Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...requite it too, In any seruice that poore knaues can doe Scarffes we doe want to hange our weapons by, If any puncke will deale so courteously As in the way of fauour to beslow-them Rare cheating tricks we will protest to oxve them. Or any pander with a Ring in's eare, That is a gentleman (as he doth sweare) And will affoord vs hats of newest blocke A payre of Cardes shall be his trade andstocke, To get his lyuing by, for lacke of Lands, Because hescornes to ouerworke his handes, And thus ere long we trust we stiall be fitted, Those knaues that cannotstiift, arestiallow witted. The Knaue of Diamonds promifed before, That he would be for Sea, and Spade for Shore. 'I "He Ocean Monarch Neptune, in whose Pallace, Thetis, with all her Mermaids make abode: Mounted the crooked Dolphin for his folace, And from his Court vnto the Shore he rode, Where he incounterd with his lust sull eyes: A richer beauty, then was Paris prize. C neus, sweetest faire Thesalian mayd, Her did his lust with rauishment defile: As Tarqnin delt with Lucrese, fo he play'd, The Dolphin was his pandar: all the while, To Iupiter she did lament the rape: And he transform'd her into manly shape. B The PictThe Piclure of A Pirat. Y dwelling is vpon the raging waues, J. V_L My house by stormes is tost and carried still: My seruants are a crew of theeuish Knaues, To Neptunes rage I tennant am at will, My neighbours are the monsters of the Seaes: The great Leuiathan, and worse then these. My lise is spent in all outragious cuils, Vertue abhors the place of my abode: My Ship is man'd euen with Incarnate deuils, My heart (with Dauid's foole) denyes a God, And those fame lawes (they fay) he gaue to men: My lawlesse nature keepes not one of ten. When for a time I haue run on..."
