Nursery Rhyme. XV. Historical

    Please to remember
    The fifth of November,
        Gunpowder treason and plot;
    I know no reason
    Why gunpowder treason
        Should ever be forgot.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXV. Jingles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXLIII. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXXVII. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXXI. Natural History.

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        [From MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 19, written in the time of Charles I.]

    The king of France, and four thousand men,
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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. XVIII. Historical

        [The following is partly quoted in an old song in a MS. at Oxford, Ashmole, No. 36, fol. 113.]

    As I was going by Charing Cross,
    I saw a black man upon a black horse;
    They told me it was King Charles the First;
    Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!

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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. 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:
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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;
    Monmouth is a pretie boy,
        Richmond is another,
    Grafton is my onely joy,
    And why should I these three destroy,
        To please a pious brother!

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