Nursery Rhyme. DCXV. Relics.

    As I went over the water,
        The water went over me,
    I heard an old woman crying,
        Will you buy some furmity?

    Hink, minx! the old witch winks,
        The fat begins to fry:
    There's nobody at home but jumping Joan,
        Father, mother, and I.

    Shake a leg, wag a leg, when will you gang?
    At midsummer, mother, when the days are lang.

    My little old man and I fell out,
    I'll tell you what 'twas all about:
    I had money, and he had none,
    And that's the way the row begun.

            Hark, hark,
            The dogs do bark,
    Beggars are coming to town;
            Some in jags,
            Some in rags,
    And some in velvet gowns.

    Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town,
    In a yellow petticoat, and a green gown.