Nursery Rhyme. XIX. Historical

    High ding a ding, and ho ding a ding,
    The parliament soldiers are gone to the king;
    Some with new beavers, some with new bands,
    The parliament soldiers are all to be hang'd.

    At the siege of Belle-isle
    I was there all the while,
    All the while, all the while,
    At the siege of Belle-isle.

        [The following is partly quoted in an old song in a MS. at Oxford, Ashmole, No. 36, fol. 113.]

    As I was going by Charing Cross,
    I saw a black man upon a black horse;
    They told me it was King Charles the First;
    Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!

    Good Queen Bess was a glorious dame,
    When bonny King Jemmy from Scotland came;
    We'll pepper their bodies,
    Their peaceable noddies,
    And give them a crack of the crown!

    Please to remember
    The fifth of November,
        Gunpowder treason and plot;
    I know no reason
    Why gunpowder treason
        Should ever be forgot.

        [The tune to the following may be found in the 'English Dancing Master,' 1631, p. 37.]

    The rose is red, the grass is green,
    Serve Queen Bess our noble queen;
            Kitty the spinner
            Will sit down to dinner,
    And eat the leg of a frog;
            All good people
            Look over the steeple,
    And see the cat play with the dog.