Note 28 — SCENE IV.
Reading edition
trampler of the law] Taylor, the water-poet, begins the account of “A Corrupted Lawyer, and a Knauish Vndershriue,” with the following lines;
“A hall, a hall, the tramplers are at hand,
A shifting Master, and as sweetly man’d;
His Buckram-bearer, one that knowes his ku,
Can write with one hand and receiue with two.
The trampler is in hast, O cleere the way,
Takes fees with both hands cause he cannot stay,
No matter wheth’r the cause be right or wrong,
So hee be payd for letting out his tongue.”
A Brood of Cormorants, p. 13; Workes, 1630.
In Brome’s Sparagus Garden, 1640 (acted 1635), one of the characters is a lawyer named Trampler.