A new Ballad intituled, I have fresh Cheese and Creame.
To a new tune.
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IN London lately as I went,
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Along the streetes to try,
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Many a pretty Wench I saw,
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Along the streetes to cry:
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But none so sweete,
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Which I there could meete,
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As there was a handsome Wench,
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That sang in Colman streete,
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame.
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Upon her backe she wore
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A Fustian wastcoate white,
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Her Bodyes and her Stomacher,
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Were fastned very tite.
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Her Neckenger of Holland sure,
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Her voyce was shrill and very pure:
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Her Ware she opened straight
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To any that would buy.
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame.
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She pleased me full well,
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In singing of her noate;
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She sung not like an Oyster whore,
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That ratleth in the throat:
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Which made me to admier,
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And askt her name, but with the same,
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She cryed then more higher.
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have, etc.
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With that I marked all the trades
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Were round about the Cittie,
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The cryes of youngmen, boyes, and maydes,
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And all their pleasant dittie:
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Ripe Cherrie, ripe ripe,
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Hotte Pippin-pies, they pipe:
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Hay'ny Boules or Trayes to mende?
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White young Radish, white.
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have, etc.
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Will you buy any Aqua-viti?
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Sweepe Chimney sweepe:
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Buy any Writing pennes, or Incke?
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Will you buy any Milke?
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Will you buy Pippins fine,
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Or Lemmons for your Wine?
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Will you buy any Blacking,
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Twill make your shooes to shine?
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have, etc.
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Old shooes; will you buy any Broomes?
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Will you buy a Sive?
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Hay'ny old Bellowes to mende?
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Hay'ny Wood to cleave?
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Will you buy any sucruy Grasse?
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Will you buy any Glasses?
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Ripe saint Thomas Onions.
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But then began this Lasse,
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have fresh, etc.
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Buy a Matte for a Bedde.
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New Mustles, Lilly white.
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Buy a fine Tinder box.
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What Kitchinstuffe hay ye Maydes?
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I have white young Leekes.
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Hay'ny old Dublets?
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I have ripe Cowcumbers ripe.
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Hay'ny Cornes ay'r feete.
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have fresh, etc.
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I have fine Pomegranuts.
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Hotte Codlings hotte.
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I have ripe Strawberries.
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Dee lacke sir, what dee lacke,
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Bandes, Shirtes, or Ruffes,
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Handkerchers, or Cuffes:
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Garters, Knives, or Purses,
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Or Muscova silken Muffes?
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I have fresh Cheese and Creame,
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I have fresh, etc.
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By no meanes can I get,
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To know her dwelling place:
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She was so deckt with comlines,
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And bodyed with such grace.
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I would not care a rush,
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So might have my wish,
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To have her stay all night with me,
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which were a better dish,
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then her fresh Cheese and Creame,
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then her fresh Cheese and Creame.
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