The delightful, Princely and Entertaining history of the Gentle-Craft: containing many matters of delight, very pleasant to read. Shewing what famous men have been shooe-makers in Old Time; with their Worthy Deeds and Generous Humours. Also Demonstrating why called the Gentle-Craft. And how the Proverb first came A Shooe-Maker's Son is a Prince Born. To which is Added, The Merry Pranks of the Green King of St. Martin's, a Shooe-Maker so called. With the Shooe-Makers Glory: Being a Merry Song in Praise of Shooe Makers To be Sung by them every Year on the 25th of October, being Crispin's Birth-Day. Adorned with pictures suitable to each story.
Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600. | Date: 1760