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14 :Q. Close in a cage a bird I keep. That sings both day and night.
 * When other birds are fast asleep,

Its notes yields sweet delight.

I'm carry'd quite thro the City
 * Seeming mighty pretty,

No quarrel or wrangle I breed,
 * My body is taper,
 * I fear not a rapier,

Tho' stabb'd, not a drop do I bleed.

I'm puncheon and thick,
 * My belly they prick

With sharp and pointed spears, Tho' many a head appears, There's neither eyes nor ears.

A. Pin-cushion full of Pins, whose Heads have no Eyes nor Ears. Q. A