Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes
This old nursery rhyme is called “Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes” — enjoy your reading!
“Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes,
My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
She bid me tread lightly, and come again quickly,
For fear the young men should do me some harm.
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
What naughty tricks they put upon me:
They broke my pitcher,
And spilt the water,
And huff'd my mother,
And chid her daughter,
And kiss'd my sister instead of me.”
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