...Where the Red Lion flaring o'er the way Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Culvert's butt, and Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs...room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath a rug. A window patch'd with paper lent a ray, That dimly show'd the state in which...

...orator, with all the emphasis of voice and action, he proceeded : — " Where the Red Lion, flaring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...Parson's black champagne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug. The Muse found Scroggen stretched beneath...

...but senseless stones and blocks ? DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER WHERE the Red Lion, flaring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...Parson's black champagne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The Muse found Scroggen stretched beneath...

...jhe -poet himself, under the euphonious name of >se»9ggin: ~ ~^^**». " Where the Red Lion, peering o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...champagne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane : 1 There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggin stretch'd beneath a rug; A...

...own bed-chamber often ; re-introduced the description with six new lines ; Where the Red Lion flaring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...Where Calvert's butt, and Parson's black champagne. Regales the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse...

...way, Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Calvert's butt and Parson's black champaigne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The Mouse found Scroggin stretch'd beneath a rug ; A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by...

...haunted by bailiffs, deserted by friends, often cold, ragged and hungry: "Where the Red Lion peering o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggin stretched beneath a rug; A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking...

...of an orator, with all the emphasis of voice and action, he proceeded: "Where the Red Lion, flaring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can...Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane: There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath...

...more, — She had not died to-day. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Calvert's butt, and Parsons' black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; There in a lonely room, from...

...began to deteriorate about the end of the seventeenth century, and Goldsmith thus alludes to it: — " Where the Red Lion staring o'er the way Invites each...The muse found Scroggen stretched beneath a rug." Drury House above alluded to passed into the possession of the Earl of Craven, who died there in 1697....