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Jack Spratt could eat no fat…

Retry Correct Incorrect Rather than always being a silly song about an unusual couple that children know it as today, history writer Linda Alchin suggested that the nursery rhyme originated as a criticism of Charles I of England. After all, he couldn’t “eat any fat” when Parliament denied him the taxation leeway he wanted, but “licked the platter clean” once he sparked the English Civil War by dissolving Parliament.

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Jack Spratt could eat no fat…

• He was as light as a cat
• His wife could eat no lean
• His diet was rather strict like that
• His wife licked the platter clean