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To market, to market
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
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To market, to market,
To buy a plum bun:
Home again, come again,
Market is done.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Lullabies. [The following is quoted in Florio's 'New World of Words,' fol., London, 1611, p. 3.]
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