"The taylor must be pay'd for making of her gowne, The shoomakers for fine shoes: or else thy wife will frowne; For _bands_, fine _ruffes_, and _cuffes_, thou must dispence as free: O 'tis a gallant thing to live at liberty," &c. In another, "The Lamentations of a New Married Man, briefly declaring the sorrow and grief that comes by marrying a young wanton wife":-- "Against that she is churched, a new Gowne she must have, A daintie fine _Rebato_ about her neck to brave;" In "_Loyal Subject_," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act iii., sc. 5, we find that in the reign of James I., potatoes had become so common, that "_Potatoes! ripe Potatoes!_" were publicly hawked about the city. [Illustration: POTATOES! RIPE POTATOES.] Orlando Gibbons,--1583-1625--set music in madrigals to several common cries of the day. In a play called "_Tarquin and Lucrece_," some of the music of the following occur,--"_Rock Samphire_," "_A Marking Stone_," "_Bread and Meat for the poor Prisoners_," "_Hassock for your pew_," "_Lanthorne and Candlelight_," _&c._ In the Bridgewater library (in the possession of the Earl of Ellesmere) is a series of engravings on copper thirty-two in number, without date or engraver's name; but called, in the handwriting of the second Earl of Bridgewater, "The Manner of Crying Things in London." They are, it is said, by a foreign artist, and probably proof impressions, for on the margin of one of the engravings is a small part of another, as if it had been taken off for a trial of the plate. Curious and characteristic they certainly are, and of a date anterior to 1686; in which year the second Earl of Bridgewater died. The very titles kindle old recollections as you read them over:-- 1. Lanthorne and a whole candell light: hang out your lights heare! 2. I have fresh cheese and creame. 3. Buy a brush or a table book. 4. Fine oranges, fine lemons. 5. Ells or yeards: buy yeard or ells. 6. I have ripe straw-buryes, ripe straw-buryes. 7. I have screenes, if you desier to keepe y{r} butey from y{e} fire. 8. Codlinges hot, hot codlinges. 9. Buy a steele or a tinder box. 10. Quicke peravinkells, quicke, quicke. 11. Worke for a cooper; worke for a cooper. 12. Bandestringes, or handkercher buttons. 13. A tanker bearer. 14. Macarell new: maca-rell. 15. Buy a hone, or a whetstone, or a marking stone. 16. White unions, white St. Thomas unions. 17. Mate for a bed, buy a doore mate. 18. Radishes or lettis, two bunches a penny. 19. Have you any work for a tinker? 20. Buy my hartichokes, mistris. 21. Maribones, maides, maribones. 22. I ha' ripe cowcumber, ripe cowcumber. 23. Chimney sweepe. 24. New flounders new. 25. Some broken breade and meate for y{e} poore prisoners; for the Lord's sake pittey the poore. 26. Buy my dish of great smelts. 27. Have you any chaires to mend?