Note 580 — THE BLACK BOOK.
Reading edition
the Supplication, &c.] i. e. Pierce Pennilesse his Supplication to the Diuell, one of the most celebrated and popular productions of that admirable prose-satirist, Thomas Nash. It first appeared in 1592, during which year (see Collier’s Bridgewater-House Catalogue, p. 209) it reached a third edition.