I learned those lines, and the several stanzas that followed them, when I was about four years old. They came from a wonderful book called Kings and Queens, by Herbert and Eleanor Farjeon, in which each spread bore on the left a full-colour picture of each monarch in turn, and on the right a humorous verse. My mother bought two copies, cut them up and pasted the lot on to a large screen in the nursery; thus I was almost literally brought up with them, and cannot remember a time when I didn’t recognise them all, as well as the order in which they came. Since we started with William the Conqueror and there were six kings or queens to a column, Henry VIII was the second one down in the fourth; I felt I knew him well. 我大约四岁的时候就学会了这些台词，以及它们后面的几节。它们出自赫伯特和埃莉诺·法尔琼的一本名为《国王与王后》的好书，在这本书中，每一张版块的左边依次印有每一位君主的全彩照片，右边则是一首幽默的诗句。我母亲买了两本，把它们剪下来，贴在托儿所的大屏幕上；因此，我几乎是和他们一起长大的，不记得什么时候我不认识他们，也不记得他们来的顺序。因为我们从征服者威廉开始，一个纵队有六个国王或王后，亨利八世是第四纵队的第二个；我觉得我很了解他。