[The first line of the following is the burden of a song in the " Tempest," act i., sc. 2. and also of one in the " Merchant of Venice," act iii., sc. 2.]

DING, dong, bell,

Pussy's in the well!

Who put her in?

Little Tommy Lin.

Who pulled her out?

Dog with long snout.

What a naughty boy was that,

To drown poor pussy-cat,

But kill'd the mice in his father's barn.

281.

HEY ding a ding, what shall I sing?
How many holes in a skimmer?

Four and twenty,-my stomach is empty;
Pray, mamma, give me some dinner.

282.

Cоck a doodle doo!

My dame has lost her shoe;
My master's lost his fiddling stick,

And don't know what to do.

Cock a doodle doo!

What is my dame to do?

Till master finds his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoe.

Cock a doodle doo!

My dame has lost her shoe,

And master's found his fiddling stick,
Sing doodle doodle doo!

Cock a doodle doo!

My dame will dance with you,

While master fiddles his fiddling stick,

For dame and doodle doo.

Cock a doodle doo!

Dame has lost her shoe;

Gone to bed and scratch'd her head,

And can't tell what to do.

283.

LITTLE Tee Wee,
He went to sea
In an open boat;
And while afloat,

The little boat bended,

And my story's ended.

284.

SING, sing, what shall I sing?
The cat has eaten the pudding-string!
Do, do, what shall I do?

The cat has bit it quite in two.

285.

[I do not know whether the following may have reference to the game of handy-dandy, mentioned in "King Lear," act iv., sc. 6, and in Florio's "New World of Words," 1611, p. 57.]

HANDY SPANDY, Jack-a-dandy,
Loved plum-cake and sugar-candy;
He bought some at a grocer's shop,
And out he came, hop, hop, hop.

286.

TIDDLE liddle lightum,

Pitch and tar;

Tiddle liddle lightum,

What's that for?

287.

SING jigmijole, the pudding-bowl,
The table and the frame;
My master he did cudgel me
For kissing of my dame.

288.

DIBBITY, dibbity, dibbity, doe,
Give me a pancake,
And I'll go.

Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, ditter,
Please to give me

A bit of a fritter.

289.

DEEDLE, deedle, dumpling, my son John
Went to bed with his breeches on;
One shoe off, the other shoe on,
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.

290.

FEEDUM, fiddledum fee,

The cat's got into the tree.

Pussy, come down,

Or I'll crack your crown,
And toss you into the sea.

GILLY Silly Jarter,

Who has lost a garter?
In a shower of rain,

The miller found it,
The miller ground it,

And the miller gave it to Sally again.

292.

HUB a dub dub,

Three men in a tub;

And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker,

The candlestick maker,

Turn 'em out, knaves all three!

293.

HYDER iddle diddle dell,

A yard of pudding 's not an ell;
Not forgetting tweeddle-dye,
A tailor's goose will never fly.

294.

HEY diddle, dinkety, poppety, pet,
The merchants of London they wear scarlet;
Silk in the collar, and gold in the hem,
So merrily march the merchantmen.