PAT-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man:

So I will, master, as fast as I can :

Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T,

Put in the oven for Tommy and me.

CCLXXXVI.

[The following is taken from MS, Sloan. 2497, of the sixteenth century. Probably an epigram on one of the family of the Noels, or Nowells.]

N. for a word of deniance,

E. with a figure of L. fiftie.
Spelleth his name that newer
Will be thriftie.

CCLXXXVII.

Miss one two and three, could never agree,
While they gossiped round a tea-caddy.

CCLXXXVIII.

One's none;
Two's some;

Three's a many;

Four's a penny;

Five is a little hundred.

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ELEVENTH CLASS—SCHOLASTIC.

CCLXXXIX.

A Diller, a dollar,
A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,
But now you come at noon.

CCXC.

Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With cockle-shells, and silver bells,
And muscles all a row.*

This may have reference to the Scotch song—
"When cockle-shells turn silver bells,
And muscles grow on every tree;
When frost and snaw shall warm us a',

Then shall my love prove true to me."