Volume 1

The English rogue : described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes / [Richard Head and Francis Kirkman].

  • Richard Head
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: The English rogue : described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes / [Richard Head and Francis Kirkman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As for my part, I am onely a Wife-acre, (a Re- tort once put upon Ben Johnfon), for I have no Acres of Land. But therefore don’t be fo unad- vifed, (as too many are of late) to regard not fo much the worth of the Work, as the dignity of the Perfon. Qui fimiliter in legendos libros atq; in Jalutandos homines irruunt^ non cogitantes quales, fed quibus vejiibus induti fint. They mind not fo much what, as who writ it; not the Quality of the Thing, but the Quality of the Author, and a Perjon of Honour (now adays) being fet in the place of the Writer, makes the Book received with a general applaufe. Pardon as well my Satyrical as Cynical Humour. If any didike what I have writ, let them let it alone, or publilh themfelves fomething of a better Compfition. I fhall not value any ones Cenfure, for I have already Anti- doted my felf againft it, by my own dij-ejieem I have hereof, I am fo far from being Opinion- ative, that you cannot fpeak worfe then what I judge of it. Nafiitus fos ifq ; licet, fis deniq ; Nafus, Non potes in migas dicere plura meets. Bark, foul-moutlid carping Mom us, if thou durjl: What 1 have writ is Bad; Now do thy ivorji. Thus you fee, as I will not arrogate, fo I fliall not derogate: for as I am fo many Parefanges
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