"The scornful maid, she won't come out,"
which seems more genuine.
[40] An English variety, printed a century since in "Gammer Gurton's Garland," has as the first line of the refrain,
My-a-dildin, my-a-daldin;
and as the alternate line,
Lily white and shine-a.
The last phrase comes to us as the fragment of a game in Massachusetts, about 1800. We are reminded of the songs of Autolycus in "A Winter's Tale," "with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings."
[41] Here verses may be improvised at pleasure; for instance, said the little reciter,
"I'll give to you a dress of black,
A green silk apron and a white cap,
If you will marry," etc.
[42] In the English version "to ring up your maidens."