Work for a cooper, maids give ear, I'll hoop your tubs and pails. Come Nell and Sue, and buy my blue. Maids, have you any chairs to mend? Here's hot spiced-gingerbread of the best, Come taste and try before you buy. Here's elder-buds to purge your bloods. But black your shoes is all the cry. Here's hot rice milk, and barley broth. Plumb-pudding a groat a pound. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town. Here's fine rosemary, sage, and thyme. Come buy my ground ivy. Here's fatherfew, gilliflowers and rue. Come buy my knotted marjorum, ho! Come buy my mint, my fine green mint. Here's fine lavender for your cloaths. Here's parsley and winter-savory. And heart's-ease which all do choose. Here's balm and hissop, and cinquefoil, All fine herbs, it is well known. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town. Here's pennyroyal and marygolds. Come buy my nettle-tops. Here's water-cresses and scurvy-grass. Come buy my sage of virtue, ho! Come buy my wormwood and mugwort. Here's all fine herbs of every sort. Here's southernwood, that's very good, Dandelion and houseleek. Here's dragon's-tongue and wood-sorrel. With bear's-foot and horehound. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town. Here's green coleworts and brocoli. Come buy my radishes. Here's fine savoys, and ripe hautboys. Come buy my young green hastings, ho! Come buy my beans, right Windsor beans. Two pence a bunch young carrots, ho! Here's fine nosegays, ripe strawberries. With ready picked salad, also. Here's collyflowers and asparagus. New prunes two-pence a pound. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town. Here's cucumbers, spinnage, and French beans. Come buy my nice sallery. Here's parsnips and fine leeks. Come buy my potatoes, ho! Come buy my plumbs, and fine ripe plumbs. A groat a pound, ripe filberts, ho! Here's corn-poppies and mulberries. Gooseberries and currants also. Fine nectarines, peaches, and apricots. New rice two-pence a pound. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town. Buy a rabbit, wild duck, or fat goose. Come buy a choice fat fowl. Plovers, teal, or widgeons, come buy my pigeons. Maids, do you want any small coal? Come buy my shrimps, my fine new shrimps, Two pots a penny, taste and try. Here's fine saloop, both hot and good. But Yorkshire muffins is the cry. Here's trotters, calf's feet, and fine tripes. Barrel figs, three-pence a pound. Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town.