Mother Goose's Melody
Title: “Jack Sprat”
Medium: nursery rhyme
Publication date: 1760
Publisher: John NewberyRoud Folk Song Index Number: 17941
2 characters in this story:
| Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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[could eat no fat; his wife could eat no lean] | Felix Kyngston | 14 | ||||
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[could eat no lean; her husband could eat no fat] | Felix Kyngston | 3 |
The nursery rhyme "Jack Sprat" dates back to at least 1639, when an early form of the rhyme was printed as a proverb in John Clarke's collection of sayings. It later was published in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1760), which may have been the publication which solidified its inclusion as one of Mother Goose's nursery rhymes up through the modern day.
