Note 404 — ACT V.
Reading edition
Dyce, in a note on a passage of The Captain, iv. 3 (Beaumont and Fletcher, iii. 295), quotes from A Brown Dozen of Drunkards, 1648, sig. C:—“This late Lusty Lawrence, that Lancashire Lad, who had seventeen bastards in one year, if we believe his Ballad,” &c.