Nursery Rhyme. LXXXIII. Proverbs.

        [Hours of sleep.]

    Nature requires five,
        Custom gives seven!
    Laziness takes nine,
        And Wickedness eleven.

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Nursery Rhyme. XLVIII. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCI. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXIII. Natural History.

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