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Title: A Supplication for the Beggars

Author: Simon Fish

Editor: Edward Arber

Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32464]

Language: English

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The English Scholar's Library
of Old and Modern Works.

Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc.,

_LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE ETC.,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON._

SIMON FISH,
_of Gray's Inn, Gentleman_.

A SUPPLICATION
FOR THE BEGGARS.

[1529.]

Only to be obtained by _postal_ application to
EDWARD ARBER, _at Southgate, London, N.; England_.
No. 4. 15 August 1878.

_UNWIN BROS., IMP._] Eighteen Pence. [_CHILWORTH & LONDON._

To
_my Godfathers in English Literature_,

HENRY MORLEY, ESQ.,
_PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE_,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

AND

HENRY PYNE, ESQ.,
Late _ASSISTANT TITHE COMMISSIONER_,
ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON.

_this_
Old Series
_is,
with blended admiration and gratitude,
filially_
Inscribed.

The English Scholar's Library etc.

No. 4.

_A Supplication for the Beggars._

[Spring of 1529.]

The English Scholar's Library of
Old and Modern Works.

[SIMON FISH,
of Gray's Inn, Gentleman.]

_A Supplication for the Beggars._

[Spring of 1529.]

Edited by EDWARD ARBER, F.S.A., etc.,

_LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE ETC.,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON._

SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N.
15 August 1878.
No. 4.
(_All rights reserved._)

_CONTENTS._

PAGE

Bibliography vi

INTRODUCTION vii-xviii

_A Supplicacyon for the Beggers_