Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century, while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages. However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill. The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several
S Uciredor contrasting imagery of original sin and the harmony of the spheres, a common poetic device of the age. S Uciredor Rodericus (or S Uciredor) was a French composer of the 14th century. Nothing is known of Rodericus's life, although it has been suggested that he is Rodrigo de la Guitarra, since Rodrigo is the only known contemporaneous musician with the same name. He is known through a single ballade attributed to him in the Chantilly Codex as S Uciredor, which is "Rodericus" spelled backwards. The piece, "Angelorum Psalat", is in two voices and is an exemplary work of the Ars