Nursery Rhyme. CXXXII. Songs.

        [This is the version generally given in nursery collections, but is somewhat different in the 'Pills to Purge Melancholy,' 1719, vol. iv, p. 148.]

    One misty moisty morning
    When cloudy was the weather,
    There I met an old man
    Clothed all in leather;
    Clothed all in leather,
    With cap under his chin, -
    How do you do, and how do you do,
    And how do you do again!

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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;
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            To three companies,
    One, two, three, four, make wee!

            Besides we that travel,
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Nursery Rhyme. CXXX. Songs.

    Oh, where are you going,
        My pretty maiden fair,
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        And your coal-black hair?
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        Kind sir, says she;
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Nursery Rhyme. CXXXV. Songs.

        [A north-country song.]

    Says t'auld man tit oak tree,
    Young and lusty was I when I kenn'd thee;
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    Young and lusty was I mony a lang year;
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Nursery Rhyme. CLIII. Songs.

    Old Father of the Pye,
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    My little old man and I fell out,
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Nursery Rhyme. CXLV. Songs.

    Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes,
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    She bid me tread lightly, and come again quickly,
    For fear the young men should do me some harm.
        Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
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