The Nursery Rhymes

of
England.

By James Orchard Halliwell.

With Illustrations by W. B. Scott.

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London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co.

1886.

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Illustration: Interior DrawingIllustration: Title Page

Table of Contents

Illustration: A long way to go.

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Index

Page
A
A, B, C, and D 16
A, B, C, tumble down D 14
About the bush, Willy 91
A carrion crow sat on an oak 115
A cat came fiddling out of a barn 219
A cow and a calf 228
A diller, a dollar 76
A dog and a cock 61
A duck and a drake 164
A for the ape, that we saw at the fair 20
A good child, a good child 314
A guinea it would sink 74
A kid, a kid, my father bought 288
A little cock sparrow sat on a green tree 271
A little old man and I fell out 144
A little old man of Derby 153
All of a row 258
A long-tail'd pig, or a short-tail'd pig 262
A man of words and not of deeds 70
A man of words and not of deeds 71
A man went a hunting at Reigate 301
An old woman was sweeping her house 290
A pie sate on a pear-tree 259
Apple-pie, pudding, and pancake 16
A pretty little girl in a round-eared cap 92
A pullet in the pen 71
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose 132
Around the green gravel the grass grows green 314
Arthur O'Bower has broken his band 123
As I look'd out o' my chamber window 120
As I walk'd by myself 11
As I was going along, long, long 107
As I was going by Charing Cross 9
As I was going o'er London Bridge 121
As I was going o'er London Bridge 133
As I was going o'er Tipple Tine 122
As I was going o'er Westminster Bridge 130
As I was going to St. Ives 133
As I was going to sell my eggs 314
As I was going up Pippen-hill 224
As I was going up the hill 106
As I was walking o'er Little Moorfields 96
As I went over Lincoln Bridge 131
As I went over the water 256
As I went over the water 313
As I went through the garden gap 132
As I went to Bonner 264
As round as an apple, as deep as a cup 132
As soft as silk, as white as milk 122
As the days grow longer 73
As the days lengthen 73
As titty mouse sat in the witty to spin 265
As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks 229
Astra Dabit Dominus, Gratisque Beabit Egenos 77
A sunshiny shower 73
A swarm of bees in May 72
At Brill on the Hill 301
At Dover dwells George Brown Esquire 77
A thatcher of Thatchwood went to Thatchet a thatching 138
At the siege of Belle-isle 6
Awake, arise, pull out your eyes 158
Awa', birds, away! 117
A was an apple-pie 19
A was an archer, and shot at a frog 18
B
Baby and I 304
Bah, bah, black sheep 279
Barber, barber, shave a pig 309
Barnaby Bright he was a sharp cur 267
Barney Bodkin broke his nose 204
Bat, bat 172
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray 246
Betty Pringle had a little pig 266
Birch and green holly, boys 77
Birds of a feather flock together 232
Black we are, but much admired 129
Black within, and red without 130
Blenky my nutty-cock 315
Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go! 312
Blue eye beauty 250
Bobin-a-Bobin bent his bow 271
Bonny lass, canny lass, wilta be mine? 246
Bounce Buckram, velvet's dear 70
Bow, wow, wow 270
Brave news is come to town 225
Bryan O'Lin, and his wife, and wife's mother 56
Buff says Buff to all his men 158
Burnie bee, burnie bee 254
Buz, quoth the blue fly 105
Bye, baby bumpkin 207
Bye, baby bunting 210
Bye, O my baby! 209
C
Can you make me a cambric shirt 241
Catch him, crow! carry him, kite! 260
Charley wag 305
Charley Warley had a cow 278
Clap hands, clap hands 172
Clap hands, clap hands! 176
Cock a doodle doo! 214
Cock-a-doodle-do 274
Cock Robin got up early 266
Come, butter, come 136
Come dance a jig 220
Come, let's to bed 308
Come when you're called 80
Congeal'd water and Cain's brother 128
Cripple Dick upon a stick 302
Croak! said the Toad, I'm hungry, I think 257
Cross patch 79
Cuckoo, cherry tree 173
Curly locks! curly locks! wilt thou be mine? 250
Curr dhoo, curr dhoo 277
Cuckoo, Cuckoo 260
Cushy cow bonny, let down thy milk 135
D
Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town 308
Dame, get up and bake your pies 118
Dame, what makes your ducks to die? 272
Dance, little baby, dance up high 206
Dance, Thumbkin, dance 155
Dance to your daddy 206
Danty baby diddy 208
Darby and Joan were dress'd in black 309
Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John 216
Dibbity, dibbity, dibbity, doe 217
Dick and Tom, Will and John 300
Dickery, Dickery, dare 261
Did you see my wife, did you see, did you see 231
Diddledy, diddledy, dumpty 215
Ding, dong, bell 213
Ding, dong, darrow 221
