Note 757 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)

Remaines Gentil., pp. 9, 21, 23, 26, 31, 36, 40, 161, 180. “Little children,” he says here, “have a custome when it raines to sing or charme away the Raine; thus they all joine in a Chorus, and sing thus, viz.:—

Raine, raine, goe away,

Come againe a Saterday.

I have a conceit that this childish custome is of great antiquity.”