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Till fashion’d by the artist’s skill,
He ties the marriage-chain,
When I my destined ends fulfil,
And long my love remains.

 

RIDDLE XXXVI.
IRECT, I very small appear—
Transpose, and then some news is near—
Subtract a letter from my name,
To please a boy, the rest remain ;—
Or which, if they be backward read,
Will please a drunkard in his stead.

 

RIDDLE XXXVIII.
O me maids frequent visits make,

And always come for getting’s sake :
And if their wants I can’t supply,
They leave me discontentedly.
When they arrive with their demand,
They roughly shake me by the hand ;
Nor quit me till I let them see
The stream of good that flows from me:
Of good indeed, for what on earth
Was ever found t’approach its worth ?