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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". Illustration by William Wallace Denslow. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of ...
Cold hands, warm heart [a] Comparisons are odious [a] Count your blessings [a] Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman [a] Cowards may die many times before their death [a] Crime does not pay [a] Cream rises. Criss-cross, applesauce [a] Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Little Miss Muffet. " Little Miss Muffet " is an English nursery rhyme of uncertain origin, first recorded in 1805. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20605. The rhyme has for over a century attracted discussion as to the proper meaning of the word tuffet .
Both rhymes were first printed separately in a Tom the Piper's Son, a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. [1] The origins of the shorter and better known rhyme are unknown. The second, longer rhyme was an adaptation of an existing verse which was current in England around the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth ...
The name "Jack Sprat" was used of people of small stature in the 16th century. [ 1] This rhyme became an English proverb from at least the mid-17th century. [ 1] It appeared in John Clarke's collection of sayings in 1639 in the form: [ 1] Jack will eat not fat, and Jull doth love no leane. Yet betwixt them both they lick the dishes cleane.
1901 illustration by William Wallace Denslow. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " Little Boy Blue " is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318.
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Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. Songwriter (s) Unknown. " Ladybird, Ladybird " is the first line of an English-language nursery rhyme that also has German analogues. It is included in the Roud Folk Song Index as number of 16215.