Nursery rhyme lyrics about Miss Patience Muffet with origins and history dating back to the sixteenth century

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Little Miss Muffet: lyrics

Origins and history of the Nursery Rhyme
Little Miss Muffet was a small girl whose first name was Patience. Her father, Dr. Muffet, was an entomologist (someone who studies insects). Whilst eating her breakfast one day she was frightened by one of his spiders and ran away! This particular Nursery Rhyme reputedly dates back to the 
late 16th century! Unlikely story!

 
 

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away

Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme: Origins & history