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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 by Various
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And the Bore's Head, near London Stone,
The Swan at Dowgate, a taverne well known;
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.

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_Governesses_.--A lady wrote to her son, requesting him to look out for a
lady, such as she described, and such as is ordinarily expected in a
governess, that is to say, all accomplished, with the disposition of an
angel. The gentleman wrote back that he had long been looking out for such
a person, and that when he found her, he should not recommend her for a
governess, but take her for a wife.--_New Monthly Mag_.

_Counterfeit Kings_.--In the infancy of the Roman Empire, we find a
counterfeit Agrippa, after him a counterfeit Nero; and before them two
counterfeit Alexanders, in Syria. But never was a nation so troubled with
these mock kings as England; a counterfeit Richard II. being made in the
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