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FROM HENRY VII. TO MARY.
75
OF ALL THE BIRDS. In Beaumont and Fletcher's play, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Old Merrythought sings many snatches of old songs, and among others— " Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee this jolly red nose ? Cinnamon, ginger, nutmegs and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose ;" •which are the four last lines of this song. It is one of the King Henry's Mirth or Freemen's Songs in Deuteromelia, 1609.