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Nursery Rhyme. DXLVI. Natural History.

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[The Proverb of Barnaby Bright is given by Ray and Brand as referring to St. Barnabas.]         Barnaby Bright he was a sharp cur,         He always would bark if a mouse did but stir;         But now he's grown old, and can no longer bark,         He's condemn'd by the parson to be hanged by the clerk.

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