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A carrion crow sat on an oak[51]
A diller, a dollar[10]
A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare[230]
frog he would a-wooing go[191]
A gentleman of good account[128]
A little cock sparrow sat on a green tree[75]
A long-tailed pig, and a short-tailed pig[274]
A man of words and not of deeds[62]
An apple pie, when it looks nice[256]
A nick and a nock[330]
An old woman was sweeping her house[282]
A pie sate on a pear-tree[204]
Around the green gravel the grass grows green[266]
As I walked by myself[290]
As I was a-going by a little pig-sty[302]
As I was going o'er Westminster Bridge[289]
As I was going to sell my eggs[229]
As I was going to St. Ives[48]
As I was going up Pippen Hill[277]
As little Jenny Wren[267]
As soft as silk, as white as milk[144]
A swarm of bees in May[79]
A was an apple-pie[108]
A was an archer, and shot at a frog[79]
Baa, baa, black sheep[87]
Barber, barber, shave a pig[145]
Bat, bat[109]
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray [106]
Billy, Billy, come and play[179]
Bless you, bless you, burny-bee[270]
Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go[307]
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea[246]
Bow, wow, says the dog[135]
Bryan O'Lin, and his wife, and wife's mother[294]
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear[146]
Buttons a farthing a pair[267]
Bye, baby bunting[296]
Charley, Charley, stole the barley[76]
Cherries are ripe[333]
Cock a doodle doo[182]
Cold and raw the north wind doth blow[294]
Come, let's to bed[63]
Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste[237]
"Croak!" said the toad, "I'm hungry, I think"[67]
Cross patch[220]
Curly locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine?[28]
Cushy cow bonny[51]
Cut them on Monday[333]
Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town[75]
Dame Trot and her cat[313]
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John[176]
Diddle-y-diddle-y-dumpty[241]
Ding, dong bell[297]
Dingty, diddledy, my mammy's maid[326]
Doctor Faustus was a good man[205]
Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster[47]
Early to bed, and early to rise[114]
Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy, and Bess[213]
Elsie Marley is grown so fine[26]
For every evil under the sun[58]
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost [246]
Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail[298]
Gay go up and gay go down[19]
Girls and boys, come out to play[61]
God bless the master of this house[224]
Good people all, of every sort[214]
Goosey, goosey, gander[198]
Great A, little A[330]
Handy-Spandy, Jack-a-dandy[46]
Hark, hark[71]
Have you seen the old woman of Banbury Cross[34]
He loves me[321]
Hector Protector was dressed all in green[122]
Here a little child I stand[334]
Here comes a poor widow from Babylon[312]
Here's Sulky Sue[276]
He that would thrive[255]
Hey! diddle, diddle[86]
Hey ding-a-ding[254]
Hey, my kitten, my kitten[278]
Hickety, pickety, my black hen[232]
Hickory, Dickory, Dock[190]
Higgledy piggledy[16]
Hot-cross Buns![252]
How do you do, neighbour?[313]
How many miles is it to Babylon?[27]
Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall[23]
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top[96]
Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry[181]
I am a gold lock[3]
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell[325]
If all the world were water[223]
If I'd as much money as I could spend[63]
I had a little castle [326]
I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen[180]
I had a little husband[235]
I had a little moppet[265]
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear[256]
I had a little pony[241]
I had four brothers over the sea[30]
I have seen you, little mouse[144]
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm[38]
I'll tell you a story[85]
I love my love with an A, because he's agreeable[12]
I love you well, my little brother[231]
In Egypt was a dragon dire[140]
In marble walls as white as milk[223]
I saw a ship a-sailing[125]
I saw three ships come sailing by[259]
Is John Smith within?[123]
I will sing you a song[219]
Jack and Jill went up the hill[93]
Jack Jingle went 'prentice[253]
Jack Sprat[274]
Jack Sprat could eat no fat[53]
Jack Sprat's pig[106]
Jacky, come give me my fiddle[248]
January brings the snow[295]
Jenny Wren fell sick[303]
Jocky was a piper's son[167]
John Cook had a little grey mare; he, haw, hum![9]
John Gilpin was a citizen[150]
Johnny Pringle had a little pig[251]
Johnny shall have a new bonnet[124]
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home[180]
Lavender blue and rosemary green[278]
"Let us go to the woods," says Richard to Robin [188]
"Let us go to the wood," says this pig[54]
Little Betty Blue[329]
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep[64]
Little Bob Snooks was fond of his books[94]
Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn[48]
Little Jack Horner[134]
Little Miss Muffet[41]
Little Nancy Etticoat[255]
Little Polly Flinders[261]
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree[15]
Little Tommy Tittlemouse[16]
Little Tom Tucker[69]
