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C — Count not your Chickens before they are Hatched to Cov erley (Part 2 of 4)

Essex: Calves and stiles.

Gloucestershire: Weigh thy wood.

Hants: Hampshire hogs.

Herefordshire: Give me woof and warp.

Herts:

The club and clouted shoon, I’ll rise betimes, and sleep again at noon.

Huntingdonshire: With stilts we’ll stalk through thick and thin.

Kent: Long tails and liberty.

Lancashire: Witches or Fair maids.

Leicestershire: Bean-bellies.

Lincolnshire: Bags and bagpipes.

Middlesex:

Up to London let us go, And when our market’s done, let’s have a pot or two.

Norfolk: Many wiles.

Northants: Love below the girdle, but little else above.

Nottinghamshire: Ale and bread.

Oxfordshire:

The scholars have been here, And little though they paid, yet have they had good cheer.

Rutlandshire; Raddlemen.

Shropshire:

Shins be ever sharp;

Lay wood upon the fire, reach hither me the harp,

And whilst the black bowl walks, we merrily will carp.

Somersetshire: Set the bandog on the bull.

Staffordshire:

Stay, and I will beet [sic] the fire,

And nothing will I ask but goodwill for my hire.

Suffolk: Maids and milk.

Surrey: Then let us lead home logs.