Title- Index to Popular Rhymes & Nursery Tales

A cat may look at a king186
A Curious Discourse that passed beween the twenty-five letters at dinner-time139
A DRINKING CUSTOM257
A duck and a drake112
A flock of white sheep142
A gift—a friend—a foe—228
A hill full, a hole full144
A house full, a yard full145
A northern har156
A penn'orth of bread to feed the Pope254
A pie sat on a pear tree257
A pleen-pie tit183
A robin and a titter-wren164
A seyal, a seyal in our town249
A Shrovun, a Shrovun247
A Shrovun, a Shrovun247
A warke it ys as easie to be doone197
A water there is I must pass149
A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree178
A. apple-pye, B. bit it138
A. to Amerous, to Aventurous, ne Angre the not to moche136
Af kött och blod är jag upprunnen147
Ah ! Where have you been, Lairde Rowlande, my son ?261
All hail to the moon, all hail to thee !160
All hele, thou holy herb vervin226
ALL SOULS' DAY253
All the bairns unborn will rue the day205
An old story is told of a man221
And if thou dost buy this book82
Apala, mesala135
APPLES177
APRIL FOOL DAY251
April-fool time's past and gone251
Archdeacon Pratt would eat no fatt17
Arthur o'Bower has broken his band159
As Chicken-licken went one day to the wood (Tale)29
As foolish as monkeys till twenty and more187
As high as a castle144
As I look'd out o' my chamber window145
As I walk'd by myself11
As I was going by Charing Cross10
As I was going o'er London bridge I heard something crack145
As I was going o'er London bridge I met a drove of guinea pigs146
As I was going o'er yon moor of moss145
As I went over Hottery Tottery150
As I went through my houter touter150
As I went to Ratcliffe Fair272
As straight as a maypole148
As the days grow longer156
As this bean-shell rots away208
As we redyn, gaderyd most hym be226
As white as milk143
Ash-tree, ashen-tree208
At the end of my yard there is a vat146
At the Westgate came Thornton in205
Awa', birds, awa'

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BALL DIVINATION220
Banks full, braes full144
BARBERS' FORFEITS254
BARLEY-BRIDGE118
BEANS AND BUTTER113
Beer a bumble186
Belasise, Belassis, daft was thy nowle200
Bellasay, Bellasay, what time of day ?201
BELLASIS200
Bellysys Belysys dafe was thy sowel200
BILLY, MY SON258
BIRD SHOOER'S SONG179
Black within, and red without146
Black'm, saut'm, rough'm, glower'm, saw146
Blessed is the eye198
Blow the wind high, blow the wind low194
Blue is true228
Bo Peeper, Nose dreeper105
Bobby Shafto's getten a bairn202
Bobby Shafto's gone to sea201
Bobby Shafto's looking out201
Bone-shave right213
BO-PEEP109
Bo-Peep, Little Bo-Peep109
BOY'S BAILIFF243
BROCKLEY HILL198
Brow brinky106
Brow-bone, Eye-stone106
BUCKEE BENE214
Buckee, Buckee, biddy Bene214
BUCKLAND195
Buckland and Laverton195
Burn ash-wood queen178
Burnie bee, burnie bee

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Captain Wedderburn's Courtship151
CARE SUNDAY251
Care Sunday, care away251
Catharine and Clement, be here, be here238
CATHERNING238
CHARM RHYMES206
Chicky, cuckoo, my little duck109
CHILD ROWLAND (Tale)78
Christ was of a virgin born212
CHRISTMAS230
CHRISTMAS MUMMERS' PLAY231
Cloister-dame, in house of shell177
Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe102
Cock, cock, I have la-a-a-a-yed !174
COCKLE BREAD256
COLEBROOK195
COLLINGWOOD188
COLLOP MONDAY245
Collop Monday, Pancake Tuesday245
COLOURS228
Come, butter, come209
Cook a ball, cherry-tree220
COUNTING OUT RHYMES134
Cramp, be thou faintless212
CROWS171
Cuckoo, cherry-tree221
CUCKSTONE193
Cut them on Monday, you cut them for health

227

DABBLING IN THE DEW269
Dance, thumbkin, dance104
DANCING LOOBY129
DAYS OF BIRTH228
DOCK223
Doctor Sacheverel12
DOMESTIC POULTRY174
Double Dee Double Day18
Down on the shed Lille Bulle rolled9
Dragon fly! Dragon fly! fly about the brook175
DRAGON-FLIES174
DROP CAP113
DROP-GLOVE

