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Rattle his bones over the stones!

He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!

THOMAS NOEL: The Pauper's Ride.

In the days when we went gypsying

A long time ago;

The lads and lassies in their best

Were dress'd from top to toe.

EDWIN RANSFORD: In the Days when we went Gypsying.

Speak gently! 't is a little thing

Dropp'd in the heart's deep well;
The good, the joy, that it may bring
Eternity shall tell.

G. W. LANGFORD: Speak gently.

Hope tells a flattering tale,'
Delusive, vain, and hollow.
Ah! let not hope prevail,
Lest disappointment follow.
WROTHER: The Universal Songster.

Miss

Nose, nose, nose, nose!

And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves,
And that gave me my jolly red nose.

Vol. ii. p. 86.

RAVENSCROFT: Deuteromela, Song No. 7.2 (1609.)

The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."

GEORGE HAKEWILL: Apologie. Book iii. Chap. v. Sect. 9.3

1 Hope told a flattering tale,

That Joy would soon return;

Ah! naught my sighs avail,

For Love is doomed to mourn.

ANONYMOUS (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320.

2 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i.

SC. 3.

3 Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground,
Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found.1

WILLIAM CAMDEN: Remains.

Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me!
Begone, dull Care! thou and I shall never agree.

Much of a muchness.

PLAYFORD: Musical Companion. (1687.)

VANBRUGH: The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1.

Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John,

The bed be blest that I lye on.

THOMAS ADY: A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London, 1656.)

Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos,
Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos,
At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus.

WILLIAM HARRISON: Description of Britain (prefixed to
Holinshed's "Chronicle," 1577).

Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.

RICHARD GRAFTON: Chronicles of England. (1590.)

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one;

Excepting leap year, — that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.

The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.)

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February alone,

Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

1 Altered by Johnson (1783),

Common in the New England States

Between the stirrup and the ground,
I mercy ask'd; I mercy found.

Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,
Thirty days to each affix;

Every other thirty-one

Except the second month alone.

Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends.

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

There is a garden in her face,

1

Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place,

Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.
There cherries hang that none may buy,
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard
Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)

Those cherries fairly do enclose

Of orient pearl a double row;

Which when her lovely laughter shows,

They look like rosebuds filled with snow.

A vest as admired Voltiger had on,

Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,

Obliged to triumph in this legacy.2

Ibid.

The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.)

When Adam dolve, and Eve span,

Who was then the gentleman ?

Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.3

1 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. 2 Esdras xiv. 25.

2 The oft-quoted lines,

A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,

Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won,

have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems.

3 HUME: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8.

Now bething the, gentilman,
How Adam dalf, and Eve span.1

MS. of the Fifteenth Century (British Museum).

Use three Physicians,

Still-first Dr. Quiet;

Next Dr. Mery-man,

And Dr. Dyet.2

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition of 1607).

The King of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men;

The King of France came down the hill,

And ne'er went up again.

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8 A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called "Old Tarlton's Song."

4 As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to be extant is 1737.

Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.

Xerxes did die,

And so must I.

Zaccheus he

Did climb the tree

Our Lord to see.

Our days begin with trouble here,
Our life is but a span,

And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man.

Now I lay me down to take my sleep,'

I pray the Lord my soul to keep;

If I should die before I wake,

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His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake.

Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.2

And shall Trelawny die?

Here's twenty thousand Cornish men

Will know the reason why.

1 It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777. In the edition of 1784 it is altered to "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep."

2 The true date of his death is Feb. 4, 1555.

3 Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops, -one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny.

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