This nursery rhyme heroine may have been a veiled reference to Mary, Queen of Scots & the "spider", to John Knox
The wheat (true Christians) might also have elements of spiritual 
blindness... [DOC] [TLE] the_short_oxford_history_of_english_literature | Usman Anwar ... [PAR] Although this decorative art may have sprung from a hero-worshipping ...... poem 
which survives in the Beowulf manuscript, has a valiant female warrior ...... to the 
infant Mary, Queen of Scots, his ambition was effectively countered by ...... 99] 
allied to and inspired by the radical Presbyterian example of John Knox's 
Scotland,... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Literary News Vol.