Great Bed of Ware

The Great Bed of Ware (English Great Bed of Ware ) is a three -meter-wide bed with oak posts, decorated with inlays, originally in a hostel in Ware, England, was. It is noteworthy, because supposedly at least four couples can stay on it. It was mentioned among others by William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night:

" Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention; taunt him with the license of ink; if thou thou'st ' him some thrice, it Shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, Although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ' em down; go about it. Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose - pen, no matter. About it. "

Because the bed became famous after the publication of this work, many users of the bed carved their names into the post. At present, there is the bed, which was probably built around 1590, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.