Change of religion bear:
That this mischance may soon bring in || A heresy of beer.”
Page 295, line 24. “A hundred horse.”
“He that gave the King a hundred horse,” refers, no doubt, to Sir John Suckling and his loyal service in 1642. See introduction to M. D., C., pp. xix. xx. The Answer to “I tell thee, Jack, thou gavest the King,” there mentioned, and probably referring to Sir John Mennis, a carping rival although a Cavalier, has a smack of Cleveland about it (it certainly is not Suckling’s):—
I tell thee, fool, who ere thou be,
That made this fine sing-song of me,
Thou art a riming sot:
These very lines do thee betray,
This barren wit makes all men say
’Twas some rebellious Scot.