Nursery Rhyme. CXLI. Songs.

    A pretty little girl in a round-eared cap
    I met in the streets t'other day;
            She gave me such a thump,
            That my heart it went bump;
    I thought I should have fainted away!
    I thought I should have fainted away!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCI. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXX. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. LXI. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CLV. Songs.

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    Give me a blow, and I'll beat 'em,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXIX. Love And Matrimony.

    As I was going up Pippen-hill,
        Pippen-hill was dirty,
    There I met a pretty miss,
        And she dropt me a curtsey.

    Little miss, pretty miss,
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    How does my lady's garden grow?
    How does my lady's garden grow?
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    Bye, baby bunting,
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Nursery Rhyme. XXXI. Literal

    A, B, C, tumble down D,
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Nursery Rhyme. CXLV. Songs.

    Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes,
    My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
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    For fear the young men should do me some harm.
        Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
        What naughty tricks they put upon me:

        They broke my pitcher,
            And spilt the water,
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