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Bugsby's reach is long as time,His reach is wide as wind is,He can pick you nettles in Greenwich MarshAnd docks in the East Indies.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is —A sort of soup or broth, or brew,Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,That Greenwich never could outdo.

william makepeace thackeray

— Ballads, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, st. 2 (1855).

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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is. A periodical breaking out, we suppose a sort of spring rash.

charles dickens

— Charles Dickens, Greenwich Fair.

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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

william makepeace thackeray

— William Makepeace Thackeray, Ballad of Bouillabaisse.

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