Note 40 — I. LOVE-GAMES.
Reading edition
An English variety, printed a century since in "Gammer Gurton's Garland," has as the first line of the refrain,
My-a-dildin, my-a-daldin;
and as the alternate line,
Lily white and shine-a.
The last phrase comes to us as the fragment of a game in Massachusetts, about 1800. We are reminded of the songs of Autolycus in "A Winter's Tale," "with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings."