Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXIV. Love And Matrimony.

        [This nursery song may probably commemorate a part of Tom Thumb's history, extant in a Little Danish work, treating of 'Swain Tomling, a man no bigger than a thumb, who would be    married to a woman three ells and three quarters long.' See Mr. Thoms' Preface to 'Tom & Lincoln,' p. xi.]

    I had a little husband,
        No bigger than my thumb;
    I put him in a pint pot,
        And there I bid him drum.

    I bought a little horse,
        That galloped up and down;
    I bridled him, and saddled him,
        And sent him out of town.

    I gave him some garters,
        To garter up his hose,
    And a little handkerchief,
        To wipe his pretty nose.

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