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CLXXXIII.
[Ann.]

THERE was a girl in our towne,

Silk an' satin was her gowne,

Silk an' satin, gold an' velvet,
Guess her name, three times I've tell'd it.

CLXXXIV.

[A thorn.]

I WENT to the wood and got it,

I sat me down and looked at it;

The more I looked at it the less I liked it, And I brought it home because I couldn't help it.

CLXXXV.

[Sunshine.]

HICK-A-MORE, Hack-a-more,

On the king's kitchen-door;
All the king's horses,

And all the king's men,

Couldn't drive Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more, Off the king's kitchen-door!

CLXXXVI.

[A pen.]

WHEN I was taken from the fair body,
They then cut off my head,

And thus my shape was altered;

It's I that make peace between king and king,

And many a true lover glad : All this I do and ten times more, And more I could do still,

But nothing can I do,

Without my guider's will.

CLXXXVII.

[Snuff.]

As I look'd out o' my chamber window
I heard something fall;

I sent my maid to pick it up,
But she couldn't pick it all.

CLXXXVIII.

[A tobacco-pipe.]

I WENT into my grandmother's garden, And there I found a farthing.

I went into my next door neighbour's,
There I bought a pipkin and a popkin-
A slipkin and a slopkin,

A nailboard, a sailboard,
And all for a farthing.

CLXXXIX.

[Gloves.]

As I was going o'er London Bridge,
I met a cart full of fingers and thumbs!

CXC.

MADE in London,

Sold at York,

Stops a bottle

And is a cork.

CXCI.

TEN and ten and twice eleven,
Take out six and put in seven;
Go to the green and fetch eighteen,
And drop one a coming.

CXCII.

¿A walnut.j

As soft as silk, as white as milk,
As bitter as gall, a thick wall,
And a green coat covers me all.

CXCIII.

[A swarm of bees.]

As I was going o'er Tipple Tine,
I met a flock of bonny swine;
Some green-lapp'd,

Some green-back'd;

They were the very bonniest swine
That e'er went over Tipple Tine.

CXCIV.

[An egg.]

HUMPTY Dumpty lay in a beck,*
With all his sinews round his neck;
Forty doctors and forty wrights
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights!

* A brook.

CXCV.

[A storm of wind.]

ARTHUR O'Bower has broken his band,
He comes roaring up the land;-
The King of Scots, with all his power,
Cannot turn Arthur of the Bower!

CXCVI.

[Tobacco.]

MAKE three-fourths of a cross,

And a circle complete ;
And let two semicircles
On a perpendicular meet;
Next add a triangle

That stands on two feet;

Next two semicircles,

And a circle complete.

CXCVII.

THERE was a king met a king

In a narrow lane,

Says this king to that king,

"Where have

you been?

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