A wordplay riddle built around finding a rhyme for the tricky word "porringer". The answer, involving a king's daughter and the Prince of Orange, tucks a scrap of real history inside a nursery joke.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
What is the rhyme for porringer?
The king he had a daughter fair,
And gave the Prince of Orange her.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition