. Walks in London . ueen. Here he was blockaded, cannon being pointedat Essex House from the roofs of the neighbouring housesand the tower of St. Clement Danes, and hence, havingsurrendered, he was taken away to the Tower, where hewas beheaded. It is to Essex House that Spenser alludes,after describing the Temple, in the Prothalamion :— ** Next whereunto there standes a stately place,Wliere oft I gayned giltes and goodly graceOf that great lord, which therein wont to dwell,Whose want too well now feels ray ireendles case. A pair of stone pillars at the end of the street, whichperhaps belonged
. Walks in London . ueen. Here he was blockaded, cannon being pointedat Essex House from the roofs of the neighbouring housesand the tower of St. Clement Danes, and hence, havingsurrendered, he was taken away to the Tower, where hewas beheaded. It is to Essex House that Spenser alludes,after describing the Temple, in the Prothalamion :— ** Next whereunto there standes a stately place,Wliere oft I gayned giltes and goodly graceOf that great lord, which therein wont to dwell,Whose want too well now feels ray ireendles case. A pair of stone pillars at the end of the street, whichperhaps belonged to its water-gate, are the only existing VOL. I. E so WALKS IN LONDON, remains of the old house. But in Deim-eux Court (on theleft of Essex Street), high up on a wall, is a bust of LordEssex, attributed to Gibber. It marks the celebratedGrecian coffee-house, where the wits of the last century-loved to congregate, and whence Steele, in the first numberof the Tatler^ says that he shall date all his learned The Water-gate of Essex House. The dandyism and affectation displayed by the yourgstudents of the Inns of Court frequenting the Grecianexcited the contempt of Addison {Spectator, 491), who says, I do not know that I meet in any of my walks objectswhich move both my spleen and laughter so effectually asthose young fellows at the Grecian, Squires, Searles, andall other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early TEMPLE BAR, 5I for no otlier purpose but to publish their laziness. One woulJ think these young virtuosos take a gay cap andshppers, with a scarf and party-coloured gown, to be theensigns of dignity; for the vain things approach each otherv/ith an air which shows they regard one another for theirvestments. Palsgraves Place, the next entry on the right of theStrantI, marks the site of the Palsgraves Head Tavern,which commemorated the marriage of Frederick, Palsgraveof the Rhine, with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I,Ship Yard, opposite, destroyed in
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