Humpty-Dumpty

Humpty-Dumpty is an allegorical poem believed to have been written by Christopher Marlowe in the Elizabethan era as a metaphor for the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Humpty, of course, represent King Phillip II of Spain. The original reads as follows;

Humpty-Dumpty sat on the wall,

Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall,

All the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men,

Had omelettes for a week.

The rhyme was later adapted by Charles Dickens for his frankly terrible novel Alice in Oz.