The Pennyles Pilgrimage Part 4

Whether Taylor's "Penniless Pilgrimage" really did interfere with, and prevent the publication of Ben Jonson's 'Foot Pilgrimage' would now be difficult to say. It is very evident from Taylor's remarks in his Dedication "To all my loving adventurers, &c.," he had been accused by the critics that he "_did undergo this project, either in malice, or mockage of Master Benjamin Jonson_." It is quite certain that Taylor lost no time in getting his "Pilgrimage" printed "at the charges of the author" immediately on his return to London on the fifteenth of October 1618.]

[Footnote 30: ROUSE.--A full gla.s.s, a b.u.mper.]

[Footnote 31: UNFELLOWED.--_i.e._, not matched.]

[Footnote 32: TO ISLINGTON TO THE SIGN OF THE MAINDENHEAD.--This then roadside Public-house, we are informed from recent enquiries, was situate at the corner of Maiden Lane, Battle Bridge, now known as King's Cross, from a statue of George IV.--a most execrable performance taken down 1842. The "Old Pub" is turned into a gin palace, and named the Victoria, while Maiden Lane--an ancient way leading from Battle Bridge to Highgate Hill--is known now as York Road.]

[Footnote 33: GUY OF WARWICK.--There are several versions and editions of this work. In the book of the Stationers' Company, John Trundle--he at the sign of NO-BODY--on the 15th of January, 1619, entered "a play, called the Life and Death of Guy Earl of Warwick, written by John Day and Thomas Dekker." See Baker's Biog. Dram., page 274, vol. 2.--"Well, if he read this with patience I'll be gelt, and troll ballads for Master Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality."--_Ben Jonson's_ Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 2.]