Excerpt from Fortune's Foot-Ball, or the Adventures of Mercutio, Founded on Matters of Fact, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel There 18 a period between infancy and manhood, in Which, let our fiation in life bewhat it may, nothing but'trifles Occur 'i'fhoulcl hold myfelf inexcufable m detaining the attention of my readers from'the more 1n terefiing inc1dent of my narratwe, With an infipid rela non of thof e, ancl therefore, (hall date the adventures of our hero from the commencement of his fixteenth' 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.