<Dd> the Miller and his merry olde Wife, </Dd> <Dd> she scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife . </Dd> <P> Attempts to read historical significance into the words have led to the speculation that this musical round was written earlier and refers to Queen Mary I of England blinding and executing three Protestant bishops, but problematically the Oxford Martyrs, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer, were burned at the stake, not blinded; although if the rhyme was made by crypto - Catholics, the mice's "blindness" could refer to their Protestantism . However, as can be seen above, the earliest lyrics don't talk about harming the three blind mice, and the first known date of publication is 1609, well after Queen Mary died . </P> <P> The rhyme only entered children's literature in 1842 when it was published in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell . </P>

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