The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America

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
quoeque 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.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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