The Fire on London Bridge, &C.

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1662

The Fire on London Bridge, &c.

Three Children Sliding on the Thames

The Lamentation of a Bad Market.

Some Chriſtian people all give ear. / Unto the grief of us. / Caus’d by the death of three children dear ; / The which it hapned thus.

Three Children ſliding thereabouts, / Upon a place too thin, / That ſo at laſt it did fall out, / That they did all fall in.

Ye Parents all that Children have, / And ye that have none yet ; / Preſerve your children from the grave, / And teach them at home to ſit. // For had theſe at a Sermon been, / Or elſe upon dry ground, / Why then I would never have ſeen, / If that they had been drown’d.

God bleſs our noble Parliament, / And rid them from all fears. / God bleſs all th’ Commons of this Land, / And God bleſs ſome o’ th’ Peers.