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The nursery Rhyme is the harmless ( Mary, Mary, Quite contrary) and deserves no further comment. Yes it was poking fun at Queen Mary I, or Bloody Mary. There was a sort of folk song from the play South Pacific called Bloody Mary, no connection with the British monarch. On the other hand there was a sick joke in the early fifties- that went Mary, Mary, Quite contrary, Have a whiff of Chloroform! ( as a euthanasia agent) it is somewhat historically interesting that Queen Mary III died on March 25, l953 or thereabouts as Elizabeth I departed on March 25 l603. Too coincidental?

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