CASTLE THE DOWNS THE WEALD OF SUSSEX, NORTH OF LEWES ARUNDEL CASTLE THE MARKET CROSS, CHICHESTER BOSHAM THE TUDOR HOUSE, OPPOSITE ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON IN THE NEW FOREST ROMSEY ABBEY NORTH TRANSEPT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL ST CROSS, WINCHESTER SELBORNE FROM THE HANGER ENGLAND OF MY HEART CHAPTER I THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO CANTERBURY FROM THE TABARD INN TO DARTFORD

Therefore I sought the Tabard Inn in Southwark.

But to come into Southwark on a Spring morning in search of Chaucer and the Tabard Inn is to ask of London more than she will give you.

It is true the fire of 1666 destroyed almost all, but apparently it did not destroy the Tabard Inn, which nevertheless is goneit and its successors.

The last of it was finally destroyed in 1875, and the Tabard Inn of the new fashion was built at the corner as we see.

It is in these verses lies all the fame of the Tabard, which it might seem was not a century old when Chaucer lay there.

In old days, certainly in Chaucer's, we should have been reminded of him more than once on our way e'er we gained the Tabard.

The wife of the host of the Tabard inn is a vixen and shrew, who calls her husband a milksop, and is so formidable with both her tongue and her hands that he is glad to make his escape from her whenever he can.

On a spring evening, at the inspiring time of the year when "longen folk to goon on pilgrimages," Chaucer alights at the Tabard Inn, and finds it occupied by a various company of people bent on a pilgrimage.

Who would have dreamed of travelling from the Tabard in Southwark to the last new singer, viâ Exeter-hall and the lilies of the valley, and touching en passant on to cardinal virtues and an Irish Viscount?

Any question about a porch, and a generous one, at the Tabard, Southwarkpresided over by that wonderful host who so quickened the story-telling humors of the Canterbury pilgrims of Master Chaucer? Then again, in our time, if one were to peel away the verandas and the exterior corridors from our vast watering-place hostelries, what an arid baldness of wall and of character would be left!

Above this, on a beam stretched between two pillars, hang the arms he wore at the Battle of Poitiers,the tabard, the shield, the helmet, the gauntlets, and the sheath that held his sword, which weapon it is said that Cromwell carried off.

The metallic scales, if such they were, have partially fallen from the tabard, or frock, and the leather shows bare in parts of it.

Having profited by a stranger's privilege, and the English garb, which is held as sacred as a herald's tabard in many a foreign land, to unite myself to the little group, and address some casual inquiries to its frank and overjoyous membersold Philipp Stroer himself, the hero of the day, deigned to take the picture from the hands of the sacristan, and to ciceronize for my especial edification.

BAILLY, (Henry or Harry), the host of the Tabard Inn, in Southwerk, London, where the nine and twenty companions of Chaucer put up before starting on their pilgrimage to Canterbury.

The party first assembled at the Tabard, an inn in Southwark, and there agreed to tell one tale each both going and returning, and the person who told the best tale was to be treated by the rest to a supper at the Tabard on the homeward journey.

The party first assembled at the Tabard, an inn in Southwark, and there agreed to tell one tale each both going and returning, and the person who told the best tale was to be treated by the rest to a supper at the Tabard on the homeward journey.

He had drawn rein at Tabard Inn, Southwark.

They proposed to remain at Tabard Inn at least until the next night, when they would set out under cover of the darkness for Crandlemar, where Lord Cedric had given orders to have all things ready for his immediate espousal.

Lady Constance, believing that Sir Julian, with Katherine, would return to Tabard Inn, mentioned it.

They started from the Tabard Inn at Southwark, and agreed to tell each a tale going and each another coming back, the author of the best tale to be treated with a supper.

T TABARD, a tunic without sleeves worn by military nobles over their arms, generally emblazoned with heraldic devices.

"Toom Tabard," empty king's cloak, nickname given by the Scotch to John Balliol as nothing more.

See TABARD.

Egmont, wearing a crimson tabard, a short black cloak embroidered with gold, and a hat ornamented with black and white plumes, stood in a haughty attitude, as if facing the square and the people.