Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: a Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of EnglandJ. Russell Smith, 1849 - 276 pages |
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... young Prince of Orange : and the following alludes to William III . and George Prince of Denmark : William and Mary , George and Anne , Four such children had never a man : They put their father to flight and shame , And call'd their ...
... young Prince of Orange : and the following alludes to William III . and George Prince of Denmark : William and Mary , George and Anne , Four such children had never a man : They put their father to flight and shame , And call'd their ...
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... of a game called leap - candle . " The young girls in and about Oxford have a sport called Leap- Candle , for which they set a candle in the middle of the room in a candlestick , and then draw up their NURSERY ANTIQUITIES . 15.
... of a game called leap - candle . " The young girls in and about Oxford have a sport called Leap- Candle , for which they set a candle in the middle of the room in a candlestick , and then draw up their NURSERY ANTIQUITIES . 15.
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... young , If he by chance should cry , His mother pretty sonnets sung , With a lul - la - ba - by , With such a dainty curious tone , As Jack sat on her knee , So that , e'er he could go alone , He sung as well as she . A pretty boy of ...
... young , If he by chance should cry , His mother pretty sonnets sung , With a lul - la - ba - by , With such a dainty curious tone , As Jack sat on her knee , So that , e'er he could go alone , He sung as well as she . A pretty boy of ...
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... young ones soon ate up poor chicken - licken , hen - len , cock - lock , duck - luck , drake - lake , goose - loose , gander - lander , and turkey- lurkey , and they never saw the king , to tell him that the sky had fallen ! 66 THE ...
... young ones soon ate up poor chicken - licken , hen - len , cock - lock , duck - luck , drake - lake , goose - loose , gander - lander , and turkey- lurkey , and they never saw the king , to tell him that the sky had fallen ! 66 THE ...
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... young shepherd , grazing his flock near the road , said to his master , Zur , * I zee many gentlemen ride to the court at Canterbury , but I ne'er zee ' em return again . " " O , shepherd , " said his master , " I know not how you ...
... young shepherd , grazing his flock near the road , said to his master , Zur , * I zee many gentlemen ride to the court at Canterbury , but I ne'er zee ' em return again . " " O , shepherd , " said his master , " I know not how you ...
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