Henry Carey, The Ballad of Sally in our Alley (1729)
“ Of all the Days that's in the Week, I dearly love but one Day, And that's the Day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday; ”
Henry Carey
Summary
“The Ballad of Sally in our Alley”, published in 1729, is a work by Henry Carey. It explores elements such as shews.
Quotes from The Ballad of Sally in our Alley (Henry Carey)
Henry Carey, The Ballad of Sally in our Alley (1729)
“ Of all the Girls that are so smart There's none like pretty SALLY, She is the Darling of my Heart, And she lives in our Alley. ”
Henry Carey, The Ballad of Sally in our Alley (1729)
“ For as Innocence and Virtue were ever the Boundaries of his Muse, so in this little Poem he had no other view than to set forth the Beauty of a chaste and disinterested Passion, even in the lowest Class of human Life. The real Occasion was this: A Shoemaker's 'Prentice making Holiday with his Sweet-heart, treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the Puppet-shews, the Flying-chairs, and all the Elegancies of the Moorfields: From whence proceeding to the Farthing Pye-house, he gave her a Collation of Buns, Cheesecakes, Gammon of Bacon, Stuff'd-beef, and Bottled-ale ”
