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RIDDLE CXXXV.

T once to describe my name and my race,
T often attend on the king in the chase;

T also can find ’tis equally pleasant
To wait on a ’squire, or even a peasant ;
But when I conceit myself most highly bless’d,
Ts when by a lady I’m fondly, caress’d:
Yet many a child seems to take a delight
To treat me with constant ill-humour and spite.
On me you may always with safety depend,
And consider me both your protector and friend.

 

RIDDLE CXXXVI.

HERE is a word in the English language, the

two first letters of which signify a male, the three
first a female, the four first a great man, and the whole
a great woman,

RIDDLE CXXXVII.
W HAT is that, the more you lay on, the faster it

wasteth ?