<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Bobby Shaftoe is also the name of a (female) character in John Crowley's novel Love & Sleep (1994). </Li> <Li> The rhyme is sung (incorrectly) in The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) by Salman Rushdie . </Li> <Li> It is also the name of a character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon (1999) and an ancestor of his in Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Bobby Shaftoe is also the name of a (female) character in John Crowley's novel Love & Sleep (1994). </Li>

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