Come, nightmen and dustmen, and rovers and drovers;

Come, Whitechapel butchers, and join in the throng!

With marrow-bones and cleavers, delight the coal-heavers,

While broken-nose Billy shall snuffle a song.

Ye lazy mechanics, who dearly love one day,

For wives and for children who never know care;

Who reckon Saint Monday more holy than Sunday,

Come and spend all your earnings at Bartlemy Fair.

Ye wives and ye widows! here's plenty of bidders;

Come hither, and each get a swain for herself;