130

EARSDON206
EASTER GLOVES250
Eighty-eight wor Kirby feight205
ELTON

188

FACE SONGS105
February fill the dyke158
FELTON191
FIFTH OF NOVEMBER253
Fight on, Rattlebone199
FINGER NAILS227
First come, first serve— then come not late255
First comes David, next come Chad156
Fly, fly, our Lord's own hen !6
Fly, lady-bird, fly!5
Fool, fool, April fool251
For we are come here166
Friday night's dream184
Friday's moon, Come when it wool159
Friday's moon, Once in seven year

159

GAME OF THE CAT115
GAME OF THE FOX131
GAME OF THE GIPSY131
GILLING195
Gin you wish to be leman mine225
Give a thing and take again181
Give a thing, take a thing182
Gnat, gnat, fly into my hat180
Go to bed first220
God bless the master of this house236
God have your saul253
Gold-bird, get thee gone5
Gold-hen, gold-cow!5
Good morning, missus and measter252
Good morrow to you, Valentine !239
Good morrow, friends: St. Valentine is past240
Good morrow, Valentine ! I be thine239
Good morrow, Valentine, God bless239
Good morrow, Valentine, I go to-day250
Good St. Thomas, do me right224
Good Valentine, be kind to me220
GOTHAM195
Gray's Inn for walks186
Gubben och gumman hade en kalf3
Guld-höna, guld-ko!5
Guldvogel, flieg aus4
Gumman ville vagga

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Ha wish ye a merry Christmas230
Had it not been For your quicken-tree goad226
Halfe Englande ys nowght now but shepe110
Hamden of Hamden did foregoe194
HAMPDEN194
HANDY DANDY116
Handy-dandy riddledy ro116
Handy-dandy, Jack-a-dandy116
Harry Whistle, Tommy Thistle101
Hartley and Hallowell, a' ya' bonnie lassie206
HARVEST HOME252
Harvest home, harvest home252
Have at thee, Black Hartforth196
HAWLEY194
He got out of the muxy183
He that hath it and will not keep it186
He that lies at the stock220
He tossed the ball so high, so high192
Herbe pimpernell, I have thee found179
Here come two dukes all out of Spain123
Here comes a poor woman from Babylon132
Here goes my lord108
Here sits the lord mayor106
Here thou shalt be192
Here we all stand round the ring119
Here we go round the bramble-bush126
Here we go round the mulberry-bush127
Here's a health to the barley mow252
Here's a health unto our maister252
Here's a poor soldier come to town !126
Here's two or three jolly boys all o' one mind244
HEWLEY PULEY124
Hey diddle diddle270
HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE270
Hic, hoc, the carrion crow13
Hickup, hickup, go away208
Higgory, diggory, digg'd114
Higham on the hill197
Higher than a house, higher than a tree146
Hitty Pitty within the wall149
HITTY TITTY113
Hitty-titty in-doors113
Hoddy-doddy142
Hoping this night my true love to see217
Hot boil'd beans and very good butter113
Hot kale or cold kale, I drink thee219
How many miles to Barley-bridge ?118
HUGH OF LINCOLN192
Hush, hush, hush, hush !258
Hvar har du varit så länge262
Hvar har du va't så länge263
Hvem är det som rider ?108
Hytum, skytum

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I am become of flesh and blood147
I charge my daughters every one131
I had a cock, and a cock lov'd me264
I had a little bonny nagg14
I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear10
I had a little sister145
I have four sisters beyond the sea150
I offer this my sacrifice215
I saw a fight the other day149
I see by the latch250
I sow, I sow !215
I went to the sea, And saw twentee111
If Candlemas day be fair and bright157
If Long Compton thou canst see193
If Skiddaw have a cap204
If the cock moult before the hen174
If there be a rainbow in the eve155
If you find even-ash or four-leaved clover223
If you love me as I love you222
If you love me, pop and fly224
If you set it The cats will eat it179
If you would go to a church miswent193
Igdum, digdum, didum, dest135
I'm a dull senseless blockhead143
I'm in every one's way141
In April the koo-coo can sing her note by rote161
In April, 'A shake 'as bill160
In April, The cuckoo shows his bill160
In days of yore old Abraham Elt188
In days of yore, when this country was governed by several sovereigns (Tale)35
In fir tar is12
In July Some reap rye184
In March The birds begin to search184
In nomine Patris, up and downe213
In the bloud of Adam death was taken213
In the merry days of good King Arthur, there lived in one of the counties of England (Tale)95
In the name of God, on Mount Olivet226
In the reign before William the Conqueror (Tale)82
In the reign of King Arthur there lived near Land's End (Tale)50
In the reign of King Arthur, and in the county of Cornwall (Tale)62
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty186
INGLEBOROUGH204
Ingleborow, Pendle, and Penigent204
Into my house came neighbour John148
ISLE OF MAN205
ISLE OF WIGHT SHROVERS246
It is time to cock your hay and corn157
It is written upon a wall in Rome194
It's time, I believe111
I've a glove in my hand Hittity Hot !130
I've seen you where you never was

