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R33316 I'LE tell ye a Tale (tho' before 'twas in Print) / If ye make nothing on't, than the Devil is in't. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 FREEZLAND-FAIR, / OR THE / Icey Bear-Garden. FREEZLAND-FAIR, OR THE Icey Bear-Garden. FREEZELAND FAIR, OR THE Icy Bear-Garden. ?-? Charles Corbet

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1. I'LE tell ye a Tale (tho' before 'twas in Print) If ye make nothing on't, than the Devil is in't. 'Tis no tale of a Tub, nor the Plotting of Treason, But of very strange things have bin done this strange Season. Ye know there's a Brook, No, no, I mistook, For I cou'd not find it, tho' long I did look: Yet I do not question, for all these odd freaks, We shall find it agen when-e're the Frost breaks. 2. If ye do believe what was told us by Oates, Ye never agen will have use of your Boats; Without ye do now imploy th' Wheelers to do't; Ye ne're will be able to bring all about. He talkt of a Plot, Believe it, or not, To blow up the Thames, and to do't on the Spot; Then either the Docter must now be believ'd, Or else both the Docter and we are deceiv'd. 3. No Water I see which does fairly incline To make me believe that he has Sprung his Mine; Tho' that did not do what the Docter intended, Yet he may for one thing he said be commended: He said that the Pope, Pray mind, 'tis a Trope, Wou'd send us his Bulls, by the way of the Hope; And tho' for the Sight we all long have bin waiting, I t'other day saw on the Ice a Bull-baiting. 4. I hope you'll believe me, 'twas as fine a Sight, As ever I saw on a Queen Besses Night; Tho' I must confess I saw no such Dogs there, As us'd to attend on th' Infallible Chair. Yet there were some Men. Whom I knew agen, Who bawl'd as they did, when they chose Aldermen. And Faith it had bin a most excellent Show, Had there bin but some Crackers and Serpents to throw. 5. Another thing pleas'd me, as I hope for Life, I saw of a Man that had gotten a Wife To see the rare Whimsies, the Woman was sick, So never suspected a slippery Trick: But when she came there, The Ice wou'd not bear, But whether 'twas his fault or hers, I can't swear; Yet thus far is true, had he so lost his Wife, He then might have pray'd for a Frost all his life.
6. There's very fine Tricks, & new subject for Laughter, For there you may take a Coach and go by Water, So get a Tarpauling too, as you are Jogging, Tho' a Nymph t'other day for it got a good Flogging. There was an old Toast, Of Beef had a Roast, Which fell into th' Sellar, and fairly was lost. O see in old Proverbs sometimes there is truth, A Man is not sure of his Meat till in's Mouth. 7. But I had forgot my chief bus'ness I swear, To give an Account of new Temple-Street Fair; Where most of the Students do daily resort, To shew the great love they had always for Sport. Who oft give a Token, I hope't may be spoken, To Whore in a Mask, who squeaks like a Pig a Poke in. To see such crak't Vessels sail is a new matter, Who have bin so shatter'd between Wind and Water. 8. Like Babel this Fair's not built with Brick or Stone, Though here I believe is as great Confusion; Now Blankets are forc'd double Duty to pay, On Beds all the night, and for Houses all day; But there's something more, Some people deplore, Their carelesly leaving open Sellar Door, Which puts me in mind of Jack Presbyters trick, Who from Pulpit descends the like way to Old Nick. 9. Come all ye young Dam'sels both swarthy and fair, This is the best place to put off your Crakt Ware; Here's Chapmen good store who too't stifly will stand, And scorn to put Coin that is false in your Hand: While you're there abiding, And on the Ice Gliding, Let 'em say what they will, 'tis but a back-sliding: But if ye shou'd Prove, then say I am a Prophet, Tho't's a Slippery trick there shall come no more of it 10. There's many more Tricks, but too long to be told, Which are not all new, tho' there's none of 'em old. There's the Fellow that Printeth the Old Bailey Trial, Who to all the dull Printers does give a Denyal; Hee'll Print for a Sice, (For that is his price Your Name (that you brag may 'twas done) on the Ice. And Faith I do think it a very fine thing, So my Tale's at an end: but first, God save the KING
Printed for Charles Corbet, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane. 1684.