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Nursery Rhyme. CXVII. Scholastic.

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[The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called 'The Returne from Parnassus,' 4to, Lond. 1606; and another version    may be seen in Winter's 'Cambridge Almanac' for 1635. See the 'Rara Mathematica,' p. 119.]         Thirty days hath September,         April, June, and November;         February has twenty-eight alone,         All the rest have thirty-one,         Excepting leap-year, that's the time         When February's days are twenty-nine.

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"[The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called 'The Returne from Parnassus,' 4to, Lond. 1606; and another version    may be seen in Winter's 'Cambridge Almanac' for 1635. See the 'Rara Mathematica,' p. 119.]..."

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