“Sweet Lavender! ”
Any wood?
Hot peas!
Hot cross buns!
Buy a broom?
Old chairs to mend!
Young lambs to sell!
Tiddy diddy doll!
Hearth-stone!
Buy my nice drops, twenty a penny, peppermint drops!
Any earthen ware, plates, dishes, or jugs, to-day,—any clothes to exchange, Madam?
Holly O, Mistletoe!
Buy my windmills for a ha’penny a piece! Nice Yorkshire cakes!
Buy my matches, maids, my nice small pointed matches!
Come, buy my fine myrtles and roses!
Buy a mop or a broom?
Hot rolls!
Will you buy a Beau-pot?
Probably of Norman-French origin, the term “beau-pot” is still in use in out-of-the-way country districts, to signify a posy or nosegay, in which sweet-smelling herbs and flowers, as rosemary, sweet-briar, balm,
“Chairs to mend!”
roses, carnations, violets, wall-flowers, mignonette, sweet-William, and others that we are now pleased to designate “old fashioned,” would naturally predominate.
