XLVI.

[The tale of Simple Simon forms one of the chap-books, but the following verses are those generally sung in the nursery.]

Simple Simon met a pieman

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Let me taste your ware."

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

"Show me first your penny."

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Indeed I have not any."

Simple Simon went a fishing

For to catch a whale:

All the water he had got

Was in his mother's pail.

Punch and Judy,

Fought for a pie,

Punch gave Judy

A sad blow on the eye.