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Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]
In August 2017, wowaka released his final Vocaloid song entitled Unknown Mother Goose (アンノウン・マザーグース) following six years since his previous works in Vocaloid. The song was created for Hatsune Miku's 10-year anniversary compilation album Re:Start. [16]
Origin unknown, the rhyme is thought to refer to the equestrian statue of Charles I. As I was going to St Ives: Great Britain: c. 1730 [121] Exact origin unknown. Cock-a-Doodle Doo: Great Britain c. 1765 [122] First full version recorded in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London around 1765 Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John: Great Britain
The name "Cat and the Fiddle" was a common name for inns, including one known to have been at Old Chaunge, London by 1587. [6]The earliest recorded version of the poem resembling the modern form was printed around 1765 in London in Mother Goose's Melody with the lyrics:
The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912. [2] The melody is the same as "A Tisket, A Tasket" and has been associated with "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", [3] which has a different melody.
The publication of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody; or, Sonnets for the Cradle (c. 1785) is the first record we have of many classic rhymes still in use today. [10] These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles , proverbs , ballads , lines of mummers ' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and ...
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In 1714 these lines: There was an old woman Liv'd under a hill, And if she ben't gone, She lives there still— appeared as part of a catch in The Academy of Complements. [2] ...