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Doctor Foster is a nursery rhyme. It originated in England.

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester,

in a shower of rain.

He stepped in a puddle,

right up to his middle,

and never went there again!

The rhyme may be based on a story of Edward I of England travelling to Gloucester, falling off his horse into a puddle, and refusing to return to the city thereafter.

References

1. http://www.rhymes.org.uk/doctor_foster.htm

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