Doctor Faustus was a good man 81
Doodle, doodle, doo 221
Doodledy, doodledy, doodledy, dan 219
Draw a pail of water 160
Driddlety drum, driddlety drum 301
E
Eat, birds, eat, and make no waste 264
Eggs, butter, bread 180
Eighty-eight wor Kirby feight 13
Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess 132
Elsie Marley is grown so fine 97
Every lady in this land 124
Eye winker 193
F
Father Iohnson Nicholas Iohnson's Son 79
Father Short came down the lane 152
Feedum, fiddledum fee 217
F for fig, J for Jig 15
Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dee 218
Flour of England, fruit of Spain 124
Flowers, flowers, high-do! 183
Formed long ago, yet made to-day 131
For every evil under the sun 74
Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail 256
Fox, a fox, a brummalary 193
Friday night's dream 75
G
Gay go up and gay go down 156
Gilly silly Jarter 218
Girls and boys, come out to play 305
Give me a blow, and I'll beat 'em 210
Good horses, bad horses 175
Good Queen Bess was a glorious dame 7
Goosey, goosey, gander 281
Goosy, goosy, gander 281
Go to bed first, a golden purse 69
Go to bed, Tom! 313
Gray goose and gander 257
Great A, little a 15
Green cheese, yellow laces 169
H
Handy Spandy, Jack-a-dandy 216
Hannah Bantry in the pantry 305
Hark, hark 306
Hector Protector was dressed all in green 9
Heetum peetum penny pie 188
Hemp-seed I set 233
Here am I, little jumping Joan 200
Here come I 194
Here comes a lusty wooer 249
Here comes a poor woman from baby-land 183
Here goes my lord 168
Here sits the Lord Mayor 181
Here stands a post 177
Here we come a piping 184
He that goes to see his wheat in May 74
He that would thrive 72
Hey! diddle, diddle 219
Hey! diddle, diddle 222
Hey diddle, dinketty, poppety, pet 218
Hey ding a ding, what shall I sing? 214
Hey, dorolot, dorolot! 219
Hey, my kitten, my kitten 208
Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more 120
Hic, hoc, the carrion crow 116
Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7 16
Hickety, pickety, my black hen 261
Hickory (1), Dickory (2), Dock (3) 174
Hickup, hickup, go away 140
Hickup, snicup 140
Hie hie, says Anthony 262
Higglepy, Piggleby 275
Higgledy piggledy 126
High diddle ding 9
High diddle doubt, my candle out 313
High ding a ding, and ho ding a ding 9
High, ding, cockatoo-moody 222
Higher than a house, higher than a tree 129
Highty cock O! 173
Highty, tighty, paradighty clothed in green 133
Hink, minx! the old witch winks 303
Ho! Master Teague, what is your story? 7
Hot-cross Buns! 104
How d' 'e dogs, how? whose dog art thou? 270
How does my lady's garden grow? 106
How do you do, neighbour? 316
How many days has my baby to play? 308
How many miles is it to Babylon? 176
Hub a dub dub 218
Humpty Dumpty lay in a beck 122
Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall 129
Hurly, burly, trumpet trase 276
Hussy, hussy, where's your horse? 280
Hush, hush, hush, hush 207
Hush-a-bye, a ba lamb 209
Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top 209
Hush-a-bye, lie still and sleep 211
Hush thee, my babby 207
Hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry 205
Hyder iddle diddle dell 217
I
I am a gold lock 165
I am a pretty wench 232
I can make diet bread 184
I doubt, I doubt my fire is out 237
I can weave diaper thick, thick, thick 309
I charge my daughters every one (Game of the Gipsy) 159
If a body meet a body 304
If all the world was apple-pie 198
If all the seas were one sea 310
If a man who turnips cries 204
If I'd as much money as I could spend 117
If ifs and ands 80
If wishes were horses 69
If you love me, pop and fly 135
If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger 71
If you with me will go, my love 236
I had a little castle upon the sea-side 134
I had a little cow 278
I had a little cow, to save her 269
I had a little dog, and his name was Blue Bell 252
I had a little dog, and they called him Buff 258
I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen 274
I had a little hobby-horse, and it was well shod 253
I had a little husband 240
I had a little moppet 310
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear 4
I had a little pony 279
I had two pigeons bright and gay 266
I have a little sister, they call her peep, peep 125
I have been to market, my lady, my lady 108
I like little pussy, her coat is so warm 277
I'll away yhame 277
I'll buy you a tartan bonnet 212
I'll sing you a song 118
I'll tell you a story 59
I lost my mare in Lincoln Lane 302
I love my love with an A, because he's Agreeable 80
I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence 102
I married my wife by the light of the moon 243
In Arthur's court, Tom Thumb did live 43
