1785) is the first record we have of many classic rhymes still in use today.[11] These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of mummers' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals.[5] Roughly half of the current body of recognised "traditional" English rhymes were known by the mid-eighteenth century.[12]