XIV.

As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First:
Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!

HIGH diddle ding

XV.

Did you hear the bells ring?

The parliament soldiers are gone to the king! Some they did laugh, some they did cry,

To see the parliament soldiers pass by.

XVI.

High ding a ding, and ho ding a ding,
The parliament soldiers are gone to the king;
Some with new beavers, some with new bands,
The parliament soldiers are all to be hang'd.

XVII.

[Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's "History of England," book iii, chap. 1.]

See saw, sack-a-day;
Monmouth is a pretie boy,

Richmond is another,
Grafton is my onely joy,

And why should I these three destroy,
To please a pious brother?

XVIII.

[Written on occasion of the marriage of Mary, the daughter of James Duke of York, afterwards James II., with the young Prince of Orange. See the entire song in the next number, but the following three lines are those now appropriated to the nursery.]

What is the rhyme for porringer?

The king he had a daughter fair,
And gave the Prince of Orange her.

XIX.

[From "Jacobite Minstrelsy," 12mo, Glasgow, 1828, p. 28.]

Oh what's the rhyme to porringer?

Ken ye the rhyme to porringer?

King James the Seventh had ae daughter,

And he gae her to an Oranger.

Ken ye how he requited him?

Ken ye how he requited him?

The lad has into England come,

And ta'en the crown in spite of him.

The dog, he shall na keep it long,
To flinch we'll make him fain again;
We'll hing him high upon a tree,
And James shall hae his ain again.
Ken ye the rhyme to grasshopper?
Ken ye the rhyme to grasshopper?
A hempen rein, and a horse o tree,
A psalm book—and a presbyter.

XX.

[The following nursery song alludes to William III. and George, Prince of Denmark.]

William and Mary, George and Anne,
Four such children had never a man:
They put their father to flight and shame,

And call'd their brother a shocking bad name.

XXI.

Over the water, and over the lee,
And over the water to Charley.
Charley loves good ale and wine,
And Charley loves good brandy,
And Charley loves a pretty girl,
As sweet as sugar-candy.

XXII.

Bobby Shafto's gone to sea,
With silver buckles at his knee;

He'll come home and marry me,
Pretty Bobby Shafto!

Bobby Shafto's fat and fair,

Combing down his yellow hair;

He's my love for evermore!

Pretty Bobby Shafto!

XXIII.

[The following may possibly allude to King George and the Pretender.]

Jim and George were two great lords,

They fought all in a churn;

And when that Jim got George by the nose,
Then George began to gern.

XXIV.

[The following is a fragment of a song on the subject, which was introduced by Russell in the character of Jerry Sneak. Mr. Sharpe showed me a copy of the song with the music to it.]

Poor old Robinson Crusoe !

Poor old Robinson Crusoe !

They made him a coat,

Of an old nanny goat,

I wonder how they could do so!

With a ring a ting tang,

And a ring a ting tang,

Poor old Robinson Crusoe!