Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured FrontispieceTuer, Andrew White
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Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece
Tuer, Andrew White
Cries -- England -- London
Coats or preeches do you vant?
Or puckles for your shoes?
Vatches too me can supply:--
Me monies von't refuse.
[Illustration: "_Knives to Grind!_"]
Young gentlemen attend my cry,
And bring forth all your Knives;
The barbers Razors too I grind;
Bring out your Scissars, wives.
[Illustration: "_Cabbages O! Turnips!_"]
With mutton we nice turnips eat;
Beef and carrots never cloy;
Cabbage comes up with Summer meat,
With winter nice savoy.
Holloway cheese cakes!
Large silver eels, a groat a pound, live eels!
Any New River water, water here?
Buy a rope of onions, oh?
[Illustration: "_Sand 'O!_"]
Buy a goose?
Any bellows to mend?
Who's for a mutton pie or an eel pie?
Who buys my roasting jacks?
Sand, ho! buy my nice white sand, ho!
[Illustration: "_Buy a Live Goose?_"]
Buy my firestone?
Roasted pippins, piping hot!
[Illustration: "_Cherries, O! ripe cherries, O!_"]
A whole market hand for a halfpenny--young radishes, ho!
Sw-e-ep!
[Illustration: COVENT GARDEN.
"_Fine Strawberries!_"]
Brick dust, to-day?
Door mats, want?
Hot rolls!
Rhubarb!
Buy any clove-water?
Buy a horn-book?
Quick (_living_) periwinkles!
Sheep's trotters, hot!
Songs, three yards a penny!
Southernwood that's very good!
Cherries O! ripe cherries O!
Cat's and dog's meat!
Samphire!
All a-growin', all a-blowin'.
Lilly white mussels, penny a quart!
New Yorkshire muffins!
Oysters, twelvepence a peck!
Rue, sage, and mint, farthing a bunch!
Tuppence a hundred, cockles!
Sweet violets, a penny a bunch!
Brave Windsor beans!
Buy my mops, my good wool mops!
Buy a linnet or a goldfinch?
Knives, combs, and inkhornes!
Six bunches a penny, sweet lavender!
New-laid eggs, eight a groat!
[Illustration: "_Sweet Lavender!_"]
Any wood?
Hot peas!
Hot cross buns!
Buy a broom?
Old chairs to mend!
Young lambs to sell!
Tiddy diddy doll!
Hearth-stone!
Buy my nice drops, twenty a penny, peppermint drops!
Any earthen ware, plates, dishes, or jugs, to-day,--any clothes to
exchange, Madam?
Holly O, Mistletoe!
Buy my windmills for a ha'penny a piece! [a child's toy.]
Nice Yorkshire cakes!
Buy my matches, maids, my nice small pointed matches!
Come, buy my fine myrtles and roses!
Buy a mop or a broom?
Hot rolls!
Will you buy a Beau-pot?
Probably of Norman-French origin, the term "beau-pot" is still in use in
out-of-the-way country districts, to signify a posy or nosegay, in which
sweet-smelling herbs and flowers, as rosemary, sweet-briar, balm,
[Illustration: "_Chairs to mend!_"]
roses, carnations, violets, wall-flowers, mignonette, sweet-William, and
others that we are now pleased to designate "old fashioned," would
naturally predominate.
[Illustration: "_All a blowin'!_"]
Come buy my sweet-briar!
[Illustration:
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Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece — John Shaqi
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