. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. he tune oi T H o M A S Deloneys Epitaph. My notable Shake-rags! He effect of my suit is discovered in thetitle of my Supplication. But for your better understandings, forthat I know you to be a sort of witlessbeetle-heads that can understand nothingbut what is knocked into your scalps,These are, by these presents, to certify untoyour Blockheadships, that I, William Kemp, whom youhad near[ly] hand-rent in sunder, with your unreasonablerhymes, and shortly, GOD willing! to set forward (asmerrily as I may), whither, I myself know n
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. he tune oi T H o M A S Deloneys Epitaph. My notable Shake-rags! He effect of my suit is discovered in thetitle of my Supplication. But for your better understandings, forthat I know you to be a sort of witlessbeetle-heads that can understand nothingbut what is knocked into your scalps,These are, by these presents, to certify untoyour Blockheadships, that I, William Kemp, whom youhad near[ly] hand-rent in sunder, with your unreasonablerhymes, and shortly, GOD willing! to set forward (asmerrily as I may), whither, I myself know not! Wherefore, by the way, I would wish ye ! employ not yourlittle wits in certifying the world that I am gone to Rome,Jerusalem, Venice, or any other place at your idle know, the best of ye, by the lies ye wrote of me, got notthe price of a good hat to cover your brainless heads! Ifany of ye had come to me, my bounty should have exceededthe best of your good masters, the ballad buyers ! I wouldhave apparelled your dry pates in parti-coloured bonnets !. i6o Death of Thomas Deloney. [rpriflel^: and bestowed a leash of my cast[-off ] bells to have crownedye, with coxcombs! I have made a privy search, what private Jigmonger ofyour jolly number hath been the Author of these abomin-able Ballets written of me. I was told, it was the great Ballad-maker, T. D., aliasThomas Deloney, Chronicler of the memorable Lives ofthe Six yeomen of the West, Jack of Newbury, the Gentle Craft,&c., and such like honest men, omitted by Stow, Hollin-SHED, Grafton, Halle, Froissart, and all the rest of thosewell-deserving writers. But I was given since to understand, your late General,Thomas, died poorly (as ye all must do!), and was honestlyburied, which is much to be doubted of some of you! [Thisfixes Deloneys death about March, 1600.] The Quest [inquest] of Inquiry finding him, by deathacquitted of the Indictment; I was let to wit, that anotherLord of Little Wit, one whose employment for the
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