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nightingale, is not heard above two months." Some of the 

 best-known cries are preserved in an old ballad of early, but 

 uncertain date, from which the following is an extract"^: — 



" Here's fine rosemary, sage and thyme 

 Come buy my ground ivy. 

 Here fatherfew, gilliflowers and rue 

 Come buy my knotted marjorum ho ! 

 Come buy my mint my fine green mint 

 Here's fine lavender for your cloaths 

 Here's parseley and winter savory 

 And heart's-ease which all do choose 

 Here's balm and hissop and cinque foil 

 All fine herbs it is well known 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 



" Here's penny royal and marygolds 

 Come buy my nettle-tops 

 Here's water-cresses and scurvy-grass 

 Come buy my sage of virtue ho ! 

 Come buy my wormwood and mugwort 

 Here's all fine herbs of every sort 

 Here's southern wood that's very good 

 Dandelion and houselcek 

 Here's dragon 's-tongue and wood sorrel 

 With bear's-foot and horehound 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 



" Here's green coleworts and brocoli 

 Come buy my radishes 

 Here's fine savorys and ripe hautboys 

 Come buy my young green bastings ho ! 

 Come buy my beans right Windsor beans 

 Two pence a bunch young carrots ho ! 

 Here's fine nosegays ripe strawberries 

 With ready pickled salad also 

 Here's collyflowers and asparagus 

 New prunes twopence a pound 

 Let none despise the merry merry cries 

 Of Famous London Town. 



* " Roxburghe Ballads," 1560-1700. Hlstuiy of the Cries of Loudon. 

 Charles Hindley. 2nd ed., 1884. 



