And throughout all Candlewick Street:

Drapers much cloth me offered anon;

Then comes me one crying, ‘Hot sheep’s feet!’

One cried ‘Mackerel!’ ‘Ryster green!’ another gan me greet.

One bade me buy a hood to cover my head:

But, for lack of money, I might not speed.

Then into Cornhill anon I rode,

Where there was much stolen gear among.

I saw where hong mine owne hood

That I had lost among the throng—