Living
Needles and pins, needles and pins
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Living
Needles and pins, needles and pins,
When a man marries his trouble begins.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Proverbs.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Needles and pins, needles and pins.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/94/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Needles and pins, needles and pins.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/94/.
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