Nursery Rhyme. CXIII. Scholastic.

        [The dominical letters attached to the first days of the several months are remembered by the following lines.]

    At Dover Dwells George Brown Esquire,
    Good Christopher Finch, And David Friar.

        [An ancient and graver example, fulfilling the same purpose, runs as follows.]

    Astra Dabit Dominus, Gratisque Beabit Egenos,
    Gratia Christicolæ Feret Aurea Dona Fideli.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXVIII. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXIX. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXV. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXVII. Scholastic.

        [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called 'The Returne from Parnassus,' 4to, Lond. 1606; and another version    may be seen in Winter's 'Cambridge Almanac' for 1635. See the 'Rara Mathematica,' p. 119.]

    Thirty days hath September,
    April, June, and November;
    February has twenty-eight alone,
    All the rest have thirty-one,
    Excepting leap-year, that's the time
    When February's days are twenty-nine.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXVIII. Scholastic.

        [A Greek bill of fare.]

    LEGOMOTON,
    Acapon,
    Alfagheuse,
    Pasti venison.

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Nursery Rhyme. XVI. Historical

        [Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's 'History of England,' book iii, chap. 1.]

    See saw, sack-a-day;
    Monmouth is a pretie boy,
        Richmond is another,
    Grafton is my onely joy,
    And why should I these three destroy,
        To please a pious brother!

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXVI. Literal

    A, B, C, and D,
    Pray, playmates, agree,
    E, F, and G,
    Well so it shall be.
    J, K, and L,
    In peace we will dwell
    M, N, and O,
    To play let us go.
    P, Q, R, and S,
    Love may we possess,
    W, X, and Y,
    Will not quarrel or die.
    Z, and amperse-and,
    Go to school at command.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXVI. Scholastic.

    Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
        How does your garden grow?
    With cockle-shells, and silver bells,
        And mussels all a row.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXL. Charms.

        [A charm somewhat similar to the following may be seen in the 'Townley Mysteries,' p. 91. See a paper in the 'Archæologia,' vol. xxvii, p. 253, by the Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, M.A. See also MS. Lansd. 231, fol. 114, and Ady's 'Candle in the Dark,' 4to, London, 1650, p. 58.]

    Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
    Guard the bed that I lay on!
        Four corners to my bed,
        Four angels round my head;
    One to watch, one to pray,
    And two to bear my soul away!

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