With the Pleasant Pranks of Smug the Smith, Sir John and mine Host of the George about the Stealing of Venison.
This piece was written and probably printed at a much earlier date, for on 5 April 1608 "a booke called the lyfe and deathe of the Merry Devill of Edmonton, &c., by T.
The popularity of the comedy of the Merry Devil of Edmonton doubtless suggested the title of this droll tract, which tells us little about Peter Fabell, and deals mainly with the adventures of Smug.
Brewer's next production was a series of poems descriptive of the plague, entitled The Weeping Lady, or London like Ninivie in sack-cloth.
On the title-page is a wood-cut (repeated on the verso of A 3) representing a preacher addressing a crowd from St. Paul's Cross; a scroll issuing from his mouth bears the inscription "Lorde, haue mercy on vs. Weepe, fast, and pray".
The most striking part of the tract is a description of the flight of citizens from the metropolis, and of the sufferings which they underwent in their attempts to reach a place of safety.
The World, a Sea, a Pest House and A Dialogue betwixt a Cittizen and a poore Countrey-man and his Wife.
In 1637 Brewer contributed to a collection of verse, entitled The Phoenix of these late times, or the Life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq.
(preserved in the library of the Society of Antiquaries), entitled Mistress Turner's Repentance, who, about the poysoning of the Ho.
He has commendatory verses in Taylor's Works (1630), and in Heywood's Exemplary Lives ... of Nine the most worthy Women of the World (1640).