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 THE

HISTORY

OF

JACK HORNER.

CHAP. I.

Of his Birth and Education.

JACK Horner was a pretty lad,

near London he did dwell

His father’s heart he made full glad,

his mother lov’d him wellː

She often ſet him on her lap,

to turn him dry beneath,

And fed him with ſweet ſugar-pap,

becauſe he had no teeth.

While little Jack was ſweet and young,

if he by chance ſhould cry,

His mother pretty ſonnets ſung,

with a lulla baby by.

A pretty boy, a curious wit,

all people ſpoke his praiſe,

And in the corner he would ſit,

on Chriſtmas holidays.