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"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626.
One magpie at the birth of Jesus, perhaps presaging sorrow for Mary: [3] Piero della Francesca's The Nativity Children's game hopscotch played in Lancashire, England with lyric close to the 1846 version of the rhyme
London Bridge Is Falling Down", another English nursery rhyme that plays a similar game to "Oranges and Lemons". [17] "The Bells of Rhymney", a similar song about church bells, although in Wales as opposed to London and also telling the story of labour disputes in the mining industry. The stanzas follow the pattern of "Oranges and Lemons".
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This variant and the late date of recording suggest that the medieval meaning is unlikely. [1]Two other explanations have been proposed. 1. That Doctor Foster was an emissary of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who visited Gloucester with instructions that all communion tables should be placed at the east end of the church instead of their post-Reformation or Puritan position in the ...
The King of Hearts. Illustration by W. W. Denslow. There has been speculation about a model for the Queen of Hearts. In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the King and Queen of Hearts are based on Elizabeth of Bohemia and the events that resulted in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.
But by 1877 it is referred to as "the old nursery rhyme" in the course of a New Zealand parliamentary debate. [6] And in the US it was described as a "nursery jingle" in the 1914 edition of The Pottery & Glass Salesman. [7] The young Samuel Barber also included it among his "Nursery rhymes or Mother Goose rhymes set to music" (1918–22). [8]