Nursery Rhyme. DCXV. Relics.

    If a body meet a body,
        In a field of fitches;
    Can a body tell a body
        Where a body itches?

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Nursery Rhyme. VIII. Historical

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Nursery Rhyme. CXXVII. Scholastic.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Nursery Rhyme. CIX. Proverbs.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Courtship

Unknown , Simple Poetry

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