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Nash speaks of them in a similar strain: 'Fruits shall be greatly eaten
with Catterpillers; as Brokers, Farmers and Flatterers, which feeding
on the sweate of other mens browes, shall greatlye hinder the beautye
of the spring. '--_Prognostication_, _Wks. _2. 145. 'They shall crie out
against brokers, as Jeremy did against false prophets. ' _Ibid. _ 2. 162.

=1. 1. 148 as you make your soone at nights relation. = Cf.
Dekker, _Satiromastix_, _Wks. _ 1. 187: 'Shee'l be a late
sturrer soone at night sir,' and _ibid.
_ 223:

By this faire Bride remember soone at night.

=1. 2. 1 ff. I, they doe, now=, etc. 'Compare this
exquisite piece of sense, satire, and sound philosophy in 1616
with Sir M. Hale's speech from the bench in a trial of a witch
many years afterwards. '--Coleridge, _Notes_, p. 280.

=1. 2. 1 Bretnor. = An almanac maker (fl. 1607-1618). A list
of his works, compiled from the catalogue of the British Museum,
is given in the _DNB_. He is mentioned twice by Middleton:

This farmer will not cast his seed i' the ground
Before he look in Bretnor.