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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        [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. 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. XXIV. Historical

        [The following nursery song alludes to William III and George prince of Denmark.]

    William and Mary, George and Anne,
    Four such children had never a man:
    They put their father to flight and shame,
    And call'd their brother a shocking bad name.

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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. XI. Historical

    At the siege of Belle-isle
    I was there all the while,
    All the while, all the while,
    At the siege of Belle-isle.

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Nursery Rhyme. XIII. Historical

    Good Queen Bess was a glorious dame,
    When bonny King Jemmy from Scotland came;
    We'll pepper their bodies,
    Their peaceable noddies,
    And give them a crack of the crown!

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