bedford-head

Updated: September 9, 2025

In his imitation of the second satire of Horace he makes Oldfield, the notorious glutton who exhausted a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the "simple luxury of good eating," declare, "Let me extol a Cat, on oysters fed, I'll have a party at the Bedford-head." And in another poem he asks, "When sharp with hunger, scorn you to be fed, Except on pea-chicks at the Bedford-head?"

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London