430 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

“T care not for rings and diamonds,
I care not for houses and land,
I care not for a world of treasure,
So that I have but a handsome man,”

“Madam, you think much of beauty :

Beauty hasteneth to decay}’

For the fairest of flowers that grow in summer
Will decay and fade away.”

DCCLXIV.

Bessy BELL and Mary Gray,
They were two bonny lasses:
They built their house upon the lea,
And covered it with rashes.

Bessy kept the garden gate,
And Mary kept the pantry;

Bessy always had to wait,
While Mary lived in plenty.

DCCLXV.

LITTLE John Jiggy Jag,
He rode a penny nag,
And went to Wigan to woo:
When he came to a beck,
He fell and broke his neck,—
Johnny, how dost thou now?