Social Commentaries
The tailor of Bicester
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Social Commentaries
The tailor of Bicester,
He has but one eye;
He cannot cut a pair of green galagaskins,
If he were to try.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Local.
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