Dekker's "Belman's Night Walk," sig.

So in Dekker's "Belman's Nights-walke," it is alluded to:"The set at Maw being plaid out.

He told how Belman fairly surpassed himself, and "twice to-day picked out the dullest scent"; and how little Dobbin, the Irish hobby, went cantering on "as true as truest horse, that yet would never tire."

The life of such a beggar is well described in the "Belman of London," printed in 1608"The life of a beggar is the life of a souldier.