You promised to marry me six months ago,
I hold you to your bargain, "you old rogue you."
After a kiss, the first player takes his or her place in the ring, and the partner selected is left to continue the game.
Deerfield, Mass. (about 1810).
To the same game, perhaps, belongs the following fragment:
Here stands a red rose in the ring—
Promised to marry a long time ago.
The comparison of a youth or maid to a rose is not uncommon in dances. We have a pretty French example in the Canadian round cited below;[85] and another English instance in our No. 62.
No. 46.
There was a Tree Stood in the Ground.
There was a tree stood in the ground,
The prettiest tree you ever did see;
The tree in the wood, and the wood in the ground;
And the green grass growing all round, round, round,
And the green grass growing all round.