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

Will you give us cake and wine? &c.

No, we won’t give you cake and wine, &c.

Then we’ll tell our magistrates, &c.

We don’t care for your magistrates, &c.

Then we’ll tell our highest men, &c.

We don’t care for your highest men, &c.

Turn up your sleeves and have a fight,
For we are the Romans [English]! &c.

—Enbourne School, Berks. (Miss M. Kimber).

VI.

Have you any bread and wine?
We are the Romans!
Have you any bread and wine?
For we’re the government soldiers!