Fee fi foe fumb i smell the blood of an ENGLISH man...............?

Question

Alrite me nippers, por favor! does anyones have the info on this famous quote from the pucker Jack in the bean stalk?

Answer 1

There aren't many of us left on this site at this time of night.

KARI,has the basics of the saying.Buzzard is right,it was in Shakespeare. King Lear.

Answer 2

it's the giant. He said that when he was "sniffing out" jack in his castle.

Answer 3

Well me ol mucker, its'Jack and the Beanstalk' the rhymn was made by the giant who protected his Golden Goose and the singing Harp. He was a man who rhymned everything he said....Fe Fi fo fum I smell the blood of an englishman, be he alive or be he dead I''ll grind his bones to make my bread.

Had Jack not accepted the beans for the cow, we would never have had the pleasre of seeing the giant...Jack did well by stealing the goose that laid the golden eggs....and in doing so he also killed the giant by chopping down the beanstalk as the giant gave chase....the story is told all over the world. I still read it to kids today.

Answer 4

If Buzzard has it right, does that mean Reagan lays a Golden Egg?

Think I've got me Shakespeare cofused with me Faerie Tales.

Answer 5

Fie, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman

The phrase has no allusory meaning and, apart from when quoting Shakespeare or Jack the Giant Killer, there's little reason ever to use it.

jackIt is best known from the nursery rhyme - Jack the Giant Killer:

    Fee-fi-fo-fum

    I smell the blood of an Englishman.

    Be he alive or be he dead

    I'll grind his bones to make my bread.

The source is anonymous and the date is unknown. It must have been before 1596. It is referred to by the English dramatist Thomas Nashe, in Have with you to Saffron-walden, 1596:

    "O, tis a precious apothegmatical Pedant, who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an English-man".

How true. Let's not spend the whole day on this and finish with Shakespeare's alternate version, from King Lear, 1605-6:

    "Child Roland to the dark tower came,

    His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum,

    I smell the blood of a British man."

Answer 6

Believe it or not, I think it features in Shakespeare somewhere... let me get back to you on that one...

yes, 'Fee Fie Fo Fum' is in King Lear, but I don't think the giant himself gets to take the stage... now there's an idea! King Lear and the Beanstalk anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_th...

Answer 7

no i do not but how about u find out and tell me.

Answer 8

I don't get what your trying to ask! It is from Jack and the Beanstock, but do you need the story?