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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. Jack and Jill - Wikipedia

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    From Mother Goose's Melody (1791 edition) The earliest version of the rhyme was in a reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, thought to have been first published in London around 1765. [2] The rhyming of "water" with "after" was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the first verse might date from the 17th century. [3]

  4. Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript

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    The result is not merely the English nursery rhyme but that nursery rhyme as it would sound if spoken in English by someone with a strong French accent. Even the manuscript's title, when spoken aloud, sounds like "Mother Goose Rhymes" with a strong French accent; it literally means "Words of Hours: Pods, Paddles."

  5. File:Mother Goose's melodies - or Songs for the nursery (IA ...

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  6. Three Little Kittens - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme as published today however is a sophisticated piece usually attributed to American poet Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860). With the passage of time, the poem has been absorbed into the Mother Goose collection. The rhyme tells of 3 kittens who first lost, then find and soak, their mittens. When all is finally set to rights, the ...

  7. Childlore - Wikipedia

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    This was the first known publication of the collection of Mother Goose rhymes in 1780, describing a compilation of traditional English nonsense nursery rhymes and songs each with its own black and white illustration and came from a variety of sources [9] The term 'Mother Goose' has been linked with traditional children's nursery rhymes and ...

  8. File:The original Mother Goose's melody (IA ...

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  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.