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Curly locks, curly locks, wilt thou be mine?

CUSTOMS

Dance, Bumpkin, dance

Dance, little baby, dance up high

Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John

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Gay go up

Great A, little a

Heigh, ho! Heigh, ho!

Five score of men, money, and pins

Formed long ago, yet made to-day -

Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail

FRAGMENTS

GAMES

and gay go down

Giles Collins he said to his old mother

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Green cheeses, yellow laces

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Here am I, little jumping Joan

Here comes a poor woman from baby-land

Here comes I

Here we come a piping

Herrings, herrings, white and red

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Hush a bye, baby, on the tree top

Hush thee, my babby

Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry

I am a pretty wench

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I can make diet bread

I had a little castle upon the sea-side

I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell
I had a little hobby horse and it was well shod
I had a little husband

I had a little moppet

I had a little pony

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I had a little sister, they call'd her peep, peep
I'll sing you a song

I'll tell you a story -

I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence

I see the moon, and the moon sees me

I went to the toad that lies under the wall

I won't be my father's Jack

If all the seas were one sea
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn
Jack Sprat could eat no fat

Jim and George were two great lords
JINGLES

John Ball shot them all

John Cook had a little grey mare

Lady-bird, lady bird, fly thy way home

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Lazy dukes, that sit in your neuks
Leg over leg

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Little boy, pretty boy, where was you born?

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Mary had a pretty bird

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Miss one two and three, could never agree
Mistress Mary, quite contrary

Multiplication is vexation

My father he died, but I can't tell you how

My father he died, I cannot tell how

My lady Wind, my lady Wind

N. for a word of deniance

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Nancy Dawson was so fine

Needles and pins, needles and pins -

O that I was where I would be

Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see

Old Dr. Foster went to Gloster

Old King Cole

Old mother Hubbard

Old mother Niddity Nod swore by the pudding-bag

One-ery, two-ery

One misty moisty morning -

One old Oxford ox opening oysters

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One's none

One, two, buckle my shoe

One, two, three

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Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?

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Queen Anne, queen Anne, you sit in the sun
Riddle me, riddle me,
riddle me ree!

RIDDLES

Ride a cock-horse

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross

Ride a cock-horse to Coventry Cross

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See saw, Jack in a hedge

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See saw, Margery Daw

See saw, sack-a-day

See saw, sacradown

See! see! what shall I see?

Shake a leg, wag a leg, when will you gang?

Sieve my lady's oatmeal

Simple Simon met a pieman

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St. Dunstan, as the story goes

St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain

Taffy was a Welchman, Taffy was a thief
TALES

Tell-tale, tit

The carrion crow he sat upon an oak
The cat sat asleep by the side of the fire
The first day of Christmas -

The fox and his wife, they had a great strife
The king of France went up the hill

The lion and the unicorn

The man in the moon

The man in the moon drinks claret

Tne quaker's wife got up to bake
The rose is red, the grass is green

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There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile

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There was an old man, and he liv'd in a wood

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There was an old man who liv'd in Middle-row
There was an old woman

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