Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. Mummers' Rhymes (continued)

   

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   and if you grant me your belief
   I climbed the reef of [?]
   My travels are great, none can content
   for twice I've seen the world's end
   your travels are great and good I'm sure
   pray doctor dear, what can you cure?
   there's wan thing I can perform at ease
   to make a perfect sure of all disease
   another thing, it is well known
   I've made a wood leg flesh and bone
   you need not wonder then
   for shaved off heads I've stuck on again
   My granny's brains I did pull out
   and took and washed them at a spout
   they were not sound, I left them there
   and stuffed the hole with foxes hair
   her clattering tongue her teeth wore out
   so I set four gate posts in her mouth
   I bestowed on her a cat's two eyes
   and ever since she's twice so wise.
   The doctor goes and [?] the patient there

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Patrick Dake