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 3                      And ſaid, "Jack Horner in the 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, Had gain'd him love, as it is ſaid, of all both far and near. For laſſes lov'd his company, each day above another; For why they knew that he would be                        a man before his mother. He grew I ſay at any rate, both proper ſtraight aad trim, So that young Nancy Sue and Kate; were all in love with him. Happy ſhe was that could enjoy from him one kind embrace; Tho' once he was a little boy, yet now he groes apace. So few were like him far and near, and match for him was none: As 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.