Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick refers to the old custom at wedding feasts of jumping over a lit candle. If it stayed lit, you were in for a good year. If it didn’t, possibly because of too much ale, you were in for bad luck. Most Read.

“This Is the House That Jack Built” is a popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale.

“Ring a Ring a Rosie” or “Ring Around Roses” which talks about the Black Death which occurred from 1347 in England and Europe.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the 17th century the term “humpty dumpty” referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that “humpty dumpty” was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person.

Jack Be Nimble is an English nursery rhyme first published in the early 19th century. The practice of jumping over a candlestick was both a sport as well as a form of fortune telling. The belief was that good luck was to be ahead should you jump over a flame and not extinguish it.

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Little Miss Muffet. She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; And frighten’d Miss Muffet away.

Major Themes in “Little Miss Muffet”: Fear and innocence are the major themes of this poem. The girl in the poem represents a carefree childhood. She sits wherever she finds a place to enjoy her delicious food. When a spider appears and steals her joy, she escapes from the scene.

Words: “ Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, and sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.” Here is another classic nursery rhyme for you to teach your child.

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, To fetch her poor dog a bone. But when she got there the cupboard was bare, To fetch her poor dog a bone.

The phrase “Jack and Jill” existed earlier in England to indicate a boy and girl as a generic pair. It is so used, for example, in the proverb “Every Jack (shall/must) have his Jill”, to which there are references in two plays by William Shakespeare dating from the 1590s.

Old Mother Hubbard – The Old Mother Hubbard rhyme allegedly refers to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and his unsuccessful attempt to get an annulment for King Henry VIII. Old Mother Hubbard is Cardinal Wolsey. The bone is the annulment Henry wanted in order to end his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.

The “three blind mice” were Protestant loyalists (the Oxford Martyrs, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer), accused of plotting against Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII who were burned at the stake, the mice’s “blindness” referring to their Protestant beliefs.

Margaret Brown (born 1828) was a New York criminal and thief during the late 19th century. She was most widely known under the name Old Mother Hubbard, after the nursery rhyme of that name, which was popular at the time….Margaret Brown (criminal)

When she came there, The Cupboard was bare, And so the poor Dog had none. The Dog was dead!

Tuesday’s child is full of grace. Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go.