I have been to market, my lady, my lady;

"Then you've not been to the fair," says pussy, says pussy; I bought me a rabbit, my lady, my lady;

"Then you did not buy a hare," says pussy, says pussy; I roasted it, my lady, my lady;

"Then you did not boil it," says pussy, says pussy;

I ate it, my lady, my lady;

"And I'll eat you," says pussy, says pussy.

I'll sing you a song,
Though not very long,

Yet I think it's as pretty as any;
Put your hand in your purse,
You'll never be worse,

And give the poor singer a penny.

I love my love with an A, because he's Agreeable.57

I hate him because he's Avaricious.

He took me to the Sign of the Acorn,

And treated me with Apples.

His name's Andrew,

And he lives at Arlington.

In marble walls as white as milk,5
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.

No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

Intery, mintery, cutery-corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn;
Wine brier limber-lock,
Five geese in a flock,
Sit and sing by a spring,
O-u-t, and in again.

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I saw a peacock with a fiery tail,
I saw a blazing comet drop down hail,
I saw a cloud wrapped with ivy round,
I saw an oak creep upon the ground,
I saw a pismire swallow up a whale,

I saw the sea brim-full of ale,

I saw a Venice glass full fifteen feet deep,

I saw a well full of men's tears that weep,

I saw red eyes all of a flaming fire,

I saw a house bigger than the moon and higher,

I saw the sun at twelve o'clock at night,

I saw the man that saw this wondrous sight.

I saw a ship a-sailing,

A-sailing on the sea; And O! it was all laden

With pretty things for thee!

There were comfits in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;
The sails were made of silk,

And the masts were made of gold!

The four and twenty sailors,

That stood between the decks, Were four and twenty white mice, With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck,

With a packet on his back;
And when the ship began to move,