To This Entertainment There Often Follows That Of
Whipping A Blinded Bear, Which Is Performed By Five Or Six Men,
Standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without
any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of
His chain; he
defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who
come within his reach and are not active enough to get out of it,
and tearing the whips out of their hands and breaking them. At
these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English are constantly
smoking tobacco; and in this manner - they have pipes on purpose made
of clay, into the farther end of which they put the herb, so dry
that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw
the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their
nostrils like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion
from the head. In these theatres, fruits, such as apples, pears,
and nuts, according to the season, are carried about to be sold, as
well as ale and wine.
There are fifteen colleges within and without the city, nobly built,
with beautiful gardens adjoining. Of these the three principal
are:-
I. The Temple, inhabited formerly by the Knights Templars; it seems
to have taken its name from the old temple, or church, which has a
round tower added to it, under which lied buried those Kings of
Denmark that reigned in England.
II. Gray's Inn. And,
III.
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