracts Author:John Payne Collier Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To the moft Orthodoxall and reverent Corrector of ftaring haires, the fincere and jiimpjiieall rari- jier of prodheious rough barbarifme, tJfe, thriee egregious ... more »atfrenforiall animadvertifer of vagrant moustaehios, ehiefe feaoinger of ehins, and prinei- pall Head-man of the pari/h wherein he dwells. Quafi eonver- r . f f ,, font about fpeeiall fupervtsor of alt exerementall superfluities heads. for Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, and (to eonelude) a not able and fingular benefaetor to all beards in generall, Don Richardo Barbaroffa de Caefario, Tho. Nafhe wiflieth tiie highest toppe of his eontentment and felieitie, and the fhortning of all his enemies. A CUTE and amiable Dick, not Die mihi mufa virum, mufing Dick, that fhidied a whole yeare to know which was the male and female of red herrings; nor Die obfeero, Dick of all Dickes, that, in a church where the organs were defac'd, came and offred himfelfc with his pipe and taber ; nor old Dick of the Caftle, that upon the newes of the loffe of Calis, went and put a whole bird-fpit in the pike of his buckler; nor Dick Swafh, or defperate Dick, that's fuch a terrible cutter at a chyne of beefe, and devoures more meate at Ordinaries, in difcourfing of his fraies and deep acting of his flaming and hewing, than would ferve halfe a dozen brewers dray-men; nor Diek of the Cow, that mad demilance northren borderer, who plaied his prizes with the lord Joekeyfo bravely ; but paraphrafticall gallant patron Dick, as good a fellow as ever was Heigh fill the pot hofteffe; curteous Dicke, comicall Dicke, lively Dicke, lovely Dicke, learned Dicke, olde DieJof Liehf eld, jubeo te plurimum falvere, which is, by interpretation, I joy to heare thou haft fo profited in gibridge. I am fure thou wondreft not a little whatTl meane, to co...« less