If we on Jesus Christ wholly depend,
He’l prove to us an everlasting friend.
London: Printed by H. Brugis, in Green Arbor, Little Old Bayly. 1684.
The following is a copy of a broadside preserved in the British Museum:—
GREAT BRITAIN’S WONDER: OR, LONDON’S ADMIRATION.
Being a true Representation of a prodigious Frost, which began about the beginning of December, 1683, and continued till the fourth day of February following, and held on with such violence, that men and beasts, coaches and carts, went as frequently thereon, as boats were wont to pass before. There was also a street of booths built from the Temple to Southwark, where were sold all sorts of goods imaginable, namely, cloaths, plate, earthenware, meat, drink, brandy, tobacco, and a hundred sorts of other commodities not here inserted: it being the wonder of this present age, and a great consternation to all the spectators.
Behold the wonder of this present age,
A famous river now become a stage.
Question not what I now declare to you,
The Thames is now both fair and market too;