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# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Foolish Boy

​VIII. THE FOOLISH BOY
My father died, and I can't tell y' how, He left me six horses to follow the plough. With a whing, whing, waddle, O! With a string, strang, straddle, O! Blossy boys! Babble, O! under the Broom.
I sold my six horses, and bought me a cow, I'm going to get money, but I can't tell how. With a whing, etc.
​I sold my cow, and I bought me a calf, By that my bargain I lost just half. With a whing, etc.
I sold my calf, and I bought me a cat, And in the chimney corner the pretty thing sat. With a whing, etc.
I sold my cat, and I bought me a mouse, Set fire to her tail, and she burnt down my house. With a whing, etc.
I sold my mouse, and I bought me a wife, She cut my throat with an old rusty knife. With a whing, etc.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Frog who would a-Wooing go

​XVII. THE FROG WHO WOULD A-WOOING GO
A frog he would a-wooing go, Heigho, says Rowley, Whether his mother would let him or no. With a rowley powley, gammon and spinach, Heigho, says Anthony Rowley!
​So off he set with his opera hat, Heigho, says Rowley, And on the road he met with a rat. With a rowley powley, etc.
'Pray, Mr. Rat, will you go with me, Heigho, says Rowley, Kind Mistress Mousey for to see?' With a rowley powley, etc.
And when they came to Mousey's hall, Heigho, says Rowley, They gave a loud knock, and they gave a loud call. With a rowley powley, etc.
'Pray, Mistress Mouse, are you within?' Heigho, says Rowley. 'Oh yes, kind sirs, I'm sitting to spin.' With a rowley powley, etc.
'Pray, Mistress Mouse, will you give us some beer? Heigho, says Rowley, For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.' With a rowley powley, etc.
'Pray, Mr. Frog, will you give us a song? Heigho, says Rowley, But let it be something that's not very long.' With a rowley powley, etc.
​'Indeed, Mistress Mouse,' replied Mr. Frog, Heigho, says Rowley, 'A cold has made me as hoarse as a dog.' With a rowley powley, etc.
'Since you have caught cold, Mr. Frog,' Mousey said, Heigho, says Rowley, 'I'll sing you a song that I have just made.' With a rowley powley, etc.
But while they were all a merry-making, Heigho, says Rowley, A cat and her kittens came tumbling in. With a rowley powley, etc.
The cat she seized the rat by the crown; Heigho, says Rowley, The kittens they pulled the little mouse down. With a rowley powley, etc.
This put Mr. Frog in a terrible fright; Heigho, says Rowley, He took up his hat, and wished them goodnight. With a rowley powley, etc.
But as Froggy was crossing over a brook, Heigho, says Rowley, A lily-white duck came and gobbled him up, With a rowley powley, etc.
​So there was an end of one, two, and three, Heigho, says Rowley, The rat, and the mouse, and the little froggee, With a rowley powley, gammon and spinach, Heigho, says Anthony Rowley!
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Hunting of the Hare

​XXXVII. THE HUNTING OF THE HARE
I hunted my Merry all into the hay, The Hare was before and the hounds 'ware away!' With my Hickerly Tout, ticklesome Trout, Hipperly, tipperly, eversheen, nipperly, Up the middle, vandigo-van. 'Twas up the hill, down the form, Here a step, there a turn, Turn and sing merrily, Hunt hounds, away!
​I hunted my Merry all into the barley, And there the poor puss was pursued old Snarley. With my Hickerly Tout, etc.
I hunted my Merry all into the wheat, And there the sly puss did attempt us to cheat. With my Hickerly Tout, etc.
I hunted my Merry all into the rye, And there the poor hare was constrained to die. With my Hickerly Tout, etc.
I hunted my Merry all into the oats And there I cut off both his paw and his scutt, With my Hickerly Tout, etc.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Dilly Song

