A tidy four-line contrast between studious Bobby Snooks and naughty Jack Spry, who comes off worst with a black eye and a plaster on his nose. It reads like a playground moral told in miniature.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Little Bobby Snooks was fond of his books,
And loved by his usher and master;
But naughty Jack Spry, he got a black eye,
And carries his nose in a plaster.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition