bull-beggar

I should no more prevail herein [_i. e._ in securing attention] than if a hundred years since I should have entreated your predecessors to believe, that Robin Goodfellow, that great and ancient bull-beggar, had been but a cozening merchant and no devil indeed ....

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

Elmas (as the officer was called) had this strut more than any man perhaps we saw afterwards; and as the sight was then quite new to us, we could not help staring at the magisterial and superlatively dignified air of a man with great holes in his elbows, and looking altogether, as to his garment, like what we call a bull-beggar.”

The Life of Lord Byron Galt, John, 1779-1839 1830