Byron uses the word
scurra
, which generally means a "parasite," in its other sense of a "buffoon."
Memoirs of George Frederic Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
, by W. Dunlap, in 2 vols., was published in 1813
The original edition of
Drunken Barnaby's Journal
, a small square volume, without date, was probably printed about 1650. The author was supposed to be Barnaby Harrington of Queen's College, Oxford. But Joseph Haslewood, whose edition (1818) is the best, attributed it to Richard Brathwait (circ. 1588-1673). The title of the second edition (1716) runs as follows: