英语词汇jack horner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jack Horner. “He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum / And said, ‘What a good boy am I!’ ” The Jack Horner of the nursery rhyme is supposed to have been, in reality, steward to the abbot of Glastonbury at the time that the monasteries were being dissolved in England. Jack somehow obtained deeds to the Manor of Mells in the area, either by subterfuge or, as the popular story states, when he found the papers hidden in a pie he was delivering from the abbot to Henry VIII. By this ac- count, he lifted the crust, put in his thumb, and pulled out the “plum,” becoming owner of the property himself. This may be the only nursery rhyme based on fact. In any event, the real Jack Horner’s descendants have owned the manor for generations.

词汇	jack horner
词源	Jack Horner. “He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum / And said, ‘What a good boy am I!’ ” The Jack Horner of the nursery rhyme is supposed to have been, in reality, steward to the abbot of Glastonbury at the time that the monasteries were being dissolved in England. Jack somehow obtained deeds to the Manor of Mells in the area, either by subterfuge or, as the popular story states, when he found the papers hidden in a pie he was delivering from the abbot to Henry VIII. By this ac- count, he lifted the crust, put in his thumb, and pulled out the “plum,” becoming owner of the property himself. This may be the only nursery rhyme based on fact. In any event, the real Jack Horner’s descendants have owned the manor for generations.
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