Mermaid Tavern

Mermaid Tavern
an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

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▪ historical tavern, London, United Kingdom
      famous London tavern that stood to the east of St. Paul's Cathedral, with entrances in Bread Street and Friday Street. In 1612–13 it was the venue for the monthly meetings of a club of gentlemen and wits, including Ben Jonson (Jonson, Ben) and Francis Beaumont (Beaumont, Francis). Most of the members were scholars, politicians, and intellectuals. There is no evidence that Shakespeare or Sir Walter Raleigh ever attended: this is a sentimental myth invented by Shakespeare's Victorian editors.

      The club was mentioned by the traveler Thomas Coryate in a letter written in 1615 from India and in a poem written to Jonson by Beaumont about 1613:

What things we have seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,
As if that every one (from whence they came)
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And had resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.

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