CCCII. COME dance a jig To my Granny's pig, With a raudy, rowdy, dowdy; To my Granny's pig, And pussy-cat shall crowdy. CCCIII. DOODLEDY, doodledy, doodledy, dan, CCCIV. PUSSICAT, wussicat, with a white foot, When is your wedding? for I'll come to❜t. The beer's to brew, the bread's to bake. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, don't be too late. CCCV. DING, dong, darrow, The cat and the sparrow; The little dog has burnt his tail, CCCVI. LITTLE Dicky Dilver He took a stick and broke her back, The miller wouldn't have her, CCCVII. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, CCCVIII. RUMPTY-iddity, row, row, row, If I had a good supper, I could eat it now. CCCIX. [Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lansd. 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire word for a magpie. See also Macbeth,' act iii, sc. 4. The same term occurs in the dictionaries of Hollyband, Cotgrave, and Minsheu.] ROUND about, round about, Magotty-pie, My father loves good ale, And so do I. FOURTEENTH CLASS. LOVE AND MATRIMONY. CCCX. As I was going up Pippen-hill, Pippen-hill was dirty, There I met a pretty miss, Little miss, pretty miss, Blessings light upon you! If I had half-a-crown a day, I'd spend it all on you. CCCX1. TOMMY TROT, a man of law, CCCXII. WE'RE all dry with drinking on't, We're all dry with drinking on't; The piper kiss'd the fiddler's wife, And I can't sleep for thinking on't. CCCXIII. "JOHN, come sell thy fiddle, And buy thy wife a gown." "No, I'll not sell my fiddle, For ne'er a wife in town." CCCXIV. HERE comes a lusty wooer, Pray, who do you woo, My a dildin, my a daldin? For your fairest daughter, Lily bright and shine a'. Then there she is for you, My a dildin, my a daldin; CCCXV. Up hill and down dale; She shall have a spouse, CCCXVI. JACK in the pulpit, out and in; CCCXVII. DID you see my wife, did you see, did you see, Did you see my wife looking for me? She wears a straw bonnet, with white ribands on it, And dimity petticoats over her knee. |