Note 9 — ACT I. SCENE I.
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the Bell] Qy. “the Bull?”
“He is not dead, but left his mansion here,
Has left the Bull, and flitted to the Beare.”
First Epitaph on Hobson—Wit’s Recr. p. 249.
“This memorable man [Hobson] stands drawn in fresco, at an inn, which he used in Bishopsgate-Street, with an hundred pound bag under his arm, with this inscription upon the said bag:
The fruitful mother of a hundred more.”
The Spectator, No. 509.