. The life of Long Meg of Westminster: containing the mad merry pranks she played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with divers ruffians about London, but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne . TO THE GENTLEMEN RE <^Saayftt©^ENTLKMr.\. to please your fantasi, many men haue made mam pleasantjigg( 5j as [esta of Robin-hood, and1£ Bcuis ot* South-hampton, and Buchothers, as serue to procure mirth, anddriue away melancholy. Now at last, because amithe three Doctors ! health, Doctor Merryman is notthe least, and that longer li
. The life of Long Meg of Westminster: containing the mad merry pranks she played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with divers ruffians about London, but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne . TO THE GENTLEMEN RE <^Saayftt©^ENTLKMr.\. to please your fantasi, many men haue made mam pleasantjigg( 5j as [esta of Robin-hood, and1£ Bcuis ot* South-hampton, and Buchothers, as serue to procure mirth, anddriue away melancholy. Now at last, because amithe three Doctors ! health, Doctor Merryman is notthe least, and that longer liuea a man of pleasant dis-position, than a sad Saturnist; when I was idle, I bthought me of Long-Meg of Westminster, and heimerry pranks, as pleasant as the merriest Km that euerpast the Presse; a woman she waa of late memory, and well beloued, spoken on t all. and knowne of many: therefore there is hope of the better acceptam Gentlemen, Augustus would read*, our Kiddles,when he had tossed ouer Virgiis Heroicks, and C\a TO THE READER. would oft delirate after his weighty affaires; so I hopeyou will vse Long Meg as a whetstone to mirth afteryour serious businesse: and if shee haue any grossefaults, beare with them the more patiently,for that she was a
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