Like a wounded lion in his lair,

I have a captive. He can't get out,

For I hold the door with my fingers stout.

"But how can you hold this captive wild,

You, who are only a little child?"

Ay, that's the riddle, how can I, say?

And I had another yesterday..

You'll never guess, I'll have to tell;

You don't read riddles very well.