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A Riddle My pretty maid, fain would I know What thing it is 'twill breed delight; That strives to stand, that cannot go, That feeds the mouth that cannot bite. With a humbledum, grumbledum, humbledum, hey - Humbledum, grumbledum, humbledum, hey! It is a pretty pricking thing,A pleasing and a standing thing;It was the truncheon Mars did use,A bedward bit that maidens choose. It is a friar with a bald head,A staff to beat a cuckold dead;It is a gun that shoots point-blank,It hits betwixt a maiden's flank. It is a shaft of Cupid's cut,'Twill serve to rove, to prick, to butt;'Twas ne'er a maid but by her willWill keep it in her quiver still. It has a head much like a mole'sAnd yet it loves to creep in holesThe fairest maid that e'er took lifeFor love of this became a wife.
My pretty maid, fain would I know What thing it is 'twill breed delight; That strives to stand, that cannot go, That feeds the mouth that cannot bite.
With a humbledum, grumbledum, humbledum, hey - Humbledum, grumbledum, humbledum, hey!
It is a pretty pricking thing,A pleasing and a standing thing;It was the truncheon Mars did use,A bedward bit that maidens choose.
It is a friar with a bald head,A staff to beat a cuckold dead;It is a gun that shoots point-blank,It hits betwixt a maiden's flank.
It is a shaft of Cupid's cut,'Twill serve to rove, to prick, to butt;'Twas ne'er a maid but by her willWill keep it in her quiver still.
It has a head much like a mole'sAnd yet it loves to creep in holesThe fairest maid that e'er took lifeFor love of this became a wife.
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