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

by Alice Bertha Gomme

—Shropshire (Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 511).

III.

A ring, a ring o’ roses,
A pocket-full o’ posies;
A curchey in, and a curchey out,
And a curchey all together.

—Edgmond (Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 571).

IV.

Ring, a ring o’ roses,
A pocket full o’ posies;
Up-stairs and down-stairs,
In my lady’s chamber—
Husher! Husher! Cuckoo!

—Wakefield, Yorks. (Miss Fowler).

V.

Ring, a ring of roses,
Basket full of posies—
Tisha! Tisha! all fall down.