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Price is. 6d. ftitched. N. B. This book, amongst many of its excellencies, recommends teaching the Swimmer to fave himself when feized with the cramp; which diforder, the most expert Swimmer is liable to, as well as the Learner of this excellent art. 4. The Life, ftrange Voyages, and uncommon Adventures of AMBROSE GWINETT, formerly known to the public as the Lame Beggar; who, for a long time swept the Way at the Mew's-Gate, Charing-Crofs. Containing an account of his being convicted and hanged in chains at Deal in Kent, for the fuppofed murder of Mr. Collins; his furprising recovery after being executed; his voyage to the Weft-Indies; his being taken by the Spaniards, where he meets the identical Collins whom he was fuppofed to have murdered; the accident that threw Mr. Gwinett into the hands of pirates; his extraordinary adventures with them, and being retaken by the Spaniards, and by them con demned to the gallies; his being taken and made a flave of by the Algerines, and after fuffering many hardships, hist return to England. To which is prefixed a beautiful frontispiece cut. Price 6d. BODLEIM 11 DEC. 1931 LIBRARY. THE A PREFACE. How W! The Pleafant Art of Money-Catching, fay you? Yes, indeed; the very fame, I'll Return, return, thou charming Nymph, again: For thee the Ladies of delight, Do amble round the ftreets by night: In Bridewel fuffer for it too: Nor can the dreadful fire, By which they oftentimes expire, For thee, the Soldiers, with heroic grace, March all the day, and lie i'th' fields all night: Vintners for thee (fo custom does enjoin) To pleafe their guefts, drink their own poisoned wine; Thus perfons of all qualities and all professions make their court to Money; the gaining of which, as if it were the great Diana of the world, is the chief mark they aim at, in all their undertakings: and therefore to inform them how they may catch his coy Miftrefs, and embrace her in their own arms, muft needs be a very pleafant art. And fo much, I doubt not, every one will be fo civil as to grant me. But then their next queftion will be, How muft this be done? Not faft, Gentlemen; 'tis a matter of great moment, and must not be flightly huddled over: and therefore I hope you do not expect I should tell you in the Preface; for I am fure, I do not intend it; for then the reading of the book would be needlefs, But this I will affure you, that whatever I have promifed in the the Title, I will make good in the book. With feveral · other useful and necessary inftructions; which if tradesmen and others would diligently perufe and put into practice, they would get more than they do, and not be in danger of lofing fo much for here they may fee fo many feveral ways of turning a penny, that if they do not thrive, it will be their own faults: and whether they be like to thrive or not, they may alfo know, if they will but give themfelves the trouble of comparing their own management with the rules containted in the following Treatife. Which if they had been fooner known, or at least better followed, might have prevented many of thofe ftatutes of Bankruptcy, which have every week taken up fo much room in our Gazettes. And if fuch a fubject do not pleafe I will even fling my pen away. EWELL THE THE PLEASANT ART OF MONEY-CATCHING.. CHAP. I.. Of the original Invention of Money. HEN commerce and traffic was first begun WH in the world, and men came to trade one with another, there was no use of Money, nor no need of it; for men bartered their goods in exchange with each other and as in the infancy of the world, fome were tillers of the ground, and others were keepers of fheep; the one gave the other corn, and took of their fheep in exchange for it. And this fort of trading is now generally in use in our Plantations, to fupply the want of Money: but in procefs of time, as trading increased, fo did luxury begin to abound;, and as luxury abounded, fo men's wants grew greater: which begat a neceffity of fome other way of commerce: and this was Money; which is of that antiquity, that Jofephus tells us, That Cain (the fon of Adam, and the firftborn of men) was very greedy in gathering of money together; |