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The gentle craft A discourse containing many matters of delight, very pleasant to be read: shewing what famous men have beene shoomakers in time past in this land, with their worthy deeds and great hospitality. Declaring the cause why it is called the gentle craft: and also how the proverbe first grew; a shoemakers sonne is a prince borne. T.D.

Date of publication:
1637

Author(s):

Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.

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T.D. = Thomas Deloney. Another edition of Deloney, Thomas. The gentle craft. At foot of title page: Haud curo invidiam. Signatures: A-I⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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The honour of the gentle craft a discourse of mirth and wit to the renown of those two princes Crispine and Crispianus, and all the true lovers thereof : the last and best part being a most merry and pleasant history not altogether unprofitable, nor any way hurtful : and for the glory of the gentle craft, let all men say that a shoemakers son is a prince born / by T.D. ; with a new merry song in the praise of the gentle craft, and to be sung by them every morning on the 25th day of October.

Date of publication:
1660

Author(s):

Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.

Description:

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.

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