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I had always thought it was a personification of the black death (bubonic plague), hence the references to posies and ring-a-ring o' rosies (that Ring Around The Rosie nursery rhyme is about the plague too). Perhaps we should as Martin.
I had always thought it was a personification of the black death (bubonic plague), hence the references to posies and ring-a-ring o' rosies (that Ring Around The Rosie nursery rhyme is about the plague too). Perhaps we should as Martin.