​L. THE DILLY SONG
Come, and I will sing you. What will you sing me? I will sing you One, O! What is your One, O? One of them is all alone, and ever will remain so.
Come, and I will sing you. What will you sing me? I will sing you Two, O! What is your Two, O? Two of them are lily-white babes, and dressed all in green, O.
​Come, etc. I will sing you Three, O! What is your Three, O? Three of them are strangers, o'er the wide world they are rangers.
Come, etc. I will sing you Four, O! What is your Four, O? Four it is the dilly hour, when blooms the gilly flower.
Come, etc. I will sing you Five, O! What is your Five, O? Five it is the dilly bird, that's never seen, but heard, O!
Come, etc. I will sing you Six, O! What is your Six, O? Six the ferryman in the boat, that doth on the river float, O!
Come, etc. I will sing you Seven, O! What is your Seven, O? Seven it is the crown of Heaven, the shining stars be seven, O!
​Come, etc. I will sing you Eight, O! What is your Eight, O? Eight it is the morning break, when all the world's awake, O!
Come, etc. I will sing you Nine, O! What is your Nine, O? Nine it is the pale moonshine, the pale moonlight is nine, O!
Come, etc. I will sing you Ten, O! What is your Ten, O? Ten forbids all kind of sin, and ten again begin, O!
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Golden Ball

​LXXII. THE GOLDEN BALL
'Stop, stop, I think I see my mother coming! O mother, hast thou brought my golden ball, And come to set me free?'
'I've neither brought thy golden ball, Nor come to set thee free. But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows tree.'
'Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! O father, hast thou brought?' etc. 'I've neither brought,' etc.
'Stop, stop, I think I see my brother coming! O brother, hast thou brought?' etc.
'Stop, stop, I think I see my sister coming! O sister, hast thou brought?' etc.
'Stop, stop, I think I see my uncle coming! O uncle,' etc.
'Stop, stop, I think I see my aunt coming! O aunt,' etc.
'Stop, stop, I think I see my cousin coming! O cousin,' etc.
'Stop, stop! I see my sweetheart coming! Sweetheart, hast thou brought my golden ball, And come to set me free?'
​'Ay, I have brought thy golden ball, And come to set thee free. I am not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows tree.'
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Fox

​V. THE FOX
The Fox went out one moonshiny night And prayed for the moon to give him good light, For he'd many a mile to go that night Before he came to his den, O! Chorus—Den, O! Den, O! For he'd many a mile to go that night Before he came to his den, O!
At last he came to a large farmyard, Where the ducks and the geese cackled, all afeared. 'The best of all shall grease my beard Before I get to my den, O!' Chorus—Den, O! etc.
​He took the grey goose all up by the neck, He laid a duck also across his back, And never regarded their quack, quack, quack, With the legs of him dangling down, O! Chorus—Down, O! etc.
Old mother Snipper Snapper jumped out of bed, And opening the casement popped out her old head, Crying 'John! O John! the grey goose is dead, And the Fox is over the down, O!' Chorus—Down, O! etc.
Then John got up to the top of the hill, And he blew his horn both lusty and shrill, 'Blow on,' said the Fox, 'sweet music still! I wish me home in my den, O!' Chorus—Den, O! etc.
At last he came to his cosy den, Where gathered his young ones, nine and ten, Quoth they, 'Daddy, you must go there again, For sure 'tis a lucky town, O!' Chorus—Town, O! etc.
The Fox and his wife without any strife, They cut up the goose without fork and knife, And said 'twas the best they'd ate in their life, And the young ones picked the bones, O! Chorus—Bones, O! etc.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vaux, Calvert

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​VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895), American architecture and landscape gardener, was born in London on the 24th of December 1824. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and in the office of Lewis N. Cottingham (1787-1847). In 1850 he went to America and became A. J. Downing's architectural partner. In 1856 and 1866 Vaux was associated with F. L. Olmsted in the plans for the improvement of various parks. He designed the Belvidere in Central Park, New York, and built a number of country houses in Newport, besides many town houses and public institutions.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vaux of Harrowden, Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron

