Oh sorrow, pittifull sorrow, and yett all this is true.
John Taylor, the water-poet, has his epigram on the theme:[1252]
As gold is better that’s in fier try’d,
So is the Bankside Globe, that late was burn’d;
For where before it had a thatched hide,
Now to a stately theator ’tis turn’d:
Which is an emblem, that great things are won
By those that dare through greatest dangers run.
Ben Jonson, in his Execration upon Vulcan, writes as if he had been an eye-witness:[1253]
Well fare the wise men yet, on the Bank side,