Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet
a girl in a traditional nursery rhyme. The full poem is:
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
There came a great spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.Miss Muffet, it is said, was the daughter of Dr Thomas Muffet, a famous 16th-century scientist who studied insects.

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