75. SEE a pin and pick it up, Bad luck you'll have all the day! 76. Go to bed first, a golden purse; 77. WHEN the wind is in the east, It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth; Then 'tis at the very best. 78. [The following proverb is alluded to in Clarke's "Phraseologia Puerilis," 12mo. Lond. 1655, p. 21. See also Brand's "Popular Antiquities," vol. i., p. 266, and the " Archæologist," p. 182.] BOUNCE BUCKRAM, velvet 's dear; Christmas comes but once a year. DOCTOR FAUSTUS was a good man, Hhipp'd his scholars now and then; Whe whipp'd them he made them dance Out of Scotland into France, Out of France into Spain, And then he whipp'd them back again! 80. A DONKEY walks on four legs, And I walk on two; Was very like you. 81. CROSS patch, Sit by the fire and spin; Take a cup, And drink it up, Then call your neighbours in. 82. WHEN I was a little boy my mammy kept me in, But now I am a great boy I'm fit to serve the king; I can hand a musket, and I can smoke a pipe, And I can kiss a pretty girl at twelve o'clock at night. CRY, baby, cry, 83. Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother it wasn't I. 84. Instead of "muscles" in the last line, other copies have columbines, and some cowslips.] MISTRESS MARY, quite contrary, With cockle-shells, and silver bells, 85. A DILLER, a dollar, A ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon? 86. TELL tale, tit! Your tongue shall be slit, 87. [The joke of the following consists in saying it so quick that it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish. For the version now printed, which is more complete than, the one given by Chambers, I am indebted to Professor de Morgan, who has heard it in Dorsetshire. It is remarkable that the last two lines are quoted in MS. Sloan. 4, of the fifteenth century, as printed in the "Reliq. Antiq.,” vol. i. p. 324.] In fir tar is, In oak none is. 88. [An older version of the following, from a MS. dated 1570 is printed in Davies's "Key to Hutton's Mathematics," 1840, p. 18.] MULTIPLICATION is vexation, The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, 89. [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called "The Returne from Parnassus," 4to. Lond. 1606; and another version may be seen in Winter's "Cambridge Almanac" for 1635. See the "Rara Mathematica," p. 119.] THIRTY days hath September, 90. THREE straws on a staff, Would make a baby cry and laugh. |