Society in the Elizabethan age . lf. This circumstance was perhaps unfor-tunate for the former, though no doubt at the worst herecovered his outlay. From the above account of Elizabethan inns we may notbe able to gather much that can be counted in their favour ;yet once more we should not forget that they were but anexpedient of the times. The social habits of the people hadbeen suddenly and violently changed ; and, as a naturalresult, they became restless, lawless, and thriftless. Theirbrains were turned by the religious excitement and political 86 Elizabethan Society, activity amidst which t
Society in the Elizabethan age . lf. This circumstance was perhaps unfor-tunate for the former, though no doubt at the worst herecovered his outlay. From the above account of Elizabethan inns we may notbe able to gather much that can be counted in their favour ;yet once more we should not forget that they were but anexpedient of the times. The social habits of the people hadbeen suddenly and violently changed ; and, as a naturalresult, they became restless, lawless, and thriftless. Theirbrains were turned by the religious excitement and political 86 Elizabethan Society, activity amidst which they lived, followed surely by a terriblereaction. This is why the voice of the nation toleratedtaverns, for the same reason that the Chinese tolerate opiumdens, and Shakespeare wrote, Measure for Measure. Thisalso may be why we who are too far advanced to tolerateanything, look back with curious eyes on those venerableinstitutions whose like can hardly now be endured among then they are not old. PART III. AT THE COURT £?. Henry VII. (Ft otn a ft Initial Letter in an Inrolled Account.)
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