Blanket-fair, or, The history of Temple Street being a relation of the merry pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great frost, to the tune of Packington's pound.

Blanket-fair, or, The history of Temple Street being a relation of the merry pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great frost, to the tune of Packington's pound.

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BLANKET-FAIR, OR THE History of Temple Street. Being a Relation of the merry Pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great Frost.

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BLANKET-FAIR, OR THE History of Temple Street. Being a Relation of the merry Pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great Frost.

To the Tune of Packington's Pound.

1.

COme listen a while (though the Weather be cold)

In your Pockets & Plackets your Hands you may hold.

I'll tell you a Story as true as 'tis rare,

Of a River turn'd into a Bartholmew Fair.

Since old Christmas last

There has bin such a Frost,

That the Thimes has by half the whole Nation bin crost.

O Scullers I pity your fate of Extreams,

Each Land-nan is now become free of the Thames.

2.

'Tis some Lapand Acquaintance of Conjurer Oates,

That has ty'd up your Hands & imprison'd your Boats.

You know he was ever a friend to the Crew

Of all that to Admiral Iames has bin true.

Where Sculls once did Row

Men walk to and fro,

But e're four months are ended 'twill hardly be so.

Should your hopes of a thaw by this weather be crost,

Your Fortunes vould soon be as hard as the Frost.

3.

In Roast Beef and Brandy much money is spent

In Booths made of Blankets that pay no Ground-rent,

With old fashiond Chimneys the Rooms are secur'd,

And the Housed from danger of Fire ensur'd.

The chief place you meet

Is call'd Temple Street,

If you do not believe me, then you may go see't.

From the Tempe the Students do thither resort,

Tho were always great Patrons of Revels and sport.

4.

The Citizen comes with his Daughter or Wife,

And swears he ne [...]re saw such a sight in his life:

[...]e Prentices starv'd at home for want of Coals

catch them a heat do flock thither in shoals;

While the Country Squire

Does stand and admire

The wondrous conjunction of Water and Fire.

it comes an arch Wag, a young Son of a Whore,

[...]ays the Squires head where his hee [...]s were before.

5.

The Rotterdam Dutchman with fleet cutting Scates,

To pleasure the crowd shews his tricks and his feats,

Who like a Rope-dancer (for all his sharp Steels)

His Brains and activity lie in his Heels.

Here all things like fate

Are in slippery state,

From the Sole of the Foot to the Crown of the Pate.

While the Rabble in Sledges run giddily round,

And nought but a circle of folly is found.

6.

Here Damsels are handed like Nymphs in the Bath,

By Gentlemen-Ushers with Legs like a Lath;

They slide to a Tune, and cry give me your Hand,

When the tottering Fops are scarce able to stand.

Then with fear and with care

They arrive at the Fair,

Where Wenches fell Glasses and crakt Earthen ware;

To shew that the World, and the pleasures it brings,

Are made up of brittle and slippery things.

7.

A Spark of the Bar with his Cane and his Muff,

One day went to treat his new rigg'd Kitchinstuff,

Let slip from her Gallant, the gay Damsel try'd

(As oft she had done in the Country) to slide,

In the way lay a stump,

That with a dam'd thump,

She broke both her Shoostrings and crippl'd her Rump.

The heat of her Buttocks made such a great thaw,

She had like to have drowned the man of the Law.

8.

All you that are warm both in Body and Purse,

I give you this warning for better or worse,

Be not there in the Moonshine, pray take my advice,

For slippery things have bin done on the Ice

Maids there have been said

To lose Maiden-head,

And Sparks from full Pockets gone empty to Bed▪

If their Brains and their Bodies had not bin too warm,

'Tis forty to one they had come to less harm.

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Printed for Charles Corbet, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane. 1684.

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Blanket-fair, or, The history of Temple Street being a relation of the merry pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great frost, to the tune of Packington's pound.

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1684

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— Blanket-fair, or, The history of Temple Street being a relation of the merry pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great frost, to the tune of Packington's pound.,

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