News from Hide-Park.
OR,
A very merry passage which hapned betwixt a North Country Gentleman, and a very Gaudy
Gallant Lady of pleasure, whom he took up in the Parke, & conducted her (in her own Coach)
home to her Lodgings, and what chanced there, if youll venter Attention the Song will
declare. To the Tune of, The Crost Couple.
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ONe Evening a little before it was dark,
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sing tan tara rara tan tivee,
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I calld for my Gelding & rid to Hide-parke,
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on tan tara rara tan-tivee:
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It was in the merry Month of May,
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When Meadows & Fields were gaudy & gay,
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And Flowers apparelld as bright as the day,
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I got upon my tan-tivee.
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The Park shone brighter than the Skyes,
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sing tan tara rara tan-tivee:
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With jewels and gold, and Ladies eyes,
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that sparkled and cryd come see me:
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Of all parts of England, Hide-park hath the name
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For Coaches & Horses, and Persons of fame,
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It looked at first sight, like a field full of flame,
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Which made me ride up tan-tivee.
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There hath not been seen such a sight since Adams
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for Perriwig, Ribbon, and Feather,
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Hide-park may be termd the Market of Madams
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or Lady-Fair, chuse you whether:
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their gowns were a yard too long for their legs,
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They shewd like the Rian-bow cut into rags,
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A Garden of Flowers, or a Navy of Flags,
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when they did all mingle together.
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Among all these Ladies I singled out one
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to prattle of love and folly;
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I found her not coy, but jovial as Jone,
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or Betty, or Margret, or Moly:
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With honors & love, and stories of Chances,
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My spirits did move & my blood she advances.
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With twenty quonundrums, & fifty five fancies
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Id have been at her tan-tivee.
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We talkt away time until it grew dark,
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the place did begin to grow privee;
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For Gallants began to draw out of the Park:
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their horses did gallop ran-tivee:
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But finding my courage a little to come,
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I sent my bay-Gelding away by my Groom,
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And profferd my service to wait on her home,
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In her coach we went both tan-tivee.
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I Offerd & profferd, but found her straight lacd
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she cryd, I shall never believe ye?
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This armful of Sattin I bravely embracd,
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and fain would have been at tan-tivee.
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Her lodging was pleasant for scent & for sight,
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She seemd like an Angel by Candle-light,
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And like a bold Archer I aimd at the white,
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tan-tivee, tan-tivee, tan-tivee.
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With many denials she yielded at last,
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her Chamber being wondrous privee,
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That I all the night there might have my repast
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to run at the King tan-tivee:
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I put off my cloaths, and I tumbled to bed:
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She went in her Closet to dress up her head,
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But I peepd in the key-hole to see what she did,
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which put me quite beside my tan-tivee.
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She took of her head-tire, & shewd her bald pate,
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her cunning did very much grieve me,
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Thought I to my self, if it were not so late,
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I would home to my lodgings, believe me
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Her hair being gone, she seemd like a Hagg
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Her bald-pate did look like an Estritches Egg,
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This Lady (thought I) is as right as my legg,
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she hath been too much at tan-tivee.
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The more I did peep, the more I did spy,
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which did unto amazement drive me:
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She put up her finger and out dropt her eye;
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I prayd that some power would relieve me,
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But now my resolves was never to trouble her,
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Or venture my Carkis with such a blind hobler,
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She lookt with one eye just like Heuson the Cob-ler
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when he usd to ride tan-tivee.
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I peept & was still more perplexed therewith,
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thought I thot be midnight Ile leave thee,
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She fetcht a yawn, and out fell her teeth,
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this Quean had intents to deceive me:
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She drew out her Handkercheif as I suppose,
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To wipe her high forhead & off dropt her nose,
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Which made me run quickly and put on my hose
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the Devil is in my tan-tivee.
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She washt all the Paint from her visage & then
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she lookt just (if you will believe me)
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Like a Lancashire witch of fourscore and ten;
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and as the Devil did drive me,
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I put on my cloaths & cryd witches & whores,
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I tumbled down stairs, broke open the doors,
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And down to my country again to my Bores,
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Next morning I rid tan-tivee.
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You North-country Gallants that live pleasant lives
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let not curiosity drive ye,
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To leave the fresh air, and your own Tennants wives
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for Sattin will sadly deceive you:
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For my part I will no more be such a Meacock,
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To deal with the plums of a Hide-park Peacock,
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But find out a russet coat wench, & a [Dry cock,]
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and there I will ride tan-tivee.
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