Nursery Rhyme. CCCCL. Love And Matrimony.

    As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
        Were walking out one Sunday,
    Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks,
        "To-morrow will be Monday."

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Nursery Rhyme. CXIX. Scholastic.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCV. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXXIII. Love And Matrimony. [Cumberland courtship.]

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXXV. Songs.

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