er, limber-lock,
Five geese in a flock,
Sit and sing by a spring,
O-U-T, and in again.

CCXCIV.

[The game of water-skimming is of high antiquity, being
mentioned by Julius Pollux, and also by Eustathius, in his
commentary upon Homer. Brand quotes a curious passage from
Minucius Felix; but all antiquaries seem to have overlooked
the very curious notice in Higgins' adaptation of Junius's
'Nomenclator,' 8vo, London, 1585, p. 299, where it is called
"a duck and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake." Thus it is
probable that lines like the following were employed in this
game as early as 1585; and it may be that the last line has
recently furnished a hint to Mathews in his amusing song in
'Patter _v_. Clatter.']

A duck and a drake,
A nice barley-cake,
With a penny to pay the old baker;
A hop and a scotch,
Is another notch,
Slitherum, slatherum, take her.

CCXCV.

See, Saw, Margery Daw,
Sold her bed and lay upon straw;
Was not she a dirty slut,
To sell her bed and lie in the dirt!

CCXCVI.

See, saw, Margery Daw,
Little Jackey shall have a new master;
Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day,
Because he can't work any faster.

CCXCVII.

1. I am a gold lock.
2. I am a gold key.
1. I am a silver lock.
2. I am a silver key.
1. I am a brass lock.
2. I am a brass key.
1. I am a lead lock.
2. I am a lead key.
1. I am a monk lock.
2. I am a monk key!

CCXCVIII.

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
To buy little Johnny a galloping-horse;
It trots behind, and it ambles before,
And Johnny shall ride till he can ride no more.

CCXCIX.

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
To see what Tommy can buy;
A penny white loaf, a penny white cake,
And a twopenny apple-pie.

CCC.

Jack be nimble,
And Jack be quick:
And Jack jump over
The candle-stick.

CCCI.

[This should be accompanied by a kind of pantomimic dance, in
which the motions of the body and arms express the process of
weaving; the motion of the shuttle, &c.]

Weave the diaper tick-a-tick tick,
Weave the diaper tick--
Come this way, come that
As close as a mat,
Athwart and across, up and down, round about,
And forwards, and backwards, and inside, and out;
Weave the diaper thick-a-thick thick,
Weave the diaper thick!

CCCII.

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