Lavender’s Blue Quotes

“This is an important record of nursery and playground rhymes. Some you wouldn’t want to read to children but lots that are so important to keep alive.”

“Lavender’s Blue is a mixture of different nursery rhymes. I knew lots of these before but I enjoyed the book anyway, especially because of the beautiful pictures. ”

“Shoe the little horse, Shoe the little mare, but let the little colt go bare, bare, bare.”

“Can you keep a secret? I don’t believe you can! You mustn’t laugh, You mustn’t cry, But do the best you can.”

“Some of those old phrases stuck in my head came from like...‘Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home; Your house is on fire, your children are gone!”

“This English book of nursery rhymes may well be prove to be one of the best loved of existing Mother Goose books....”

“Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry; when the boys came out to play, George Porgie ran away.”

“Three children sliding on the ice all on a summer’s day as it fell out, they all fell in, the rest they ran away. Now, had these childredn been at home, or sliding on dry ground, ten thousand pounds to one penny, they had not all been drowned.”

“They that wash on Monday. Have all the week to dry, They that wash on Tuesday. Are not so much awry, They that wash on Wednesday, are not much to blame, They that wash on Thursday, Wash for shame, They that wash on Friday, Wash in need, But they that wash on Saturday, Oh! they are sluts indeed.”

“Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, and dreamt she heard them bleating; but when she awoke, she found it a job, for they were still a-fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, determined for to find them, she found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed for they’d left all their tails behind ‘em.”