London Bridge is broken down[24]
Lucy Locket[317]
Mary had a pretty bird[147]
Mary, Mary, quite contrary[168]
Master I have, and I am his man[94]
Merry are the bells, and merry would they ring[83]
Monday alone[289]
Monday's bairn is fair of face[216]
Multiplication is vexation[212]
My father he died, but I can't tell you how[56]
My lady Wind, my lady Wind[5]
Needles and pins, needles and pins[107]
Nose, nose, jolly red nose[126]
Now what do you think[245]
Oh, what have you got for dinner?[314]
Oh, who is so merry, so merry, heigh ho![260]
Old King Cole[1]
Old Mother Goose[110]
Old Mother Hubbard[118]
On Christmas Eve I turned the spit[212]
One, he loves [18]
One misty moisty morning[55]
One old Oxford ox opening oysters[37]
One, two, buckle my shoe[166]
One, two, three, four, five[261]
Over the water, and over the lea[72]
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man![36]
Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold[83]
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper[22]
Please to remember[11]
Polly, put the kettle on[281]
Poor old Robinson Crusoe![99]
Punch and Judy[219]
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?[176]
Pussy sits beside the fire[293]
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, you sit in the sun[99]
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Pie![36]
Rain, rain, go away[105]
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross[70]
Ride away, ride away, Johnny shall ride[84]
Robert Barnes, fellow fine[209]
Robin-a-Bobbin bent his bow[222]
Robin the Bobbin, the big bouncing Ben[199]
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green[199]
Rub-a-dub-dub[247]
Says A, Give me a good large slice[262]
See, Saw, Margery Daw[242]
See-saw, sacaradown[121]
Simple Simon met a pieman[270]
Sing a song of sixpence[115]
Six little mice sat down to spin[167]
Snail, snail, come out of your hole[229]
Solomon Grundy[86]
St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain [15]
Sukey, you shall be my wife[304]
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief[91]
Tell-Tale-Tit[136]
The cock's on the housetop[324]
The cuckoo's a fine bird[54]
The Dog will come when he is called[224]
The dove says coo, coo, what shall I do?[34]
The fox and his wife they had a great strife[206]
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain[147]
The Hart he loves the high wood[265]
The King of France went up the hill[126]
The lion and the unicorn[4]
The man in the moon[263]
The man in the wilderness asked me[37]
The north wind doth blow[269]
The Queen of Hearts[136]
The rose is red, the violet blue[270]
There once were two cats[321]
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile[171]
There was a jolly miller[171]
There was a jovial beggar[243]
There was a lady loved a swine[221]
There was a little boy and a little girl[27]
There was a little boy went into a barn[281]
There was a little Guinea-pig[40]
There was a little man[292]
There was a little man, and he had a little gun[143]
There was a little woman, as I've been told[266]
There was a man, and he had naught[95]
There was a man of Newington[39]
There was a monkey climb'd up a tree[7]
There was a piper had a cow [168]
There was an old woman, and what do you think?[77]
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell[12]
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all[247]
There was an old woman had three sons[183]
There was an old woman lived under a hill[232]
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket[88]
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe[216]
There were three jovial Welshmen[264]
There were two blackbirds[70]
There's a neat little clock[220]
Thirty days hath September[3]
This is the death of little Jenny Wren[308]
This is the house that Jack built[42]
This is the way the ladies ride[92]
This little pig went to market[108]
Three blind mice, see how they run![268]
Three children sliding on the ice[22]
Three little kittens[322]
Three wise men of Gotham[302]
Tinker, tailor[319]
Tit, tat, toe[288]
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun[122]
Tom, Tom, the piper's son[73]
Tom, Tom, the piper's son[200]
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee[275]
Twinkle, twinkle, little star[210]
Two legs sat upon three legs[32]
Two little kittens, one stormy night[299]
Up hill and down dale[78]
Upon St. Paul's steeple[330]
Wash me and comb me[236]
We are three brethren out of Spain[148]
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town [266]
What are little boys made of, made of?[301]
What is the news of the day?[298]
When a Twister a twisting, will twist him a twist[68]
When good King Arthur ruled this land[6]
When I was a bachelor, I lived by myself[197]
When I was a little boy[232]
When little Fred[114]
When the wind is in the east[184]
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?"[96]
Where have you been all the day?[59]
Where should a baby rest?[187]
Who killed Cock Robin?[172]
Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?[254]
"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the spider to the fly[100]
Yankee Doodle went to town[274]
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see[251]
Young Lambs to sell![248]

