Wit from the mead-horn doth often flow;

By the mead-cup oft is the fool exposed.

GESTUR.

I pass’d on a road, where three roads met,

Yet these roads never touch’d each other.

Howe’er ingenious thy mother wit,

Here’s a nut to crack, thy brains will bother.

SKIRNIR.

To a frost-bound river thou didst come,

And o’er the ice thou didst glide with speed,