est,' act i, sc. 2. and also of one in the 'Merchant
of Venice, act iii, sc. 2.]

Ding dong bell,
Pussy's in the well!
Who put her in?--
Little Tommy Lin.
Who pulled her out?--
Dog with long snout.
What a naughty boy was that
To drown poor pussy-cat,
Who never did any harm,
But kill'd the mice in his father's barn.

CCCCVII.

Hey ding a ding, what shall I sing?
How many holes in a skimmer?
Four and twenty,--my stomach is empty;
Pray, mamma, give me some dinner.

CCCCVIII.

Cock a doodle doo!
My dame has lost her shoe;
My master's lost his fiddling stick,
And don't know what to do.

Cock a doodle doo!
What is my dame to do?
Till master finds his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoe.

Cock a doodle doo!
My dame has lost her shoe,
And master's found his fiddling stick,
Sing doodle doodle doo!

Cock a doodle doo!
My dame will dance with you,
While master fiddles his fiddling stick.
For dame and doodle doo.

Cock a doodle doo!
Dame has lost her shoe;
Gone to bed and scratch'd her head,
And can't tell what to do.

CCCCIX.

Diddledy, diddledy, dumpty;
The cat ran up the plum-tree.
I'll lay you a crown
I'll fetch you down;
So diddledy, diddledy, dumpty.

CCCCX.

Little Tee Wee,
He went to sea
In an open boat;
And while afloat
The little boat bended,
And my story's ended.

CCCCXI.

Sing, sing, what shall I sing?
The cat has eat the pudding-string;
Do, do, what shall I do?
The cat has bit it quite in two.

CCCCXII.

[I do not know whether the following may have reference to the
game of handy-dandy, mentioned in 'King Lear,' act iv, sc. 6,
and in Florio's 'New World of Words,' 1611, p. 57.]

Handy Spandy, Jack-a-dandy,
Loved plum-cake and sugar-candy;
He bought some at a grocer's shop,
And out he came, hop, hop, hop.

CCCCXIII.

Tiddle liddle lightum,
Pitch and tar;
Tiddle liddle lightum,
What's that for?

CCCCXIV.

Sing jigmijole, the pudding-bowl,
The table and the frame;
My master he did cudgel me
For speaking of my dame.

CCCCXV.

Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John
Went to bed with his trowsers on;
One shoe off, the other shoe on,
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John.

CCCCXVI.

Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, doe.
Give me a pancake
And I'll go.
Dibbity, dib