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.
About this rhyme
Porringer is a genuine old word for a small (often handled) bowl. · Rhyme text quoted exactly: 'What is the rhyme for porringer?...And gave the Prince of Orange her.'
"A Difficult Rhyme" is a joke about English itself: almost nothing rhymes with "porringer" (an old word for a small bowl), so the rhyme cheats gloriously, ending on "gave the Prince of Orange her." Children won't get the wordplay straight away, but they'll like the sound of it.
Worth a quick aside about what a porringer actually is.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition