The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. XXIII. Historical

By Unknown

[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.