CLI.

[A STAR.]

I HAVE a little sister, they call her peep, peep,
She wades the waters deep, deep, deep,
She climbs the mountains high, high, high,
Poor little creature she has but one eye..

CLII.

TWELVE pears hanging high,
Twelve knights riding by;
Each knight took a pear,

And yet left eleven there!

CLIII.

[A NEEDLE AND THREAD.]
OLD mother Twitchett had but one eye,
And a long tail which she let fly;
And every time she went over a gap,
She left a bit of her tail in a trap.

CLIV

[AN EGG.]

IN marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk;
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.

No doors there are to this strong-hold.
Yet things break in and steal the gold.

CLV.

THERE was a king met a king
In a narrow lane,

Says this king to that king,
"Where have you been?"

"Oh! I've been a hunting
With my dog and my doe."
"Pray lend him to me,
That I may do so."

"There's the dog take the dog."

"What's the dog's name?"
"I've told you already.”
"Pray tell me again."

CLVI.

[A PLUM-PUDDING.]

FLOUR of England, fruit of Spain,

Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string,
If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.

CLVII.

EVERY lady in this land

Has twenty nails upon each hand,
Five and twenty hands and feet,
All this is true without deceit.

CUSHY Cow bonny, let down thy milk,
And I will give thee a gown of silk:
A gown of silk and a silver tee,

If thou wilt let down thy milk to me.

CLIX.

ROBERT ROWLEY rolled a round roll round,
A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round;
Where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley
rolled round?

CLX.

[Ady, in his Candle in the Dark,' 4to, Lond. 1656, this was a charm to make butter come from the churn. thrice.]

COME, butter, come,

Come, butter, come!

p. 59, says that It was to be said

Peter stands at the gate,
Waiting for a butter'd cake;
Come, butter, come!

CLXI.

[The following, with a very slight variation, is found in Ben Jonson's

• Masque of Queen's,' and it is singular to account for its introduction into the modern nursery.]

I WENT to the toad that lies under the wall,
I charmed him out, and he came at my call;
I scratch'd out the eyes of the owl before,
I tore the bat's wing, what would you have more?

CLXII.

SWAN Swam over the sea

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again,

Well swam swan.

CLXIII.

[From Dr. Wallis's Grammatica Linguæ Anglicana," 12mo, Oxon. 1674, p. 164. This and the following are said to be certain cures for the hiccup if repeated in one breath.]

WHEN a Twister a twisting, will twist him a

twist;

For the twisting of his twist, he three times doth intwist;

But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine: Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain. The twain that, in twining, before in the twine, As twines were intwisted; he now doth untwine: "Twixt the twain inter-twisting a twine more between,

He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

CLXIV.

A THATCHER of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a

thatching,

Did a thatcher of Thatchwood go to Thatchet a thatching?

If a thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a

thatching,

Where's the thatching the thatcher of Thatchwood has thatch'd?