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exercises that are in mode, but those they like best. 

 Thus a wise man follows not the mode, but his own 

 humour, for if it be the mode to play at tennis, or 

 paille-maille, or the like, if he Hke better to ride or 

 fence, he will let alone the mode-exercises and use 

 his own; if it be the mode-pastime to play at cards 

 or dice, if he like better to write or read, he will leave 

 the mode-pastime and follow his own; and if it be 

 the mode-custom to dine and sup, and meet at ordin- 

 aries or taverns, if he like better to sup and dine at 

 home alone, he will not go to ordinaries or taverns; 

 if it be the mode to make general courtships, if he 

 like, or is better pleased with a particular mistress, 

 he will not follow the mode ; neither will he ride post 

 because it is the mode but because his affairs require 

 it; neither will he journey from place to place to no 

 purpose, because it is the mode, but will wisely sit 

 still or rest at his own home, because it is easie, peace- 

 able, quiet, and prudent, as not so chargeable. But 

 leaving the modists to their mode - clothes, oaths, 

 phrases, courtships, behaviours, garbs and motions, 

 to their mode -meats, drinks, pastimes, exercises, 

 pleasures, vanities and vices; to their mode-songs, 

 tunes, dances, fiddles and voices; to their mode- 

 judgements, opinions and wits; to their mode- 

 quarrels and friendships, to their mode-lying and 

 dissembhng, 



I rest. Madam, 

 Your faithful friend and servant, 



PRAISE AND DISPRAISE 



Madam, — I was reading to-day some several satyrs 

 of several famous poets, wherein I find, that they 

 praise themselves, and dispraise all others, which. 



