"How shall we get him home? says Robin to Bobbin ; "We'll borrow a cart, says Robin to Bobbin; “How shall we boil him? says Robin to Bobbin; "In the brewery pan, says Robin to Bobbin; In the copy which was given to me, there were two additional stanzas, beginning respectively, "How shall we eat him?" and, "With knives and forks :" but these are probably modern interpolations. 79 P. 149, No. 29 There is another couplet on this sovereign, which runs thus, "THOMAS a Didymus had a black beard, P. 149, No. 282. Bobby Shaft. Shaftoe," a member of a celebrated seventeenth century. This ought to be, "Bobby family at the end of the P. 151, 1. 17. Of all the gay birds. These four lines are part of an old song, the whole of which may be found in 66 Deuteromelia," 4to. Lond. 1609, and it is singular that it should have come down to us from oral tradition. This ver sion was obtained from Lincolnshire. The following copy is taken from the work here quoted: but there are considerable variations in later copies, some of which may be more correct. "Of all the birds that ever I see, The owle is the fayrest in her degree: And when the night comes, away flies she! Sir knave to thou, This song is well sung, I make you a vow, Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave you that jolly red nose? GAMES Gilly Silly Jarter Great A, little a Heigh, ho! Heigh, ho! Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess Father, O father, I'm come to confess Feedum, fiddledum fee Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle de-dee Five score of men, money, and pins Formed long ago, yet made to-day- Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail Gay go up and gay go down Giles Collins he said to his old mother Girls and boys, come out to play Good horses, bad horses Good morning, father Francis Goosy goosy gander Green cheeses, yellow laces 95 121 82 85 98 91 25 156 107 111 73 88 109 120 121 92 131 122 140 Here am I, little jumping Joan Here comes a poor woman from baby-land Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry 102 103 102 146 I can make diet bread I had a little castle upon the sea-side I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell I had a little hobby horse and it was well shod I had a little husband I had a little moppet I had a little pony I had a little sister, they call'd her peep, peep I'll sing you a song I'll tell you a story - I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence I see the moon, and the moon sees me I went to the toad that lies under the wall If all the seas were one sea Jim and George were two great lords - Little Blue Betty lived in a den Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep Little boy, pretty boy, where was you born? Little Miss Mopsey Mary had a pretty bird Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Miss one two and three, could never agree Mistress Mary, quite contrary Multiplication is vexation |