The block head

YOU may define blockishness to bee a dulness or slowness of the mind; where there be question to speak or do. A blockish fellow is he, who after he hath cast up an account, asketh him who stands next him what the sum was; or one, who having a cause to be heard upon a peremptory day, forgets himself, and goes into the country: and sitting in the Theater, falls asleep; and when all are gone, is there left alone. The same, when he hath overgorg'd himself, rising in the night to make room for more-meat, stumbleth upon his neighbour's dog, and is all to-bewearied. The same, having laid up somewhat very carefully, when he looks for it cannot find it. When he heareth that some friend of his is dead, and that he is intreated to the funeral, looking sourly, and wringing out a tear or two, sayth; Much good may't do him. When he receiveth money, he calls for witnesses: and winter growing on, he quarrels with his man because hee bought him no cucumbers. When he is in the Country, he seethes Lentils himself: and so over-salts them, that they cannot be eaten. And when it raineth; How pleasant, saith he, is this Star-water! Being asked how many people were carried out by the holy gate: How many? sayth he, I would you and I had so many.

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