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![]() ![]() ![]() The next appearance is in Mother Goose's Melody (c. and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698, where a nurse says to her charges: Bake me a cake as fast as you can Pat it and prick it, and mark it with B, Put it in the oven for Baby and me. Verse Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.
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