OF

AGGAWAM

BY

REV. NATHANIEL WARD

A REPRINT OF THE 4TH EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 1647, WITH FAC-SIMILES OF TITLE PAGE, PREFACE AND HEAD

LINES, THE TEXT IN ANTIQUE TYPE.

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WITH AN ESSAY

NATHANIEL WARD AND THE SIMPLE COBLER

BY

THOMAS FRANKLIN WATERS

PRESIDENT OF THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PUBLISHED BY

THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

IPSWICH, MASS.

THE

SIMPLE COBLER

OF

AGGAVVAMM in AMERICA.

WILLING

To help 'mend his Native Country, la-
mentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather
and fole, with all the honest stitches he can take.

And as willing never to bee 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.

The Fourth Edition, with some Amendments.

In rebus arduis ac tenai spe, fortifsima
quaque confilia tutifsima funt. Cic.

In English,

When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
Coblers muft-thraft their awles up to the hefts.

This is no time to feare Apeles gramm:

Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam.

• LONDON,

Printed by J. D. & R. I. for Stephen Bowred, at the figne of the
Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647.