. Thackerayana;. covery of humours, especially in the losers, where you have finevariety of impatience, whilst some fret, some rail, some swear, andothers more ridiculously comfort themselves with philosophy. Togive you the moral of it, it is the emblem of the world, or theworlds ambition ; where most are short, or over, or wide, or wrong-biassed, and some few justle in to the mistress of fortune. And itis here as in the court, where the nearest are most spited, and allblows aimed at the toucher. A Handsome Hostess. A handsome hostess is the fairer commen-dation of an inn, above the fair sign,
. Thackerayana;. covery of humours, especially in the losers, where you have finevariety of impatience, whilst some fret, some rail, some swear, andothers more ridiculously comfort themselves with philosophy. Togive you the moral of it, it is the emblem of the world, or theworlds ambition ; where most are short, or over, or wide, or wrong-biassed, and some few justle in to the mistress of fortune. And itis here as in the court, where the nearest are most spited, and allblows aimed at the toucher. A Handsome Hostess. A handsome hostess is the fairer commen-dation of an inn, above the fair sign, orfair lodgings. She is the loadstone thatattracts men of iron, gallants and roarers,where they cleave sometimes long, and arenot easily got off. Her lips are your wel-come, and your entertainment her com-pany, which is put into the reckoning too,and is the dearest parcel in it. No citi-zens wife is demurer than she at the first greeting, nor draws inher mouth with a chaster simper ; but you may be more familiar. EARLES MICROCOSMOGRAPHY. 191 without distaste, and she does not startle at a loose jest. She is theconfusion of a pottle of sack more than would have been spentelsewhere, and her little jugs are accepted to have her kiss excusethem. She may be an honest woman, but is not believed so in herparish, and no man is a greater infidel in it than her husband. A Poor Fiddler. A poor fiddler is a man and a fiddle out ofcase, and he in worse case than his that rubs two sticks together (as theIndians strike fire), and rubs a poorliving oat of it; partly from this, andpartly from your charity, which is morein the hearing. than giving him, for hesells nothing dearer than to be is just so many strings above abeggar, though he have but two ; and yet he begs too. Hungeris the greatest pain he takes, except a broken head his life is so many fits of mirth, and tis some mirthto see him. A good feast shall draw him five miles by the nose,and you shal
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