Chapter 1. In Pursuit Of Pleasure
_ CHAPTER I. IN PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
"To you,
Free and ingenious spirits, he doth now
In me, present his service, with his vow
He hath done his best； and, though he cannot glory
In his invention (this work being a story
Of reverend antiquity), he doth hope
In the proportion of it, and the scope,
You may observe some pieces drawn like one
Of a steadfast hand； and with the whiter stone
To be marked in your fair censures. More than this
I am forbid to promise."
---MASSINGER.
"Ther hopped Hawkyn,
Ther daunsed Dawkyn,
Ther trumped Tomkyn...."
--The Tournament of Tottenham.
In Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, there is a small alley or passage leading into Queen Square, and rendered inaccessible to all but foot passengers by some iron posts. The shops in this passage are of a subdued exterior, and are overshadowed by a dingy old edifice dedicated to St. George the Martyr, which seems to have begun its existen

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