This nursery rhyme heroine may have been a veiled reference to Mary, Queen of Scots & the "spider", to John Knox
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thou believe the Legendary; The Masse is elder far then Christ or Mary: For ..... 
And where the Pope hath made her queen of heaven, Ye make her but like ....