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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps No preview available - 2015 |
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alluded ancient Anglo-Saxon antiquity ballad Ben Jonson birds Bobby Shafto cake called castle century chicken-licken child Child Rowland cloth cock cock-lock curious dance daughter dilly dilly door duck-luck English Fair Gundela fairy following lines Fool gave giant girl give gloves hand head hen-len Herefordshire Hickathrift History J. O. HALLIWELL Jack Sprat Jack the Giant-killer JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL John Russell Smith jolly beggare king King Arthur lady Lille lived looby Lord magpie merry morning mother never night Nursery Rhymes Old Compton Street old woman Oxfordshire play poor post 8vo pretty prince princess printed proverb quoth ring round Rowland says shoe Shrovun sing song story sword tale teeny-tiny woman thee thou thumbkin Tom Hickathrift Tommy Linn town tree verses Vinegar Where's wood wren young
Popular passages
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 works hard for its living, And a child that is born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.
Page 266 - 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.