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The nursery rhymes of England (1886)

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889 · London and New York. F. Warne and co. · leaf 252

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ow, Can get sweethearts enow,And I, pretty wench, can get never a one. CCCCLXII. BIRDS of a feather flock together,And so will pigs and swine; Rats and mice will have their choice,And so will I have mine. LOVE AND MATRIMONY. CCCCLXTIT. [Ti.e practice of sowing hempseed on Allhallmvs Even is often… … CCCCLXIV. JACK SPRAT eould eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean ; And so, betwixt them both, you see.They lickd the platter clean. 234 LOVE AND MATRIMONY. CCCCLXV. LITTLE Jack Dandy-prat was my first suitor;He had a dish and a spoon, and hed some pewter ; Hed linen and woollen, and woollen and…

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