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by Eminent Persons_ vol. ii. pt. i. p. 352)'a knight of Norfolk or Suffolk invited him into
the countrey. He stayed but to make himselfe a suite of cloathesand while it was makeing fell sick of the
plague and died.'
The High Pad's Boast
See Note to "The Maunder'sInitiation"
ante.
The Merry Beggars
Little is known of the birth or extraction of Richard Bromeand whether he died in 1652 or 1653 is uncertain.
For a time he acted as servant to Ben Jonson. The Jovial Crew was produced in 1641 at The Cock-pita
theatre which stood on the site of Pitt Place running out of Drury Lane into Gt. Wild St.
118
Stanza Iline 5.
Go-well and Com-well = outgoing and incoming.
A Mort's Drinking Song
See_ Note to "The Merry Beggars _ante
.
A Beggar I'll Be"
This ballad is from the Bagford Collection whichformed by John Bagford (1651-1716)passed successively
through the hands of James West (president of the Royal Society)Major Pearsonthe Duke of Roxburghe and
Mr. B. H. Brightuntil in 1845 it and the more extensive Roxburghe Collection became the property of the
nation.
Stanza IIline 1.
Maunder_ = beggar. Line 2. _filer =
pickpocket; filcher_ = thief. Line 3. _canter = a tramping beggar or rogue. Line 4. lifter = [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]