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See Saw Margery Daw - Victorian nursery rhyme illustration
Margery Daw sitting on a seesaw holding a bag of coins, which she has acquired through selling her mattress to a man who, for some reason, is wearing several hats. The nursery rhyme calls her a dirty slut and it should be explained that slut did not always have the current meaning of a sexually promiscuous woman - it used to mean a woman who was slovenly, lazy, didn t do housework, or who was untidy in appearance. So Margery Daw has sold her bed, not her body.
" See Saw Margery Daw - Sold her bed and lay upon straw - Wasn t she a dirty slut - To sell her bed and lie in he dirt."
From " Nursery Rhymes - Ridicula Rediviva" illustrated by J.E. Rogers, with chromolith printing by R. Clay Sons & Taylor and published in London in 1876 by Macmillan and Co
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