. Gallery of comicalities : . Here ye are my ready money customers ; you have em here at three yards a penny. First of all :— Heres Jolly nose, Begone dull care, Black Bess, What are you at now ? My mother bids me bind my hair, How droll! All round my hat now !? Cease, ye pretty warbling choir, True as is the needle, And ye shall walk in silk attire, With The Parish Beadle ! A dainty life the fairy leads, When stars their watch are keeping; In peace love tunes the shepherds reed, Dear maid, while thou art sleeping ! When night-stars dance their fairy rays, And here my batch I cry out,— Hark !
. Gallery of comicalities : . Here ye are my ready money customers ; you have em here at three yards a penny. First of all :— Heres Jolly nose, Begone dull care, Black Bess, What are you at now ? My mother bids me bind my hair, How droll! All round my hat now !? Cease, ye pretty warbling choir, True as is the needle, And ye shall walk in silk attire, With The Parish Beadle ! A dainty life the fairy leads, When stars their watch are keeping; In peace love tunes the shepherds reed, Dear maid, while thou art sleeping ! When night-stars dance their fairy rays, And here my batch I cry out,— Hark ! the lark at Heavens gate sings, There you go with your eye out! 97 2 C GALLERY OF XCIV. HOGARTHS PIEMAN,. We frequently meet with the pieman in old prints ; and in Hogarths March to Finchley, there he stands in the very centre of the crowd, grinning with delight at the adroitness of one robbery, while he is himself the victim of another. We learn from this admirable figure by the greatest painter of English life, that the pieman of the last century perambulated the streets in professional costume; and we gather further, from the burly dimensions of his wares that he kept his trade alive by the laudable practice of giving a good pennyworth for a penny. Justice compels us to observe that his successors of a later generation have not been very conscientious observers of this maxim. 98 2 c 2 GALLERY OF XCV. YOUNG LAMBS TO SELL.
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