Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts,
situated
in a valley on the
north side of the river Lea.
north side of the river Lea.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
It was the custom formerly for the clerk or bellman of St.
Sepulchre's to go under Newgate on the night preceding the execution
of a criminal, and, ringing his bell, to repeat certain verses,
calling the prisoner to repentance. Another curious custom observed
at this church was that of presenting a nosegay to every criminal on
his way to Tyburn (see Wh-C. ). The executed criminals were buried in
the churchyard (d. Middleton, _Black Book_, _Wks. _ 8. 25).
Cunningham says that 'the word _steeple_ was not used in the
restricted sense to which we now confine it. The _tower_ of St.
Sepulchre's in Jonson's time, must have been very much like what
we now see it as most carefully and tastefully restored. '
=5. 8. 134 as farre as Ware. = This is a distance of about 22 miles.
Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts, situated in a valley on the
north side of the river Lea. The 'great bed of Ware' is mentioned in
_Twelfth Night_ 3. 2. 51, and the town is characterized as 'durty
Ware' in Dekker's _North-ward Hoe_, _Wks. _ 3. 53.
=5. 8. 142, 3 I will tell truth=, etc. Jonson uses this proverb again
in _Tale Tub_, _Wks. _ 6. 150: 'tell troth and shame the devil. '
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