Brewer's: Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies

This, like Maggie Lauder, is a scurrilous song, in the time of the Reformation, on the doctrines of the Catholic Church and the Catholic clergy. (See “John Anderson, my Jo.”)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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