Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

Mother Goose's
Nursery Rhymes
A collection of
Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles
With Illustrations
by
Sir John Gilbert, R.A., John Tinniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, W. McConnel, J.B. Zwecker,
and others

London
George Routledge and Sons
The Broadway, Ludgate
New York: 416 Broome Street
1877

| A | |
| A Apple Pie | 156 |
| A B C, Tumble down D | 286 |
| A Carrion Crow sat on an Oak | 120 |
| A Diller, a Dollar, a Ten o'Clock Scholar | 257 |
| A Farmer went Trotting upon his Grey Mare | 292 |
| A little Boy went into a Barn | 207 |
| A little Cock Sparrow sat on a Tree | 309 |
| A Man of Words and not of Deeds | 295 |
| A Man went Hunting at Reigate | 47 |
| A-milking, a-milking, my Maid | 140 |
| Apple-Pie, Pudding, and Pancake | 288 |
| As I was going along, long, long | 140 |
| As I was going up Pippin Hill | 297 |
| As I was going up Primrose Hill | 207 |
| As I was going to St. Ives | 318 |
| As I went to Bonner | 60 |
| As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks | 264 |
| At the Siege of Belleisle I was there all the while | 141 |
| Away, Birds, away! | 118 |
| B | |
| Baa, baa, Black Sheep (Music) | 170 |
| Barber, Barber, shave a Pig | 172 |
| Bat, Bat, come under my Hat | 241 |
| Bessy Bell and Mary Gray | 173 |
| Bless you, bless you, bonny Bee | 308 |
| Blow, Wind, blow, and go, Mill, go | 183 |
| Bow-wow-wow | 304 |
| Boys and Girls, come out to Play | 14 |
| Brow, brow, brinkie | 61 |
| Bye, Baby Bunting | 141 |
| C | |
| Charley, Charley, stole the Barley | 285 |
| Come, let's to bed, says Sleepy-Head | 144 |
| Cross-Patch, draw the Latch | 223 |
| Cry, Baby, cry | 214 |
| Curly-Locks, Curly-Locks, wilt thou be mine? | 188 |
| D | |
| Daffy-Down-dilly has come up to Town | 209 |
| Dame Duck's Lessons to her Ducklings | 150 |
| Dance a Baby Diddit | 141 |
| Dance to your Daddy | 180 |
| Death and Burial of poor Cock Robin | 79 |
| Deedle, deedle, Dumpling, my Son John | 228 |
| Dickery, Dickery, Dock (Music) | 256 |
| Dickery, Dickery, Dare | 58 |
| Ding, Dong, Bell | 224 |
| Ding, Dong, Darrow | 149 |
| Doctor Foster went to Glo'ster | 148 |
| E | |
| Early to Bed and Early to Rise | 297 |
| Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Bread | 221 |
| Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess | 286 |
| F | |
| For every Evil under the Sun | 300 |
| Four and Twenty Tailors went to kill a Snail | 148 |
| Freddie in the Cherry-Tree | 111 |
| Frog he would a-wooing go | 124 |
| Frog's (The) Chorus | 222 |
| G | |
| Georgie Porgie (Music) | 289 |
| Good Dobbin | 265 |
| Good King Arthur | 51 |
| Goosey, Goosey, Gander (Music) | 193 |
| Go to Bed first, a Golden Purse | 318 |
| Great A, Little A | 239 |
| H | |
| Handy, Spandy, Jack-a-Dandy | 194 |
| Hark, hark, the Dogs do bark | 190 |
| Here am I, little Jumping Joan | 264 |
| Here we go up, up, up | 194 |
| He that would Thrive | 217 |
| Hey, diddle, diddle | 174 |
| Hey, my Kitten, my Kitten | 194 |
| Hickety, Pickety, my Black Hen | 230 |
| High Diddle Ding | 135 |
| High diddle doubt, my Candle's out | 169 |
| Hot Cross Buns | 52 |
| Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall (Music) | 48 |
