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| Frontispiece—Little Bo-Peep | [4] |
| Title-Page | [5] |
| Heading to Preface | [7] |
| Medallion—Frederic. Walliæ Princeps | [12] |
| Tailpiece to Preface | [19] |
| Heading to Contents | [21] |
| Heading to List of Illustrations | [23] |
| Title (Historical) | [29] |
| Old King Cole | [31] |
| Good King Arthur | [33] |
| Over the water to Charley | [36] |
| Title (Literal and Scholastic) | [41] |
| Great A, little a | [43] |
| A was an archer | [45] |
| When he whipped them he made them dance | [48] |
| Mistress Mary, how does your garden grow? | [50] |
| Title (Tales) | [53] |
| The man in the moon | [55] |
| There was a crooked man | [57] |
| Simple Simon met a pieman | [59] |
| He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days | [61] |
| The lion and the unicorn | [62] |
| His bullets were made of lead | [64] |
| Went to sea in a bowl | [65] |
| He used to wear a long brown coat | [70] |
| Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef | [72] |
| He caught fishes in other men's ditches | [73] |
| Title (Proverbs) | [75] |
| To put 'em out's the only way | [77] |
| When the wind is in the east | [80] |
| Then 'tis at the very best | [81] |
| Title (Songs) | [85] |
| There I met an old man | [87] |
| Says t'auld man tit oak tree | [91] |
| Whenever they heard they began for to dance | [95] |
| Even pigs on their hind legs would after him prance | [96] |
| So Doll and the cow danced "the Cheshire round" | [97] |
| He'll sit in a barn | [101] |
| Merry are the bells, and merry do they ring | [104] |
| He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall | [107] |
| Tailpiece | [110] |
| His mare fell down, and she made her will | [115] |
| Three pretty girls were in them then | [118] |
| Title (Riddles and Paradoxes) | [121] |
| I went to the wood and got it | [123] |
| Arthur O'Bower has broken his band | [125] |
| Humpty Dumpty had a great fall | [129] |
| Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess | [133] |
| If all the world was apple-pie | [135] |
| The man in the wilderness asked me | [137] |
| Here am I, little jumping Joan | [140] |
| Title (Charms and Lullabies) | [143] |
| Cushy cow bonny, let down thy milk | [145] |
| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper | [146] |
| Where's the peck of pickled pepper | [147] |
| Hush-a-bye, baby | [149] |
| Home again, come again | [151] |
| Title (Gaffers and Gammers) | [153] |
| There was an old woman lived under a hill | [155] |
| She had so many children she didn't know what to do | [159] |
| He was dancing a jig | [165] |
| Title (Games) | [167] |
| There were three jovial Welshmen | [169] |
| Here comes a candle to light you to bed | [174] |
| The Five Pigs | [177] |
| Can I get there by candle-light? | [183] |
| Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day | [185] |
| This is the way the ladies ride | [187] |
| This is the way the gentlemen ride | [187] |
| This is the way the farmers ride | [187] |
| Title (Jingles) | [189] |
| Went to bed with his trousers on | [191] |
| Hey! diddle, diddle | [193] |
| The fly shall marry the humble-bee | [195] |
| Title (Love and Matrimony) | [197] |
| Jack fell down, and broke his crown | [199] |
| A little boy and a little girl lived in an alley | [201] |
| Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks | [203] |
| Jack Sprat could eat no fat | [206] |
| Betwixt them both, they lick'd the platter clean | [207] |
| There I met a pretty miss | [209] |
| Here comes a lusty wooer | [211] |
| Title (Natural History) | [217] |
| I sent him to the shop for a hap'orth of snuff | [219] |
| Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? | [221] |
| Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail | [224] |
| There was a piper, he'd a cow | [226] |
| A long-tail'd pig, or a short-tail'd pig | [229] |
| Dame, what makes your ducks to die? | [231] |
| Little Tom Tinker's dog | [233] |
| Pussy and I very gently will play | [234] |
| Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home | [235] |
| I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen | [237] |
| Higgley Piggley, my black hen | [238] |
| He's under the hay-cock fast asleep | [241] |
| There I met an old man that would not say his prayers | [243] |
| She whipped him, she slashed him | [245] |
| Title (Accumulative Stories) | [247] |
| This is the house that Jack built | [249] |
| The old woman and her pig | [255] |
| Title (Relics) | [261] |
| Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going? | [263] |
| What are little boys made of? | [265] |
| Girls and boys, come out to play | [267] |
| Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town | [269] |
| Barber, barber, shave a pig | [271] |
| Wished to leap over a high gate | [273] |
| Heading to Notes | [275] |
| Heading to Index of First Lines | [279] |
