There is, indeed, something characteristic in this passage, but all the rest is totally foreign.
Doctor Percy, bishop of Dromore, has reprinted in his Reliques of ancient English poetry, a very curious and excellent old ballad, originally published by Peck, who attributes it, but with no similitude, to Ben Jonson; in which Robin Good-fellow relates his exploits, with singular humour. To one of these copies, he says, "were prefixed two wooden cuts which seem to represent the dresses in which this whimsical character was formerly exhibited upon the stage." In this conjecture, however, the learned and ingenious editor was most egregiously mistaken: these cuts being manifestly printed from the identical blocks made use of by Bulwer in his "Artificial changeling," printed in 1615; the first being intended for one of the black and white gallants of Seale-bay, adorned with the moon, stars, &c. the other a hairy savage. After this discovery, originally made by the present compiler, the right reverend prelate changes his tone, but cannot prevail upon himself to part entirely with the dear illusion. Having mentioned that these two wooden cuts are "said to be taken from Bulwers Artificial change. ling, &c. [a book, by the way, of easy access, and,