Nursery Rhyme. CLI. Songs.

    Elsie Marley is grown so fine,
    She won't get up to serve the swine,
    But lies in bed till eight or nine,
    And surely she does take her time.

    And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?
    The wife who sells the barley, honey;
    She won't get up to serve her swine,
    And do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCIV. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCIII. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXXIV. Songs.

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    See, Saw, Margery Daw,
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Nursery Rhyme. CLIX. Songs.

    My maid Mary
    She minds her dairy,
            While I go a hoing and mowing each morn,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLV. Love And Matrimony.

    "Where have you been all the day,
            My boy Willy?"
    "I've been all the day,
    Courting of a lady gay:
    But oh! she's too young
    To be taken from her mammy."

    "What work can she do,
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            My boy Willy?"
    "She can brew and she can bake,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXCIV. Love And Matrimony.

    Curly locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine?
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLII. Games.

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    3. This said he would tell.
    4. This said he wasn't well.
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCI. Lullabies.

        [From Yorkshire. A nursery-cry.]

    Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit-Pie!
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