Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: a Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of EnglandJ. Russell Smith, 1849 - 276 pages |
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... old woman and her sixpence occurs in the same collec- tion , II . iv . 161 , Konen och Grisen Fick , the old wife and her piggy Fick , - " There was once upon a time an old woman who had a little pig hight Fick , who would never go home ...
... old woman and her sixpence occurs in the same collec- tion , II . iv . 161 , Konen och Grisen Fick , the old wife and her piggy Fick , - " There was once upon a time an old woman who had a little pig hight Fick , who would never go home ...
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... lady lov'd a hogge ; Hony , quoth shee , Woo't thou lie with me to - night ? Ugh , quoth hee . A similar song is current in Sweden , as we learn from Arwidsson , Svenska Fornsånger , iii . 482 , who gives a version in which an old woman ...
... lady lov'd a hogge ; Hony , quoth shee , Woo't thou lie with me to - night ? Ugh , quoth hee . A similar song is current in Sweden , as we learn from Arwidsson , Svenska Fornsånger , iii . 482 , who gives a version in which an old woman ...
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... old woman Liv'd under a hill , And if she ben't gone , She lives there still- form part of an old catch , printed in the Academy of Complements , ed . 1714 , p . 108. The same volume ( p . 140 ) contains the original words to another ...
... old woman Liv'd under a hill , And if she ben't gone , She lives there still- form part of an old catch , printed in the Academy of Complements , ed . 1714 , p . 108. The same volume ( p . 140 ) contains the original words to another ...
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... Old Woman , whither so high ? " the tune to which was published in 1678. + " Come , drink old ale with me , ' a nursery catch , with an improper meaning now lost , is found in MS . Harl . 7332 , of the seventeenth century . " Round ...
... Old Woman , whither so high ? " the tune to which was published in 1678. + " Come , drink old ale with me , ' a nursery catch , with an improper meaning now lost , is found in MS . Harl . 7332 , of the seventeenth century . " Round ...
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... old miser , who lived with his wife near a great town , and used to put by every bit of money he could lay his hands on . wife was a simple woman , and they lived together with- out quarrelling , but she was obliged to put up with very ...
... old miser , who lived with his wife near a great town , and used to put by every bit of money he could lay his hands on . wife was a simple woman , and they lived together with- out quarrelling , but she was obliged to put up with very ...
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