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J.C.U.R. Good Mounseir Car140
JACK AND THE GIANTS (Tale)60
JACK HORNBY (Tale)50
Jack Horner was a pretty lad16
JACK ROBINSON197
JACK SPRAT266
Jack Sprat could eat no fat266
JACK-A-DANDY181
Jackatawad ran over the moor146
Jack's alive and in very good health112
Jag ser det dagligen143
Jenny, come here !17
Jesus was born in Bethlem210
John Lively, Vicar of Kelloe202
Johnny Reed! Johnny Reed!51
Johnny tuth' Bellas daft was thy poll200
Jungfru Marias Nyckelpiga!

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KALE219
Katy mês Ninka beyt?171
KELLOE202
Kernel come kernel, hop over my thumb224
Kinnewippchen, Rothlippchen107
Klosterfrau im Schneckenhäussle,177
KNEE-SONGS107
Kukuk, Beckenknecht !

221

Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! pretty one ! stay !4
Lady-cow, lady-cow, fly thy way home3
LANCASHIRE191
Lancashire law187
LAPWING AND RINGDOVE172
Last May-day fair I search'd to find a snail176
Last Valentine, the day when birds of a kind241
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green237
LAZY JACK36
LAZY LAWRENCE185
LEICESTERSHIRE197
LENT CROCKING250
LEYLAND192
Liar, liar, lick dish13
Liar, liar, lick spit182
Lille Bulle Trilla' ner å skulle9
Lille Trille8
Lilly low, lilly low, set up on an end146
LINCOLN203
Lincoln was, and London is203
Link Lank, on a bank148
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep110
Little lad, little lad, where wast thou born ?191
Little Shon a Morgan109
Little Trille Lay on a Shelf8
Long before Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Tale)39
LOVE DIVINATIONS215
Love, to thee I send these gloves250
Luna, every woman's friend

217

Magpie, magpie, chatter and flee168
MAGPIES167
Maikäferchen, Maikäferchen, fliege weg!5
Maikäferchen, fliege5
MALLY DIXON AND KNURRE-MURRE (Tale)51
Many years ago there lived at the University of Oxford a young student (Tale)49
Many years ago there lived on the brow of a mountain (Tale)43
March will search, April will try185
March winds and April showers159
Mars, hurs, abursa, aburse212
MARUM179
MARY BROWN. FAIR GUNDELA119
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John210
MAY DAY252
May this to me, Now happy be161
May-bird, fly5
May-bird, May-bird, fly away.5
Millery, millery, dustipoll21
MISCELLANEOUS PEURILE AMUSEMENTS111
Monday's child is fair in face228
Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar lived in a vinegar bottle (Tale)26
My belief,—222
MY COCK LILY-COCK263
MY DAUGHTER JANE123
My dear, do you know How a long time ago163
My father he died, I cannot tell how9
My granny is sick, and now is dead256
My hand burns hot, hot, hot113
My lady's lost her diamond ring125
My loaf in my lap209
My mother and your mother107
MY SOW HAS PIGGED

113

N. for a word of deniance188
Namby Pamby21
Nanty Panty, Jack-a-Dandy21
Nettle in, dock out223
NETTLES GROW IN AN ANGRY BUSH130
New moon, new moon, declare to me160
New moon, new moon, I hail thee !160
NEW YEAR'S DAY236
NIDDY-NODDY114
No halfers, Findee, keepee257
No heart can think, no tongue can tell179
No heart can think, nor tongue can tell198
No weather is ill156
NOEL188
NORTH ACRE200
Now Christmas is come, and now Pappy's come home230
Now the pixies' work is done !190
Now we dance looby, looby, looby129
Now, miller, miller

21

O good St. Faith, be kind to-night216
O hold away from me, kind sir151
Of flesh and blood sprung am I ever147
Oh, lend a hammer and a nail190
Oh, where are you going, My pretty maiden fair269
Oh, where ha' ye been a' day, My boy Tammy ?260
Old Father Greybeard143
On three crosses of a tree207
Once I was a monarch's daughter166
Once upon a time there lived a king who had three daughters (Tale)52
Once upon a time there was a boy whose name was Jack (Tale)36
Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman (Tale) 25
Once upon a time there was a young lady called Lady Mary, who had two brothers (Tale)47
Once upon a time there was an old miser (Tale)31
One for anger168
One-ery, two-ery134
One's unlucky171
Our Lord was the fyrst man211
Out 'ettle, in dock223
Over the water

148

PACE EGGING244
Pandebeen, Oisteen106
Paper's scarce, and luv iz dear242
Pea-pod hucks178
PEAS178
Peep, fool, peep239
Pee-wit, pee-wit172
Peter was sitting on a marble-stone212
Peter White will ne'er go right20
Philomel, with melody258
PIGEONS172
Pigeons never do know woe172
PIMPERNELL179
Pippin, pippin, fly away177
Pit-a-pat, the pan is hot246
Pixy fine, pixy gay190
PRESTON191
Proud Preston, poor people191
PUSS IN BOOTS56
Put your finger in foxy's hole

112

QUEEN ANNE133
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, who sits on her throne

133

Rain, rain, go to Spain156
Rainbow I' th' morning155
Raine, raine, goe away157
RIBCHESTER194
Ricket, racket, find it, tack it257
Riddle me, riddle me, what is that142
ROLLRIGHT193
ROSEBERRY TOPPING202
Round the house, and round the house158
Rules for seemly Behaviour255
Ruste duste tarbotell

19

S. George, S. George, our ladies knight213
SAINT LEVAN193
Saint Valentine, of custom year by year240
Saturday's new, and Sunday's full159
Says A, give me a good large slice139
Schneckhûs, peckhûs177
SEE SAW112
See-saw, sack-a-day11
SEVERN198
She must no more a-maying241
SHERSTON MAGNA198
Shoe my horse !102
Shoe the colt, shoe !101
Shoe, shoe my little horse102
SHREWSBURY196
SIR RALPH ASHTON191
SKIDDAW203
Skiddaw, Lanvellin, and Casticand204
Sko, sko min lille häst102
Skoe min hest !101
SLATE GAMES114
Sluggardy guise185
Snail ! Snail ! come out here !177
Snail, snail ! put out your horn175
Snail, snail, come out of your hole176
Snail, snail, put out your horns175
Snailie, snailie, shoot out your horn176
Snakestanger! Snakestanger!175
Sneel, snaul175
Snegl ! Snegl ! kom herud !177
SNOW157
Snow, snow faster157
Snow, snow, give over157
Sow in the sop185
Speak of a person and he will appear183
St. AGNES' NIGHT218
St. Agnes, that's to lovers kind219
St. Luke, St. Luke, be kind to me218
St. Simon and Jude, on you I intrude216
Stand fast, root ; bear well, top242
STANTON DREW198
Sweet guardian angels, let me have241
Sweet Jesu, for thy mercy's sake191
Swing'em, swang'em, bells at Wrangham

