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3 And ſaid, "Jack Horner in tie corner,

eats good Chriſtmas pye:

With his thumbs pulls out the plumbs,

crying, What a good boy was I.”

Theſe pretty verſes which he made,

upon his Chriſtmas cheer,

Did gain him love, as it is ſaid,

of all both far and near;

for laſſes lov’d his company,

each day above another,

and why, they knew that he would be

a man before his mother.

He grew, I ſay at any rate,

both proper ſtraight and trim,

so that young Nancy, Sue and Kate,

were all in love with him.

Happy was ſhe that could enjoy,

from his one kind embrace;

though once he was a little boy,

yet now he grows apace.

So few were like him far and near,

and match for him was none;

being thirteen inches high,

a giant to Tom Thumb.

Whene’er he took a ſword in hand,

he made his foes to bleed,

as you ſhall come to underſtand,

when you this ſtory read.