. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. nts of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, and various othersports which were there carried on, particularly in the space betweenSt. Mary Overys (now St. Saviours) church and Paris-garden, ahamlet nearly opposite Blackfriars, whence there was a ferryacross the Thames. Skelton, a poet of the time of Henry VIII. hasthe following curious lines upon these diversions :What follie is Ihis to keep with dangerA great mastive dog and fowle ouglie bear!And to this end, to see them two terrible tearings. a ful ouglie
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. nts of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, and various othersports which were there carried on, particularly in the space betweenSt. Mary Overys (now St. Saviours) church and Paris-garden, ahamlet nearly opposite Blackfriars, whence there was a ferryacross the Thames. Skelton, a poet of the time of Henry VIII. hasthe following curious lines upon these diversions :What follie is Ihis to keep with dangerA great mastive dog and fowle ouglie bear!And to this end, to see them two terrible tearings. a ful ouglie yet, methinkes, those men are most fools of a),Whose store of money is but very yet, every Sunday, they wil surely spendOne penny or two, the bear-wards living to Paris Garden, each Sunday, a man shal not failTo find two or three hundred for the bear-wards vail;One halfpeny apiece they use for to giveWhen some have no more in their purses, I , at the last day their conscience will declareThat the poor ought to have all they may have to spare;. HISTORY OF LONDON. 617 If you, therefore, it give to see a bear fight,Be sure God his curse upon you will light. The annexed engraving, representing the scene of these sports,has been copied, with scrupulous accuracy, from an early plan ofthe manor of Paris-garden, in the possession of W. Bray, S. A. On closely inspecting the engraving, it will be seen that combats arerepresented as taking place in the interior of the edifice. The bullsand bears are displayed below, ranged opposite to each other inrows. The square enclosures betwixt them are pools of water, inwhich the animals were washed ; and the oblong slips to the left areold pike ponds : Pye or Pike-gardens still exist. Whether these * rough games, as a certain author terms them,were then exhibited in the same or similar amphitheatres, to thoseafterwards engraved in our old plans, or in the open air, the extractdoes not inform us; nor does
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