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SIR HUGH, OR, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER—O
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G. A. Sala, Illustrated London News, October 21, 1882, LXXXI, 415, repeated in Living London, 1883, p. 465: heard from a nurse in childhood.
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It rains, it rains, in merry Scotland,It rains both great and small,
And all the children in merry Scotland
Must needs play at ball.
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They toss the ball so high,And they toss the ball so low;
They toss it into the Jew's garden,
Where the Jews sate all of a row.
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[OMITTED]A-dressëd all in green:
‘Come in, come in, my pretty lad,
And you shall have your ball again.’
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‘They set me in a chair of state,And gave me sugar sweet;
They laid me on a dresser-board,
And stuck me like a sheep.
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‘Oh lay a Bible at my head,And a Prayer-Book at my feet!
In the well that they did throw me in,
Full five-and-fifty feet deep.’
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