= These were two
ordinaries or public houses of low repute,
especially
famous
for their pies.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
It is possible, of course, that actual
patterns of the Dutch weavers or tailors are referred to.
=1. 1. 63 Custome-house key.= This was in Tower Street
on the Thames side. Stow (ed. Thoms, pp. 51. 2) says that the
custom-house was built in the sixth year of Richard II. Jonson
mentions the place again in _Every Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 69.
=1. 1. 66 the Dagger, and the Wool-sacke.
= These were two
ordinaries or public houses of low repute,
especially
famous
for their pies.
There were two taverns called the 'Dagger,' one
in Holborn and one in Cheapside. It is probably to the former
of these that Jonson refers. It is mentioned again in the
_Alchemist_ (_Wks._ 4. 24 and 165) and in Dekker's _Satiromastix_
(_Wks._ 1. 200). Hotten says that the sign of a dagger was
common, and arose from its being a charge in the city arms.
The Woolsack was without Aldgate. It was originally a
wool-maker's sign. Machyn mentions the tavern in 1555; and it is
alluded to in Dekker, _Shoemaker's Holiday_, _Wks._ 1. 61. See
Wh-C. and Hotten's _History of Signboards_, pp.
