Sprattus Et Uxor.

"Two little birds were sitting on a stone, One flew away and then there was one, T other flew away and then there was none, So the poor sto"

"Double double,     Toil and trouble.     Fire burn and     Caldron bubble.         Ingeminat labor,         Ingeminante cur,"

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Who had so many children she didnt know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread,"

"Three wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl. If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.     Tres magi Gothamenses"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"