Round about, round about
Magotty-pie is given in MS. Lands. 1033, fol. 2, as a Wiltshire word for a magpie. See also 'Macbeth,' act iii, sc. 4. The same term occurs in the dictionaries of Hollyband, Cotgrave, and Minsheu.
“Round about, round about,
Magotty-pie,
My father loves good ale,
And so do I.”
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