IX. [Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's History of England, book iii. chap. 1.] SEE saw, sack-a-day; Richmond is another, Grafton is my onely joy, And why should I these three destroy, To please a pious brother? X. [Written in 1641, on the occasion of the marriage of Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles I, with the young Prince of Orange.] WHAT is the rhyme for porringer? And gave the Prince of Orange her. XI. [The following nursery song alludes to William III, and George, Prince of Denmark.] WILLIAM and Mary, George and Anne, And call'd their brother the son of a whore. XII. OVER the water, over the lee, Charley loves good ale and wine, Charley loves good brandy, Charley loves a little girl, As sweet as sugar-candy. XIII. [The following may possibly allude to King George and the Pretender.] JIM and George were two great Lords, They fought all in a churn; And when that Jim got George by the nose, XIV. POOR old Robinson Crusoe ! Poor old Robinson Crusoe ! They made him a coat, Of an old nanny goat, I wonder how they could do so! With a ring a ting tang, And a ring a ting tang, Poor old Robinson Crusoe ! XV. THE king of France went up the hill, With twenty thousand men ; The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again. Second Class.—Tales. XVI. THERE was an old woman had three sons, Jerry was hung, James was drowned, And there was an end of her three sons, XVII. THERE was a man in Thessaly, XVIII. WHEN I was a bachelor, I lived by myself, I was forced to go to London to buy me a wife; The roads were so bad, and the lanes were so narrow, I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow broke, and my wife had a fall; Deuce take the wheelbarrow, wife, and all. XIX. RowsTY dowt, my fire's all out, I'll saddle my cock and bridle my hen, And fetch my little dame home again! Home she came, tritty trot, She asked for the furmety she left in the pot; Some she eat and some she shod, And some she gave to the truckler's dog; |