[542] So Isham copy, ed. A, and MS.—Eds. B, C "heed."

[543] So eds. B, C.—Isham copy, MS., and ed. A, "debtor poor."—With the foregoing description of the "ballad-singer's auditory" compare Wordsworth's lines On the power of Music, and Vincent Bourne's charming Latin verses (entitled Cantatrices) on the Ballad Singers of the Seven Dials.

[544] So MS.—Eds. "Thus."


IN FUSCUM. XXXIX.

Fuscus is free, and hath the world at will;

Yet, in the course of life that he doth lead,

He's like a horse which, turning round a mill,

Doth always in the self-same circle tread:

First, he doth rise at ten;[545] and at eleven