Nursery Rhyme. VI. Historical

        [From a MS. in the old Royal Library, in the British Museum, the exact reference to which is mislaid. It is written, if I recollect rightly, in a hand of the time of Henry VIII, in an older manuscript.]

    We make no spare
    Of John Hunkes' mare;
    And now I
    Think she will die;
    He thought it good
    To put her in the wood,
    To seek where she might ly dry;
    If the mare should chance to fale,
    Then the crownes would for her sale.

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Nursery Rhyme. XVIII. Historical

        [The following is partly quoted in an old song in a MS. at Oxford, Ashmole, No. 36, fol. 113.]

    As I was going by Charing Cross,
    I saw a black man upon a black horse;
    They told me it was King Charles the First;
    Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!

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Nursery Rhyme. XVI. Historical

        [Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's 'History of England,' book iii, chap. 1.]

    See saw, sack-a-day;
    Monmouth is a pretie boy,
        Richmond is another,
    Grafton is my onely joy,
    And why should I these three destroy,
        To please a pious brother!

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Nursery Rhyme. XXVI. Historical

        [From MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 19, written in the time of Charles I. It appears from MS. Harl. 390, fol. 85, that these verses were written in 1626, against the Duke of Buckingham.]

    There was a monkey climb'd up a tree,
    When he fell down, then down fell he.

    There was a crow sat on a stone,
    When he was gone, then there was none.

    There was an old wife did eat an apple,
    When she had eat two, she had eat a couple.

    There was a horse going to the mill,
    When he went on, he stood not still.

    There was a butcher cut his thumb,
    When it did bleed, then blood did come.

    There was a lackey ran a race,
    When he ran fast, he ran apace.

    There was a cobbler clowting shoon,
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Nursery Rhyme. IV. Historical

        [The following lines were obtained in Oxfordshire. The story to which it alludes is related by Matthew Paris.]

    One moonshiny night
    As I sat high,
    Waiting for one
    To come by;
    The boughs did bend,
    My heart did ache
    To see what hole the fox did make.

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Nursery Rhyme. VII. Historical

        [From MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 19, written in the time of Charles I.]

    The king of France, and four thousand men,
    They drew their swords, and put them up again.

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Nursery Rhyme. XII. Historical

        [The tune to the following may be found in the 'English Dancing Master,' 1631, p. 37.]

    The rose is red, the grass is green,
    Serve Queen Bess our noble queen;
            Kitty the spinner
            Will sit down to dinner,
    And eat the leg of a frog;
            All good people
            Look over the steeple,
    And see the cat play with the dog.

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