_Inviting
a Friend_, _Wks.
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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.
_On the famous Voyage_, _Wks. _ 8. 234:
At Bread-Street's Mermaid having dined, and merry,
Proposed to go to Holborn in a wherry.
_Bart. Fair_, _Wks. _ 4. 356-7: 'your Three Cranes, Mitre,
and Mermaid-men! '
=3. 3. 28 In veluet! = Velvet was introduced into England in the
fifteenth century, and soon became popular as an article of luxury
(see Hill's _Hist. of Eng. Dress_ 1.
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.
_On the famous Voyage_, _Wks. _ 8. 234:
At Bread-Street's Mermaid having dined, and merry,
Proposed to go to Holborn in a wherry.
_Bart. Fair_, _Wks. _ 4. 356-7: 'your Three Cranes, Mitre,
and Mermaid-men! '
=3. 3. 28 In veluet! = Velvet was introduced into England in the
fifteenth century, and soon became popular as an article of luxury
(see Hill's _Hist. of Eng. Dress_ 1.
