Trin. Coll. Cam.
"_Harry Parry, when will you marry_" (Vol. iii., p. 207.).--E. H. has
omitted the last line, which, however, is well known. May it not have the
same meaning as the lines in the "Marquis de Carabas" of Béranger:
"Et tous vos tendrons,
Subiront l'honneur
Du droit du seigneur?"
The nursery rhyme may have been sung to the young Baron to teach him his
feudal privileges, as the lines--
"Hot corn, baked pears,
Kick nigger down stairs,"
are used to inculcate the rights of a white man on the minds of infant
cotton planters in the Southern States.