CLI. [A STAR.] I HAVE a little sister, they call her peep, peep, CLII. TWELVE pears hanging high, And yet left eleven there! CLIII. [A NEEDLE AND THREAD.] CLIV [AN EGG.] IN marble walls as white as milk, No doors there are to this strong-hold. CLV. THERE was a king met a king Says this king to that king, "Oh! I've been a hunting "There's the dog take the dog." "What's the dog's name?" CLVI. [A PLUM-PUDDING.] FLOUR of England, fruit of Spain, Met together in a shower of rain; CLVII. EVERY lady in this land Has twenty nails upon each hand, CUSHY Cow bonny, let down thy milk, If thou wilt let down thy milk to me. CLIX. ROBERT ROWLEY rolled a round roll round, CLX. [Ady, in his Candle in the Dark,' 4to, Lond. 1656, this was a charm to make butter come from the churn. thrice.] COME, butter, come, Come, butter, come! p. 59, says that It was to be said Peter stands at the gate, CLXI. [The following, with a very slight variation, is found in Ben Jonson's • Masque of Queen's,' and it is singular to account for its introduction into the modern nursery.] I WENT to the toad that lies under the wall, CLXII. SWAN Swam over the sea Swim, swan, swim; Swan swam back again, Well swam swan. CLXIII. [From Dr. Wallis's Grammatica Linguæ Anglicana," 12mo, Oxon. 1674, p. 164. This and the following are said to be certain cures for the hiccup if repeated in one breath.] WHEN a Twister a twisting, will twist him a twist; For the twisting of his twist, he three times doth intwist; But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine: Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain. The twain that, in twining, before in the twine, As twines were intwisted; he now doth untwine: "Twixt the twain inter-twisting a twine more between, He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. CLXIV. A THATCHER of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a thatching, Did a thatcher of Thatchwood go to Thatchet a thatching? If a thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a thatching, Where's the thatching the thatcher of Thatchwood has thatch'd? |