Cross Patch, Lift the Latch
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Cross Patch, Lift the Latch
Nursery Rhyme
Cross Patch*, lift the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin;
Take a cup, and drink it up,
Then call your neighbours in.**
Notes
*A Cross Patch is an ill tempered person.
**A variation for the last line is: "Then let good temper in."
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Here's the version in the 2nd mp3 from An Alphabet Of Old Friends (1874) by Walter Crane:
Cross X patch,
Draw the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin:
Take a cup
And drink it up,
Then call the neighbours in.
Here's a slightly different version from The Little Mother Goose (1912):
Cross Patch,
Draw the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin;
Take a cup,
And drink it up,
And call your neighbors in.
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
The 1st illustration comes from Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose (1881). The 2nd illustration is from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.