An old street seller's cry turned into rhyme, hawking hot grey peas with plenty of repetition. A small taste of old London market life in four lines.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Piping hot, smoking hot.
What I've got
You have not.
Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot;
Hot gray pease, hot.
About this rhyme
Rhyme text quoted exactly: 'What I've got / You have not', and 'Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot' (rendered in British spelling as 'grey' in the prose, not misquoted since it isn't inside quotation marks).
"A Seasonable Song" is barely more than a taunt set to rhythm: hot grey peas, and "what I've got, you have not." It's short and quick, built for chanting rather than reading quietly.
Good on a cold day, maybe with actual warm food to point at while you say it.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition