Room for Company

Room for company, here come good fellows,
Room for comp'ny in Bartholmew Fair.
Cobblers and broom-men, jailers and loom-men,
Room for comp'ny in Bartholmew Fair.
Butchers and tailors, shipwrights and sailors,
Room for company, well may they fare.
Room for company, here come good fellows,
Room for comp'ny in Bartholmew Fair.

Paviers, bricklayers, potters and brickmakers,
Room for comp'ny in Bartholmew Fair.
Pinders and pewterers, plumbers and fruiterers,
Room for company, well may they fare.
Room for company, here come good fellows,
Room for comp'ny in Bartholmew Fair.

Pointers and hosiers, salemen and clothiers,
Horse coursers, carriers, blacksmiths and farriers,

Colliers and carvers, barbers and weavers,
Sergeants and yeomen, farmers and ploughmen,

Bellfounders, felmongers, bellowsmenders, woodmongers,
Pumpmakers, glassmakers, chamberlains and matmakers,

Collarmakers, needlemakers, buttonmakers, fiddlemakers,
Fletchers and bowyers, drawers and sawyers,

note: First printed in 1614. From Roy Palmer.