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​VAUX OF HARROWDEN, THOMAS VAUX, 2nd Baron (1510- 1556), English poet, eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux, was born in 1510. In 1527 he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on his embassy to France; he attended Henry VIII. to Calais and Boulogne in 1532; in 1531 he took his seat in the House of Lords, and was made Knight of the Bath at the corona- tion of Anne Boleyn. He was captain of the Isle of Jersey until 1536. He married Elizabeth Cheney, and died in October 1556. Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are at Windsor, and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux is at Hampton Court. Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonetles of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany, 1557). They are " The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye . . . representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes. Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576) are signed by him. These are reprinted in Dr A. B. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (vol. iv., 1872).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vaughan, William

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​VAUGHAN, WILLIAM (1577–1641), English author and colonial pioneer, son of Walter Vaughan (d. 1598), was born at Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, his father’s estate, in 1577. He was descended from an ancient prince of Powys. His brother, John Vaughan (1572–1634), became 1st earl of Carbery; and another brother, General Sir Henry or Harry Vaughan (1587–1659), was a well-known royalist leader. William was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and took the degree of LL.D. at Vienna. In 1616 he bought a grant of land in the south coast of Newfoundland, to which he sent two batches of settlers. In 1622 he visited the settlement, which he called Cambriol, and returned to England in 1625. Vaughan apparently paid another visit to his colony, but his plans for its prosperity were foiled by the severe winters. He died at his house of Torcoed, Carmarthenshire, in August 1641.
His chief work is The Golden Grove (1600), a general guide to morals, politics and literature, in which the manners of the time are severely criticized, plays being denounced as folly and wickedness. The section in praise of poetry borrows much from earlier writers on the subject. The Golden Fleece . . . transported from Cambriol Colchis . . . by Orpheus jun., alias Will Vaughan, which contains information about Newfoundland, is the most interesting of his other works.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, Jean

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​VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE, JEAN (1536–1608), French poet, was born at the chateau of La Fresnaye, near Falaise in Normandy, in 1536. He studied the humanities at Paris and law at Poitiers and Bourges. He fought in the civil wars under Marshal Matignon and was wounded at the siege of Saint-Lô (1574). Most of his life was spent at Caen, where he was president, and he died there in 1608. La Fresnaye was a disciple of Ronsard, but, while praising the reforms of the Pléiade, he laid stress on the continuity of French literary history. He was a student of the trouvères and the old chroniclers, and desired to see French poetry set on a national basis. These views he expounded in an Art poétique, begun at the desire of Henry III. in 1574, but not published until 1605.
His Foresteries appeared in 1555; his Diverses poésies, including the Art poetique, the Satyres françaises, addressed to various distinguished contemporaries, and the Idylles, with some epigrams and sonnets, appeared in 1605. Among his political writings may be noted Pour la monarchic du royaume contre la division (1569).
The Art poetique was edited by G. Pellissier in 1885. It is summarized for English readers in vol. ii. of Mr George Saintsbury's History of Criticism. A notice of the poet by J. Travers is prefixed to an edition of the Œuvres diverses (Caen, 1872).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vaughan, Herbert

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​VAUGHAN, HERBERT (1832–1903), cardinal and archbishop of Westminster, was born at Gloucester on the 15th of April 1832, the eldest son of lieutenant-colonel John Francis Vaughan, head of an old Roman Catholic family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. His mother, a daughter of John Rolls of The Hendre, Monmouthshire, was intensely religious; and all the daughters of the family entered convents, while six of the eight sons took priest’s orders, three of them rising to the episcopate, Roger becoming archbishop of Sydney, and John bishop of Sebastopolis. Herbert spent six years at Stonyhurst, and was then sent to study with the Benedictines at Downside, near Bath, and subsequently at the Jesuit school of Brugelette, Belgium, which was afterwards removed to Paris. In 1851 he went to Rome. After two years of study at the Accademia dei nobili ecclesiastici, where he became a friend and disciple of Manning, he took priest’s order’s at Lucca in 1854. On his return to England he became for a period ​vice-president of St Edmund’s College, Ware, at that time the chief seminary for candidates for the priesthood in the south of England. Since childhood he had been filled with zeal for foreign missions, and he conceived the determination to found a great English missionary college to fit young priests for the work of evangelizing the heathen. With this object he made a great begging expedition to America in 1863, from which he returned with £11,000. St Joseph’s Foreign Missionary College, Mill Hill Park, London, was opened in 1869. Vaughan also became proprietor of the Tablet, and used its columns vigorously for propagandist purposes. In 1872 he was con- secrated bishop of Salford, and in 1892 succeeded Manning as archbishop of Westminster, receiving the cardinal’s hat in 1893. Vaughan was a man of very different type from his predecessor; he had none of Manning’s intellectual finesse or his ardour in social reform, but he was an ecclesiastic of remarkably fine presence and aristocratic leanings, intransigeant in theological policy, and in personal character simply devout.
It was his most cherished ambition to see before he died an adequate Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminster, and he laboured untiringly to secure subscriptions, with the result that its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and that when he died, on the 19th of June 1903, the building was so far complete that a Requiem Mass was said there over his body before it was removed to its resting-place at Mill Hill Park.
See the Life of Cardinal Vaughan, by J. G. Snead Cox (2 vols., London, 1910).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas

