Mother Goose

The figure of  is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhyme often published as (Old) Mother Goose's Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme.

Quotes

 * Old Mother Goose,
 * When she wanted to wander,
 * Would ride through the air
 * On a very fine gander.


 * Jack's mother came in,
 * And caught the goose soon,
 * And mounting its back,
 * Flew up to the moon.
 * I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 88–90.