Nursery Rhyme. CCCC. Lullabies.

        [From Yorkshire and Essex. A nursery-cry. - It is also sometimes sung in the streets by boys who have small figures of wool, wood, or gypsum, & c. of lambs to sell.]

            Young Lambs to sell!
            Young Lambs to sell!
    If I'd as much money as I can tell,
    I never would cry - Young Lambs to sell!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLVII. Love And Matrimony.

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