This nursery rhyme heroine may have been a veiled reference to Mary, Queen of Scots & the "spider", to John Knox
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first time I heard Abraham, Martin and John I caught it part-way through... [DOC] [TLE] Little Miss Muffet | world of WEIRD | Pinterest | Little Miss, Ash and ... [PAR] Others believe the poem may refer to Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) and her 
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