[BV] In the letter in which Aubrey speaks of writing this life (supra i. p. 2: MS. Ballard 14, fol. 131) he says:—'I want the scoffing ballad that Sir John Menis made against him, upon his fine troope and his running away. To which Sir John Suckling replyed in another ballad:—
"I prithee, foole, who ere thou bee,
That madest this fine sing-song of mee
... a sott
... or els some rebell Scott."
Pray, search Mr. <Ralph> Sheldon's ballad collections for them.'
[BW] Anthony Wood objects here: 'Dr. Corbet married Sir Nathaniel Brent's daughter': see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 235.
Thomas Sutton (1532-1611).
[1028]... Sutton, founder of the Hospitall[1029]—from old Thomas Tyndale, esq., the father—was first a garrison-soldier at Barwick[1030]. He was a lusty healthy handsome fellowe, and there was a very rich brewer who brewed to the navy, etc., who was ancient and he had maried a young buxome wife.... The old brewer doted on his desirable wife and dies and left her all his estate which was great[1031].
Sutton was a man of good understanding, and improved it[1032] admirably well, but the particular wayes by which he did it I have now forgot; but he was much upon mortgages, and fed severall with hopes of being his heire.
'Twas from him that B. Johnson tooke his hint of the fox, and by Seigneur Volpone is meant Sutton.