The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

—Northall’s Folk Rhymes, p. 409.

III.

Hot beans and butter!
Please to come to supper!

—Much Wenlock (Shropshire Folklore, p. 525).

IV.

Hot boiled beans, and very good butter,
Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper.

—London (A. B. Gomme).

V.

Vesey vasey vum,
Buck aboo has come!
Find it if you can and take it home,
Vesey vasey vum.

—Newlyn West, near Penzance (Folk-lore Journal, v. 49).