The little wayside inn, between Pateley Bridge and Ripon, has the following plaintive appeal to a stiffnecked race:—
“The malster doth crave
His money to have,
The exciseman says have I must.
By that you can see
How the case stands with me;
So I pray you don’t ask me for trust.”
A small beer-house at Werrington, in Devonshire, yclept the Lengdon Inn, has:—
“Gentlemen, walk in, and sit at your ease,
Pay what you call for, and call what you please;
As trusting of late has been to my sorrow,
Pay me to-day, and I’ll trust ee to-morrow.”
The Maypole, near Hainault Forest, has:—
“My liquor’s good,
My measures just;
Excuse me, sirs!
I cannot trust.”
At Preston, in Lancashire:—
“Greadley Bob, he does live here,
And sells a pot of good strong beer;
His liquor’s good, his measure just,
But Bob’s so poor he cannot trust.”
| PLATE XVII. | |
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| HAT AND BEAVER. (Banks’s Collection, 1750.) | SWAN WITH TWO NECKS. (Banks’s Collection, 1785.) |
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| HARROW AND DOUBLET. (Banks’s Collection, 1700.) | |
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| MAN IN THE MOON. (Vine Street, Regent Street; modern.) | THE APE. (Stone carving, Philip Lane, Barbican, 1670.) |