medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
1. Fill-in.
2. hormones is hormones, birds will be bees, & seeds gets planted,
regardless of parental permission.
DW
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>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
>>religion and culture
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>>Ok. I learned the rhyme 50 years ago as
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>>Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
>>Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
>>Whether your mother will let you or no.
>>Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
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>>Is there anything that version of the third line can
>>refer to?
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>Chiming in quite tardily here...although it is quite
>possible that the explanation is a fill-in where the
>original is forgotten, the third and fourth verses
>continue to "Waiting for a partner" and "Now you're
>married..." So perhaps it is matrimony for which
>mother's permission is needed?
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>Andrea Luxenburg
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