Nursery Rhyme. CIV. Proverbs.

        [Proverbial many years ago, when the guinea in gold was of a higher value than its nominal representative in silver,]

    A guinea it would sink,
        And a pound it would float;
    Yet I'd rather have a guinea,
        Than your one pound note.

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Nursery Rhyme. V. Historical

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Nursery Rhyme. XCIII. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXXII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCVII. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. XCIV. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. LXXXIX. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CIII. Proverbs.


            In July,
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