Jack Sprat
The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Munroe & Francis. 1833.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat;
His wife could eat no lean;
So 'twixt them both they cleared the cloth,
And lick'd the platter clean.
Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Kate Greenaway. 1881.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so between them both,
They licked the platter clean.
The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1886.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so, betwixt them both, you see,
They lick'd the platter clean.
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Walter Crane. 1877.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so betwixt them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.
The Little Mother Goose. Jessie Willcox Smith. 1912.
Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
And so, betwixt them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.
Moral:
Better to go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.
The Real Mother Goose. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.
Jack Sprat
Could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so,
Betwixt them both,
They licked the platter clean.
Old Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition. Eulalie Osgood Grover. 1915.
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
So 'twixt them both they cleared the cloth,
And lick'd the platter clean.
Harry's Ladder to Learning David Bogue. 1850.
Jack Sprat would eat no fat,
His wife would eat no lean;
Now was not this a pretty trick
To make the platter clean?
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Origin - Europe - British Isles -