In what apparell shal I best plese you? In a
man of warres, quoth shee? Than se
that you be at my sermon to
morow, quoth he.[342]
ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
MERY TALES AND QUICK ANSWERES.
P. [16]. Of him that preched on Saynt Christophers day.
In A Booke of Meery Riddles, 1617 (repr. of ed. 1629, p. 73 of Mr. Halliwell's Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries Illustrated, &c. 1851), we have the following:—
The xvii Riddle.
"Who bare the best burthen that ever was borne
At any time since, or at any time befor[n]e.
Solution.—It was the asse that bare both Our Lady and her Sonne out of Egypt."