Did You See My Wife?
Did you see my wife, did you see, did you see,
Did you see my wife looking for me?
She wears a straw bonnet, with white ribbands* on it,
And dimity petticoats over her knee.
Notes
*Ribbon
**Dimity is thick cotton with raised stripes or fancy figures on it.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).
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