Nursery Rhyme. CLXXVIII. Songs.

        [Song of a little boy while passing his hour of solitude in a corn-field.]

    Awa' birds, away!
    Take a little, and leave a little,
    And do not come again;
    For if you do,
    I will shoot you through,
    And there is an end of you.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXVII. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXIV. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLVII. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXX. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. LIV. Tales.

    There was a little man,
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    And he shot a little rook;
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXCVI. Lullabies.

    Bye, baby bunting,
    Daddy's gone a hunting,
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Nursery Rhyme. CLXII. Songs.

        [The following catch is found in Ben Jonson's 'Masque of Oberon,' and is a most common nursery song at the present day.]

    Buz, quoth the blue fly,
        Hum, quoth the bee,
    Buz and hum they cry,
        And so do we:
    In his ear, in his nose,
        Thus, do you see?
    He ate the dormouse,
        Else it was he.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXVIII. Natural History.

    There was a little one-eyed gunner
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXIV. Natural History.

    There was a little boy went into a barn,
        And lay down on some hay;
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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXII. Natural History.

    Once I saw a little bird,
    Come hop, hop, hop;
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    Will you stop, stop, stop?
    And was going to the window,
    To say how do you do?
    But he shook his little tail,
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