The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day (1866)
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918, Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873 · London : J. C. Hotten · leaf 482
h me;So I pray you dont ask me for trust. A small beer-house at Werrington, in Devonshire, yclept the Lengdon Inn, has :— Gentlemen, walk in, and sit at your ease.Pay what you call for, and call what you please;As trusting of late has been to my sorrow.Pay me to-day, and Ill trust ee to-morrow. The… … HUMOROUS AND COMIG. 449 His liquors good, his measure just,Bat Bobs so poor he cannot trust. The Green Man, on Finchley Common, under a tropliy com-posed of two pipes crossed and a pot of beer, presents us withthe following :— CaU. Softly,Drink . ModeratePay , Sonourably,Be Good . Compartif7a.Tt.…
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