Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 5/Popular Rhymes

POPULAR RHYMES.

Them that buys beef buys bones;
Them that buys land buys stones;
Them that buys eggs buys shells;
Them that buys ale buys nought else.

Many men has many minds,
But women has but two;
Everything is what they'd have,
And nothing would they do.

New moon! new moon! I pray to thee:
Tell me who my true love shall be;
Whether he's dark, or whether fair;
And what the colour of his hair.

In "ford" and "ham," in "ley" and "ton,"
Most old English surnames run.

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