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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>It's in the [[Beggars' Guild]] charter: "Some in rags and some in tags and one in a velvet gown". The current incumbent of the velvet gown of power (at least during the events of {{MAA}}) is [[Queen Molly]].<br />
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==Annotation==<br />
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This comes from the nursery rhyme ''Hark! Hark!''. The Mother Goose version goes: <br />
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:''Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, <br />
:''The beggars are coming to town; <br />
:''Some in rags, some in tags, <br />
:''And some in velvet gown.'' <br />
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Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes gives the last two lines as: <br />
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:''Some in rags, some in jags, <br />
:''And one in a velvet gown.''<br />
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Halliwell's ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'' (second edition, 1843) reverses it as:<br />
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:''Some in jags, some in rags,<br />
:''And one in a velvet gown.''<br />
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