"The gates that Neptunus made
A thousand wynter theretofore,
They have anon _to-broke_ and tore."
From the _Gower MS_. Soc. Ant. 134, f. 46.

The word occurs also in Chaucer (p. 549. ed. Urry):--

"To-broken ben the Statutes hie in heven;"

and also in the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_ (p. 156. ed.
Wright):

"The bagges and the bigirdles
He hath to-broke them all."

And Mr. Wright very properly remarks, that "_to_- prefixed in
composition to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, has the same force
as the German _zu_, giving to the word the idea of destruction
or deterioration."]

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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.

_Lambeth Wells._--A place of public entertainment, first opened in 1697.
It was celebrated for its mineral water, which was sold at one penny per
quart. At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was provided with a
band of music, which played at intervals during the day, and the price
of admission was threepence. A monthly concert, under the direction of
Starling Goodwin, organist of St. Saviour's church, Southwark, was held