Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

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Origin

Although the character of Humpty Dumpty is commonly represented as an egg, that personification probably comes from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1872), where the very egg-like Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall and has a conversation with Alice. Debatable theories on the origins of the rhyme, first published in 1801, include a reference to the siege of Gloucester in 1643 during the English civil war (where “humpty dumpty” is assumed to be a siege engine ­– a frame-like, rather unsteady, assault device); the siege of Colchester in 1648 (where “humpty dumpty” refers to the large, heavy cannon placed on a defensive wall that was destroyed during the battle); and a more unlikely reference to Richard III, the disfigured king, who was killed in battle in 1485. The rhyme first appeared in Mother Goose’s Melody in 1803, its author uncredited. It is thought that it could have originally been a riddle.

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