197

Take this ! What's this ? Hewley-puley125
Tales of my Nursery ! shall that still loved spotv
TEENY-TINY (Tale)25
Thanne wowede Wrong116
That's a lee wi'a latchet182
That's a lie with a latchet182
THE ASH178
THE BARLEY MOW252
THE BEGGARS OF RATCLIFFE FAIR272
THE BRAMBLE BUSH126
THE BULL OF NORROWAY (Tale)52
The calf, the goose, the bee144
THE CAT AND THE MOUSE (Tale)33
The cat and the mouse Play'd in the malt-house (Tale)33
THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON189
The children of Holland187
The cock gaed to Rome, seeking shoon174
The Collingwoods have borne the name188
THE CUCKOO160
The cuckoo and the gowk141
The cuckoo comes in April161
The Demands Joyous152
THE DIAMOND RING125
The diuell pull out both thine eies213
The dog of the kill103
THE EVEN ASH222
The ev'ning red, and the morning gray155
The fiddler and his wife142
The fifth of November253
The first letter of our fore-fadyr149
The first time that I gaed to Coudingham fair274
THE FIVE FINGERS103
THE FOUR SISTERS150
The Fox gives warning131
THE GAME OF DUMP128
THE GNAT180
The King of France went up the hill10
The king of France, and four thousand men10
THE KIRBY FEIGHT205
The land was white144
The little priest of Felton191
The Lord Dacre200
THE MAIDEN AND THE FROG (Tale)43
THE MAN IN THE MOON228
The Man in the Moon Came tumbling down229
The Man in the Moon drinks claret But he is a dull229
The Man in the Moon drinks claret With powder-beef229
THE MISER AND HIS WIFE (Tale)31
THE MOON159
THE OLD DAME132
THE OWL166
THE OX214
THE OXFORD STUDENT (Tale)49
THE POOR SOLDIER126
THE POOR WOMAN OF BABYLON132
THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY (Tale)35
THE RAINBOW155
The robin and the red-breast165
The robin and the wren164
THE ROBIN AND THE WREN162
The robin red-breast and the wren164
The rose is red239
The rose is red, the violet's blue250
THE SNAIL175
The sons of King Arthur were playing at ball in the merry town of Carlisle (Tale)78
The south wind brings wet weather159
The sports of childhood's roseate dawn276
THE STORY OF CHICKEN-LICKEN (Tale)29
THE STORY OF MR. FOX (Tale)47
THE STORY OF MR. VINEGAR (Tale)26
The tailor of Biciter16
THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL (Tale)39
THE THREE QUESTIONS (Tale)32
THE TOWN LOVERS118
THE TROUT180
THE WALNUT TREE178
THE WIND158
THE WOOD PIGEON172
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds166
THE YARROW223
Then John he arose, And to the door goes249
There is a bird of great renown149
There is a girl of our town119
There lived formerly in the county of Cumberland a nobleman who had three sons (Tale)32
There was a king met a king141
There was a lady lov'd a hogge7
There was a little green house142
There was a man rode through our town147
There was a man went over the Wash147
There was a miller, who left no more estate to his three sons (Tale)56
There was an old couple, and they were poor270
There was an old man3
There was an old man had three sons14
There was an old woman Liv'd under a hill14
There were three cooks of Colebrook195
There's a good card for thee114
They that wash on Monday187
Thille Lille On the roof-tree sat8
Thille Lille Satt på take'8
This broke the barn105
This charme shall be said207
This even-ash I hold in my hand222
This is the way the ladies ride107
This is the way we wash our clothes127
This knot I knit218
This pig went to market102
THORNTON205
Those that go my way, butter and eggs257
Those that made me were uncivil183
Thou pretty herb of Venus' tree223
Three blew beanes in a blew bladder214
Three things by beating better prove178
Three times this knot I tie secure222
Three wise men of Gotham195
Three words I know to be true144
Tid, Mid, Misera245
Tid, Mid, Misera251
Tis not this bone I mean to stick225
TIT FOR TAT185
Titty cum tawtay112
To Beccles ! To Beccles !132
To wilder measures next they turn52
TOBACCO180
Tobacco hic180
TOE GAMES101
TOM HICKATHRIFT (Tale)81
Tom Potts was but a serving-man210
TOM THUMB (Tale)94
Tom Thumbkin104
Tom Thumbkins105
Tomme tott105
Tommeltot105
TOMMY LINN271
Tommy Linn is a Scotchman born271
To-morrow come never184
To-whoo—to-whoo !166
Tremble and go !208
Trim tram186
Trylle the ball againe my Jacke258
TWELFTH NIGHT237
Two angels from the North211
Two legs sat upon three legs

148

Unto the Virgin Mary our Saviour was born

211

VALENTINE'S DAY238
VERVAIN

225

Wae's me ! Wae's me !189
Wassal, wassal, to our town !236
We drink to thee and thy white horn214
We go from Bickbury and Badger244
WEATHER RHYMES155
What God never sees143
What's there ? Cheese and bread128
When clouds appear like rocks and towers156
When Easter falls in our Lady's-lap184
When Roseberry-topping wears a cap202
When the bud of the aul180
When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn161
When the wind is in the east, Then the fishes158
When the wind is in the east, 'Tis neither good158
When with panniers astride193
Where hast thou been so long now262
Where hast thou been so long now263
Where have been all the day, My boy Billy ?259
Where have you been to-day, Billy, my son ?259
Whereas I have by you been driven196
Which weighs heavier146
Who comes here ? A grenadier !23
WHO KILL'D COCK ROBIN169
Who kill'd Cock Robin ?169
Who, who, the bride will be ?171
Why row ye so, why row ye so?121
William and Mary, George and Anne11
Winter's thunder156
WRANGHAM

197

Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow223
YOULING242