The Jew's Daughter
SIR HUGH, OR, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER—U
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Notes and Queries, Eighth Series, II, 43, July, 1842.
communicated by Mr C. W. Penny, as
repeated to his brother, the vicar of Stixwould, Lincolnshire,
by one of the oldest women in the parish. “A song sung by
his nurse to a Lincolnshire gentleman, now over sixty years
of age.”
1
You toss your ball so high,
You toss your ball so low,
You toss your ball into the Jew's garden,
Where the pretty flowers grow.
2
Out came one of the Jew's daughters,
Dressed all in green:
‘Come hither, pretty little dear,
And fetch your ball again.’
3
She showed him a rosy-cheeked apple,
She showed him a gay gold ring,
She showed him a cherry as red as blood,
And that enticed him in.
4
She set him in a golden chair,
She gave him kisses sweet,
She threw him down a darksome well,
More than fifty feet deep.
