ig,
And pussy-cat shall crowdy.

CCCCXXX.

Pussicat, wussicat, with a white foot,
When is your wedding? for I'll come to't.
The beer's to brew, the bread's to bake,
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, don't be too late.

CCCCXXXI.

Ding, dong, darrow,
The cat and the sparrow;
The little dog has burnt his tail,
And he shall be hang'd to-morrow.

CCCCXXXII.

Little Dicky Dilver
Had a wife of silver,
He took a stick and broke her back,
And sold her to the miller;
The miller would'nt have her,
So he threw her in the river.

CCCCXXXIII.

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, dancing a jig;
Ride to the market to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

CCCCXXXIV.

Doodle, doodle, doo,
The princess lost her shoe;
Her highness hopp'd,
The fidler stopped,
Not knowing what to do.

CCCCXXXV.

Rompty-iddity, row, row, row,
If I had a good supper, I could eat it now.

CCCCXXXVI.

[Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lands. 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire
word for a magpie. See also 'Macbeth,' act iii, sc. 4. The same
term occurs in the dictionaries of Hollyband, Cotgrave, and
Minsheu.]

Round about, round about,
Magotty-pie,
My father loves good ale,
And so do I.

CCCCXXXVII.

High, ding, cockatoo-moody,
Make a bed in a barn, I will come to thee;
High, ding, straps of leather,
Two little puppy-dogs tied together;
One by the head, and one by the tail,
And over the water these puppy-dogs sail.

CCCCXXXVIII.

[Our collection of nursery songs may appropriately be
concluded with the Quaker's commentary on one of the greatest
favourites--Hey! diddle, diddle. We have endeavoured, as far
as practicable, to remove every line from the present edition
that could offend the most fastidious ear; but the following
annotations on a song we cannot be induced to omit, would
appear to suggest that our endeavours are scarcely likely to
be attended with success.]

"Hey! diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle"--

Yes, thee may say that, for that is nonsense.

"The cow jumped over the moon"--

Oh no! Mary, thee musn't say that, for that is a falsehood;
thee knows a cow could never jump over the moon; but a cow may
jump under it; so thee ought to say--"The cow jumped _under_
the moon." Yes,--

"The cow jumped under