From ev’ry Penthouse streams the fleeting Snow,
And with dissolving Frost the Pavements flow.
How to know the Days of the Week.
Experienc’d Men, inur’d to City Ways,
Need not the Calendar to count their Days.
When through the Town, with slow and solemn Air,
Led by the Nostril, walks the muzled Bear;
Behind him moves, majestically dull,
The Pride of
Hockley-hole, the surly Bull;muzled Bear ... surly Bull: bear baiting and bull baiting was a low form of entertainment for which Hockley Hole was renowned.
Learn hence the Periods of the Week to name,
Mondays and Thursdays are the Days of Game.
When fishy Stalls with double Store are laid;
The golden-belly’d Carp, the broad-finn’d Maid,Broad-finned Maid: “maid” here refers to a species of skate fish.
Red-speckled Trouts, the Salmon’s silver Joul,Joul: head.
The jointed Lobster, and unscaly Soale,
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And luscious ’Scallops, to allure the Tastes
Of rigid Zealots to delicious Fasts;
Wednesdays and Fridays you’ll observe from hence,
Days, when our SiresSires: fathers. were doom’d to
Abstinence.
When dirty Waters from Balconies drop,
And dextrous Damsels twirle the sprinkling Mop,
And cleanse the spatter’d Sash, and scrub the Stairs;
Know Saturday’s conclusive Morn appears.
Remarks on the Cries of the Town.
Successive Crys the Season’s Change declare,
And mark the Monthly Progress of the Year.
Hark, how the Streets with treble Voices ring,
To sell the bounteous Product of the Spring!
Sweet-smelling Flow’rs, and Elders early Bud,
With Nettle’s tender Shoots, to cleanse the Blood:
And when June’s Thunder cools the sultry Skies,
Ev’n Sundays are profan’d by Mackrell Cries.Mackrell Cries: the cries of a mackerel seller.
Wallnuts