Nursery Rhyme. CCCCVI. Jingles.

        [The first line of the following is the burden of a song in the 'Tempest,' 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.

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