Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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air and market too,Where many thousands daily do resort. TKc Thames.) BLANKEr FAIR. 31: There you may see the coaches swiftly run,As if beneath the ice were waters none,And shoals of people everywhere there Ijc,Just like the herrings in the brackish sea.And there the quaking watermen will stand ye, Kind master, drink you beer, or ale, or brandy ;Walk in, kind sir, this booth it is the chief,Well entertain you with a slice of beef.Another cries, Here, mastei, they but scoff ye ;Here is a dish of famous new-made coffee.* * * * # entitled A True Description of Blanket Fair uponthe River Thames in the Time of the Great Frost,in the Year of our Lord 1683, gives a representationof the ox being roasted, and also of the huntingthe fox, Reynard being pursued by two men withclubs and five queer-looking dogs : in this one ofthe carriages has two horses; the verses are justa shade above those already ciuoted, but runningin the same descriptive vein, as will be seen fromthe following specimen :—
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FROST ON THE THAMES, 1814. There you may also this hard frosty winterSee on the rocky ice a Working-Printer,Who hopes by his own art to reap some gainWhich he perchance does think he may obtain.Here also is a lottery, music too,Yea, a cheating, drunken, lewd, and debauchd crew ;Hot codlins, pancakes, ducks, and goose, and sack,Rabbit, capon, hen, turkey, and a wooden jack. *****There on a sign you may most plainly see t,Heres the first tavern built in Freezeland Street.There is bull-baiting and bear-baiting too. *****There roasted was a great and well-fed oxAnd there with dogs hunted the common fox. Another rough print in the same collection,taken from almost the very same point of view,123—Vol. 1H. The art of printing there was to be seen,Which in no former age had ever been ;And goldsmiths shops well furnished with plate ;But they must dearly pay for t that would ha it.And coffeehouses in great numbers wereScattered about in this cold-freezing fair.There might you sit down by a ch

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