The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.

Title

The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.

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[London :: A. Mathewes],

Printed MDCCXXV. [1625]

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Subject terms

Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. -- A rod for run awayes -- Early works to 1800.

Plague -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.

England -- Social conditions -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.

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"The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14249.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO OVR MVCH RESPECTED AND VE∣ry worthy Friend, Mr. H. CON∣DELL at his Countrey-house in FVLLAM.
• The Runn-awayes Answere.
  • First then for the Name.
  • Now for the Matter.
  • The true picture of the Countrey people.
  • Leaue Them, and now to our Selues.
  • A Run-awaies Speech to his Fellow Run-awaies, Arming them (though flying from Death) to meete Death brauely, and face to face.
  • An other manner of Picture, drawne in Lant-skip, of the Countrey, shewing as well as the other, and (as some say that are trauaild into those places) trewer.