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"How shall we get him home? says Robin to Bobbin ;
How shall we get him home? says Richard to Robin;
How shall we get him home? says Jack o' th' land;
How shall we get him home? says every one.

"We'll borrow a cart, says Robin to Bobbin;
We'll borrow a cart, says Richard to Robin;
We'll borrow a cart, says Jack o' th' land;
We'll borrow a cart, says every one.

“How shall we boil him? says Robin to Bobbin;
How shall we boil him? says Richard to Robin;
How shall we boil him? says Jack o' th' land;
How shall we boil him? says every one.

"In the brewery pan, says Robin to Bobbin;
In the brewery pan, says Richard to Robin ;
In the brewery pan, says Jack o' th' land;
In the brewery pan, says every one."

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.

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P. 149, No. 29 There is another couplet on this sovereign, which runs thus,

"THOMAS a Didymus had a black beard,
Kiss'd Nancy Fitchett, and made her afeard.”

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

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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:
For all the day long she sits in a tree,

And when the night comes, away flies she!
Te whit, te whow !

Sir knave to thou,

This song is well sung, I make you a vow,
And he is a knave that drinketh now.

Nose, nose, nose, nose!

And who gave you that jolly red nose?
Sinamont, and ginger, nutmegs and cloves,—
And that gave me my jolly red nose !"

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Curly locks, curly locks, wilt thou be mine?
CUSTOMS

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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
FRAGMENTS

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

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Here comes a poor woman from baby-land

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Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry
I am a pretty wench

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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

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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
I won't be my father's Jack

If all the seas were one sea
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn
Jack Sprat could eat no fat

Jim and George were two great lords
JINGLES

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Little Blue Betty lived in a den

Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep

Little boy, pretty boy, where was you born?

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Miss one two and three, could never agree

Mistress Mary, quite contrary

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