In fir tar is 77
In July 74
In marble walls as white as milk 125
Intery, mintery, cutery-corn 164
In the month of February 269
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail 201
I saw a ship a-sailing 203
I sell you the key of the king's garden 282
Is John Smith within? 163
It's once I courted as pretty a lass 225
I've a glove in my hand (Drop-Glove) 192
I went into my grandmother's garden 121
I went to the toad that lies under the wall 136
I went to the wood and got it 119
I went up one pair of stairs 168
I won't be my father's Jack 208
I would if I cou'd 198
J
Jack and Jill went up the hill 246
Jack be nimble 166
Jack in the pulpit, out and in 231
Jack Sprat 275
Jack Sprat could eat no fat 233
Jack Sprat's pig 267
Jacky, come give me thy fiddle 101
Jacky, come give me thy fiddle 315
Jeanie, come tie my 94
Jim and George were two great lords 12
John Ball shot them all 283
John, come sell thy fiddle 231
John Cook had a little grey mare; he, haw, hum! 114
Johnny Armstrong kill'd a calf 262
Johnny shall have a new bonnet 95
K
King's Sutton is a pretty town 300
L
Lady bird, lady bird, fly away home 272
Lady-cow, lady-cow, fly thy way home 263
Legomoton 81
Leg over leg 280
Lend me thy mare to ride a mile? 91
Let us go to the wood, says this pig 170
Little Bob Robin 268
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep 93
Little boy blue, come blow up your horn 281
Little boy, pretty boy, where was you born? 301
Little cock robin peep'd out of his cabin 277
Little Dicky Dilver 221
Little General Monk 13
Little girl, little girl, where have you been? 306
Little Jack a dandy 217
Little Jack Dandy-prat was my first suitor 234
Little Jack Jingle 229
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner 65
Little John Jiggy Jag 245
Little King Boggen he built a fine hall 41
Little lad, little lad, where wast thou born? 302
Little maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou? 232
Little Mary Ester 307
Little Nancy Etticoat 127
Little Poll Parrot 254
Little Robin Red-breast 261
Little Robin Red-breast 262
Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree 273
Little Tee wee 215
Little Tom Dandy 247
Little Tom Dogget 86
Little Tommy Tacket 311
Little Tommy Tittlemouse 41
Little Tom Tittlemouse 61
Little Tom Tucker 308
Lives in winter 134
Lock the dairy door 279
London bridge is broken down 98
Long Legs, crooked thighs 128
Love your own, kiss your own 248
M
Madam, I am come to court you 244
Made in London 121
Make three-fourths of a cross 123
Margaret wrote a letter 248
Margery Mutton-pie, and Johnny Bopeep 163
Master I have, and I am his man 237
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 136
May my geese fly over your barn? 190
Merry are the bells, and merry would they ring 103
Miss one, two, and three could never agree 17
Mistress Mary, quite contrary 81
Moss was a little man, and a little mare did buy 66
Multiplication is vexation 78
My dear cockadoodle, my jewel, my joy 210
My dear, do you know 35
My father and mother 302
My father he died, but I can't tell you how 92
My father he left me, just as he was able 138
My father left me three acres of land 109
My father was a Frenchman 180
My grandmother sent me a new-fashioned, &c. 139
My lady Wind, my lady Wind 60
My little old man and I fell out 312
My maid Mary 104
My mother and your mother 195
My story's ended 79
My true love lives far from me 201
N
Nature requires five 69
Needles and pins, needles and pins 73
Now we dance, looby, looby, looby 190
Number number nine, this hoop's mine 168
O
Oh, dear, what can the matter be? 152
Oh! mother, I shall be married to Mr. Punchinello 245
Oh, where are you going 82
Old Abram Brown is dead and gone 60
Old Betty Blue 146
Old father Graybeard 134
Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see 102
Old Father of the Pye 99
Old King Cole 1
Old Mother Goose, when 56
Old mother Hubbard 146
Old Mother Niddity Nod swore by the pudding-bag 144
Old Sir Simon the king 314
Old mother Twitchett had but one eye 125
Old woman, old woman, shall we go a shearing? 143
Once I saw a little bird 263
Once upon a time there was an old sow (The Story of the Three Little Pigs) 37
On Christmas eve I turn'd the spit 276
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 15
One-ery, two-ery 154
One-ery, two-ery, hickary, hum 167
One misty moisty morning 84
One moonshiny night 3
One's none 15
One old Oxford ox opening oysters 175
One to make ready 156
One, two 17
One, two, three 14
On Saturday night 237
O rare Harry Parry 249
O that I was where I would be 196
O the little rusty, dusty, rusty miller 229
Our saucy boy Dick 66
Over the water, and over the lee 8
P
Pancakes and fritters 108
Parson Darby wore a black gown 311
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man! 18
Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold 130
Pease-pudding hot 158
Peg, Peg, wish a wooden leg 311
Pemmy was a pretty girl 63
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper 138
Peter White will ne'er go right 196
Pit, Pat, well-a-day 253
Pitty Patty Polt 270
Please to remember 7
Polly, put the kettle on 83
Poor old Robinson Crusoe! 10
Pretty John Watts 275
Punch and Judy 32
Purple, yellow, red, and green 129
Pussey cat sits by the fire 274
Pussicat, wussicat, with a white foot 220
Pussy cat eat the dumplings, the dumplings 267
Pussy cat Mole 264
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been 257
Pussy sat by the fire-side 261
Pussy sits behind the fire 269
Q
Queen Anne, queen Anne, you sit in the sun 161
R
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit-Pie 211
Rain, Rain, go away 305
Riddle me, riddle me, ree 263
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 165
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 166
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 170
Ride a cock-horse to Coventry-cross 170
Ride, baby, ride 210
Ring me (1), ring me (2), ring me rary (3) 170
Ring the bell! 182
Robert Barnes, fellow fine 260
Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round 139
Robin and Richard were two pretty men 59
Robin Hood, Robin Hood 3
Robin the Bobbin, the big-bellied Ben 33
Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 209
Rock well my cradle 212
Rompty-iddity, row, row, row 222
Rosemary green 232
Round about, round about 222
Rowley Powley, pudding and pie 248
Rowsty dowt, my fire's all out 280
S
Saw ye aught of my love a coming from ye market 240
Says t'auld man tit oak tree 89
See a pin and pick it up 69
See, saw, Margery Daw 164
See, saw, Margery Daw 165
See, saw, Margery Daw 276
See saw, sack-a-day 8
See-saw, jack a daw 176
See-saw sacradown 177
See, see? what shall I see? 133
Shake a leg, wag a leg, when will you gang 307
Shoe the colt 265
Shoe the colt, shoe! 180
Sieve my lady's oatmeal 161
Simple Simon met a pieman 31
Sing a song of sixpence 90
Sing jigmijole, the pudding-bowl 216
Sing, sing, what shall I sing? 215
Solomon Grundy 33
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin 255
Some up, and some down 95
Snail, snail, come out of your hole 254
Snail, snail, put out your horns 272
Snail, snail, shut out your horns 273
Sneel, snaul 254
Speak when you're spoken to 80
St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain 68
St. Thomas's-day is past and gone 316
Swan swam over the sea 139
Sylvia, sweet as morning air 226
T
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief 64
Tell tale, tit! 76
Ten and ten and twice eleven 121
The art of good driving's a paradox quite 75
The barber shaved the mason 310
The cat sat asleep by the side of the fire 253
The cock doth crow 258
The cuckoo's a fine bird 251
The cuckoo's a vine bird 252
The dog of the kill 195
The dove says coo, coo, what shall I do? 270
The fair maid who, the first of May 75
The first day of Christmas 184
The fox and his wife they had a great strife 84
The girl in the lane, that couldn't speak plain 303
The king of France, and four thousand men 5
The king of France, the king of France, with forty thousand men 6
The king of France went up the hill 5
The king of France, with twenty thousand men 5
The Keys of Canterbury 234
The lion and the unicorn 42
The little priest of Felton 300
The man in the moon 66
The mackerel's cry 74
The man in the moon drinks claret 309
The man in the wilderness asked me 199
The moon nine days old 127
The north wind doth blow 96
The old woman and her pig 292
The pettitoes are little feet 278
The quaker's wife got up to bake 312
There once was a gentleman grand (The Story of Catskin) 22
There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile 33
There was a fat man of Bombay 34
There was a frog liv'd in a well 110
There was a girl in our towne 119
There was a jolly miller 42
There was a jolly miller 107
There was a king, and he had three daughters 65
There was a king met a king 123
There was a little boy and a little girl 228
There was a little boy went into a barn 273
There was a little Guinea-pig 200
There was a little maid, and she was afraid 243
There was a little man 36
There was a little man 227
There was a little nobby colt 299
There was a little one-eyed gunner 264
There was a little pretty lad 247
There was a man, and he had naught 36
There was a man and he was mad 203
There was a man, and his name was Dob 190
There was a man in our toone, in our toone, in our toone 113
There was a man of Newington 197
There was a man rode through our town 130
