It was in 1628 that John Earle published his book of character-sketches Microcosmographie or A Piece of the World Discovered; and Earle's shrewdly-observed types recur in English poetry before and since.
Michael Schmidt offers some poetical illustrations of Earle's perennial English aborigines, 3: A Lascivious Man
Readers ANN ARIS , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester