‘Jack and Jill’ is an 18th-century Englishnursery rhyme. It tells of a boy named Jack and, in the most recent version, a girl named Jill on a hill-traversing trip to collect water. Disaster strikes, and Jack falls down and “bumps his crown.” Jill doesn’t fare particularly we...
Jack and Jill Three Blind Mice Like most nursury rhymes, it's about Mary I. 3 Protestant men plotted to kill Mary, and they were burnt. Rock-A-Bye Baby A baby in a cradle in a treetop who falls when the wind blows. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ...
Nursery rhyme, verse customarily told or sung to small children. The oral tradition of nursery rhymes is ancient, but new verses have steadily entered the stream. A French poem numbering the days of the month, similar to “Thirty days hath September,” w
rhyme to the 17th-century king of England, Charles I. Apparently he attempted to increase taxes on alcohol, which were generally measured in units known as jacks and gills. After that failed, he instead reduced the of a jack (about one-eighth of a pint), and in turn, the gill, which...
The curious history behind the popular nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence takes us from the Tudor times of Henry VIII to the Pirates of the Caribbean via the splendours of gastronomy—four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie!