He used very much to frequent the Half-Moon-Tavern in Aldersgate-street, through which was a common Thorough fare; he coming late that way, one night, was denied passage, whereupon going through the Sun-Tavern a little after, he said,

  Since that the Moon was so unkind to make me go about,
  The Sun hence forth shall take my Coin, the Moon shall go without.

His constant humour was to sit silent in learned Company, and suck in (besides Wine) their several Humours into his observation; what was Ore in others, he was able to refine unto himself.

He was one, and the chief of them, in ushering forth the Book of Coriats Crudities, writing not only a Character of the Author, an explanation of his Frontispiece, but also an Acrostick upon his Name, which for the sutableness of it, (tho’ we have written something of others mock Verses) we shall here insert it.

  T_ry and trust_ Roger, was the word, but now
  H_onest_ Tom Tell-troth puts down Roger, How? 
  O_f travel he discourseth so at large_,
  M_arry he sets it out at his own charge_;
  A_nd therein (which is worth his valour, too)_
  S_hews he dare more than_ Paul’s Church-yard durst do.

  C_ome forth thou bonny bouncing Book then, daughter_
  O_f_ Tom of Odcombe, that odd jovial Author,
  R_ather his son I should have call’d thee, why_? 
  Y_es thou wert born out of his travelling thigh_
  A_s well as from his brains, and claim’st thereby_
  T_o be his_ Bacchus as his Pallas:  he
  E_ver his Thighs_ Male then and his Brains She.

He was paramount in the Dramatick part of Poetry, and taught the Stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians, being accounted the most learned, judicious, and correct of them all, and the more to be admired for being so, for that neither the height of natural parts, for he was no Shakespear, nor the cost of extraordinary education, but his own proper industry, and addiction to Books, advanced him to this perfection.  He wrote fifty Plays in all, whereof fifteen Comedies, three Tragedies, the rest Masques and Entertainments.  His Comedies were, The Alchimist, Bartholomew Fair, Cynthia’s Revels, Caseis alter’d, The Devil is an Ass, Every Man in his humour, every Man out of his humour, The Fox, Magnetick Lady, New Inn, Poetaster, Staple of News, Sad Shepherd, Silent Woman, and A Tale of a Tub.  His Tragedies were, Cateline’s Conspiracy, Mortimer’s Fall, and Seianus.  His Masques and Entertainments, too long here to write, were thirty and two, besides a Comedy of East-ward, hoe? in which he was partner with Chapman.