Shoreditch. I could not get one bit of bread Whereby my hunger might be fed . . . So weary of my life at length I yielded up my vital strength Within a ditch . . . which since that day Is Shoreditch called, as writers say— Shoreditch in London is so named because Jane Shore, Edward IV’s cast-off mistress, died there in a ditch, her tale told in the old ballad above. |