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FRONTISPIECE. 
 
 This man doth wander round the {own 
 With fruit, both fresh and sweet, 
 r those who do attend their book, 
 A lid go both clean and neat. 
 
THE 
 
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CRIES OF LONDON. § 
 
 Come buy my fine Writing Ink ! 
 
6 CRIES OF LONDON* 
 
 Green large Cucumbers twelve a 
 
 penny. 
 
 A penny a dozen Cucumbers, 
 
 Taylors, hallo ! hallo ! 
 Now from the shop-board each man 
 
 For Cucumbers below, (runs 
 
CfRIBS OF tXNDON* 
 
 Dainty Sweet Briar. 
 
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 Sweet Briar, this girl on one side holds 
 And flowers in t'other basket; 
 
 And for the price she that unfolds, 
 To any one who'll ask it. 
 
v CRIES OF LONDON* 
 
 Mary, Mary, where are you now, 
 Mary ? Tiddy dol, tol drol, tiddy dol. 
 
 Tol dol, tiddy, tiddy, do], 
 
 Is all this tradesman's cry, (Poll, 
 That Tom, and Dick, and Sail, and 
 
 His curious cakes may buy. 
 
CIUES OF LONDON 
 
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 Rue, Sage, and Mint, a farthing a 
 
 bunch. 
 
 As thro* the fields he bends his way, 
 Pure nature's works discerning ; 
 
 So you should practice every day, 
 To trace the field of learning. 
 
10 CRIES OF LONDON, 
 
 Diddle, diddle, Dumplings, oh ! 
 
 This woman's in industry wise, 
 She lives near Butcher-row; ^plies, 
 
 Each night round Temple Bar she 
 With Diddle Dumplings, ho I 
 
CRIES OF LONDON, 
 
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 Buy a fine Bread Basket or Wor 
 
 Basket. 
 
 For pretty Misses who are found 
 Their needle- work to prize; 
 
 This woman takes her daily round. 
 And Work Baskets the cries. 
 
12 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Oars, Sir ! Oars or Scullers, Madam 
 do you want a Boat ? 
 
 For Oar or Scull upon the Thames, 
 There's none like honest Ben ; 
 
 Hell row you up and clown the stream 
 And to and Fro* again, 
 
CRT ES OF LONDON. 13 
 
 Black your Shoes, your Honour. 
 
 Tho' black, your Honour, is my trade 
 Be you no mockish Conner ; 
 
 For should you in your learning fail 
 I fear you'd have no honor. 
 
14 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Nice Yorkshire Muffins. 
 
 This man cries Muffins, eve and morn 
 And you'll of them partake; 
 
 But if to learn your book you scorn, 
 You don't deserve a cake. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON, 
 
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 Buy a Broom! buy a Birch Broom. 
 
 A name I think for this I've got, 
 To give it some don't fail, 
 
 They call it— let- me see— what? what? 
 Oh ! Margery Tickle-tail, 
 
CRIES OF LONDON* 
 
 Corne^ buy my little Jemmies., my lit- 
 tle Tartars, but a half-penny a piece. 
 
 How sloven-like the school boy looks, 
 Who daubs his books at play, 
 
 Give him a new one — mo — aclzooksj 
 Give him the cane, I bay, 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
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 Twelve-pence a peck, Oysters. 
 
 Prom Billingsgate, industrious Will, 
 Brings Oysters for the town ; 
 
 Thro* frost or rain, he fear $ no ill, 
 But cries them up and down. 
 
IS CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 My good soul, will you bay a Bowl? 
 
 My hottest soul, will you buy a bowl, 
 A skimmer, or a platter ? 
 
 Come, buy of me a rolling pin, 
 Or spoon to beat your batter* 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 1 Q 
 
 Buy a young Chicken or a Fowl. 
 
 Buy a young Chicken fat and plump. 
 Or take two for a shilling, 
 
 Is this poor honest tradesman's cry, 
 Come, buy if you are willing. 
 
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 £0 C RIEB OF LONDON. 
 
 Ripe Strawberries. 
 
 In lowiy beds, by nature taught, 
 The Strawberries are displayed ; 
 
 And thenee, for us, to market brought 
 By this industrious maid. 
 
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CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Rabbit! Rabbit! 
 
