"I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine."-Beaumont I. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1887. "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson. "Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?" Keats. LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. |