PRIDE, is a contempt of all others save it self. A proud man is of this quality: If any man desire to speak with him speedily he will tell him that he will, after supper, walk a turne or two with him. If any man be oblig'd unto him, he will command him to remember the favour; nay, he will urge him to it. He will never come unto any man first. They that buy any thing, or hire any thing of him, he disdains not to admit them come as early as they list. As he walks bending down his head, speaks to no man that he meets. If he invites any friends, he sups not with them him self; but commits the care of their entertainment unto some one that is at his devotion. When he goes to visit any man, hee sends his Herbenger before, to signify his approach. When he is to be anointed, or when he feeds, he admits none to his presence. If he clear an accompt with any, he commands his boy to cast away the Compters: and when he casts up the sum, makes the reckoning (as it were) to another. In his letters hee never writes, You shall oblige me, but this I would have done: I have sent one to you that shall receive it. See it be not otherwise, and that speedily.

A valiant man