April 23. 1850.
[Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_, I
have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different
melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty
Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.]
"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little
_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common
Place Book_:--
"My love and I for kisses play'd,"
occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted
"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the
last couplet:--
"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?
Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe."
They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses,"
and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's
very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe."