Stokes' wonder-book-of Mother Goose / with twelve illustrations in color and 138 in black-and-white by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis (1919)
Choate, Florence, Curtis, Elizabeth · New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co. · leaf 66
abes to slay: So that the pretty speech they had, Made the ruffians heart relent;And they that took the deed to do, Full sorely did repent. Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge,Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large. The other would not agree thereto,So…