A Nonsense Anthology

Buz, Quoth the Blue Fly

Buz, quoth the blue fly,
      Hum, quoth the bee,
  Buz and hum they cry,
      And so do we:
  In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
  He ate the dormouse, else it was he.

Ben Jonson in “The Masque of Oberon.”