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Jack Horner
Jack Horner,the subject of a nursery rhyme (‘Little Jack Horner sat in a corner’, etc.) which occurs in an 18th-cent. chapbook, The Pleasant History of Jack Horner, Containing his Witty Tricks, etc. The rhyme is also referred to by H. Carey in 1725 .
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