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A NEVV-YEARS-GIFT FOR The Welch Itinerants, Or a HUE and CRY after Mr. VAVASOR POWELL.
IF you will have first his Pedigree blazed, he was the1 Grand-child of one William Vavasor of Newtown in Montgomeryshire, a man fresh in our memory for his hyperbolical discourses, so that by descent he hath not much degenerated from his Ancestors. This old man had a Daughter named Penelope, a Lady not altogether as Chast as Ulysses his Wife, who gained more by the trade of Tipling than Spinning, And this Gossip was the Mother of our young Donatus. She was married to one Howel the poor Ale man of Knwcklas in Radnorshire, and a badger of Oatmeal, but Non genus aut proavos — we like Mr. Vavasor never the worse for that. They lived long in that house of no good re∣port, and the young Gentleman was no great probationer in Christs School, by his own confession (during his Minority) be∣ing willing to approve of all games, were they never so wanton or vile, for his Mother or Sisters livelyhood. But tired at length2 with walking their Guests horses, and finding no great gain at such a petty Ale-house, he was elevated in his thoughts for higher pre∣ferment,