The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, M.A, Vol. 11 of 12: Prose; The Blacke Booke's Messenger; The Defence of ... And, a Quippe for an Upstart Courtier, 1592 - Softcover
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Excerpt from The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, M.A, Vol. 11 of 12: Prose; The Blacke Booke's Messenger; The Defence of Conny-Catching; Philomela, the Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale, And, a Quippe for an Upstart Courtier, 1592
And for Ned Browne of whoms my Mefl'enger makes report, hee was a man infamous for his bad courfe of life and well knowne about London Hee was in outward ihew a Gentlemanlike com panion, attyred very braue, and to ihadowe his villany the more would nominate himfelfe to be a Marihall man, who when he had nipt a Bung or cut a good purfe, he would Preale ouer in to the Lowe Countries, there to tail: three or foure Stoapes of Rheniih Wine, and then come ouer forfooth a braue Souldier: But at lafl: hee leapt at a dayfie for his loofe kind of life, and therefore imagine you now fee him in his owhe perfon, (landing in a great bay windowe with a halter about his necke ready to be hanged, defperately pronounfing this his Whole courfe of life and confefl'eth as followeth.
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