Note 173:A — Chapter VI
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Act iv. sc. 1.—Jonson in his Bartholmew Fayre, acted in the year 1614, has a character of this kind, a Baker, who has undergone a similar conversion, and is thus introduced:—
"Win. W. What call you the Reverend Elder, you told me of? your Banbury-man.
Joh. Rabbi Busy, Sir, he is more than an Elder, he is a Prophet, Sir.
Quar. O, I know him! a Baker, is he not?
Joh. Hee was a Baker, Sir, but hee do's dreame now, and see visions, he has given over his Trade.
Quar. I remember that too: out of a scruple hee tooke, that (in spic'd conscience) those Cakes hee made, were serv'd to Bridales, May poles, Morrisses, and such prophane feasts and meetings; his Christen-name is Zeale-of-the-land Busye."
Jonson's Works, fol. edit. vol. ii. p. vi. act i. sc. 3.