PEASE Porridge hot,

   Pease Porridge cold,

Pease Porridge in the Pot

   Nine Days old,

Spell me that in four Letters?

  I will, THAT.

The Original Mother Goose's Melody, As First Issued by John Newbery, of London, About A.D., 1760. Reproduced in fac-simile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. About A.D., 1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889. [Reprinted by Singing Tree Press, Book Tower, 1969] p. 41.

PEASE-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold, 

Pease-porridge in the pot, nine days old.

Spell me that with out a P, 

And a cleaver scholar you will be.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 52. No. CCXVIII

PEASE-PUDDING hot,

   Pease-pudding cold,

Pease-Pudding in the pot,

   Nine days old.

Some like it hot,

   Some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot

   Nine days old.

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 62. No. CCLXXXIII

PEAS_PUDDING hot, peas-pudding cold,

  Peas-pudding in the pot nice days old.

Some like it hot, some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

The Old Fashioned Mother Goose' Melodies: Complete with Magic Colored Pictures. G. W. Carleton & Co./Donaldson Brothers, 1879.

Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold,

Pease-pudding in the pot, nine days old.

Some like it hot, some like it cold, 

Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

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, p. 137. No. LXX in Nursery Jingles Section

PEASE-PUDDING hot,

   Pease-pudding cold,

Pease-pudding in the pot,

   Nine days old.

Some like it hot,

   Some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot

   Nine days old.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p. 179.

Pease porridge hot,

Pease porridge cold,

Pease porridge in the pot

Nine days old.



Some like it hot,

Some like it cold, 

Some like it in the pot

Nine days old.

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 345. No. 400

Pease Porridge hot,

   Pease  Porridge cold,

Pease Porridge in the Pot

   Nine Days old.

Some like it hot,

  Some like it cold, 

Some like it in the pot

  Nine days old.

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 237. No. 599