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Nursery Rhymes Quiz C/D 31/10/22
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Please May I have some help please with the following. Answers are nursery rhymes but I have no number of letters for the answers.
13. Before he was Cardinal Wolsey
14. Can toy onion treat - omit 3 letters and rearrange
46. Pope refuses to separate king from his rib
50. Flavoured hot water container
Very many thanks for any help- these are so frustrating!
Kaishe48
13. Before he was Cardinal Wolsey
14. Can toy onion treat - omit 3 letters and rearrange
46. Pope refuses to separate king from his rib
50. Flavoured hot water container
Very many thanks for any help- these are so frustrating!
Kaishe48
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//The nursery rhyme Little Boy Blue most likely has no real historical background. It has been speculated, however, that it may speak about Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a powerful political figure and a contemporary of King Henry VIII. His father was said to be a butcher and a cattle dealer, and so in childhood he may have been a shepherd to his father’s flocks. Being very wealthy, powerful and somewhat arrogant, he had many enemies who may have used this fact as a basis to make a mocking rhyme. But, as already said, it’s only a speculation that circulates with this rhyme. Even the fact that his father was a butcher may very well be made up by his enemies to humiliate him.//
//The nursery rhyme Little Boy Blue most likely has no real historical background. It has been speculated, however, that it may speak about Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a powerful political figure and a contemporary of King Henry VIII. His father was said to be a butcher and a cattle dealer, and so in childhood he may have been a shepherd to his father’s flocks. Being very wealthy, powerful and somewhat arrogant, he had many enemies who may have used this fact as a basis to make a mocking rhyme. But, as already said, it’s only a speculation that circulates with this rhyme. Even the fact that his father was a butcher may very well be made up by his enemies to humiliate him.//
Or, following on from Henry VIII maybe this:
//Mary, Mary Quite Contrary may be about Bloody Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants. Queen Mary was a staunch Catholic and her “garden” here is an allusion to the graveyards which were filling with Protestant martyrs //
//Mary, Mary Quite Contrary may be about Bloody Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants. Queen Mary was a staunch Catholic and her “garden” here is an allusion to the graveyards which were filling with Protestant martyrs //