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CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS
Characters
and
Passages from N ote-Books
Samuel Butler
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SAMUEL BUTLER
Born 1612?
Died 1680
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SAMUEL BUTLER
CHARACTERS AND
PASSAGES FROM NOTE-BOOKS
EDITED BY
A. R. WALLER, M.A.
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1908
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NOTE
T HE first portion of this volume (to p. 193) is reprinted from Thyer's Edition of The Genuine
Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr Samuel Butler. The rest of the volume (pp. 197-480) is now printed for the first time from the Butler MSS in the British Museum (Addit. 32625-6). When I began, about four years ago, to prepare the material for a complete text of Butler, I found that the prose remains still in MS at the British Museum had already been transcribed by Miss Edith J. Morley; and, her plans for an annotated edition having changed, arrangements were made whereby her transcript of the text was handed over to the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. To Miss Morley, therefore, is due the sole credit for the very laborious work of having transcribed from, and first collated with, the MS these further Charafters and the passages from Butler's note-books, and for having thereby materially assisted in the produCtion of a complete text of Butler's works. The further checking of the transcript and the proofs with the original MS has been accomplished mainly by Mr George Brown, to whom thanks are due for much patient and careful assistance; and my share in the present volume has been confined to checking the reprint of the previously published Charafters, to reading the proofs, to correCting certain eccentricities of the scribe in the latter portion wherever I thought
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NOTE
that they might prove stumbling-blocks to the reader and to compiling the textual notes at the end of the volume. The Unclassified Notes at the end of the MS have been printed as an appendix in small type. The passages contained therein are written on folios which, as a rule, bear no headings, and some, at any rate, appear to be intended for further Charaflers. Many of these passages are worked up into a more finished form elsewhere and a few have been omitted for this reason: it is not probable that every case of duplication has been run down. An example of such duplication may be found on pp. 418 11. 8 ff. and 436 11. 1-3 and, as one would naturally suppose, there are many occasions on which Butler repeats himself, or uses up his own material in other forms, or writes in prose thoughts which are elsewhere worked into verse.
The paragraphs and the original spelling of the MS have been retained save in the instances set forth in the notes.
This edition of the text of Butler will be completed by a third volume, supplementary to my edition of the text of Hudibras, in which will be printed the remaining poems known to be Butler's, together with several hitherto unprinted passages, and in which an attempt will be made to separate the wheat from the chaff in the matter of many poems attributed to him.
A. R. WALLER
CAMBRIDGE
z August 1908
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CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
A Modern Politician . An Hypocritical Nonconformist A Republican A Politician A State-Convert A Risker A Modern Statesman A Duke of Bucks A Degenerate Noble A Huffing Courtier A Court-Beggar . A Bumpkin, or Country-Squire An Antiquary A Proud Man A Fifth-Monarchy Man The HenpeCl: Man A Small Poet A Philosopher A Fantastic A Melancholy Man An Haranguer A Popish Priest A Traveller A Catholic . A Curious Man A Ranter A Corrupt Judge An Amorist
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An Astrologer A Lawyer An Herald .
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A Latitudinarian A Mathematician An Epigrammatist A Virtuoso. A Justice of Peace A Fanatic
An Intelligencer A ProseH te . A Clown A Quibbler. A Wooer An Impudent Man An Imitator A Time-server A Prater An Hermetic Philosopher An Alderman A Disputant A Sot. An Atheist
A Jugler A Sceptic A ProjeClor. A Complementer . A Churchwarden . A Romance writer A Cheat A Libeller A Tedious Man A Taylor A FaCl:ious Member A Pretender A News-monger An Embassador
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A Play-writer 12 9 A Mountebank 13 0 A Modern Critic 13 1 A Wittal 13 2 A Busy Man 134 A Litigious Man 135 A Pedant 136 A Hunter 137 A Humorist 138 A Leader of a FaCtion 139 A Debauched Man 140 The Seditious Man 141 An AffeCted Man 142 A Medicine-taker 143 The Rude Man 144 The Miser 145 A Rabble 147 A Shopkeeper 148 A Quaker 149 A Swearer 151 The Luxurious 15 2 An Ungrateful Man 153 A Knight of the Post. 154 An Undeserving Favourite 155 A Cuckold. 157 A Malicious Man 159 A Squire of Dames 160 A Knave 162 An Anabaptist 16 3 A Vintner 165 An Hypocrite 166 An Opiniater 167 A Choleric Man . 168 A Lover 169 A Translater 170 A Rebel 17 1 A City-wit 173
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A Superstitious Man A Drole An Empiric An Obstinate Man A Zealot The Over-doer A Jealous Man An Insolent Man The Rash Man A Pimp The Affected or Formal A Flatterer . A Prodigal. A Pettifogger A Bankrupt The Inconstant A Horse-courser A Glutton A Ribald
CHARACTERS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM MS
An Antisocordist . A Banker A Bowler A Brisk Man-Pert A Broker A Buffoon . A Catchpole A Clap'd Man A Coffee Man A Coiner A Conjurer A Constable A Court-Wit A Coward . A Credulous Man A Cruel Man A Cully
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A Cutpurse. :u5 A Dancing-Master 216
A Detractor 21 7 A Dueller 218
A Dunce 21 9 An Envious Man 220
A Fencer 221
A Fidler 222
A Fool 223
A Forger 224
A Gamester 225 An Hector 226
An Highwayman. 227
An Host 228
An Ignorant Man 229
Impertinent • 23 0
An Impostor 231
An Incendiary 23 2
An Informer 233 A Jailor 234 A Juror 235 A Lampooner 23 6
A Liar 237 A Merchant 23 8
The Modish Man 240
A Musitian 241
The Negligent 242 An Officer 243 An Oppressor 244 A Parasite 245 The Perfidious Man 246
A Plagiary . 247 A Player 24 8
A Proud Lady 250
A Publican. 251
A Quareller. 25 2
A Rook 253
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A Sailor A Scold A Scrivener .
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The Self Conceited or Singular A Sharke A Silenc'd Presbyterian A Soldier A Stationer . A Tennis-player An Usurer . The Vainglorious Man The Voluptuous .
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS
Sundry Thoughts Learning and Knowledge Truth and Falshood Religion Wit and Folly Ignorance Reason Virtue and Vice Opinion Nature History Physique Princes and Government Criticisms upon Books and Authors Contradictions
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Unclassified Notes on Various Subjects Notes .
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