The History of Signboards From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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Wright) refers to him from a very ancient ballad, and one of the oldest songs is in the Harl. MSS. , 2253, beginning : " Mon in the mone stond and streit, On is bot-forke is burthen he bereth, Hit is muche wonder that he na doun slyt For doute lest he valle he shoddreth and skereth. When the forst freseth muche chele he byd The thornes beth kene is hattren to-tereth N'is no wytht in the world that wot when he syt Ne, bote hit bee the hegge, whot wedes he wereth. " For all this, his life seems t...o be very merry, for one of the Rox burghe Ballads (i. F. , 298) informs us that " Our Man in the Moon drinks Clarret, With powderbeef, turnep and carret ; If he doth so, why should not you Drink until the sky looks blue. " From whence they obtained the information it is difficult to say, but it was a well-established fact with the old tobacconists that he could enjoy his pipe. Thus he is represented on some of the tobacconists' papers in the Banks Collection puffing like a steam-engine, and underneath the words, "Who'll smoake with y e Man in y e Moon?" If these frequent allusions in songs and plays were not enough to remind the Londoners that there was such a being, they could see him daily amongst the figures of old St Paul's " The Great Dial is your last monument ; where bestow some half of the three score minutes to observe the sauciness of the Jacks f that are above the Man in the Moon there; the strangeness of their motion will quit your labour.
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