. Walks in London . The George Inn, Southwark. ancient of the inns of Southwark, and which had becomefor ever celebrated, when Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales,At sixty, wrote the Canterbury tales. * Up to a few years before its destruction it was marked byan inscription, which said, *This is the Inne where SirJeffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay intheir journey to Canterbury, anno 1383. It was an old • Longfellow. THE TABARD, 463 house worthy of Nuremberg, and such as we shall never seeagain in London, with high roofs and balustraded woodengalleries supported upon
. Walks in London . The George Inn, Southwark. ancient of the inns of Southwark, and which had becomefor ever celebrated, when Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales,At sixty, wrote the Canterbury tales. * Up to a few years before its destruction it was marked byan inscription, which said, *This is the Inne where SirJeffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims lay intheir journey to Canterbury, anno 1383. It was an old • Longfellow. THE TABARD, 463 house worthy of Nuremberg, and such as we shall never seeagain in London, with high roofs and balustraded woodengalleries supported upon stone pillars. A worn fadedpicture of the Canterbury Pilgrimage hung from thegallery in front of the Pilgrims Room. The fronttowards the street was* comparatively modern, havingperished in the fire of 1676, after which, says Aubrey, the I. In the Courtyard of tlie Tabard, Southwark. ignorant landlord or tenant, instead of the ancient sign ofI the Tabard, put up the Talbot or Dog. The ancient signof the Tabard, says Stow, is a jacket or sleeveless coat,whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar,winged at the shoulders ; a stately garment of old time,commonly worn by noblemen and others, both at homeand abroad in the wars, but then (to wit, in the wars) their 464 WALKS IN LONDON. arms embroidered, or otherwise depict upon them, that everyman by his coat of arms might be known from others. There was such a completely old-world character in thecourtyard of the Tabard that, though Chaucer certainlynever saw the inn which has been lately destroyed, thosewho visited it in 1873, imbued with the poem, would feelthat the balustraded galleries, with the little rooms opening
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