. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. tience some few days longer. At the end of which time, if any be behind, I will draw aCatalogue of all their names I ventured with. Those thathave shewn themselves honest men; I will set before themthis character, H. for Honesty. Before the other bench-whistlers shall stand K. for Ketlers or Keistrels, that willdrive a good companion, witliout need in them, to contendfor his own. But I hope I shall have no such need ! If I have, your honourable protection shall thus far defendyour poor servant, that he may, being a plain man, c
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. tience some few days longer. At the end of which time, if any be behind, I will draw aCatalogue of all their names I ventured with. Those thathave shewn themselves honest men; I will set before themthis character, H. for Honesty. Before the other bench-whistlers shall stand K. for Ketlers or Keistrels, that willdrive a good companion, witliout need in them, to contendfor his own. But I hope I shall have no such need ! If I have, your honourable protection shall thus far defendyour poor servant, that he may, being a plain man, call aspade a spade. Thus, fearing your Ladyship is wearier with reading thistoy than I was in all my merry travail; I crave pardon ! andconclude this first pamphlet that ever Will. Kemp offeredto the Press: being thereunto pressed on the one side bythe pitiful papers pasted on every post, of that which wasneither so, nor so ; and, on the other side, urged thereto induty, to express with thankfulness the kind entertainmentI found. Your Honours poor servant, W. 159 K E M Ps humble request to the impudentgeneration of Ballad-makers and their coherents,that it would please their Rascalities topity his pains in the great journey he pre-tends [intends] ; and not fill the countrywith lies of his never-done actSy asthey did in his late Morriceto Norwich. To the 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
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