'Tis fairely given. Thy soule on prisoners prayers shall mount to heaven: The Plummers and the Workemen have survey'd the ground From _Paddington_; from whence I'l have laid pipes Long to London to convey sweet water into _Ludgate_; From fresh Springs: when charity tunes the pipe, the Poore man sings. _Enter Keeper_. How now, Keeper. As I had occasion to give a note here, I thought one sample of the original might gratify the reader's curiosity, and he _has a miniature of the whole work_. The poet, who is here very minute in the description of Stephen's charity, is justified by the inscription on the wall quoted by Stow. On this subject, however, Strype observes, "The water _I find not to be altogether his gift_; for that I perused lately a book, wherein I found a memorandum, that Sir Robert Knowles [Lord Mayor in 1400] gave maintenance for the supply of the prisoners of _Ludgate_ and Newgate for ever" ("Appendix," p. 26). There can be little doubt, however, that this excellent man did something for the benefit of the prisoners, in regard to the supplying them with water.--_Dilke._ [104] [Old copy, _for diet_.] [105] I suspect Arundel to have been of Cranmer's school, and to have _prophesied of what had actually happened_. The following extract from a pamphlet of that time called, "Thieves falling out, true Men come by their Goods," [1615,] justifies the supposition: "And _Shoreditch_ will complain to Dame Ann a Clear, _if we of the sisterhood, should not uphold her jollity_." It is not through the _inattention_ of the editor that this, and the preceding speech of Brewen's, _halt so_ _lamentably_; he has, in fact, exercised his utmost skill; but, as with many other passages in this drama, his success has not equalled his exertion. [The pamphlet cited by Dilke is a re-issue, under a changed title, of Robert Greene's "Disputation between a He-Coneycatcher and a She-Coneycatcher," 1592.] [106] [This is a somewhat corrupt form of a saying to be found in Stowe. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 480.] [107] This lady proved a false prophetess. [108] The 4o reads, "What shall I say, _except_ my hand and heart;" and Stephen may mean, What shall I offer except, &c.; but it seems a forced construction. THE ORDINARY _EDITION._ _The Ordinary, a Comedy, Written by William Cartwright, M.A. Ch. Ch. Oxon. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of The Princes Armes in St Paul's Churchyard. 1651._ 8o.[109] FOOTNOTES: