<Li> The plague explanation did not appear until the mid-twentieth century . </Li> <Li> The symptoms described do not fit especially well with the Great Plague . </Li> <Li> The great variety of forms makes it unlikely that the modern form is the most ancient one, and the words on which the interpretation are based are not found in many of the earliest records of the rhyme (see above). </Li> <Li> European and 19th - century versions of the rhyme suggest that this "fall" was not a literal falling down, but a curtsy or other form of bending movement that was common in other dramatic singing games . </Li>

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