CLXXXVI.

[A pen.]

When I was taken from the fair body, They then cut off my head, And thus my shape was altered; It's I that make peace between king and king, And many a true lover glad: All this I do and ten times more, And more I could do still, But nothing can I do, Without my guider's will.

CLXXXVII.

[Snuff.]

As I look'd out o' my chamber window I heard something fall; I sent my maid to pick it up, But she couldn't pick it all.

CLXXXVIII.

[A tobacco-pipe.]

I went into my grandmother's garden, And there I found a farthing. I went into my next door neighbour's, There I bought a pipkin and a popkin-- A slipkin and a slopkin, A nailboard, a sailboard, And all for a farthing.

[Gloves.]

As I was going o'er London Bridge, I met a cart full of fingers and thumbs!

Made in London, Sold at York, Stops a bottle And _is_ a cork.

Ten and ten and twice eleven, Take out six and put in seven; Go to the green and fetch eighteen, And drop one a coming.

[A walnut.]

As soft as silk, as white as milk, As bitter as gall, a thick wall, And a green coat covers me all.

[A swarm of bees.]

As I was going o'er Tipple Tine, I met a flock of bonny swine; Some green-lapp'd, Some green-back'd; They were the very bonniest swine That e'er went over Tipple Tine.

[An egg.]

Humpty Dumpty lay in a beck,[*] With all his sinews round his neck; Forty doctors and forty wrights Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights!

[Footnote *: A brook.]

[A storm of wind.]

Arthur O'Bower has broken his band, He comes roaring up the land;-- The King of Scots, with all his power, Cannot turn Arthur of the Bower!