Except a "Song of Robin Hood and his Huntesmen" in _Metropolis Coronata_, I am not aware that any of Munday's ballads are extant--unless indeed the "ditties" in _The Banquet of daintie Conceits_ may be regarded as such; but there is no doubt that they were numerous, and hence, in the present passage, he is termed the "immediate heyre" of William Elderton. This personage,--who is said to have been, at different periods of his life, an actor, the master of a company of players, and an attorney in the Sheriff's Court, London,--obtained great notoriety by his ballads. See a list of his pieces in Ritson's _Bibl. Poet._: vide also Warton's _Hist. of Engl. Poet._ iv. 40, ed. 4to. His song "The God of love," &c. (of which a puritanical moralization still exists) is quoted in Shakespeare's _Much ado about Nothing_, act v. sc. 2. His _Verses on the Images over the Guild-hall Gate_ may be read in Stow's _Survey_, B. iii. 41, ed. 1720; his ballad of _The King of Scots and Andrew Browne_, in Percy's _Rel. of An. Engl. Poet._ ii. 207, ed. 1794; his _New Yorkshyre Song_, in Evans's _Old Ballads_, i. 20, ed. 1810; and his _Newes from Northumberland_, _The Dekaye of the Duke_, _The daungerous Shooting of the Gunne at the Court_ and _A moorning Diti upon Henry Earl of Arundel_, in _The Harl. Miscell._ X. 267, _seq._ ed. Park. Elderton appears to have ceased pouring forth his doggrel about the time that Deloney began to write. In 1592 he was dead: see Nash's _Strange Newes, Of the intercepting certaine Letters_, &c., 1592, Sig. D. 4. He was nearly as famous for drinking as for rhyming: of two epitaphs on him, preserved by Camden, I subjoin the first: "Hic situs est sitiens, atque ebrius Eldertonus; Quid dico, hic situs est? hic potius sitis est." _Remaines--Epitaphes_, 56, ed. 1605. P. 21, l. 11, mistery.]--art, trade. P. 21, l. 14, making.]--poetical composition. P. 21, l. 15, Macdobeth.]--This mention of a piece anterior to Shakespeare's tragedy on the same subject has escaped the commentators. P. 21, l. 21, the bankside.]--In Southwark, where the Globe and other theatres were situated. P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.]--A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act iv. sc. 8, _Works_, i. 141, ed. Gifford, and is used by a comparatively recent writer, Swift. See Richardson's _Dict._ in v. P. 21, l. 30, habber de hoy.]--"A _Hober-de-hoy_, half a man and half a boy." Ray's _Proverbs_, p. 57, ed. 1768.--The word is variously written: see Jamieson's _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Hobbledehoy_. P. 21, l. 30, squall.]--probably, poor effeminate creature. Taylor, the water-poet, describes the rich foolish gallant calling his harlot, "Ducke, Lambe, _Squall_, Sweet-heart, Cony, and his Doue." _A Whore_, p. 112.--_Workes_, 1630. and Middleton, who employs the word several times, seems to use it in the sense of wench: see his _Works_, iii. 55, v. 575. ed. Dyce.