| Hush-a-bye, Baby | 217 |
| Hush-a-bye, Baby, lie still with thy Daddy | 294 |
| Hush Baby, my Doll, I pray you don't cry | 61 |
| I | |
| If all the World were Water | 194 |
| If Wishes were Horses, Beggars would ride | 189 |
| If you are to be a Gentleman | 61 |
| I had a little Dog, they called him Buff | 119 |
| I had a little Hen, the prettiest ever seen | 208 |
| I had a little Hobby-Horse | 221 |
| I had a little Husband no bigger than my Thumb | 192 |
| I had a little Pony | 195 |
| I have a little Sister they call her Peep, Peep | 192 |
| I'll tell you a Story | 231 |
| I love Sixpence | 232 |
| I love little Pussy | 290 |
| I saw a Ship a-sailing | 129 |
| Is John Smith within? | 153 |
| J | |
| Jack and Jill went up the Hill (Music) | 212 |
| Jack be Nimble | 183 |
| Jack Sprat could eat no Fat | 60 |
| Jack Sprat had a Cat | 119 |
| Jack Sprat's Pig | 308 |
| Jacky, come give me thy Fiddle | 257 |
| Jenny shall have a new Bonnet | 305 |
| John Cook he had a little Grey Mare | 153 |
| John Gilpin | 266 |
| L | |
| Ladybird, Ladybird | 261 |
| Leg over Leg | 261 |
| "Let us go to the Woods," says this Pig | 304 |
| Little Betty Blue | 294 |
| Little Blue Betty lived in a Lane | 123 |
| Little Bo-Peep (Music) | 312 |
| Little Boy Blue | 136 |
| Little Boy, pretty Boy, where were you born? | 173 |
| Little Girl, little Girl, where have you been? | 180 |
| Little Jack Horner (Music) | 80 |
| Little Miss Muffett | 263 |
| Little Nancy Etticote | 123 |
| Little Polly Flinders | 239 |
| Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a Rail | 149 |
| Little Tommy Tittlemouse | 195 |
| Little Tom Tucker (Music) | 146 |
| M | |
| Margery Mutton-Pie and Johnny Bo-Peep | 188 |
| Marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren | 84 |
| Mary had a pretty Bird | 122 |
| Mary, Mary, quite contrary | 148 |
| Molly, my Sister, and I fell out | 59 |
| Mr. Isbister and Betsy his Sister | 311 |
| Multiplication is Vexation | 209 |
| My Lady Wind, my Lady Wind | 303 |
| My little Old Man and I fell out | 288 |
| N | |
| Needles and Pins, Needles and Pins | 300 |
| Nievie, Nievie, Nicknack | 306 |
| Nursery Rhyme Alphabet | 226 |
| O | |
| Oh, Mother, I'm to be Married to Mr. Punchinello | 306 |
| Oh, the Rusty, Dusty, Rusty Miller | 168 |
| Old Father Grey Beard | 140 |
| Old King Cole | 154 |
| Old Mother Goose | 9 |
| Old Mother Hubbard | 64 |
| Old Mother Widdle-Waddle | 206 |
| Old Woman, Old Woman, shall we go a-Shearing? | 298 |
| One misty, moisty Morning | 228 |
| One, Two, buckle my Shoe | 191 |
| One, Two, Three | 219 |
| One, Two, Three, Four, Five | 261 |
| P | |
| Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's Man | 299 |
| Pease Pudding Hot | 188 |
| Peter White will ne'er go right | 217 |
| Pit, pat, well-a-day! | 149 |
| Pitty Patty Polt | 61 |
| Please to remember the Fifth of November | 260 |
| Poor Dog Bright | 296 |
| Poor old Robinson Crusoe | 240 |
| Pussy Cat ate the Dumplings | 299 |
| Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been? | 195 |
| Pussy sits beside the Fire | 168 |
| Q | |
| Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sits in the Sun | 180 |
| R | |
| Rain, Rain, go away | 309 |
