The king’s daughter of England there she sate;
An if you tell her name no man it wot
What is the maid’s name that sate in the boate.
—Her name is Anne; for in the fourth line it saith An if ye tell me her name; but this riddle is not to be seene on the booke, but to be put without the booke, or else it will be soone understood. [↑]
[60] Cf. Holme riddles, 234;
(111) As j went by the way j met with a boy
j took him my friend for to bee
he took of his hat an drew of his gloves
and so saluted mee.
Lincolnshire riddles (Notes and Queries 3rd series, VIII), 503: