“Sutton for mutton
Kerby for beef,
South Darve for gingerbread,
Dartford for a thief.”
This is complimentary:—
“English lord, German count, and French marquies,
A yeoman of Kent is worth all three.”
It is said of Herefordshire:—
“They who buy a house in Herefordshire
Pay three years’ purchase for the air.”
Says a Gloucestershire rhyme:—
“Blest is the eye
Betwixt Severn and Wye.”
In the same shire is the next couplet:—
“Beggarly Birley, strutting Stroud,
Hampton poor, and Painswick proud.”
Many more rhymes similar to the foregoing might be given, if space permitted; but we have only room for a few more examples, and they relate to the weather. An old distich says:—