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IX.

[Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's History of England, book iii. chap. 1.]

SEE saw, sack-a-day;
Monmouth is a pretie boy,

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?
The king he had a daughter fair,

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,
Four such children had never a man:
They turn'd their father out of door,

And call'd their brother the son of a whore.

XII.

OVER the water, over the lee,
Over the water to Charley.

Charley loves good ale and wine,

Charley loves good brandy,

Charley loves a little girl,

As sweet as sugar-candy.

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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,
Then George began to gern.

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, and James, and John:

Jerry was hung, James was drowned,
John was lost and never was found,

And there was an end of her three sons,
Jerry, and James, and John !

XVII.

THERE was a man in Thessaly,
And he was wondrous wise,
He jump'd into a quickset hedge.
And scratch'd out both his eyes;
And when he saw his eyes were out,
And he was in great pain,
He jump'd into a holly bush,
And scratch'd 'em in again.

XVIII.

WHEN I was a bachelor, I lived by myself,
And all the bread and cheese I laid upon the shelf;
The rats and the mice they made such a strife,

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,
My little dame is not at home!

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;
She took up the ladle and knocked its head,
And now poor Dapsy dog is dead!

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