Jack sing saddle oh, The singer goes on to say that he sold his horses and bought a cow, sold his cow and bought a calf, sold his calf and bought a cat, sold his cat and bought a mouse, the mouse carried fire in his tail and burnt down the house: farewell, fortune. Rhyme on Carr, Earl of Somerset. At the end of a volume of small printed books, A.D. 1614-19, in the British Museum, labelled C. 39, a 'Various Poems," and marked there is a variant. It has 1.5 been brought to light by F. J. Furnivall, and printed with the other "Poems "" under the title Love Poems and Humorous Ones. Ballad Soc. Pubs., No. ii. I.C.U.R. [= I see you are], Good Monsieur Carr, about to fall. With your anullitie that naughtie packe. S.X.Y.F. [So ax your wife (?)], Whose wicked life, hath broke your backe. (Leaf 12)—p. 200. SUPERSTITION. I. DIVINATION. a. LOVE. (By Apples and Pins.) Yet I have another pretty way for a maid to know her sweetheart, which is as follows: Take a summer apple of the best fruit, stick pins close into the apple to the head, and as you stick them, take notice which of them is the middlemost, and give it "Essex's wife" is the proper reading, I think. The part she played in the favourite's dramatic career is notorious. what name you fancy; put it into thy left hand glove, and lay it under thy pillow on Saturday night after thou gettest into bed; then clap thy hands together, and say these words "If thou be he that must have me To be thy wedded bride, Make no delay, but come away This night to my bedside." Mother Bunch's Closet newly broke open, 12mo, N. D. Percy Soc., vol. xxiii. pp. 10-11. Miscellaneous Divinations. Girls of Erdington, co. Warwick, pluck a holly leaf, saying"I pluck this holy leaf to see If my mother does want me." They then count the prickly points of the leaf thus, "yes," "no," แ "yes," "no," etc., and accept as answer the word which tallies with the last point. Protection. II. CHARMS AND SPELLS. A charm similar to "Mathew, Mark, Luke," etc.- Jesus o' Nazorus, Crucyefixus. Marcus, Andreas, God be our spede." Townley Mysteries, p. 91. [Surtees Soc. Pubs., vol. iii.] See a paper in the Archæologia, vol. xxvii. p. 253, by Rev. Launcelot Sharpe, M.A., and the notes to Halliwell's Nurs. Rhys., p. 181. Percy Soc., vol. iv. Wants. DRINK. Upon Good Friday I will fast, etc. Some notes to this remarkable charm are given by James Crossley, Esq., in his edition (Chetham Soc. Pubs., 1845, vol. vi. pp. 29, 30), of Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancashire, 1613. What Ligh in leath wand. Leath is no doubt lithe, flexible. "ligh in" is intended for, unless it be lykinge, which the Promptorium Parvulorum [edit. by Way for the Camden Society, vols. 25 and 54] (vide part i. p. 304), explains by lusty, or craske, Delicativus, crassus, I am unable to conjecture. It is clear that the wand in one hand is to steck, i.e. stake, or fasten, the latch of hell-door, while the key in his other hand is to open heaven's lock. Let Crizum child goe to its mother mild. The chrisom, according to the usual explanation, was a white cloth placed upon the head of an infant at baptism, when the chrism or sacred oil of the Romish church was used in that sacrament. If the child died within a month of its birth, that cloth was used as a shroud; and children so dying were called chrisoms in the old bills of mortality. A light so farrandly. Farrandly or farrantly, a word still in use in Lancashire, and which is equivalent to fair, likely, or handsome. Harne panne, i.e. cranium. Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 237. Vpon the ground of holy weepe. I know not how to explain this, unless it mean the ground of holy weeping, i.e. the Garden of Gethsemane. Shall neuer deere thee. The word to dere, or trust, says Mr. Way, Prompt. Parv., p. 119, is commonly used by Chaucer and most other writers until the sixteenth century. FRIDAY. III. CREDULITIES. Sailors have the greatest objection to starting on a Friday. Friday's sail Proverb. Folklore, p. 153. SPRITES. Gin Hob mun hae nowght, etc. The original rhyme seems to be included in "How Robin Goodfellow helped a mayde to worke." Second Part of Robin Goodfellow, 1628, Percy Soc., vol. ii. WIND. If the wind do blow aloft, Then of wars shall we hear oft.—BC. 232. Credulities misplaced. See Animal Kingdom, BIRDS, FLYCATCHER, ROBIN AND WREN, YELLOWHAMMER; Various, SNAKE; Miscellaneous Customs, BEES. CUSTOMS. THE LORD. TWELFTH NIGHT, OR THE EPIPHANY. Mr. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, duo., 1849, says: The following verses are said to be in some way or other connected with the amusements of this festival. They refer probably to the choosing the king and the queen on Twelfth Night. "Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen. Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work, If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap, He gives another version of the first two verses, "dilly dilly" is replaced by "fiddle faddle," and "keep ourselves warm" rhymes with "some to the farm." In Gammer Gurton's Garland (1783), another version occurs, called "The Lady's Song in Leap year" Roses are red, diddle, diddle, Lavender's blue, If you will have me, diddle diddle, I will have you. Lilies are white, etc., Call up your men, etc., Some to make hay, etc., SAINTS' DAYS. Keep the bed warm. ST. MICHAEL, APPARITION OF. (May 8th.) Furry-day festival. The dance tune is given in the appendix to Davies Gilbert's Christmas Carols, Chappell's National English Airs, and other popular collections. The dance tune has been confounded with that of the song, but Mr. Sandys, to whom the editor is indebted for this communication, observes, the dance tune is quite different.' Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs, edited for the Percy Soc. (vol. xvii. pp. 187, 188), by J. H. Dixon. ST. STEPHEN'S DAY. (December 26th.) Hunting the Wren. A version of the Isle of Man song is given by Mr. Halliwell, Nurs. Rhys., Percy Soc., vol. iv., Notes, p. 184. THE MONTHS. MAYDAY. At Erdington, co. Warwick, when the children go from door to door with their toy maypoles, they say— "All round the maypole, trit trit trot, |