impostumated

Updated: May 4, 2025

The victories of the rebels are like the magical combat of Apuleius, who thinking he had slain three of his enemies, found them at last but a triumvirate of bladders. Such, and so empty are the triumphs of a diurnal, but so many impostumated fancies, so many bladders of their own blowing. The "Surfeit to A.B.C." in 1656, was a look of Characters.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century