The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . skilful illustrator of the immortal bardwould have swelled the materials I have touched upon to agood merchantable bulk; comprising the biographies ofWilliam Walworth, Jack Straw, and Robert Preston; somenotice of the eminent fishmongers of St. Michaels; the his-tory of Eastcheap, great and little; private anecdotes ofDame Honeyball, and her pretty daughter, whom I have noteven mentioned; to say nothing of a damsel tending thebreast of lamb, (and whom, by t
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . skilful illustrator of the immortal bardwould have swelled the materials I have touched upon to agood merchantable bulk; comprising the biographies ofWilliam Walworth, Jack Straw, and Robert Preston; somenotice of the eminent fishmongers of St. Michaels; the his-tory of Eastcheap, great and little; private anecdotes ofDame Honeyball, and her pretty daughter, whom I have noteven mentioned; to say nothing of a damsel tending thebreast of lamb, (and whom, by the way, I remarked to be acomely lass, with a neat foot and ankle;) — the whole en-livened by the riots of Wat Tyler, and illuminated by thegreat fire of London. THE boars head TAVERN, EASTCPIEAP 135 31. All this I leave, as a rich mine, to be worked by futurecommentators; nor do I despair of seeing the tobacco-box,and the parcel-gilt goblet, which I have thus brought tolight, the subjects of future engravings, and almost as fruitfulof voluminous dissertations and disputes as the shield ofAchilles, or the far-famed Portland Sign of the Bull and Mouth InnFrom Callows London Taverns
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