The name "Lady Lee" in the song may imply a legend. We read in Nature, June 15, 1871, p. 118: "It is not, for example, many years since the present Lord Leigh was accused of having built an obnoxious person--one account, if we remember right, said eight obnoxious persons--into the foundation of a bridge at Stoneleigh." The communicator of version (2) (The Critic, Jan. 15, 1857) spelt the name _Leigh_, and took "the Lady Leigh of the song to be the wife of Sir Thomas Leigh, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1558, ... ancestor of the noble family of Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire." Compare the ballad of "The Bridge of Arta," Passow, Pop. Carmina Græciæ Recent., No. 511; Tommaseo, Cant. Pop. Toscani, iii. 174 f.; F. Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, 1879, p. 284. 151. A variation of No. 150.--_Italian_, Corazzini, pp. 91-93, beginning, "Open, open the gates." Gianandrea, No. 3, "Le Porte del Paradiso." The dialogue ends, "Let the King of France with all his soldiers pass." 152. _Italian_, Bernoni, p. 54.--_French_, Ch. du Camb. i. 133.--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 55. 153. _German_, Meier, p, 117, "Farben aufgeben," etc.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 51, "I colori." This version is identical with the German and our A, as is also the _Spanish_ (or Catalan), Maspons y Labrós, p. 91. The game of "Los Colores" is mentioned by A. de Ledesma, A.D. 1605.--_French_, Belèze, p. 40 (cited). Intermediate between this number and the following are games of _selling birds_, Frischbier, p. 184; of _catching birds_, Rochholz, p. 449. Greek game of the shell, #Ostrakinda#, Pollux, ix. 111. 154. The following is our classification of the numerous games (not before noticed as connected) belonging to this cycle of childish tradition: (1.) Versions preserving the original idea of the child-stealing witch (as in our A, B, and C).--Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 131 (cited).--_German_, Meier, p. 117 (cited).--_Italian_, Corazzini, p. 110, a fragment.