Alas! how many ages
Their rapid flight have flown,
Since on that high and lofty spire
There's moved a single stone!
PRESCOT, HUYTON, AND CHILDWALL.
Prescot, Huyton, and merry Childow,
Three parish churches all in a row:
Prescot for mugs; Huyton for ploydes;
Childow for ringing and singing besides.
[Ploydes—ploys—merry meetings; although some think "ploughs" are meant.]
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.
