THE BOARS HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.
f in a leaf, or tunity nor tion to follo, old Jack Falstaff! kind Jack Falstaff! s Jack Falstaff! ; regions of and good- man may revel, and ance of jolly laugo make mankind merrier and better to test posterity.
A t suddenly struck me. quot;I o Eastc; said I, closing t;and see if tavern still exists. I may ligraces of Dame Quickly and s? At any rate, treading to t toper enjoys in smelling to ty cask, once ?lled ;
tion in execution. I forbear to treat of tures and ered in my travels; of ted regions of Cock Lane; of ttle Britain and ts adjacent; eaton Street and Old Jes tunted giants, ty and terror of all unlucky urced London Stone, and struck my staff upon it in imitation of t arch-rebel Jack Cade.
Let it suf?ce to say, t I at lengtc ancient region of and s relisestimony even at t day. For Eastco;s convivial doings. t ribbes of beef roasted, pies uals: ttering of pes, rie.quot; Alas! aff and old Stoerer o tradesman; ttering of pots and t;rie,quot; to ts and t dinging of tmans bell; and no song is rain of some syren from Billingsgate, cing the eulogy of deceased mackerel.
I soug abode of Dame Quickly. t of it is a boars one, present is built into ting line of te of tavern.
For tory of ttle abode of good felloallo, and o as table ced in a little back parlor, t upon a yard about eig square laid out as a ?oant viereet, ta of soap and tallotle er part of a century.
to be versed in tory of Eastc and little, from London Stone even u