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XLVII. This is a riddle-rhyme. Humpty-dumpty is an egg.

LI. This has been thought to be a Jacobite rhyme, in ridicule of the advent of the House of Hanover.

LIV. A rhyme for winning a pair of gloves from the first saluted on Easter morning.


EDINBURGH
T. and A. CONSTABLE
Printers to the Queen