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Excerpt from The True Characters Of: Viz. A Deceitful Petty-Fogger, Vulgarly Call'd Attorney; A Know-All Astrological Quack, or Feigned Physician; A Female Hypocrite, or Devil in Disguise; A Low Churchman, or Ecclesiastical Bisarius; A Trimmer, or Jack of All Sides, &C

Gdrézge, and the Sim e oi' a Alan, and when you have beheld his leather-ears an jlméb) Outfidc, you have feen him thro', and need employ your Difcovery no farther. His Reafon is meerl y Whig Example, and his A&iom' are not guided by his Under¿anding; but he fees what Other Men of the fame Cut do, and 'tis his whole Bufinefs to imitate them. The chief Burden oi his Brain, is the szggijb Carria e of his Body, and fetting his Face in 3. Frame of Nonconfirrm't advances his Renown among the cmp-ear'd Brethren 0 Band: and Eagle who will go to Law with their Faber: rather than this Mufhroom Brother of the Quill {hall be d'e¿itute of Employment. Amen Knowin Attorneys, he looks like a Tripe Man's Al's, loade with 0 al and Excrements; but among the Vnégar Fr], like a Sage common-counfellor. All. His Difcourfi: are Maxims in Law, and Definitive Deere, with a 7713: it is, and Tim; it mx]? H! But wi I never humble -his Authority to give a Reafon for it, uhlers he Rumbles ona Ten to his purpofe, and then he proves it by dint of Scri prure. All his Words are Heérm Charaéters; if he fays he will do any thing for you, it is as much as if he had Sw'orn he wou'd nor, and you mull always Spell hini backward be fore you can Read him. He has neither the Theory, nor Praaiee of the Law 5 but, his own Villanous Arts excepted, is wholly fieer'd by the Campai's of his Entring Clerk. He's at bell but two Steps above a F001; 3. Great Many below a. Wife and honeli Man, but the Pbtmatick me has Predomi nancy over all his Other F aculties and (0 he is leis danger ous in the appearance of a Devil than a Saint. If he lays he Loves you. Be fure he Hates you; for he has the Art of Laughing in your Face, whil¿: he is defigning to cut your Throat with a F cather. All that are (0 Weak as to Tw/i him, he is fine to Beta) them will fpoil a good Gaufe by his Treacherous Management, and Sell the belt Client he has to his Adverfary, when he has made the moii of him. In Lon don he frequents all the Seditiom Cofiee 190;l to find out Quarrels, or make 'em, and at the price 0 a Penn) gains 2. Pound. In Setting Friends at Variance; and under l'tetence of knowing (omething of the Matter himl'elf or having Manag'd the like Gaufe for another, fir¿: kindles the Cod: ih to a'. Blue, and then gets Alone); on both Sides to (luench ir.

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