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Title Page Notice of the Author Note The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in_America A Word of IRELAND. A Word of Love to the Common People of England. A most humble heel-piece to the Most Honourable Head-piece the Parliament of England A respective word to the Ministers of England. ERRATA AT NON CORRIGENDA Postscript. APPENDIX.
THE SIMPLE COBLER OF Aggawam in America.
willing
To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
And as willing never to be 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 purses.
By Theodore de la Guard.
In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima quœque consilia tutissima sunt. Cic.
In English, When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts, Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
This is no time to feare Apelles gramm: Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam.
LONDON, Printed by J. D. & R. I. for Stephen Bowtell, at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647.