Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham
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Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham
With Orators sir, e’en senate to grace,
What town’s better stock’d, pray, than this canny place,
Ah! would you, the flow’r of those Orators see?
_Ecce Homo’s_ the word,--you behold him in Me!
O when ding dong, ding dong, my Bell goes,
Shoe-makers with joy catch the sound;
And truly like so many Larks they are found:
Each swiftly descends from his garret on high;
When sonorous I publish all round.
_SECOND CALL._
STOLEN or Strayed, from a field in Pandon Dean, three beautiful _smoke
colour’d Sheep_, marked T.G. justly esteemed the most picturesque
Ornaments of that celebrated Vale.----The Admirers of rural Scenery
hereby offer a _handsome Reward_ to whoever will bring them back to
the Dean, if strayed, or give such information as may convict the
_Mutton-loving Rogues_, who have stolen them.
The Town Marshal proclaims peace, incomp’rably well,
Few, at calling a Fair, the Sheriff’s Serjeant excell;
But in _Pathos_, the Critics, _mem. con._ do agree,
The Marshal and Serjeant must both yield to Me;
O when ding dong, ding dong, my Bell goes,
Barbers prick up their ears at the sound;
And heedless how half-shaven customers swear,
Come eagerly running my budget to hear,
When sonorous I publish all round.
_THIRD CALL._
FOUND, last Winter, near the Turk’s Head Inn, which has not since been
claimed, _a Lady’s Hat and Wig_, supposed to have been blown off the
Head of the fair Owner whilst in a state of _Indescribability_.----Any
Lady who can prove them to be her Property, may have them again, free
of all Expence; but if not claimed and identified before the first of
April next, they will be sold, and the Money given as a Donation to the
Fever Hospital.
The Watchmen, ’tis granted, correctly and clever,
Of the hour informs us, and state of the weather;
But doubly delightful, their _calling_ would be,
Were they all wise enough to take lessons from Me;
O when ding dong, ding dong, my Bell goes,
Each Taylor leaps up at the sound;
Off, to hear me, like roe bucks, they scampering set,
So delighted, I’m told, that they _cabbage_ forget,
When sonorous I publish all round.
_FOURTH CALL._
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