. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . istol by his side. Puddy cam to the mouses wonne, Mistress mouse, are you within ? 90 SONGS AND BALLADS. Yes, kind sir, I am witMn;Saftly do I sit and spin. Madame, I am come to woo,Marriage I must have of yon. Marriage I will grant you nane,Until uncle Rotten lie comes hame. Uncle Eottens now come hame;Pye ! gar busk the bride alang. Lord Rotten sat at the head o the he was baith stout and able. Wha ist that sits next the wa, But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and sma ? What ist that sits next th
. A little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, ms. and printed . istol by his side. Puddy cam to the mouses wonne, Mistress mouse, are you within ? 90 SONGS AND BALLADS. Yes, kind sir, I am witMn;Saftly do I sit and spin. Madame, I am come to woo,Marriage I must have of yon. Marriage I will grant you nane,Until uncle Rotten lie comes hame. Uncle Eottens now come hame;Pye ! gar busk the bride alang. Lord Rotten sat at the head o the he was baith stout and able. Wha ist that sits next the wa, But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and sma ? What ist that sits next the bride. But the sola puddy wi his yellow side ? Syne cam the deuk, but and the drake; The deuk took puddy, and garred him squaik. SONGS AND BALLADS. 91 \ Then cam in the carl cat,\ Wi a fiddle on his back. \ Want ye ony music here ? \ \ The puddy he swam doun the brook;\ The drake he catched him in his fluke. ; The cat he pud Lord Rotten doun;\ The kittens they did claw his croun. > But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and into a hole beneath the wa; Squeak ! quoth she, Im weel 92 SONGS AND BALLADS. XXXI. (another veeston.) The present version of ttis homely ditty was taken downfrom recitation, in YorksMre. There is still another FroggeSong, which may be seen in Halliwells Nursery Rki/mes,ed. 1843, p. 87; and a parody upon the same in TomDUrfeys Fills to purge Melancholy ^ 1719, vol. i, p. 14. The more modern Ballad— A frog he would a wooing ho ! says Eowley, is too well known to need repetition here. The ridiculous burden or chorus of what foUows remindsus of another, equally unintelligible, which stOl lingers aboutour nurseries: There was a froggie in a weU,Ea, la, linkum, leerie !And a mousie in a mill, Linkum-a-leerie, Hnkum-a-leerie,linkum-a-leerie, cow dow! See also the numbers of the Notes and (Queries for various \communications on the present subject. \ SONGS AND BALLADS. 93 Sir Prog he would a wooing go,Whether his mother would let him or no, Fart
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