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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

by James Orchard Halliwell

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Dock

Nettle in, dock out,
Dock rub nettle out!

If a person is stung with a nettle, a certain cure will be effected by rubbing dock leaves over the part, repeating the above charm very slowly. Mr. Akerman gives us another version of it as current in Wiltshire:

Out ‘ettle, in dock,
Dock zhall ha’ a new smock;
‘Ettle zhant ha’ narrun!

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