Simmer water rise, Simmer water sink, Save yon li'le house Where they gave me meat and drink. The earth gaped, the lake rose, and all perished except the inhabitants of the "li'le house." CA. 341. When Sheffield Park is ploughed and sown, Then, little England, hold thine own. Ray: AU: AQ. i. 165. It had been ploughed and sown in Ray's time." O Skipton in Craven, Is never a haven, But many a day foul weather. The saying hardly applies now. CA. 418. Whoso is hungry and lists well to eat, Let him come to Sprotborough for his meat; And for a night and for a day, His horse shall have both corn and hay, And no man shall ask him when he goeth away. Sprotborough three and a half miles south-west of Doncaster. Higson's MSS., Coll. No. 22. BC. 492. Sutton, boiled mutton, Brotherton beef, Ferrybridge bonny lass, And Knottingly thief (?).—CI. ix. 175. See also under SUTTON, counties Kent, Surrey, Warwick. Really (says Camden) considering the many currents that fall into [the Wherf] this so shallow and easie stream from the bridge is very strange, and might well give occasion to what a certain gentleman, who passed it in the summer time, said of it— Nil Tadcaster habet Musis vel carmine dignum, Præter magnificè structum sine flumine pontem. : Or Nothing at Tadcaster deserves a name, But the fair bridge that's built without a stream. From the Itinerary of T. Edes. And Camden, p. 715, continues, "Yet, if he had travell❜d_this way in winter, he would have thought the bridge little enough for the river. For (as natural philosophers know very well), the quantity of water in springs and rivers ever depends upon the inward or outward heat and cold."* Wharfe is clear and in the Aire lithe, Where the Aire drowns one, Wharfe drowns five. Winkabank and Templebrough AR. i. 164. Will buy all England through and through. Winkabank is now called Wincobank. AQ. i. 166. Winkabank is a wood upon a hill near Sheffield, where there are some remainders of an old camp. Templebrough stands between the Rother and the Don, about a quarter of a mile from the place where these two rivers meet. It is a square plot of land encompassed by two trenches. Selden often inquired for the ruins of a temple of the god Thor, which, he said, was near Rotherham. This probably might be it, if we allow the name for any argument; besides, there is a pool not far from it called Fordon-dam, which name seems to be compounded of Jor, one of the names of the god Thor, and Don, the name of the river. Ray: BC. 495. This proverb is often given as a sort of tag to "When all the world shall be aloft," etc. (see HALLAMSHIRE, in this county). AU.: R. London streets shall run with blood, And at last shall sink, So that it shall be fulfill'd That Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be This is one of the prophecies of Nixon, the Cheshire Merlin. "Whereupon, in his return, he finding here durt for dust, and full current water under the bridge, recanted with these verses Quae Tadcaster erat sine flumine, pulvere plena; Ibid. Footnote. CE. viii. 257. Murray's Handbook, has fairest for "finest," and omits the three first lines. The proverb is also given in Brome's Travels, 1700, 8vo. BC. 275. According to the old rhyme, the Lady Mayoress of York always retained her title He is a lord for a year and a day, But she is a lady for ever and aye.-CA. 77. CARDINAL WOLSEY. HISTORY. A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, WILL. SUMMERS. A halter and rope for him that will be pope, This Will Sommers or Summers was a Shropshire man, and Court Fool to Henry VIII. A portraiture of him is given in Armin's Nest of Ninnies. According to Doran, History of Court Fools, duo, 1858, he was particularly addicted to uttering bitter sentences against Wolsey, see p. 137, and p. 142. Doctor Sacheverel Did very well, But Jocky Dawbin Gave him a warning. Obtained from oral tradition. AV. 12. Hops, reformation, baize, and beer, Suffolk. Or Turkeys, carps, hops, pickarel, and beer, Temp. Hen. VIII. CE. vii. 550 : BC. 460. Sometimes Hops and turkeys, carps and beer, etc.-CI. ii. 105. Hoppe Wylikin, hoppe Wyllyken, Ingland is thyne and mine. The two lines given by Holinshed and Lambarde, as part of those sung by the Earl of Leicester's rebels in the reign of Henry II., sound to us very much like the burden of a song. DA. ii. 259, 260. See the Notes to Percy's Reliques, Sign U 3, where the value of this as an early English rhyme (1173) is pointed out. Compare also "Willy Willy Wilkin," etc., section Humour. In Wat Tyler's rebellion, in the reign of Richard II., the letter of John Ball, given in Holinshed, from an older chronicle, a copy of which was said to have been found in the pocket of one of the robbers, contains some rude rhymes, such as we may suppose these rustics to have committed to memory as a sort of watchword "John Scheepe, S. Marie preest of York, and now of Colchester, greeteth well John Nameless, and John the Miller, and John Carter, and biddeth them that they beware of guile in bourrough, and stand togither in God's name; and biddeth Piers Plowman to go to his worke, and chastise well Hob the robber, and take with you John Trewman and all his fellowes, and no mo. 'John the miller yground small, small, small; And doo well and better, flee sinne, And seeke peace, and hold you therein, And so biddeth John Trewman and all his fellowes.' See "When Adam delved," etc. DA. ii. 260. *June 1381. Quaint rhymes passed through the country, and served as summons to the revolt, which soon extended from the Eastern and Midland counties over all England south of the Thames. "John Ball," ran one, "greeteth you all, and doth for to understand he hath rung your bell. Now right and might, will and skill, God speed every dele. Help truth," ran another, "and truth shall help you! Now reigneth pride in price, and covetise is counted wise, and lechery withouten shame, and gluttony withouten blame. Envy reigneth with treason, and sloth is take in great season. God do bote, for now is time." We recognize Ball's hand in the yet more stirring missives of "Jack the Miller," and "Jack the Carter." Jack Miller asketh help to turn his mill aright. He hath grounden small, small: the King's Son of Heaven he shall pay for all. Look thy mill go aright with four sailes, and the post stand with steadfastness. With right and with might, with skill and with will; let might help right, and skill go before will, and right before might, so goeth our mill aright.” "Jack Carter," ran the companion missive, "prays you all that ye |