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Mermaid Tavern

noun

  1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.


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They say she used to be seen at the Mermaid Tavern in London with all those play-acting people.

The hour had come, and the conspirators were in the Mermaid Tavern for their final arrangements, when lo!

Even Shakespeare himself used to frequent the Mermaid tavern.

He could imagine himself at the Mermaid Tavern, hob-nobbing with Shakespeare and all the rest of them.

The delights of the Mermaid Tavern, where these rare wits were wont to assemble, still live in tradition.

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