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Title: The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Reid, Thomas Wilson
Subjects: Cheshire Cheese (Inn)
Publisher: London : "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese"
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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story, which begin withthe Tabard and pass on, through the Mermaid andthe rest, to the old house in Wine Office Court. Thisvenerable survivor of a vanished race has a doubleinterest: to the lover of antiquity in general it appealsas the type of the place our forefathers loved ; to thelover of the Johnsonian cycle, as enabling him topicture to himself what that race of giants did, wherethey ate and drank, and where they talked. Thatthey had reason for their choice of an inn, and couldgive a reason for that choice too, is plain from awell-known passage in Boswell, which runs asfollows:— N There is no private house in which people canenjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. Letthere be ever so great plenty of good things, ever somuch grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so muchdesire that everybody should be easy, in the natureof things it cannot be ; there must always be somedegree of care and anxiety. The master of the houseis anxious to entertain his guests, the guests are
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ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CIIESJllKi-: C1IEES(5, Early History of Ye Olde. Cheshire Cheese 5 anxious to be agreeable to liiiii; and no man but avery impudent dog indeed can as freely commandwhat is in another mans house as if it were his own.Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom fromanxiety. You are sure you are welcome, and themore noise you make, the more trouble you give (weshould remember that this was said in the rougherworld of the last century), the more good thingsyou call for, the welcomer you are. No servants willattend you with the alacrity which waiters do whoare incited by the prospect of an immediate rewardin proportion as they please. No, Sir, there is nothingwhich has yet been contrived by man by which somuch happiness is produced as by a good tavern orinn. Although the origin of the Old Cheshire Cheese(formerly spelt Ye Olde Cheshire Chese) is notaltogether involved in obscurity, there is a decidedwant of complete, or even semi-complete, details asto its very ear

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