. London . would he lepe :And till that he had all the sights y seen,And danced well he would not come again. For the continued noise and uproar of the city, for itscrowds, for its smells, the people cared nothing. They werepart of the city. They loved everything that belonged to it—their great cathedral ; their hundred churches ; theirmonasteries ; their palaces and the men-at-arms ; the nobles,priests, and monks ; the Mayor and Aldermen ; the ships andthe sailors ; the merchants and the craftsmen ; the ridingsand the festivals and the holy days ; the ringing, clinging,clashing of the bells a
. London . would he lepe :And till that he had all the sights y seen,And danced well he would not come again. For the continued noise and uproar of the city, for itscrowds, for its smells, the people cared nothing. They werepart of the city. They loved everything that belonged to it—their great cathedral ; their hundred churches ; theirmonasteries ; their palaces and the men-at-arms ; the nobles,priests, and monks ; the Mayor and Aldermen ; the ships andthe sailors ; the merchants and the craftsmen ; the ridingsand the festivals and the holy days ; the ringing, clinging,clashing of the bells all day long ; the drinking at the taverns ;the wrestling and the archery ; the dancing ; the pipe andtabor ; the pageants, and the mumming and the love-making—all, all thcyr loved. And they thought in their pride thatthere was not anywhere in the whole habitable world—witnessthe pilgrims and the ship-captains, who had seen the wholehabitable world—any city that might compare with famousLondon BOAR IN EASTCHEAP VI. TUDOR I.—SPRINGTIME AMONG THE RUINS. Ik the London of the ThirdEdward was a city of palaces,that of Queen Elizabeth wasa city of ruins. Ruins everywhere! Ruinsof cloisters, halls, dormitories,courts, and chapels, andchurches. Ruins of carvedaltar-pieces, canopies, statues,painted windows, and graven fonts. Ruins of old faiths andold traditions. Ruins everywhere. Only consider whatbecame of the monastic buildings. King Edwards CistercianHouse, called the New Abbey, or Eastminster, was pulled clean down, and in its place storehouses for victuals andovens for making ships biscuits were set up. On the abbeygrounds were erected small tenements for poor workingpeople, the only inhabitants of that neighbourhood where isnow the Mint. Sir Arthur Darcie it was who did this. The( onvent of St. Clare, called the Minories, was similarly treated,its site converted into storehouses. The old buildings arealways said to have been entirely pulled down, but theirdestruc
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