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The
Arts In Berwick -- Ballads and Poems
The
Road from London to Berwick
John Taylor (1580-1653), a Thames water-man and poet, was far too poor
to have afforded even a modest road map when he walked from London to
Edinburgh. His Penniless Pilgrimage (1618) includes a brief impression
of Berwick.
A century later Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, took the same
route, in more comfort. His comment on Berwick was "As for the town
itself, it is old, decay'd, and neither populous nor rich".
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