Bibliography - Mother Goose, 1785

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Short Title Mother Goose, 1785 
Title Mother Goose's Melody 
Pages 94 
Publisher Thomas, Isaah 
Location AoA 
Date 1785 
Place Worcester 
Data Place AoA: E19105 
Comments Badly mutilated. pp. 1-12 missing. Titles and firstlines edited from Second edition, where possible. 
First Line Page Verses
[There was a little man]  12-14 
[Little Betty Winckle she had a pig]  15-16 
Trip upon trenchers  17-18 
Cross patch draw the [latch]  19 
[I won't] be my father's Jack  20   
Three wise men of [Gotham]  21 
[There] was an old man  22 
There was an old woman  23 
There was an old woman  24 
Ding dong bell  25 
Little Tom Tucker  26 
Se saw, Margery Daw  27 
Great A, little a  28   
Se saw, sacaradown  29 
Shoe the colt  30 
Is John Smith within?  31 
High diddle, diddle  32 
Ride a cock-horse  33 
[Cock] a doodle doo  34 
There was an old [man]  35 
[Round] about, round about, magotty pye  36 
Jack and Gill went up the hill  37 
There were two birds sat on a [stone]  38 
Hush a by baby  39 
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner  40 
Pease porridge hot  41   
Who comes here? A grenadier  42   
Jack Sprat could eat no fat  43 
What care I how black I be  44 
Tell tale tit  45 
One, two, three  46   
Three children [sliding on the ice]  47-48 
Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man  49 
[When] I was a little boy  50 
When I was [a little boy]  51-52 
O my kitten a kitten  53   
[This pi]g went to market  54 
There was a man of Thes[saly]  55-56 
Long tail'd pig, or a short tail'd pig, A  57   
Bow, wow, wow  58 
Bah, bah, black sheep  59 
[Robin and Richard were two pretty men]  60-61   
[There was an old woman]  62   
Sow came in with a saddle, The  63   
[We're three brethren out of Spain]  64 
There were two blackbirds sat [upon a hill]  65   
[Boys and girls come out to play]  66-67   
I wou'd, if I cou'd  68-69   
Here's A, B, and C  70-71   
Piping hot, smoaking hot  72   
Dickery dickery dock  73 
Where the bee sucks, there suck I  76   
You spotted snakes, with double tongue  77   
Take, oh! take those lips away  78 
When daisies pied, and violets blue  79-80 
When icicles hang on the wall  81-82 
[Tell me where is fancy bred]  83   
[Under the greenwood tree]  84   
[Who doth ambition shun]  85   
[Blow, blow, thou winter wind]  86   
[O Mistress mine, where are you running?]  87   
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