The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. CLXXVII. Songs.

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[Another version from MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 17, written in the time of Charles I.] Hic hoc, the carrion crow, For I have shot something too low: I have quite missed my mark, And shot the poor sow to the heart; Wife, bring treacle in a spoon, Or else the poor sow's heart will down.