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​VAUQUELIN, LOUIS NICOLAS (1763-1829), French chemist, was born at Saint-André-d'Hebertot in Normandy on the 16th of May 1763. His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory boy to an apothecary in Rouen (1777-1779), and after various vicissitudes he obtained an introduction to A. F. Fourcroy, in whose laboratory he was an assistant from 1783-1791. At first his work appeared as that of his master and patron, then in their joint-names; but in 1790 he began to publish on his own authority, and between that year and 1833 his name is associated with 376 papers. Most of these were simple records of patient and laborious analytical operations, and it is perhaps surprising that among all the substances he analysed he only detected two new elements—beryllium (1798) in beryl and chromium (1797) in a red lead ore from Siberia. Either together or successively he held the offices of inspector of mines, professor at the School of Mines and at the Polytechnic School, assayer of gold and silver articles, professor of chemistry in the Collège de France and at the Jardin des Plantes, member of the Council of Industry and Commerce, commissioner on the pharmacy laws, and finally professor of chemistry to the Medical Faculty, to which he succeeded on Fourcroy's death in 1809. His lectures, which were supplemented with practical laboratory teaching, were attended by many chemists who subsequently attained distinction. He died at his birthplace on the 14th of November 1829.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marconi, Guglielmo

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MARCONI, GUGLIELMO (1874-), Italian electrical engineer and inventor of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy, was born at Bologna April 25 1874. He was educated at Leghorn and at Bologna University, and it was in the town of his birth that he made the first wireless tests. In England his earliest wireless messages were sent between Penarth and Weston-super-Mare and on Salisbury Plain (1897). In 1899 he transmitted messages across the English Channel, and in 1902 from England to Canada and the United States. In 1904 he inaugurated the first ocean daily newspaper, the Cunard Daily Bulletin, on the R.M.S. “Campania.” He was created hon. G.C.V.O. in 1914, was made an Italian senator, and was the recipient of many foreign decorations and honours.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marlowe, Julia

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​MARLOWE, JULIA (1870–), American actress (see 17.744), first appeared in London in 1907 in Hauptmann’s The Sunken Bell, following this by successful interpretations of Shakespearean heroines. In 1909 she played Cleopatra at the opening of the New Theatre, New York, with E. H. Sothern, afterwards touring with him in Shakespearean plays and appearing again in New York in 1910 as Lady Macbeth.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Markham, Sir Arthur Basil

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​MARKHAM, SIR ARTHUR BASIL, 1st Bart. (1866–1916), English politician, was born at Brimington Hall, near Chesterfield, Aug. 25 1866. He was educated at Rugby, and later entered the Sherwood Foresters. In 1900 he was elected Liberal member for the Mansfield division of Notts., where, as a wealthy colliery-owner, he exercised considerable influence. He became known as a highly independent but energetic member of the House of Commons, and was created a baronet in 1911. He died at Newstead Abbey, Mansfield, Aug. 5 1916.
His sister, Violet Rosa Markham, born at Brimington Hall Oct. 3 1872, became well known as a traveller, making long journeys in South Africa, and Siberia. In connexion with the anti-suffrage movement she made a reputation as a speaker. She was a member of the Central Committee on Women’s Employment (1914), and in 1917 deputy director of the women’s section of the National Service Department. The same year ​she became a Companion of Honour, and in 1918 unsuccessfully contested the Mansfield division of Notts, as a Liberal. In 1919 she became a member of the Industrial Court, and in 1920 was appointed a J.P. She married in 1915 Maj. James Carruthers, A.A.G. to the British army of the Rhine. Her published works include South Africa Past and Present (1900); The New Era in South Africa (1904); The South African Scene (1913) and A Woman’s Watch on the Rhine (1921).
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marqueste, Laurent Honoré

