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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Index Sing a Song of Sixpence

"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. [1]

34 relations: Anne Boleyn, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bernardo Buontalenti, Bible translations into English, Bonduca, Catherine of Aragon, Common blackbird, Counting house, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Entremet, George Steevens, Henry IV of France, Henry James Pye, Henry VIII of England, Iona and Peter Opie, Magpie, Marie de' Medici, Middle Ages, Nursery rhyme, Old English Latin alphabet, Parlour, Pie, Poet laureate, Pop out cake, Roud Folk Song Index, Rye, Sir Toby Belch, Sixpence (British coin), Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, Twelfth Night, Walter Crane, William Shakespeare, Wren, 24 (number).

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn (1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII.

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Beaumont and Fletcher

Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I of England (James VI of Scotland, 1567–1625; he reigned in England from 1603).

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Bernardo Buontalenti

Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole (c. 1531 – 25 or 26 June 1608), was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.

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Bible translations into English

Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English.

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Bonduca

Bonduca is a Jacobean tragi-comedy in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, generally judged by scholars to be the work of John Fletcher alone.

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Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon (16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536), was Queen of England from June 1509 until May 1533 as the first wife of King Henry VIII; she was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother Arthur.

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Common blackbird

The common blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush.

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Counting house

A counting house, or computing house is the building, room, office or suite in which a business firm carries on operations, particularly accounting.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Entremet

An entremet or entremets (from Old French, literally meaning "between servings") is in modern French cuisine a small dish served between courses or simply a dessert.

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George Steevens

George Steevens (10 May 1736 – 22 January 1800) was an English Shakespearean commentator.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV, read as Henri-Quatre; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithet Good King Henry, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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Henry James Pye

Henry James Pye (10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Iona and Peter Opie

Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, CBE, FBA (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were a married team of folklorists, who applied modern techniques to children's literature, summarised in their studies The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959).

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Magpie

Magpies are birds of the Corvidae (crow) family.

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Marie de' Medici

Marie de' Medici (Marie de Médicis, Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Old English Latin alphabet

The Old English Latin alphabet—though it had no standard orthography—generally consisted of 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries.

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Parlour

Parlour (or parlor) is a term used for a variety of different reception rooms and public spaces in different historical periods.

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Pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Pop out cake

A pop out cake, popout cake, jump out cake, or surprise cake is a large object made to serve as a surprise for a celebratory occasion.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Rye

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.

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Sir Toby Belch

Sir Toby Belch is a character in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

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Sixpence (British coin)

The sixpence (6d), sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, is a coin that was worth one-fortieth of a pound sterling, or six pence. It was first minted in the reign of Edward VI and circulated until 1980. Following decimalisation in 1971 it had a value of new pence. The coin was made from silver from its introduction in 1551 to 1947, and thereafter in cupronickel. Prior to Decimal Day in 1971 there were 240 pence in one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in shillings and pence, e.g. 42 old pence (p) would be three shillings and sixpence (3/6), often pronounced "three and six". Values of less than a shilling were simply written in terms of pence, e.g. eight pence would be 8d ('d' for denarius).

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book

Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the first anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You WillUse of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in the First Folio: "Twelfe Night, Or what you will" is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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Walter Crane

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wren

The wrens are mostly small, brownish passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae.

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24 (number)

24 (twenty-four) is the natural number following 23 and preceding 25.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence

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