G.A. Sala, Illustrated London News, October 21, 1882,
LXXXI, 415, repeated in Living London, 1883, p. 465:
heard from a nurse in childhood.
| 1 |
It rains, it rains, in merry Scotland,
It rains both great and small,
And all the children in merry Scotland
Must needs play at ball. |
| 2 |
They toss the ball so high,
And they toss the ball so low;
They toss it into the Jew's garden,
Where the Jews sate all of a row. |
| 3 |
. . . .
A-dress d all in green:
'Come in, come in, my pretty lad,
And you shall have your ball again.' |
| 4 |
'They set me in a chair of state,
And gave me sugar sweet;
They laid me on a dresser-board,
And stuck me like a sheep. |
| 5 |
'Oh lay a Bible at my head,
And a Prayer-Book at my feet!
In the well that they did throw me in,
Full five-and-fifty feet deep.' |
