London in the Time of the Tudors

by Walter Besant

“There hath been great sale and utterance of Wine,

Besides Beere, and Ale, and Ipocras fine,

In every country, region, and nation,

But chiefly in Billingsgate at the Salutation;

And at the Bore’s Head near London Stone;

The Swan at Dowgate, a tavern well knowne;

The Miter in Cheape, and then the Bull Head;

And many like places that make noses red;

The Bore’s Head in Old Fish Street; Three Cranes in the Vintry;

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