[643] “Credit is dead: he has been killed by bad payers.”
[644] Harl. MSS., No. 6200.
[645] Cambridge Jests; or, Witty Alarums for Melancholy Spirits. Printed at the Looking-Glass, on London Bridge, for Thomas Morris.
“You may fight, you may pray, you may plead,
But I am the farmer who lays the eggs,”—i.e., finds the money.
[647] Annotations to Ames’s Typographical Antiquities.
[648] MS. Harleian. 4690, 19 Edw. III.
“Here you may find a good woman,
Faithfully portrayed from the life.
Nothing is wanting but her head,
Because that turns about with every wind.
If the head had been left her,
She would never have been good in all her life.”