The Nursery Rhyme BookA collection of 332 nursery rhymes grouped under such categories as "Historical," "Tales," "Proverbs," "Songs," "Games," and "Jingles." |
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Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day This is the way the ladies ride This is
the way the gentlemen ride . This is the way the farmers ride Title ( Jingles ) .
Went to bed with his trousers on Hey ! diddle , diddle The fly shall marry the
humble ...
Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day This is the way the ladies ride This is
the way the gentlemen ride . This is the way the farmers ride Title ( Jingles ) .
Went to bed with his trousers on Hey ! diddle , diddle The fly shall marry the
humble ...
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Says the pieman to Simple Simon , “ Show me first your penny . ' Says Simple
Simon to the pieman , “ Indeed I have not any . " Simple Simon went a - fishing
For to catch a whale : All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail ! M 14 . '
LL tell ...
Says the pieman to Simple Simon , “ Show me first your penny . ' Says Simple
Simon to the pieman , “ Indeed I have not any . " Simple Simon went a - fishing
For to catch a whale : All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail ! M 14 . '
LL tell ...
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twill last for ages long , With a gay lady . LOVE sixpence , pretty little sixpence , I
love sixpence better than my life ; I spent a penny of it , I spent another , And took
fourpence home to my wife . Oh , my little fourpence , pretty little fourpence , The ...
twill last for ages long , With a gay lady . LOVE sixpence , pretty little sixpence , I
love sixpence better than my life ; I spent a penny of it , I spent another , And took
fourpence home to my wife . Oh , my little fourpence , pretty little fourpence , The ...
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Oh , my little fourpence , pretty little fourpence , I love fourpence better than my
life ; I spent a penny of it , I spent another , And I took twopence home to my wife .
Oh , my little twopence , my pretty little twopence , I love twopence better than my
...
Oh , my little fourpence , pretty little fourpence , I love fourpence better than my
life ; I spent a penny of it , I spent another , And I took twopence home to my wife .
Oh , my little twopence , my pretty little twopence , I love twopence better than my
...
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Put your hand in your purse, You'll never be worse, And give the poor singer a
penny. LITTLE Polly Flinders j Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little
toes. Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter For
spoiling ...
Put your hand in your purse, You'll never be worse, And give the poor singer a
penny. LITTLE Polly Flinders j Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little
toes. Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter For
spoiling ...
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Popular passages
Page 67 - A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds...
Page 151 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 80 - Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 160 - Brickbats and tiles, Say the bells of St. Giles'. Halfpence and farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. Pancakes and fritters, Say the bells of St. Peter's. Two sticks and an apple, Say the bells at Whitechapel.
Page 40 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Page 19 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 239 - That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 227 - COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast ; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Page 104 - The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
Page 229 - Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nursery Rhyme Book Volume 19, Issue 421 of Opie collection of children's literature |
| Editor | Andrew Lang |
| Illustrated by | Leonard Leslie Brooke |
| Publisher | F. Warne and Company, 1897 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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