Lancashire, thou hast bred This flower of charity: 130 Though he be gon and dead Yet lives he lastingly. Those bells that call'd him so, "Turne again, Whittington," Call you back many moe 135 To live so in London. 109. made. CATSKIN'S GARLAND, OR, THE WANDERING YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN. Moore's _Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry_, p. 596. Only in a very debased form is this enchanting tale preserved by English tradition. The following ballad is given, in the collection cited above, from a modern broadside, but has here received a few improvements from two other copies cited by the editor. Mr. Halliwell has printed another version of Catskin in _The Nursery Rhymes of England_, p. 48, Percy Society, vol. iv. The story is possessed by almost every nation in Europe. It is found not only among the Northern races, but among the Hungarians, Servians, Wallachians, Welsh, Italians, and French. In Germany it is current in a great variety of forms, the two most noteworthy of which are _Aschenputtel_, to which correspond _Cennerentola_ in the _Pentamerone_ (i. 6), the _Cendrillon_ of Perrault, and the _Finette Cendron_ of Madame d'Aulnoy; and _Allerlei-Rauh_, which is the same as the _Peau d'Ane_ of Perrault, the _She-Bear_ of the _Pentamerone_ (ii. 6), and the _Doralice_ of Straparola (i. 4).--See the Grimms' _Kinder-und-Haus-Märchen_, No. 21, 65, and notes in vol. iii.; also the Swedish story of _The Little Gold Shoe_, and _The Girl clad in Mouse-skin_, from the Danish, in Thorpe's _Yule Tide Stories_, pp. vii. 112, 375. PART I. You fathers and mothers, and children also, Come near unto me, and soon you shall know The sense of my ditty, for I dare to say, The like hasn't been heard of this many long day. This subject which to you I am to relate, 5 It is of a 'squire who had a large estate; And the first dear infant his wife she did bare, Was a young daughter, a beauty most fair. He said to his wife, "Had this but been a boy, It would please me better, and increase my joy; 10 If the next be of the same sort, I declare, Of what I am possessed it shall have no share." In twelve months after, this woman, we hear, Had another daughter, of beauty most clear; And when her father knew 'twas a female, 15 Into a bitter passion he presently fell. Saying, "Since this is of the same sort as the first, In my habitation she shall not be nurs'd; Pray let it be sent into the country, For where I am, truly this child shall not be." 20 With tears his dear wife unto him did say, "My dear, be contented, I'll send her away." Then into the country this child she did send, For to be brought up by an intimate friend.