A VERY GOOD BOOK 003
A VERY GOOD BOOK 003
player, and who could not rob a Cambridge scholar without bidding him deliver an oration in a wood, theft was already better than a vulgar extortion. Moll Cutpurse, whose intelligence and audacity were never bettered, was among the bravest of the Elizabethans. Her temperament was large and a reckless A Ben Jonson's own.Neither her tongue her courage knew the curb of modesty, and she was the to reduce her craft to of wise and imperious rules. She it was who discovered the secret of discipline, and who insisted that every member of her gang should undertake no other enterprise nature had framed him. Thus she made easy that other hero, you are told that his band was made `of several sorts of wicked artists, of whom he made several uses,shaped its material, and the variations of its material it must perforce vary. the skill of the cutpurse compelled the invention of the pocket, it is certain that the rare difficulties of the pocket created the miraculous skill of those crafty fingers which were destined to empty it.
Now, Simon, says his biographer, was `looked upon to be the greatest artist of his age by all his contemporaries.' The son of a baker in Rosemary Lane, he early deserted his father's oven for a life of adventure;