Nursery Rhyme. CXXV. Scholastic.

        [A laconic reply to a person who indulges much in supposition.]

                    If ifs and ands,
                    Were pots and pans,
    There would be no need for tinkers!

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Nursery Rhyme. VIII. Historical

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLVII. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXVI. Love And Matrimony.

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Epitaphs

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    When I was a little boy, I had but little wit
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Nursery Rhyme. CXXVIII. Scholastic.

        [A Greek bill of fare.]

    LEGOMOTON,
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Nursery Rhyme. CXII. Scholastic.

        [The joke or the following consists in saying it so quick that it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish. It is remarkable that the last two lines are quoted in MS. Sloan. 4, of the fifteenth century, as printed in the 'Reliq. Antiq.,' vol. i, p. 324.]

    In fir tar is,
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    In mud eel is,
    In clay none is.
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Nursery Rhyme. CXXI. Scholastic.

        Cross patch,
        Draw the latch,
    Sit by the fire and spin;
        Take a cup,
        And drink it up,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXIX. Paradoxes.

        [The following occurs in a MS. of the seventeenth century, in the Sloane Collection, the reference to which I have mislaid.]

    The man in the wilderness asked me,
    How many strawberries grew in the sea?
    I answered him, as I thought good,
    As many as red herrings grew in the wood.

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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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