THE NEW YORK 891550A ASTOR, LENOX AND 1937 L *(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.) Nursery Rhymes, Riddles, Rhythmical but unrhymed Game Chants The examples of assonance given were doubtless intended for rhymes The verses from Reliquiæ Antiqua and other collections of early lore, if not pure folk rhymes, exhibit traditional matter in forms so slightly changed that it would have been unwise to exclude them from the present |