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The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant

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A first-person memoir follows a witty, extravagant rogue as he recalls a life shaped by poverty, cunning, and necessity, recounting a series of episodic adventures and confidence tricks. The narrator catalogs cheats and stratagems, offering humorous anecdotes and practical detail about swindles while satirizing manners and the licentious urban world he navigates. The text alternates comic bravado with moral reflection, presenting both an entertaining compilation of roguery and a retrospective emphasis on repentance and the personal costs of a dissolute career.

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Title: The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant

Author: Richard Head

Francis Kirkman

Release date: November 9, 2015 [eBook #50416]
Most recently updated: October 22, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ENGLISH ROGUE: DESCRIBED IN THE LIFE OF MERITON LATROON, A WITTY EXTRAVAGANT ***
The Globe’s thy Studye; for thy boundless mind
In a less limit cannot be confind.
Gazing, I here admire: thy very lookes
Shew thou art read as well in men, as bookes.
He that Shall Scan thy face, may judge by it,
Thou hast an Headpeece that is thronged with n’t.
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THE
 
English Rogue:

DESCRIBED,
IN THE
LIFE
OF
Meriton Latroon,
A Witty Extravagant.
Being a Compleat History of the
MOST
Eminent Cheats
OF
BOTH SEXES.
Read, but don’t Practice: for the Author findes,
They which live Honest have most quiet mindes.
Dixero si quid forte jocosius hoc mihi juris
Cum & eniâ dalis.
London, Printed for Henry Marsh, at the Princes
Arms in Chancery-Lane. 1665.