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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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re many more. The church has old tombs and new windows, those in thenew nave being very happily chosen and designed : one toShakespeare, for his connection with Banksidc and itsTheatres; one to Massinger, who is buried here; one toJohn Fletcher, who is buried here too; one to Alleyn theactor; one to Gower, the Father of English Poetry, who isburied here and founded a chantry; one to Chaucer, whosent forth his pilgrims from the Tabard hard by; and oneto Bunyan, erected with pennies subscribed by Southwarkchildren. Although the church is so lenient to literatureand the stage, no hero from the neighbouring bear-pit andbull-baiting arena is celebrated here. The Tabard to-day is just a new inn on the site of theold and is not interesting; but there is an inn close to it,a few yards north, on the east side of the High Street,which preserves more of old coaching London than anythat is now left, and is, I think, the only one remaining thatkeeps its galleries. I mean the George. When I came to
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.Mi:it( UKV iNSTumiNi; cuiIk AKTK.R TIIK TK 7 I KK BY COKKKCKMO IN TICK .N.VTIci.NAI (iALLERY THE DEBTORS 207 London the WTiite Hart, a little to the north of this, stillretained its yard and galleries — just as in the days whenSamuel Weller was the boots here and first met Mr. Pick-wick on his way to catch Jingle and Miss Wardle. So didthe Bull and the Bell in Holhorn. But these have all beenrenewed or removed, and the George is now alone. Itstands in its yard, painted a cheerful colour, and the coffeeroom has a hot fire and high-backed bays to sit in, and thebar is a paradise of bottles. Surely the spirit of Dickens,who so loved the Borough, broods here. Surely the ghostsof Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen drop in now and then fromLant Street, and it is not too far for Mr. Micawbers genialspook to send for a bottle of something encouraging, fromthe Kings Bench prison. A few other old houses remain in the High Street — theHalf Moon, with its flying bridge and old world stables,and No. 15

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