There was a man who had no eyes 127
There was a monkey climb'd up a tree 11
There was an old crow 259
There was an old man 152
There was an old man of Tobago 152
There was an old man who liv'd in Middle Row 145
There was an old man, who lived in a wood 150
There was an old woman 144
There was an old woman 144
There was an old woman 149
There was an old woman, and what do you think? 199
There was an old woman, as I've heard tell 141
There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all 153
There was an old woman had nothing 200
There was an old woman had three cows 276
There was an old woman had three sons 150
There was an old woman, her name it was Peg 143
There was an old woman in Surrey 153
There was an old woman of Leeds 145
There was an old woman of Norwich 153
There was an old woman sat spinning 143
There was an old woman toss'd up in a basket 145
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 142
There was an owl lived in an oak 258
There was a piper, he'd a cow 265
There were three jovial Welshmen 161
There were three sisters in a hall 128
There were two birds sat on a stone 106
There were two blackbirds 167
The robin and the wren 268
The rose is red, the grass is green 6
The rose is red, the grass is green 79
The sow came in with the saddle 255
The tailor of Bicester 300
The white dove sat on the castle wall 97
The winds, they did blow 268
They that wash on Monday 72
Thirty days hath September 78
Thirty white horses upon a red hill 128
This is the house that Jack built 285
This is the key of the kingdom 174
This is the way the ladies ride 189
This pig went to market 172
This pig went to market 182
This pig went to the barn 183
Thomas and Annis met in the dark 239
Thomas a Tattamus took two T's 126
Three blind mice, see how they run! 110
Three children sliding on the ice 197
Three crooked cripples went through Cripplegate 139
Three straws on a staff 69
Three wise men of Gotham 59
Thumb bold 193
Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn 182
Tiddle liddle lightum 216
Tip, top, tower 168
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 295
Tobacco wick! tobacco wick! 198
To Beccles! to Beccles! (The Old Dame) 191
To make your candles last for a' 68
To market ride the gentlemen 169
To market, to market 206
To market, to market 211
To market, to market, a gallop, a trot 307
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 221
To market, to market, to buy a plum-cake 315
Tom Brown's two little Indian boys 167
Tom he was a piper's son 99
Tommy kept a chandler's shop 62
Tommy Trot a man of law 230
Tom shall have a new bonnet 207
Tom, Tom, the piper's son 42
Trip and go, heave and hoe 189
Trip trap over the grass 177
Trip upon trenchers, and dance upon dishes 94
'Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'Twas a holiday 256
Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee 220
Twelve huntsmen with horns and hounds 159
Twelve pears hanging high 124
Two broken tradesmen 171
Two legs sat upon three legs 131
U
Up at Piccadilly oh! 89
Up hill and down dale 231
Up stairs, down stairs, upon my lady's window 198
Up street, and down street 244
W
Wash, hands, wash 312
We are three brethren out of Spain 178
Weave the diaper tick-a-tick tick 166
We make no spare 4
We're all dry with drinking on't 230
We're all in the dumps 306
What are little boys made of 304
What care I how black I be 226
"What do they call you?" 255
What is the rhyme for poringer? 10
What shoe-maker makes shoes without leather 126
What's the news of the day 306
When a Twister a twisting will twist him a twist 137
When good king Arthur ruled this land 2
When I was a little boy, I had but little wit 81
When I was a little girl, about seven years old 62
When I was taken from the fair body 120
When I went up sandy hill 134
When Jacky's a very good boy 311
When shall we be married 229
When the sand doth feed the clay 75
When the snow is on the ground 259
When the wind is in the east 70
When V and I together meet 78
Where are you going, my pretty maid? 107
Where have you been all the day 226
Where have you been to-day, Billy, my son 242
Where was a sugar and fretty 212
Whistle, daughter, whistle, whistle, daughter dear 117
Who comes here? 313
Who goes round my house this night? 155
Who is going round my sheepfold? 173
Whoop, whoop, and hollow 167
Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going 307
Willy, Willy Wilkin 225
William and Mary, George and Anne 10
Wooley Foster has gone to sea 105
Y
Yeow mussent sing a' Sunday 73
Young Roger came tapping at Dolly's window 238
Young lambs to sell 211
You shall have an apple 89

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