Illustrations of the Site and Neighbourhood of the New Post Office: Comprehending Antiquarian Notices of St. Martin's-le-Grand, and Its Liberty, and the Adjoining Parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John, Zachary, with an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Antient Mourning Bush Tavern, & C. Aldersgate. And Various London Taverns, Its ContemporariesSmales and Tuck, 1830 - 75 ページ |
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64 ページ - Ben Jonson was at a tavern, and in comes Bishop Corbet (but not so then) into the next room. Ben Jonson calls for a quart of raw wine, and gives it to the tapster. ' Sirrah,' says he, ' carry this to the gentleman in the next chamber, and tell him, I sacrifice my service to him.
59 ページ - And God bless every living thing That lives and breathes and loves the King. God bless the council of estate And Buckingham the fortunate; God bless them all and keep them safe: And God bless me, and God bless Ralph.
67 ページ - As soon as we came near the bar, a thing started up all ribbons, lace, and feathers, and made such a noise with her bell and her tongue together, that had half-a-dozen paper-mills been at work within three yards of her, they'd have signified no more to her clamorous voice than so many lutes to a drum, which alarmed two or three...
54 ページ - Clownes and vulgar men (says Fynes Moryson) only use large drinking of beere or ale, — but gentlemen garrawse only in wine, with which they mix sugar, which I never observed in any other place or kingdom to be used for that purpose. And because the taste of the English is thus delighted with sweetness, the wines in taverns (for I speak not of merchantes' or gentlemen's cellers) are commonly mixed at the filling thereof, to make them pleasant.
51 ページ - ... the mayor and sheriffs, with other citizens, appeased the same ; for the which afterwards the said mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs were sent for to answer before the King; his sons and divers lords being highly moved against the city. At which time William Gascoigne, chief justice, required the mayor and aldermen, for the citizens, to put them in the King's grace.
42 ページ - January 3Oth, 1649, he hung his sign in mourning ; he certainly judged right ; the honour of the mitre was much eclipsed by the loss of so good a parent to the Church of England. These rogues [the whigs] say, this endeared him so much to the churchmen that he strove amain, and got a good estate.
43 ページ - There is a well-known proverb ' Good wine needs no bush,' ie nothing to point out where it is to be sold. The subsequent passage seems to prove that anciently tavern-keepers kept both a bush and a sign. A host is speaking : ' I rather will take; down my bush and sign, Than live by means- of riotous expense
60 ページ - ... this was done by rose-water and sugar, generally about a pennyworth. A sharper in the Bellman of London, described as having decoyed a countryman to a tavern, " calls for two pintes of sundry wines, the drawer setting the wine with two cups, as the custome is, the sharper tastes of one pinte, no matter which, and finds fault with the wine, saying ' 'tis too hard, but rose-water and sugar would send it downe merrily ' — and for that purpose takes up one of the cups, telling the stranger he is...
43 ページ - sole soveraiyne of the ivy bush, prime founder of red-lettices," &c. In Dekker's Wonderful Yeare, 1603, we read: "Spied a bush at the ende of a pole (the auncient badge of a countrey ale-house." In Vaughan's Golden Grove, 1608, is the following passage : " Like as an ivy-bush, put forth at a vintrie, is not the cause of the wine, but a signe that wine is to bee sold there ; so, likewise, if we see smoke appearing in a chimney, we know that fire is there, albeit the smoke is not the cause of the fire.
70 ページ - After the play the best company generally go to Tom's and Will's coffee-houses near adjoining, where there is playing at picket and the best of conversation till midnight. Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars sitting familiarly, and talking with the same freedom, as if they had left their quality and degrees of distance at home ; and a stranger tastes with pleasure the universal liberty of speech of the English nation.