Food for the Mind: Or, A New Riddle-book

by John-the-Giant-Killer

'Tis true I have both face and hands,

And move before your eye;

Yet when I go my body stands,

And when I stand I lie.

Of all dame nature's progeny,

There's scarce one being more than me

Alive despis'd and hated;

But tho' I am a filthy creature,