Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A sheep

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Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles (c. 1820)
Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
A sheep
4528357Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles — A sheepc/1820Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick


A SHEEP.

There's not a creature moves on ground
More harmless than myself is found;
Yet ever since the world began
I have been slain by cruel man.
Altho' I'm stupid, some will say,
I speak one word as well as they.
Freely tho' my life I give,
I'm stript each year to let you live.