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The big book of nursery rhymes. By: Walter Jerrold and ill. Charles Robinson (Children's Classics)

The big book of nursery rhymes. By: Walter Jerrold and ill. Charles Robinson (Children's Classics)

Jerrold, Walter
Robinson, Charles

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1546532528
ISBN13: 9781546532521
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 8 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.88
Height: 0.76 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
INTRODUCTION THE very title Nursery Rhymes, which has come to be associated with a A great body of familiar verse, is in itself sufficient evidence ot how that verse has been passed down from generation to generation. Some pieces date, perhaps, from hundreds of years ago, and had been repeated thousands of times betore they were printed. There are not wanting learned tolk who tell us that there was once, in Britain, a King Cole, and that the only relic of his reign which we have is the verse in which he is shown calling for his pipe, his bowl, and his fiddlers three. Such wise people forget that pipes were not smoked here before the days of Queen Elizabeth, and that fiddles were not known before the sixteenth century. It is certain, however, that some ot these rhymes were familiar in those great days; Shakespeare seems to reter to one

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