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To: Dumb_Ox
Ring around the Rosy is as meritorious as Chaucer?


"Ring around the rosey" is a childrens rhyme about the plague or Black Death.
As folk art I suppose it could be considered alongside Chaucer, although hardly as meritorious, it is after all
only a few lines.
13 posted on 10/19/2002 7:17:30 PM PDT by tet68
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To: tet68
childrens rhyme about the plague or Black Death

That's a myth, I believe (at least, I've not seen it substantiated).

16 posted on 10/19/2002 9:11:21 PM PDT by monkey
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