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Although I in poverty always have been;
And though I'm in rags, I am ſet on a throne,
For ev'ry one knows I've a right to the crown.
anſw. The letter R.

I live in a ſtudy;
But know not a letter;
I feaſt on the muſes,
But never the better;
Can run over Engliſh,
O'er Latin, and Greek,
But none of the languages
Ever could ſpeak.
anſw. a Mouſe in a ſtudy

Clothed in yellow,
Red, and Green,
I prat before
The king and queen;
Of neither houſe
Nor land poſſeſs'd,
By Lords and knights
I am careſs'd. (anſw. a Parrot.

I view the world in little ſpace,
an always reſtleſs, changing place;
No food I eat; but, by my pow'r,
Procure what millions do devour.
anfw. the Sun.

Though the moment I'm born, as good Latin I ſpeak,
as a lad of long ſtanding at ſchool;
tho' my head piece is good, I've four arms in my back,