265

Girls and boys, come out to play 267

Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town 269

Barber, barber, shave a pig 271

Wished to leap over a high gate 273

Heading to Notes 275

Heading to Index of First Lines 279

[Illustration: The Nursery Rhyme Book . 1 . Historical]

[Illustration: Old King Cole]

OLD King Cole
Was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.

Every fiddler, he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he;
Twee tweedle dee, tweedle dee, went the fiddlers.
Oh, there's none so rare,
As can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three!

[Illustration: Decoration]

WHEN good King Arthur ruled this land,
He was a goodly king;
He stole three pecks of barley-meal,
To make a bag-pudding.

A bag-pudding the king did make,
And stuff'd it well with plums:
And in it put great lumps of fat,
As big as my two thumbs.

The king and queen did eat thereof,
And noblemen beside;
And what they could not eat that night,
The queen next morning fried.

[Illustration: HE STOLE THREE PECKS OF BARLEY-MEAL]

I HAD a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me,
And all was because of my little nut-tree.
I skipp'd over water, I danced over sea,
And all the birds in the air couldn't catch me.

[Illustration: Decoration]

THE King of France, and four thousand men,
They drew their swords, and put them up again.

[Illustration: Decoration]

THE King of France went up the hill,
With twenty thousand men;
The King of France came down the hill,
And ne'er went up again.

[Illustration: Decoration]

PLEASE to remember
The Fifth of November.
Gunpowder treason and plot;