Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a white horse With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes She will have music wherever she goes
The Anglo-Saxon penchant for alliteration is something...uh...my mother and I were talking about because SHE got it out of Peter Ackroyd's Albion: A History of the British Imagination, which I am reading one of these days. I didn't really expect many people to know it, I just...this commentary is a stream-of-consciousness and I don't really edit my thoughts to consider what others might have heard of. Consider it education?
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Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She will have music wherever she goes
The Anglo-Saxon penchant for alliteration is something...uh...my mother and I were talking about because SHE got it out of Peter Ackroyd's Albion: A History of the British Imagination, which I am reading one of these days. I didn't really expect many people to know it, I just...this commentary is a stream-of-consciousness and I don't really edit my thoughts to consider what others might have heard of. Consider it education?
More later!