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​MARQUESTE, LAURENT HONORÉ (1848-1920), French sculptor, was born at Toulouse June 12 1848. He was a pupil of Jouffroy and Falguiere, and won the Prix de Rome in 1871. In 1893 he became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He became a member of the Institute in 1894, having received the Legion of Honour in 1884, and being made officer in 1894, and commander in 1903. His works include a large number of statues which decorate the monuments and buildings of Paris, including Victor Hugo for the Sorbonne (1901) and others for the monumental Quai d'Orsay station, the College des Beaux Arts, the Grand Palais, and the Hotel Dufayel in Paris, which was very much criticised; as well as monuments for North and South America. He is also the author of "La Cigale" (1900), statues of Victor Hugo, Leo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre, and many others, besides "Galatea" (see 24.496; PL VII.) and a large output of classical subjects. He gained the Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He died in Paris April 5 1920.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marschall von Bieberstein, Baron Adolf von

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MARSCHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN, BARON ADOLF VON (1842-1912), German diplomatist, was born at Carlsruhe Oct. 12 1842, his father — Augustus, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein — being chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Baden, and his mother before her marriage Baroness von Falkenstein. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Frankfort-on-Main and at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. He studied law and from 1871 to 1882 held various administrative offices in the Grand Duchy of Baden. From 1875 to 1883 he sat in the Upper Chamber of the Baden Diet. In 1883 he was sent to Berlin as minister for Baden in the Federal Council and from 1884 to 1890 he represented the Council in the Imperial Insurance Office. In 1890 he succeeded Count Herbert Bismarck as Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Caprivi chancellorship and continued to hold that office under Prince von Hohenlohe; but he had incurred the enmity of Prince Bismarck by refusing his advice when he first assumed office, and the result was a fierce press campaign against him which finally obliged him to speak out when he appeared as a witness at the trial of certain journalists in 1896 for lèse-majesté. He was also violently opposed by the Agrarians because he advocated the reduction of corn duties, and in 1897 he resigned office, and a few months later was appointed German ambassador in Constantinople. There he remained for nearly 15 years, creating a commanding position for himself and a growing ascendancy in Turkish affairs for his Government. To him was largely due the promotion of the Bagdad railway. In general European politics Baron Marschall had taken during his Foreign Secretaryship a strongly imperialist attitude. After the Jameson raid and the Emperor's telegram to President Krüger, in the drafting of which Baron Marschall, according to the later testimony now available, bore a leading part, it was he who declared in the Reichstag that the maintenance of the independence of the Boer republics was a “German interest.” He was also an advocate of a strong naval policy for Germany. In 1907 he was principal German delegate in the Hague Conference, and was the exponent of Germany's resolute and successful opposition to any practical discussion of the question of restriction of armaments. In May 1912 he was appointed to succeed Count Wolff-Metternich as ambassador to Great Britain, but he had only been in London a short time when his health finally broke down. He died at Badenweiler Sept. 24 1912.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Markby, Sir William

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​MARKBY, SIR WILLIAM (1829–1914), Anglo-Indian jurist (see 17.730), died at Headington Hill, near Oxford, Oct. 15 1914.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marsh, Catharine

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MARSH, CATHARINE (1818-1912), English philanthropic worker, was born at Colchester Sept. 15 1818, being the child of an evangelical clergyman, sometime rector of Beckenham. In company with her father she did remarkable pioneer missionary work amongst navvies. She wrote Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars (1856), an account of the officer-missionary who was killed in the trenches before Sevastopol, and English Hearts
and English Hands (1858), a description of her own work with the navvies. She died in London Dec. 12 1912.