The curio : an illustrated monthly magazine (1887)
[New York : R.W. Wright] · leaf 185
the importunities ofgenius, and though nearly all the Rosescustomers were more or less in love with lier,refused to heed their praxers and died a spinsterat the age of 67. Mermaids and mermen had great attractionsfor the people during the seventeenth century,and were the subjects of street ballads,… … The Mermaid. At the sign of the Mermaid, in Cheapside,the poet Laureate, John Dryden, often spenthis evenings, and here came many of the poorermembers of the Guild of letters to court hisconversation and sip mine hosts brown Oc-tober. At the Mermaid, in Bread street, tlie firstliterary society of…
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