Mythology & Folklore
The quaker's wife got up to bake
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Mythology & Folklore
The quaker's wife got up to bake,
Her children all about her,
She gave them every one a cake,
And the miller wants his moulter.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Relics.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “The quaker's wife got up to bake.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/637/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “The quaker's wife got up to bake.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/637/.
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