Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)

Simple Simon is a nursery rhyme which begins:

Simple Simon met a pieman

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Let me taste your ware."

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

"Show me first your penny."

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

"Indeed I have not any."

Because of this, he became a comic foil in pantomime, most commonly Mother Goose.