After my brother accusing the title of yesterday's post of being a bit of Obscurae Strattonae, I decided to do a little checking. The couplet "Here comes a candle to light you to bed / Here comes a chopper to chop of your head" is from an English nursery rhyme (but of course! English nurseries must have been fascinating places!). The original text and commentary can be found here.
This nursery rhyme does figure in George Orwell's book 1984.
Just in case you didn't have anything better to think about :-)
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Alas, I must concede defeat! See me twitch and groan upon the floor in misery and pain! No wait, that's something else. Maybe it's boredom. What if they threw a pumpkin-carving contest and nobody came? Mmm, pumpkin seeds...
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