Download or read book The Works of Don Francisco De Quevedo, Vol. 3 of 3 written by Francisco De Quevedo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Don Francisco De Quevedo, Vol. 3 of 3: Translated From Spanish; Containing, the Life of Paul the Spanish Sharper, Book III; Fortune in Her Wits; Proclamation by Old Father Time; A Treatise of All Things Whatsoever; Past, Present, and to Come; Letters on Several Occasions Very'lovingly, laid down his cloak and it ap. Peared, who would imagine it, that the fore part of his coat was of gray cloth, and the back of White linen, well liquored With fweat. I could not forbear laughing, and he very demurely (aid, You'll come into our row, and then you 'f won't laugh I'll lay a wager you don't know why I wear my hat with the brims bridled up. I anfwered, To look big, and remove all obfiacles from your fight. That's your mifiake, faid he, I do it to hinder the fight it is becaufe I have no hatband, and this hides it, This Taid, he pulled out about twenty letters, and as manyxoyals, faying, he could not deliver thofe. Every one was mark ed a royal pofiage, and they were all folded alike. He figned any name that came into his head 5 writ news of his own making, and deli. Voted them in that habit to people of faihion, receiving. The pofiage, which he praétifed once a month, all which to me was very amazing. N, next came two others, one of them with a cloth coat, reaching but half way down his wide kneed breaches; and a cloak of the fame fort; with his hand rumed up to hide the rends in it. The wide breeches. Were of camblet, but only as, faras appeared, for all the refi: was of red. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.