A REPRINT OF THE 4TH EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 1647, WITH
FAC-SIMILES OF TITLE PAGE, PREFACE AND HEAD
LINES, THE TEXT IN ANTIQUE TYPE.

WITH AN ESSAY

NATHANIEL WARD AND THE SIMPLE COBLER

BY

THOMAS FRANKLIN WATERS

PRESIDENT OF THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PUBLISHED BY

THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

IPSWICH, MASS.

PS

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THE

SIMPLE COBLER

OF

AGGAVVAM M in AMERICA.

WILLING

To help 'mend his Native Country, la-
mentably tattered,both in the upper-Leather
and fole,with all the honeft ftitches he can take.

And as willing never to bee paid for his work,
by Old English wonted pay.

It is his Trade to patch all the year long, gratis,
Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purfes.
By Theodore de la Guard.

The Fourth Edition, with fome Amendments.

In rebus arduis ac tenai fpe, fortifsima
quaque confilia tutifsima funt. Cic.

In English,

When bootes and fhoes are torne up to the lefts,
Coblers muft-thraft their awles up to the hefts.

This is no time to feare Apelles gramM 8
Ne Suter quidem ultra crepidam.

LONDON,

Printed by 7.D. & R. I. for Stephen Bower, at the figne of the
Bible In Popes Head-Alley, 1647.