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Now we've got the bonny lass, Now we've got the bonny lass, To help us with our dancing.
—Liphook, Hants (Miss Fowler).
XIII. 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—
No!
I will give you gold and silver, I will give you pearl, I will give you anything For a pretty girl.
Take one, take one, the fairest you may see.
The fairest one that I can see Is pretty [Nancy], come to me;
You shall have a duck, my dear, And you shall have a drake, And you shall have a young man, Apprentice for your sake.
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 clap hands together.
—Halliwell's Popular Nursery Rhymes, cccxxxii.
XIV. Will you take gold and silver, or will you take brass, Will you take anything for a pretty lass ?
No! we'll not take gold and silver, no! we'll not take brass; We'll not take anything for a pretty lass.
Will you take the keys of school, or will you take brass ?
Will you take anything for a pretty lass ? VOL. I. L |
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