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Ride a Cock-Horse
     
Ride a Cock-Horse
a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for children). The rhyme goes: Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,/To see a fine lady ride on a white horse,/With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,/She shall have music wherever she goes.
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