The Preface.
ture and Genius being diverse, in proportion to the Countries amongst whom they Stroul; so that the same Question remains upon them, as is started of the Winds, as Universal Travellers as the Gypsies, that it seems a Doubt, Whether they partake more of the Nature of the Countries whence they rise, or of those through which they Pass?
Nor is it also new to meet the Beggers and the Proverbs together, for the Fashion is as old as Plautus, who puts the Proverbs and the Jests in the Mouth of his Slaves. And in the Character of Sancho Pancha, Cervantes has Trod in the same Steps; in the History of Don Quixot, Sancho being distinguished no less by his Proverbs, than his Asse. And between the Slaves and the Beggers, the Difference is no greater, than between Fathers and their Heirs.
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