 | William Bell - Fairies in art - 1852 - 348 pages
...it is clear the legend in the first lines is but the peg to hang the subsequent rhymes upon : — " The Man in the Moon Came tumbling down, And asked...by the south. And burnt his mouth With supping hot pease porridge." Passing the mention from Missingham's Diary, 1601, and that from Middleton, as well... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - Drawing - 1858 - 82 pages
...mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house '"PHE man in the moon Came down too goon, And asked his way to Norwich ; He went by the South, . And burnt his mouth, With eating cold peas-porridge. was an old soldier of Bister, Went walking one day with his sister ; When... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - Children's poetry - 1866 - 86 pages
...they all lived together in a little crooked house. rPHE man in the moon Came down too soon, And ask'd his way to Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold pease-porridge. was an old soldier of Bister, Went walking one day with his sister ; .'... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...her brothers to play, [gay. To dress up the lambs with ribbons HE man in the moon Came down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich ; He went by the south And burnt his mouth With eating cold plum-porridge. HE man in the wilderness asked me, How many strawberries grew in the sea... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1869 - 254 pages
...came down the hill, And ne'er went up again. 8 The man in the moon, Came down too soon, To inquire his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold plum-porridge. The man in the wilderness asked me,™ How many strawberries grew in the... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
...were out, With all his might and main He jumped into a holly bush, OLD KING COLE. THE MAN IN THE MOON. THE man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, Whilst supping hot pease-porridge. C 2 THE KILLING OF THE CALF. JOHNNIE ARMSTRONG had a calf, Peter... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...toes, But she cannot go alone, My darling little Rose. Eliza Filien. Jiabcmbcr THE MAN IK THE MOON. THE man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...Norwich ; He went by the south And burnt his mouth, Whilst supping hot peas-porridge. biursery Rhymes. RAIN-DROPS. OH ! where do you come from, You little... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 pages
...pin ; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed, I took up a poker and flung it at his head. LXXlli. The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...went by the south, And burnt his mouth With supping cold pease-porridge. LXXIV. [The rhyme of Jack Horner l&s been stated to be a satire on the Puritanical... | |
 | 1873 - 414 pages
...nurseries!) tells us, in her mellifluous verse, that " The Man in the Moon Came down too soon To Inquire the way to Norwich; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth Eating cold plum porridge." The appearance of the Man in the Moon on this the only occasion upon record... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...fable, it is related by children, says Halliwell, that the man in the moon once favoured this earth with his presence, and " took a fancy to some pease-porridge,"...Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With sipping hot pease-porridge." His chief beverage was claret : — "The man in the moon drinks claret... | |
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And ask'd his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, With supping hot pease porridge. 
