Sociable Letters 259 



generally hated, or to despise what is generally dis- 

 liked, or admire what is generally commended, but 

 they hate what is really bad, wicked, or base, and not 

 what is thought so: and love what is really good, 

 vertuous and worthy, not for the general opinion, but 

 for the truth, and they admire and commend, despise 

 or scorn, dislike or disapprove that which is despisable 

 or discommendable or scornable, and so the like; 

 neither are they couragious or cowardly according 

 to the mode, but they are vaUant or cautious accord- 

 ing to the cause or quarrel; they do not fight out of 

 or in a bravado, but for honour, or in honour's quarrel ; 

 nor do they pass by injury or cover an anger or 

 affront with a raillery or jest, but because the person 

 that did the injury, or gave the affront, was either 

 drunk, mad, or base, inferiour person, fitter for his 

 man's quarrel than for his own ; and for wise men, they 

 speak not with mode-phrases, but such words as are 

 most plain to be understood, and the best to deliver 

 or declare sense and reason, and their behaviours are 

 those which are most manly and least apish, fantasti- 

 cal or constrained; and their clothes are such as are 

 most useful, easie and becoming; neither do their 

 appetites relish mode-meats or sauces, because they 

 have the mode haut goust, but they relish best what 

 is most pleasing or savoury to their taste ; and so for 

 drinks compounded, as chocolata, limmonada, and 

 the like, they will not drink them because of the 

 mode; neither do they affect mode-songs or sounds, 

 because they are in fashion to be sung or played, but 

 because they are well-set tunes, or well-composed 

 musick, or witty songs, and well sung by good voices, 

 or well plaid on instruments; neither do not follow 

 mode-vices or vanities for fashion, but for pleasure, 

 or their own humour or fancy; nor do^they use those 



