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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

by James Orchard Halliwell

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Wrangham

Swing’em, swang’em, bells at Wrangham,
Three dogs in a string, hang’em, hang’em.

A hit at the Cheshire provincial pronunciation of the ng.

Leicestershire

Higham on the hill,
  Stoke in the vale;
Wykin for buttermilk,
  Hinckley for ale.

Brockley-Hill

No heart can think, nor tongue can tell,
What lies between Brockley-hill and Penny-well.

Brockley-hill lies near Elstree, in Hertfordshire, and Penny-well is the name of a parcel of closes in the neighbourhood. See Stukeley’s Itin. Cur. 1776, i. 118. This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins found near those places.

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