12. King, king Golloway, up your wings and fly away, Over land and over sea; tell me where my love can be. (Kincardineshire, 1870, p. 201.) 13. Ladycow, ladycow, fly from my hand, Tell me where my true love stands, Up hill and down hill and by the sea-sand. (1892, p. 119.) 14. Bishop, Bishop, Barnabee, tell me when my wedding will be. If it be to-morrow day, Ope your wings and fly away. (Sussex, 1892, p. 119.) 15. Bishop, bishop, barnabee, tell me when my wedding will be. Fly to the east, fly to the west, Fly to them that I love best. (_N. & Q._, I., p. 132.) 16. Burnie bee, burnie bee, say when will your wedding be. If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. (Norfolk, 1849, p. 3.) 17. Bless you, bless you, bonnie bee, say when will your wedding be. If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away. (M., p. 253, foot-note.) 18. God A'mighty's colly cow, fly up to heaven; Carry up ten pound, and bring down eleven. (Hampshire, 1892, p. 327.) 19. This ladyfly I take from the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Fly ladybird, north, south, or east or west, Fly where the man is found that I love best. (M., p. 417, citing Brand.) The comparison of these rhymes with their foreign parallels, of which a number were collected by Mannhardt, shows that a rhyme current in Saxony is very close to ours:-- Himmelsküchlein, flieg aus! Dein Haus brennt, Deine kinder weinen alle miteinander. (M., p. 349.) "Heaven's little chicken, fly away; thy house is on fire, thy children are all crying." Mannhardt was of opinion that the ladybird rhyme originated as a charm intended to speed the sun across the dangers of sunset, that is, the "house on fire" or welkin of the West, which is set aglow at sundown. Throughout the East a prayer is still uttered to the setting sun in order to ensure its safe return on the morrow. The ladybird is known by a variety of names both in England and abroad. Among ourselves it is identified as a cow, a bird, or a bee, while the _lady_ of our rhymes reappears as Mary in the German expression _Marienkäfer_. In Sweden the ladybird is addressed as _Jungfru Marias Nyckelpiga_, "the Lady Mary's keybearer," and this expression is explained by the story that the Virgin lost the keys of heaven, and that all the animals helped her to look for them. They were found by the ladybird, to whose care they are now entrusted. The keys of heaven have been interpreted as the lightning which opened the floodgates of heaven. For the mother divinities were credited with making the weather, with giving rain, and with washing. This latter association lingers in the Scottish ladybird rhyme, in which the ladybird is addressed as landers, i.e. laundress (M., p. 250, foot-note). In Potsdam they sing:--