"Shakespeare's London was a small walled town whose gates were shut each night with the coming of darkness. His contemporaries went a-Maying and gathering s where now are tramcars and gasometers. A Londoner was to Shakespeare a man who was born probably within sound of , who worked and slept within the ancient town wall of London, and would probably die there and be buried in one of the city churchyards. London three centuries ago was a small comprehensible cathedral city standing behind its wall, and its citizens could look at it and walk all round it, as men can walk round and . A mile or so away was the royal , where the King lived. There were two ways to it, one by river and the other along the strand of the . To the north of the were meadows and hedges, a , a and more fields stretching up to a rural lane that led to and was to become known by the odd name of ."
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(quote from p. 2; 448 pages; 1st edition 1951; 3rd collection of Morton's series of sketches of London — the essays were 1st published in the London newspaper '.)
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H. V. Morton
(published as H. V. Morton; 26 July 1892 – 18 June 1979) was a British journalist and famous . He first achieved fame in 1923 as an employee of the ' when he reported on Howard Carter's of the .
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