GAMES. 239

 

Come this way, come that,
As close as a mat,

Athwart and across, up and down, round about,
And forwards, and backwards, and inside, and out;
Weave the diaper thick-a-thick thick,

Weave the diaper thick!

CCCCIII,
HITTY-TITTY.

HITTY-TITTY indoors
Hitty-titty out ;
You touch Hitty-titty,
And Hitty-titty will bite you.
These lines are said by children when one of them has hid

herself. They then run away, and the one who is bitten (caught)
becomes Hitty-titty, and hides in her turn.

[A variation of the above lines occurs in MS. Harl. 1962, as a riddle, the solution
of which is ‘A nettle.”]

CCCCIV.

A NUMBER of boys and girls stand round one in the middle,
who repeats the following lines, counting the children until one
is counted out by the end of the verses,

Ring me (1), ring me (2), ring me rary (3),
As I go round (4), ring by ring (5);

A virgin (6) goes a-maying (7).

Here’s a flower (8), and there’s a flower (9),
Growing in my lady’s garden (10),