Mermaid Tavern

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noun

1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

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Mermaid Tavern

To him has been ascribed the institution, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, of the Mermaid Tavern meetings in Bread Street, Shakespeare's, Jonson's, Beaumont's, Fletcher's, Selden's, Cotton's, Camden's, and Donne's club.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

When Shakespeare and Ben Jonson forgathered at the Mermaid Tavern, their winged words passed over tankards of ale, but later other drinks became the usual accompaniment of news, story, and discussion.

From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp

Why should I stay to chant an idle stave, And in my Mermaid Tavern drink alone?

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

At the Mermaid Tavern all the wits used to gather.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall

A figure like foot-feathered Mercury, Tall, straight and splendid, waving his plumed hat To Ben, and taking his last look, I felt, Upon our Mermaid Tavern.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes