The rhymes of _Mother Goose’s Melody_ and _The Top Book of All_ were wild flowers that sowed themselves in the midst of herbaceous borders. Two garlands of folk-songs for children grew out of the same soil. The date of _Gammer Gurton’s Garland_ is unknown.[181] A Bodleian copy in flowered covers has some rhymes from _Mother Goose_; but the most daring “Lulliputian” would not have chosen the fairy theme of impossible tasks: