Ah, ubi nunc ovium custos tam parvulus absit?

En, gregis oblitus sub fœno dormit opaco.


[ VETULA CALCEOCOLA.]

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

Who had so many children she didn’t know what to do;

She gave them some broth without any bread,

And whipt them all soundly and sent them to bed.


Calceus inclusit vetulam turbamque suorum,