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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, 1 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 : 2 



" Here's fine rosemary, sage and thyme 

 Come buy my ground ivy. 

 Here fatherfew, gilliflowers 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 mary golds 

 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 hastings ho ! 3 

 Come buy my beans right Windsor beans 

 Two pence a bunch young carrots ho 1 



1 



Spectator, 251. 



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

 Charles Hindley, second edition, 1884. 



3 Hasting peas, see p. 125. 



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