RIDDLES. 150

You'd judge me, by my equipage,
The greatest warrior of the age ;

For when you have survey’d me round,
Nothing but steel is to be found ;

Yet men I ne’er was known to kill,
Though ladies’ blood I often spill.

 

RIDDLE XXVII."

[NX wealth I abound; in water I stand ;

As a fencer I’m valued all over the land ;
At Venice I’m famous; by farmers I’m prized ;
“Respected by law, yet by huntsmen despised ;
Consternation and ruin ensue when I break; ©
And the beasts of the forest advantage on’t take.

 

RIDDLE XXVIII.
PHOUGH from York and from Yarmouth I’m never
away,
You'll find me always at the end of the day:
Tn years though I am, and haye been all my life,
T’m found with a hautboy, though not with a fife:
T’m always in play—and with some little boy
Am constantly found, deep engaged with his toy. _