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A28781
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A Book of merry riddles very meet and delightful for youth to try their wits.
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1672
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Wing B3711; ESTC R1758
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armes are tied with the halter wherewith he shall be executed Q. My flesh and skin is red But white is all my heart Where round about the wall is set Beaten with every dart Sol. It is a cherry and a cherry-stone Q. Yonder it is and here I have it Sol. A mans breath or other living creatures Q. What wight is he doth others féed And yet himself doth dye for néed Sol. It is a preacher instructing others and doth quite contrary to his own doctrine and by that means starveth his own Soul Q. Tell me good sir whom I might be I Father I had but Mother none Yet many Mother have had of me Who all to earth with me are gone Sol. Our first parent Eve who had no Mather and no other Father but God Almighty Q. What is most like a horse Besides a Mare he means That féedeth upon hay and grals Vpon Pease and upon Beans Sol It is a Gelding Q. My husband gives two gowns to me Of sundry colours every year Gréen is the one which I do wear So long till it be all thread bear White is the other s the Sun Of many pieces up and down Yet like to that few work men can Devise to make another gown The witer sort wherein they dote Do call me fool upon a toy But yet of me they make a note That death is past when I do joy Sol. It is a Mulbery-trée gréen in the summer and white with snow in the winter which in Latin is cal'd Morus which signisteth in Gréek a fool it is a trée of this nature that it will not cast any buds before all other trées have whereby we certainly know when she begins to bud that the cold and winter is altogether past for that present season Q. A Ship there drives upon the tide That Sails doth bear and hath no mast An oar she had on each side And doth the Snow in whiteness pass In her front wears two lanthorns bright but when she is upon point to fall Then lend an ear for great delight of Musick she affords to all Sol. It is a Swan who being near her death sings most swéetly as Authours do record Q. Round I am yet cannot rest When I am spited of the best Sol. A tennits ball when two good players play together Q. What man is he of wit so base That wears both his eyes in a case For fear of hurting them it is And I do find it not amiss Sol. It is he that cannot sée well without Spectacles and doth carry them about him in a case for fear of breaking them Q. My prey I séek in fields and Woods about And have more téeth than beasts within the land And whensoever my game I have found out Then sate I bring it to my Masters hand Vpon my back the Déer he lays And there doth sometime more He shuts me up and goes his ways Better contented than before Sol. It is a comb and a louse kil'd upon the back of it Q. A trée there is that boughs doth bear In number five as I do know Of equal length they never were And on their tops do horns grow Yet they are tied about with gold Except the longest without doubt Which for use sake may be controul'd If it with Gold were hoopt about Sol. It is ones hand and his finger that are full of Gold Rings the middle most except because a Ring doth not fit that finger Q. I was not I am not and shall not be yet I do walk as men may sée I run and speak to get a fée though I am not in any degrée Sol. It was a man whose Sirname was Not. Q. Deaf I am and cannot hear and when I work I féel no pain Some do curse me some speak me fair though well I know it is in vain Sol. Dice and Dicers Q. In what place of the Earth doth the skie séem to be No broader than a yard or twain I pray thée tell me Sol. In the bottom of a well Q. A thing I take and that I lose yet nothing to my woe And that I took not that I kéep yet would it fain forge Sol. He that is all lowsie those licd which he takes he throws them away and thâ—â—â— that he cannot take he kéeps them still and yet would fain be rid of them Q. What thing is only upon the earâ—â— not subject unto fear Nor doth not weigh the threatnings of tyrants pin or hair Sol. It is a good Conscience Q. What doth with the root upwards grow And downwards with his head doth shew Sol. It is an Isicle Q. What is lesser than a Mouse And hath more windows then a House Sol. It is a Spider in the midst of his web or else a thimble Q. I do walk yet I do not go I do drink yet no thurst slack I do eat yet not féed I do walk yet no work make Sol. It is a man that dreams who in his dream séems to do all these things and intéed does none of them Q. Is bitter as gall As swéet as milk As high as a hall and hard withal Sol. It is a Walnut upon a Trée Q. I am no fish nor flesh nor voice Yet when I am born I make a noise Sol. I Fart or else Thunder Q. When we by the way do go Vpon our shoulders we do bear away If we were not then many should be so Wet to the skin in a rainy day Sol. Masons Tylers and men of such like occupation carrying ladders upon their shoulders to build and tile houses Q. M. and I. made great moan When C. upon C. was left alone Sol. Mary and John made great moan when Christ upon the Crosse was left alone Q. When I to the wood doth go Then my head forward I do show Sol. It is an Ax. Q. In me are many shining lights Sol. It is a burning Candle Q. In the last minute of mine age I do wax young again And have so still continued Since the world did first begin Sol. It is the Moon Q. I do owe most yet nothing pay Evil I am the worst I say Sol. Ingratitude which monster receiveth good turns and payeth Vengeance Q. What men are those that backwards gain Their small living not without pain Sol. Gardners and Rope-makers Q. Old I am when I was born And when I am hatcht take héed of me Or else thou mayst soon be forlorn If thou dost nothing look to thée Sol. The grudg of a secret enemy long conceived in mind ere it vs put in execution Q. Hitty titty within the wall And hitty titty without the wall If you touch hitty titty my joy Hitty titty will vite the boy Sol. It is a nettle Q. Chink clunk under a bank Ten about four near the flank Sol. A maid milking of a Cow Q. Tip tap in a gap As many féet as a hundred shéep Sol. It is Hail when it falls Q. A wicked Father did beget A daughter fit unto his