Two lie-abeds sleep till ten, then panic at the high sun, one sent off with the bottle and bag while the other saddles up. A small, funny sketch of laziness caught out.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Robin and Richard were two pretty men,
They lay in bed till the clock struck ten;
Then up starts Robin and looks at the sky,
"Oh, brother Richard, the sun's very high!
You go before, with the bottle and bag,
And I will come after on little Jack Nag."
About this rhyme
A comic rhyme about two lazy men who sleep till ten and then have to scramble, one on foot with the bottle and bag, one following on a pony called Jack Nag. It's a rhyme about being late for the day, said at a gallop once Robin starts fretting about the sun.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition