Doctor Foster

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; Stepped in a puddle Up to his middle And never went there again!

It is said that 'Doctor Foster' is King Edward I of England. The king travelled to Gloucester in the middle of a rainstorm. When he entered Gloucester, his horse fell and both he and the horse ended up in the middle of a huge mud puddle. The people had to use planks of wood to remove both King Edward and his horse from the mud. King Edward was enraged by this misfortune and refused to return to Gloucester.

Gloucester: a borough of southwest-central England on the Severn River west-northwest of London.

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