Arts & Sciences
Speak when you're spoken to
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Arts & Sciences
Speak when you're spoken to,
Come when one call;
Shut the door after you,
And turn to the wall!
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Scholastic.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Speak when you're spoken to.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/121/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Speak when you're spoken to.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/121/.
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