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...tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme...
...foremost Roman Catholic apologist. He did, but he went right on behaving as perversely as ever-regularly downing two bottles of French claret at a sitting, composing rowdy songs in praise of beer, vagabondage and Rabelais, and penning, in Cautionary Verses, those cynical little masterpieces of nursery rhyme in which the jollification of well-bred children was neatly intermixed with gibes at their parents' ineffectualness...
...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...
Only a few rhymes have known authors (e.g., Dr. Johnson, who one day suddenly spouted: "If a man who turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...
West Berlin's Socialist Telegraf last week reported that state-run nurseries in Germany's Soviet zone have been ordered to lull their tots to sleep with a new nursery rhyme...