Nursery Rhyme. CXL. Songs.

    About the bush, Willy,
        About the bee-hive,
    About the bush, Willy,
        I'll meet thee alive.

    Then to my ten shillings,
        Add you but a groat,
    I'll go to Newcastle,
        And buy a new coat.

    Five and five shillings,
        Five and a crown;
    Five and five shillings,
        Will buy a new gown.

    Five and five shillings,
        Five and a groat;
    Five and five shillings,
        Will buy a new coat.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXVII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXIX. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXLIV. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXVII. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCIX. Games.

    Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
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    A penny white loaf, a penny white cake,
        And a twopenny apple-pie.

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Nursery Rhyme. XL. Literal

    One, two,
    Buckle my shoe;
    Three, four,
    Shut the door;
    Five, six,
    Pick up sticks;
    Seven, eight,
    Lay them straight;
    Nine, ten,
    A good fat hen;
    Eleven, twelve,
    Who will delve?
    Thirteen, fourteen,
    Maids a courting;
    Fifteen, sixteen,
    Maids a kissing;
    Seventeen, eighteen,
    Maids a waiting;
    Nineteen, twenty,
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Nursery Rhyme. XXXV. Literal

    One's none;
    Two's some;
    Three's a many;
    Four's a penny;
    Five is a little hundred.

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Nursery Rhyme. DL. Natural History.

    The winds they did blow,
        The leaves they did wag;
    Along came a beggar boy,
        And put me in his bag.

    He took me up to London,
        A lady did me buy,
    Put me in a silver cage,
        And hung me up on high.

    With apples by the fire,
        And nuts for to crack,
    Besides a little feather bed
        To rest my little back.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCII. Lullabies.

    To market, to market,
        To buy a plum cake;
    Home again, home again,
        Ne'er a one baked;
    The baker is dead and all his men,
    And we must go to market again.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXLII. Songs.

    My father he died, but I can't tell you how,
    He left me six horses to drive in my plough:
                With my wing wang waddle oh,
                Jack sing saddle oh,
                Blowsey boys bubble oh,
                Under the broom.

    I sold my six horses and I bought me a cow;
    I'd fain have made a fortune but did not know how:
            With my, &c.

    I sold my cow, and I bought me a calf;
    I'd fain have made a fortune, but lost the best half:
            With my, &c.

    I sold my calf, and I bought me a cat;
    A pretty thing she was, in my chimney corner sat:
            With my, &c.

    I sold my cat, and bought me a mouse;
    He carried fire in his tail, and burnt down my house:
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