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The front of St. John's Hospital at Lichfield, presents one of the
most curious ancient specimens extant of this part of our early
domestic architecture. This building was erected 1495, but it is
possible that the remarkable chimneys may have been subsequently
added.
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OLD LONDON.
(_For the Mirror_.)
In a collection of Epigrams written by Thomas Freeman, of
Gloucestershire, and published in 1014, is the following, entitled
"London's Progresse:"--
"Why, how nowe, Babell, whither wilt thou build?
I see old Holbourne, Charing Crosse, the Strand,
Are going to St. Giles's in-the-field,
Saint Katerne, she takes Wapping by the hand,
"And Hogsdon will to Hygate ere't be long,
London has got a great way from the streame,
I thinke she means to go to Islington,
To eate a dish of strawberries and creame.
The City's sure in progresse I surmise,
Or going to revell it in some disorder,
Without the Walls, without the Liberties,
Where she neede feare nor Mayor nor Recorder.
Well! say she do, 'twere pretty, yet 'tis pitty
A Middlesex Bailiff should arrest the Citty.
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