Jack be nimble,

And Jack be quick:

And Jack jump over

The candlestick.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 65. No. CCC

JACK, be nimble,

   And, Jack, be quick;

And, Jack, jump over

   The candlestick.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 171.

Jack be nimble,

Jack be quick,

Jack jump over 

The candle stick.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, pp. 226-227. No. 255

Jack be nimble, 

Jack be quick, 

Jack jump over

The candle stick.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 194. No. 411