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, 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
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
King's Sutton is a pretty town, 300
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
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
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
Of all the gay birds that e'er I did see, 102
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
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, 37
On Christmas eve I turn'd the spit, 276
One, 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
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
Queen Anne, queen Anne, you sit in the sun, 161
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-a-Bobin bent his bow, 271
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
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
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, 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 lived 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!, 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
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
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
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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Transcriber' Note:
This book contains a lot of dialect, which has been retained.
page 2: 'fidlers' agrees with scan; retained, despite 'fiddle' in same
poem. 17th century and older spelling was not necessarily standardised,
even within the same sentence.
page 42: 'flee' is followed by 'Mr. Flea'. But 'flee' rhymes with 'Dee',
and has been retained.
page 75, and Index: "driving 's":
"The art of good driving 's a paradox quite," agrees with both scans,
and has been retained.
CCCLI.
The second small print explanatory note did not contain quote marks,
and they have not been added.
CCCLIII.
The missing opening and closing quote marks in the explanatory note
are implied by the first quote marks ("Eleven going for twelve."),
but have not been added.
CCCXCII.
'did'nt' retained: "O then my poor baby did'nt cry!"
CCCCXXXII.
'would'nt' retained: "The miller would'nt have her,"
Colons have been used extensively throughout the book, where, perhaps
a semi-colon would be used today. The colons have been retained, as
they seem to suggest a subtle nuance of meaning.
A few obvious punctuation errors have been repaired.
Old-fashioned, but correct, punctuation (which agrees with the scans)
has been retained.
There are, however, some apparently genuine typographical or
printer's errors.
Errata
page iv: 'doggrel' corrected to 'doggerel': "the place of the ancient
doggerel"
page 37: 'shin' corrected to 'chin': "No, no, by the hair of my chiny
chin chin."
page 92: 'buble' corrected to 'bubble': "Jack sing saddle oh,
Blowsey boys bubble oh,"
page 110: Musicks' corrected to Musicks (accent not on orig. book cover)
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/deuteromelia/deut_01small.html)
page 158: 'here' corrected to 'hear': "And hear what time of day;"
page 222: 'scarely' corrected to 'scarcely': "that our endeavours are
scarcely likely to be attended with success."
page 317: 'sat' corrected to 'sate':
"A pie sate on a pear-tree, 259"
page 321: 'came' corrected to 'come':
"Girls and boys, come out to play, 305"
page 332: 'thay' corrected to 'they':
"What do they call you?, 255"
Sundry "Index" entries have been relocated for consistency.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Nursery Rhymes of England, by Various