XXI. King William was King David’s son, And all the royal race is run; Choose from the east, choose from the west, Choose the one you love the best.[5] Down on this carpet you shall kneel, While the grass grows in yond field; Salute your bride and kiss her sweet, Rise again upon your feet. —Hanging Heaton, Yorks. (Herbert Hardy). XXII. On the carpet you shall kneel, while the grass grows at your feet; Stand up straight upon your feet, and choose the one you love so sweet. Now Sally is married, life and joy, first a girl and then a boy; Seven years after, seven years ago, three on the carpet, kiss and go. —Hanbury, Staffordshire (Miss Edith Hollis). XXIII. I had a bonnet trimmed wi’ blue. Why dosn’t wëare it? Zo I do; I’d wëare it where I con, To tëake a walk wi’ my young mon. My young mon is a-gone to sea, When he’d come back he’ll marry me. Zee what a purty zister is mine, Doan’t ’e think she’s ter’ble fine? She’s a most ter’ble cunnèn too, Just zee what my zister can do. On the carpet she can kneel, As the grass grow in the fiel’. Stand upright upon thy feet, And choose the prettiest you like, sweet. —Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset (_Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 208). XXIV. Kneel down on the carpets, we shall kneel; The grass grows away in yonder fiel’, Stand up, stand up upon your feet, And show me the one you love so sweet. Now they get married, I wish they may joy Every year a girl or a boy; Loving together like sister and brother, Now they are coupled to kiss together. —Galloway, N.B. (J. G. Carter). (_c_) This game is played in the same way in all the different variants I have given, except a slight addition in the Suffolk (Mrs. Haddon). A ring is formed by the children joining hands—one child stands in the centre. The ring dances or moves slowly round, singing the verses. The child in the centre kneels down when the words are sung, rises and chooses a partner from the ring, kisses her when so commanded, and then takes a place in the ring, leaving the other child in the centre. In those cases where the marriage formula is not given, the kissing would probably be omitted.