And then th’ eccentric roadside “public” signs,[194]
Grotesquely figured, and inscribed with lines
As various writ as various the designs:—
“The Rose and Crown.” “The Stag.” “The Bull.” “The Bear.”
The “Coach and Horses.” “Horses, Hounds, and Hare.”
“The Rising Sun.” “The Seven Stars.” “Half-moon.”
“The Maid and Magpie:” and “The Old Green Man.”
Of “Heads”—The Duke’s: The Queen’s: The King’s. “King’s Arms.”—
High-colour’d frontages, whose wondrous charms—
To the unwary—oft are fraught with ill;