"Ne quid desit, sternam rosis Sternam fœnum violis, Pavimentum hyacinthus Et praesepe liliis Millies tibi laudes canimus Mille, mille, millies. "Si vis musicam, pastores Convocabo protinus Illis nulli sunt priores; Nemo canit castius Millies tibi laudes canimus Mille, mille, millies." CHAPTER XIV. "THERE WAS A MAID CAME OUT OF KENT." "THERE was a maid came out of Kent, Dangerous be, dangerous be; There was a maid came out of Kent, Fayre, propre, small, and gent As ever upon the ground went, For so should it be." Of authentic currency in Mary's time. "Martin Smart and his man, fodledum, fodledum; Martin Smart and his man, fodledum, bell." Same date. "I see the moon, and the moon sees me; “I, 2, 3, 4, 5, I caught a hare alive; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I let her go again." Counting-out rhyme. "Great | A was a | larm'd at | B's bad be | haviour, Be | cause C | D, E, F de | nied G a | favour; H had a | husband with | I, J, | K and L; M married | Mary, and | taught | her scholars | how to spell ABC, DEFG, HIJKLM, NOPQ, RSTU, V W X Y Z, Z, Z." "Hush-a-by, baby, on a green bock (Saxon for bough); When the wind blows the cradle will rock." A NURSERY TALE. "I saddled my sow with a sieve of buttermilk, put my foot into the stirrup, and leaped up nine miles beyond the moon into the land of temperance, where there was nothing but hammers and hatchets and candlesticks, and there lay bleeding Old Noll. I let him lie and sent for Old Hipper Noll, and asked him if he could grind green steel five times finer than wheat flour. He said he could not. Gregory's wife was up a pear tree gathering nine corns of buttered beans to pay St. James's rent. St. James was in a meadow mowing oat cakes; he heard a noise, hung his scythe to his heels, stumbled at the battledore, tumbled over the barn door ridge, and broke his shins against a bag of moonshine that stood behind the stairs-foot door; and if that isn't true, you know as well as I all about it." "A duck, a drake, a barley cake, Slitherum, slitherum, take her." A verse repeated when playing at skim ming shells or stones on the water of a pond or lake. "Hark! hark! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town. There are some in tags, And one in a velvet gown." "Bow-wow-wow, Whose dog art thou? I'm Tommy Tucker's dog, Pope wrote an epigram which he had engraved on the collar of a dog, and gave it to H.R.H.: "I am his Highness' dog at Kew; A B C JINGLES. "A was an Archer that shot at a frog, 1 |