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In great King Arthur's reign, Tom's history first begun; / A farmer's wife had sigh'd in vain to have a darling son! / A fairy listen'd to her call, and granted her the same; / But being very small, Tom Thumb she did him name.
To please him every means she'd take, / And a pudding large did for him make; / But in trying to obtain a sip, / Into the batter did he slip! / The batter in the pot went plump; / Tom made the pudding skip and jump! / His mother, with affright, did this espy, / And gave it to a tinker passing by; / Tom scream'd so loud, that, in dismay, / He threw it down, and ran away.