To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably
tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole,
with all the honest stitches he can take.
And as willing never to be paid for his work,
by Old English wonted pay.
_It is his trade to patch all the year long_, gratis.
Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
By _Theodore de la Guard_.
_In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima
quaeque consilia tutissima sunt._ Cic.
In English,
When bootes and shoes are torne up to the lefts,
Coblers must thrust their awles up to the hefts.
This is no time to feare _Apelles gramm:
Ne Sutor quidem ultra crepidam_.