58 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

Firm, constant, and sincere, am I,
My motives pure and whole;
Theirs all are formed to gratify
A base and selfish soul.

Beware these traitors to my name,
(If that you can divine)

Compare their deeds;—if not the same,
Their aperies decline.

 

RIDDLE CXXII.
W HEN first my maker form’d me to his mind,

He gave me eyes, yet left me dark and blind;
He form’d a nose, yet left me without smell;
A mouth, but neither voice nor tongue to tell;
The world me use; and oft the fair, through me,
Although I hide the face, do plainly see.

 

RIDDLE CXXIII.
W HENPER the student dares to cope with me,
I very often stouter prove than he;
For Jet him twist and turn me as he will,
He must confess that I am victor still.