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Gammer Gurton's Garland: or, The
Nursery Parn****us,
edited by the
literary antiquary Joseph Ritson, is one of the
earliest collections of
English nursery...
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formerly reputed to be the
author of an
early English comedy drama,
Gammer Gurton's Needle.
Still was born 1543 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
After finishing...
- was the
Gatwick Cup. From
around 1930, the
course was
managed by
George Gurton, who
moved there from the
Colchester area of Es**** with his wife Ruby and...
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forrest grew." The
modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be
found in
Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), a
collection of
English nursery rhymes published in London...
-
Humpty Dumpty up again". It was
published in 1810 in a
version of
Gammer Gurton's Garland. (Note:
Original spelling variations left intact.)
Humpty Dumpty...
- old-fashioned view that
comedy began in
England in the 1550s with
Gammer Gurton's Needle and
Ralph Roister Doister is mistaken,
ignoring as it does a rich...
- the
Cathedral Woman of
Canterbury Ipswich Arts Theatre,
Ipswich Gamma Gurton's Needle Dame Chat
Ipswich Arts Theatre,
Ipswich Captain Pugwash Cannibal...
- put them to bed. The
earliest printed version in
Joseph Ritson's
Gammer Gurton's Garland in 1784 has the co****r last line: She whipp'd all
their bums,...
- and has
words very
close to that. A
version from
James Ritson's
Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) is also
similar but
replaces the last
verse with: Build...
- twenty, my stomach's empty. A
version published five
years later in
Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810) was
titled "Arithmetick" and had the
following different...
