Build it up with wood and clay, Dance o'er my lady lee; Build it up with wood and clay, With a gay lady. Wood and clay will wash away, Dance o'er my lady lee; Wood and clay will wash away, With a gay lady. Build it up with stone so strong, Dance o'er my lady lee; Huzza! 'twill last for ages long, With a gay lady. CLIII. Old Father of the Pye, I cannot sing, my lips are dry; But when my lips are very well wet, Then I can sing with the Heigh go Bet! [This appears to be an old hunting song. _Go bet_ is a very ancient sporting phrase, equivalent to _go along_. It occurs in Chaucer, Leg. Dido, 288.] CLIV. [Part of this is in a song called 'Jockey's Lamentation,' in the 'Pills to Purge Melancholy,' 1719, vol. v, p. 317.] Tom he was a piper's son, He learn'd to play when he was young, But all the tunes that he could play, Was, "Over the hills and far away;" Over the hills, and a great way off, And the wind will blow my top-knot off. Now Tom with his pipe made such a noise, That he pleas'd both the girls and boys, And they stopp'd to hear him play, "Over the hills and far away." Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, That those who heard him could never keep still; Whenever they heard they began for to dance, Even pigs on their hind legs would after him prance. As Dolly was milking her cow one day, Tom took out his pipe and began for to play; So Doll and the cow danced "the Cheshire round," Till the pail was broke, and the milk ran on the ground. He met old dame Trot with a basket of eggs, He used his pipe, and she used her legs; She danced about till the eggs were all broke, She began for to fret, but he laughed at the joke. He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass, Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon. [Illustration] CLV. Jacky, come give me thy fiddle, If ever thou mean to thrive: Nay; I'll not give my fiddle To any man alive. If I should give my fiddle, They'll think that I'm gone mad; For many a joyful day My fiddle and I have had. CLVI. [The following lines are part of an old song, the whole of which may be found in 'Deuteromelia,' 1609, and also in MS. Additional, 5336, fol. 5.] Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see, The owl is the fairest by far to me; For all the day long she sits on a tree, And when the night comes away flies she. CLVII. I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence, I love sixpence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I spent another, And took fourpence home to my wife. Oh, my little fourpence, pretty little fourpence, I love fourpence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I spent another, And I took twopence home to my wife.