Poor old Robinson Crusoe!
XXIII.
[Written on occasion of the marriage of Mary, the daughter of James duke of York, afterwards James II, with the young Prince of Orange. The song from which these lines are taken may be seen in 'The Jacobite Minstrelsy,' 12mo, Glasgow, 1828, p. 28.]
What is the rhyme for poringer?
The king he had a daughter fair,
And gave the Prince of Orange her.
XXIV.
[The following nursery song alludes to William III and George prince of Denmark.]
William and Mary, George and Anne,
Four such children had never a man: