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THE

ROYAL RIDDLE BOOK.

1.

ALTHO’ in number I'm the ſmalleſt, O'er Kings I reign, and beat the talleſt. The Ace of Trumph.

II.

When firſt into this world I came, no ſign of ſenſe had I;                          My mother ſhe was poor and mean, and at the length did die: Another mother ſoon I had, by which I came alive; By her in doun I ſoon was clad, now for a living ſtrive. A Chicken.

III.

Full forty years I live, and oft alms I do give; Yes then never roam half a mile from home: But when I'm dead, it plainly doth appear, I travel night and day both far and near. An Oak Tree made into a Ship.