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R15756 1 Packington's Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound COme listen a while (though the Weather be cold) / In your Pockets & Plackets your Hands you may hold. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 BLANKET-FAIR, / OR THE / History of Temple Street. / Being a Relation of the merry Pranks plaid on the River / Thames during the great Frost. BLANKET-FAIR, OR THE History of Temple Street. Being a Relation of the merry Pranks plaid on the River Thames during the great Frost. BLANKET FAIR, OR THE History of Temple Street. Being a Relation of the merry Pranks played on the River Thames during the great Frost. ?-? Charles Corbet

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1. COme listen a while (though the Weather be cold) In your Pockets & Plackets your Hands you may hold. I'll tell you a Story as true as 'tis rare, [Of] a River turn'd into a Bartholmew Fair. Since old Christmas last There has bin such a Frost, That the Thames has by half the whole Nation bin crost. O Scullers I pity your fate of Extreams, Each Land man is now become free of the Thames. 2. 'Tis some Lapland Acquaintance of Conjurer Oates, That has ty'd up your Hands & imprison'd your Boats. You know he was ever a friend to the Crew Of all that to Admiral James has bin true. Where Sculls once did Row Men walk to and fro, But e're four months are ended 'twill hardly be so. Should your hopes of a thaw by this weather be crost, Your Fortunes would soon be as hard as the Frost. 3. In Roast Beef and Brandy much money is spent In Booths made of Blankets that pay no Ground-rent, With old fashion'd Chimneys the Rooms are secur'd, And the Houses from danger of Fire ensur'd. The chief place you meet Is call'd Temple Street, If you do not believe me, then you may go see't. From the Temple the Students do thither resort, Who were always great Patrons of Revels and sport. 4. The Citizen comes with his Daughter or Wife, And swears he ne're saw such a sight in his life: The Prentices starv'd at home for want of Coals To catch them a heat do flock thither in shoals; While the Country Squire Does stand and admire At the wondrous conjunction of Water and Fire. Strait comes an arch Wag, a young Son of a Whore, And lays the Squires head where his heels were before.
5. The Rotterdam Dutchman with fleet cutting Scates, To pleasure the crowd shews his tricks and his feats, Who like a Rope-dancer (for all his sharp Steels) His Brains and activity lie in his Heels. Here all things like fate Are in slippery state, From the Sole of the Foot to the Crown of the Pate. While the Rabble in Sledges run giddily round, And nought but a circle of folly is found. 6. Here Damsels are handed like Nymphs in the Bath, By Gentlemen-Ushers with Legs like a Lath; They slide to a Tune, and cry give me your Hand, When the tottering Fops are scarce able to stand. Then with fear and with care They arrive at the Fair, Where Wenches fell Glasses and crakt Earthen ware; To shew that the World, and the pleasures it brings, Are made up of brittle and slippery things. 7. A Spark of the Bar with his Cane and his Muff, One day went to treat his new rigg'd Kitchinstuff, Let slip from her Gallant, the gay Damsel try'd (As oft she had done in the Country) to slide, In the way lay a stump, That with a dam'd thump, She broke both her Shoostrings and crippl'd her Rump. The heat of her Buttocks made such a great thaw, She had like to have drowned the man of the Law. 8. All you that are warm both in Body and Purse, I give you this warning for better or worse, Be not there in the Moonshine, pray take my advice, For slippery things have bin done on the Ice. Maids there have been said To lose Maiden-head, And Sparks from full Pockets gone empty to Bed. If their Brains and their Bodies had not bin too warm, 'Tis forty to one they had come to less harm.
Printed for Charles Corbet, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane. 1684.