Punch and Judy

DESCRIPTION: "Punch and Judy fought for a pie; Punch gave Judy a knock in the eye. Says Punch to Judy, Will you have any more? Says Judy to Punch, My eye is sore."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: injury food
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 423, "Punch and Judy" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #223, p. 148, "(Punch and Judy)"
Jack-PopGoesTheWeasel, p. 162, "Punch and Judy" (1 text)
Roud #12841
NOTES [66 words]: The inestimable (literally; I esteem her not at all) Katherine Elwes Thomas, The Real Personages of Mother Goose, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1930, p. p. 78, dates this back to the time of Henry VIII, with England being Punch, France being Judy, and the thing they fought over being Italy.
As usual, the only evidence Thomas has is whatever someone slipped into her morning coffee that day.... - RBW
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