CCCLXXXIX. PITTY Patty Polt, Shoe the wild colt; Here a nail, And there a nail, Pitty, Patty, Polt. CCCXC. How d''e dogs, how? whose dog art thou? Little Tom Tinker's dog! what's that to thou? Hiss! bow, a wow, wow! CCCXCI. [The following song is given in Whiter's Specimen or a Commentary on Shakespeare,' 8vo, London, 1794, p.19, as common in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Dr. Farmer gives another version as an illustration of a ditty of Jacques in As You Like It,' act ii, sc. 5. See Malone's Skakespeare, ed. 1821, vol.vi, p. 398; Caldecott's Specimen,' 1819, note on As You Like It,' p. 11; and Douce's Illustrations,' vol. i, p. 279.] DAME, what makes your ducks to die? What the pize ails 'em? what the pize ails 'em? They kick up their heels, and there they lie, What the pize ails 'em now? Heigh, ho! heigh, ho! Dame, what makes your ducks to die? What a pize ails 'em? what a pize ails 'em? Heigh, ho! heigh, ho! Dame, what ails your ducks to die? Eating o'polly-wigs, eating o'polly-wigs. [The proverb of Barnaby Bright is given by Ray and Brand as referring to St. Barnabas.] BARNABY BRIGHT he was a sharp cur, He always would bark if a mouse did but stir; But now he's grown old, and can no longer bark, He's condemn'd by the parson to be hang'd by the clerk. CCCXCIV. PUSSY cat eat the dumplings, the dumplings, Pussy cat eat the dumplings. Mamma stood by, And cried, Oh, fie! Why did you eat the dumplings? CCCXCV. SNAIL, snail, put out your horns, SIXTEENTH CLASS. ACCUMULATIVE STORIES. CCCXCVI. I SELL you the key of the king's garden : CCCXCVII. [Traditional pieces are frequently so ancient, that possibility will not be outraged by conjecturing the John Ball of the following piece to be the priest who took so distinguished a part in the rebellion temp. Richard II.] JOHN BALL shot them all; John Scott made the shot, But John Ball shot them all. John Wyming made the priming, But John Ball shot them all. John Block made the stock, And John Brammer made the rammer, But John Ball shot them all. John Puzzle made the muzzle, But John Ball shot them all. John Clint made the flint, And John Puzzle made the muzzle, And John Wyming made the priming. But John Ball shot them all. John Patch made the match, John Wyming made the priming, But John Ball shot them all. CCCXCVIII. 1. THIS is the house that Jack built. 2. This is the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. 3. This is the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. |