Rhapsodies

According to the annotation today’s rhyme, The Old Pudding-Pye Woman, is just the first verse of a much longer poem, which probably would make it make a lot more sense… apparently it goes into great detail about her ‘nauseous and personal habits” i.e. when you can “follow her by the smell” they are not talking about the pies.

It interests me on how I found myself falling back on visual shorthand. I have no idea just how common windmills were in 17th century England, it’s far more likely that the mill the poet is describing was something horse drawn, but for some reason if you want an image to say mill in a five second glance, windmills are the way to go.

One last note. I’ve been rereading A Song of Ice and Fire lately, getting ready for The Winds of Winter to come out (I know, I have time.) but because of this I imagined The Old Pudding-Pye Woman to be Hot Pie’s mom.