[The verses are then repeated for mother, sister, brother, and sweetheart. When this is said the girl sings—] I will rise, I will rise, From off my knees, To see my sweetheart lie Down at yonder trees. —Hurstmonceux, Sussex (Miss Chase). V. Here we all stand round the ring, And now we shut poor Mary in; Rise up, rise up, poor Mary Brown, And see your poor mother go through the town. [Then follow verses the same as in the Barnes version, No. 1, and then—] Rise up, rise up, poor Mary Brown, To see the poor beggars go through the town. I will not stand up upon my feet To see the poor beggars go through the street. [Two other verses are sometimes added, introducing gentleman and ladies. All versions, however, conclude with the girl saying—] Rise up, rise up, poor Mary Brown, And see your poor sweetheart go through the town. I will get up upon my feet, To see my sweetheart go through the street. —Halliwell’s _Nursery Rhymes_, p. 218. (_b_) The children form a ring, one child laying or kneeling down in the centre. The ring sing the first, third, fifth, and alternate verses; the girl in the middle answers with the second, fourth, and so on alternately. At the last verse the girl jumps up and breaks through the ring by force; another girl takes her place in the ring, and the game begins again. The Sussex version of “Mary Brown” (Chas. Wise) is played by the children standing in line and advancing and retiring towards the lying or kneeling child. The Barnes version of “Rise, Daughter” is also played in this way. The “daughter” lays down, and at the end of the game joins the line, and another lays down. In the Hurstmonceux version, when the last verse is sung, the girl in the middle rises and picks a boy out of the ring; he goes in the middle with her, and they kiss. The version given by Halliwell is played in the same way as the Barnes version. (_c_) Halliwell (_Game Rhymes_, p. 219) gives a version of a Swedish ballad or ring dance-song, entitled “Fair Gundela,” he considers this may be a prototype of the English game, or that they may both be indebted to a more primitive original. The Swedish game rather gives the idea of a maiden who has sought supernatural assistance from a wise woman, or witch, to ask after the fate of those dear to her, and the English versions may also be dramatic renderings of a ballad of this character. Mr. Jacobs’ _More English Fairy Tales_, p. 221, considers this game to have originated from the Tale of the “Golden Ball.” Mary mixed a Pudding up Mary mixed a pudding up, She mixed it very sweet, She daren’t stick a knife in Till John came home at neet [ = night]. Taste John, taste John, don’t say nay, Perhaps to-morrow morning will be our wedding-day.