Note BV — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 5)
Reading edition
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.'