Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen!
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

Source: Elliott, Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870)

“Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat” dates back to the sixteenth century during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the fifth and last monarch of Tudor England. It is said that one of the Queen’s ladies in waiting owned a cat who wandered about Windsor Castle. One day, the cat brushed by the Queen’s foot and frightened her. The Queen continued to allow the cat to roam about as long as she kept the throne room free of mice.

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