<P> A common version of the rhyme is: </P> <P> Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn . But where is the boy, who looks after the sheep? He's under a haystack, he's fast asleep . Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, he's sure to cry . </P> <P> The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book (c. 1744), but the rhyme may be much older . It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says: </P> <P> Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? Thy sheepe be in the corne; And for one blast of thy minikin mouth Thy sheepe shall take no harme . </P>

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