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The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in ''[[Mother Goose]]'s Melody'' (London c. 1765),<ref name="Opie70">{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes | editor-last1=Opie |editor-first1=Iona | editor-last2=Opie |editor-first2=Peter |editor-link=Iona and Peter Opie |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |year=1997| edition=2nd |page=70 |isbn=978-0-19-860088-6}}</ref> possibly published by [[John Newbery]], and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.<ref name="M. Prichard, 1984 pp. 326" /> NoThough no copies of the first edition are extant, but a 1791 edition has the following words:<ref name="Prideaux">{{Cite book |last=Prideaux |first=WF |title=Mother Goose's Melody : A facsimile reproduction of the earliest known edition |publisher=AH Bullen |year=1904 |location=London |pages=39}} A reproduction of ''Mother Goose's Melody : Or, Sonnets for the Cradle'', published by Francis Power (grandson to the late Mr J Newbery), London, 65 St Paul's Chuchyard, 1791.</ref>