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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

by James Orchard Halliwell

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Noel

N. for a word of deniance,
E. with a figure of L. fiftie,
Spelleth his name that never
Will be thriftie.
  MS. Sloane 2497, of the sixteenth century.

Collingwood

The Collingwoods have borne the name,
Since in the bush the buck was ta’en;
But when the bush shall hold the buck,
Then welcome faith, and farewell luck.

Alluding to the Collingwood crest of a stag beneath an oak tree.

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