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In great King Arthur’s reign, Tom’s history first begun;

A farmer’s wife had sigh’d in vain to have a darling son!

A fairy listen’d to her call, and granted her the same;

But being very small, Tom Thumb she did him name.

To please him every means she’d take,

And a pudding large did for him make;

But in trying to obtain a sip,

Into the batter did he slip!

The batter in the pot went plump;

Tom made the pudding skip and jump!

His mother, with affright, did this espy,

And gave it to a tinker passing by;

Tom scream’d so loud, that, in dismay,

He threw it down, and ran away.

Tom to the fields with his mother went,

To milk the cow was her intent;

The wind blew high as they did walk,