CCCCIII.

Rock well my cradle,
And "bee baa," my son;
You shall have a new gown,
When ye lord comes home.
Oh! still my child, Orange,
Still him with a bell;
I can't still him, ladie,

Till you come down yoursell!

CCCCIV.

WHERE was a sugar and fretty?
And where was jewel and spicy?
Hush-a-bye, babe in a cradle,
And we'll go away in a tricy!

CCCCV.

I'LL buy you a tartan bonnet,
And some feathers to put on it,
Tartan trews and a phillibeg,
Because you are so like

your daddy.

[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,

Who never did any harm,

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

CCCCVII.

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.

CCCCVIII.

Cock 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.

CCCCIX.

DIDDLEDY, diddledy, dumpty;
The cat ran up the plum-tree.
I'll lay you a crown

I'll fetch you down;

So diddledy, diddledy, dumpty.

CCCCX.

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

And while afloat

The little boat bended,

And my story's ended.

CCCCXI.

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

The cat has bit it quite in two.

CCCCXII.

of

[I do not know whether the following may have reference to the game 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.

CCCCXIII.

TIDDLE liddle lightum,
Pitch and tar;
Tiddle liddle lightum,

What's that for?

CCCCXIV.

SING jigmijole, the pudding-bowl,
The table and the frame;

My master he did cudgel me
For speaking of my dame.

CCCCXV.

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

Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.