Husk (Songs of the Nativity) also gives this version, from an eighteenth-century Worcestershire broadside. I have no doubt but that this feature is traditional from the unknown sixteenth-century ballad.
DIVES AND LAZARUS
1.
As it fell out upon a day,
Rich Dives he made a feast,
And he invited all his friends,
And gentry of the best.
2.
Then Lazarus laid him down and down,