Nursery rhymes, English; Oral tradition -- England
Wooley Foster has gone to sea, 105
Yeow mussent sing a' Sunday, 73
Young Roger came tapping at Dolly's window, 238
Young lambs to sell, 211
You shall have an apple, 89
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Transcriber' Note:
This book contains a lot of dialect, which has been retained.
page 2: 'fidlers' agrees with scan; retained, despite 'fiddle' in same
poem. 17th century and older spelling was not necessarily standardised,
even within the same sentence.
page 42: 'flee' is followed by 'Mr. Flea'. But 'flee' rhymes with 'Dee',
and has been retained.
page 75, and Index: "driving 's":
"The art of good driving 's a paradox quite," agrees with both scans,
and has been retained.
CCCLI.
The second small print explanatory note did not contain quote marks,
and they have not been added.
CCCLIII.
The missing opening and closing quote marks in the explanatory note
are implied by the first quote marks ("Eleven going for twelve."),
but have not been added.
CCCXCII.
'did'nt' retained: "O then my poor baby did'nt cry!"
CCCCXXXII.
'would'nt' retained: "The miller would'nt have her,"
Colons have been used extensively throughout the book, where, perhaps
a semi-colon would be used today. The colons have been retained, as
they seem to suggest a subtle nuance of meaning.
A few obvious punctuation errors have been repaired.
Old-fashioned, but correct, punctuation (which agrees with the scans)
has been retained.
There are, however, some apparently genuine typographical or
printer's errors.
Errata
page iv: 'doggrel' corrected to 'doggerel': "the place of the ancient
doggerel"
page 37: 'shin' corrected to 'chin': "No, no, by the hair of my chiny
chin chin."
page 92: 'buble' corrected to 'bubble': "Jack sing saddle oh,
Blowsey boys bubble oh,"
page 110: Músicks' corrected to Musicks (accent not on orig. book cover)
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/deuteromelia/deut_01small.html)
page 158: 'here' corrected to 'hear': "And hear what time of day;"
page 222: 'scarely' corrected to 'scarcely': "that our endeavours are
scarcely likely to be attended with success."
page 317: 'sat' corrected to 'sate':
"A pie sate on a pear-tree, 259"
page 321: 'came' corrected to 'come':
"Girls and boys, come out to play, 305"
page 332: 'thay' corrected to 'they':
"What do they call you?, 255"
Sundry "Index" entries have been relocated for consistency.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Nursery Rhymes of England, by Various
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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