Note 329 — The Table. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Inns were not so plentiful at this time as they afterward became. Perhaps the establishment here referred to was the celebrated Bell Inn, which was still standing in the time of James the First, and which is mentioned by Taylor the Water-Poet in his Penniless Pilgrimage, 1618 (Works, 1630, i. 122):—
"At last I took my latest leave, thus late At the Bell Inn, that's extra Aldersgate."