Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLVII. Love And Matrimony.

    Jack and Jill went up the hill,
        To fetch a pail of water;
    Jack fell down, and broke his crown,
        And Jill came tumbling after.

    Little Jack Dandy-prat was my first suitor;
    He had a dish and a spoon, and he'd some pewter;
    He'd linen and woollen, and woollen and linen,
    A little pig in a string cost him five shilling.

            Little Jack Jingle,
            He used to live single:
    But when he got tired of this kind of life,
    He left off being single, and liv'd with his wife.

    Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
    His wife could eat no lean;
    And so, betwixt them both, you see,
    They lick'd the platter clean.

    Master I have, and I am his man,
    Gallop a dreary dun;
    Master I have, and I am his man,
    And I'll get a wife as fast as I can;
    With a heighly gaily gamberally,
        Higgledy piggledy, niggledy, niggledy,
        Gallop a dreary dun.

    As I was going up Pippen-hill,
        Pippen-hill was dirty,
    There I met a pretty miss,
        And she dropt me a curtsey.

    Little miss, pretty miss,
        Blessings light upon you!
    If I had half-a-crown a day,
        I'd spend it all on you.