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Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more Cannot place Humpy Dumpty as he was before. Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p.51. No. CCXVI Humpty Dumpty lay in a beck* With all his sinews round his neck; Forty doctors and forty wrights Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights! * a brook Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p.49. No. CXCIV HUMPTY Dumpty, sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Not all the king's horses, nor all the king's men, Could set Humpty Dumpty up again. Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 16. Humpty-dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty-dumpty had a great fall; Not all the king's horses, nor all the king's men Can put Humpty-dumpty on the wall again. Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, 128. No. XLVII HUMPTY DUMPTY sate on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Three score men and three score more Cannot place Humpy Dumpty as he was before. Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 129. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses, And all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 213. No. 233 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more, Cannot place Humpy Dumpty as he was before. Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 268-269. No. 670 |
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