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T was a Tinker, and mended a pot.
U was an Usurer, a miserable elf,

V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
W was a Watchman, and guarded the door,
X was expensive, and so became poor.

was a Youth, that did not love school, Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

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C cut it;

D dealt it;

E ate it;

F fought for it;

G got it;

H had it;

J joined it;

K kept it;

L longed for it;

M mourned for it;

N nodded at it;

O opened it;

P peeped in it;
Q quartered it;

R ran for it;

S stole it;

T took it;

V viewed it

W wanted it:
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X, Y, Z, and amperse-and,

All wish'd for a piece in hand.

PAT

AT-A-CAKE, pat-a-cake, baker's man! (So I will, master), as fast as I can : Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with T, Put in the oven for Tommy and me

MUL

ULTIPLICATION is vexation,
Division is as bad;

The Rule of Three doth puzzle me,

And Practice drives me mad.

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D

OCTOR FAUSTUS was a good man,
He whipt his scholars now and then;

When he whipp'd them he made them dance,
Out of Scotland into France,

Out of France into Spain,

And then he whipp'd them back again!

A DILLER, a dollar,

A ten o'clock scholar,

What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,

But now you come at noon.

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M

HEN V and I together meet,

They make the number Six compleat.

When I with V doth meet once more,

Then 'tis they Two can make but Four.
And when that V from I is

gone,

Alas! poor I can make but One.

TH

HIRTY days hath September
April, June, and November;

February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap-year, that's the time

When February's days are twenty-nine.

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M

ISTRESS MARY, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?

With cockle-shells, and silver bells,
And pretty maids all a row.

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