Note 88 — RIDDLES.
Reading edition
Cf. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (Halliwell), 143:
10. What God never sees,
What the King seldom sees,
What we see every day,—
Read my riddle, I pray.
Irish Folk-lore Riddles:
(Gaelic) I sought for it and found it, ’twas easy its finding,
The thing that God never found and never can find.
Welsh-Gypsy, 247:
What is it God does not see, etc.
Catalan, 80:
CVI. Qu’es aixó?
Lo pastò’ ho veu á la montanya
y no ’u veu lo rey de Espanya.
Porto Rican (Mason and Espinosa); 300. ↑