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.
I·F
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.
THE
 
PREFACE.
Beloved Country-men,
Had I not more respect to my Countriesgood in general, than any private interestof mine own, I should not have introduc’d myFriend upon the common Theatre of the World,to act the part of a Rogue in the Publick view ofall. Rogue! did I call him? I should recalthat word, since his Actions were attended morewith Witty Conceits, then Life-destroying Stratagems.It is confest, the whole bent of hismind tended to little else then Exorbitancy; andNecessity frequently compelled him to perpetrateVillany: And no wonder, since he lived in theinfectious Air of the worst of most LicentiousTimes. But still I blame my self for stigmatizinghim with such an Opprobrious Title, since inthe declination of his days, the consideration ofhis former Wicked Courses hath wrought (I haveso much charity for him to believe it) in himcordial contrition, and unfeigned repentance: andthe truth of it is, Man should be regarded notfor what he was, but what he is.
Since his Reformation, I have taken very greatdelight in his Conversation, and never went fromhim but with great satisfaction in the IngeniousRelation of the transactions of his youthful days:And                         
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