312 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

Her mother came and caught her,
And scolded her little daughter,
For spoiling her nice new clothes.

DXXXIV.

DOODLE doodle doo,

The Princess lost her shoe;
Her Highness hopped,—
The fiddler stopped,

Not knowing what to do.

DXXXV.

[Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lands 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire word for a magpie.
See also ‘‘Macbeth,” Act III. sc. 4. The same term occurs in the dictionaries of
Hollyband, Cotgrave, and Minsheu. ]

ROUND about, round about,
Magotty-pie,

My father loves good ale,
And so do I.

DXXXVI.

THERE was an old woman sat spinning,
And that’s the first beginning ;

She had a calf, and that’s half;

She took it by the tail,

And threw it over the wall,

And that’s all.