6. Nurs. Rh., No. 466, "The Keys of Canterbury." Chambers, p.
61, "The Tempted Lady."
7. _French_, Celnart, p. 15, sixth round, presents verbal
correspondence.
8. These versions belong to a game, widely diffused through
Europe, in which a "rich" mother begs away, one by one, the
daughters of a "poor" mother, until she has secured them
all.--_German_, Frischbier, No. 657.--_French_, Chabreul, p.
175, "Riche et Pauvre." Celnart, p. 382, "Olivé Beauvé et la
voisine." Ch. du Camb., i. 77, "La Boiteuse." The celebrated
song "Giroflé Giroflà" is of the same origin. In the
Canadian round (Gagnon, p. 149), and in the English rhyme,
for the sake of the dance, the mother whose daughters are
begged away or stolen is turned into a mother whose object
is to marry her many daughters; so the _Swedish_ (Arwiddson,
iii. 203), which presents verbal correspondence to the
English song of our collection. Arwiddson, iii. 167, game of
"Rich and Poor Birds." The first comes in limping, leaning
on a cane, and with piteous gestures begs the train of the
other. By comparing No. 154, and note, it will be seen that
all the above games make up a single branch of the numerous
outgrowths of a primitive root, which is responsible for no
small part of the amusements of youth in Europe. Compare
Nurs. Rh., No. 343.
10. Connected is a European game representing
courtship--meeting, saluting, parting, etc.--_German_,
Frischbier, No. 674.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii.
257.--_Flemish_, Looten and Feys, No. 113. A different but
related game is _French_, Celnart, p. 14 (cited). Chabreul,
p. 157. Gagnon, p. 151.--_Italian_, Corazzini, p. 84.--The
words "Rowe the boat" begin a waterman's roundel, A.D. 1453;
see Chappell's Pop. Music of the Olden Time, p. 482.--(4.)
_French_, Ch. du Camb., i. 221 (cited).
11. Chambers, p. 140, "Janet jo." Folk-lore Record, iii.
171, "Jenny Jones." See Coussemaker, p. 100, Flemish
"Maiden's Dance."--Bernoni, Cant. Pop. Venez. xi. 2,
"Rosetina."--Roxburghe Coll. i. 186-189, Ballad of "The
Bride's Buriall."