Nursery Rhyme. CCLXII. Gaffers And Gammers.

    There was an old man who liv'd in Middle Row,
    He had five hens and a name for them, oh!
    Bill and Ned and Battock,
    Cut-her-foot and Pattock,
    Chuck, my lady Prattock,
    Go to thy nest and lay.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXLII. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXVII. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CIX. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXVIII. Love And Matrimony.

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