 Rabbit ! Rabbit ; who will buy ? 
 
 Is all you hear from him ; 
 The Rabbit you may roast or fry, 
 
 The fur your doak will trim. 
 
22 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 One a penny, two a penny, Hot Cross 
 
 Buns. 
 
 Think on this sacred festival ; 
 
 Think why CrossBuns were giv'rij 
 Then think on him who dy'd for all, 
 
 To give you a right to heav'n. 
 
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CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Pretty Maids, pretty Pins ! 
 
 In selling Pins for pretty maids, 
 This tradesman takes delight 
 
 And if to purchase he persuades 
 He's surely in the right. 
 
24 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Maids, buy a Mop ! 
 
 Let every pretty Miss at school, 
 Observe this easy lesson ; 
 
 That housewifery's a golden rule 
 And industry a blessing:. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Old Chairs to mend, Old Chairs 
 
 mend. 
 
 How serviceable are such men, 
 Who turn what's old to new, 
 
 A task which scarcely one in ten 
 Industriously pursue. 
 
CRIES OF LONDON; 
 
 A merry song, which you may sing 
 the tuneof Sally in our Alley; while 
 ?o play, so your Servant. 
 
 all the misses in the school, 
 Who come their miuds to frame-a. 
 
CHIES OF LONDON. 
 
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 There's none so well confirms to rule, 
 As sweet Miss What's-her-name-a. 
 
 I wish each little lady here, 
 
 As little were to blame-a, 
 Then to all friends she'd be as dear, 
 
 As sweet Miss What's-her-name-a, 
 
 O ! how her needle*work she minds, 
 Her book and slate the same-a, 
 
 In which she various pleasure finds, 
 O ! sweet Miss What's-her-nanie-a, 
 
 Next breaking-up she goes to see, 
 Relations whence she came-a, 
 
 For very anxious must they be, 
 About Miss Whal's-her-name-a, 
 
 If right I judge, some few yearsheiiee, 
 
 Her chariot she will cbum-a; 
 Bless her ! will cry all MMr, <>f sense, 
 Thais jjoodMiss WhaiViK.i~narue-a, 
 
28 CRIES OF LONDON. 
 
 Buy my Flounders. 
 
 With flounders caught upon the 
 Thames, 
 
 This man supplies the town ; 
 Thro' every street he cries the same ; 
 
 And rambles up and down. 
 
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 THE DEAD TWINS. 
 
 Twas Summer, and a Sabbath eve, 
 
 And balmy was the air, 
 [ saw a sight that made me grieve ; 
 And yet the sight was fair, 
 Within two little Coffins lay, 
 Two lifeless Babes as s vv ect as May, 
 
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 THE DEAD TWINS 
 
 Like waxen Dolls that Infants dress. 
 
 The little bodies were ; 
 A look of placid happiness, 
 Did on each face appear ; 
 
 And in the Coffins short and wide, 
 They lay together, side by side. 
 
 A rose-bud nearly closed I found, 
 
 Each little Hand within ; 
 And many a pink was strew'd around, 
 With sprigs of Jessamine ; 
 
 And yet the flowers that round 
 
 them lav, 
 Were not to me more fair than they. 
 
 Their mother as a Lilly pale, 
 
 Sat by them on a bed, 
 And bending o'er them told her tale, 
 And many a tear she shed ; 
 
 Yet oft she cried amidst her pain, 
 My Babesandl shall meet ay ami" 
 
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 My little Masters all attend, 
 And see with your own eyes, 
 
 This Book contains unto the end 
 Most of the London Cries. 
 
 Which you may for one penny buy, 
 And when you've read it o'er, 
 
 Go to the shop again and try, 
 You may buy twenty more. 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 Printed and Sold bv J. Kendrew, Colliergate. 
 
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 Little Red Riding Hood 
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 Surprising Adventures of Puss in Boots 
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 Tom Thumb's Folio 
 The History of Giles Gingerbread 
 Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 
 The Hermit of the Forest - * 
 Entertainments at the Royal Circus m 
 The House that Jack Built 
 The World turned Upside Down 
 The Cries of London - 
 Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and 
 her Dog, in Three Parts - * 
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 A New-Year's Gift 
 
 A Collection of Fables * 
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