Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXII. Games.

[A stands with a row of girls (her daughters) behind her; B, a suitor, advances.]         B.    Trip trap over the grass: If you please will you let one of                             your [eldest] daughters come,                     Come and dance with me?                     I will give you pots and pans, I will give you brass,                     I will give you anything for a pretty lass.         A.    says, "No."         B.    I will give you gold and silver, I will give you pearl,                     I will give you anything for a pretty girl.         A.    Take one, take one, the fairest you may see.         B.    The fairest one that I can see                     Is pretty Nancy, - come to me.             [B carries one off, and says:]                     You shall have a duck, my dear,                     And you shall have a drake,                     And you shall have a young man                             apprentice for your sake.             [Children say:]         If this young man should happen to die,             And leave this poor woman a widow,         The bells shall all ring, and the birds shall all sing,             And we'll all clap hands together.             [So it is repeated until the whole are taken.]