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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
Walnuts the fruit’rer’sfruit'rer: a fruit seller. Hand, in Autumn, stain, Blue Plums, and juicy Pears augment his Gain; Next Oranges the longing Boys entice, To trust their Copper-Fortunes to the Dice. Of Christmas. When Rosemary, and Bays, the Poet’s Crown,Poet’s Crown: a wreath made from bay laurel.  Are bawl’d,Bawl’d: to bawl or cry, as in the case of a town crier. in frequent Cries, through all the Town, Then judge the Festival of Christmas near; Christmas, the joyous Period of the Year. Now with bright Holly all your Temples strow, With Laurel green, and sacred Misletoe.Rosemary ... Misletoe: Rosemary, laurel, holly, and mistletoe were used to decorate at Christmas. Now, Heav’n-born Charity, thy Blessings shed; Bid meagre Want uprear her sickly head: Bid shiv’ring Limbs be warm; let Plenty’s Bowle, In humble Roofs, make glad the needy Soul. See, see, the Heav’n-born Maid her Blessings shed. Lo! meagre Want uprears her sickly head;
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