Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . thand, a new public-house, approaching the gin-pala< e in its flaunting appearance, has been erected,and, as if in mockery, it has assumed the name ofthe OldTabard. The buildings in the inn-yard,as they remained down Id the period above men-tioned, consisted of a large and spacious woodenstructure, with a high tiled roof, the ground floor ofwhich had been for many years occupied as a 78 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Southward luggage office, and a place of call for carmen andrailway vans. This was all that remained of thes
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . thand, a new public-house, approaching the gin-pala< e in its flaunting appearance, has been erected,and, as if in mockery, it has assumed the name ofthe OldTabard. The buildings in the inn-yard,as they remained down Id the period above men-tioned, consisted of a large and spacious woodenstructure, with a high tiled roof, the ground floor ofwhich had been for many years occupied as a 78 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Southward luggage office, and a place of call for carmen andrailway vans. This was all that remained of thestructure erected in the reign of Charles II., outof the old materials after the fire. The upper partof it once was one large apartment, but it had beenso much cut up and subdivided from time to time hall, the room ofhostelry, or, as itPilgrims Room;Chaucers pilgrims- public entertainment of the was popularly called, The and here it is conjectured -if that particular Canterbury pilgrimage was a reality, and not a creation of thepoets brain—spent the evening before wending. GEOFFREY CHAUCER. to adapt it to the purpose of modern bed-roomsthat it presented in the end but few features ofinterest. There was an exterior gallery, also of wood, onthe left, which, with the rooms behind it, havebeen levelled with the ground, in order to makeroom for a new pile of warehouses. The rooms,dull, heavy, dingy apartments as they were, aresaid by tradition to have occupied the actual site,or rather to have been carved out of the ancient their way along the Old Kent Road towards theshrine of St. Thomas k Becket—? The holy blissful martyr for to seeke. From this old court-yard, then, actually rodeforth the company that lives and moves for everin Chaucers poetry, or, at any rate, many a com-pany of which the Canterbury Tales presenta life-like copy. In that room lay the seemlyprioress and her nuns; here the knight, with the Southward.] THE CANTERBURY TALES. 79
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