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THE FROG WOULD A-WOOING GO 'O I have been sick since you've been gone, Tweedle, etc. If you'd been in the garden you'd heard me groan.' 'O! I'm sorry for that,' said he.

'O I've a petition to make of thee, Tweedle, etc. Pick me an apple from yonder tree.' 'O that will I do,' said he.

The old man he got up in the tree, Tweedle, etc. She plucked down the ladder, and down fell he. 'This is cleverly done,' said she.

Come all pretty maidens, wherever you be, Tweedle, etc. And do to your husbands as done by she, That's the true end of matrimonie.

XVII. THE FROG WHO WOULD A-WOOING GO

A frog he would a-wooing go, Heigho, says Rowley, Whether his mother would let him or no. With a rowley powley, gammon and spinach, Heigho, says Anthony Rowley!