REPROOF OF BEAR-BAITING. 87 
ample extant, in the verses of Crowley, of a 
severe reproof of Bear-baiting, though the 
writer’s objections are founded, not upon the 
sufferings of the Bear, but upon the ‘ful 
ouglie sight’ which they afford; the extra- 
vagance of paying a half-penny for admission, 
often by those who could not prudently af- 
ford it; and the supposed impiety of apply- 
ing to the purpose of diversion, any money 
really superfluous, and which, in conformity 
with an old exaggeration, the poet teaches 
should be given only to the poor. He is 
jealous that the pence of the multitude 
should go into the pocket of the Bearward, 
or Manager of the Theatre! I will repeat 
some of his lines; and in these, as elsewhere, 
you will observe, that in those Romish times 
of England, as still in every Roman Catholic 
country, Sunday was the express day for 
theatrical entertainments :-— 
‘ What follie is this, to keep, with danger’, 
A great Mastiffe Dog, and foule, ouglie Bear ; 
And to this end,—to see them two fight, 
With terrible tearings, a ful ouglie sight : 
And methinkes those men most fools of al, 
Whose store of meney is but very smal ; 
