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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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