The Preface.
they entred with us upon the Dissolution of the Abbeys, as with them abroad, upon the Delivery of the Slaves.
For the Gypsies, they and the Foul Disease have alike the Fate to run through a Geography of Names, and to be made free of as many Countries, as almost there are Languages to call them Names in; for as the French call the Pox, the Italian Disease, they again give it to the Spaniards, as these to the French; so the French call the Gypsies Boemie, or Bohemians, belike, because they made their first Appearance in Bohemia of any Part of Europe; the Italians Name them Zingari or Saracens, the Spaniards Ilanos as we Egyptians; whether it be, that the Italians give them the Turks, as the Spaniards give them the Moors, as being both the next Neighbors to each; I take not up-on
