p. =149=, l. 10. A] specially. p. =150=, l. 21. B _misprints_] sufficieut. l. 40. A] th' Camp. p. =153=. l. 14. B] Petell. p. =154=, l. 36. A] sankst. THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE. =A= = the quarto of 1613. =B= and =C= = the quartos of 1635. =D= = the second folio. (=A=) The | Knight of | the Burning Pestle. | Quod si | Indicium subtile, videndis artibus illud | Ad libros & ad hæc Musarum dona vocares: | B[oe]otum in crasso iurares aëre natum. | Horat. in Epist. ad Oct. Aug. | London, | Printed for Walter Burre, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Paules Church-yard. | 1613. To his many | waies endeered | friend Maister Robert Keysar. | _Sir, this unfortunate child, who in eight daies (as lately I have learned) was begot and borne, soone after, was by his parents (perhaps because hee was so unlike his brethren) exposed to the wide world, who for want of judgement, or not understanding the privy marke of_ Ironie _about it (which shewed it was no of-spring of any vulgar braine) utterly rejected it: so that for want of acceptance it was even ready to give up the Ghost, and was in danger to have bene smothered in perpetuall oblivion, if you (out of your direct_ antipathy _to ingratitude) had not bene moved both to relieve and cherish it: wherein I must needs commend both your judgement, understanding, and singular love to good wits; you afterwards_ _sent it to mee, yet being an infant and somewhat ragged, I have fostred it privately in my bosome these two yeares, and now to shew my love returne it to you, clad in good lasting cloaths, which scarce memory will weare out, and able to speake for it selfe; and withall, as it telleth mee, desirous to try his fortune in the world, where if yet it be welcome, father, foster-father, nurse and child, all have_ _their desired end. If it bee slighted or traduced, it hopes his father will beget him a yonger brother, who shall revenge his quarrell, and challenge the world either of fond and meerely literall interpretation, or illiterate misprision._ _Perhaps it will be thought to bee of the race of_ Don Quixote: _we both may confidently sweare, it is his elder above a yeare; and therefore may (by vertue of his birth-right) challenge the wall of him. I doubt not but they will meet in_ _their adventures, and I hope the breaking of one staffe will make them friends; and perhaps they will combine themselves, and travell through the world to seeke their adventures. So I commit him to his good fortune, and my selfe to your love._ | Your assured friend | W. B. The first quarto does not contain the address _To the Reader_ or The Prologue, printed on p. 160. It omits _The Actors Names_ and the text is headed The famous Historie | Of the Knight of the burning| _PESTLE_. |, a title followed in quartos B and C at the head of the text.