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

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

Has Shakespeare smoked it at the Mermaid Tavern, Quaffing a cup of sack with rare old Ben?

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

Why should Bacon not have been one of the noblemen who, after the performance of a play, were initiated, in the Mermaid Tavern, into the more hidden meaning of a drama?

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis

Here are the Mermaid lines, Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field, or mossy cavern, Fairer than the Mermaid Tavern?

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

The Mermaid Tavern, in Cheapside, was the favourite resort of the great Elizabethan dramatists and poets.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe