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Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the 'Mermaid?' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past--wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, more wise.
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Many, says Fuller,
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Mermaid on such evenings as Beaumont so glowingly describes. But all we really know is that Beaumont and Ben Jonson met at the
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Mermaid,
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Mermaid, in Cheapside.
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The Pastyme of the People (folio, 1529) is described as
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Stow also mentions this tavern:--
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They (Coppinger and Arthington, false prophets), says the historian,
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Mermaid
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Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months' Travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany, and the Netherlands, 1611, 4to; reprinted in 1776, 3 vols., 8vo. This work was ushered into the world by an
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Odcombian banquet,