The book of Nursery Rhymes Complete From the Creation of the World to the Pres

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The book of Nursery Rhymes Complete From the Creation of the World to the Pres
Edith Emerson Forbes
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Say the bells of Stepney.
I am sure I don't know, Says the great bell at Bow.
Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
114 NURSERY RHYMES.
194.
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn, Apple seed and apple thorn ; Wine, brier, limber-lock. Five geese in a flock, Sing and sing by a spring, 0-u-T, and in again.
195.
[The game of water-skimming is of high antiquity, being mentioned by Julius Pollux, and also by Eustathius, in his commentary upon Ho- mer. Brand
...quotes a curious passage from Minucius Felix; but all antiquaries seem to have overlooked the very curious notice in Higins' adaptation of Junius's " Nomenclator, " 8vo. , Lond. 1585, p. 299, where it is called " a duck and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. " Thus it is probable that lines like the following were employed in this game as early as 1585 ; and it may be that the last line has recently furnished a hint to Mathews in his amusing song in " Patter v. Clatter. "] A Duck and a drake, A nice barley-cake.

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