Pakled: Ring-a-ring-a-rosy = The red circles of infection A pocket-full-o-posey = The scented flowers they CARRIED A-tissue-a-tissue = sneezes We all fall down. = obvious The above rhyme is sung by children in England even to this day. They hold hands and form a circle. They then dance sidestep in a circle and collapse to the ground at the end of the last line. The posey was actually carried by the living to ward off the disease itself as it was thought to be a MIASMA (SS)that is - carried through the air. The idea that rats and their fleas carried the disease was unthought of.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...