The ballad describes a man who desires a romantic encounter with a woman from Hyde Park, however upon arriving at her house, it is revealed that she is old, bald, ugly, and missing an eye and nose.
He calls Hyde Park a "market of maidens," and likens the women to a garden of flowers due to their colourful clothing.
At the end of the ballad, he vows not to go back to Hyde Park to look for women, and warns other men to learn from his mistake.
[2] N. W. Bawcutt speculates that Jonathan Swift drew on News From Hide-Parke when writing A beautiful young nymph going to bed.
Bawcutt cites the movement from an "impressively glamorous atmosphere" that is then destroyed in the end as evidence that Swift was drawing on the old ballad.