Nursery Rhyme. CXXIV. Scholastic.

    I love my love with an A, because he's Agreeable.
    I hate him because he's Avaricious.
    He took me to the Sign of the Acorn,
    And treated me with Apples.
    His name's Andrew,
    And he lives at Arlington.

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Courtship

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXVII. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXII. Scholastic.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXLIV. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLII. Love And Matrimony.

    It's once I courted as pretty a lass,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLIII. Love And Matrimony.

    Sylvia, sweet as morning air,
    Do not drive me to despair:
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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;
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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,
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    Astra Dabit Dominus, Gratisque Beabit Egenos,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXIX. Love And Matrimony.

    Master I have, and I am his man,
    Gallop a dreary dun;
    Master I have, and I am his man,
    And I'll get a wife as fast as I can;
    With a heighly gaily gamberally,
        Higgledy piggledy, niggledy, niggledy,
        Gallop a dreary dun.

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