Then went I forth by London stone,

All the length of Canwick[7] Street;

Drapers much cloth me offered anon;

Then met I one, cried ‘Hot sheep’s feet!’

One, ‘mackerel!’ One did ‘rushes’ repeat.

One offered a hood, to cover my head;

But, for lack of money, I might not be sped.

Then I hied me to East-Cheap,

One cries ‘ribs of beef,’ and many a pie;

Pewter-pots they clattered in a heap;