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  2. Mother Goose - Wikipedia

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    Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]

  3. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater - Wikipedia

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    The first surviving version of the rhyme was published in Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c., in London around 1797. [1] It also appears in Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete, printed in Boston, Massachusetts around 1825. [1]

  4. Little Robin Redbreast - Wikipedia

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    An illustration for the rhyme from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (1833). Children's literature portal ‘Little Robin Redbreast’ is an English language nursery rhyme, chiefly notable as evidence of the way traditional rhymes are changed and edited.

  5. Cock a doodle doo - Wikipedia

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    1 Lyrics. 2 Origins. 3 Notes. ... (Roud 17770) is an English nursery rhyme. Lyrics ... The first full version recorded was in Mother Goose's Melody, ...

  6. Hickory Dickory Dock - Wikipedia

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    The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'. [1] The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme. [1] Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera (8), Devera (9) and Dick (10) which are from the language Cumbric. [1]

  7. Hey Diddle Diddle - Wikipedia

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    In L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose", the rhyme was written by a farm boy named Bobby who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the moon's reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into ...

  8. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...

  9. See Saw Margery Daw - Wikipedia

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    "See Saw Margery Daw" is an English language nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765. [1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13028.