| has gloss | eng: The Mermaid Tavern was a tavern on Cheapside in London during the Elizabethan era, located east of St. Pauls Cathedral on the corner of Friday Street and Bread Street. It was the site of the so-called Friday Street Club (the Taverns entrance was on Friday Street). The Club, meeting monthly, was allegedly founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603, and included some of the Elizabethan era's leading literary figures, among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and others—including, perhaps, William Shakespeare. |