Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus
by Joseph Ritson
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About this eBook
- Compiler
- Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803
- Title
- 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.
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Nursery rhymes
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34601
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34601
- Release Date
- December 8, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Gammer Gurton's Garland.
- 2.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
- 3.PART I. — THE FROG AND MOUSE. — THE LADY AND THE SWINE. — THE CAMBRICK SHIRT. — THE CELEBRATED SONG OF — LONDON BRIDGE IS BROKEN DOWN. — THE SONG OF — THE THREE CHILDREN. — Tune —"Chevy Chace." — ROBIN, BOBBIN, RICHARD, AND JOHN: — OR, THE WREN SHOOTING. — THE SHORT COURTSHIP: — OR, THE LUSTY WOOER. — THE SONG OF — THE OLD WOMAN THAT WAS TOSS'D IN A BLANKET. — THE OLD MAN AND THE OAK. — A NORTH-COUNTRY SONG. — A SOLEMN DIRGE. — TRIP UPON TRENCHES. — A MELANCHOLY SONG. — T'OTHER LITTLE TUNE. — A VERY PLEASANT SONG. — THE SONG OF — THE THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM, — WHO WENT TO SEA IN A BOWL. — SONG OF SIXPENCE. — THE SONG OF — THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE. — THE WOODCOCK, THE SPARROW, AND THE LITTLE DOG. — THE SONG OF — THE TWO BIRDS. — THE SURPRISING OLD WOMAN. — THE MIRACULOUS GUINEA-PIG. — THE SONG OF THE — PIPER AND THE FIDDLER'S WIFE. — A FAMOUS SONG ABOUT — BETTY PRINGLE'S PIG. — THE NURSE'S SONG. — ANOTHER. — ANOTHER.
- 4.PART II. — A MAN OF WORDS. — THE VALENTINE. — THREE BRETHREN OUT OF SPAIN. — ROBIN AND RICHARD. — ROBIN THE ROBIN. — BAH, BAH, BLACKSHEEP. — PATTY CAKE. — WHO'S THERE? — CROSS PATCH. — MISTRESS MARY. — THE OLD MAN AND HIS CALF. — JACK A NORY. — GREAT A. — SEE SAW. — THE SPEECH OF THE HORSE THAT SPOKE TO HIS MASTER.
- 5.PART III. — THE MERRY BELLS OF LONDON. — THE GAY LADY THAT WENT TO CHURCH. — ARITHMETICK. — TELLING OUT. — THE SEDATE PREACHER. — THE DEAF OLD WOMAN. — EVENING DITTY.
- 6.PART IV. — GILES COLLINS AND PROUD LADY ANNA. — LITTLE BO-PEEP. — WATER SKIMMING. — THE JOLLY TESTER. — THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE GREY MARE. — THE SEARCH AFTER FORTUNE. — DAME WIDDLE WADDLE. — THE MAD FOLKS OF THE MAD TOWN. — THE TAYLOR'S COURTSHIP. — OLD CHAIRS AND OLD CLOTHES. — THE LITTLE LOVERS. — NEW BROOMS, BROOMS, O! — THE PARLIAMENT SOLDIERS. — JACK DANDY-PRAT. — TWO BLACKBIRDS. — THE DUCK AND THE DRAKE. — THE MILK PAILS. — THE LADY'S SONG IN LEAP YEAR.
- 7.INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
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