Note this beggerly lying busie-bodies name brought out the Ballad-maker — KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER, PERFORMED IN A MORRICE FROM LONDON TO NORWICH.

P. 22, l. 13, this beggerly lying busie-bodies name brought out the Ballad-maker.]—Kemp, I conceive, alludes here to Richard Johnson, who is still remembered by his Famous Historie of the Seuen Champions of Christendome, in two Parts, of which the earliest extant edition (what edition the title-page does not indicate) was printed in 1608, 4to. Ritson remarks that this celebrated romance is mentioned in Meres’s Palladis Tamia (fol. 268), 1598. Observ. on Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Po et. p. 23; but I can produce a notice of it anterior to that date from the Stationers’ Books: