From what is said, we are afraid,
You will too quickly know us.

RIDDLE XV.

I'M strangely capricious, I'm sour, I'm sweet,
To housewives am useful, to children a treat;
Yet I freely confess I more mischief have done,
Than anything else that is under the sun.

RIDDLE XVI.

FIRST I may be your servant's name;
Then your desires I may proclaim;
And, when your mortal life is o'er,
Hold all your wealth within my power.

RIDDLE XVII.

THOUGH made by art, 'tis nature gives me voice;
I answer all, yet never speak, by choice:
One only language, I can talk, yet should
In every country be understood.

Unless peculiarly inspired, I'm dumb;

I know not what is past, nor what's to come.
What I said yesterday, to-day is new,
And will be so to-morrow, yet be true.

ΤΟ

RIDDLE XVIII.

I CONTAIN many gallons of drink;
Yet I often am held to the lip;
Scarce Goliath could lift me, you'd think;
And yet I can hold but a sip.
From the top of your house I descend,
And under the pavement I crawl;
I furnish whole cities with drink;
Though seldom they see me at all.

RIDDLE XIX.

a word of consent, add one half of a fright; Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night; These rightly connected, you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen, but will ne'er see again.

RIDDLE XX.

MY body's taper'd fine and neat,
I've but one eye, yet am complete ;
You'd judge me, by my equipage,
The greatest warrior of the age;
For when you have survey'd me round,
Nothing but steel is to be found;
Yet men I ne'er was known to kill,
Though ladies' blood I often spill.

RIDDLE XXI.

IN wealth I abound; in water I stand;

As a fencer I'm valued all over the land; At Venice I'm famous; by farmers I'm prized; Respected by law, yet by huntsmen despised; Consternation and ruin ensue when I break; And the beasts of the forests advantage then take.

RIDDLE XXII.

HAVE no head, and a tail I lack,

But oft have arms, and legs, and back;
I inhabit the palace, the tavern, the cot-
'Tis a beggarly residence where I am not.
If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable),
I still should be placed at the head of the table.

RIDDLE XXIII.

THOUGH from York and from Yarmouth I'm

never away,

You'll find me always at the end of the day:
In years though I am, and have been all my life,
I'm found with a hautboy, though not with a fife:
I'm always in play-and with some little boy
Am constantly found, deep engaged with his toy.

One thing sure remains, which I scarcely dare write, Indeed it a falsehood appears to the sight;

But you safely may say to your friend, if you please, I dwell in your eyes in the middle of e'es.

RIDDLE XXIV.

I CUT off heads without remorse,

Ι

And yet I never make a corse;

I guillotine to give new life

Th' invention's better than a knife.
I'm sometimes patent, sometimes not,
Yet an old-fashion'd name I've got.
Sometimes I have a costly stand,
Sometimes a plain one, at command--
And oft❜ner none,-and so, adieu!
I'm sure I am well known to you.

RIDDLE XXV.

IN vain you struggle to regain me,

When lost, you never can obtain me;
And yet, what's odd, you sigh and fret,
Deplore my loss, and have me yet,
And often using me quite ill,

And seeking ways your slave to kill,—

Then promising in future you
Will give to me the homage due,
Thus we go on from year to year,-
My name pray let the party hear.

RIDDLE XXVI.

WHAT is that which, while it lives, constantly changes its habit, that is buried before it is dead, whose tomb is valued wherever it is found?

RIDDLE XXVII.

BEFORE my birth I have a name,

But soon as born I lose the same;
And when I'm laid within the tomb,
I do my father's name assume:

I change my name three days together,
Yet live but one in any weather.

RIDDLE XXVIII.

SIXTEEN adjectives, twenty-four pronouns, a disappointed lobster, an oyster in love, and nineteen radicals, may all be expressed in one common liquid, which you must discover.