The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . market when good housewives meet, Their market being they will crack a pot Before they can get home. 84 The bakehouse is a place, you know,Where maids a story hold. And if their mistresses will must not be controlld. At alehouse you see how jovial they be,With every one her noggin ; For till the skull and belly be fullNone of them will be jogging. 5. To Church fine ladies do resort, New fashions for to spy,And others go to Church sometimes. To shew their bravery. 6. Hot
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . market when good housewives meet, Their market being they will crack a pot Before they can get home. 84 The bakehouse is a place, you know,Where maids a story hold. And if their mistresses will must not be controlld. At alehouse you see how jovial they be,With every one her noggin ; For till the skull and belly be fullNone of them will be jogging. 5. To Church fine ladies do resort, New fashions for to spy,And others go to Church sometimes. To shew their bravery. 6. Hot-house makes a rough skin smooth. And doth it beautify ;Fine gossips use it every week, Their skins to purify. 7. At the conduit striving for their turn, The quarrel it grows great,That up in arms they are at last. And one another beat. Washing at the rivers side Good housewives take delight; But scolding sluts care not to work,Like wrangling queens they fight. Then gossips all a warning cease your tongue to rattle; Go knit, and sew, and brew, and leave off Wdkueld ii/alot^j SMITHFIELD XXVIII. About a centur)^ ago, almost cveiy corner of the morepublic streets was occupied at midnight, until six or seven inthe morning, by the sellers of frumenty, barley broth, cow-heel soup, and baked ox-cheek ; and in those days whenseveral hundreds of chairmen were nightly waiting in the me-tropolis, and it was the fasliion for the bloods of the day tobeat the rounds, as they termed it, there was a much greaterconsumption of such refreshments. The scenes of vice at the above period were certainly farmore frequent than they are at present, for hard drinking,and the visitation of brothels were then esteemed as the com-pletion of what was termed genteel education ; and it was nounusual thing to see the famous Quin, with his inseparableassociate Frank Ha)Tnan, the painter, swearing at each otherin the kennel, but both with a full determination to re
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