CCCCLXX.

[A game-rhyme.]

TRIP and go, heave and hoe,
Up and down, to and fro;
From the town to the grove
Two and two let us rove,
A-maying, a-playing;
Love hath no gainsaying;
So merrily trip and go,
Merrily trip and go!

CCCCLXXI.

[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!

CCCCLXXII.

[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.

CCCCLXXIII.

[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.

CCCCLXXIV.

[A sun-beam.]

HICK-a-more Hack-a-more,
Hung on a kitchen-door;
Nothing so long,

And nothing so strong,

As Hick-a-more Hack-a-more
Hung on the kitchen-door!

CCCCLXXV.

O WHERE are you going,
My pretty maiden fair,
With your red rosy cheeks
And your coal-black hair?-

I'm going a-milking

Kind sir, says she—

And it's dabbling in the dew

Where you'll find me!

CCCCLXXVI.

[A fire-brand with sparks on it.]

As I was going o'er London Bridge,
And peep'd through a nick,

I saw four and twenty ladies
Riding on a stick!

CCCCLXXVII.

THERE was a man and he was mad,
And he jump'd into a pea-swad ;*
The pea-swad was over-full,

So he jump'd into a roaring bull;
The roaring bull was over-fat,
So he jump'd into a gentleman's hat;
The gentleman's hat was over-fine,
So he jump'd into a bottle of wine;
The bottle of wine was over-dear,
So he jump'd into a bottle of beer;
The bottle of beer was over-thick,
So he jump'd into a club-stick ;
The club-stick was over-narrow,
So he jump'd into a wheel-barrow;
The wheel-barrow began to crack,
So he jump'd on to a hay-stack;
The hay-stack began to blaze,

So he did nothing but cough and sneeze!

*The pod or shell of a pea.

CCCCLXXVIII.

[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!

CCCCLXXIX.

I LOV'D a lad, a handsome lad,
I lov'd him so sincerely;

He play'd his part that won my heart,
I lov'd him too right dearly:

O you may laugh, but I could cry—
O is it not a pity, O is it not a pity,
O is it not a pity!

My cruel aunt would laugh and taunt,

And cry, "young girls should tarry;"
Because she yet could never get
A man in mind to marry.

O you may laugh, but I will cry—
O is it not a pity, O is it not a pity,
O is it not a pity!

CCCCLXXX.

FOR every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.

* A rivulet. A North country word.

CCCCLXXXI.

A PRETTY little girl in a round-eared cap
I met in the streets t'other day;
She gave me such a thump,

That my heart it went bump;

I thought I should have fainted away! I thought I should have fainted away!

CCCCLXXXII.

I SAW a ship a-sailing,

A-sailing on the sea;

And, oh! it was all laden

With pretty things for thee!

There were comfits in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;

The sails were made of silk,

And the masts were made of gold:

The four-and-twenty sailors,

That stood between the decks,
Were four-and-twenty white mice,
With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck,

With a packet on his back;
And when the ship began to move,
The captain said, "Quack! quack!"