392 NURSERY RHVMES.

 

DCXCVI.
DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY has come up to town,
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown.

DCXCVII.

[The following is quoted in the song of Mad Tom. See Halliwell’s introduction to
Shakspeare’s ‘‘ Midsummer Night’s Dream,” p. 55.]

THE man in the moon drinks claret,
But he is a dull Jack-a-Dandy ;

Would he know a sheep’s head from a carrot.
He should learn to drink cider and brandy.

DCXCVIII.

A GooD child, a good child,
As I suppose you be,

Never laughed nor smiled
At the tickling of your knee.

DCXCIX.
BLENKY my nutty-cock,
Blenk him away;
My nutty-cock’s never
Been blenked to-day.
What wi’ carding and spinning on t’ wheel,
We’ve never had time to blenk nutty-cock weel;
But let to-morrow come ever so sune,
My nutty-cock it sall be blenked by nune.