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A drawing of Eastcheap market from Hugh Alley, A Caveat for the City of London, 1598, showing thirteen of London's cattle markets. The pillar on the left is inscribed "engrossing," the practice of buying up goods to sell at an inflated price. Its links to quick and illegal profit in the beef trade make it a fitting locale for Hal's "sweet beef" Falstaff (I Henry IV, 3.3.178). |