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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47508	The unlucky citizen experimentally described in the various misfortunes of an unlucky Londoner calculated for the meridian of this city but may serve by way of advice to all the cominalty of England, but more perticularly to parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives : intermixed with severall choice novels : stored with variety of [brace] examples and advice, president and precept : illustrated with pictures fitted to the severall stories.	Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing K638; ESTC R39073	132,138	366

not what courses to take but as the most feisable I could imagine I carried a sheet of a sort of what was done to some Booksellers of my acquaintance and desired them to encourage and advance so good a Work by depositing or lending some money to help to finish it and that when it was done they should pay themselves by Books They would not hear of that side they would not buy Books before they were finished but if I would sell them Books which they knew I had they would give me Money I knowing no other way was forced to take that course but withal I made this proposition That I might have my Books again when I returned the Money with some small gain they promised me fair but performed nothing for afterwards when I came to redeem my Books they told me that they were sold but if I had a mind and would give such a price they would endeavor to get them again Some I had and some I lost but by this means I broke and spoyl'd my Library however by the sale of these Books and some little credit I had with the Stationer my Book was finished Never did young Big-belly'd Woman desire to see the Fruit and Issue of her Body as I did to see my Book finished and thereby to see my Name in Print this was the utmost bounds of my ambition bur Time that perfecteth all things perfected my Book and I was very dilligent in publishing it for the Titles were carefully posted up and I not a little proud to see them in publick walking the Streets and shewing them to several of my acquaintance But all this Harvest produced but little Corn my Mountain brought forth a Mouse for by that time the Printer was paid the Town was full and I might make Waste-paper of the rest no body would give the first price although that was low enough in all Conscience so that I was forc'd to lower my Top-sayl and sell for what I could get and be glad of any thing and with much ado with all this toyl and labour I again furnished my self with Books but nothing near so well as I had been so that I came off from this Adventure of Printing with a scratch'd face as all others must do that are not bred in the way of Book-selling I know not their way of exchanging I gave them their full rate for what Books I had of them and they allowed me no more than the lowest ready Money rate for mine and by this means I made but a blind Bargain but however I had attained to the end I aimed at I had been in Print and now I could and did present several of my Books to several of my Acquaintance and much ready Money it cost me in binding those Books that I gave away and all this trouble and cost was I at for a little honor when I had been better to have sate still the whilst but I did not think so but resolv'd now I had begun to proceed farther I intended to let the world see some more of my works and my fancy still running upon Romances I was minded to translate another but by experience finding that those sort of Romances that treated of old impossible Knight Errantry were out of fashion and that there were a sort of new ones crept into their places I sought for one and was not long e're I pitch'd upon such a one as I thought would do the business for is was full of Love-sick Expressions and Thunder-thumping Sentences there was Love and Arms and some strange impossible Adventures for which I liked it the better I did believe the Gentry of England were much indebted to me for this Translation for I had like other conceited Translators and Authors coyned several new English Words which were onely such French Words as methoughts had a fine Tone wieh them or such as I could not handfomely rranslate and therefore let them pass as English to be understood as well by the Reader as by me the Translator who knew not what to make of them The Loves and Adventures of Clerio and Lozia I began and in short time finished but long before it was finished it was begun to be Printed I had the same impatience as formerly so that I did not nor could not stay till it was all written but began I was again ttoubled about Paper but I had some Money my Stationer some Faith and the Book was much less than the former so that finished it was and I supposing this Book to be more gentile than the former gave it a more gentile Title and the Name of the Translator being plac'd on the Title-page in large Characters there was also added the honoured Word Gent. to import that the Translator was a Gentleman that he was every Inch of him in his own imagination and did believe that the so printing that word on the Title of the Book did as much entitle him to Gentility as if he had Letters Patents for it from the Heralds-Office Nay did suppose this to be more authentick because more publick And let me tell you this is a very great Itch in some people I knew one that translated a Book and caused it to be Printed meerly to have the Title of Esq added to his Name and now it is grown to so common a Custom that Booksellers usually title their Authors Gentlemen Esquires and sometimes Persons of Quality that are onely poor mercenary fellows that the Book may have the better esteem may sell the better But now my second Book was finished the Word FINIS was printed and just at the same time I finished and put an end to my Service with this my second Master the occasions that caused us to part were several and in short these My Master was as good a Husband of his time as I have told you and most of my time was spent in my own Affairs either in writing or reading for my own pleasure or walk abroad to visit the Printers my Master knew of my designs and since he had little for me to do permitted me to proceed and imploy my self that way but although he was content yet my Mistress was ●ot and that which displeased her most was my so often walking abroad by which means I sometimes lost the making of some Writings I had gotten a haunt of rambling and could not leave it and therefore she complained to my Master of me he chid me but I minded it not and continuing so still he complained to my Father and great fault was found with me so that I was weary of his and my Fathers Reprehensions I saw there was nothing gained by being there and therefore was desirous to be gone I had compar'd notes with some of the neighbouring Apprentices and one or two having as giddy unsettled minds as my self we were resolved to travel Now we being all indifferently skill'd in French were desirous to see France This Design was long consulted on and resolby