Jack and Jill

(notes (date 2025-07-09) (category literature) (status evergreen) (confidence certain) (importance 3) (tags poetry criticism nursery-rhymes))

Classic nursery rhyme about two children who went up a hill to fetch water and experienced a mishap.

First Recorded: 1765, in Mother Goose’s Melody (London).

Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.

Then up Jack got and home did trot As fast as he could caper, And went to bed to mend his head With vinegar and brown paper.

Then Jill came in and she did grin To see his paper plaster; Her mother whipped her across her knee For causing Jack’s disaster.