In the nursery rhyme, where did Doctor Foster go in a shower of rain?
Doctor Foster Doctor Foster "Doctor Foster" is an English language nursery rhyme that has appeared in many anthologies since the nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19288. The rhyme was first published in its modern form in 1844, although the rhyming of 'puddle' with 'middle' suggests that it may have originally been the archaic 'piddle' for a stream and that the verse may therefore be much older. The first recorded text was: It was suggested by Boyd Smith (1920) that the rhyme may be based on a story of Edward I of England travelling to Gloucester, falling
Doctor Foster able to reach Deerhurst because the Severn was in flood. 2. That it refers to an incident in the play "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe wherein he is referred to as "Doctor Fauster" by a person whom he caused to get wet crossing a river by conjuring a straw into a horse which changed back to the straw in the middle of the river. Doctor Foster "Doctor Foster" is an English language nursery rhyme that has appeared in many anthologies since the nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19288. The rhyme was first published in