The Mitre in Cheape; and then the Bull Head,

And many like places that make noses red;

Th' Bore's Head in Old Fish Street, Three Crowns in the Vintry,

And now, of late, St. Martin's in the Sentree;

The Windmill in Lothbury; the Ship at th' Exchange,

King's Head in New Fish Street, where roysters do range;

The Mermaid in Cornhill, Red Lion in the Strand,

Three Tuns, Newgate Market; Old Fish Street, at the Swan."

The first drinking song that appeared in the English tongue is connected with Gammer Gurton's Needle, and was published in 1551.

P.T.W.