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gardens would be sold in the streets of London. The various 

 cries of the hawkers were a notable feature of London life. One 

 among the many refrains of this perpetual chorus is recalled 

 by Addison/ when he writes : "I am always pleased with 

 that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling 

 of dill and cucumbers, but alas ! this cry, like the song of the 

 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, gilliflovvers and rue 

 Come buy my knotted mar jorum 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 houseleek 

 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 ! 



^ Spectator, 251. 



^ " Roxburghe Ballads, 1560-1700," History of the Cries of London, 

 Charles Hindley, second edition, 1884. 

 ^ Hasting peas, see p. 125. 



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