Part 12
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: Músicks' 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