Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England |
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alluded antiquity ballad Ben Jonson birds bo-peep Bobby Shafto cake called castle chicken-licken child Child Rowland cock cock-lock dance daughter dilly dilly door drake-lake duck-luck Fair Gundela fairy following lines Fool gave giant girl give gloves hand Harl head hen-len Herefordshire Hickathrift Jack Sprat Jack the Giant-killer Joan Jolly beggare king King Arthur lady Lille lived looby Lord magpie merry Monkhopton morning mother never night North of England Nursery Rhymes old woman Oxfordshire Paradine play poor pretty prince princess proverb queen quoth ring round Rowland says shoe Shrovun sing Skiddaw snail song stick story sword tale teeny-tiny teeny-tiny woman tell thee thou thumbkin Tom Hickathrift Tom Thumb Tommy Linn town tree Valentine verses Vinegar Where's wife wood wren young
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Page 74 - Fee, fi, fo, fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman ! Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread ! " " Say'st thou so," said Jack ; " then thou art a monstrous miller indeed.
Page 268 - Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean; / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean.
Page 110 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 162 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 229 - And ask'd his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, With supping hot pease porridge.
Page 137 - ... gentlemen, with whom all little people ought to be very well acquainted. 12mo. Aldermary Churchyard, nd The earliest notice of this popular tract I have met with occurs in Eachard's Observations upon the answer to an Enquiry into the grounds and occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy, 8vo. 1671, p. 160:— "Why not A apple-pasty, B bak'd it, C cut it, D divided it, E eat it, F fought for it, G got it,
Page 239 - Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen. Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so ? 'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.
Page 18 - Twas like an eagle in the sky. When the sky began to roar Twas like a lion at the door. When the door began to crack Twas like a stick across my back. When my back began to smart Twas like a penknife in my heart. . When my heart began to bleed Twas death and death and death indeed.
Page 168 - One for anger, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth, Five for rich, Six for poor, Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more.
Page 228 - Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child has to work for its living, But a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.