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Thread #45039   Message #664939
Posted By: MikeofNorthumbria
08-Mar-02 - 07:00 AM
Thread Name: Awkward rhymes
Subject: RE: Awkward rhymes
Regarding the Orange/Porridge rhyme: anyone remember an old Jacobite rant that goes something like this?

Oh! what's the rhyme for porringer?
Ken ye the rhyme for porringer?
King Jamie had a dochter fair
And he wed her to an Oranger!

Ken ye how he requited him?
Ken ye how he requited him?
The scurvy knave has crossed the seas
And ta'en the crown in spite o' him!

Wassail!