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
quœque 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.
NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
The Reverend Nathaniel Ward, the writer of the following work, was born at Haverhill, England, in 1570. Of this town his father was a clergyman. He was educated at Cambridge, studied and practised law, travelled on the Continent, afterwards commenced the study of divinity, became a preacher of the Gospel, and was settled at Standon, in Hertfordshire. He was a strong friend of the early settlers of New England before the elder Winthrop's coming over. At a General Court of the Massachusetts Company, held in London, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1629, "Mr. Whyte did recom̅end Mr. Nathaniel Ward of Standon" to be admitted to the freedom of the Company. He was ordered before the Bishop, Dec. 12, 1631, to answer for his non-conformity. Being forbidden to preach, he embarked in April, 1634, for this country. He arrived here in June, and was settled as Pastor of the church at Ipswich,