Mythology & Folklore
Tobacco wick! tobacco wick!
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Mythology & Folklore
Tobacco wick! tobacco wick!
When you're well, 'twill make you sick:
Tobacco wick! tobacco wick!
'Twill make you well when you are sick.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Paradoxes.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Tobacco wick! tobacco wick!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/364/.
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