170 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

ccc.

SEE, see! what shall I see?
A horse’s head where his tail should be.

CCCE

THERE is a bird of great renown,
Useful in city and in town;
None work like unto him can do;
He’s yellow, black, red, and green,
A very pretty bird I mean;

Yet he’s both fierce and fell:

I count him wise that can this tell.

A bee.
(MS. Harl, 1962, xvii. cent]

 

Cccit.

As I went over Hottery Tottery,

I looked into Harbora Lilly ;

I spied a cutterell

Playing with her cambril,

I cryed, Ho, neighbour, ho!

Lend me your cue and your Zoe,

To shoot at yonder cutterell

Playing with her cambril,

And you shall have the curle of her loe.

A man calling to his neighbour for a gun to shoot a deer,

and he should have her humbles.

[MS. ied]