(82) What is that that is round as a cup yet all my lord oxen cannot draw it up.
—A well.
Canadian, Ontario, JAFL 31: 67:
Round as a well, deep as a bowl, long handle, little hole.
—A frying-pan.
Yorkshire (Notes and Queries 3rd series, 8: 325). [↑]
[75] Cf. Nursery Rhymes of England (Halliwell), 96:
CLV. Highty, tighty, paradighty clothed in green,
The king could not read it, no more could the queen;
They sent for a wise man out of the east,