Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book/Annotated/80

The answer is Bellows, but the second meaning is unmistakable. The seventeenth-century play on the word &ldquo;die&rdquo; has thus a long history. Symphosius 73 begins with an interesting, and innocent, parallel:


 * Non ego continuo morior, cum spiritus exit; Nam redit assidue, quamvis et saepe recedit.