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

Suppose, for instance, that you were to go into the tap-room of the Mermaid Tavern some winter evening during the reign of the, so to speak, Good Queen Bess.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

Those who conspired at the Mermaid Tavern to send brave argosies of wit trafficking on a bluer sea than ever sailed Drake's galleons were playwrights to a man.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome

Tradition tells us that Shakespeare was a member of that brilliant coterie of the Mermaid Tavern, where rare Ben presided, as glorious John presided at a later day in his favoured Coffee-house.

From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker

Tell her the Mermaid Tavern will have guests: We are sent to warn her.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

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