Worcestershire.
In this county the children go round to the farmhouses collecting apples and beer for a festival, and sing the following lines:
“Catherine and Clement, be here, be here,
Some of your apples, and some of your beer;
Some for Peter, and some for Paul,
And some for Him that made us all.
Clement was a good man,
For his sake give us some,
Not of the worse, but some of the best,
And God will send your soul to rest.”
The Chapter of Worcester have a practice of preparing a rich bowl of wine and spices, called the “Cathern bowl,” for the inhabitants of the college upon this day.—Halliwell’s Popular Rhymes, 1849, p. 238; see N. & Q. 2nd S. vol. iv. pp. 495, 496.
