Mermaid Tavern

American  

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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Example Sentences

For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths�principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Walter Raleigh founded a club at the "Mermaid Tavern," where, in addition to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, together with many other dramatists of note, spent their leisure hours.

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern   CHRISTMAS knows a merry, merry place,   Where he goes with fondest face,   Brightest eye, brightest hair: Tell the Mermaid where is that one place,           Where?

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

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 Noyes, Alfred