Identifier: cu31924103708214 (find matches)
Title: The Table book;
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Hone, William, 1780-1842 Wynne, Lewis Bingley. fmo St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: London : Published for W. Hone, by Hunt and Clarke
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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To Canterbury with devout courage ;That night was come into that hostelrieWell nine and twenty in a compagmeOf sundry folke, by aventure yfalleIn felawsship, and pilgrimes were they alle.That toward Canterbury wolden ride.The chambers and stables weren wide, &c. Chaucer, whom it pleases to Stowe tocall the most famous poet of England,relates — shortly in a clause Th estat, th araie, the nomlire, and eke the cause.Why that assembled was this compagnieIn Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrie.That hight the Tabard, faste by the Bell. In course of time the original name ofthe sign seems to have been lost, and itsmeaning forgotten. The Tabard is cor-rupted or perverted into the Talbot inn;and as already, through Siowe, I have shownthe meaning of the Tabard, some readersperhaps may excuse me for adding, that theTalbot, which is now only a term for anarmorial bearing, is figured in heraldry asa dog, a blood-hound, or hunting hound.* • Academy of Armory, b. li. c. 9. 437 THE TABLE BOOK.
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WILLIAM BLAKE OSTLER AT KESTON CROSS. After thus beating up inns and public-houses generally, we will return for a mo-ment to Keston Cross. To this pleasanthouse there is attached a delightful littleflower and fruit-garden, with paddocks,poultry-yard, outhouses, and every requisitefor private or public use; all well-stocked,and, by the order wherein all are kept, be-?peakincr the well-ordijred pconomv o* theoccupants mind. The stabling for his ownand visitors horses is under the manage-ment of an ostler of long service: and it must not be forgotten, that the rooms irthe house are rr.arked by its owners at-tachment to horses and field-sports. Inthe common parlour, opposite the door, isa coloured print of the burial of a hunts-man—the attendants in full cry over thegrave—with verses descriptive of the cere-mony. A parlour for the accommodationof private parties has an oil painting of theold duke of Bolton, capitally mounted, inthe yard of his own mansion, going out,attended by his h

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