Coaching days and coaching ways . pilgrims who set outthence for Canterbury on a certain May morning. Inthe company, to wit, of a verray parfight gentilknight, in cassock and coat of mail ; his curly-headedsquire ; the brown-faced yeoman bow in hand ; the abbot,a mighty hunter from his youth up ; the friar, medievallytypical of our street singers, abhorred by literary men ;the prioress, possessed of a charming Erench lisp, andhaving Amor vincit omnia characteristically graven uponher brooch ; in the company too (in case the Tabardwhisky—malmsey, I mean—should prove cumulative in COACHING
Coaching days and coaching ways . pilgrims who set outthence for Canterbury on a certain May morning. Inthe company, to wit, of a verray parfight gentilknight, in cassock and coat of mail ; his curly-headedsquire ; the brown-faced yeoman bow in hand ; the abbot,a mighty hunter from his youth up ; the friar, medievallytypical of our street singers, abhorred by literary men ;the prioress, possessed of a charming Erench lisp, andhaving Amor vincit omnia characteristically graven uponher brooch ; in the company too (in case the Tabardwhisky—malmsey, I mean—should prove cumulative in COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS its effects) of a doctor of physic, who had been makinghay while the sun shone and the plague was rampant ;in the company, lastly, of the clerk from Oxford, whommuch study had made—not mad—but as lean andleaden-eyed as Eugene Aram ever was. Not that I intend to travel with this famed companyall the way to Canterbury. They did not hurry them-selves enough ; sat too long telling discursive stories by. The Old Tabard, Satthivark. the way-side, which may be read to advantage in editionscarefully prepared for ladies colleges and the here I may perhaps remark with advantage—tomyself (in case it may appear that I am on history bentrather than on coaching)—that the purely coachingrecord of the Dover Road is a thing only to be touchedon briefly. For in point of fact it is thin, as dra-matic critics would say, in the extreme. The following THE DOVER ROAD 225 copy of a time bill marks probably the beginning ofits development. LONDON EVENING POST. March 28. 1751. A Stage Coach WILL SET OUT For Dover every Wednesday and Friday from Christopher Shaws theGolden Cross at four in the morning to go over Westminster Bridge toRochester to dinner to Canterbury at night and to Dover the next morningearly ; will take up passengers for Rochester, Sittingbourne, Ospringe, and Canterbury—and returns onTuesdays and Thursdays. -r, fThos : \ Robt : L
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