Little Bo-Peep
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- "Little Bo-Peep" in Nursery Rhymes (c. 1885).
- "Little Bo-Peep" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, taxonomy, Wikidata item.The earliest record of this nursery rhyme is in a manuscript of around 1805, which contains only the first verse. Additional verses are first recorded in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus in 1810.
There are references to a children's game called "Bo-Peep", from the 16th century. The phrase "to play bo peep" was in use from the 14th century to refer to the punishment of being stood in a pillory.