The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXVI. Jingles.

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[Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lands. 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire word for a magpie. See also 'Macbeth,' act iii, sc. 4. The same term occurs in the dictionaries of Hollyband, Cotgrave, and Minsheu.] Round about, round about, Magotty-pie, My father loves good ale, And so do I.