Little Bo-Peep

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Little Bo-Peep

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The earliest record of this nursery rhyme is in a manuscript of around 1805, which contains only the first verse. Additional verses are first recorded in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus in 1810.

There are references to a children's game called "Bo-Peep", from the 16th century. The phrase "to play bo peep" was in use from the 14th century to refer to the punishment of being stood in a pillory.

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Versions of Little Bo-Peep include:

"Little Bo-peep" in Nursery Rhymes (1860)
"L" in The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1874)
"Little Bo-Peep" in Nursery Rhymes (c. 1880).
"Little Bo-Peep" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
"Bo-Peep" in The Baby's Opera by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane (1900)
"Little Bo-Peep" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, Aug. 1913)
"Little Bo-Peep" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)

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