THE
HISTORY
OF
MOTHER BUNCH OF THE WESTE
CONTAINING
MANY RARITIES OUT OF HER GOLDEN
CLOSET OF CURIOSITIES.
PART THE SECOND.
Printed and Sold at the Printing-Office
Bow Church-Yard, London.
INTRODUCTION.
One Michaelmas-day old Mother Bunch sitting upon the bank of a river, joining to a neighbouring grove, she beheld the late flourishing branches in their decay, whose leaves were falling to the earth. From this she began to consider seriously of her own mortality; and since Old Time had hurried on the Winter of her age, which had covered her head with grey locks, she might expect e’er long she must fall like the leaves to the earth; therefore she resolved, in regard she had always been a kind friend to young men and maids, that she would leave a fair testimony of her love before she left the world; since her painful study and strict observation had made a large improvement in her stock of knowledge, she would not have it buried in the grave with her, but leave it to posterity, for the benefit of young men and maids, whereby they may learn to understand their good and bad fortunes, and by the direction of this book, be furnished with many secret rarities never published to the world.