‘She laid me down to sleep,

With a Bible at my head and a Testament at my feet;

And if my playfellows come to quere for me,

Tell them I am asleep.’

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a. Communicated in a letter from the Rev. E. Venables, Precentor of Lincoln, as sung to him by a nurse-maid nearly sixty years ago, January 24, 1885. A Buckinghamshire version. b. A Walk through Lincoln Minster, by the Rev. E. Venables, p. 41, 1884.

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It rains, it hails in merry Lincoln,

It rains both great and small,

And all the boys and girls today