| Rain, Rain, go to Spain | 307 |
| Ride a Cock-Horse | 184 |
| Robin and Richard were two pretty Men | 183 |
| S | |
| See a Pin and pick it up | 259 |
| See-saw, Margery Daw | 178 |
| See, see, what shall I see? | 195 |
| Simple Simon (Music) | 112 |
| Sing a Song of Sixpence (Music) | 234 |
| Snail, Snail, come out of your Hole | 141 |
| Snail, Snail, come put out your Horn | 189 |
| Solomon Grundy | 59 |
| Some little Mice sat in a Barn | 320 |
| Swan, Swan, over the Sea | 228 |
| T | |
| Taffy was a Welshman | 291 |
| The Barber shaved the Mason | 63 |
| The Cat sat asleep by the side of the Fire | 264 |
| The Cock doth Crow | 119 |
| The Cuckoo's a bonny Bird | 298 |
| The Fox and the Farmer | 186 |
| The great Brown Owl | 145 |
| The House that Jack built | 196 |
| The King of France went up the Hill | 119 |
| The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the Crown | 172 |
| The Man in the Moon | 149 |
| The North Wind doth blow | 241 |
| The Old Woman and her Pig | 242 |
| The Old Woman must stand at the Tub, Tub, Tub | 229 |
| The Queen of Hearts | 210 |
| There was a Crooked Man | 169 |
| There was a Fat Man of Bombay | 233 |
| There was a Jolly Miller | 56 |
| There was a little Man and he had a little Gun | 209 |
| There was a Monkey climbed up a Tree | 82 |
| There was an Old Crow | 223 |
| There was an Old Man of Tobago | 262 |
| There was an Old Woman, and what do you think? | 319 |
| There was an Old Woman as I've heard tell | 134 |
| There was an Old Woman called Nothing-at-all | 220 |
| There was an Old Woman lived under a Hill | 139 |
| There was an Old Woman tossed up in a Basket | 181 |
| There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoe | 218 |
| There was an Owl lived in an Oak | 50 |
| There was a Rat, for want of Stairs | 188 |
| There were Three Crows sat on a Stone | 211 |
| The Robin Redbreasts | 138 |
| The Rose is Red, the Violet's Blue | 310 |
| The Turtle Dove's Nest | 215 |
| The Waves on the Sea-shore | 83 |
| The Wonderful Derby Ram | 302 |
| The Young Linnets | 176 |
| This is the way the Ladies go | 261 |
| Thomas a Tattamus took two T's | 172 |
| Three Children sliding on the Ice | 301 |
| Three Straws on a Staff | 209 |
| Three Wise Men of Gotham | 135 |
| To make your Candles last for aye | 144 |
| To Market, to Market, a gallop, a trot | 288 |
| To Market, to Market, to buy a Fat Pig | 52 |
| Tommy kept a Chandler's Shop | 258 |
| Tom Thumb's Alphabet | 15 |
| Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Music) | 130 |
| Twinkle, twinkle, little Star | 284 |
| Two Legs sat upon Three Legs | 206 |
| U | |
| Up Hill and down Dale | 287 |
| Up Hill, spare me | 307 |
| V | |
| Valentine, oh, Valentine | 311 |
| W | |
| Walrus (The) and the Carpenter | 42 |
| We are all in the Dumps | 139 |
| We'll go a-shooting | 310 |
| What's the News of the Day? | 223 |
| When I was a Bachelor, I lived by myself | 182 |
| When Little Fred went to Bed | 308 |
| When the Wind is in the East | 214 |
| Where are you going to, my pretty Maid? | 62 |
| Who Stole the Bird's Nest? | 53 |
| Willy Boy, Willy Boy, where are you going? | 118 |
| Y | |
| Young Lambs to sell, Young Lambs to sell | 142 |
| You shall have an Apple | 294 |