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[Illustration: FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO VILLEGAS
THE SPANISH SHARPER TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL OF FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO-VILLEGAS
ILLVSTRATED WITH ONE HVNDRED AND TEN DRAWINGS
TOGETHER WITH COMMENTS ON THEM BY JOSEPH PENNELL AND AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF QUEVEDO BY HENRY EDWARD WATTS
Printed by UNWIN BROTHERS at the _Gresham Press_ for
and Published by him at 11 _Paternoster Buildings_ 1892
COMMENTS ON THE DRAWINGS OF DANIEL URRABIETA VIERGE, AND ALSO A LETTER FROM THE ARTIST iii
QUEVEDO AND HIS WORKS: WITH AN ESSAY ON THE PICARESQUE NOVEL xv
Giving an Account of Who he is and Whence he Sprung 3
How I went to School, and what Happened to me there 8
How I went to a Boarding School in quality of Servant to Don Diego Coronel 17
Of my Convalescence, and Departure for the University of Alcalá de Henares 32
Of our entrance into Alcalá, of the Footing we had to pay, and the Tricks they played upon us 41
Of the wicked old Housekeeper, and the first knavish pranks I played at Alcalá 51
How I received news of my Father's Death, parted from Don Diego, and what Course of Life I resolved on for the future 69
My Journey from Alcalá to Segovia, and what Happened by the way till I came to Rejas, where I lay that Night 75
Of what Happened to me on the road to Madrid with a Poet 89
Of what I did at Madrid, and what Happened to me on my way to Cerecedilla, where I passed the Night 95
The kind Entertainment I had at my Uncle's, the Visits I received; how I recovered my Inheritance and returned to Madrid 111
Of my flight from Segovia, with what Happened to me by the way to Madrid 126
In which the Gentleman pursues his Journey, and his promised Tale of his Life and Condition 132
Of what Happened to me at my coming to Madrid as soon as I arrived there, until Nightfall 143
In which the same Subject is pursued, with other strange Incidents 150
The further Proceedings of this Sharping Gang, till they were thrown all together into Gaol 166
In which the Prison is described and what Happened therein, until the old Woman was whipped, my Companions exposed to Shame, and myself let out on Bail 176