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
quæque 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,