Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744. It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children [1485×3611]
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Such an interesting little book. I wonder what the significance is of the words at the bottom of each page. Presumably Italian, though I don’t see how they connect to the text above.
Beautiful book, terrifying rhymes!
*Piss a Bed,Piss a Bed,Barley Butt,Your Bum is so heavy,You can’t get up.*
Uh….what?
and they say the Wiley E. Coyote and the roadrunner were too violent for children!
I feel like a Barley Butt every day
I need to get out my Coles Funny Picture Book and remind myself of how horrifying it truly is.
My milk grinds/pepper and spice/your mill grinds/rats and mice is a fuckin burn.
Piss-a-bed is a certified banger.