Nursery Rhyme. CCLXVI. Gaffers And Gammers.

        [The first two lines of the following are the same with those of a song in D'Urfey's 'Pills to Purge Melancholy,' vol. v, p. 13.]

    There was an old woman
        Lived under a hill,
    She put a mouse in a bag,
        And sent it to mill;

    The miller declar'd
        By the point of his knife,
    He never took toll
        Of a mouse in his life.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXLIX. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. XCVII. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXVII. Jingles.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXVII. Natural History.

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