[176] Silver.
[177] The Union Arms in Panton Street, Haymarket, was the public-house of Cribb, the pugilist champion, a fact commemorated by a poet of the prize ring, in all probability a better “fist” at smashing than at “wooing the Muses:”—
“The champion I see is again on the list,
His standard—the Union Arms.
His customers still he will serve with his fist,
But without creating alarms.
Instead of a floorer, he tips them a glass,
Divested of joking or fib;
Then, ‘lads of the fancy,’ don’t Tom’s house pass,
But take a hand at the game of Cribb.”
[178] Sylvanus Morgan’s Sphere of Gentry. London, 1661.
[179] There is a sign of the Green Lion in Short Street, Cambridge, the only one I have ever seen.
[180] Fuller, in voce Warwickshire.
[181] Delaune’s Present State of London, 1682.
[182] Printed in the Journal of Brit. Archæolog. Assoc., vol. vii. p. 71.
[183] Taylor’s Pennylesse Pilgrimage, 1630.
[184] Catherine Street, in the Strand, was a disreputable thoroughfare in the last century. Gay alludes to it in his “Trivia:”—