Text Encoding Initiative
Encoding primary sources
The poem The Old Woman
first appeared in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Songbook, the earliest known book of nursery rhymes, printed ca. 1744. Simple TEI mark-up would look like this:
<text>
<body>
<div>
<head>The Old Woman.</head>
<lg>
<l>There was an Old Woman,</l>
<l>Liv'd under a Hill,</l>
<l>And if she 'int gone,</l>
<l>She lives there still.</l>
</lg>
</div>
</body>
</text>