Dunton, John (1659-1732)

A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes.

London

Printed for Richard Newcome

1691

"Wandring one Evening thro' a Cypress Grove--(I won't be positive, it might be Hazle, but t'other sounds better) revolving in my rambling Brain the Varietyes of Human Affairs, happen'd i' the Drove of Thoughts, that swarm'd up and down my Noddle to reflect on my own self (Sir, Your Humble Servant) and what strange checquered Fortunes had filled the Lines of my Horoscope."

Be it therefore known to all men by these presents, that I Don John Hard-name (you'll hear more on't if you have patience to read further) Citizen and, &c. of London, being now arriv'd to the precise 30th. Year of my Life, that time when the gaities of Fancy being workt off, the Judgment begins to Burnish, and a Man comes to years of Discretion, if ever he will be so:--Wandring one Evening thro' a Cypress Grove--(I won't be positive, it might be Hazle, but t'other sounds better) revolving in my rambling Brain the Varietyes of Human Affairs, happen'd i' the Drove of Thoughts, that swarm'd up and down my Noddle to reflect on my own self (Sir, Your Humble Servant) and what strange checquered Fortunes had filled the Lines of my Horoscope; I followed my self in my busy Imagination from my Cradle to my Grave, in all my Rises and Falls, my Ups and Downs, and heres and theres and every where's, and upon the whole sincerely protest unto thee, O judicious, gentle, courteous Reader, that after the severest Investigation both of History and Experience, I can no where find my Parallel, and am apt now to believe what I thought too much my Friends have sometimes bin pleas'd to Complement me with, that I was indeed an Original.
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John Dunton, A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes. The First of which contains the Rare Adventures of Don Kainophilus, From his Cradle to his 15th. Year. The like Discoveries in such a Method never made by any Rambler before. The whole Work intermixt with Essays, Historical, Moral and Divine; and all other kinds of Learning. Done into English by a Lover of Travels. Recommended by the Wits of both Universities. 3 vols. (London: Printed for Richard Newcome, 1691). <Link to EEBO-TCP>

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