Nancy Cook's Pretty Song Book for all Little and Misses and Masters (1780): "Sing a Song of Sixpence":
second verse: "When the pie was opened, / The birds began to sing; / Wasn't that a dainty dish, / To set before the king?"
Note: This is the earliest known printed version of this nursery rhyme which includes the second verse, which mentions the king.
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