Nursery Rhyme. CXLVIII. Songs.

As I was walking o'er little Moorfields,
    I saw St. Paul's a running on wheels,
                                    With a fee, fo, fum.
    Then for further frolics I'll go to France.
    While Jack shall sing and his wife shall dance,
                                    With a fee, fo fum.

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        [From 'Histrio-mastix, or, the Player Whipt,' 4to, Lond. 1610. Mr. Rimbault tells me this is common in Yorkshire.]

            Some up, and some down,
            There's players in the town,
    You wot well who they be;
            The sun doth arise,
            To three companies,
    One, two, three, four, make wee!

            Besides we that travel,
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        [A game-rhyme.]

    Trip and go, heave and hoe,
    Up and down, to and fro;
    From the town to the grove
    Two and two let us rove,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXIX. Lullabies.

    I won't be my father's Jack,
        I won't be my mother's Gill,
    I will be the fiddler's wife,
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            T'other little tune,
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    Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
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    Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
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        Here goes my lord
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        Here goes my lady
    A canter, a canter, a canter, a canter!
            Here goes my young master
        Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch:
            Here goes my young miss,
        An amble, an amble, an amble, an amble!
    The footman lays behind to tipple ale and wine,
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