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It was the scene of several of Shakespeare's
plays and two of Jonson's, _Every Man out_ and _Every Man in_
(Halliwell-Phillips, _Illustrations_, p. 43). The term 'summer
theatre' is applicable only to the rebuilt theatre (_ibid. _, p.
44). In _Ev. Man out_ (quarto, _Wks. _ 2. 196) Johnson refers to
'this fair-fitted _Globe_', and in the _Execration upon Vulcan_
(_Wks. _ 8. 404) to the burning of the 'Globe, the glory of the
Bank. ' In _Poetaster_ (_Wks. _ 2. 430) he uses the word again
as a generic term: 'your Globes, and your Triumphs. '

There seem to have been two Mermaid Taverns, one of which stood
in Bread Street with passage entrances from Cheapside and Friday
Street, and the other in Cornhill.
They are often referred to
by the dramatists. Cf. the famous lines written by _Francis
Beaumont to Ben Jonson_, B. & Fl. , _Wks. _, ed. 1883, 2. 708;
_City Match_, _O. Pl. _ 9. 334, etc. Jonson often mentions
the Mermaid. Cf. _Inviting a Friend_, _Wks. _ 8. 205:

Is a pure cup of rich Canary Wine,
Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine.