The unconscious humorist rambles thus through a dozen stanzas. But the last lines are drowned by the voice of the Pedlar at the door. He is singing new rhymes to old tunes: _Whimsical Incidents_, _Cinderella in Verse_, _Mother Hubbard_, _Dame Trot_ and _Goody Flitch_.[209] The Lady of Ninety who wrote _Dame Wiggins of Lee_[210] must have heard him singing in her youth.