A decent sum had Peter Nottage made,
By joining bricks - to him a thriving trade:
Of his employment master and his wife,
This humble tradesman led a lordly life;
The house of kings and heroes lack’d repairs,
And Peter, though reluctant, served the Players:
Connected thus, he heard in way polite, -
“Come, Master Nottage, see us play to night,”
At first ’twas folly, nonsense, idle stuff,
But seen for nothing it grew well enough;