Mythology & Folklore
There was an old woman (another version, 3)
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Mythology & Folklore
There was an old woman
Lived under a hill,
She put a mouse in a bag,
And sent it to mill;
The miller declar'd
By the point of his knife,
He never took toll
Of a mouse in his life.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Gaffers and Gammers.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “There was an old woman (another version, 3).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/263/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “There was an old woman (another version, 3).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/263/.
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