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

II.

Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out,
Will you come out, will you come out?
Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out
To help me in my dancing?

No!

Then you are a naughty Miss!
Then you are a naughty Miss!
Then you are a naughty Miss!
Won’t help me in my dancing.

Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out,
Will you come out, will you come out?
Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out
To help me in my dancing?

Yes!

Now you are a good Miss!
Now you are a good Miss!
Now you are a good Miss!
To help me in my dancing.

—Cornwall (Folk-lore Journal, v. 47, 48).

III.

Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out to help us in our dancing?
No!
Oh, then you are a naughty Miss, won’t help us with our dancing.
Pray, pretty Miss, will you come out to help us in our dancing?
Yes!
Now we’ve got our jolly old lass to help us with our dancing.