Nursery Rhyme. XIII. Historical

    Good Queen Bess was a glorious dame,
    When bonny King Jemmy from Scotland came;
    We'll pepper their bodies,
    Their peaceable noddies,
    And give them a crack of the crown!

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXIX. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXXI. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXXIX. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. LX. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. XII. Historical

        [The tune to the following may be found in the 'English Dancing Master,' 1631, p. 37.]

    The rose is red, the grass is green,
    Serve Queen Bess our noble queen;
            Kitty the spinner
            Will sit down to dinner,
    And eat the leg of a frog;
            All good people
            Look over the steeple,
    And see the cat play with the dog.

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Nursery Rhyme. II. Historical

    When good king Arthur ruled this land,
        He was a goodly king;
    He stole three pecks of barley-meal,
        To make a bag-pudding.

    A bag-pudding the king did make,
        And stuff'd it well with plums:
    And in it put great lumps of fat,
        As big as my two thumbs.

    The king and queen did eat thereof,
        And noblemen beside;
    And what they could not eat that night,
        The queen next morning fried.

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Nursery Rhyme. XIX. Historical

    High diddle ding,
    Did you hear the bells ring?
    The parliament soldiers are gone to the king!
    Some they did laugh, some they did cry,
    To see the parliament soldiers pass by.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXVII. Historical

        [The following may possibly allude to King George and the Pretender.]

    Jim and George were two great lords,
        They fought all in a churn;
    And when that Jim got George by the nose,
        Then George began to gern.

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Nursery Rhyme. XI. Historical

    At the siege of Belle-isle
    I was there all the while,
    All the while, all the while,
    At the siege of Belle-isle.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXIV. Historical

        [The following nursery song alludes to William III and George prince of Denmark.]

    William and Mary, George and Anne,
    Four such children had never a man:
    They put their father to flight and shame,
    And call'd their brother a shocking bad name.

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