Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLIV. Love And Matrimony.

    We're all dry with drinking on't.
    We're all dry with drinking on't;
    The piper spoke to the fiddler's wife,
    And I can't sleep for thinking on't.

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Nursery Rhyme. XVII. Historical

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXV. Songs.

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Funerals

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Nursery Rhyme. LXI. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLIII. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXVIII. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXIX. Love And Matrimony.

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