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OBIN the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben,

He ate more meat than fourscore men; He ate a cow, he ate a calf,

He ate a butcher and a half;

He ate a church, he ate a steeple,

He ate the priest and all the people!

A cow and a calf,

An ox and a half,

A church and a steeple,

And all the good people,

And yet he complained that his stomach wasn't full.

R

OBIN and Richard were two pretty men;

They laid in bed till the clock struck ten; Then up starts Robin and looks at the sky, Oh! brother Richard, the sun's very high:

The bull's in the barn threshing the corn,
The cock's on the dunghill blowing his horn,
The cat's at the fire frying of fish,

The dog's in the pantry breaking his dish.

LD Mother Goose, when

OLD whe

She wanted to wander,

Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

Mother Goose had a house,

'Twas built in a wood,

Where an owl at the door

For sentinel stood.

This is her son Jack,
A plain-looking lad,
He is not very good,
Nor yet very bad.

She sent him to market,
A live goose he bought,
Here, mother, says he,
It will not go for nought.

Jack's goose and her gander
Grew very fond;

They'd both eat together,
Or swim in one pond.

Jack found one morning,
As I have been told,
His goose had laid him
An egg of pure gold.

Jack rode to his mother
The news for to tell;
She call'd him a good boy,

And said it was well.

Jack sold his gold egg
To a rogue of a Jew

Who cheated him out of

The half of his due.

Then Jack went a-courting

A lady so gay,

As fair as the lily,

And sweet as the May.

The Jew and the Squire
Came behind his back,
And began to belabour
The sides of poor Jack.

LD Abram Brown is dead and gone,
You'll never see him more;

OLD

He used to wear a long brown coat,

That button'd down before.