H. A. B.
Trin. Coll. Cam.
"Harry Parry, when will you marry" (Vol. iii., p. 207.).—E. H. has omitted the last line, which, however, is well known. May it not have the same meaning as the lines in the "Marquis de Carabas" of Béranger:
"Et tous vos tendrons,
Subiront l'honneur
Du droit du seigneur?"
The nursery rhyme may have been sung to the young Baron to teach him his feudal privileges, as the lines—
"Hot corn, baked pears,
Kick nigger down stairs,"
are used to inculcate the rights of a white man on the minds of infant cotton planters in the Southern States.