. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ed dagger, andrather growing worse than better by the applica-tions of his physicians, she administered a newand unheard-of remedy. Full of affection and duty,she daily licked the wound which the force ofthe poison prevented from closing, and suckedout the deadly matter. By dint of this, or, tospeak more truly, by the power of conjugal affec-tion, she so drew out the noxious matter, thatthe wound healing, the king perfectly recovered,and she received not the least harm. It is T24 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Charing m
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ed dagger, andrather growing worse than better by the applica-tions of his physicians, she administered a newand unheard-of remedy. Full of affection and duty,she daily licked the wound which the force ofthe poison prevented from closing, and suckedout the deadly matter. By dint of this, or, tospeak more truly, by the power of conjugal affec-tion, she so drew out the noxious matter, thatthe wound healing, the king perfectly recovered,and she received not the least harm. It is T24 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Charing memory. It Avas of Caen stone, beautifully wroughtwith many figures, and raised upon steps of also subsequently styles it a superb piece ofarchitecture. The cross itself was sentenced bythe Parliament to be taken down in 1643, but itsactual demolition was not carried out till somefour years later., namely, in tlie summer of , in his Observations on the Life of KingCharles I., published in 1715, says that part ofthe stones of which it was composed were em-. OLD CHARING a Copy of a very old Print publishai by X. Smith in 1792. ployed in paving the front of Whitehall, whilstother stones were made into knife-hafts and otherarticles, which, Avhen polislied, looked like following lines on the downfall of the crossitself, which arc quoted from Percys Reliques,are interesting and amusing :— Undone, undone the are ; Tlicy M-ander about the towne ;Xor can find the way to • •, Now Charing Cross is downc :At the end of the Strand they made a stand, Swearing they arc at a loss,And, chaffing, say, thats not the way— Tliey must go by Charing Cross, The Parliament to vote it down Conceived it very fitting,For fear it should fall and kill them all, In the house as they were were told, God wot, it had a plot, Which made them so hard-hearted,To give command it should not stand, But be taken down and carted. Men talk o
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