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and the Rose both stand still — but as inns, alas ! no 

 more. They are fallen from their previous divinity, and 

 now cast a shade, and an extremely dismal one too, 

 one as a shop, and the other as a lecture hall — which is 



Gateway, Leeds Castle. 



a good instance of the sort of degraded disguise in which 

 so many of the once famous hostelries of the great roads 

 of England coyly hide themselves from the historian's 

 inquiring eyes. 



