The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton | Page 9

leaues I offer to your view, to the leaues on
trees I compare, which as they cannot grow of themselues except they
haue some branches or boughes to cleaue too, & with whose iuice and
sap they be euermore recreated & nourisht: so except these vnpolisht
leaues of mine haue some braunch of Nobilitie whereon to depend and

cleaue, and with the vigorous nutriment of whose authorized
commendation they may be continually fosterd and refresht, neuer wil
they grow to the worlds good liking, but forthwith fade and die on the
first houre of their birth. Your Lordship is the large spreading branch of
renown, from whence these my idle leaues seeke to deriue their whole
nourishing: it resteth you either scornfully shake them off, as
wormeaten & worthies, or in pity preserue them and cherish them, for
some litle summer frute you hope to finde amongst them.
Your Honors in all humble seruice: Tho: Nashe.

TO THE GENTLEMEN READERS,
Gentlemen, in my absence (through the Printers ouersight and my bad
writing) in the leaues of C. and D. these errours are ouerslipt:
C. pag. 2. lin. 33. for sweating read sneaking. Pag. 3. li. 1. for hogges
read barres, lin. 7. for Calipsus, read Rhæsus. Pag. 4. lin. 34. for Liue
read I liue. Pag. 5. li. 14. for vpon his read vpon him his. Pag. 7. lin. 13.
for drild read dyu'd. lin. 22. (for colour, read collar nor his hatband).
D. Pag. 1. lin. 2. for blacke read cape. lin. 5. for fastens read thirleth. lin.
7. for badge read budge, lin. 8. for shinne read chinne. lin. 11. for in
this begun read thinking in. Pag. 3. lin. 33. for increased then read
inclosed them. Pag. 5. lin. 8. for threed button, read brest like a thred
bottom. Pag. 8. lin. 3. for Essa read Ossa. lin. 4. for dissolution read
desolation. lin. 13. betweene also, and but read If you know
Christianitie, you know the Fathers of the Church also. lin. 18. for
quocunque read qua gente.
Other literall faults there are which I omit
Yours T. N.
[Note.--The foregoing corrigenda are printed as part of the original
edition, though they have been corrected in the text.]

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THE INDVCTION TO THE DAPPER MOVNSIER PAGES OF THE
COVRT.
Gallant squires, haue amongst you: at mumchance I meane not, for so I
might chaunce come to short commons, but at nouus, noua, nouum,
which is in English, newes of the maker. A proper fellow Page of yours
called Iacke Wilton, by mee commends him vnto you, and hath
bequeathed for wast paper heere amongst you certaine pages of his
misfortunes. In any case keep them preciously as a Priuie token of his
good will towards you. If there be some better than other, he craues you
would honor them in their death so much, as to drie and kindle Tobacco
with them: for a need he permits you to wrap veluet pantofles in them
also, so they be not woe begone at the heeles, or weather-beaten like a
blacke head with graye haires, or mangie at the toes like an ape about
the mouth. But as you loue good fellowship and ames ace, rather turne
them to stop mustard-pots, than the Grocers shuld haue one patch of
them to wrap mace in: a strong hot costly spice it is, which aboue all
things hee hates. To anie vse about meate or drinke put them too and
spare not, for they cannot doo their Countrey better seruice. Printers are
madde whoresons, allow them some of them for napkins. lost a little
nerer to the matter and the purpose. Memorandum, euerie one of you
after the perusing of this Pamphlet, is to prouide him a case of ponyards,
that if you come in companie with any man which shall dispraise it or
speake against it, you may straight cry Sic respondeo, and giue him the
stockado. It stands not with your honors (I assure yee) to haue a
Gentleman and a Page abusde in his absence. Secondly, whereas you
were wont to sweare men on a pantofle to bee true to your puissaunt
order, you shall sweeare them on nothing but this Chronicle of the King
of Pages henceforward. Thirdly, it shalbe lawfull for anie whatsoeuer to
play with false dice in a corner on the couer of this foresaid Acts and
monuments. None of the fraternitie of the minorites shall refuse it for a
pawne in the times of famine and necessitie. Euery Stationers stall they
passe by whether by day or by night they shall put off their hats too,
and make a low leg, in regard their grand printed Capitano is there

entoombd. It shalbe flat treason for any of this