295. FIDDLE-DE-DEE, fiddle-de-dee, The fly shall marry the humble-bee. 296. HEY, dorolot, dorolot! Hey, dorolay, dorolay! Hey, my bonny boat, bonny boat, 297. A CAT came fiddling out of a barn, We'll have a wedding at our good house. 298. HEY! diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laugh'd To see such craft, While the dish ran after the spoon. 299. COME dance a jig To my Granny's pig, And pussy-cat shall crowdy. 300. DOODLEDY, doodledy, doodledy, dan, 301. PUSSICAT, wussicat, with a white foot, 302. DING, dong, darrow, The cat and the sparrow; And he shall be hang'd to-morrow. 303. LITTLE Dicky Dilver Had a wife of silver. He took a stick and broke her back, The miller wouldn't have her, 304. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, 305. RUMPTY-IDDITY, row, row, row, If I had a good supper, I could eat it now. 306. (Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lansd. 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire word for a magpie. See also "Macbeth," act iii. sc. 4. The same term occurs in the dictionaries of Hollyband, Cotgrave, and Minsheu.) ROUND about, round about, Magotty-pie, My father loves good ale, And so do I. As I was going up Pippin-hill, Pippin-hill was dirty, There I met a pretty miss, And she dropt me a curtsey. Little miss, pretty miss, 308. TOMMY TROт, a man of law, 309. "JOHN, come sell thy fiddle, 310. Up hill and down dale; She shall have a spouse, And make butter anon, 311. ROWLEY POLEY, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry; When the girls begin to cry, Rowley Poley runs away. |