Nursery Rhyme. CCLI. Charms.

    Hickup, hickup, go away!
    Come again another day;
    Hickup, hickup, when I bake,
    I'll give to you a butter-cake.

        [Currants.]

    Higgledy piggledy
        Here we lie,
    Pick'd and pluck'd,
        And put in a pie.
    My first is snapping, snarling, growling,
    My second's industrious, romping, and prowling.
    Higgledy piggledy
        Here we lie,
    Pick'd and pluck'd,
        And put in a pie.

        [From Dr. Wallis's "Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ," 12mo, Oxon. 1674, p. 164. This and the nine following are said to be certain cures for the hiccup if repeated in one breath.]

    When a Twister a twisting, will twist him a twist;
    For the twisting of his twist, he three times doth intwist;
    But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,
    The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist.

    Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
    He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine:
    Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine
    He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain.

    The twain that, in twining, before in the twine,
    As twines were intwisted; he now doth untwine:
    'Twixt the twain inter-twisting a twine more between...

    Tip, top, tower,
    Tumble down in an hour.

    My father he left me, just as he was able,
    One bowl, one bottle, one lable,
    Two bowls, two bottles, two lables,
    Three, & c. [And so on ad. lib. in one breath.]

    My dear cockadoodle, my jewel, my joy,
    My darling, my honey, my pretty sweet boy;
    Before I do rock thee with soft lullaby,
    Give me thy dear lips to be kiss'd, kiss'd, kiss'd.