Part 13 (1/2)

New prunes two-pence a pound.

Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town.

Here's cuc.u.mbers, 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 Yorks.h.i.+re m.u.f.fins 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.

Here's new-laid eggs for ten a groat.

Come buy water'd cod.

Here's plaice and dabs, lobsters and crabs.

Come buy my maids, and flounders, ho!

Come buy my pike, my fine live pike.

Two-pence a hundred c.o.c.kles, ho!

Shads, eels, and sprats. Lights for your cats.

With haddocks, perch, and tench also.

Here's carp and tench, mullets and smelts.

b.u.t.ter sixpence a pound.

Let none despise the merry, merry cries Of famous London town.