Nursery Rhyme. CXVI. Scholastic.

    Ten and ten and twice eleven,
    Take out six and put in seven;
    Go to the green and fetch eighteen,
    And drop one a coming.

    When V and I together meet,
    They make the number Six compleat.
    When I with V doth meet once more,
    Then 'tis they Two can make but Four
    And when that V from I is gone,
    Alas! poor I can make but One.

    When I was a little boy, I had but little wit
    It is some time ago, and I've no more yet;
    Nor ever ever shall, until that I die,
    For the longer I live, the more fool am I.

    Miss one, two, and three could never agree,
    While they gossiped round a tea-caddy.

        [A Greek bill of fare.]

    LEGOMOTON,
    Acapon,
    Alfagheuse,
    Pasti venison.

        [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called 'The Returne from Parnassus,' 4to, Lond. 1606; and another version    may be seen in Winter's 'Cambridge Almanac' for 1635. See the 'Rara Mathematica,' p. 119.]

    Thirty days hath September,
    April, June, and November;
    February has twenty-eight alone,
    All the rest have thirty-one,
    Excepting leap-year, that's the time
    When February's days are twenty-nine.