The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. CCXI. Riddles.

By Unknown

[From MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 16, written in the time of Charles I.] There were three sisters in a hall, There came a knight amongst them all; Good morrow, aunt, to the one, Good morrow, aunt, to the other, Good morrow, gentlewoman, to the third, If you were my aunt, As the other two be, I would say good morrow, Then, aunts, all three.