40 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

But, alas! I no longer must herald out praise,
Or think that I merit a garland of bays ;

To wisdom or virtue I make no pretence,
And I do not possess one idea of sense.

 

RIDDLE LXXXII.
riddle of riddles !—It dances and skips ;
It is read in the eyes, though it cheats in the lips;
Tf it meet with its match, it is easily caught ;
But if money will buy it, ’tis not worth a groat.

 

RIDDLE LXXXIII.

Y OU eat me, you drink me, deny it who can ;
I’m sometimes a woman and sometimes a man.

 

RIDDLE LXXXIYV.
J LIVED before the flood, yet still am young,
I speak all languages, yet have no tongue ;
In deserts was I bred; I know no schools,
Nor ever understood the grammar rules ;
Yet, when the courtly gallant talks with me,
As polish’d in discourse I am as he.