PARADOY ELEVENTH CLASS-PARADOXES. CCCLXI. [The following is quoted in Parkin's reply to Dr. Stukeley's second number of Origines Roystonianæ,' 4to, London, 1748, p. vi.] PETER WHITE will ne'er go right, Would you know the reason why? He follows his nose where'er he goes, And that stands all awry. CCCLXII. O THAT I was where I would be, And where I would be I cannot. CCCLXIII. [The following was sung to the tune of Chevy Chase. It was taken from a poetical tale in the Choyce Poems,' 12mo, London, 1662, the music to which may be seen in D'Urfey's 'Pills to Purge Melancholy,' 1719, vol. iv, p.1.] THREE children sliding on the ice As it fell out, they all fell in, The rest they ran away. Now had these children been at home, You parents all that children have, CCCLXIV. THERE was a man of Newington, CCCLXV. Up stairs, down stairs, upon my lady's window, There I saw a cup of sack and a race of ginger; Apples at the fire, and nuts to crack, CCCLXVI. I WOULD if I cou'd, If I cou'dn't, how cou'd I? I cou'dn't, without I cou'd, cou'd I? Cou'd ye, cou'd ye? ye ? Cou'd you, without you cou'd, cou'd ye? CCCLXVII. If all the world was apple-pie, And all the sea was ink, And all the trees were bread and cheese, CCCLXVIII. TOBACCO Wick! tobacco wick! When you're well, 'twill make you sick : bacco wick! tobacco wick! ill make you well when you are sick. CCCLXIX. [The following occurs in a MS. of the seventeenth century, in the Sloane Collection, the reference to which I have mislaid.] THE man in the wilderness asked me, CCCLXX. [The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hubbard.] THERE was an old woman, and what do think? you She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink: Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet; This tiresome old woman could never be quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when she came home her old husband was dead; She went to the clerk to toll the bell, And when she came back her old husband was well. CCCLXXI. HERE am I, little jumping Joan; CCCLXXII. THERE was an old woman had nothing, CCCLXXIII. THERE was a little Guinea-pig, When from a place he ran away, He often squeak'd and sometimes vi'lent, |