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

So from "Tales of a Mermaid Tavern":   "… and of that other Ocean   Where all men sail so blindly, and misjudge   Their friends, their charts, their storms, their stars, their           God!"

From Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger

They say she used to be seen at the Mermaid Tavern in London with all those play-acting people.

From A Parody Outline of History by Donald Ogden Stewart

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

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

Sir Thurstan had given us instructions to put up at the Mermaid Tavern, near the harbor, and there we accordingly stabled our beasts and made arrangements for our own accommodation.

From In the Days of Drake by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Shakespeare and Bacon and Raleigh met in the Mermaid Tavern for the purpose of turning out a few yards of Elizabethan blank verse in the post-Tennysonian style of Mr. Alfred Noyes.

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy