Note 59 — RIDDLES.
Reading edition
Cf. Booke of Merry Riddles (Halliwell):
XV. Yonder side sea, there is a bote,
The king’s daughter of England there she sate;
An if you tell her name no man it wot
What is the maid’s name that sate in the boate.
—Her name is Anne; for in the fourth line it saith An if ye tell me her name; but this riddle is not to be seene on the booke, but to be put without the booke, or else it will be soone understood. ↑