Identifier: introductionto00panc (find matches)
Title: An introduction to English literature
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Pancoast, Henry Spackman, 1858-1928. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English literature
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Shakespeares ^j^ere too came the famous travelers afterLondon. their long and perilous voyages to take their ease in their inns. At the old Mermaid tavernin Bread Street gathered the great men of the age.Here Shakespeare, Jonson, Raleigh, and the restdrank their malmsey and canary like ordinary mor-tals, and smoked with wonder the newly introducedtobacco, discussing, doubtless, the latest play or poem,or listening eagerly to travelers tales of the splendorsof Italy or the marvels of the New World. We must remember that Shakespeares, like Chau-cers, London was a walled town, and that its greatgates were still used. Just outside of the wall to thenorth lay open fields, dotted occasionally with housesand windmills. There was Spitalfield, Smithfield orSmoothfield, then a grassy plain where tournamentswere held and where, under Mary, Protestants hadbeen burned. Much of the ground about the citythus remained uninhabited. The population ofLondon at this time is placed at about a hundred and
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