List of Illustrations

[Frontispiece]—"Ride a cock horse"
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Heading to Introduction[v]
Tailpiece[xii]
Heading to Index of First Lines [xiii]
Heading to List of Illustrations [xxiii]
Old King Cole[1]
His pipe and his bowl[2]
His fiddlers three[2]
Fighting for the crown[4]
He stole three peeks of barley meal[6]
John Cook was riding up Shuter's bank[9]
The fifth of November[11]
Up got the little dog, and he began to bark[13]
Little Tommy Tittlemouse[17]
Here comes a candle[21]
Humpty Dumpty[23]
She lies in bed till eight or nine [26]
Curly locks! Curly locks![30]
Two legs sat upon three legs[32]
Up jumps two legs[33]
Makes him bring back one leg[33]
Put it in the oven for Tommy and me[36]
Pussy and I very gently will play[38]
He jumped into a quickset hedge[39]
There came a spider[41]
The house that Jack built[42]
The malt, the rat, and the cat[42]
The dog, the cow, and the maiden[43]
The man and the priest[44]
The cock that crowed in the morn[45]
The farmer sowing the corn[46]
He stepped in a puddle[47]
He's under the hay-cock, fast asleep[48]
A carrion crow sat on an oak[51]
Shot his own sow quite through the heart[52]
Jack Sprat could eat no fat[53]
I met an old man clothed all in leather[55]
My cat[58]
"Where have you been all the day?"[59]
"Come out to play"[61]
"Let's to bed"[63]
Little Bo-peep [65]
The beggars have come to town[71]
Stole a pig and away he run[73]
This little old woman could never be quiet[77]
A to Z[81]
I'll tell you a story[85]
Baa, baa, black sheep[87]
"O whither, O whither, O whither so high?"[89]
Taffy came to my house[91]
I went to Taffy's house[91]
Jack and Jill went up the hill[93]
Jack fell down[93]
Little Bob Snooks[94]
He crept up to the chimney pot[95]
"Where are you going to, my pretty maid?"[96]
The Spider and the Fly[100]
Rain, rain, go away[105]
When a man marries, his trouble begins[107]
Come under my hat[109]
A dainty dish, to set before the king[115]
The king was in his counting-house[116]
The queen was in the parlour[116]
The maid was in the garden[117]
Hector Protector was sent to the queen[122]
Hector Protector was sent back again[123]
I saw a ship a-sailing [125]
Went up the hill[127]
Came down again[127]
Went wandering up and down[131]
Bow, wow, says the dog[135]
He stole those tarts[136]
She made some tarts[137]
The King of Hearts[139]
And vowed he'd steal no more[139]
He shot John Sprig through the middle of his wig[143]
Barber, barber, shave a pig[145]
Bryan O'Lin had no breeches to wear[146]
Three brethren out of Spain[148]
Here comes your daughter[149]
One, two, buckle my shoe[166]
Pretty maids all of a row[169]
"I killed Cock Robin"[172]
"I saw him die"[172]
"I caught his blood"[172]
"I'll make his shroud"[173]
"I'll bear the torch"[173]
"I'll be the clerk"[173]
"I'll dig his grave"[174]
"I'll be the parson"[174]
"I'll be chief mourner"[174]
"I'll sing his dirge" [175]
"I'll carry his coffin"[175]
"I'll toll the bell"[175]
Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat[177]
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home[180]
My master's lost his fiddling-stick[182]
My dame will dance with you[183]
North, south, east, west[184]
When the wind is in the east[185]
So off he set with his opera hat[191]
"Pray, Mr. Rat, will you go with me?"[192]
The cat, she seized the rat by the crown[195]
A lily-white duck came[196]
"Whither shall I wander?"[198]
Johnny's a drummer[199]
Those that heard him could never keep still[201]
When he whipped them he made them dance[205]
"Can you shoe this horse of mine?"[209]
"How I wonder what you are"[210]
Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy, and Bess[213]
She whipped them all round[216]
"Will you have any more?"[219]
"Honey," quoth she[221]
No doors there are to this stronghold[223]
"Snail, snail, come out of your hole"[229]
"Let us be kind to one another" [231]
"My black hen lays eggs for gentlemen"[233]
"I put him in a pint-pot"[235]
"A little handkerchief"[236]
See, saw, Margery Daw[242]
Young Lambs to sell[249]
"One a penny, two a penny"[252]
The parliament soldiers are gone to the king[254]
Little Nancy Etticoat[255]
"I had a little nut-tree"[257]
Little Polly Flinders[261]
The man in the moon[263]
They all ran after the farmer's wife[268]
The north wind doth blow[269]
Simple Simon[271]
Simple Simon went a-fishing[273]
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee[274]
They quite forgot their quarrel[275]
A pig with a curly tail[276]
As I was going up Pippen Hill[277]
Here we go, backwards and forwards[279]
Polly, put the kettle on[281]
The little boy ran away[281]
As I walked by myself[290]
I answered myself[291]
He wooed a little maid [292]
They all fell in[294]
Ding, dong bell[297]
Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail[298]
What are little boys made of?[301]
Three wise men of Gotham[302]
I have got a little pig[304]
Blow, wind, blow![307]
Come, little wag-tails[317]
Lucy Locket[317]
Counting the cherry-stones[318]
Tinker, tailor[319]
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell[325]
Some in her pockets[327]
Little Betty Blue[329]
They run with hooks[331]

Initials, Tailpieces, &c., &c.

National Rhymes of the Nursery