Comments

Halliwell (a 19th century collector of nursery rhymes) wrote: "The following lines [above] were obtained in Oxfordshire. The story to which it alludes is related by Matthew Paris."

Thanks and Acknowledgements

This rhyme can be found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England", 5th edition (1886), collected by James Orchard Halliwell and illustrated by W. B. Scott.