A-gliding with the wind.
One said it was the moon,
The other he said, nay;
The third said it was a cheese,
And half o’t cut away.
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The following old rhyme was sung to the tune of Chevy Chace. It was taken from a poetical tale in the “Choyce Poems” printed in London in 1662. John Poole introduced the song in his Hamlet Travestie in 1810, without any acknowledgment, perhaps thinking it was too well known to require mention.
Three children sliding on the ice
Upon a summer’s day,
It so fell out they all fell in,