[94.] One asked the reason why Lawyers Clerks writ such wide lines: Another answered, It was done to keep the peace; for if the Plaintiff should be in one line, and the Defendant in the next, the lines being too near together, they might perhaps fall together by the Ears.
[4.] Mr Noy[200] the Attorney General, making a Venison Feast in a Tavern where Ben Johnson and some of his Companions were Drinking, and he having a mind to some of the Venison, wrote these Verses, and sent them to Mr Noy
When all the World was drown'd,
No Venison could be found;
For then there was no Park:
Lo here we sit,
Without e're a bit,
Noy has it all in his Ark.
For the ingenuity of which, Mr Noy sent him a good corner of a Pasty, and half a Dozen Bottles of Sack to wash it down.
At another time, Ben Johnson intending to go through the Half Moone Tavern in Aldersgate Street, was denied entrance, the Door being shut: upon which he made these Verses.