—A milkmaid.
Two legs sat upon three legs,
With four legs standing by;
Four then were drawn by ten:
Read my riddle ye can't,
However much ye try.
—An amplification of the above, the milkmaid of course sitting on a three-legged stool.
Over the water,
And under the water,
And always with its head down!
—A nail in the bottom of a ship.
As straight as a maypole,
As little as a pin,
As bent as a bucker,
And as round as a ring.
I do not know the solution of this riddle. A bucker is a bent piece of wood by which slaughtered sheep are hung up by their expanded hind legs, before being cut out.
Hitty Pitty within the wall,
Hitty Pitty without the wall:
If you touch Hitty Pitty,
Hitty Pitty will bite you.
—A nettle. MS. Harl. 1962, xvii. cent.
The first letter of our fore-fadyr,
A worker of wax,
An I and an N;
The colour of an ass:
And what have you then?