covent-garden's

Updated: July 2, 2026

This is Saloop the precocious herb-woman's darling the delight of the early gardener, who transports his smoking cabbages by break of day from Hammersmith to Covent-garden's famed piazzas the delight, and, oh I fear, too often the envy, of the unpennied sweep.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia