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there is more interesting stuff to say about this poem. I found this article searching the web to find out the history of the rhyme, but wikipedia didn't have much. I did find this interesting bit, but since i'm not sure of it's copyright history i'm shoving it here so it can be cleaned up.
from http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/1998/11/0627.php
And I quote, from _The Annotated Mother Goose_:
Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And how do you think they got there?* The butcher, the baker, The candle-stick maker, They all jumped out of a rotten potato, 'Twas enough to make a man stare.
Hey rub-a-dub-dub, ho! three maids in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, And all of them gone to the fair.
'Apparently,' say the editors of _The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes_, they have been found in a place where no respectable townfolk should be, watching a dubious side-show at the local fair.'
The word Knave is synonmyous with Jack or Journeyman.
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I think the article is missing (arguably) a more appropriate meaning of "knave": "An unprincipled man, given to dishonourable and deceitful practices; a base and crafty rogue. (Now the main sense. Often contrasted with fool." (OED) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eleraama ( talk • contribs) 00:19, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
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there is more interesting stuff to say about this poem. I found this article searching the web to find out the history of the rhyme, but wikipedia didn't have much. I did find this interesting bit, but since i'm not sure of it's copyright history i'm shoving it here so it can be cleaned up.
from http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/1998/11/0627.php
And I quote, from _The Annotated Mother Goose_:
Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, And how do you think they got there?* The butcher, the baker, The candle-stick maker, They all jumped out of a rotten potato, 'Twas enough to make a man stare.
Hey rub-a-dub-dub, ho! three maids in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, And all of them gone to the fair.
'Apparently,' say the editors of _The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes_, they have been found in a place where no respectable townfolk should be, watching a dubious side-show at the local fair.'
The word Knave is synonmyous with Jack or Journeyman.
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I think the article is missing (arguably) a more appropriate meaning of "knave": "An unprincipled man, given to dishonourable and deceitful practices; a base and crafty rogue. (Now the main sense. Often contrasted with fool." (OED) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eleraama ( talk • contribs) 00:19, 29 December 2008 (UTC)