"I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine."-Beaumont LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimbie, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came 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. |