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    Gammer Gurton's Garland The Nursery Parnassus
    Gammer Gurton's Garland The Nursery Parnassus
    Gammer Gurton's Garland The Nursery Parnassus
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    Gammer Gurton's Garland The Nursery Parnassus

    By Joseph Ritson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Gammer Gurton's Garland The Nursery Parnassus - Joseph Ritson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gammer Gurton's Garland, by Joseph Ritson

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      Title: Gammer Gurton's Garland

      The Nursery Parnassus

      Author: Joseph Ritson

      Release Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #34601]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAMMER GURTON'S GARLAND ***

      Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      Gammer Gurton's Garland.

      OR

      THE NURSERY PARNASSUS

      A Choice Collection of Pretty Songs and Verses for

      the Amusement of all Little Good Children

      who can neither read nor run.

      LONDON, 1810

      REPRINTED FOR

      HUGH HOPKINS, GLASGOW

      1866

      Printed by

      R. Clark

      , Edinburgh.

      Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus, was originally issued at Stockton, as a small twopenny brochure, in 32mo, without a date, printed by and for R. Christopher. Sir Harris Nicholas says it appeared in the year 1783, one of the most prolific of Ritson's pen. Haslewood is of opinion that it appeared about the same period as The Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrel, which was printed at Stockton for the same R. Christopher in 1784. Gammer Gurton's Garland was again printed, with additions, 1809, in 8vo. This little work, a great favourite with those for whose amusement it was compiled, has been more than once reprinted since. The present edition has been very carefully executed, and rendered complete by the addition of an index.

      The impression has been limited to one hundred copies small paper, and twelve copies large paper.

      Glasgow, mdccclxvi.

      PART I.

      THE FROG AND MOUSE.

      There was a frog liv'd in a well,

      Kitty alone, Kitty alone;

      There was a frog liv'd in a well,

      Kitty alone and I.

      There was a frog liv'd in a well,

      And a farce[A] mouse in a mill.

      Cock me cary, Kitty alone,

      Kitty alone and I.

      This frog he would a wooing ride,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      This frog he would a wooing ride,

      And on a snail he got astride.

      Cock me cary, etc.

      He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall,

      And there he did both knock and call.

      Cock me cary, etc.

      Quoth he, Miss Mouse, I'm come to thee,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      Quoth he, Miss Mouse, I'm come to thee,

      To see if thou can fancy me.

      Cock me cary, etc.

      Quoth she, Answer I'll give you none,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      Quoth she, Answer I'll give you none,

      Until my uncle Rat come home.

      Cock me cary, etc.

      And when her uncle Rat came home,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      And when her uncle Rat came home,

      Who's been here since I've been gone?

      Cock me cary, etc.

      Sir, there's been a worthy gentleman,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      Sir, there's been a worthy gentleman,

      That's been here since you've been gone.

      Cock me cary, etc.

      The frog he came whistling through the brook,

      Kitty alone, etc.

      The frog he came whistling through the

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