may dine at the sign of the Mouth.
The swaggerers will dine at the Fencers:
but those that have lost their wits,
With Bedlam Tom let there be their home,
and the Drum the drummer best hits.
The cheater will dine at the Chequer,
the pick-pocket at the Blind Ale-house:
Till taken and tride, up Holborn they ride,
and make their end at the gallows.”
In a black-letter poem called “News from Bartholomew Fayre” occurs the following short list of taverns:—